For 10 years, French football has seen several essential stables in its history sink, sportingly and financially. In an ever more complex economic context, can FC Nantes be the next one to fall?
At the end of the 2006-2007 season, the Girondins de Bordeaux finished 6th, just in front of FC Sochaux Montbéliard. For its part, AS Nancy Lorraine finished 13th. Of these three monuments of French football, there are only ruins left. In turn, Bordeaux, Sochaux and Nancy sank, sportingly and financially. And in an economic context still as criticized, despite the bankruptcy of TV rights, several three -color stables are regularly in difficulty.
FC Nantes has the profile …
After being punished with a season in Ligue 2 during the 2012-2013 financial year, FC Nantes has just bought an eleventh consecutive partition in Ligue 1. But since the Cavid period, the Canaries have been tough. 18th of the 2020-2021 season, the FCN has been playing with fire for two seasons, obtaining its maintenance in the Forceps, as this year, during the latest days. Economically weakened by more than dull results and increasingly scattered financial income, the Waldemar Kita club clearly has the profile to be the next French monument to sink.
A solid shareholder… and stubborn
What saves FC Nantes so far, apart from its know-how to training and its incredible audience is also its main shareholder. Despite its numerous faults, Waldemar Kita has solidly solid kidneys. Since 2007, he has put his hand in his pocket several times on his personal funds to put the club back on a balance. But the more time passes, the more complicated this game becomes. Even more with half of the promised TV rights which disappear in a snap in the finger … For its part, the bookmakers no longer believe in the Nantes project and classify the Canaries as favorites for the descent for 2025-2026, alongside Metz, Angers and Lorient. If Nantes has already known the L2 with Kita, twice, not sure it is necessary to be calm if a third trip was organized in the years to come …
