Bordeaux: “From the start, it stank”, Dugarry is angry with “so many people”, including Alain Juppé – RMC Sport

Asked by Sud-Ouest after the confirmed relegation to National 1 of the Girondins de Bordeaux, Christophe Dugarry returned to the sale to Gérard Lopez, a file in which “the dice were loaded” according to him. The former club player is angry with “so many people”, including former mayor Alain Juppé. Trained in Bordeaux, Christophe Dugarry is inevitably, like many supporters, saddened by the current situation of his heart club. The appeal committee of the FFF and the DCNG validated this Tuesday the relegation of the Girondins in National 1, they who were initially to evolve in Ligue 2 after a sporting descent. Only one season after the takeover of the club by Gérard Lopez, Bordeaux is on the verge of bankruptcy. “It’s terrible. It leaves me speechless. It hurts my heart. It means that even if we had stayed in Ligue 1, we would have been demoted to Ligue 2., commented Dugarry for Sud- West. It wouldn’t have changed anything. I’m angry with so many people. “Dugarry is angry with Alain Juppé The sanction for Bordeaux fell for financial reasons. “This unjust decision is unacceptable and incomprehensible, denounced in the process the president Gérard Lopez, in a press release from the club. I say it very clearly this evening to the supporters, to the people of Bordeaux, and to all those who have navy and white blood: I will fight until the end and that is why we have decided to appeal against this iniquitous decision. I especially blame Alain Juppé (mayor of Bordeaux until 2019, Ed. From the start, we knew that the dice were loaded. An investment fund that buys back by borrowing from another investment fund with a external company (note: GACP in 2018) which managed the club. From the start, it stank. M6 and Nicolas de Tavernost wanted to leave the club and Alain Juppé did not veto this sale. It should have been locked differently The first scandal, it’s there and it still pisses me off. “The summer of Finally, Gérard Lopez had already saved Bordeaux from a descent into Ligue 2, by providing financial guarantees when buying the club from the scapular. However, American creditors KingStreet and Fortress hold the club’s debt (52 million euros). From now on, the survival of the Girondins is “in danger”. The club nevertheless assured, in its press release, that it had “presented a project considered by all professionals to be solid and which responds point by point to the expectations expressed by the commission in the first instance”, considering that it had the “financial means to participate in the League championship 2 next season, with the highest budget in this league”. But while waiting for the decision of the last resorts, it is indeed for a season in National 1 that Bordeaux must prepare.