PSG: new scandal around Lionel Messi’s Ballon d’Or

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By: Manu Tournoux

This is a case that risks once again shaking up the media side of Paris Saint-Germain. According to newspaper information The worldinternal messages at PSG obtained during a judicial investigation opened in 2022 indicate close links between a member of PSG and Pascal FerrĂ©, former editor-in-chief of France Football and responsible for organizing the Ballon d’Or. Indeed, the former communications director of PSG, Jean-Martial Ribes, currently indicted for corruption and influence peddling, would be lobbying with Pascal FerrĂ© according to MĂ©diapart.

All-expense-paid trips to Qatar, easier access to the Parc des Princes, articles France Football deleted about an illegal commission paid by Nasser Al-KhelaĂŻfi during the transfer of Javier Pastore in 2011, in short, the relationship between the two men was fluid. Mediapart announces that Jean-Martial Ribes would have sent a message to the president of PSG, announcing lobbying. “We’re going to lobby, so let’s have lunch with Pascal (FerrĂ©)“. An enigmatic message that raises a question. Mediapart And The world indicate that all the offerings granted to Pascal FerrĂ© were an attempt to lobby around the Ballon d’Or obtained by Lionel Messi in 2021, while he was playing at PSG. Ironically, Pascal FerrĂ© is today the director of press relations for PSG.

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