Philippe Diallo, general director of the French union of professional football clubs said: "The government appears to have heard the warning messages from French football." He told Le Figaro: "Still, we remain very cautious as these declarations are worth clarifying, as the tax rules keep changing." In a parliamentary report published in June, Régis Juanico, a Socialist MP, suggested that the tax should only apply to clubs "over a certain turnover so as not to weaken the already precarious (financial) equilibrium of football clubs." But sports economist Christophe Lepetit warned: "Football's image, which was hardly great, risks taking a knock if clubs don't pay this tax." According to Les Echos, the financial daily, the French government's millionaire's tax will only be imposed this year and in 2014, rather than in 2014 and 2015, as previously expected.