"He no longer represents the same authority", Tuchel in danger against Leipzig?

Thomas Tuchel during Leipzig-PSG, November 4, 2020. -

• Tuesday night, PSG must win against Leipzig in the Champions League to still hope to get out of the pools.

• Coach Thomas Tuchel, criticized at the start of the season, could pay a heavy price in the event of another defeat.

He has the proud smile of one who knows he has pulled out a good valve, looking for public approval.

It was not the Tuchel comedy club at a press conference on the eve of the decisive match against Leipzig either, but the PSG coach must be recognized for having kept a certain sense of departure despite the context.

While he is asked if he received the assurance from Nasser or Leonardo to always be the Parisian coach after the match, Tuchel mutters his usual "it is not necessary", before relaunching, in his native language, the translator came to help the German journalists.

"You can add that if that was the case, it would make me more worried."

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The oldest adage in football: the more a coach is comforted by his management, the closer he is to packing.

And if nothing yet suggests this outcome for the Parisian coach, a new poor performance against Leipzig would potentially eliminate PSG from the Champions League ... and de facto weaken his coach even more.

"He plays big because he reached the final a few months ago and can not afford to go on something so negative, summarizes José-Karl Pierre-Fanfan, former club defender and Canal + consultant.

He's at the end of his contract, he's not in a comfortable position, that's for sure.

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Between his deep disagreements with Leonardo, his tactical choices bordering on professional suicide, some very ugly defeats (United, Leipzig or Monaco) and above all, above all, the impression that PSG is not progressing collectively, the fate of Tuchel seems sealed .

He himself gave a frank interview to Sky before the first leg against Leipzig, saying that without discussions on a possible extension, "we must not dream either".

So basically, what would prevent Leonardo from advancing to Tuesday night, in case of defeat, his plans for the end of the season?

The dough, mainly.

Firing Thomas Tuchel and his staff would cost PSG an amount that it does not seem to have at the moment.

"If PSG had had the means to fire him, he would have done it before", would almost smile Jérôme Rothen, former club and RMC Sport consultant.

Tuchel is for him to have offered PSG its first Champions League final in its history.

It was only three months ago, but it never really mattered anyway.

He does not convince, or more.

"I had a time this naive vision, that after four titles and a Champions League final, the coach would not be in the line of fire for a while, he launched full of bitterness in the same interview.

It lasted five days.

When we got back from vacation, things started up again.

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"We can always find excuses, but in fact there won't be any"

He will also be able to hide behind an avalanche of injuries, a truncated preparation and stars in bad physical condition.

This is far from false, but while it affects most of the big clubs, that does not prevent them from winning.

In short… “I think there is a problem at PSG and I do not think so from Monaco, Rothen slice.

PSG collectively lack a lot of things to hope to have a good year and be sure to be at a certain level.

In Ligue 1, they do not pay it often because doing half-time in two is enough, but not in the Champions League.

We are talking about a European Cup finalist team and we have the impression that it has not progressed on any point.

The context is added to that, we can't put everything on it.

But if there is a physical problem at the club, the manager is the coach, what he has set up and how he runs his team.

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“We can always find excuses, but in fact he will not have any,” Pierre-Fanfan clutches.

The context is particular, it is an important factor in the season of PSG, but we feel that there is something that prevents PSG from playing completely liberated.

The coach is no longer in the project, and it can be felt at all levels.

For him, already, in his way of thinking, of communicating with his group, of transmitting his messages, there is something missing and that the players feel it.

He no longer represents the same authority.

The dressing room must feel that there is a settling of scores between the coach and the management.

And his choices are sometimes hard to analyze.

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Difficult today to find Parisian supporters who were moved by an early departure of Tuchel.

This was also the case before the return to Dortmund, less than a year ago.

And that did not prevent PSG from having its best season in the wake.

And as long as he has the players with him, the German coach is not quite finished.

Marquinhos, its captain, does not seem ready to let go: “I don't know why you say that we don't have the flame, we are competitors, we are always hungry, even in training we want to win everything.

The urge is still there, no matter how the season started.

”Unless it is finished by Tuesday evening.

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