{"id":3346,"date":"2026-02-10T11:07:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T11:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=3346"},"modified":"2026-02-10T11:07:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T11:07:46","slug":"investigation-on-antoine-dupont-could-lead-to-points-deduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=3346","title":{"rendered":"Investigation on Antoine Dupont could lead to points deduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Investigation on Antoine Dupont could lead to points deduction\" width=\"620\" height=\"500\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"w-full object-cover rounded-md\" style=\"color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url(&quot;data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg' viewBox='0 0 620 500'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'\/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'\/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'\/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'\/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3C\/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAACEN3D\/AAAAL0lEQVR42mP4z8DAwMiAARgZGJhY+P\/\/PwMDAwPDfwYGBgaGhgYGhgYGAAD9Hwlr5xRngAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg=='\/%3E%3C\/svg%3E&quot;)\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.joe.co.uk\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Untitled-design-2026-02-10T104203.210-1.png?height=720&amp;width=1280\"\/><!--$--><\/p>\n<p><h2>A big story coming out of France.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose drop-cap \">\n<p>French publication L&#8217;\u00c9quipe are currently investigating Antoine Dupont and his club Toulouse over payments to French scrum-half from the 3S-Alyzia company, who are partnered with the French side.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>The payments relate to image rights, and amount to \u20ac1.8m to Dupont over nearly ten years, and \u20ac170,000 to his club and country teammate Anthony Jelonch.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>L&#8217;\u00c9quipe are arguing that there is no evidence of image rights usage to justify this kind of spending, and that it raises suspicions of the club circumventing the Top 14 salary cap.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>Toulouse have already been fined and deducted points during the current league season over the transfer of former player Melvyn Jaminet, who signed in 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>\u201cA two-point deduction in the Top 14 table for the current season and a two-point penalty suspended. And also a fine of 45,000 euros, of which 15,000 euros are suspended.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>According to independent French journalist Gauthier Baudin, if a &#8216;salary cap&#8217; overrun of \u20ac275,000 or more &#8211; for the current 2025\/2026 season &#8211; is proven , then Toulouse could face further deductions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><\/div>\n<p>#Investigation #Antoine #Dupont #lead #points #deduction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A big story coming out of France. French publication L&#8217;\u00c9quipe are currently investigating Antoine Dupont and his club Toulouse over payments to French scrum-half from the 3S-Alyzia company, who are partnered with the French side. The payments relate to image rights, and amount to \u20ac1.8m to Dupont over nearly ten years, and \u20ac170,000 to his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3029,2920,3030,3028,730,381],"class_list":{"0":"post-3346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"tag-antoine","9":"tag-deduction","10":"tag-dupont","11":"tag-investigation","12":"tag-lead","13":"tag-points"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}