Cédric Hengbart: “If you don’t go up with this squad, this staff and these infrastructures, it’s because you made a mistake”

“By being objective and honest, the title is achievable thanks to the fact that the first two days have been postponed. That is to say that if the first two days had to be played with their squad, they would have six points less. Today, thanks to that, they will have a competitive team for these two matches. With the squad that will play the matches against Le Poiré and Locminé, they risk having more points than if they had played in the month of August-September. So it's achievable compared to what I see. Now there is this financial side too. Will it last until the end? In fact it's always the same, it's that with this Bordeaux team I have the impression that we are aiming in the short term, but like in many clubs. That is to say, we see year by year and then we see what happens. But on the ground it is largely achievable. Today, a team that is on the rise has four defeats. Bordeaux does not have four defeats. After three defeats, we move up. So there they are. If there is only one climb? Yeah, it's clear there's only one climb, but the championship is fairly homogeneous, all the teams are equal. I have seen all the teams in this championship, staff level, infrastructure level, etc. They are way above it. Today they still have almost four times the budget of any N2 team. So if you don't go up with that, you're wrong. You can tell me that you were late in preparation etc., you still have players who are four times stronger than ours (smile). Afterwards, the land remains the land. It's not always the one with the best weapons who wins. But when you do everything possible, when you are stronger everywhere and when you don't rise, it means that there were mistakes somewhere. So if they can't go up, there will have been mistakes somewhere. Now this is my point of view. When you have the smallest budget and you go up, you have optimized everywhere. When you have the biggest budget, the biggest staff, the biggest facilities, when you have everything, when you have the biggest stadium, the greatest number of supporters and you can't get on, it's that you missed things somewhere.”

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