Fak Posted July 25, 2024 Share Posted July 25, 2024 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 25, 2024 Share Posted July 25, 2024 1 minute ago, Fak said: That's sad news. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted July 25, 2024 Share Posted July 25, 2024 Wew, saw they’d been relegated for financial stuff as they tend to do in France but that’s massive. Turns out Albert Riera is their coach. Blast from the past. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFEE Posted July 25, 2024 Share Posted July 25, 2024 Very sad. First foreign top I ever bought. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
duo Posted July 25, 2024 Share Posted July 25, 2024 1 hour ago, Fak said: what? that's awful Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nemtizz Posted July 25, 2024 Share Posted July 25, 2024 Great to see. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stifler Posted July 25, 2024 Share Posted July 25, 2024 8 minutes ago, nemtizz said: Great to see. How’s that? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
toon25 Posted July 25, 2024 Share Posted July 25, 2024 Awful for the fans that. Always one of the bigger French clubs when I was growing up in the 90s and early 00s. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdm Posted July 25, 2024 Share Posted July 25, 2024 (edited) My local club Airdrie went out of business in the early 2000s it absolutely crushed my dad. They came back and are thriving. Feel for the Bordeaux fans and hope their club can bounce back Edited July 25, 2024 by gdm Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazarus Posted July 25, 2024 Share Posted July 25, 2024 Thats Zidanes old club isnt it? Er....Bordeaux i mean, not Airdrie. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiquidAK Posted July 25, 2024 Share Posted July 25, 2024 6-time French champions. So shit that it's come to that Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdm Posted July 25, 2024 Share Posted July 25, 2024 (edited) 10 minutes ago, Lazarus said: Thats Zidanes old club isnt it? Er....Bordeaux i mean, not Airdrie. It is yeah. And let’s not forget the legend that is Gouffran similar shirt to Airdrie too Edited July 25, 2024 by gdm Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sifu Posted July 25, 2024 Share Posted July 25, 2024 Having skim read the article in question, it's because they've had to accept relegation to the third tier of French football that they've had to give up their professional licence by default. Hopefully in the years to come they can recover and get back to Ligue 1 where they belong. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFEE Posted July 25, 2024 Share Posted July 25, 2024 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
M4 Posted July 25, 2024 Share Posted July 25, 2024 46 minutes ago, Sifu said: Having skim read the article in question, it's because they've had to accept relegation to the third tier of French football that they've had to give up their professional licence by default. Hopefully in the years to come they can recover and get back to Ligue 1 where they belong. I think that's how the system works in the French pyramid that only top 2 tiers can be pro. It's been dire for many years now, they escaped relegation to the third tier at the last second a couple of years ago. Had an appeal hearing logged for tomorrow but because every buyout lead has fallen through, they just pulled out of appealing and risking relegation for 4th tier and accepted this fate. Not sure what's going to happen with the stadium. New one was built for Euro 2016. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sifu Posted July 25, 2024 Share Posted July 25, 2024 (edited) 8 minutes ago, M4 said: I think that's how the system works in the French pyramid that only top 2 tiers can be pro. It's been dire for many years now, they escaped relegation to the third tier at the last second a couple of years ago. Had an appeal hearing logged for tomorrow but because every buyout lead has fallen through, they just pulled out of appealing and risking relegation for 4th tier and accepted this fate. Not sure what's going to happen with the stadium. New one was built for Euro 2016. Having read the article more closely, yeah, Bordeaux have just accepted their fate of full on relegation to the third tier from the sounds of it so preemptively announced its intention to give up their professional status. It's a travesty what's happened to them over the years. Edited July 25, 2024 by Sifu Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pata Posted July 25, 2024 Share Posted July 25, 2024 (edited) 1 hour ago, Sifu said: Having skim read the article in question, it's because they've had to accept relegation to the third tier of French football that they've had to give up their professional licence by default. Hopefully in the years to come they can recover and get back to Ligue 1 where they belong. Same thing would've happened to Schalke if they would've been relegated to third tier which was a real possibility at one point this season. Too much debt to get the license for the third tier and they would've been forced to start from the bottom of the pyramid. Think both clubs are historically pretty equal to NUFC in size, so sad. Edited July 25, 2024 by Pata Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ameritoon Posted July 25, 2024 Share Posted July 25, 2024 Honestly shocked it's not the fault of an American multi-club owner Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conjo Posted July 25, 2024 Share Posted July 25, 2024 (edited) Sad thing to happen to the club responsible for gracing us with Gabriel Obertan, Yoan Gouffran and Henri Saivet. Edited July 25, 2024 by Conjo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astroblack Posted July 25, 2024 Share Posted July 25, 2024 Awful news. In my head, Bordeaux are like the West Ham of the French League. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shays Given Tim Flowers Posted July 25, 2024 Share Posted July 25, 2024 They’ve got a great ground too. Class place. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magdad Posted July 25, 2024 Share Posted July 25, 2024 16 minutes ago, Conjo said: Sad thing to happen to the club responsible for gracing us with Gabriel Obertan, Yoan Gouffran and Henri Saivet. Well when you put it like that… fuck em they wouldn’t cry over us Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gbandit Posted July 25, 2024 Share Posted July 25, 2024 Gouffran was a good lad. Overran is in my top 5 most disliked NUFC players (based on performance) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Froggy Posted July 26, 2024 Share Posted July 26, 2024 Gourcuff's goal against PSG is one of my core football memories for some reason. Delightful. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixelphish Posted July 26, 2024 Share Posted July 26, 2024 10 hours ago, Ameritoon said: Honestly shocked it's not the fault of an American multi-club owner Im sure it is somewhere upstream, ofc. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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