Since their skirmish with the Professional Football League on the thorny and delicate subject of Ligue 1 TV rights, John Textor and Nasser Al-Khelaïfi have cordially hated each other. For the American businessman, the Qatari president does not serve the interests of French football but above all preaches for his parish; the latter judging for his part that the boss of Les Gones does not have the required knowledge to express himself on this issue.
On WhatsApp, Nasser Al-Khelaïfi singled out his Lyon counterpart, telling him that he “ doesn’t understand anything about football and it’s a waste of time to talk to him “. This while predicting that John Textor “ would lose wherever he went “. Allegations which did not fail to turn against the leader of PSG.
The Copa Libertadores for chambering tool
On the sidelines of the poster of the 15e day of Ligue 1 between Paris and Lyon, John Textor has fun on social networks with this past message, displaying it inset with a photo of him kissing the Copa Libertadores freshly won by his Brazilian club Botafogo – i.e. the equivalent of the Champions League in South America.
A well-felt reluctance at a time of shock confrontation and when PSG is struggling to shine, precisely, on a continental scale. The Qataris’ stated objective when they arrived in France in 2011, the C1 has since then been systematically refused to the capital’s club. Despite a final played – and lost against Bayern – in 2020.
