When you are the boss of the Professional Football League, you have to know how to sell your product, even more so when you are in the middle of a call for tenders for the ownership of television rights for the period 2024-2029. So Vincent Labrune, heard this Wednesday by the Commission of Inquiry into the Failures of Sports Federations, pulled out all the stops. And not about Kylian Mbappé, undisputed star of our Ligue 1, but of the one he considers to be the new nugget, Warren Zaire-Emery.
“The biggest (young) talent at PSG today is no longer Kylian Mbappé, it’s Warren Zaire-Emery, he’s 17 years old. A few years ago, this same player would have left for Germany, like Dayot Upamecano or Kingsley Coman. Do you think that a 17 year old kid from the Paris region would want to go to Germany for the climate or the language? Why are they going to Germany? Because in Germany there are no social charges, so the gross salary is the net salary for the player who signs there. Warren Zaire-Emery, today he is here, we are proud of him. And if we have the means, these players will stay with us, that’s how we will be more competitive”, he said. Failing in passing to specify that it is mainly the other clubs, and not PSG, who are having difficulty keeping their gems…
