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This is news from the South West. Former OM president Jacques-Henri Eyraud approached businessman, president and owner of the Girondins de Bordeaux, Gérard Lopez, for Oliver Kahn, about buying the club.
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In addition, contacts have been made with Bordeaux town hall to move forward on this issue, indicates Sud Ouest. According to our information, no physical meeting has taken place between Oliver Khan and the mayor of Bordeaux to date even if contact has been established. “Study of the file“Bordelais continues, indicates the regional daily.
Oliver Kahn (55 years old) has already expressed his desire to buy a club and invest in football in the press. He has 785 matches in the Bundesliga, and 86 with the German national team. He is a sporting legend of German football and Bayern Munich. In addition, he was an administrator and then executive president of Bayern for two years. He has not been in office since 2023.
Furthermore, Jacques-Henri Eyraud (56 years old), who trained at Harvard Business School, founded Média 365, and was also president of OM from 2016 to 2021 during the takeover of the Marseille club by the American Frank McCourt.
In addition, Jacques-Henri Eyraud also intervened as an intermediary in the TFC buyout project thanks to his American network acquired as part of his functions as administrator of the company Europacorp of filmmaker Luc Besson, indicates L'Équipe.
The Girondins de Bordeaux are still in receivership and the club's debt has not yet been renegotiated with creditors. An important meeting before the commercial court on January 21 is scheduled.
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