A badly felt response, all the more damaging since PSG is not insensitive to the question of its carbon footprint.

Christophe Galtier and Kylian Mbappé were not very inspired on Monday when they spoke about the potential travel of the Parisian team by train rather than by private plane.

The levity and irony went very badly, triggering an endless stream of indignant messages, including those from Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and Sports Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castera.


Mr. Galtier, you have accustomed us to more relevant and more responsible answers – are we talking about it?

@PSG_inside @CBaune #Sobriety #Mbappe #Galtier #psg #TGV https://t.co/gzmcjI4N8J

– Amélie Oudéa-Castéra (@AOC1978) September 5, 2022

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The newspaper

Le Parisien

reports on Tuesday that at the club's headquarters, the malaise has also spread very quickly.

The leaders greeted their coach's statement with amazement, since for several months they have been thinking about an alternative to flying.

"Travel travel is systematically put in competition with the plane and the bus on four main criteria: safety, disturbance of public order, overall travel time and cost", writes the Ile-de-France newspaper.

By bus to Reims, Auxerre or Lens

If the TGV has never been chosen for the moment, it is because the obstacles are still too numerous: the safety of the players would be difficult to ensure in the stations, and above all, the night journeys to return after the matches are very complex to organize.

The SNCF often plans night work on its rails, the tracks being closed for a good part of the night.

However, the Parisian team travels regularly by bus, for the shortest journeys.

This is how she went to Lille on August 21, the club recalls, and that she will go to Reims, Auxerre, Troyes or Lens.

“It is not the coach who takes care of travel management, but he takes the subject very seriously, like everyone at the club”, explained a source within PSG to RMC on Monday evening.

There was certainly a better way to show it.

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