Officially promoted to Ligue 1 thanks to its draw against Martigues on Friday, Paris FC feeds great ambitions, aimed at the “European squares” within a few seasons. The capital’s club is still aware of the stages remaining to be crossed with this in mind.
Thanks to its draw in Martigues on Friday, Paris FC reached the season of its takeover by the Arnault family in November, its objective of accessing Ligue 1 and the capital will soon find the inimitable scent of derbies.
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“Strengthen the team”
At first, the club wishes to stabilize in the elite before aiming in some seasons “European squares”, according to Pierre Ferracci, the historic president. “We must start by avoiding any industrial accident which would consist in seeing us go back to Ligue 2 at the end of next season,” warns the manager, who will leave his place to one of the children of Bernard Arnault in 2027, probably to Antoine who accompanies him since the acquisition.
“Some will say that it is a communication to Guy Roux,” he resumes, that with the Arnault family, there is capital to have stronger ambitions, but we have too much respect for all the teams that we are going to face and which have been there for decades to try to maintain the stages “.
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-If the PFC is ahead of the passage times fixed during its acquisition, a gigantic task remains to be accomplished to meet expectations. In terms of recruitment first, to ensure the maintenance in the elite. “We will strengthen the team. See what positions we must put players who have experience to achieve this goal in a serene way,” said Ferracci.
Atalanta Bergame as an example
The PFC must also pass the financial gendarme of French football on June 19, with a budget for Ligue 1 which it will have previously drawn during a board of directors on May 12, once the Ligue 2 championship is completed.
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“We still have a lot to learn,” adds the president. Learning the Ligue 1 is not only sports or media, it is also commercial and economical. ” Especially since the PFC will have to abandon its Charlety stadium at least temporarily in the 13th arrondissement next year and cohabit with the Stade Français rugby team in Jean-Bouin, adjoining … Parc des Princes.
At the same time, the PFC must enlarge its training center located in Orly to pass it from 8 to 20 hectares and house its two professional, male and female teams, as well as its two training centers.
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Ambitious but cautious, Pierre Ferracci quotes as an example the Atalanta Bergame. “A club that has climbed the ladder quietly and today plays the leading roles in Italy without having the budget of the clubs of Milan, Rome or Turin”.
