As the DNCG offers them the possibility, the Girondins immediately appealed this decision which they judged on their side "
brutal
" and which they learned "
with dismay
".
"
It deprives the club of (the possibility of) continuing to implement the strategy to clean up its financial situation and to write a new page in the history of FC Girondins de Bordeaux
", they reacted in a communicated.
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During the almost two-hour hearing of Lopez, owner since last July of the club which he had saved at the time of an administrative relegation to L2, the Bordeaux leaders presented a guarantee of the re-engagement of the majority shareholder. (Gerard Lopez via his company Jogo Bonito) up to 10 million euros as well as offers to sell some players, the cumulative amount of which exceeds the objectives set by the Commission, namely 22 million euros.
They have all summer to make them.
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But according to a source close to the club, it is more the agreement reached with the holders of the club's debt, King Street and Fortress, namely a transfer of responsibility for half of this debt (estimated at 50 million euros). euros) to Jogo Bonito and the recovery by these lenders of the profit-sharing on the sale by Monaco of Aurélien Tchouaméni to Real Madrid (around 11 million euros), which made the proceedings tick.
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The club remains confident in its ability to demonstrate the solidity of its project for the 2022/2023 season.
The time of the call will allow him to finalize new solutions to obtain his maintenance in Ligue 2
, ”concludes the press release from the Girondins.
While waiting to be auditioned again in early July, the Lopez clan will work to find a new agreement with these lenders, already present when the club was taken over by the American investment fund GACP at the end of 2018 and since then in the crosshairs of the DNCG.