Paris Saint-Germain will have to turn the Jean-Claude Blanc page.

The deputy managing director will indeed leave his post in 2023 after twelve seasons at the capital club, PSG announced on Monday evening.

“As part of the ongoing transformation of Paris Saint-Germain on and off the pitch, Jean-Claude Blanc will (…) bid a warm farewell to the club to pursue a new professional challenge in 2023,” wrote PSG in a press release.

The new deputy general manager "will be announced during the year and will be placed under the responsibility of the chairman and general manager Nasser Al-Khelaïfi", adds the club, specifying that "the end date of Jean-Claude Blanc's contract will be confirmed in the new year”.

Jean-Claude Blanc expected at Ineos

Blanc is a stalwart at PSG and a core man in the QSI (Qatar Sports Investment) project.

He arrived at the club in November 2011, just a few months after the takeover by the Qatari sovereign fund, and experienced the most prosperous period in the history of PSG with 28 trophies including eight titles of champion of France.

According to the sports daily

L'Équipe

, he will join the Ineos group, which notably controls OGC Nice, which would be a big blow for the group of British billionaire Jim Ratcliffe.

Before landing at PSG, Jean-Claude Blanc had been part of the management team of Juventus Turin (2006-2011) as general administrator and then president for most of the 2009-2010 season, before giving in. its place to Andrea Agnelli.

“Other arrivals of senior executives within the club will be announced during the new year, as the club continues its transformation”, also writes the PSG, which continues to restructure around the duo Luis Campos-Christophe Galtier, who arrived last summer.

Friday, the daily

Le Parisien

announced the arrival at the head of the club's communication of the former editor-in-chief of

France Football

and responsible for the Ballon d'Or Pascal Ferré, in the company of Michelle Gilbert, current director of communication of Meta, Facebook's parent company, for France and Southern Europe, and David Sugden.

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