Catastrophe in Montpellier! The Hérault club must separate from its female section due to the financial difficulties it is going through due to the relegation of the men's team in Ligue 2.
Club president Laurent Nicollin announced the news in the columns of the regional daily Midi Libre. “It was not cheerful (…) We glorify women's football but there is no money, there is no advertising revenues, there is nothinglamented Nicollin. It does not develop. There are 500 to 600 people at the stadium, we can't create the thing ”, said club president Pailladin.
A very sad situation for Montpellier who was the pioneer of French women's football. Indeed, the Héraultais were the first to create a female section within their club in 2001.
Female Montpellier sold to Americans?
Like Olympique Lyonnais, Montpellier is expected to give up his female team, 6th in the last Arkéma first league, to a foreign group. Laurent Nicollin indicated that a group of Anglo-Saxon investors (English or American) would have entered into negotiations to buy the shares of the Montpellier president.
“” They will set up a strategy, something else. They may be better than us. We may not be able to do it because we are locked up in our club between us “Confides the president of the MHSC. The formalization could take place in the coming days.
