The FFF executive committee – meeting exceptionally this Wednesday – wonders about the duration of Didier Deschamps’ contract, extended until 2026 by Nol Le Grat. Adjustments are expected, but will the coach agree?
The NLG storm is currently flying over the Deschamps area.
My president has decided to extend me until 2026, announced Didier Deschamps last Saturday, all smiles in front of the members of the FFF executive committee. The latter, however, must have grimaced, because they learned the news at the same time as everyone else.
The comex was however meeting the day before, Friday evening, but Nol Le Grat did not see fit to announce the thing. He skipped the post-comex cocktail to sign the new lease for DD and his staffsays The team this Wednesday.
Back a contract until 2024?
No doubt feeling left out, the executive committee obviously intends to take advantage of the political and media storm raging around NLG and 3F to make adjustments on the contract of Deschamps, writes The team this Wednesday. In particular concerning its duration. Some members of the comex would thus consider a tacit agreement of reciprocal freedom if the new president of the body, who will be elected at the end of 2024, wishes to change coach. And if DD wants to leave, he can too.
Because yes, Le Grat extended his great friend Deschamps beyond his own mandate. Which was not his initial desire, as The team reminds us, but the 81-year-old man convinced by Deschamps and his agent Jean-Pierre Berns to go until 2026. Is going back possible? In any case, it is desired by some members of the comex, who simply want to grant the coach’s contract to that of its president, i.e. until 2024.
Deschamps in a strong position
Because if a new president is elected in a year and he wants to part with Deschamps, he will have to pay him large compensation (as well as his staff, also extended until 2026, editor’s note). To try to swallow the pill of two years less DD, an increase in his salary could be offered to him as compensation. It remains to be seen whether the former coach of Olympique de Marseille will accept all these changes, knowing that the contract has already been signed.
According to L’Equipe, this is far from certain. Because Deschamps strongly insisted on going until 2026, and he will probably not go back without strong media or popular pressure. A priori, it is not a question of money. The coach receives around €3m gross per year, and his new contract whose figures have not been filtered, should be of the same order, write our colleagues. That’s much less than he could earn at any major European club…
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