The end now seems close to the team Arkéa-B & B Hotels… while, during the Tour de France, Emmanuel Hubert announced that he had “never been so close” To find a title sponsor for the Breton stable, the manager of the Worldteam Breton seems much less optimistic, 5 days from the limit of license deposits. To our colleagues from the newspaper The Parisianthe owner of Rouge-et-Noir explained to give his person and be ready to advance the € 80,000 necessary to obtain a license in the elite of world cycling and thus be a last chance to save his team. On his social networks, Emmanuel Hubert posted this message following the newspaper article The Parisian “90%is screwed up” : “It means that it remains 10% positive but 1% it can be enough. Standing network please! “
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“I don't want to have any regrets”
“I never gave up my arms, but I have a duty to be lucid: it is clear that we are very far from being on the right path when we look at the calendar. On September 15, it is necessary to make a license deposit commitment to the International Federation. And on October 1, a bank guarantee will have to be deposited. (…) For licenses, you have to advance money that will be lost if there is nothing at the end. It is at least € 80,000. I will advance them from my pocket. I don't want to have regrets, too bad if I lose everything. It is also it being a boss who fights and goes to the end of things” explained Emmanuel Hubertmore and more fatalistic about the future of his team. “In August, it was the worst period to canvass companies, decision -makers are on vacation. I have not stopped looking for only 8 days at home, on the phone on. But I had about fifteen potential targets that died one after the other …“.
The performance of Kévin Vauquelin on the last Tour de France were not enough to attract sponsors. “I don't want to put it in the equation. He, like the others, is free to leave and I do not put any names of runners in the basket. I can just say that Vauquelin, we know how to train and make them progress. If he signed elsewhere? I don't want to know. This does not fit into reflection. I did not contact the runners to find out where they were“. But if he concedes that “The end of the adventure is getting closer”despite everything, Emmanuel Hubert wants to continue fighting To find a sponsor and save his team as well as the 140 people who could find themselves unemployed. “”I have a cartridge, only one. I hope it will be the right one, I want to believe it. It is not possible otherwise“. There is therefore a little less than a month to the team boss Arkéa-B & B Hotels To find a way out: “On October 1, if I have nothing, everything will stop. 90 % is screwed up. But it still means that it remains 10 %. It is trying.”
