Author of the book “Hands on French football money”, Christophe Bouchet spoke on Wednesday about the distribution of the amount ingested by the CVC investment fund and distributed between the different Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 clubs.
Christophe Bouchet knows Ligue 1 well. Former president of Olympique de Marseille between 2002 and 2004, the man also held a position as a member of the board of directors of the Professional Football League. In this month of October 2023, he is publishing a book dedicated to the arrival of the investment fund CVC Capital Partners which arrived in French football in 2022. And according to him, Olympique de Marseille has not been spoiled in the distribution of the money invested by CVC.
The former leader spoke on the subject on Wednesday. Channel guest The Team, he spoke of his former club at the time of this famous division of the jackpot. “ I explain it because, one, OM was fooled because there was a power vacuum and today there is still a question to ask about the shareholder. » As for the second reason, Christophe Bouchet turned his gaze towards Rennes and Nice.
Rennes and Nice in the equation
“ I think that to convince both the Pinault family on one side and the owner of Ineos on the other, we had to put a little money on the table. We were not going to lure Pinault or Ratcliffe with twenty or thirty million euros. » In detail, PSG emerged as the big winner with more than 200 million euros spread over the years 2023 and 2024. Behind, a group of six clubs (OM, OL, Nice, Lille, Rennes and Monaco) receives 80 million euros. And among them, Marseille and Lyon pocket an additional ten million, or a total of 90 million euros each.
