Guest of Apolline Matin on RMC this Wednesday, Daniel Riolo, journalist and editorialist for After Foot, focused on the president of PSG Nasser Al-Khelaïfi after the new defeat in the Champions League in Munich during which the leader Qatari was ridiculed by German supporters.
Nasser Al-Khelaïfi took his rank on Tuesday during the match between Bayern Munich and PSG (1-0), concluded with another defeat for his team. Bavarian supporters unfurled a huge banner to criticize the multiple hats of the Parisian president's president in French and European football.
“Minister, club owner, TV rights holder, member of the UEFA board of directors, president of the ECA, all in one?”, listed a message deployed in SüdTribune. Next to the leader's crossed out face, a message, first in French: “football is me?”. Then in English: “F*ck off plutocratic Al-Khelaïfi”.
“This shows the absolute downgrading of PSG and the degraded image of the club”
Seeing this distrust cross borders illustrates, according to Daniel Riolo, the great shortcomings of the Qatari leader which contributes, again according to him, to deteriorating the image of the club. Guest of Apolline Matin on RMC, the editorialist criticized his action, as evidenced by the great confidence placed in his trainer.
“Luis Enrique enjoys (high) popularity with a completely abandoned president,” said the journalist. “Yesterday (Tuesday) evening, Bayern supporters put up a huge banner with lots of offensive messages aimed at Nasser Al-Khelaïfi. Normally, we never attack a president or we can do it against his own president in his stadium This shows the absolute downgrading of PSG and the degraded image of the club and the one who embodies it. He is seen today in Europe as the guy who wants to control everything.
Before that, Daniel Riolo had focused on the very perilous situation of the team, 26th in the ranking and virtually eliminated from the competition with three days remaining. “The situation is quite terrible,” he remarked. “I don't know if we can measure that this team – which has one of the three or four biggest budgets in this competition – is currently not in the 24 best in Europe after five days. Since 2013, the PSG has always been at least in the Top 16.”
“Let no one say that PSG did not have a good schedule,” he adds. “Of course, they played against big guys but they also faced Girona, PSV Eindhoven… Last night, against Bayern, we saw once again that this club has incomprehensible limits. This kind of project that we wanted to start again… We went from the 'stars' period that we didn't know how to manage to something else to find ourselves in this situation. The problem is that the means are the same with players who are extremely well paid but who offer. dismal performances last night, we released Donnarumma because he made mistakes to put a goalkeeper (Safonov) whom I don't know where we went to get. We no longer understand the plans of this club. cake of these incomprehensible choices is that we went for a coach (Luis Enrique) who, in a footballing microcosm, is considered a football intellectual.”
