It is between four eyes, or rather 28, that the fourteen members of the Comex gathered urgently on Wednesday decided the fate of Noël Le Graët and the future of the French Football Federation, in the office of the President, on the third floor from 87 boulevard de Grenelle.

And without going so far as to talk about settling scores at OK Corral, the first leaks suggest that, according to the usual expression in football, we said things to each other.

Even before entering the arena, the president of the LFP and ex-officio member of the Comex, Vincent Labrune, had warned that "the status quo (was) not an option".

“It was intense, but there was no discord, basically we were all OK.

It was a discussion with a lot of heart, a bit like during a family council, thus presented Éric Borghini on BFM after this extraordinary comex.

There was a great freedom of tone.

“”It must have been funny to the president”, all the same specifies one of the fourteen guests to our colleagues from

L’Equipe

this Thursday, suggesting that it had been a long time since the Breton had not been shaken like this, a little like a rambunctious lonely student in the middle of angry teachers during the class council.



“Your balance sheet is not the subject, Christmas!

»

First to speak, according to Eric Borghini, the president of the Mediterranean League, clearly the most talkative of the band in the media over the past two days, Noël Le Graët gave an update on everything he is accused of.

"We started by listening to our chairman, who started the Comex by telling us 'I haven't done anything, I swear on your head that I haven't done anything and that the audit report will be very positive for me, there will be nothing against me.

»

We hope that the members of the Comex have a strong neck because, according to the first rumors of the corridors, the conclusions of the audit would not be flattering for the boss of the Fed, his penchant for clumsy flirting with federal employees being proven by numerous testimonies.

“There is nothing about me in the report”, he would have repeated once again – without convincing many people according to RMC – before highlighting his sporting and financial results.

To which a participant replies “your balance sheet is not the subject, Christmas!

".

“He then apologized to us for the comments made about Zinedine Zidane, comments that he does not think, he is aware of what he represents for French and world football, continues Borgjhini.

“In other words, according to information from L’

Equipe

this time, it rather sounded like that in the mouth of the former mayor of Guingamp: “I was stupid”.

Le Graët drags Hardouin down with him

But, as he had already hinted in his apology statement published Monday noon, NLG stuck to a line of defense that was shaky to say the least, namely a will (under the influence of annoyance "in the face of to questions wanting to oppose Zidane to Deschamps) to “protect the coach”.

With such friends, no need for enemies, Didier Deschamps must have said to himself, embarked on turmoil despite himself after his four-year extension as coach tied up by NLG without even informing the Comex.

If the thirteen members of the executive committee ended up unanimously validating the DD contract, probably not to add napalm to the fire, Jean-Michel Aulas was still surprised at the duration of the contract signed by the Dèche, while opposing a resignation of Le Graët, as demanded - very alone - Eric Borghini.

This invitation to retire was not to the liking of the Costarmorican, who then launched his friend a fabulous "shut your mouth, Borghini", difficult to qualify.

Le Graët will then end up agreeing to step back pending the conclusions of the audit launched by the Ministry of Sports and expected at the end of the month.

"I don't want to be the only one (to leave)," he said according to

L'Equipe

.

As a political animal that he may still be a little, in the end, the former president of the EAG will still have managed to have the scalp of his sworn enemy, the general manager Florence Hardouin, laid off as a precaution , which was in the pipeline even before Le Graët's delusions about Zidane.

For a fighter like NLG, there are no small victories. 

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