As Christophe Galtier’s trial for discrimination and moral harassment approaches when he coached Nice (in 2021-2022), set for December 15, the time is not really for appeasement. Tuesday, The Team published testimonies produced by former players and assistants of Galtier at OGCN before investigators, which corroborated the accusations against the current technician from Al-Duhail, in Qatar. At the end of the day then in the evening, Andy Delort and Julien Fournier spoke on RMC to discuss this affair.
The first, today in Umm Salal, also in Qatar, defended his ex-coach against Fournier, then sports director at OGC Nice, in the program “Rothen s’igne”. “I interpret it as a squabble that Fournier also creates,” said the Algerian international center forward, whose agent is John Valovic-Galtier, adopted son of Christophe Galtier whose name was also cited in the affair .
“It didn’t happen like that”
Delort claims to have “never heard” the racist and discriminatory statements of which the former PSG coach is accused. “And yet I did the full season, and I saw all the comments that came out,” he says. “In the articles we read that Galtier had refused to play Hicham Boudaoui because he was celebrating Ramadan. It didn’t happen like that,” continues the globe-trotting center forward.
According to him, the Algerian midfielder had presented himself “at the snack bar at 10:30 a.m.” while Galtier had asked that day the players who were fasting during the holy month of Islam “to get up at 5 a.m. or 5:30 a.m.” to eat. , while the match was “at 1 p.m. or 3 p.m.”. “The dietitian said that he hadn’t gotten up so the coach had made the decision not to start him,” adds Delort. Which may be understandable at this point. »
In “After Foot”, still on RMC, Julien Fournier affirmed for his part that he was not surprised by the revelations of The Team. “On these subjects, we clashed throughout the year with Christophe. I tried to be a shield for the potential victims, who are the players. The victim is not Julien Fournier. »