PARIS (AP) — Paris Saint-Germain coach Christophe Galtier vehemently denied accusations that he made racist and anti-Muslim comments when he turned into as soon as in price of French league membership Good, adding Wednesday that he would rob accurate action.

RMC Sport and diversified French media printed experiences quoting a leaked electronic mail from Good’s former director of soccer Julien Fournier to the membership’s house owners, whereby he accused Galtier of asserting there were too many Dusky and Muslim gamers within the squad.

In an announcement released by his attorney to French media, Galtier said he turned into as soon as “worried to learn of the insulting and defamatory” story and said he would rob unspecified accurate actions.

Meanwhile, a prominent team of PSG supporters known as for Galtier’s departure if it’d be confirmed that he made the alleged remarks.

“The Ultras Paris Collective is closely following the Galtier case. If the info he is accused of are confirmed, it is a ways no longer acceptable that this person stays within the organizational chart of the membership,” the supporters team said in an announcement. “We recall that now we dangle repeatedly taken a stand against all forms of discrimination.”

RMC Sport said Fournier, who turned into as soon as at odds with Galtier at some stage in his tenure at Good, wrote to Ineos director of sports Dave Brailsford to let him know relating to the particulars of a dialog he had with the coach.

Ineos obtained the French league membership in 2019 and appointed Galtier as coach in 2021. He spent one season at Good sooner than joining PSG. Fournier additionally left the membership in 2022 after more than a decade on the membership.

In the leaked electronic mail to Brailsford, Fournier allegedly said that Galtier complained in August 2021 that there were too many Dusky and Muslim gamers within the crew, and that it did not contemplate the ethnological profile of the metropolis, which is positioned on the French Riviera.

Good did not acknowledge to a ask of for tell from The Associated Press.

Talking from Brazil, Fournier suggested local newspaper Good-Matin that he turned into as soon as no longer guilty for the leaked doc.

“The timing of those revelations revolts me, exact as essential as their disclose,” he turned into as soon as quoted as asserting by the newspaper.

Turkish forward Burak Yılmaz, who performed below Galtier at Lille when the crew obtained the French league title in 2021, jumped to the defense of his former coach.

“I labored with Galtier and never felt any unfavorable behavior from him about my religion or nationality,” Yilmaz wrote on social media. “He’s a mountainous coach along with a mountainous person.”

Galtier is below rigidity at PSG following his crew’s unpleasant scoot for the reason that turn of the yr. PSG suffered a 2d straight elimination within the final 16 of the Champions League in March and has seen its lead on the head of the French league standings within the low cost of to 6 sides after losing five games in 2023.

Fournier had beforehand mentioned crucial points with Galtier at some stage in an interview with RMC, asserting that the PSG coach would never be in a situation “to enter a locker room again, neither in France nor in Europe” if he defined the reasons within the wait on of their dispute.

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