At first glance, the Rennes It may seem like a club unable to bear the onslaught of a great player from Europe by one of its footballers. Error. Whoever wants the pearl Camavinga now, as is the case of the Real Madridwill have to go over the Pinault clan, father and son. They are what in Anglo-Saxon terms would be called billionaires, actually billionaires, the heads of a multinational luxury holding company (Gucci, Yves Saint Lurent, Puma …) with which the family has raised wealth estimated at 30,500 million euros. Fortune 37 in the Forbes ranking. They are owners and fans of Rennes, they have no need to enrich themselves with their football team and their pulse does not tremble: according to L’Èquipe, in February they kicked out the president of the Breton club because he negotiated with Madrid for Camavinga behind the shareholders’ meeting. You don’t play with the Pinaults.
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As AS reported, Camavinga could go out in the summer for 50 million. Zidane loves him if Pogba doesn’t come. But the obstacles are several. The first, which does not have a liberation clause. The second, which has a contract until 2022, so Rennes does not need to sell. The third, that In the Breton club, nothing moves without being approved by the Pinaults. It is of little use to be even the best president in the recent history of Rennes. If you get out of the script, you pay for it. It happened to Olivier Létang, who had to leave his presidential chair because he did not duly report that he was dealing with a possible sale of Camavinga to Madrid. It was of little use to him to go third in the classification of the French League. “Létang thought Rennes was his and the Pinaults didn’t like that,” read the French press. The family is so rooted in Rennes that the heir to the empire, François-Henri, partner of actress Salma Hayek, was a ball boy for the red and black team when I was a child …
–François Henri Pinault, the CEO of the Pinault group, along with his partner, actress Salma Hayek.
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An enviable economy
The case is that the Rennes does not need to make box. It is together with PSG the healthiest club in France and his losses last season were just € 1.5 million, a negligible amount for a club that fights in the noble zone of Ligue 1 and plays the Europa League. It would not even affect the crisis caused by the coronavirus, because in addition to the Pinault mattress, if the pressure of the Ligue1 on television operators is maintained so that they respect the new contract that must enter into force in 2020-21, Rennes will go from charging € 28M for its audiovisual rights to € 51M, almost double. A quantum leap for an unstable club but financially managed with Swiss precision. It takes two consecutive seasons in which it practically buys and sells for almost the same amount. AND sniffs the Champions, spur greater to avoid the flight of talents.
Meanwhile the climate in the surroundings of the Rennes is pressing so that the young midfielder is still there. Although the squad’s coach rennais He assured in AS that Camavinga would fit in Chamartín, it is still expected that the footballer will reconsider and continue training in his current team. “Leave Camavinga alone!”, was the expressive owner of the correspondent of SoFoot in a report on the boy’s situation. Much of Camavinga’s future is in the hands of the Pinaults, in if they want to open the luxury cage and let it fly.
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