The club Clermont (Ligue 2) is about to be bought by a Swiss investor. The operation should be realized in the spring.
Claude Michy, the president of Clermont Foot who bought the Ligue 2 club in 2005, is in advanced negotiations to resell it.
The buyer would be Swiss. " Negotiations began about nine months ago, and today the probability of that being over is 50 percent ," says the newspaper's manager, " they are the ones who solicited us. They have already come to Clermont and met with the town hall, "said Michy, adding that the candidates for the resumption, who have" the means and projects "to evolve the club, have also attended matches.
He hopes to complete a transaction by the spring, " so that people can have the time to prepare peacefully the next season ". According to other sources, it is a family of Swiss industrialists, already engaged in a Swiss club, who wants to buy Clermont Foot, founded in 1990.
At 69 years old, Claude Michy thinks it's a good time for him to pass the hand, in a serene financial and sporting context - Clermont is currently 9th in the standings. " I'm not eternal " and " we do not have the knife under our throat, " he says.