Caen passes under the American flag

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After Toulouse, the Caen football club, in great financial difficulty, on Monday formalized its passage under the American flag with the arrival of the Oaktree fund, in partnership with the Norman television producer Pierre-Antoine Capton.

This new takeover makes Caen the 11th French football club to go under foreign capital after Paris SG, Lille, Monaco, Nice (L1) as well as Auxerre, Sochaux and Troyes (L2), and the 4th under the starred banner with Marseille, Bordeaux (L1) and Toulouse (L2).

For the Normans, it is the end of the era of the "Club of 10", this group of a dozen local investors, of which Mr. Capton had been a member since 2017.

The relegation to L2 in the spring of 2019, the bad last season in League 2 (13th) and the deficits linked to the end of the season in March because of the coronavirus epidemic worsened an already tense situation.

Pickeu at the controls

Last week, Pierre-Antoine Capton announced to the Ouest-France daily that the new owners would invest "between 15 and 20 million euros fairly quickly".

For this, the new owners have chosen to give the keys to the club to Olivier Pickeu.

Long emblematic sporting director of Angers, where he had made a specialty in capital gains on the resale of promising players recruited at low cost.

Pickeu becomes executive chairman of Caen and thus returns at 50 to the land where he began his playing career, as a striker, in 1989.

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