“What I see above all is that it is very badly managed and that it ends very badly”, reacted the football consultant from franceinfo.
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The relegation of the Girondins de Bordeaux to National 1, confirmed on appeal on Tuesday July 5, is “a desaster”, confides this Tuesday Bixente Lizarazu, football consultant for franceinfo. The 1998 world champion spent twelve years with the Girondins, his “heart club.”
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“It’s been a disaster since the sale of M6, first with the American management of GACP with these famous pension funds and then the management of Gérard Lopezdenounces Bixente Lizarazu. These people, one wonders how they bought the club, in any case they were smart enough to buy it but not to manage it.
“It’s very sad to see a club in which I spent twelve years, where I lived very great moments, which is my favorite club in France of course, to see it dive like that.”
Bixente Lizarazuat franceinfo
The ex-footballer is not very optimistic about the survival of the Girondins. “Today the club can disappear, very clearlyhe warns. The Mayor of Bordeaux was talking about a small chance but a decision like that, I don’t see where the small chance is yet, even if I hope so. But if they made this decision it is because the financial situation is really catastrophic.
For Bixente Lizarazu, “It’s also the symbol of globalized football, where we lose our bearings. Where we only talk about investment, trading… What I see above all is that it’s very badly managed and it ends very badly.”