“French professional football is in an incredible irrationality,” reacts Christophe Bouchet, the former president of OM.

“Clearly, French professional football is in an incredible irrationality”reacted Tuesday September 10 on franceinfo Christophe Bouchet, former president of OM between 2002 and 2004, after the re-election of Vincent Labrune for a second four-year term as president of the Professional Football League (LFP).

This election was “a bit complicated and locked”believes Christophe Bouchet, who had wanted to be a candidate but did not receive the necessary sponsorships. “It still took ministerial interventions to slightly unlock the electoral system. It wasn’t enough.”

According to the former president of OM, “Club presidents and French clubs are today in a catastrophic financial situation.” “Some won’t be able to resist it, I assure you.” He denounces “a sum of elements that escape rationality to ensure that the man who led to this situation is triumphantly re-elected.”

Christophe Bouchet points out “chess” by Vincent Labrune on which he “We’ll have to lift the curtain to see what’s happening behind it, because it seems very surprising.”. “He is the one who almost single-handedly led professional football into this financial rout.” He emphasizes “a rout of image”“a rout in terms of security, in terms of supporters.” But the former club boss is surprised that “The presidents seem to take note of this” by voting for the outgoing president “as if they were magnetized by Vincent Labrune or others.”

Christophe Bouchet believes that professional football under the Vincent Labrune era has “withdrawn into himself, not listening to what is happening elsewhere, not understanding that times have changed”. He alerts on “the consequences which were terrible” and who will be according to him “even more terrible in the years to come. French football is falling behind because it doesn’t listen, because it doesn’t listen to what’s happening outside.”