Club Rugby

Unthinkable demise after Mad Max’s razzmatazz

by
The Rugby Paper Team
19 March 2017

When Max Guazzini bowed out six years ago, Stade Francais had good reason to feel as safe as the Central European Bank. After all hadn’t their new owner a licence to print money?
The Parisian club’s envied reputation as a flamboyant mixture of the Moulin Rouge and Madison Square Garden could hardly have passed into safer hands after ‘Mad Max’ had made his final exit, stage left. Thomas Savare’s fortune came from the family business of designing and printing bank notes for the Eurozone.
He poured €30m of his own money into a losing team to such good effect ...

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