Impossible is not Norman!
Buyer of FC Rouen 1899 which he saved from bankruptcy this summer, Iwan Postel had announced a few days ago its ambitions to bring the club to the Champions League by 2031. In the columns of Sports daily this Tuesday, the dutch businessman clarified his crazy project and its ambitions for the Norman clubcurrently 13e from National. Postel, which evokes a “personal ambition” for which he will assume full responsibility if the project were to fail, wishes to bring back “an emblematic French football club with a real history” on the front of the stage, “the place he deserves”. Leave make the QRM club disappearcar “the reality is that the region’s club is FC Rouen”, he says.
A 50,000-seat stadium planned
To do this, the Rouen president intends to rely on cultural heritage of “the city of Joan of Arc” and wants to build on the legacy of the 1944 Landings to attract American investors. Her impressive project, estimated at “several hundred million euros”will not even be presented to “French companies with a mentality without ambition”and should be launched by the end of the season according to him. The construction of a stadium with around 50,000 seats is also part of the entrepreneur's ambitions, confident in the capacity to“a region of 600,000 inhabitants” to fill the bays of such an arena. More worried about authorizations to be obtained from local authorities that over the duration of the work, the president says he is ready “to charter Boeings to bring back labor from Turkey or Poland, and you will see, construction will go 5 times faster! »
Patience, the Caen-Rouen derby in the Champions League semi-finals is coming soon.
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