Mediapro-LFP affair: "To speak of shared responsibility is cowardly and misleading" (Pierre Maes)

"At the beginning of 2021, tired of being constantly asked to talk about Mediapro, I couldn't take it anymore. But in the summer of 2021, I listened by chance to the parliamentary hearings of the players involved, in particular that of Didier Quillot, and told myself that there was a great deal of material there. In December 2021, the report by the parliamentary inquiry came out and its content shocked me deeply. To speak of 'shared responsibility' without quoting any of the speakers seemed cowardly and misleading to me," said Pierre Maes, consultant, to News Tank Football on the occasion of the release of his second book entitled "La ruine du foot français. Du crash Mediapro à la D3 européenne. A qui la faute ?" (The ruin of French football. From the Mediapro disaster to the European D3. Who is to blame?) on 17/06/2022.

"There are clearly individual responsibilities. They are mainly linked to the carelessness that surrounded the constitution of the financial guarantee of the agreement. Therefore, for me, there is little doubt about the identity of the people responsible who are…