Fight with Leo, Danilo in defense ... But what is Thomas Tuchel playing?

Thomas Tuchel and Leonardo no longer seem at all on the same wavelength at PSG.

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• After their inaugural defeat in C1 against Manchester United, PSG must win Wednesday night in Turkey, where they face the club Basaksehir.

• Especially since the atmosphere around the club is not to the total delight.

• Tuchel, cold with Leonardo, seems to do everything to show the sports director all the harm he thinks of his sports choices in terms of recruitment.

The atmosphere is not at the party of the century at PSG, as the team prepares to face Basaksehir in C1, a week after the defeat against Manchester United at the Park.

In question, the relationship more than tense between Thomas Tuchel and Leonardo.

We would have paid dearly on Saturday night to see the face that the Brazilian had to shoot at the time of the release of the official line-ups for the PSG-Dijon match, when he realized that Danilo, the new Portuguese recruit that he had gone to look for Porto a few days before especially to play 6, was positioned in central defense alongside Kimpembe.

And we are not the only ones obviously.

Rolland Courbis on RMC, a few minutes after the final whistle: “I put myself in Leonardo's place, he must have been close to blindness when he saw the scoresheet!

Wanting at all costs to align Marquinhos in the middle, Tuchel will end up playing the physiotherapist of PSG in central defense!

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In his own way, the former OM coach perfectly summed up the hot topic of the moment at PSG.

By deciding to persist with Marqui in the middle of the field and by positioning a specialist from post 6 in his place in defense, wouldn't Thomas Tuchel simply have wanted to send a message to Leonardo, with whom relations are at least fresh, not to say icy, especially on the question of recruitment?

In any case, this is the theory defended by a lot of specialists for a few days.

"Danilo behind and Marquinhos in the middle?"

Until I see it, I don't want to believe it.

If he does that, it is because Tuchel has gone mad and is trying to get fired ... it's lamentable!

Daniel Riolo, for example, belched on Twitter before kick-off.

All that to say that this ego war, to be polite, between Tuchel and Leonardo, is making a mess of the PSG.

I'm not even trying to figure out who is right or wrong.

It's a sketch.

As for the choices of Tuchel, we learn nothing today about this finally.

- Hadrien (@hadrien_grenier) October 24, 2020

"He did this to piss off the world and provoke the management"

But why would Tuchel want to set PSG on fire, just two months after reaching the Champions League final in Lisbon?

For the two of the bottom who were grumbling, we make it short: basically the German can no longer supervise his sports director and has spent the past few weeks grappling with him on the issue of the transfer window.

Tuchel would have wanted Thiago Silva to extend?

Leo delivered it personally to Chelsea.

He hoped for the arrival of a central defender in compensation?

"Count on it", replied in substance the Parisian DS.

Tuchel required a cador at the top to compete with Icardi and compensate for the departure of Cavani?

Leonardo gives him a kid - Moise Keane - who has never succeeded in convincing wherever he has gone.

The only consolation prize, the former Dortmund coach obtained the defensive midfielder (more or less) worthy of the name that the club had been looking for for years and the departure of Thiago Motta.

Reason why we choked on seeing Danilo go back a notch for his second match in the jersey of PSG.

Danilo played central defender against Dijon on Saturday night.

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For Eric Rabesandratana, the question is no longer in doubt, Tuchel is looking to get fired, he who already knows that he will not be renewed at the end of his contract, which expires next June.

"It's a way of showing in a slightly childish way his discontent to Leonardo.

Tuchel wanted to prick him into his pride.

I really think he's doing all that to get fired, ”said the former Parisian midfielder after the meeting on France Bleu.

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, he persists and signs: “For me, it's sure and certain, he has no other reason to do that, especially against Dijon.

What is the point of putting Danilo behind and Marqui in 6?

No, he did that to piss off the world, to provoke the management, out of annoyance and misplaced pride ”.

Also a consultant for France Bleu Paris, Tripy Makonda does not rule out Rabé's hypothesis, even if he prefers to imagine another less melodramatic scenario.

“I may live in the world of Care Bears but I want to believe that for Tuchel, personal interests do not come before those of the collective.

He works with the players he has and we have seen that for him, Marqui is the soul of the team, at the heart of the game. ”This is indeed what he put forward to justify his choice in the face of insistent questions from the media after the victory on Saturday.

Nothing makes you believe it.

Two camps now irreconcilable

We will refrain from prejudging what Tuchel may well be simmering at the bottom of him.

What is certain is that the tensions with Leonardo seem to have reached a point of almost no return.

It is not yet the Cuban missile crisis, but not far.

“I don't see how they are going to be able to end the season like that,” Rabesandratana reflects.

"I have the feeling that Tuchel is playing with matches, as if he was going to set fire to a bomb which could explode in his face," explained the former Parisian president Charles Villeneuve on Europe 1. We will see in Doha who we will choose between the two, because it will be decided there ”.

If no one can predict the outcome of this cockfight for the moment, we could have anticipated it.

In the summer of 2018, when Tuchel signed, Chadli Amri, one of these former players in Mainz, warned us: “He's someone with character, he wants everyone to be concerned.

And when he wants something, he does everything to get it.

He always imposes his philosophy.

He will get angry, be stubborn ... No matter what you think or what the president thinks, he believes in his convictions.

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Leonardo, Nasser Al-Khelaïfi and the Emir of Qatar, the trio who hold Tuchel's future in their hands.

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It is indeed one of the character traits that best defines him.

In Dortmund already, Thomas Tuchel did not hesitate to let his leaders know when he did not agree on the profiles sought in the transfer window.

And when his bosses put in his paws a 17-year-old kid he hadn't asked for, TT came to a press conference to say he didn't know the player at all.

On arrival, Alexander Isak will spend the season without lifting his buttocks from the sidelines.

An iron fist in an iron glove, therefore, the recipe had everything to be explosive with a sports director like Leonardo, not the type to share his toys or his prerogatives.

Tuesday evening, during the pre-match press conference, Tuchel nevertheless assured that he did not feel "in danger".

Here again, we don't have to believe it.

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