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“This is the lesson of the week. As rich, as powerful, as influential as they are, club owners and presidents cannot do just anything. The supporters reminded them with force and especially conviction by sweeping in less than a day the Super League project that these high finance intellectuals had taken years to build. They had believed they had won the jackpot with the help of a multitude of expert and consulting firms who are ultimately the only winners in what looks like a mail order lottery, one of those games to be read carefully. the little lines at the bottom of the page. The fans of the English clubs took out the magnifying glass to put under their noses what they had skipped before signing promises of sand.

The Americans who handle the billions of investment funds believed that one could make a copy and paste between the United States and Europe between a spectacle sport and the sport synonymous with uncertainties beyond all the fruits of the imagination of the greatest masters of suspense. Another way of conceiving a live show. They can be forgiven, although this is far from the opinion of Manchester supporters who are calling for the departure of the American owners of United.

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We play football, we don’t play with it

With the realism that conducts their business, at least they quickly reshuffled the cards, going all-in, failing to have apprehended earlier the weight of history that the street shouted at them, well beyond the ultras. It’s a whole world of authenticity that has united in reminding us that we play football but that we do not play with it.

Closer to home, the Marseillais had also made their voice heard, that of change that Frank McCourt should not complain about, that which the leaders of King Street did not listen to in Bordeaux. They imagined juggling a jersey as with actions, like players who confused Instagram and stadium. The high level requires more rigor from the first in their administration, from the second in their services. And when both plunge into mediocrity, it is a Bordeaux piquette that is served … or pale Greens that flow into a cauldron that only the sun heats.

We will stop the parallel between shareholders of the two clubs. In Bordeaux, they fled when, in Saint-Étienne, they were accused of hanging on. Bernard Caïazzo will have a good time repeating “Fortunately we weren’t sold to Peak 6” and Roland Romeyer to justify his search for investors who are more local than exotic. No one is obliged to follow them in their reasoning … Both advance their sense of responsibility that the Chairman of the Supervisory Board displays by denouncing the Super League project while that of the Management Board hears candidates for the takeover. Sadly, it’s difficult to erase the mistakes that led the club to fight for retention. Because they too have sometimes forgotten that football is first and foremost about footballers, not a market where you can sell without counting and count when you buy.

Garcia, Sablé, Gasset, Printant, Puel: the two leaders who have sailed a lot on sight can meditate on a truth stated by Jérémy Clément in these columns “We may be the best coach, it is the players who are on the ground. With Zidane, Mourinho, or Klopp, would Bordeaux be first in the championship? “It’s not Jean-Louis Gasset who will deny the former Green. In ASSE, he had proved it by demanding reinforcements, he still demonstrates it, but in the absurd, to the Girondins. A bit like Claude Puel with his young people with too inconsistent talent, surprising in Paris, disappointing against Brest. Not very engaging for shareholders, but a good reason not to do anything anymore. “

Didier BIGARD