Relegated sportingly in Ligue 2 to the summer of 2022, then administratively demoted in National 2 – the fourth division of French football – a year ago, the Girondins de Bordeaux had a real nightmare since Gérard Lopez bought the club – certainly in difficulty already at the time – in July 2021.
While the FCGB, in full receivership procedure, escaped the worst these days by obtaining the validation of its continuation plan before the Commercial Court of Bordeaux, it is another club led by the Hispano-Luxembourg businessman who goes straight in the wall.
Mouscron already sacrificed in 2022
Good last from the Portuguese elite this season, Boavista will not evolve in the second division during the exercise 2025-2026 but in the fifth step, among the amateurs. The Lusitanian media o Jogo assures this Saturday indeed that the management of the club did not submit in time the certificates required by the License Committee to claim to evolve in the anteroom of the elite.
Gérard Lopez today holds 66% of the shares in the capital of the second Porto club. An institution riddled with debts unable to produce the financial and fiscal certificates claimed by the authorities of the Portuguese round ball. In May 2022, the Royal Excel Mouscron, in Belgium, announced his bankruptcy only two years after his acquisition by the interested party.
