The "official statement" fell at 10:24 pm Sunday, like a cleaver. The moment is serious, the controversy swells. No, OM will not leave its share of the box office receipts to its amateur opponent in Trélissac, as is the tradition in the Coupe de France.
A tradition on which OM is not exactly the first to sit, moreover. In recent years, some Ligue 1 clubs even compete in ingenuity in their justifications to leave with the box and leave nothing to small teams. We have kept the best for you.
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This is partly the argument put forward by OM, namely that the club would be "one of the two or three Ligue 1 clubs which contributes the most financially to the development of amateur football" thanks to the OM Generations partnerships. A preference assumed by another contender for the championship podium, Lille, who fully assumes to donate the said amount to clubs in his region. Without however notifying the local club each time, if we are to believe the president of Saint-Geneviève-des-Bois (CFA 2), beaten in 2009. "They said nothing on the spot and four months later, i "received a letter from the FFF asking us to pay 3,200 euros to Lille on pain of exclusion from the following edition", he explained in 2011 to the JDD . Still pointed out last season after having failed Sète, "who had received them like royalty", the Northerners replied that they would donate the money to amateur clubs in the region.
Because you had to reimburse the travel expenses
In January 2018, Senlis courteously received FC Nantes who came to do the job with in particular a double from the late Emiliano Sala. Except that the president of the small club of Oise notes, bitter, that the Canary delegation leaves with its share of the revenue, estimated at 14,000 euros. "The Nantes leaders just told me that it was a presidential order. Because 14,000 euros, on a budget of 240,000 euros, is not nothing. In the three years that I have been president, I have always given up my share of revenue when we have faced lower division clubs. The Team advances while FC Nantes wanted to reimburse the journey by private plane (30,000 euros), however covered by the qualification bonus (40,000 euros). In its press release, OM also mentioned the cost of traveling to Limoges to face Trélissac, 65,000 euros.
Because we were badly received
At the time of its splendor, it happened at FC Sochaux to leave with the box to sanction a stormy reception or inappropriate reactions of the opposing players, as the former president Alexandre Lacombe explained to the Parisian . “Sometimes we kept the money because we were extremely badly received. There is certainly an economic dimension, but it is first of all a matter of feeling ”. If the PSG and its billion budget has had no trouble playing the great princes since the arrival of the Qataris, there was a time when the Parisian club also resented depending on the reception. In the JDD , we learn for example that PSG had left only 5000 euros out of 20,000 in Ajaccio after a 16th virile final in the stands.
Because we got out
The loser's bad faith, perhaps the most legitimate hot excuse, though. The Rennais, eliminated twice by Quevilly in recent seasons, especially in the semi-finals at the 2012 edition, had it so bad that they counted all the tickets before hiding them at the bottom of the return bus. "We did it [leave the recipe], it is true with amateur clubs, but it is not insulting Quevilly to say that it is not a small amateur club, had then explained the manager of the Stade Rennais Pierre Dréossi in Ouest-France . And our share of revenue is around 100,000 euros, that's a lot of money. I totally assume. But the prize undoubtedly goes to Nîmes Olympique. The smallest budget of L1 does not have huge resources, but was it worth it to claim its share of 1,300 euros after having fallen in love with La Duchère last year (3-0)? "We went to see them, but they refused to give them to us. Let’s say it doesn’t grow up, ”lamented Mohamed Tria, president of the club in the Lyon suburbs.
Because it is thanks to us that the stadium is full
It is on this point that Jacques-Henri Eyraud innovates the most in his explanation of Sunday, against Trélissac. According to him, if the stadium was full and the ticket office so juicy, it is above all thanks to OM. Trélissac benefited from a stadium of 13,000 seats and practiced a pricing policy which - if it was entirely justified - displayed prices between 20 and 35 euros instead […] Thanks to the fact of receiving OM, the stadium was complete and moreover mainly welcomed Marseille supporters, who were in the majority. From an acoustic point of view in the stands, it's hard to prove him wrong on this.
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