A former professional footballer who notably played for AS Saint-Étienne, Laurent Paganelli took on the role of consultant and joined Canal+ in 1997. For twenty-eight years now, he has been walking the edge of the pitch, microphone in hand, to collect players’ impressions. But this season, he is a little further behind. And that questions some.
Since the arrival of Margot Dumont in the summer of 2024, Laurent Paganelli often leaves her place when interviewing the actors, especially when they do not speak the language of Molière. “Paga” also stood out with his famous “grande jugador” during a somewhat lunar exchange with Neymar, when the Brazilian arrived at PSG in August 2017.
Questioned about this by a follower this Monday on his YouTube channel, Pierre Ménès spoke about his former colleague on the encrypted channel. “The last time I had ‘Paga’ on the phone was for his birthday (October 20). She remains the person at Canal with whom I have the most contact. He didn’t tell me he was upset about it. »
Paganelli and foreign languages, that’s two
And Pierre Ménès added: “Indeed, there is in particular Margot Dumont who is now very present in European Cup matches and who has the advantage of speaking foreign languages which, it must be admitted, is not the case for ‘Paga’. »
This summer, at the time of the launch of Ligue 1+, a new channel launched by the Professional Football League after the hasty departure of DAZN, Laurent Paganelli was contacted. But he did not wish to respond positively to this attempted poaching and preferred to remain loyal to Canal +.
