The day after PSG’s defeat on Arsenal’s pitch on Tuesday in the Champions League (2-0), Luis Enrique came under fire for his condescending response to a Canal + journalist who asked him to explain his tactical choices.
Wave of criticism against Luis Enrique. And not only for the way in which PSG lost without panache on the Arsenal pitch on Tuesday in the Champions League (2-0). The Parisian coach is in the eye of the storm for a very contemptuous response against Canal+ journalist Margot Dumont. After refusing to mention the case of Ousmane Dembélé, sidelined for this meeting at the Emirates Stadium, the Spanish coach then brushed aside a relaunch on his tactical plan.
“No, I have no intention of explaining my tactics because you wouldn’t understand,” he said. “A lot of things will have to be corrected, but I have no intention of explaining that.” Comments which caused a wave of indignation on social networks, where users mainly attack the “contempt” and “arrogance” of the Spaniard.
“How condescending”
Several journalists also step up to defend their colleague and her professionalism, despite the scathing remarks of their interlocutor. “Unbearable”, “what condescension”, deplored several of them. Target of this “attack”, Margot Dumont also reacted. “Too bad, I love that tactic,” she wrote on the Barça bench (2014-2017).
This is not the first time that Luis Enrique has attacked a journalist in a spicy manner since his arrival in France. In October 2023 after a PSG victory in Rennes, he tackled the presenter of Free Ligue 1, Alexandre Ruiz. “You only see the negative things,” he said in Spanish. “You’re corrosive. All the interviews! It’s the most negative in the history of world football. One day we won 4-1 and he told me we deserved to lose. “Young people understand everything , I think it’s you who doesn’t understand anything. That’s what I think about the questions you’re asking me.”
He hates post-match interviews
Luis Enrique himself admits that he has little taste for the media exercise, to the point of being ready to forgo part of his salary so as not to have to speak to the press, as he confided in the Movistar+ channel documentary dedicated to him. He expanded on his remarks on this subject last week at a press conference.
“In reality, I have a good time with you (the journalists), I have never cut short a press conference, I like to talk, I say what I have to say. It was a spontaneous reflection. If you give me a paper where 50% of my salary is taken away and I no longer have to speak to the press, I sign it’s impossible because the contracts you sign with the clubs oblige the coach to. talking I’m having a good time but if I could avoid it, I would avoid it, especially the post-match interviews (as was the case on Tuesday with Margot Dumont, Editor’s note) because it’s difficult, I don’t have it. I don’t have the energy to endure certain things anymore, I hope you do too, I see you laugh sometimes, so I think you don’t have such a horrible time with me.”
