- The health crisis is also affecting the SIG basketball club. "We could lose several hundred thousand euros," says its president Martial Bellon.
- How will GIS recover? By reducing its budget and ... its payroll. The latter will be reduced by 30% next season.
- Recruitment has already started with the signatures of four players, three French and one American.
David Andersen, Alexis Ajinça, Miro Bilan, AJ Slaughter and the other referenced players, it's over. "There will be no big CV at GIS this year, that's clear," warns Martial Bellon. The president of the Strasbourg club announces: the time has come to cut costs.
"Our budget will drop from 7.5 million euros last season to 6 million euros at the start of the school year," he said, obviously linking this drop to the health crisis. “We are not going to make 1 euro in turnover for almost seven months, from the end of February to the end of September. Which company would survive this? We do, but we will be strongly impacted. We could lose several hundred thousand euros. "
Already four recruits
To cope, SIG has already resorted to partial unemployment, "submitted a loan guaranteed by the State" and also drawn from its "800,000 euros of equity". But other measures will follow and will directly affect the players. Finally, recruits since only one element is still under contract: the young Essome Miyem, brother of the French international Endy.
"This is an opportunity, it allows us to negotiate new contracts," says Martial Bellon, who has already seen four new profiles arriving. The three French Léopold Cavalière (Pau-Orthez), Yannis Morin (Châlons-Reims) and Jean-Baptiste Maille (Châlons-Reims), as well as the American DeAndre Lansdowne. All have signed at rather reduced rates.
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- SIG Strasbourg (@sigstrasbourg) June 8, 2020"Salaries can no longer be the same ...", pleads the president of the Strasbourg club, announcing a "30% drop in payroll". Clearly, it will go from “1.5 million euros net last year to 1 million euros. The average net salary per year will therefore no longer be 150,000 euros… ”
What, logically, keep some players away from Strasbourg. Like the Canadian Thomas Scrubb, whom the GIS wanted to keep but which it could not retain. "We could not line up and he will sign elsewhere," says Martial Bellon again, without wanting to complain. “The construction of the team this season will be less based on CVs but rather on complementarity between players. We will start again on the bases that made our success four, five years ago. "
A reshaped sports sector
When the team, then led by Vincent Collet, disputed the first of its five Pro A finals, all lost. Evicted last January, the coach of the Blues has since been replaced by his former assistant, the Finn Lassi Tuovi. In early April, the GIS continued its metamorphosis by hiring the services of a sports director, Nicola Alberani. The Italian's mission is to turn around a club that remains on a very average exercise, completed in March by a small 10th place in the Jeep Elite.
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"He has an impressive knowledge of the European market," congratulates his president, before concluding: "The crisis can also have positive effects: it forces us to reinvent ourselves. "
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