The ACA will not be sold at the start of 2025. The Ajaccian club confirmed this Thursday morning a rumor which mentioned the cancellation of a sales protocol with effect from December 31, 2024, due to the withdrawal of a “group of buyers” whose identity has never been revealed.
Here is the full ACA press release:
“As we announced several months ago, the club was looking for a buyer likely to ensure the sustainability of the institution… Our financial situation, always limited, has suffered two very hard blows.
5 million, plus 2 million
The sponsorship contract duly signed with a Portuguese group was not honored! 5 million budgeted euros thus disappeared… Mr. Fattaccioli, in charge of finances for several years, had to solicit investors to recover part of the funds guaranteeing the loan for some of our land…
This year, after being informed by the authorities that we had to present a budget based on the television rights of the previous season, it turns out that 2 million have disappeared due to the spectacular drop in said rights.
The urgency of a sale becoming pressing, Mr. Let's do it in contact with a group of buyers signed a sales protocol with effect from August 31. The buyers undertook to ensure the maintenance of the club and planned the construction of a hotel of which 50% of the income would go to the ACA. After asking for a postponement until December 31, while guaranteeing their commitment, they finally withdrew.
“A critical situation”
We therefore find ourselves in a critical situation. It must be clarified that Mr. Fattaccioli's good faith cannot be called into question since he himself found 3 million euros paid to the club at the end of last June.
We are mobilized to find a solution even if there is reason to be worried! Obviously, any real estate transaction which would not guarantee the maintenance of the club will be refused. We were hoping to have better news for this year.”
Relegated by the DNCG
The ACA was provisionally relegated to the National by the DNCG, with effect at the end of the season. He cannot recruit for a fee during the winter transfer window which has just opened.
As for his sporting situation, it is also very complicated. The Ajaccian club is in 17th place in the Ligue 2 rankings, first relegated before receiving AnnecyFriday January 3 for the 17th day.
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