MAINTENANCE – The president of Biarritz Olympique evokes the evolution of the club and the tensions with the municipality.
After seven years of purgatory, Biarritz Olympique is finally back in the elite. The story should be good. Except that the municipality refuses to help the club. Jean-Baptiste Aldigé, president and representative of Charles Gave, the majority shareholder, who has already injected 11 million euros, deplores this hostility. And confirms to Figaro the probable move of the team.
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LE FIGARO. – Biarritz Olympique is finally back in the Top 14. With what ambitions?
Jean-Baptiste ALDIGÉ. – Try to keep up. It’s been two years since I pointed out that the BO has Federal 3 structures and that if we went back to the elite … Even this summer, nothing was done by the municipality. We present a budget of only 13 million euros. This is the maximum that we can do with the stadium at our disposal. We only have 650 hospitality seats, all of which have been sold. Not to mention the players who still train, in the water leaks, under the Serge-Blanco stand, which dates from
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