President, club manager, advisor, player agent: Vincent Labrune has what we call a cap head!
This Thursday, The Team reveals in an investigation that he had access to documents indicating that Vincent Labrunewhile he was an independent administrator of the LFP, was able to influence transfers in 2017 to club presidents who would then bring him to power. For several years, French football players have criticized the former president of Olympique de Marseille for meddling in transfer market issues, the latter having always claimed “not to be an agent » and distil his advice voluntarily. However, the sports daily had access to exchanges indicating that the native of Orléans had participated in around ten internal exchanges on the subject of recruitment with clubs like Saint-Étienne, Caen, Nantes, Amiens and Guingamp as well as player representatives between 2017 and 2019.
A duty of independence
Several sources report consulting contracts, including outside the transfer window, concluded between VLB Communication, Vincent Labrune's consulting firm, and several club managers via their personal companies. Labrune was elected in November 2016 as an independent member to the board of directors of the LFP, where only « l“persons who have no direct or indirect interest in a member club of the LFP”, which is not his case given the links he had with several clubs. A few years later, in 2020, the former Marseille leader was elected to the presidency of the League by the CA, which included several club members with whom he had had close links in transfer window issues.
If men prefer blondes, clubs prefer Labrune.
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