Like many Bordeaux supporters, Frédéric Roux watched helplessly as the new debacle (4-1) suffered this Sunday in Angers. Whoever wore the scapular jersey from 2000 to 2006 wants to believe that the looming relegation will be an opportunity to clean up the club. Interview.
France Bleu Gironde: in what state of mind are you after this new humiliation?
Frederic Roux : We are on the continuity of the last performances. A defeat like this hurts a lot and unfortunately confirms the lack of reaction from our Girondins de Bordeaux. We are a little disappointed, bitter, sad because we know very well that there is potential in this collective. But today we have never found the solutions and we are only doing bad performances.
It is unacceptable to come to a club, to play with this club, to leave and leave it in the mess. It’s too easy.
Harmless and apathetic Bordelais?
Bordelais who seem above all resigned long before kick-off. I had already felt that against Nice, this lack of revolt, of involvement. I always say that when you enter a football field, you must already want to win the match. I believe that today we do not have at all the state of mind necessary to save this club from the galley of relegation. It is above all a state of mind that must be displayed every minute spent on the pitch and we unfortunately do not have it.
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We saw the tears of Jaroslav Plasil at the final whistle. As a former it’s hard to accept to see Bordeaux go down?
When you are in love with the club, in love with football, it is difficult to see the Girondins de Bordeaux in such a situation. I saw Jaro recently, he is sadly upset. We are in love with this club but we are completely helpless. We have people who are in management, in the field and who do not do what is necessary to show a certain desire in any case. We can be bad on the pitch but we have no right to give up. And even less a club like the Girondins de Bordeaux.
Are you going to have to ask yourself the right questions quickly?
When it’s going to be official, we’ll have to ask the right questions, start on a good basis. If we go back to the continuity of this season and previous seasons, it will be complicated. I think there is a serious cleaning to be done within the club. I believe that those responsible for this situation must leave the club because it is unacceptable to come to a club, to play with this club, to leave and leave it in the mess. It’s too easy. We have seen that the Americans acted in this way. We see that Mr. Lopez, with all his good will, is about to leave the club in Ligue 2, I want to say that these officials should no longer be responsible for football clubs. I had the example in Nancy this season which was taken over by investors who sank this club in National. These people will wisely disappear and it is the lovers of the club who will suffer the consequences behind. We will have to live a quality off-season with good decisions. It will hurt, there will be serious consequences, I am thinking in particular of the employees. But I think it will be a blessing in disguise if we want to clean up the club.