"We don't have a speculative approach with our youngsters" (D. Comolli, Toulouse FC)

"With trading, the French clubs are in a system where they say to themselves: 'We have a significant operating deficit every year, but it's not serious because we're going to make up for it by selling players'. I don't agree with this reasoning at all. (...) We don't have a speculative approach with our youngsters. We want to establish them in the long term, and that they progress in a precise style of play that is both attacking and spectacular," said Damien Comolli, president of Toulouse FC (Ligue 2 BKT), in an interview with the French daily Le Monde, on 02/03/2021.

The former sporting director of AS Saint-Etienne (Ligue 1 Uber Eats), Liverpool FC and Fenerbahçe SK (Süper Lig), who also worked as director of football at Tottenham Hotspur FC (Premier League) and as a European scout for Arsenal FC (Premier League), has chaired Toulouse FC since July 2020 and the takeover of 85% of the club by RedBird Capital Partners, an American investment fund based in New York (see below).

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