the locker room explodes everywhere

The season is still long but for the moment it looks like a long way of the cross. The big disappointment in the Champions League, eliminated in the second round of play-offs two months ago, had its consequences. Or maybe it's the other way around? The tensions born this summer may be the consequence of this early exit on the European scene. From the pre-season camp in Australia, the relationship between Grace Geyoro, the captain, and Fabrice Abriel, appointed coach only a few weeks earlier, deteriorated. The former midfielder finally decided and removed the armband from the French international.

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She then warned her coach that he was going to have to “take responsibility for the consequences. » One thing promised, one thing due, the locker room of the PSG women's team is in flames and blood. Abriel was then surprised to see no sanction from management regarding the “threats” made by the now ex-captain. Paulina Dudek recovered the armband. Since then, clans have formed, escaping any management control. As proof, Marie-Antoinette Katoto, the star of the team, hardly speaks to Angelo Castellazzi, the sports director, nor to his assistant, Sabrina Delannoy.

Geyoro about Abriel: “I can do nothing against wickedness or injustice»

In essence, the players already regret the departure of Jocelyn Prêcheur, coach until the end of last season. For her part, Grace Geyoro ended up being removed from the group last weekend, without it being definitive. “We will support him to find a starting place. It's my decision, that's why I'm a coach», explained Abriel on Canal+. The player sees things differently. “I can't control what people say or what happens. I can do nothing against wickedness or injustice. I want to be me, above all”she said since the training with the French team.

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Even star recruits like Griedge Mbock and Mary Earps didn't expect to experience such an atmosphere. The performances of the former OL defender and the English international goalkeeper are not there at the moment. “It got off to a very bad start and misunderstandings during this transfer window”Katoto confesses this Thursday in an interview at theAFPin reference to the departures of top scorer Tabitha Chawinga for OL but also of Sandy Baltimore and Oriane Jean-François for Chelsea, and of goalkeeper Constance Picaud to Fleury.

Katoto will not extend at PSG

She recognizes a “heavy ambiance», «we have to burst the abscess and say things to ourselves». “We have to accept certain departures and move forward. We can't stay in this in-between: either we're all together and we're going to war together, or we keep crying and we're going to have a very long season.”continues the attacker, favorable to Fabriel Abriel. “I’m here to train and play. He's a good coach who knows football well, he's a former professional player, he knows what he wants to implement, he knows what he's doing.” she assures, refusing to comment on the conflict between him and Geyoro.

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“What happens between them is none of my business”. Since the elimination in C1, PSG has been able to bounce back on the sporting field. The capital club is 2nd, a short distance behind OL who beat them (1-0) at the beginning of November. We will have to hope for a misstep from Fenottes or win on the return to climb into the leadership chair to win a second title after that of 2021. Especially since it will undoubtedly be the end of the Parisian adventure for Katoto, she who is reaching the end of her contract and ensures that her “decision has already been made and it will not change”. There will be no negotiations with PSG and will probably leave next June. “We’ll see. »