A bomb.
The interview with Maxime Saada in our columns caused a shock wave in French football which did not need that.
Plunged into an unprecedented crisis for months, between the cessation of the championship last season, the damage of the Covid-19 with the lack of ticketing revenue, a sluggish transfer window, then the Mediapro fiasco, the professional world now seems to be standing KO. .
In search of a saving second wind and ideas to avoid the worst.
A subject to try to stop the inexorable fall in addition to the long-awaited outcome of the essential TV rights which represent on average nearly 50% of club revenues - returns to the discussions: the fall in player salaries.
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Faced with the impossibility of a collective agreement on the reduction of wages due to enormous disparities within the same workforce, negotiations must now be done on a case-by-case basis.
And there, opinions diverge.
If certain elements like Andy Delort in Montpellier or Amine Gouiri in Nice have already announced their intention to lower their emoluments, all the professionals remain discreet on the question.
Sensitive subject obliges.
"It's pure demagoguery," says a regular at the federal arcana.
In some clubs, you have players at 300,000 euros who do not play and holders at 40,000 euros per month.
What are you going to tell them?
Are we going to ask for a prorated reduction?
The clubs are going to place the responsibilities on the players morally, without questioning themselves, by saying: “Look, they are not lowering their salaries, they are the ones at fault”, the reality is quite different.
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