On the sidelines of his team's defeat on Saturday evening at the Parc des Princes, the president of OGC Nice Jean-Pierre Rivère spoke about the statements of his former director of football, Julien Fournier, who accused Christophe Galtier of having behaved inappropriately towards Muslim players from Nice practicing Ramadan.
If Rivère admitted to the microphone of Canal + that there had indeed been "tensions between the two men" last season, in particular because of the sawtooth results of the Aiglons, he also explained that the reproaches towards the former Nice coach were unfounded.
“A story that will deflate on its own”
“For the subject in question, there is for me no matter for controversy, he assured.
I had Julien on the phone, I hadn't had him for a long time.
I said to him: 'I don't really understand what you could have said, there is no reason for me to make a press statement about it.'
He told me he might have been a little clumsy.
For me, there is no subject, it's a story that will deflate on its own.
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“There are boys who respect their religion and it happens as it usually happens, continued the boss of the Gym.
It's a difference of point of view on the management of this problem, that's all.
There is no need to make an event out of it.
“Thursday, the new Parisian coach had chosen not to fuel the controversy during the PSG pre-match press conference, preferring to explain that, “knowing the character”, he was “not surprised” by the declarations by Fournier.
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