AS Saint-Etienne : the sale of the club causes a catastrophe in Saint-Étienne | ASSE News

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The sale of ASSE could be finalized in February 2022. Until then, it cannot be said at this time that the leaders are accelerating the movement behind the scenes. It must be said that the precautionary principle must prevail over everything else in order to prevent any risk of a far-fetched arrival capable of endangering the institution. Despite this reluctance, the idea of ​​seeing investors landing not necessarily homegrown is gaining ground.

“Those who are more favorable to these funds will recall that if ASSE does not have external funds, they will always be blocked by the fact that there is an economic potential in Saint-Étienne and in the limited region which does not not allow you to compete with Milan, Madrid, etc. So if Saint-Étienne wants to continue to compete with the big guys, we must have access to the same financial amounts, ”analyzes the economist of sport at the Limoges Center for Law and Economics of Sport in Limoges, Jean-François Brocard in Le Progrès.

The economics specialist recalls, however, that such investors have already endangered clubs such as LOSC or the Girondins de Bordeaux in Ligue 1. Another reason not to take any risk at ASSE. “You also have to see what they are going to do with the club and what guarantees they can give,” he adds. When you see what these funds have done in Bordeaux or Lille, it’s pretty catastrophic. In Lille, the training center is catastrophic and they have significant debts. In any case, these are vulture funds: they arrive, feed on the beast, and when they leave there is nothing left. “

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