President Waldemar Kita.

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Here is an idea which risks causing talk.

The president of Nantes, Waldemar Kita, proposed on RMC that we freeze the descents and the climbs of Ligue 1, Ligue 2 and National at the end of the season in order to save the clubs from financial bankruptcy in amid the coronavirus crisis.

“Even if things are going in the right direction, we have to plan for two or three years,” he explains.

We don't want to have two or three teams going down with 10 million euros in debt.

You have to prepare a business plan like in industry for production to continue.

We know very well that we will not be able to sell the players as we want, that the transfer window is delicate.

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Keep the sponsors

So ?

So we freeze the positions, NBA style, according to Kita.

“Continuing the championship by looking further ahead would allow the clubs to be much more serene, to keep the sponsors, because they themselves are worried… When I speak of an industrial accident, it is not by chance.

Why would a bankruptcy filing happen in a classic industry and not in football?

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To support his point, Kita gave some more than worrying figures, citing losses of 15 to 20 million in turnover over the season, "excluding litigation with Mediapro".

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