We didn’t wait until today to learn about the scourge that multiple ownership represented in football. And it can also give rise to sometimes baroque situations, bordering on the ridiculous. In September, the newspaper The Team revealed to us that OGC Nice had, for example, to act as if it were no longer owned by INEOS, in order to participate in the C3 and avoid the conflict of interest with Manchester United, another club owned by the specialized British company in chemistry and owned by Jim Ratcliffe.
In the application, this resulted in the breakdown of the connection between the Nice leaders and Jean-Claude Blanc, CEO of the shareholder INEOS but therefore prohibited from making phone calls to his Riviera counterparts. This week, the French daily revealed some rather disturbing new elements about the nature of this relationship. We learn that Blanc no longer has the right to have any contact with Nice management, and that he must be careful not to cross paths with them when he goes to GYM matches in the Europa League. We imagine the scene…
