For several weeks, and again on Tuesday evening, after the victory in Salzburg (3-0), the president of PSG, Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, has repeated that his coach is “the best in the world”. Enough to annoy Christophe Dugarry, who explained it in Rothen s'enflamme, this Wednesday.
In the ranks of PSG, the victory acquired on the pitch of Salzburg (3-0), at the end of a controlled match, did not trigger excessive joy. It was even very measured in the corridors of the Red Bull Arena, for several reasons, the main one being that Paris Saint-Germain is not yet out of the woods. Mathematically, this success has not greatly changed the situation of Paris Saint-Germain, who will need points during the last two days to qualify.
The fact remains that this PSG remained on two consecutive defeats in C1 and Ligue 1, that the beginning of protest linked to the methods of its coach was beginning to emerge in this feverish context. Moment chosen by President Nasser Al-Khelaïfi to speak to the press and comfort his coach. What he did again last night. Proof that it is relief that prevails in Paris after a victory which was nevertheless expected, against the most permeable defense in the competition.
For Dugarry, Al-Khelaïfi “needs to be reassured”
“We have the best coach in the world. We have built a long-term project with him. He is a very good coach,” Nasser Al-Khelaïfi once again insisted to journalists. Words that he had already said last week, during a meeting of the ECA, which he chairs. “These are sentences that prove that you need to reassure yourself,” said Christophe Dugarry in the Rothen show is on fireWednesday. “You need to reassure yourself when you send that in the faces of supporters or journalists. If you really believe in it, you don't need to say that. It's not you who should say it. It's the others who have to say it. Maybe people from the outside hired him, you're not going to say the opposite, you're not going to stab yourself either.
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“What makes him the best in the world? I would like him to explain to me how he thinks that Luis Enrique is the best coach in the world,” urged Christophe Dugarry. “That he likes his coach, yes, I think things are clear enough, that he intends to keep him, that's clear enough too. That he thinks it, that he doesn't think it , in a pinch, but explain to us why you think that. What do you think Luis Enrique has brought to your club? If you want to say good things about your coach, highlight what he has done. Well, we don't know what it is yet. can happen in the locker room, with the players, an elimination, what repercussions that can have I find those to be useless sentences.
The elements of communication poured out in very large quantities by the PSG staff to form a protective bubble around his coach would tend to tire Christophe Dugarry. “It’s unbearable,” rails the 1998 world champion. “With sentences that take them out of context, that go against the grain. PSG has become a club that does publicity to try to get you sell a product, a brand, a way of playing, which pleases some, which does not please others, but we try to shove it down your throat. This PSG is indigestible for many. people.”