Nearly 2 million euros in deficit for the Paloise Section? Bernard Pontneau firmly denies
Currently thirteenth in the Top 14 ranking, the Paloise Section is preparing to experience a tense end to the season. Behind the scenes, the pressure will not be less. According to information from South Westthe Béarnais could record a deficit of between 1.8 and 2.5 million euros at the end of the 2022-2023 financial year.
While the club was planning an increase in the number of subscribers, the average attendance of the Hameau is not substantial enough this season to make up for these errors of assessment. According South Westit would cost between 1.8 and 2 million euros to which we would have to add the sum of 400,000 euros to which Pau was sentenced after dismissal for serious misconduct of Tom Taylorin 2020.
” We have a loss. But we have equity that allows us to absorb them », assures Bernard Pontneau in the columns of South West. The President of the Section brushes aside the “stories of counters” about such a deficit. “ We won’t need to put back in the pot. If we do, it will be to move to the next level “, he continues while the daily affirms contacts between the club and its main partners in order to bail out the coffers.
