The spokesman for Nasser Al-Khelaïfi’s Paris Saint-Germain spoke to RMC Sport about the accusations made against the Parisian club president in Complément d’Enquête. He deplored the fact that the testimonies were biased, incriminating and lacking in credibility.
“We do not intend to pay any further attention to this coordinated smear campaign”
“After nine months of investigation, the program has ultimately amounted to nothing more than a string of entirely biased testimonies from non-credible – and, in several cases, formally indicted – individuals, ignoring the most basic facts and proving absolutely nothing.
We do not intend to pay any further attention to this coordinated smear campaign; we will continue with our various legal actions, as the injured party, in which we have full and serene confidence.”
It’s such a far cry from soccer. And yet, this investigation comes before a promising end to the season for the Parisian club. Interviewing Véronique Rabiot, whom everyone knows, who insists that fan violence at the Parc des Princes is an isolated case, who refuses to talk about violence in other stadiums, who denies the bitter negotiations, who lies about a stadium in Qatar made compulsory by the club at the time of Adrien Rabiot’s father’s death (denied by a dated tweet from PSG), is first and foremost making a charge.
Not only that, but there are obviously shady areas in PSG’s Francilien president, but is he the only executive to have them? This additional investigation is clearly a targeted attack. Al-Khelaïfi is paying for his reputation as a hard man, but it must also be acknowledged that before he got to this point, he gave his all for the players in question.
And they don’t return the favor. It would have been nice if the benevolent climate around PSG had lasted longer, but there are too many opponents to the way things are done by the Qataris, Nasser Al-Khelaïfi and PSG. Soccer no longer reigns, the backstage world has taken over.
