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The ultimate chambering of the Dutch Emanuel Emegha En Direction de Leonardo Balerdi (“It's a little for me”, in French in the text), the locker room transformed into dancefloor by The trio with Bakwa-Moreira-Enmegha sunglassesor the masterclass Faced with OL (4-3) of a Valentin Barco Just out of maternity… Do not look for, the most entertaining sequences of this Ligue 1 season come from Alsace.
However, this Saturday (7 p.m.), on the occasion of a shock in Monaco (2nd) which could bring Racing (6th to three points from ASM) closer to a stunning in the Champions League, the Ultras Strasbourg present at Louis-II will not encourage their team during the first fifteen minutes. Why then this “quarter of an hour of silence” in a crazy series of 7 wins and 2 draws on the last 9 games?
A “Blueco Out” movement launched in February 2024
The attractive game of the Liam Rosenior group is obviously not in question here, unlike the multi -ownership in which the RC Strasbourg plunged with His acquisition in June 2023 by BluecoAmerican consortium owner of Chelsea.
“Even if the presence of the two Chelsea sports directors in the Board of Strasbourg (Laurence Stewart and Paul Winstanley) alerted us, we were not directly in the confrontation with Blueco, confides Maxime, Vice-President of Ultra Boys 90the main group of club supporters. Then our concerns were confirmed with drastic changes in the workforce and the lack of return of Blueco managers to our request to meet them. »»
This is where The “Blueco Out” movement launched for good, in February 2024, followed by a demonstration in March and banners hostile to the new US owner. Most often soporific with Patrick Vieira, Racing struggles for its maintenance, before concluding the season in 13th place. Then at the end of July, three weeks before the resumption of Ligue 1, a 40-year-old coach unknown to the general public (ex-Dernby County and Hull City) arrives with his false tunes of Memphis Depay admitted to Harvard.
“As long as we have Liam Rosenior and Marc Keller …”
The “Rosenior Ball” quickly enchants the followers of Racing, starting with Lintouscouting Strasbourg (25), which is enthusiastic on his x account. “I admit that I was initially said that Paul Winstanley spun the job at one of his friends,” smiles the one who would like to integrate a recruitment cell. And from his first preparation match, he released us a hybrid tactic at Guardiola. We have never seen such an offensive game in Strasbourg. So yes, many supporters say that we have become the Chelsea training center. But without the multi -ownership, never a pearl like Andrey Santos would be with us. »»
The debate is there: can we love his team when we see twelve recruits disembark in a summer, and his new goalkeeper Djordje Petrovic draws the face for having been loaned at the end of the transfer window by Chelsea? “The new generations undoubtedly manage to accept this racing more easily than those who have experienced popular football,” continues LintouScouting Strasbourg. I especially note that with Blueco, we can play Europe, and I like a coach arriving by announcing that it aims for a qualification in C1 with all these young people without complex. As long as we have Liam Rosenior and our President Marc Keller, I feel completely confident. »»
Third top scorer in the elite with Racing in 1997 and winner of the League Cup that same year, David Children Acknowledges having been “worried” during the sale of the club: “We saw the catas having sealed French clubs with the arrival of certain foreign investors, whether in Troyes or in Bordeaux for example. But I immediately thought that Marc Keller knew what he was doing. He had managed miracles by raising the Racing of the 5th division (in 2011-2012) to Ligue 1 and he would never have left the keys to anyone. »»
Chelsea “entrusted” four players in Racing
Former player and emblematic coach of the club, Yvon Pouliquen is well aware of the importance of “the strong identity” that Racing has always had in the eyes of its supporters. “But a racing wins is necessarily a racing that appeals to the Alsatians,” sums up the ex-coach Winner of the 2001 French Cup. Isn't it just better to see this club fight for Europe rather than for maintenance? So yes, Chelsea will certainly enjoy Strasbourg by placing young players. But as we can see this season, investors have not been much mistaken and it is also profitable in Racing. »»
Besides the excellent 20 -year -old Brazilian midfielder Andrey Santos (9 goals and 4 assists in Ligue 1), the Blues therefore lent last summer Djordje Petrovic, candidate for the best goalkeeper in the championship, and Camb Wiley (since in Watford), while selling for 8 million euros Diego Moreira, any in Lyon and metamorphosed as a lateral-piston in Alsace.
Even this winter, the arrivals of the central defender Andrew omobamidele (22, loaned by Nottingham Forest), the lateral Valentin Barco (20, loaned by Brighton) and the striker Samuel Amo-Ameyaw (18, loaned by Southampton) are successes that stand out in our “farmers League”. Because we are talking here about young talents all tired of the Premier League.
UB90s want “the protection of the institution”
“Honestly, I didn't know any of these players,” admits David Zitelli. Alchemy has taken, it sweats happiness in the locker room and I do not see who could stop them. I even feel them capable of putting an end to the invincibility of PSG in Ligue 1 (May 3 at Meinau). We can only say thank you to Blueco, his investment and his work. »»
A speech that the four associations are not shared by the Racing supporters Federationwho applied their encouragement strike for fifteen minutes for each game played at home and outside since the start of the season.
If the Meinau will reach the course of 60 closed countersshe therefore remains sad at each start because of this “peaceful movement”, which does not prevent certain supporters from seeing an “open conflict” between pro and anti-bluero at the stadium. “It is true that there were been able to be tensions, especially when a person wanted to tear our banner targeting Blueco, but everyone is free to follow us or not,” insists Maxime of the UB90.
« We get a strong message across. It's hard for us, it absolutely does not target players as we could explain in January in Liam Rosenior and Captain Habib Diarra. It is a disputed dispute of sporting results. It is estimated that the decisions at the head of the club are taken by Blueco and no longer by Marc Keller and the direction of Racing. It is the protection of the institution that matters more than anything to us. »
Cédric Kanté considers himself “in the right to get excited”
There was an advance last Saturday before the match against the OGC Nice (2-2), during a “brief discussion of ten minutes” at the 90+4 bar (a superb reference to the Free kick of the maintenance of Dimitri Liénard against OL in 2018) With Behdad Eghbalimain leader of Blueco. A “real meeting” is hoped by the end of June by the UB90 (800 members), which will maintain their “quarter of an hour of silence” until the end of the season.
“Fortunately there is distrust when this type of project arrives, greets Cédric KantéCaptain of Racing in the 2000s. Ideally, we would all wanted an old -fashioned Alsatian president but we are facing a new football. Compared to the situation in Montpellier, Reims or Lens, it is almost unexpected to see Racing with this financial power. Now a consultant on Ligue 1 for Canal+ Africa, the former Malian international is continuing.
« The observation is clear: as much as the Chelsea sports project often had neither a tail nor head in recent years, as much is the opposite this season in Strasbourg. We are entitled to get excited and I do not understand why the ultras make players pay the players with this strike for 1/6th match. We are still a few points from a historic end of the season, with players who strip and that make us happy. »
Except that the Ultras Strasbourg keep above all in memory the dark periods of their club behind the scenes, whether in the American years IMG-MCCORMACK (from 1997 to 2003) then with Jafar Hilali (from 2009 to 2011), at the end of which Racing had been sold for a symbolic euro.
“Thank you to OL and John Textor for shining”
“The sporting success obscures many things compared to governance,” notes Maxime of UB90s. Personally, this season leaves me a more bitter feeling than victory in the League Cup in 2019 or 6th place with Julien Stéphan in 2022. The emotions were then more authentic. We recognized ourselves more in the club, which then represented our values. »»
While talking about “cordial relationships with the club”, this ultra boys spokesman concludes: “Despite the results, we are less happy. For ten years, we were like in a bubble, protected from football business with Marc Keller. There, we have experienced the transition badly and it is difficult to identify with current players. »»
Our file on RC Strasbourg
On the contrary, filled by Emanuel Emegha (13 goals in Ligue 1) and CO, Lintouscouting Racing has a somewhat special message: “Thank you to OL and John Textor for shining at this RC Strasbourg Blueco version. Because far from the perception of the nebulous Eagle Football project between Lyon, Botafogo and Molenbeek, the dance steps of Dilane Bakwa and his friends would almost be enough to convince us of the benefits of multi -ownership in football.
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