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French Football is Dying.
French Football is Dying.
French Football is Dying.

[TheOriginalEwan]

It died the moment they named their first tier after McDonald’s 💀

[beatlemaniac]

15 years ago, Bordeaux were French league champions and beat Bayern Munich and Juventus in the Champions League. Look at them now...

[ĈiamGrandaOfficiel]

Paris Saint-Germain – 12 Titles
AS Saint Etienne – 10 titles
Olympique de Marseille – 9 Titles
AS Monaco – 8 Titles
FC Nantes – 8 Titles

That's how competitive Ligue 1 used to be, for a League that produces so much Talent it's sad how Clubs are barely surviving.

[lucaslonchampt]

It feels very weird that my club, Stade Brestois, is somehow one of the most stable French clubs financially, especially if you discount any club owned by a rich country

[Dissport]

There is still a chance. It may take like 20 years but almost the same thing happened to my club SSV Ulm in 2000. We were in the Bundesliga, got relegated, then got relegated again, went bankrupt and had to play in the 5th division of German football with our reserve team. We made it back to the 4th division, wich is now the 5th division because they made another division wich is now the 3. Liga (it's all really complicated) and eventually made it to what is now the 4th division of German football, the Regionalliga. After more than 20 years of amateur football and 2 more bankruptcies, we finally made it back to professional football and got promoted to the 3. Liga in 2023. Now in 2024, we got back to back promotion and return to the 2. Bundesliga after 23 years. So there is still a chance for Bordeaux but it may take a painfully long time.

[ThriveOffNegativity]

We roast it being called McDonald’s league but La Liga literally called “ea sports La Liga” McDonald’s still hilarious tho

[keineahnung]

there should be a 50+1 rule all over the world, to stop the inflation of pricesof tv rights and level out the clubs.

[Lyendith]

PSG being bought by Qatar was supposed to make it a locomotive and lift the entire league upwards, but it did the opposite… Not only does PSG steamroll almost every season, the other clubs have bled themselves to death trying to compete with it. Before that, the Ligue 1 wasn’t on the level of the Big 4 obviously, but at least it was financially stable.

As for Bordeaux… honestly, learning that the club will have to start over was almost a relief, because man the last few seasons have been painful to watch. Even if we hadn’t missed promotion in the previous season, the current situation would have caught up with us eventually.

[richardlittle]

Bordeaux feels a bit extra sad for me because my first ever live match was Liverpool vs. Bordeaux at Anfield in 2015. No fan deserves to see their club liquidate.

[arayangodfrey]

FC Schalke is dying and might end up like Bordeaux soon

[-Eckhart]

It's happening everywhere - big business and money is killing the sport. Bordeaux were sporting Titans suddenly required to pay dividends, not score goals. In pure sporting terms, there are no reasons for their extinction.

[MH]

The money in football has always been a bubble and eventually bubbles burst its burst for barca and now the french league it will keep happening

[utld____]

This is sad knowing, I do hope that someone purchases the image rights for 2 years *ahem YouTube ahem* and livestream games, have YouTubers be journalists for French football etcetera etcetera, it opens Ligue 1 to being a modern league, it opens business ventures for Ligue 1 to be a streamable service which makes it streamable. Secondly, younger generations will end up watching Ligue 1 because of it being online. It opens a possibility of bigger investors to clubs other than PSG, it opens so many different avenues. Now all this requires is for YouTube to market it well and not half ass it, put all hands in the pot and make every team watchable not just important games.

[Deck]

What happened to Bordeaux has been really touching for me and I believe for many others, as I started following and appreciating French football after their success in the 2008-09 season and with players like Gourcuff or Chamakh. French football has definitely a huge problem with the TV rights that's been cooking for a long time. Nevertheless, I believe that what happened to Bordeaux opened the Pandora Box and we will start seeing similar fate for other clubs in distress in first divisions across Europe. Football clubs are not from fans for fans anymore and they became an speculative asset for hedge funds and governments alike. Furthemore, we are also moving towards an environment where players itself will leverage more marketing/deals/image rights than the clubs themselves, as people rather than being fans of a specific club they are becoming fans of a specific player (for his lifestyle rather than his sport skills). This wouldn't be bad if it wasn't overshadowing the football sport itself.

[gabbyprincip]

Thats the risk of selling your club to any random rich guy.
Fans are told that if they hand over their club to some Arab sheik, multi club company or Chinese/American oligarch that they'll become the next Manchester City/PSG and it ends up being a massive failure almost every single time.

[NoLuckJKMY]

Tbh it's hard to believe that many of those clubs currently at risk of declaring bankruptcy (Auxerre, Lens Nantes, Reims, Montpellier and Le Havre) were former champions of Ligue 1 at some point of the league's history.

Also I noticed that many French football clubs tend to run into financial problems which often led to their demise. Yes, in recent years we saw former Ligue 1 clubs like Sochaux, Gazelec Ajaccio and Evian Thonon Gaillard were either administratively relegated or even folded due to the aforementioned issue.

[arnaudrld]

As a Stade Rennais fan, Ligue 1 isn’t looking good, even though we now have broadcasters for the new season, no one is looking forward to watch it as the subscription is so expensive. So they won’t get a lot of money for it. My club Rennes is calm financially as we have one of the richest owners in the world, so we will never be at threat for bankruptcy. But 50% of the clubs are pretty much done and could deal with bankruptcy because of it and the lack of big names in the league.

[merlinlemmerdeur]

Some things to say regarding the state of both Bordeaux and Ligue 1 in general :

- Bordeaux had during these last years the 14th biggest wage budget of France while still being in Ligue 2. There are 18 clubs in Ligue 1. They ended up in the midtable last season.

- The fact that their training center is going to close is an absolute disaster, not only does it kill in the egg the futur prospects they could've sold, it also means the death of a community. It'll maybe reopen in the upcoming years, let's hope atleast.

- The Ligue 1 TV rights are a fucking shitshow but it also illustrates major issues running in the French football : mainly, spending money we don't own. Wages are too high, agents and networks are vultures, corruption runs rampant and young prospect end up being sold early too fill the gaps this absurd way of functioning. And so, when the major source of money runs dry, everyone panics because there's rarely a long-term project. Bordeaux is one of its victims, but many more will follow with the whole TV rights ordeal.

- And regarding these TV deals, currently DAZN is set to broadcast 8 games out of 9, while BeIn Sports gets 1. But apparently they cannot find an agreement on what match to broadcast or not, mainly because it'll most likely be the main big match of the week (PSG, Marseille, Monaco...).

- Now, a DAZN subscription is 35€ a month. Add the BeIn subcription to that with its 15€ a month, you get 50€/month to pay just to watch Ligue 1 in its entirety. This is insane.
I'll be very happy to watch my broke Ligue 2 club on BeIn for 15€/month for the next 5 years (cuz BeIn bought the rights during the summer).

[catramax]

Oh man, what a damn shame. I just started following Bordeaux for a few seasons because of a player I liked up until they were relegated from ligue 1, seeing this makes me sad. RIP to a club with so much history

[BloodRider]

Absolutely awful, I love French football and it's devastating for this to be happening to such a massive club as Bordeaux. I don't even care if Ligue 1 ever really becomes a top league, I just want French football to stabilise and prevent more fans and future footballers from losing their hometown clubs