The French clubs being bought – and distorted – by Premier League teams

The message from the Tribune Ouest, home of the self-styled Ultra Boys 90, is loud and clear. Half an hour into Racing Strasbourg’s home game against OGC Nice, a huge banner is unfurled: “Non a la multipropriete” . One of the Ultra Boys, Strasbourg’s most vocal supporters, grabs a megaphone and issues an impassioned diatribe against multi-club ownership — his message reverberating all over the Stade de la Meinau as the match is going on.

They have always been a club which develops and sells talent — previous seasons had seen the sales of to and Ilan Meslier to — but it had now begun to look like an end in itself, rather than a means to an end. Like Strasbourg and Troyes, Lorient have been left with one of the youngest squads in European football. They were sixth in Ligue 1 when they were bought by Black Knight. Barely a year later, they are 17th in an 18-team division and facing the threat of relegation with three games to go.

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