An official announcement of the end of Mauricio Pochettino’s career has not yet been released, but it appears that a decision on his successor as the next coach of Paris Saint-Germain has already been made. After the Argentine is sacked, the French champions will appoint Nice’s current coach, Christophe Galatia, as the man who will have to succeed where many good ones have failed before – to lift the European Cup.
The club’s president, Nasser al-Khalafi, was interviewed by Parisian and told about the coaching process: “We have a list of coaches. their”.
Of the list of candidates to stand on the lines in the City of Lights, Zinedine Zidane’s name was the most intriguing. The coach who sat on the sidelines this year after leaving Real Madrid has been mentioned as a possible successor to Pochettino, but it seems that the job that caught his eye is actually in the French national team, where he may replace Didier Deschamps after the World Cup in Qatar.
Despite all the reports, Al Khalafi claims that Zidane has never been on PSG’s radar: “I love Zidane. He was a fantastic player, at a high level. He is also a great coach who won the Champions League, but I will tell one thing – “We never spoke to him, neither directly nor indirectly. Many teams were interested in him, also selected, but Paris Saint-Germain did not speak to him. We chose another option, we chose a coach who would best suit what we want to do.”
Last season, in which PSG were painfully eliminated from the Champions League already in the quarter-finals by Real Madrid, the star team failed to translate its offensive talent into results. According to al-Khalafi, the era in which PSG were a “sparkling” team came to an end: “We have to be realistic, we do not want to be shiny, this period is over. We have done great things in the last 11 years but every season we have to ask How do we progress and improve? “
“All players are expected to give more than last season. We were not good enough to go far. We have to give the maximum and then we will see the results, we have to be modest. You have to avoid injuries, dismissals and offenses that change games. “Sit on the sidelines. We need to build a real team, the players who are not part of the project will have to leave. Some of the players took advantage of the situation, now it’s over.”