"If it's financial, it's frankly ridiculous": Guy Forget reacts to the Alcaraz–Ferrero split

Between financial rumors and tensions in the entourage, the separation between Alcaraz and Ferrero intrigues. Guy Forget, for his part, doesn't mince words and denounces a "ridiculous" situation if money is the cause.

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Jules Hypolite

le 20/12/2025 à 14h11

2 min to read

Alcaraz Carlos Ferrero Juan Forget Guy

While the 2025 off-season had been relatively quiet until now, this week was marked by the separation of the Alcaraz-Ferrero duo.

A sudden, unexpected split that sent shockwaves through the tennis world and prompted several former players to react on the subject.

"If it's financial, it's frankly ridiculous"

Interviewed by TennisActu, Guy Forget shared his analysis of this news and the rumors surrounding the reason for this split:

"The first hypothesis (financial), I would find that a bit strange, because today the sums generated by Carlos Alcaraz or Jannik Sinner are so disproportionate that... I mean: a coach like Juan Carlos Ferrero today, I can't imagine that he hasn't been compensated fairly.

So if that really is the case, it's frankly ridiculous, because a player who must generate, I don't know, 30 million euros per year, who pays his coach 800,000 or 1,500,000... in the end, it brings him so much more than what he might have to cover, in any case.

"The balance is disrupted"

Then, the second reason, which is probably the most plausible in my opinion, is indeed that at some point, the accumulated tensions with the entourage—rightly or wrongly—often when things sometimes don't go very well, it's not always the player directly: it's the fiancée, the wife, the father, the mother, the agent.

Sometimes, we know there are agents who are at the heart of a problem today and who, in a way, stir up disagreements a bit. What's a shame, I repeat once again, is that this collaboration is so effective, so fruitful...

We know what we have, we don't know what we'll have next. When you have a young champion like that, at 22 years old, you've won everything with his mentor... and suddenly, the balance is disrupted."