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[NiIbraNiLemaitre]

Pas convaincu non plus de la thèse marketing.
Les couleurs du PSG sont juste celles des USA...

[Loveris]

???

[Philo]

Notre ami a glissé un petit lien en fin de post, dans une couleur différente. Notre ami est une grosse tchoin qui va donc être banni.

[bonda lover]

VO : https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/neymar-p...-game-5sk0fg3vt

VF: https://www.courrierinternational.com/artic...e-foot-francais

Spoiler :

When Paris Saint-Germain broke the world transfer record to secure Neymar last summer, worldwide publicity and media scrutiny were not just inevitable, they were desirable by-products in an age where footballers are global entertainers. PSG never hid the fact that part of the way they were going to pay for the Brazilian was by monetising his image and the eyeballs that he attracts.

What perhaps they did not anticipate was the way his presence would polarise the French media landscape, eventually erupting into the sort of “mainstream media v new media” stand-off — with its inevitable accusations of bias, skulduggery and #FakeNews — that we are witnessing in other areas, such as US politics. In one corner is the French sports daily L’Equipe and, to a lesser degree, the newspaper Le Parisien, both of which have been accused of having an agenda against PSG, based largely on critical stories and leaked tales of unrest at the club. As a result, PSG supporters have, for many months, displayed a prominent banner at home games, which reads “Boycott L’Equipe”.

So far, so normal: media organisations often face accusations of bias and when it comes to football, passions run high and you have a ready-made constituency of supporters ready to embrace the cause. In that sense, it’s no different from the rest of the world and the same proviso applies: contrary to what some believe, when a team does well, so too do the media organisations who cover them.

But two things make the French situation different. One is that the paper is regularly attacked by other high-profile football journalists, including Pierre Ménès, a former L’Equipe writer. That is pretty much unprecedented, not just in France. Football journalists may clash occasionally, but they tend not to accuse each other of wanton bias and agendas.

The other is the sharp rise of alternative media outlets as sources of PSG information. The most notable perhaps is something called Paris United — an anonymous website that began life as a Twitter account. What sets it apart is that it has consistently broken big PSG stories — such as the signings of Kylian Mbappé in August and Lassana Diarra last month — before mainstream media outlets.

Paris United has often staunchly defended the club and debunked negative reports surrounding it, to the point that some have speculated it is a covert mouthpiece for club executives, if not an outright propaganda operation. A Paris United representative denied that it has any sources or links to the club in an interview with the website GetFootballNewsFrance.com, adding that “there is no mole at the club.”

All of this plays out against the backdrop of PSG’s rise and Qatari involvement in the French game. On the one hand, the club’s economic might has raised Ligue 1’s profile while rival clubs are beneficiaries of the rich broadcasting contract signed with BeIN Sport, who are also Qatari-owned. On the other, apart from last season’s blip, PSG dominate the league (they are 11 points clear) and appear to attract resentment everywhere they go.


On that front, Neymar’s behaviour isn’t helping either. This year, he squabbled with his team-mate Edinson Cavani over penalty-taking duties. And last Wednesday he infuriated opponents with a bit of showboating (controlling the ball with his back and then scooping it over a defender’s head) late in PSG’s match against Rennes, compounding it later when he offered an outstretched hand to an opponent, only to then pull it away. Neymar said he was simply having fun, evidently unaware that most players don’t enjoy being needlessly humiliated.

Extended dominance naturally makes rivals uncomfortable, it happens everywhere. Mega-clubs will attract more coverage and, in absolute terms, more negative/dubious coverage. And supporters of every stripe will, on occasion, feel hard done by in the media. What we are witnessing in France though is novel territory, both in the way media are turning on each other and the way new media, some of it anonymous and untraceable, is upsetting the established order.