In the absence of a buyer and/or new investor, FC Girondins de Bordeaux could not escape the administrative relegation pronounced against it at the beginning of July by the National Management Control Directorate (DNCG). Worse, it is certainly not in the National that the club will be able to move forward but at the lower level, in National 2. At best.
This Thursday, the Girondins informed the French Football Federation (FFF) that they were giving up their professional status – a status they had enjoyed since 1937. This was in order to free up the entire squad, contractually speaking, and thus free themselves from a payroll weighing some 36 million euros annually – 25 of which for the players alone, according to Sud-Ouest.
Liquidation or receivership?
This renunciation also has the consequence of closing the doors of the training center, where no fewer than 70 young people were still playing this year. A necessary catastrophe, unfortunately, before the management’s hearing before the Bordeaux Commercial Court, which must decide next week between liquidation or receivership.
Six times French champions – in 2009 for the last time – and winners of the Coupe de France four times, the Girondins thus see the most glorious chapter of their history come to an end. With the hope now of following the example of Strasbourg, which in 2011 had been forced to file for bankruptcy. Relegated then to National 3 (fifth division), the RCSA had managed to rise from its ashes to reconnect with the elite in 2017.
