Last summer, Nicolas Batum stepped down as ASVEL's minor shareholder, the club's deputy president Gaetan Muller confirmed.
Seven years after his arrival at LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne as a shareholder (via the Infinity Nine Sports holding company) and Director of Basketball Operations, Nicolas Batum has left the project.
Nicolas Batum
| Team: |
Los Angeles Clippers |
| Position: | SF |
| Age: | 36 |
| Height: | 203 cm |
| Weight: | 104 kg |
| Birth place: | Lisieux, France |
The ex-captain of the French national team has ceased to be part of the club since this summer "in all discretion", deputy president Gaetan Muller told Le Progress.
Batum had previously invested in two of his former clubs, Caen and Le Mans, as an advisor, before also retiring after some time.
He had reportedly chosen to distance himself from the project since president Tony Parker decided to partner with Smart Good Things and Fedcom. That led many minority shareholders to oppose the sale of the club at the beginning of 2023.
According to BeBasket, Parker and ASVEL have an open case to settle in court, as businessman Redda Habbou, who assures to have made the link between Tony Parker and Serge Bueno in 2022, turned against ASVEL men's and women's teams for breach of trust, abuse of power, fraud, criminal association and slander.
The case will be tried before the Commercial Court of Lyon on January 10th as part of a complaint filed by the SARL APPORT'OR SERENITY. In his hearing before the Public Prosecutor, Habbou claims, among other things, to have been ejected from the exchanges between ASVEL and Serge Bueno, and not to have been compensated up to the amounts provided for during a business contribution commission.
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