“If PSG want Galtier, they must not delay,” warned OGC Nice football director Julien Fournier last week.
It's done !
As announced by L'Équipe late Thursday evening, the capital club made a first contact with the management of the Gym about Christophe Galtier, under contract until 2024.
The 55-year-old coach is the priority of Luis Campos, the new PSG football adviser, to replace Mauricio Pochettino, whose departure has been recorded.
Indeed, as revealed in Le Parisien, the lawyers of the Argentinian and the PSG reached this week a separation agreement, one year from the end of his contract.
And, in all likelihood, it is therefore Christophe Galtier who should succeed him.
It remains to be seen at what price because, to attract him, the Parisian club will have to pay compensation on which it remains to agree.
Nasser Al-Khelaïfi made contact
It was President Nasser Al-Khelaïfi who made direct contact with his Nice counterpart Jean-Pierre Rivère in recent hours, confirming the idea that the Galtier option is now validated at all levels.
Since the end of his mission in Lille in December 2020, Luis Campos has not broken contact with Christophe Galtier.
On the contrary, the two men continued to exchange.
In the coach's clan, there is little doubt about the conclusion of this file, especially since the Galtier-Campos duo, in the process of being reformed, have already been able to discuss the contours of the next transfer window in Paris.
It's the end of an era, and the beginning of a new one that is taking shape in the capital with the very likely arrival of the French champion coach with Lille in 2021. Galtier has agreed to join PSG, and even enthusiastic.
For him, it is the challenge of a lifetime, and nothing seems to be able to oppose this marriage even if, in the upper echelons of the club, we have long dreamed of Zidane.
