If there is one media outlet that had created a huge stir in Ligue 1 this season, it was that of Julien Fournier, who had half-worded serious extra-football reproaches to Christophe Galtier on RMC Sport on September 28. . “Very honestly, if I explain the real reasons for which we argued, Christophe will no longer enter a locker room, neither in France nor in Europe, had launched the former director of football of OGC Nice about of the former Aiglons coach. These are things from my point of view much more serious than football. »
RMC Sports returned to this case on Tuesday after consulting and authenticating an email sent last season by Julien Fournier to Dave Brailsford, director of football for Ineos, owner of OGC Nice.
“Our team does not correspond to me”
According to this letter written by Julien Fournier, the current coach of Paris Saint-Germain would have asked him to “take into account the reality of the city of Nice and that we could not have so many blacks and Muslims in the city. ‘crew “. The former football director of OGC Nice continues in his email, about this famous exchange with Christophe Galtier: “He said to me: “I went to the restaurant and everyone fell on me in saying that we have a team of blacks Julien, you must realize what city we are in, we are in the city of Jacques Médecin [ancien maire de Nice]and our team does not correspond to what people want, as it does not correspond to me”. There was no sporting argument but only religious or skin color arguments”.
Very serious accusations to which until then neither Christophe Galtier nor the management of PSG and OGC Nice have responded. Just after the media release of Julien Fournier last September, Christophe Galtier was satisfied with a lapidary reaction: “I am not surprised at the way he expressed himself, knowing the character. I don’t want to get tired of debating everything that is said. There is no doubt that we are heading towards a “word against word” which will cause a stir in the coming weeks.