Dugarry blasts Kilmer Sports Ventures and ASSE

The former French international footballer is particularly targeting Zuriko Davitashviliwhom he presents as a replacement player for the Girondins de Bordeaux: “The club was bought? And so with a bought club, this is the squad they have there? I looked at the squad, the team composition, it’s catastrophic. You realize that they managed to take and he’s a starter, Zuriko Davitashvili or I don’t know what… In Bordeaux he didn’t have his place, he was already a substitute in Ligue 2 (editor’s note: 39 matches in all competitions last season with Bordeaux including 32 starts).”

The former striker turned consultant also criticises the new management, believing that they have not invested to strengthen the club: “When you concede eight goals, the damage is deep. The team is not up to par and will struggle all season. I don’t understand how a club is bought and there is no budget to strengthen it (editor’s note: €60 million spent by Kilmer Sports to buy the club, including €44 million directly injected into the club). We need to strengthen it. There is nothing, what do you expect with a squad like that? I agree that the supporters are important and are the twelfth man, but the supporters are not on the pitch. The squad is not good.”

Also present around the table, Eric Di Meco delivered a less corrosive analysis, although he expressed concern about the rest of the season and questioned the ability of this squad to react after such a disappointment: “When you go up, you know you’re destined to suffer and you take eight at the start of the season… I have the impression that it’s going to be complicated to recover from this kind of thing, especially when you get back a defender who should be your leader, who is still a bit at the end of his rope, we knew that. Reims are not keeping Abdelhamid, it’s not by chance. I don’t know how you recover, when you’re destined to play for relegation from this kind of thrashing. We’ll soon see. We’ll see the mentality of this team.”