Owner of the Girondins de Bordeaux, Gérard Lopez spoke to Le Journal du Dimanche On the situation of the club to the scapular. Sanctioned by the DNCG of a supervision of its payroll, the Bordeaux club will therefore remain in National 2 and will thus try to go back to the elite of French football. While the Commercial Court of Bordeaux has validated a continuation plan which will spread the debt over time, the Girondin club could have been bought by a consortium made up of Oliver Kahn, the legend of Bayern Munich and the former president of Olympique de Marseille Jacques-Henri Eyraud.
A takeover that ultimately did not take place and Gérard Lopez decided to point the finger at the potential buyers: “When we look at those who have pointed out, a group landed in the finance police, quite simply for having been dishonest, there was Oliver Kahn and Jacques-Henri Eyraud who arrived with 30 million, then 15 million with a document that the court found eccentric, then 50 million which were in fact zero: the court forced them to respond officially, he never received a proof of funds. Coming from Oliver Kahn, with a career like his … I admit that it was a little shocking for everyone, even ridiculous. Football drives everyone crazy, including me. In a normal society that loses money at all costs, I would never put 40 million euros. In football, I did it.»
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