The war between Gérard Lopez, president and owner of the Girondins de Bordeaux, and Bixente Lizarazu, former glory of the club with the scapular, never ends. The businessman took advantage of an interview with L’Equipe to settle scores with the French world champion.
Last summer, the Basque, trained and revealed in the Girondins jersey, was particularly scathing with Gérard Lopez when the latter mocked the club’s takeover project led by Olivier Kahn, former teammate of Bixente Lizarazu at Bayern Munich.
“When someone blames another for something, they are talking to themselves. 94 million debts, 400 companies not paid, 86 employees made redundant, descent from Ligue 1 to N2… The ace of aces in finance has spoken,” he wrote on social networks while Gérard Lopez had confided to South West: “No need to leave a business school to realize that there was probably nothing. He was trying to buy public opinion to put pressure on but business is done with money and risk-taking, not with clicks. »
“I put in a lot more than him
“Lizarazu should talk about football rather than things he doesn’t understand, he said. When I arrived at the club, the situation was as it was. When we talk about the debt, a large part of the debt corresponds to the money that I put into the club and I abandoned that debt. I put in a lot more than him or others who never put anything in. I was there when no one wanted to take care of the club the first time. »
“It’s not because you played for a club and are a great footballer that that gives you the right to say whatever you want without doing something or at least informing yourself, he continued. The criticism is justified, I agree. But a criticism like that, without knowing, without knowing what we’re talking about, no, that doesn’t suit me. »
