The latest episode of The Bridge, a month ago, had been viewed more than 5 million times, as the casting was so attractive with, among others, Kylian Mbappé and Achraf Hakimi to accompany Aurélien Tchouaméni. The new episode, which will be released this Wednesday at 6 p.m., also promises to achieve good figures, since it brings together his compatriot Paul Pogba and the now ex-sports director of OM Medhi Benatia, who, as we know, is far from having his tongue in his pocket.
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And the former Juventus and Bayern Munich defender proved it by candidly answering a question that many would have avoided. He was asked if he could one day take on the role of sports director within… PSG. Which first inspired an introduction, by way of clarification. “Not long ago, an interview was brought out to me. After my career, I was a bit of an agent. For two years I lived in Dubai. I was interviewed, French Football Weekly at the time, about the Champions League, and PSG was still in the running. And I was asked: “but who do you support?” » But me, with the relationship I have today with Nasser, and it’s also a French club, I support Paris Saint-Germain. I hope they will go as far as possible as a French club. »
Benatia does not close the door to PSG
This interview was in fact carried out by us on March 25, 2022, and Benatia then swept away current topics, in particular the progress of PSG (which had already been eliminated from the competition), and the passage concerning the capital club had been brought out in a Provençal daily newspaper in the course of an article on the Olympian sports director during the delicate 2025-2026 season. “And from there, when we lost a match, so there was a newspaper there which enjoyed trying to make me pass for a Parisian supporter, etc. While I was at the academy! Whereas Sopra (Soprano, editor’s note), he even has memories. He saw me as a ball boy. We were 15, 16, here we are. So all that… Today, when I arrive in Marseille, I never planned to be a sports director. And I never even planned to work at Olympique de Marseille. I didn’t even study to be an athletic director. They call me, they tell me: “we need you, you know the club, the city”, and I go there”continues Benatia, who is just wrong about the fact that PSG was then already eliminated (by Real Madrid).
But let’s get to the point. Benatia responds concretely to the question asked. “Today I decided to leave. I decided for many reasons, I decided to leave. If tomorrow, I still speak with people like Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, with whom I, I repeat again, we have a lot of respect, a lot of affection, he needs – not right away, because if I stop, I need to take a break there, there I need to really rest – but in 3, 4 years, 5 years, if there is a project where I need to return to football, and Nasser needs me, and that must to be in a role at Paris Saint-Germain, and that, at that moment, I like it… But why do I owe what to someone? I don’t owe anyone anything! I don’t owe anyone anything. Me, if you wait for me to say “no” because I owe that to so-and-so… I don’t owe anything to anyone”says Benatia, triggering some laughter in the audience. You will understand, never say never…
