Football: PSG Deputy Managing Director, Jean-Claude Blanc, will leave club

Basic man of the Qatar project, this pillar of the Parisian club for twelve years should join, according to the daily “L’Equipe”, the Ineos group which notably controls the OGC Nice.

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Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) will experience serious upheaval in its organization chart. Its deputy managing director, Jean-Claude Blanc, will leave his duties in 2023 after twelve seasons at the club, announced PSG, Monday December 26 in the evening.

“As part of the continuous transformation of Paris Saint-Germain sur and outside the field, Jean-Claude Blanc will (…) warm farewells at the club to continue a new professional challenge in 2023”, writes the Paris club In a press release.

“The new deputy director general of PSG will be announced during the year and will be placed under the responsibility of the president and chief executive officer Nasser al-Khelaïfi”, adds the club, adding that “the date of the end of the contract de Jean-Claude Blanc will be confirmed during the new year “.

Jean-Claude Blanc is a pillar of PSG and a basic man of the QSI project (Qatar Sports Investment). He arrived at the club in November 2011, only a few months after the acquisition by the Qatari sovereign fund, and experienced the most splendor in the history of PSG (28 trophies including eight titles of champion of France).

a big blow for the OGC Nice

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

Before landing at PSG, this Harvard graduate who was also Managing Director of the French Tennis Federation had been part of the management team of Juventus Turin (2006-2011) as general administrator then president For most of the 2009-2010 season, before giving way to Andrea Agnelli.

“Other arrivals of senior executives within the club will be announced during the new year, while the club continues its transformation,” also wrote PSG, which continues to restructure around the duo Luis Campos- Christophe Galtier, arrived last summer. Friday, The daily Le Parisien announced The arrival at The head of the communication of the PSG of the former editor-in-chief of France-Football and head of the Ballon d’Or Pascal Ferré, in the company of Michelle Gilbert, current director of communication at Meta, the Facebook parent company, for the France and southern Europe, and David Sugden.

/Media reports cited above.