“FC Nantes offers €50,000 bonus to avoid relegation from Ligue 1”

The club had already used this system during the 2020-2021 season. At this stage, FC Nantes is the first relegated club, in 17ᵉ place.

By Benoît Leroy for Le Point

Lare the Canaries going to repeat the feat? Friday, May 5, according to the newspaper The Teamthe management of FC Nantes has decided to take out the checkbook to motivate its team in the race to maintain Ligue 1. Indeed, the leaders of the Loire-Atlantique club have enacted the principle of a bonus – of 50,000 euros, according West France – for its players if the team managed to stay in Ligue 1. A decision taken on May 4th. On Friday, Nantes was in 17th place in the standings. First place means relegation.

This system had already been used in 2021, when the Canaries were in the same situation. The FCN had ended up saving itself, in dams, by beating Toulouse. Ironically, this decision was made before the start of the 34^e day… like two years earlier. Even stronger, on the occasion of this day of the championship, the people of Nantes were opposed… to Strasbourg. Led at the very end of the first period, the Canaries recovered during the second half and won (1-2). At the time, the bonus had been the same amount, according to West France.