FCGB: Gérard Lopez blacklisted, the appeal is launched

Convicted by the Lille criminal court, Gérard Lopez has further tarnished his reputation. The president and owner of Bordeaux is sinking and becoming undesirable in the eyes of certain observers.

When the name of Gérard Lopez appears in the news, it is rarely to announce good news. Confirmation this week since the president and owner of Bordeaux was sentenced by the Lille criminal court. The Spanish-Luxembourger, found guilty of complicity in the illegal exercise of the profession of sports agent without a valid license and failure to declare the employment of a collaborator, received a suspended prison sentence of 10 months and a fine of 45,000 euros. Meanwhile, his club in Portugal, namely Boavista, is heading straight towards bankruptcy.

It's too much for the journalist Bruno Salomon, angry against the boss of Bordeaux, who after the demotion to National 2, caused a wave of layoffs among the Navy and White. “ How sad. I can't take it anymorereacted the columnist for the L’Equipe channel. I know people who worked at Girondins and who lost their jobs. When you see Boavista, a Lotus Formula 1 team in the street, 350 million euros of debt in Lille which almost went out the window because of him… We are facing one of the biggest hucksters in the world. world of football and, in France, we say to ourselves that it is still good to have him at the head of a club. »

Boavista goes straight there

« It's been a long time since we should have seen this man in the world of French and even European football.the journalist complained. I am not going to judge this conviction because I do not know the merits. But what I see is that wherever it happens, it's an economic and social catastrophe. It's terrible. I have a thought for the people in Bordeaux and for those in Boavista, because we know how it will end there. It will still be a club on his card. Seventy people who lost their jobs in Bordeaux. » All this knowing that Gérard Lopez was already at the origin of the bankruptcy of the Royal Excel Mouscron in Belgium.