It’s a transfer that will do a lot of good for the finances of the Girondins de Bordeaux. In very serious financial difficulty, the former team of Yoann Gourcuff has just been relegated to the second division, but it is threatened with demotion several levels below because of finances in the red. To get out of it, the club therefore had no other choice than to sell one of its best players, Sekou Mara. The native of Paris, only 19 years old, comes out of a very encouraging season and many clubs have positioned themselves to welcome him.
It is finally on the other side of the Channel that the future of the footballer will be written sincehe has just been transferred to the Southampton club, which has just returned to the first division. An operation that should bring in nearly 13 million euros in Bordeaux and thus allow them to save themselves financially. A transfer which must have certainly made a pinch in the heart of the mother of the young sportsman, since it is none other than the son of the journalist Audrey Crespo Mara ! A mother to whom he is very close and who did not hesitate to make the trip to the Parc des Princes to see him play last March.
A mother very close to her son
If for the time being neither Sékou Mara nor his mother have spoken officially after this resounding transfer, the wife of Thierry Ardisson has already mentioned his relationship with his young son in the past. “We go down as much as possible to see him in Bordeaux. But now that he is a pro, we can no longer attend his training sessions. And because of the Covid, we have not been able to attend the matches this year. I hope that this great French club will quickly regain color and that my son will be able to fully flourish there”she confided to Télé Cable Sat Hebdo in July 2021.