Cyril Linette defeated for the presidency of the LFP: “I am inevitably disappointed, a little stunned, I expected a better result”

Cyril Linette was largely defeated. MAXPPP – Philippe

Cyril Linette, Vincent Labrune's unfortunate opponent for the presidency of the Professional Football League (LFP), acknowledged "stunned" his "irrefutable" defeat on Tuesday, September 10, but "continues to think that French football needs a "manager" profile at its head.

“I am obviously disappointed, a little stunned, I expected a better result”, the former boss of PMU and L'Equipe told the press as he left the LFP Board of Directors in Paris.

“The governance of French football is satisfied with its strategy and visibly with its results and its management and has demonstrated this very clearly”, he added afterwards.

14 votes against 2

“It's a clear victory”, even if “I continue to think that this (that Vincent Labrune proposes) is not the right model, that French football must review its product, its costs, its relations with fans, its governance and that we need a real business manager instead”, detailed Cyril Linette.

Vincent Labrune won by 14 votes to 2 for Cyril Linette. Asked about his possible resignation from the Board of Directors, as promised to the Union of Football Actors (UAF) in exchange for its sponsorship, Mr. Linette stated that he would not “make a decision for the moment”. It is a “question of assessing what I can really bring”.