Thomas Siniecki, Media365: published on Sunday December 22, 2024 at 4:16 p.m.
This is unlikely to improve the controversial image of FC Nantes and especially of its president Waldemar Kita.
A few ticketing controversies increasingly adorn Coupe de France matches between amateur clubs and their professional counterparts. So, when everything goes well and it's not necessarily planned, it's good to point it out too, which FC Rouen did not fail to do on Sunday morning. The Normans in fact sincerely thanked the Lille residents for having left them their share, citing President Olivier Létang by name. “It's a remarkable gesture. By giving up this share, they demonstrate a great spirit of fair play. We wish you an excellent end to the season and hope that our paths will cross again.”
Melaye: “We are going to transfer them 13,000 euros even though they have a budget of several tens of millions”
But why, in reality, did the National residents make this clarification when it is normally a custom in the Cup? Because in general, LOSC was used to another tradition, that of redistributing this share to clubs in its Hauts-de-France region, which had already earned it the heart of criticism . On the other hand, Nantes did not bother with these considerations and recovered the 13,000 euros owed to it, according to information from Le Parisien. Opposed to Drancy at the Bauer stadium in Saint-Ouen (the lair of Red Star), the Canaries were exemplary in terms of players and coach Antoine Kombouaré, but not on the side of the leaders who did not meet their colleagues from Seine -Saint-Denis.
First of all, President Alain Melaye who says he is “bitter, disappointed and angry”: “We are going to transfer them 13,000 euros even though they have a budget of several tens of millions of euros. For all of us, The expenses incurred will leave us with a hole of 40,000 euros. We will probably have to pay a large protective net to the Red Star manager because the Nantes ultras burned him after the meeting. Waldemar's attitude. Kita is small. I am convinced that if we had faced PSG, Nasser al-Khelaifi would have come to greet us.” His son Franck, general manager, assures that no one came to greet him or invite him: “And we had decided that we would remove our travel, bus and hotel costs from our share of revenue. had a balance on this share, we would have left it to the club But this share did not even pay half of our costs.
