The owner of RWDM and OL, John Textor, will not go on vacation with Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, boss of Paris Saint-Germain. The two men exchanged unkind messages.
When John Textor leaves the world of football, he will probably not have made many friends for life. In France in any case, his personality seems to be splitting, and the other leaders of Ligue 1 are not fans of him, especially that of Paris Saint-Germain Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, according to revelations made by the daily The Team.
Textor, owner of Olympique Lyonnais, has already publicly and on several occasions pointed out what he considers to be a harmful influence of PSG on the attractiveness of the product that is French football, particularly during negotiations for television rights. . And in private too, the strong man of OL and RWDM clashed with his Parisian counterpart.
Textor’s words in Globoa Brazilian media outlet, on the subject of PSG’s “frantic and unrestrained spending” had already led Victoriano Melero, executive director of the Parisian club, to write a letter to OL concluding that they would “not lose more time dissecting the flaws and contradictions of your savage attacks against PSG” given the Rhone club’s own financial situation.
But via SMS, it was on a personal level that Nasser and Textor clashed: I need to talk to you about the TV rights situation. I am kept informed via Laurent (Prud’homme, general director of OL, editor’s note)but I would like to hear from you directly on a few subjects,” wrote John Textor to the president of PSG.
“Your guy really doesn’t understand anything about TV rights, you know that. Have a good day,” replied Nasser Al-Khelaïfi dryly, before adding: “I will never speak to you again and I don’t want to see you anymore. Learn to direct a club and media, this is the last time I let you talk to me.”
John Textor then responded to the Qatari, assuring him that PSG was “destroying the attractiveness of Ligue 1” and questioning him about the insertion, in the middle of an OL match, of an advertisement for the Parisian club on beIN sport. A Qatari company, which often prompts Textor to point out a conflict of interest. “You don’t understand anything about football, I’m wasting my time talking to you,” Al-Khelaïfi retorted. “You will lose wherever you go.” A good omen before PSG-OL this Sunday…
