As you may know, Bastia was administratively demoted and prohibited from recruiting for profit with a regulated payroll, by the DNCG, yesterday. Pierre-Noël Luiggifounder of Oscaro Power and vice-president of the club, spoke at a press conference this afternoon. He expressed his opinion in particular on the decision of the financial policeman of football, insinuating – at the very least – that she had in the past been very conciliatory with the Girondins de Bordeaux, and that today she is trying to get back on track by being more strict.
“The amount to find is absolutely not more difficult to find, no, since it is already there. Other years we didn't have it. Today, we have the amount to find. The players were sold for more than €5M. We still have more than €2M to collect. Even with the dramatic drop in TV rights, which we learned at the beginning of September, we had enough reserves to ensure that the club was in positive cash flow on June 30, 2025. It turns out that obviously, the DNCG was hand in the jam pot with Bordeaux last year, that the League is in bad shape, and is criticized politically from everywhere. Obviously, they are regaining their health, their virginity, on the backs of clubs which have an alternative model, or which are in opposition to the League, or which are in real difficulty. This is about the turpitude of the League at large. The texts provide for sanctioning us 'just in case'. We have no respect at all for the work that has been done. In June, the DNCG came to congratulate us for the work accomplished, and there, they came to tell us 'it's wonderful, but you understand, we will still have to, following the Bordeaux affair, we put a little dot the i's, and show that we exist'. It's not very serious. If we had to summarize, the DNCG is sanctions, but no solutions. We are in a completely grotesque situation.”
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