They want to bring down Paris and Galtier: in Nice, Lucien Favre, the new promenade of a Swiss

By dint of believing in it, Jean-Pierre Rivère managed to rewrite history and convince the Ineos group to repatriate Lucien Favre to the Côte d’Azur. As a fine strategist, the president of Nice said all the good he thought of Christophe Galtier, from whom he intended to separate, to Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, his Parisian counterpart, with whom he has maintained a privileged bond for years. Result: Nice attracted the coach he was aiming for and sold, for nearly eight million euros, the one who no longer stuck to his project. “In life, when I’m told it’s impossible, I like it”, regularly repeats “JPR”, back in force in the Nice landscape this summer, at the cost of a magnificent balancing act and to the detriment of Julien Fournier, director of football, who left the club.