The deputy managing director of Paris Saint-Germain, Jean-Claude Blanc, will 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 statement. communicated.
“The new assistant general manager of PSG will be announced during the year and will be placed under the responsibility of the president and general manager Nasser Al-Khelaïfi”, adds the club, specifying that “the end date of the contract of Jean- Claude Blanc will be confirmed in the new year”.
To Ineos
Blanc is a mainstay 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 (28 trophies including eight titles of champion of France).
According to the sports daily L’Équipe, Blanc will join the Ineos group, which notably controls OGC Nice, which would be a big blow for the group of British billionaire Jim Ratcliffe.
Arrival of Pascal Ferré
Before landing at PSG, Blanc had been part of the Juventus Turin management team (2006-2011) as general administrator and 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, as the club continues its transformation”, also wrote the 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 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.