Sir Dave Brailsford is expected to be interviewed as a witness by French police investigating allegations that the Paris Saint-Germain head coach, Christophe Galtier, made racist comments while manager of Nice.
A leaked email apparently sent to Brailsford in May 2022 by Julien Fournier, Nice’s then director of football, was published last week and purported to show that Galtier had complained to Fournier in August 2021 that he “could not have so many blacks and Muslims in the team”. Brailsford, the director of sport for Ineos – Nice’s owner, which is in talks to buy Manchester United – was urged to take action against “completely unacceptable, intolerable events, attitudes and comments that are contrary to my values, from the coach”. Galtier left Nice in June 2022 to take over at PSG.
