“If the club wants to double my salary to respond to journalists, I agree”, quips Éric Roy after the Luis Enrique controversy

Luis Enrique, coach of Paris Saint-Germain, was criticized mid-week for having responded curtly to a question from Canal + journalist Margot Dumont, after PSG’s defeat at Arsenal (2-0): “I have no intention of explaining my tactics, because you wouldn’t understand them. »

An intervention considered inappropriate and contemptuous, which followed a first outing by the Spanish technician a week earlier at a press conference: “If I am given a paper and told to sign to avoid speaking to the press but in reducing my salary by 50%, I sign,” he said.

“I would rather be asked than not asked”

“Even if I love Luis Enrique, if the club is willing to double my salary to answer more questions from journalists, I agree,” smiled his counterpart Éric Roy, coach of Stade Brestois, at a press conference . Particularly talkative and available in the media exercise, the technician prefers “to be requested than not requested”, he continued, while the large victory of Brest in Salzburg (0-4) got people talking this week.

“If we are asked for, it is because we are producing good results,” he believes. What I want is for us to talk about Brest, my team and my players, who are the great architects of the performances we achieve. We complained a lot in this club, that we did not exist on the map and in French football. If there can be a spotlight…”