Named by Nasser Al-Khelaïfi as the best coach in the world, just to show his confidence, Luis Enrique has not always been favored by his president at PSG.
The club from the French capital has had a rather good first part of the season, still being undefeated in Ligue 1 with ten points ahead of its first competitor, OM. If the situation is very different in the Champions League, with a place outside the qualified zone two days from the end, Paris still shows a pretty face under the orders of Luis Enrique. However, no one knows if the Spaniard will continue his adventure at PSG beyond this 2024-2025 financial year. Well on his way to extending a few weeks ago, the former Barça coach has still not been inducted on the long term. Suffice to say that the question of the PSG coach arises around the Parc des Princes, as was already the case last summer.
Al-Khelaïfi dreams of Motta
According to information from Luca Momblano, Nasser Al-Khelaifi has already surveyed the entourage of another coach, namely Thiago Motta. It was last summer, and at that time, the Qatari leader wanted to offer the position of PSG coach to the Italian-Brazilian at the end of the 2024-2025 season. Except that according to the Calciomercato journalist, the Italian coach refused the approach of the Parisian president, who would have liked to appoint him as Luis Enrique's successor. At the moment in any case, Motta does not see himself anywhere other than Juventus. Arriving last summer from Bologna, where he worked miracles by bringing the modest Italian team to the Champions League, Motta signed up for the next three years with Juve.
Motta owes one to PSG
If Motta therefore refused PSG immediately, nothing says that he will not sit on the Paris bench one day. Quite simply because the former Barça midfielder has a special history with PSG, given that it was there that he ended his playing career before beginning his reconversion as a coach with the PSG U19s in 2018-2019. Which therefore means that if the 42-year-old is today one of the most important coaches in Serie A, it is largely thanks to his first steps in Paris, a club that he never never forgotten and where it is still very appreciated. Among leaders and supporters alike.
