By formalizing Thursday the final rankings of Ligue 1 and Ligue 2, the president of the Professional Football League Nathalie Boy de la Tour did not fail to denounce the dissensions between club leaders for 48 hours. “Football does not come out of it grown up. He has egos. We need more compact governance, we must simplify our statutes, club unions must be unified. Our dissensions have become more visible. We deplore it. We were sincerely ready to take over like the Spanish Germans, but there have been government decisions that we respect. For 48 hours, we have worked to find the resolutions that are those of today. So we ended the cacophony, “ said the manager, bluntly. Following the speech of the Prime Minister, Edouard Philippe, Tuesday, to stop the season, several presidents had clashed, like Jean-Michel Aulas or Gérard Lopez, formulating in turn plans to resume the season which, one suspects, favored their stable.
President of the supervisory board of AS Saint-Etienne, 17th on the evening of the 28th and therefore last day, Bernard Caïazzo did not fail to react to the war of egos which has raged in recent hours between club bosses French. “It’s a Lépine competition that we’ve seen since Tuesday. At one point it got funny. It looked like there was no health problem in France. I think there are people who don’t love each other, unfortunately that’s how it is. There are phenomena of rivalry in the championships, but there we were in an approach to respond to a serious problem, a health problem. What do we care about the ranking, to finish 5th, 6th or 7th. We told them, stop, we’re in the same boat, if it goes bad for one it will go bad for the other. I’m just glad it went quickly, because I thought it wouldn’t be possible to last a fortnight like that. We had a government instruction, it had to be respected, that’s all. At some point, we are not going to go against the Prime Minister… ”, launched, on RMC, the president of the Premier League union, and president of the supervisory board of AS Saint-Etienne.