By Stefan Acevski / info@eurohoops.net
Tony Parker confirmed for “L’Equipe” that Sylvain Francisco has left the club: “Yes, it’s true.”
Forced to sharply reduce its budget (from 59 million euros to probably 24), because it did not finalize in time the deal with an investment fund, ASVEL no longer had the means to keep a player reported at nearly 16 million euros over three years, who will ultimately move on to Panathinaikos.
In its initial 59‑million‑euro project, ASVEL had attracted Armoni Brooks, Nick Weiler‑Babb and Daniel Theis. These headliners are players the Villeurbanne club likely will not be able to keep either, even if Parker remained vague on these cases: “I don’t know, we’ll see, there are choices to be made.”
Stay of Vincent Collet is no longer at all certain in a now less ambitious project.
“He asked me for a bit of time,” admitted Parker, who is today facing a challenge far removed from the grand ambitions he had for his club at the start of the season. But the former Spurs point guard remains convinced that ASVEL will very soon be capable of achieving great things.
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