In the columns of L’Equipe, Romain Peugeot explained the reasons which led him to abandon the takeover of the Sochaux club.
The future of Sochaux will unfortunately be written in National 1. After the rejection of the appeal of the Franc-Comtois club by the administrative court of Paris this Thursday, it is with bitterness that the great-grandson of Jean-Pierre Peugeot , Romain Peugeot, has announced that he is giving up his plan to take over FCSM. He nevertheless hopes that the club’s current owner, the Chinese group Nenking, will be able to take responsibility and avoid a possible (very unfortunate) bankruptcy filing.
“I have the feeling of having done my best to save the club… Today, the FCSM has a payroll worthy of an L1 club, with 130 payslips. A National 1 club must present a maximum of 50. So, it would be necessary to carry out a social plan which would cost around 1.35 M€. I do not see myself soliciting investors and communities to finance such a plan”thus declared the financier for The Team.
“The short-term future? I want Nenking (the main shareholder, editor’s note) to take responsibility. And that Nenking finds solutions to avoid the catastrophe that the filing for bankruptcy would represent. »concluded the heir to the former boss of the Cubs.
