In June 2024, Altice Media, the parent company of the BFMTV and RMC radio television channel, had been bought by the CMA CGM group, led by the billionaire Rodolphe Saadé. The amount of the transaction was then 1.55 billion euros.
In recent weeks, several journalists from the general radio have announced their departure after the season. This is particularly the case of Jean Rességuié, Thibaut Giangrande, Nicolas Vilas or Jérôme Thomas, by activating the equivalent of a transfer clause. A provision allowing a journalist to leave a press company from his own initiative, while receiving the dismissal allowances
All of them participated, occasionally or recurrently, in the “After Foot”. And “the show that says aloud what everyone thinks low” is again amputated by one of its members. It is Johann Crochet, specialist in Italian football.
After Foot, Johann Crochet leaves the RMC ship
“After five great years at RMC Sport and in After Foot, I decided not to extend my contract at the end of the football season. Five beautiful years, beautiful memories but also the moment to do something else. It will have been rich and dense, we will have laughed and I tried to make you share my immense passion for Italian football, Italy and its culture ”as well as possible”wrote the journalist on LinkedIn.
Johann Crochet regularly intervened in the “Drôles de Dames” to evoke the Serie A. Julien Laurens (Premier League), Fred Hermel (Liga), Polo Breitner (Bundesliga) representing the other three big championships.
