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Eric Bielderman

Eric Bielderman

French sports journalist and long-time L'Équipe grand reporter, specializing in football and Formula 1.

Sep 2, 2026

15:35
Do you agree with me, Eric? When the player says, that's it, I'm staying, that's the end of it, right? Yeah.
15:40
It's the end of it because this is the end of the transfer curtain.
15:47
If, as Danny was saying, negotiations were due to be one day ahead, we and they would have had the perfect time to solve the question mark.
16:00
But when it's the last minute, and also we have to know that the French market is closed at 7pm yesterday night.
16:10
Do when the British market was closed at midnight.
16:14
So we could have sold till midnight Balogun, but from 7pm, we couldn't, Monaco couldn't have bought a new player.
16:25
This is completely ridiculous why the French market is closing five hours ahead of the British and mainly the Premier League one.
17:23
So how did that one stop? How was that stopped in its tracks, Eric? So what I can say about it
21:29
Uh, are the French, off the back of these opening two performances, feeling as confident as Erling Haaland is about where your position is in this tournament?
21:38
Uh, I think we still believe that Spain is the favorite of the tournament.
21:43
With...
21:44
We are quite optimistic with the way, uh, Kylian Mbappé made huge, uh, performances on the two games, scored goals, but also was involved as a teammate, was involved, involved in the defensive process.
21:59
It's not the Mbappé of Real Madrid.
22:02
It's the Mbappé of the World Cups.
22:05
And when the, the Mbappé of the World Cup, uh, is, uh, is on the field, we can really expect the very best of France.

6 MINS LATER

28:26
Selective listening, that's what that is.
2:05
... a lot of these people involved in this are nothing to do with the club, not even fans of the club, just saw this opportunity.
2:11
Yeah.
2:11
Of, of, of course, uh, some of them, uh, are having the Paris Saint-Germain jersey.
2:17
Some of them can believe or can pretend to be Paris Saint-Germain fans.
2:22
Most, most of, most of them are the same guys than when Liverpool came to play the Champions League final in the Stade de France.
2:30
Uh, they were attacking, uh, the, uh, Liverpool fans.
2:35
They were attacking, uh, everybody who was coming to the, the game to steal them, to harass them.
5:57
What is all of this doing to the reputation of Paris as a sporting city in your eyes?

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