A former club of a 2018 world champion has been placed in liquidation.
The news broke on Tuesday. According to La Nouvelle-République, the SASP of Tours FC has been placed in receivership.
The club was in a critical situation after the transfer of its leaders to the National Management Control Department (DNCG). The financial policeman of French football had pinpointed the financial problems of Tours FC, which had until last Friday to avoid this sanction. Too short a time frame.
The terrible fall of a French club which was still in Ligue 2 a few years ago
If the Tours management turned to the local commercial court, the response from the court was negative. This decision accentuates the fall of a club that was still in Ligue 2 a few years ago.
“I am very surprised to learn of this court decision since we are not aware of it. In any case we were not informed by the court” declared Richard Plantureux, deputy president of the club, to France 3 Centre-Val-de-Loire. “If the club is really liquidated we will appeal.” Third in Group C of National 3, Tours would be officially administratively demoted to Regional 2. A terrible fate for the team which had revealed a certain Olivier Giroud in the landscape of French football.
