According to Foot Mercato, which revealed private messages sent by John Textor on WhatsApp during the last summer transfer window, the president of OL would have used an insulting term to describe Rayan Cherki and his entourage.
John Textor did not avoid any subject during his exceptional interview broadcast on Monday in Rothen s'ignée on RMC. With his incisive style, the president of OL notably took stock of the situation of Rayan Cherki, revealing that the 21-year-old attacking midfielder had asked to join Paris last summer, before extending his contract a few weeks later. late until 2026. “Cherki, he's been wanting to leave for two or three years. It has nothing to do with the DNCG! He wanted to go to PSG last year. He sent me a message to tell me: 'I really want to go to PSG,'” explained the American leader.
He also severely tackled Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, accused of making rain and shine in French and European football. “I knew the situation, but I didn't really know the institutional protection enjoyed by a certain club and the power of a certain person over bodies like the ECA (the European Club Association) and the 'UEFA”, explains Textor, at the head of Les Gones since the end of 2022.
The response was not long in coming. In the process, Foot Mercato published private exchanges from John Textor on WhatsApp dating from the last summer transfer window. The Gones boss was then in discussions with other clubs, including Paris and Dortmund, about a possible transfer of Rayan Cherki. And the businessman from Missouri would have called his player an offensive term during his discussions.
“I’m still listening to that little asshole…”
“It's the 4th of July, and I'm still listening to that little asshole you want to sign. Are you still interested? Dortmund spoke to us for the first time, and I'll be happy to go and tell them to do it see I just need to know if you still want the player,” Textor reportedly wrote in a first message. Before completing his point of view in a second exchange about Cherki: “I think he's a good kid. But his entourage is made up of assholes… I'll send him a message to say that Dortmund can go show, thank you!”
Asked about the possibility of seeing Rayan Cherki leave OL this winter, John Textor responded during his interview in Rothen s'igne (before the publication of his private exchanges by Foot Mercato): “We should ask him if he wants finish the season. I like Rayan, I told him that he couldn't play for us, nor train with us, if he didn't extend his contract because I signed him. outside the team. He came back to the group. I saw him in the locker room, I joked with him and said: 'See, look how well you're playing with your contract!' He then came back to the team, things are going very well, so yes I hope he wants to stay, but no one pushed him out because of the DNCG. “He finally extended his contract and he's playing very well, it's fantastic, it's football.”
Textor does not intend to “sell anyone” to PSG
The American leader, on the other hand, ruled out the possibility of selling one of his players to President Nasser Al-Khelaïfi's PSG, whom he scratched several times during his appearance on RMC: “Today? No, absolutely not I don't want to sell a player of this quality to Nasser until we shake hands, share a beer and decide together to help the French championship. It's obvious, my relationship with Nasser is not good. is more this that she was, but men remain men, we can move on but for the moment no, I won't sell anyone to her.
