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In Greg’s Team, Benoît Trémoulinasformer player of Girondins de Bordeaux and now a consultant, spoke about the problems encountered with investment funds. 777 Partners, the owner of Red Star, goes bankrupt. But the example of Strasbourg was also taken, which is owned by the owner of Chelsea.
The subject was: Investment funds: the poison of football?
« If it can still be attractive for a young player by saying that there is ambition? You know, when we start I don’t think we have the necessary perspective to know if these investment funds are going to be good or not good. When you sign professional, you want to play, you want to leave your mark on the club, to do things, to win titles. What we also want is for us to be paid every month and for there to be no worries, clearly! We’re not going to lie to each other. There was the example of Bordeaux with the salary delays, the employees, the companies that the club called upon and which are no longer paid… There it is starting to become very worrying. When you’re a football player, you want to play, win titles and get your money. »
Then he returned to the sale of Girondins de Bordeaux by M6, to the American investment funds King Street and GACP.
« There is the example of Bordeaux where when I was there, M6 was the owner. Indeed, every year, at some point M6 put his hand in his pocket again. After a while, those who led the group told Mr. De Tavernost ‘We have to sell!’ Where it was complicated was that they sold to the first person… They weren’t too careful… De Tavernost sold and he wasn’t too careful and afterwards, we know very well what what happened behind. »
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