The suspense lasted all day but the info finally came out: la DNCG, the financial policeman of French football, has just validated the ASNL budget for the next National season. During the hearing this Wednesday afternoon in Paris, the Nancy leaders present (the Chinese-American shareholder Chien Lee, the chairman Gauthier Ganaye , Thorsten Theys the new financial boss from Ostend and Pascal Rivière) have obviously provided the necessary guarantees to avoid a new demotion, administrative this time. But this is not a blank check from the DNCG: Nancy will be subject to payroll supervision and transfer allowances provided that the FFF confirms the maintenance of professional status in the coming days, which is naturally done after the green light given by the DNCG.
This makes it possible to remove, at least temporarily, the risks and anxieties of filing for bankruptcy which have been floating in the air in Nancy for a while, after the succession of errors committed by the buyers who led the club in the third division for the first time in its history.
The shareholders of the ASNL have therefore assumed financially, as they had announced in their recent speech. It will also be the first time in a long time that the ASNL will have the right to recruit for a fee, even if it will have certain conditions to respect. But this result of the DNCG, rather positive, also confirms the idea that it is necessary to quickly launch a restructuring within the club to live better days at all levels. And avoid cold sweats before going to the DNCG…
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