Bordeaux beat Monaco, say Henry could still come

Bordeaux grabbed their first points of the season as they beat Monaco 2-1 at home on Sunday and the club’s owner insisted Thierry Henry could still join as coach.

Francois Kamano’s superb curled finish in second-half injury time added to the Guinean’s 48th-minute penalty for Bordeaux at the Matmut Atlantique. That spot kick had been canceled out by Pietro Pellegri’s 63rd-minute finish for Monaco but after Kamano’s late piece of brilliance, they slipped to their first defeat of the season.

Nicolas de Tavernost, the owner of Bordeaux until the end of September, said “all options are open” following French media reports on Sunday that former Monaco and Arsenal great Henry had turned down an offer to become their coach.

The club are in the process of firing previous manager Gus Poyet.

“No decision until next week,” de Tavernost said. “We are working day and night to have the best coach possible. “It’s not easy.” Earlier in the day, Paris Match magazine said 41-yearold Henry intended to say ‘no’ to Bordeaux at the start of this week because of the “lack of certainty over the club’s future.”

French TV station Canal Plus also reported that Henry would rebuff the approach.

De Tavernost’s TV station M6, which has owned Bordeaux since 1999, has agreed to sell the club to US investment fund GACP.