While his team is in great difficulty on the sporting level, Olivier Delcourt confirmed with the Côte d’Orient newspaper Le Bien Public that he indeed wanted to sell the club of Dijon, as announced by France 3 Bourgogne recently. The president of the DFCO has gave a very long interview to the press to disentangle the true from the false and talk about this potential upheaval, as well as the changes he has planned to make to break this bad dynamic. While reassuring the supporters and telling them that in the event of a descent to N1, the club would not disappear.
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“I have been thinking for some time to ensure its future and inject new momentum. For, possibly, the arrival of new investors. Or a redemption. Things are initiated. Investors are interested, which was already the case before listening. I look, I hear. But, for the moment, nothing is decided. I’ve never had any €20m offers from the Saudi owners of Newcastle. Already, I would never ask for such an amount. The DFCO is structured, with a training center at the top, a training center that is starting to show results. In France, very few clubs are structured like Dijon. The most important thing is not me, it’s the club. If there should be a buyer, I want to hand over. »
Changes to the club during this international break: “I thought about a lot of things. I spoke to the coach and his assistant (Stéphane Mangione) too. We decided to change a lot of things in terms of training, daily life, to change habits, to unite all energies to bring out the positive and stop moping. CVs, we receive them all year round. As soon as there are bad results, it’s automatic, we receive requests. But if it was only the coach, it would be known. And it’s not. »
Source : bienpublic.com
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