Zapping Goal! Football club ASSE: Laurent Hess’ editorial on the management of hope Bilal Benkhedim
Officially put on sale by Bernard Caiazzo and Roland Romeyer, AS Saint-Etienne should not change hands before the end of the year or even the end of the next season. Selling a club is always a slow process, especially when both owners absolutely want their successor not to do anything. This is perhaps why a track unveiled this Sunday by L’Equipe did not go further than simply taking information.
Caiazzo and Romeyer did not follow up
The candidate for the takeover in question is Gérard Lopez. The former president of LOSC, disembarked last December because the financial situation of the future champions of France was catastrophic, would have inquired about the Greens. The businessman is keen to stay in football and, with the support of an American fund, he has recently eyeed Southampton, Genoa, Valence and now the Girondins de Bordeaux.
L’Equipe specifies that for the three foreign clubs, it took between 120 and 160 M € of funds just for the redemption. Lopez therefore has the means to acquire ASSE. But given what he did in Lille, whose deficit at the end of this season flirted with € 100 million, we understand that Bernard Caiazzo and Roland Romeyer did not follow up …
Front pages of L’Équipe newspaper on Sunday, June 6.
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