For once, Christophe Dugarry's violent criticism of Luis Enrique is taken up by the Spanish press and Barça supporters are unleashed on the 2018 world champion.
Christophe Dugarry, with harsh criticism, is not always unanimous among football followers as a TV and radio consultant (M6 and RMC). This time, the 98 world champion has his ears ringing in Spain. FC Barcelona fans come across “Duga” as the country's major media picked up the umpteenth diatribe of the speaker Rothen ignites against Luis Enrique, after PSG's defeat against Bayern (1-0), Tuesday evening in the Champions League. The French champions have only won one match in five days and find themselves virtually eliminated (25th in the general ranking).
“PSG once again showed that they are not a possession team. It lacks physics, everything. They are incapable of offering anything offensively, it is nothing. How can we continue to defend Luis Enrique? »launched Dugarry, before hitting hard: “OK the level of the players is low, but who chose these players? He pushed hard to make Neymar, Verratti leave… He validated all the recruits. A coach at PSG has never had so much freedom. He had a recruitment costing hundreds of millions of euros. I knew this kind of coach with Van Gaal. They are convinced that they are geniuses. It works in their heads but when there is no Messi, Neymar… they are not capable.”
Dugarry's failure at Barça
If Luis Enrique did not leave a great memory as Spain coach at the World Cup in Qatar, the former Spanish international has quite a track record with the Blaugrana.
“How many titles have we won with Barça? »asks Luis Enrique to one of his deputies in the documentary which follows behind the scenes of his first season at the head of PSG (You can't understand on Canal+). From 2014 to 2017, supported by the MSN (Lionel Messi was accompanied by Luis Suarez and Neymar), Barça won nine trophies, including the Liga twice, the Copa del Rey three times and especially the 2015 Champions League (before the Club World Cup).
Obviously, Catalan supporters recall the catastrophic passage of Christophe Dugarry to FCB. Failing at AC Milan, the former Girondins de Bordeaux striker (where he formed a great trio with Bixente Lizarazu and Zinédine Zidane) was recruited by Barça in July 1997 for 4 million euros, but did not impose himself either, even playing in midfield under the orders of Louis van Gaal, for a record of 13 matches without a goal scored. He is considered by some to be one of Barça's worst signings. It was by joining OM in December 1997 that “Duga” relaunched his career to be included in the 22 players of the world champion French team.
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