Gas. Ajaccio, would be promoted to Ligue 1 if the season ended today. I'd imagine if they do get promoted the LPF would have another Luzanec on its hands.
Le Havre has plans to recruit Brazilian striker Adriano http://www.nationalheadlines.co.uk/...eturn-to-football-with-ligue-2-club-le-havre/
Le milliardaire émirati Souleiman Al-Fahim serait en discussions avec les dirigeants du Paris FC, selon Canal+. L'ancien propriétaire de Manchester City (2008) puis de Portsmouth (2009) ambitionnerait d'entrer dans le capital du club (actuel leader de National) puis d'en prendre le contrôle. Agé de 37 ans, Al-Fahim a fait fortune dans l'immobilier. http://news.maxifoot.fr/info-208187_141120/football.php Le Paris FC a démenti l'information de l'émission Enquêtes de foot sur Canal+ qui a affirmé que des discussions étaient en cours entre le club et le milliardaire émirati Souleiman Al-Fahim qui souhaiterait entrer au capital (cf. brève de 8h31). "Certains médias se font l'écho de discussions entre la Direction du Paris FC et des représentants des Emirats. La Direction dément catégoriquement ces informations", a réagi le PFC par le biais d'un communiqué. "Si l'intérêt vis-à-vis du Paris FC de plusieurs investisseurs ne se dément pas, le Club poursuit sereinement ses discussions avec des partenaires français et un grand club étranger intéressés par sa politique de formation dynamique et par les perspectives qui s'offrent au Club et à son équipe première dans les prochaines années", a ajouté le club de la capitale. http://news.maxifoot.fr/info-208203_141120/football.php
A Saudi Prince is buying Sedan. Cant really get too excited about this since they are in the CFA and I dont think its a club that has much potential for growth. http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...-IGQBQ&usg=AFQjCNERuegM_lAoOqFUeIxHKH_4W5MPgg
I think an Arab billionnaire would rationally more likely buy Paris FC than Sedan, who has really nothing particular. Tiny city in the French Ardennes, no fanbase, nothing to fantasize about. Only a few memories (50's Cup and 2000-y team with Cédric Mionnet and Pius N'Diefy) If I had money to make a low league club grow up, I'd buy Red Star, Strasbourg, Racing Paris, Calais or Grenoble.
my newcarcaviar4star daydreams used to be about buting stade reims for obvious reasons. this... and above all THIS!
We've witnessed that there was the potential for a Ligue 1 club during the few months Grenoble had reached the top level. Just as Toulon in the 80's, at the time of the derbies against Marseille Plus, Grenoble is an interesting city, centered in the Lyon-Milan economic sphere. It is very dynamic, regarding people and business.
grenoble's not really a rugby city, it's the rhone-alpes region more generally that is big enough to hold just about any sport. the LOU in lyon is bound to be a perennial Top14 club eventually (soon!) and there's bourgoin-jallieu, a podunk kind of burg that's a little too big and too distant to be just a bedroom community for lyon. god knows how or why it exists at all, logically it's in a kind of van allen belt where no life should be able to survive. just knowing human beings are out there gives me the willies. anyway, they have the CSBJ which is now fighting for their lives in D2 but in more than a century of existence has been as often as not in the top-flight and the premier club of the region. it's an OK town (grenoble, not b-j) but a little small. well, a lot. it's like a le mans or a limoges with mountains. if you live there you'd better like to ski, otherwise existence must weigh on your hands dreadfully. and even then, you can only ski like 6 months out of the year, whereas you can blow your brains out in all seasons.