Latest French Ligue 2 News
Ranieri to remain at Monaco
Ian Holyman, France Correspondent | May, 20 2013Monaco's sporting director, Vadim Vasilyev, has told Canal+ that the club intend to stick with manager Claudio Ranieri following their promotion to Ligue 1.
Article | ConversationMonaco tax row escalates over €200m claim
Ian Holyman, France Correspondent | May, 6 2013The row between Monaco and the French football authorities over attempts to end the principality club's privileged financial position has escalated with both parties claiming the other said a €200 million payment would resolve the prickly situation.
Article | ConversationRanieri's Monaco closing in on promotion
Ian Holyman, France Correspondent | April, 23 2013Claudio Ranieri has told his Monaco players to continue the scintillating form that has taken them to the brink of a return to Ligue 1 and ensure they clinch promotion.
Article | ConversationPrince Albert confident over Monaco tax appeal
Andrew Scott | April, 15 2013Prince Albert of Monaco has told Le Parisien he is confident that the principality's football club will win their appeal against the passing of a new rule that threatens to bring an end to their financial advantages.
Article | ConversationMonaco want compensation for move to France
Ian Holyman, France Correspondent | April, 4 2013Monaco are a club where time is standing still after the French Football League's decision to put an end to their privileged financial position, the principality outfit's vice-president claims.
Article | ConversationMonaco 'stand up' to FFF following law changes
Ian Holyman, France Correspondent | March, 29 2013Monaco have asked the French Football Federation to revoke a decision which would see the principality club lose its privileged position within French football.
Article | ConversationMonaco told to comply with new tax rules
Ian Holyman, France Correspondent | March, 22 2013Monaco risk being kicked out of the French league if the principality club fail to comply with new rules that will end the financial advantages they have enjoyed.
Article | ConversationEx-Arles chief sentenced in match-fixing probe
Andrew Scott, France Correspondent | March, 13 2013Former Arles-Avignon sporting director Fabrice Bertone has been handed a suspended prison sentence for attempting to fix matches in 2009.
Article | ConversationDebt-ridden Auxerre face fight for French survival
Ian Holyman | March, 2 2013Auxerre were playing Real Madrid and AC Milan in the Champions League just three years ago, but now face being banished to the backwaters of the French game after falling into financial difficulty.
Article | ConversationLouvel questions Monaco's financial 'fairness'
Ian Holyman, France Correspondent | December, 10 2012Jean-Pierre Louvel, the influential and respected president of the Union of Professional French Clubs (UCPF), has suggested Monaco's unique place in French football should again be looked at as it raises "an enormous problem of fairness".
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