The Arnault family, via its Agache holding company, is preparing to become a majority shareholder of Paris FC, current leader of Ligue 2. Antoine Arnault, son of Bernard and future president of the club, presented an ambitious project for the team.
Will Paris FC follow PSG’s trajectory? Not really… Antoine Arnault clarified that the Qatari model would not be reproduced. “We don't arrive by saying to ourselves: 'We're going to revolutionize everything, we're going to turn the table over and change everything', not at all,” he announced during an interview with RMC Sport.
“We don’t have a model. On the other hand, the philosophy that has driven certain English teams in recent times is rather the idea that I have of what Paris FC will be in the years to come,” explained the man who brought the takeover project to fruition. . “I have the example of Leicester who managed against all odds to win the Premier League in 2016,” he continued. I have a small tradition of sports betting, which I will unfortunately have to stop, but I believe they were 10,000 to 1 to win the championship. There are also stories like that of Brest recently, which I find very inspiring.
“We want to build our own history, our own legend, while keeping the DNA of the club which is popular and which will remain so, I want to insist on that. We don't arrive by saying: 'We're going to revolutionize everything, we're going to turn the tables and change everything'. No way. On the contrary, we will improve things that already exist. We will ensure that we create a club with great values, a great playing philosophy. We will work a lot on the training aspect,” promised the general director of Christian Dior SE.
No trading with Red Bull sauce
“I want us to do something with this famous first pool of talent in the world. And I think we will be well placed to train young people, make them want to come to Paris FC, be able to make them play. If we are a club that is too high, it is difficult to play young talents, nuggets who are very young precisely,” added Bernard’s son.
The boss of the future Club driven by Red Bull also denies that the policy will be trading, unlike the other clubs in the Red Bull galaxy, like Leipzig. “Red Bull has this way of nurturing young people and then getting rid of them. We won't hesitate to do it either, once we've grown them. But ultimately, the idea is perhaps to have 5, 6, 7, why not 8 players in the men's and women's first team who are trained at the club. Parisians, Ile-de-France residents and French people,” concluded Antoine Arnault. Ambition therefore, but not a copy and paste from PSG. .
