FFF authorises Bordeaux to make domestic signings despite FIFA ban | OneFootball

Bordeaux have been cleared to recruit from French clubs during the close season, despite a FIFA transfer ban, after the French Football Federation opted not to extend the sanction domestically.

According to L'Équipe, the decision was delivered on Monday morning. FIFA issued a three-window embargo on 27 March over an unpaid €1.5 million to Sporting Gijon linked to Pedro Diaz’s August 2023 arrival.

A conciliation hearing at the CNOSF on Tuesday 26 May was followed three days later by a video meeting with the FFF’s club monitoring commission. The federation aligned with the Girondins’ leadership. Bordeaux finished second in National 2 Group A.

Chief executive Arnaud Saint-André and lawyers Matthieu Barandas and Mehdi Abdelouahab argued that judicial reorganisation on 30 July 2024 froze debts. They said the continuation plan approved by the Bordeaux commercial court on 24 June 2025 reduced the sum by 90%.

That position meant paying €1.5 million would breach the plan, and the FFF accepted the primacy of French commercial law on its territory. Bordeaux now await the Court of Arbitration for Sport’s ruling on their appeal to determine the position on international transfers.

Source: L'Équipe