The place but beautiful but it does not stop eating all those who try their luck.
Mauricio Pochettino has not yet celebrated his first year on the PSG bench that he has already grasped the essence of his mission: to let the stars of the team decide his fate and take the credit where he can, by waiting.
The usual placidity of pre-match confs, often a pension with him, had been replaced by a form of willingness to assert himself more than usual, Tuesday before the C1 match against Leipzig.
Neymar hit in the adductors
So, while he had to comment on the package of Neymar, slightly affected in the adductors, the Argentine coach he embarked on a precise and useful explanation on the decision process at the Camp des Loges, in order to clearly recall that he didn't put anyone on the ground without the medical green light. Of which act, if one doubted it. We also saw him almost passionate when we asked him to judge his influence on what we saw in the game, since it will be, nine months, all the same, as if to say that on our side, we see especially the fog which billows at the level of the ground.
“From our point of view, there is a clear and obvious method. Given the evolution of the project since January, I think we can be happy with a lot of things that may be invisible to you. Afterwards, we have to analyze the circumstances and the complexity of our work, we need time, like several large teams. In City's case, it's a six-year job, and looking back further, Ferguson was at United for 25 years, where it took him seven years to win his first title. The project here is different, but putting everything in place requires complexity ”.
The Argentinian, used to imposing his views on the duration of Espanyol as well as Tottenham, knows yet that at PSG, it's a two-year affair, three max if it fits well.
So he tries to give guarantees of a progression in the collective identity that nobody really sees.
And for good reason, at the same time, that he tries to assert his investment on a daily basis, the staff knows that he is suspended from his three stars in front, because that's how Doha thought.
"We can be happy with a lot of things since January"
Pochettino must really bite his tongue, for example, when he is innocent on the question of changes during the match or the distribution of set pieces: "We are talking about the best players in the world, why we would want to take them out before In the end, this reasoning does not seem logical to me. Penalties? We are mature enough to understand that we are talking with very high level players. They communicate with each other to find out who has the capacity to take the ball at a point in the game. I don't think it's our role to give a hierarchy or an order of shooters. It is natural for us, even if it may be difficult for you to understand ”.
That is to say that we have known the penalty gate, and that we do not believe too much in the invisible hand which would regulate the market of the big stars of this game, especially in the same club.
Pochettino, he continues to seek balance.
Act on the margins, and suffer the rest.
No one envies him, frankly.
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