“There is still a glimmer of hope”estimates the EELV mayor of Bordeaux, Pierre Hurmic, after the relegation of the Girondins de Bordeaux to National 1. The elected official shares his first reaction after the announcement of the DNCG, which confirms the administrative demotion of the club: “We experience it painfully here in Bordeaux, with sadness, bitterness and surprise. The people of Bordeaux are very attached to their club, which has been inscribed in sporting history for 140 years, it’s a bad moment.”
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Asked about the possibility of the club filing for bankruptcy, the mayor believes that this “is part of the prospects considered”but is surprised by this decision “while the commercial court had deemed the economic situation of the club to be viable”. “It’s surprising to see that the club could be placed in default”adds the chosen one.
The mayor of Bordeaux still wants to believe it. “The club’s leaders want to go to the administrative court to have this decision suspended, there is still a glimmer of hopeassures the chosen one. The match is not over (…) but the door is narrow.” Pierre Hurmic, who had Gérard Lopez, the owner of the club on the phone in the evening, is sorry for “this company which has more than 250 employees.
“I am thinking of these employees who have worked for years to run the club. There is an attachment to this historic club. I have already had a lot of reactions which confirm the sadness in the face of this situation that the can be described as brutal.”
Pierre Hurmic, EELV Mayor of Bordeauxat franceinfo
Pierre Hurmic indicates that the metropolis of Bordeaux has done its best to help the Girondins, in particular by agreeing to “a deferral of stadium rents”, “it was our contribution, we are a creditor who makes an effort for the club.” He notably castigated the decision of the previous elected officials to have the new stadium built. “oversized” from Bordeaux. “It’s an aberrant, absurd decision, the cost of which everyone is paying todayhe regrets. The Girondins who pay the rents, the community which is in debt… We will find solutions [pour qu’il ne soit pas à l’abandon]but without that problem, everyone would have been better off!”