Pierre Sage during PSG – OL. (Photo by FRANCK FIFE / AFP)
Comfortable in a tracksuit since his debut at OL, Pierre Sage had seen Nicolas Puydebois wish to see him in a suit to fully assume this role of coach. Relaunched on the issue after the victory in Lille, the coach maintained his position.
Nothing seems to have happened to him for four months now. Even when you think your team is going to sink, Pierre Wise finds a way to adjust his tactics and find the right words mentally to reverse the trend. Monday evening, in Lille, theOL was once again stunning (3-4) and can still believe in a European future. There are still two matches remaining and a flawless performance would greatly help achieve this objective, still unthinkable after 19 days. Above all, we must finish the work on the ground, but the projects carried out by Wise are colossal and give him a certain credibility to continue the adventure. However, he admitted on Monday that “nothing has been decided yet” but repeated “the wish to continue”.
“I hope this does not call into question the choice of management”
The signals sent over the past six months are necessarily positive for Pierre Wise, but this end of the season will definitively validate this collaboration or not. Regardless, if he is back on the bench next season, the former director of the OL Academy should not be a new man. Asked about Prime Video by Adil Rummy on wearing the suit, Sage confirmed that it is “I may well not wear a suit if I continue. I hope that this will not call into question management’s position (smiles).”
This response in the form of a joke also serves as a response to Nicolas’ stated desire Puydebois to see the Lyon coach abandon his tracksuit for a suit. In mid-February, in “As long as there will be Gones”, our consultant wanted the native of Lons-le-Saunier to take on more of a coach’s posture than an educator and therefore wear a suit. Wasted effort. Who knows, maybe the arrival of the OL coach in TKYDG next Monday will raise the question again…
