Targeted by the disclosure of an internal email dating from his time at OGC Nice, Christophe Galtier is accused of racist remarks. According to BFM TV, PSG has opened an internal investigation…
This is the first reaction to the new explosion known by PSG in recent hours: the Parisian club has opened an internal investigation according to BFM TV after the disclosure of an email from Julien Fournier, the sports director of theOGC Nice, incriminating Christophe Galtier during his time with the Riviera club in 2021-2022. In this email, sent to the football director of Ineos, owner of the Nice club, Julien Fournier recounts comments made according to him by the current PSG coach, comments in which Galtier would have explained in particular that there were “too many blacks and Muslims” in the Côte d’Azur team. According to BFM TV, Nasser Al-Khelaifi, the boss of PSG, was not aware. “If he had known, Galtier could never have signed for PSG, impossible,” a member of the QSI boss’s entourage told the television channel in recent hours.
The explosive content of the email revealed by RMC
What are the comments made by Julien Fournier in this email obtained by RMC? “Once his agent/son left, I reported to Christophe (Galtier) about the discussion I had just had and asked him if all this was true. He then replied that yes and that I had to take into account the reality ‘of the city’ and that indeed we could not have so many blacks and Muslims in the team”, confides in particular Julien Fournier in this email sent to the football director of Ineos. “He said to me ‘last night’ I went to the restaurant and everyone fell on me saying that we have a team of blacks’ then to add ‘Julien you must realize in which city we are, we are in the town of Jacques Médecin (former mayor of Nice, editor’s note), and our team does not correspond to what people want, as it does not correspond to me’, there was no sporting argument but only religious or skin color arguments”.
A latent conflict between Julien Fournier and Christophe Galtier
This “leaked” email comes the day after Christophe Galtier’s stormy return to Nice for the Nice-PSG meeting on Saturday evening. The PSG coach was targeted by a banner quoting his mother and reacted strongly after the match. This new controversy comes especially a few months after the revelation of a conflict with Julien Fournier during his last months at OGC Nice. “The relationship I could have with Christophe was quite chaotic from the start of last season. If I explain the real reasons why Christophe and I had a fight, Christophe will no longer go into a locker room in France or in Europe. “, explained Julien Fournier last fall.
As a reminder, Julien Fournier and Christophe Galtier have been cold for several months. The current PSG coach has so far not reacted to these accusations, which come a few months after the first accusations, which remained unclear at the time. “I don’t want to get tired of debating everything that is said. The function automatically creates a debate one after the other. On the form, I’m not surprised knowing the character. There you go, it’s That’s all I have to tell you,” commented the PSG coach after accusations from his former sports director at OGC Nice, Julien Fournier.
Biography Christophe Galtier. Christophe Galtier was born on August 23, 1966 in Marseille in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region. After having been a football player from 1985 to 1999 where he played as a defender, he went through Marseille, Lille, Toulouse, Angers and Nîmes in particular before two experiences abroad in Italy and China before retiring.
At the end of his career, he became Bernard Casoni’s assistant at Olympique de Marseille, where he remained until 2001. Although he held the position of assistant for a long time (Bastia, Portsmouth, Lyon among others) , he had his first experience as a head coach at Saint-Etienne from 2009 to 2017 before leaving for Lille between 2017 and 2021 where he signed for OGC Nice. He is coaching PSG from August 2022.
What is Christophe Galtier’s track record?
As a player, Christophe Galtier was vice-champion of France in 1987 with Olympique de Marseille but also finalist in the Coupe de France in 1986 and 1987 with OM. As a coach, the native of Marseille won the Coupe de la Ligue in 2013 with Saint-Etienne before leaving for Lille where he was vice-champion of France in 2019 and champion of France in 2021. With OGC Nice, Christophe Galtier lost in the final of the Coupe de France in 2022 against FC Nantes.
Which teams does Christophe Galtier coach?
After being assistant coach from 1999 to 2009, Christophe Galtier was appointed head coach at Saint-Etienne where he remained until 2017 before leaving for Lille where he was champion of France. During the 2021-2022 season, Christophe Galtier was the coach of OGC Nice. He is now the coach of PSG.