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Times are tough for Gérard Lopez. Now a strong man of the Girondins de Bordeaux, and former of the LOSC, he must face serious financial problems in Gironde as well as sporting concerns, the club being today located at the bottom of the table. This is why, in order to reduce the wage bill, he is trying to exclude several players from the professional workforce, including the central defender, Laurent Koscielny.
We learned this morning that another club led by Gérard Lopez was not doing much better. Indeed, and according to the daily Le Soir, the players of Mouscron, who plays in the second division, have decided to go on strike because of the non-payment of wages last December. The employees were, but neither the staff nor the players. Obviously, the cash flow concern is recurrent since Mouscron employees had already been paid late last November.
A few minutes ago, the Belgian club published a press release on its official website. And recalled that the financial problem came from a sum always given by … the LOSC and its current president, Olivier Létang! A case which goes back of course to the passage of Gérard Lopez in the North. Here is the press release.
“As announced in the press, the players of Royal Excel Mouscron have decided not to train until further notice following the delay in payment of wages in December. The management has taken note of this decision. Without denying the problems in any way. met by the club in recent months to honor salaries, she would like to point out that this delicate situation is only due to the fact of the unilateral decision of the LOSC not to respect its commitments.
During the collaboration between the two clubs, Mouscron had had to significantly increase its costs by welcoming a large group of LOSC players in return for a financial agreement. This allowed players like Koffi or Onana, for example, to evolve in a Belgian professional championship instead of vegetating in a French amateur championship. Through this operation, the LOSC benefited from media coverage of its players and therefore from a financial gain. Not to mention that this operation was less expensive for the LOSC than if its players were playing in a lower French division.
It is the non-respect of this agreement that today plunges the club into this delicate situation. The French club is indebted to us for a substantial sum which would have enabled us to make ends meet this season without the slightest difficulty. The management of the club insists on the fact that it is working hard to find solutions to ensure the continuity of the club. Several avenues are currently under study and she is optimistic that one of them will be completed within a reasonable timeframe. In this complicated period, the management ensures that it is doing everything it can for the good of the club and it is counting on all the members of the Royal Excel Mouscron as well as on all of its supporters to support it in this process. “
to summarize
Already faced with financial and sporting problems at the Girondins de Bordeaux, President Gérard Lopez is hardly better off in Belgium with the Mouscron club of which he owns. The players of the professional workforce have gone on strike!
