A great man of French football… First an amateur player in Poitiers and Limoges, Guy Roux became a player-coach at AJ Auxerre in 1961, at the age of 23. If he shaped many football stars, such as Djibril Cissé, Éric Cantona, but also Basile Boli, he was also president of the football coaches union in France from 1977 to 2001. Furthermore, the The 84-year-old holds the record for the number of matches managed in the first division as a coach, with no fewer than 894 matches on the bench between 1980 and 2007. After retiring, Guy Roux became a consultant, first on TF1from 1984 to 2005, before joining Canal+ (which he left in 2016 for The Team) And Europe 1. Different missions which allowed him to earn a very good living… Today, this great-grandson of a farmer earns 4,000 euros per month. “These are my additional pensions because I was a general insurance agent for 33 years”he indicated on the set of At Jordan’son C8Tuesday September 12, 2023.
Guy Roux: “I hope I have enough to continue”
This amount particularly surprised Jordan de Luxe, who has a habit of asking his guests money-related questions. “It makes me 4,000 euros because they registered me for retirement very late, they started paying me from 1990, before that the club was not very professional”the former AJ Auxerre coach then explained to him. If his various activities have allowed him to have a good lifestyle, Guy Roux describes himself as “spender”. According to him, his savings would thus begin to dwindle. “I hope I have enough to continue, people who earn 4,000 euros must count”, he dared in front of the journalist. Asked about his highest salary, the man from Colmar, in Haut-Rhin, added: “It didn’t last long, it was in Lens. I think it was 80,000 euros, it lasted two months. This is not an amount that I had discussed. It was offered to me like that, I said yes, but I left the sum myself.”