Bordeaux (AFP) – The mayor of Bordeaux told reporters on Friday that the city is in contact with two potential buyers for the famous Girondins Bordeaux football club after the shock announcement that its American owners wanted to pull the plug. American investment fund King Street said on Thursday it was divesting itself of Bordeaux because of “the economic context linked to the Covid-19 pandemic and the withdrawal of (broadcast group) Mediapro (which) caused an unprecedented drop in revenues for French football clubs.” The announcement came as a huge shock to the city whose club was ...