Paris Saint-Germain manager Luis Enrique takes 50% pay cut to never speak to media again
The manager of Paris Saint-Germain, Luis Enrique, has always been quick to cover the ears of the press, but his frustration with the media in Paris continues.
In front of PSGencounter with Rennes, Luis Enrique he was asked about a statement he made during a recent documentary about him that came out, in which he said he would take a 25% pay cut to never speak to the press again. He doubled down on this, as reported by Relief.
“If you tell me now, sign a document and you will never speak to the press again and you will take 25, or even up to 50% (of my salary), I will sign it.”
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“I like to speak, I've never shortened a press conference, I like it and I can do it in many languages, bad, but I do it,” he noted, but admitted that he would avoid it if he could. The Asturian also does his press conferences in Spanish, he doesn't feel comfortable enough to do it in French. “In the contracts, the clubs force the managers to speak.”
“Lucho” has always been a strong character, and having had a number of encounters with the press in Spain both as a player, and then as a manager of Barcelona and Spain, which has clearly conditioned his relationship with them . While press duties have always been present in football, before there was a much closer relationship, with some managers even socializing with journalists after games, but the degree of pressure, the number of press conferences and the distance has grown significantly over the decades.
