Owner of the Girondins de Bordeaux , Gérard Lopez, spoke to the Journal Du Dimanche about the situation of the club with the scapular. Sanctioned by the DNCG for a framework of its payroll, the Bordeaux club will therefore remain in National 2 and will thus attempt to rise towards the elite of French football. While the Bordeaux Commercial Court validated a continuation plan that will spread the debt over time, the Girondins club could have been bought by a consortium composed of Oliver Kahn, the legend of Bayern Munich and the former president of Olympique de Marseille Jacques-Henri Eyraud.
A takeover that ultimately didn't happen, and Gérard Lopez decided to point the finger at the potential buyers: " When you look at those who showed up, one group ended up in the financial police, simply for being dishonest. There was Oliver Kahn and Jacques-Henri Eyraud who arrived with 30 million, then 15 million with a document that the court found far-fetched, then 50 million which was in fact zero: the court forced them to respond officially, it never received proof of funds. Coming from Oliver Kahn, with a career like his... I admit it was a bit shocking for everyone, ridiculous even. Football drives everyone crazy, including me. In a normal society that loses money all the time, I would never put 40 million euros in. In football, I did it. "
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