For Bordeaux Le Mag, the journalist Laurent Brun gave his opinion on the media silence of the President of the Girondins de Bordeaux, Gérard Lopez.
” It’s certain. It’s a disaster in terms of communications. In fact, we don’t assume it. What are we waiting for, to be retained, to talk and make a positive assessment of the two seasons spent at the club? Like last time, smoke us out?! The reserve is not good, the women’s are doomed, the U17-U19 is pretty much okay but it’s not super good either. What’s going on in the club? We don’t talk about it, no one talks about it. It’s only the coach who finally speaks, and that’s it. The President, numbers 2 and 3, no… I don’t know where the sports director is. There is no pilot on the plane, no captain at the helm of the ship, since there is no President in fact at the head of the Girondins de Bordeaux.”
Perhaps there isn’t much positive to say about a season that can be described as a failure either?
“Perhaps too, but even just a presence shows that you are concerned. So, that doesn’t mean either that because you’re not there you’re not concerned, but it sends a message to all the people who follow the club, all the people in the club too, who perhaps would prefer to see the office of President represented and embodied. There, it gives the impression that no one cares, or that we don’t take responsibility. This is actually what the supporters feel. Maybe there are daily internal communications between leaders, but the supporters expect something else, that someone embodies the institution. The Girondins de Bordeaux are not just any club, they are not a club that you take on the fly. We expect something else, in a club which has an aura, in an institution like that. We need people who are up to the task, and the people we have are not up to the task, that’s all, we have to say what is.”
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