In some difficult situations, you have to be content with little. This is perhaps what Gérard Lopez must have thought when learning of the success obtained by his Bordeaux players in midfield on the pitch at Poiré sur Vie (0-1). This seventh consecutive match without defeat for the new residents of National 2, coincided with bad news for the boss of the Girondins.
A few hours before his club’s victory, Gérard Lopez was sentenced on Wednesday to 10 months in prison and a fine of 45,000 euros under the prior admission of guilt regime (CRPC). The 52-year-old businessman was found guilty of complicity in the illegal exercise of the profession of sports agent without a valid license and failure to declare the employment of a collaborator, Karim Saada.
Boavista on the verge of liquidation
The facts date back to Lopez’s time as president of Losc (2017-2020). Karim Saada’s hiring in the Lille club, effective October 1, 2017, was only regularized in March 2018. Mr. Saada received a 10-month suspended prison sentence and a fine of 5,000 euros.
Gérard Lopez also has big problems with another club, Boavista, of which he owns 50.78%. The 14th in Portuguese D1 is in a state of “ undeniable economic and financial deteriorationindicates a press release published at the beginning of the week. The situation is aggravated by an almost daily burden of executive procedures and consequent seizures by creditors “.
An image of a gravedigger
In May 2022, Royal Excel Mouscron, another club owned by Gérard Lopez, was relegated to the fourth division of Belgian football, due to financial problems. The sad fate experienced two years later, for the same reasons, by the Girondins de Bordeaux. Gérard Lopez gravedigger?
