“Ask the question” Is there a threat to the payment of television rights? As we did last week, it was to answer it. Claude Puel had put us in our ears when he said he heard of a new element prompting the club to accept Leicester’s offer for Fofana. “Some people fear difficulties on the side of Mediapro” we wrote, noting the concern of representatives of professional clubs: “The threat of an economic collapse for most structures could materialize in the coming weeks by situations of termination. of payment “.
An interview with the boss of the expensive Telefoot channel, Jaume Roures, at L’Equipe, confirmed what many were expecting. Mediapro is unwilling or unable to honor its contract as signed before the pandemic. Vincent Labrune sounded the alert “If I weren’t worried about the finances of our clubs, I would be irresponsible.” In the immediate future, the new president of the League has found a plaster to put on a wooden leg with a loan to replace the Catalan group, 172M € which is added to that, guaranteed by the State, of 224.5M. € granted by the Société Generale. It will be necessary to repay one day and, at a time when the League wants to create a commercial company, it may find itself in a weak position in the face of greedy rather than benevolent investors.
Replace Fofana with Saliba and pocket 40 M € plus 25! Unexpected … and unrealized
It is precisely in order not to fall into the portfolio of these opportunists, as Waldemar Keita, the president of Nantes, describes them, that the Saint-Etienne leaders have given in to the English. They are all the more fragile as they anticipated the rise in TV rights by borrowing two years ago to recruit and help Gasset save the team. The situation is serious enough that Puel adopted the tone of it, explaining that ASSE could not recruit even after the transfer of his greatest prospect.
What alarm the supporters who nevertheless dreamed in the last hours of the Mercato. A few days earlier we had raised the possibility of a loan from Saliba with a member of the club, but the latter had little faith in it, Rennes being in the running. It was without counting on the attachment of young Gunner to his training club, to his desire to revive. Replace Fofana with Saliba and win 40 M € plus 25! Unexpected … and unrealized.
Was the recruitment unit above all a degreasing unit?
Who is responsible for this failure for a few turns of the second hand in this timed market? According to Stéphanois leaders “all the administrative conditions could not be met in England”, to which the English replied that the Greens would “not have sent the last necessary papers”. It’s a no-deal Brexit, ahead of its time, with the only winners being the British who hope to lend Saliba to the more generous. Would the Foréziens have achieved their ends by negotiating further upstream? They hid their game so as not to arouse the competition. It’s lost.
Another failure for the attacker wanted by Galtier, Garcia, Gasset and now Puel. Again it would have been perfect, but M’Baye Niang is just a mirage. So much sand raised for five days, so much negotiation, affirmations by those who think they know, procrastination by those who should know. It is Saint-Etienne who does not pay enough for the player’s salary. It’s Rennes who don’t pay him a bonus. It’s Niang who is thinking. It is the agents who burst into L’Etrat. It’s a film, as bad as that of another king of the volte against the Stéphanoise, Salibur. The comparison ends there, Niang could have become a prince of Geoffroy-Guichard. And here we are playing the biniou after the London baroque. It’s not me, it’s the other one, but again, who benefits from this failure if not the lender who is hoping for a better deal? Should this also be done earlier? Was the recruitment unit above all a degreasing unit? Since Khazri, Boudebouz, Trauco are still there, they may be the recruits … “
Didier BIGARD