POSSIBILITY OF A NEW ERA AT FC NANTES: MARCELO SURPRISE

FC Nantes, one of the deeply rooted clubs of French football, currently occupies the sports agenda with handover claims off the pitch rather than its on-pitch performance. According to the latest developments announced to its readers by L'Équipe newspaper, entrepreneur Paulo Tavares prepares a highly surprising project to buy the club and personally presented his official offer to the current president Waldemar Kita. Tavares, who also tried to buy the ASSE (Saint-Étienne) club about 2 or 3 years ago, turns all his focus and route to Nantes now. The discussions between the parties progress over an amount below the 50 million Euros level right now, but everyone knows that president Kita initially hoped to generate a much higher income like exactly 95 million Euros for the club. The most striking and exciting part of the project undoubtedly stands out as the possibility of Brazilian legendary footballer Marcelo joining the club as a global ambassador. If this visionary plan, which already puts the fans in expectation, is officially accepted, Marcelo will make a direct transition from the green pitches to managerial representation. The other names that come to the table within the scope of the project to restructure the club from top to bottom also create an intense discussion in the French football public. While former basketball player and communicator Charles Kashema plans to take on the executive director role, Cyril Linette, the former general manager of L'Équipe, is shown as a strong candidate for the strategic council or the board of directors. It became clear that Géraldine Pons, who is in a management position at Eurosport, will definitely not join this project with the title of general manager. Despite all these glorious and assertive plans, many people from the business world clearly state that those who did business with Tavares before have great difficulty in believing the seriousness of his Nantes project. 

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