I simply don't understand this.
If you watch the two legs he prepared his PSG team to win. In the first leg they totally dominated the game, Madrid didn't even have a shot on target. Messi missed a pen, Mbappe missed about 4 or 5 sitters, there were many other opportunities created but not taken. How is Messi missing a penalty Poch's fault?
Same in 2nd leg, for an hour they totally dominated the game, again creating plenty of opportunities to take the game, Mbappe again not taking them (amongst others). The goalkeeper is blatantly fouled in the build-up to Madrid's first goal, this doesn't get reviewed. Then PSG players fall apart, with more individual errors leading to the other goals.
Ask the question why PSG players implode, explore this and here you will find the answers as to what's wrong with the Club.
No manager has succeeded at PSG (assuming success is measured in winning the CL which is a tad ludicrous measure of success/failure). It's quite clear by now that the manager isn't the issue, it's how the Club is run.
This piece here is a really well-framed article exploring what's wrong in better detail...........
I think it's spot on.
From a piece in The Athletic out today also alludes to similar:
There is also little dispute that Pochettino has not found it straightforward to cope with the psychological transition of coaching Tottenham, where he became the most powerful voice at the club, and PSG, where superstar players are expected to be on the team sheet.
At Tottenham, for example, Pochettino liked to tell his players: “When you sign a contract, you sign a contract to train, not to play.” This meant that no player was assured a place in the team. But PSG’s investments in Neymar and Messi — who each receive in excess of €25 million (£21 million) net per year — mean it would be testing, to put it mildly, for either player to not be selected on a consistent basis when they are available. The disparity in salaries between different squad members also makes it difficult to forge a collective team spirit, although several agents close to other first-team players counter that players are sensible enough to understand that a superstar player should be on superstar money.
One source familiar with Pochettino’s work says: “When you know Mauricio, it’s very difficult for him to manage this type of player, this type of team. He needs to improve players, he wants players to have fundamentally good principles of play.”
Away from the dressing room, Pochettino, as with other previous PSG coaches, has not always relished answering to Leonardo, who some believe to be overly close to the dressing room. Pochettino was also disappointed by the club’s failure to secure Tanguy Ndombele on loan from Tottenham in January, with the Frenchman eventually heading to Lyon.
Several former players have, however, been critical of PSG’s culture. One highly experienced former PSG player told confidantes he believed the club to be a “vanity project” and incapable of major sporting success. Former coaches have felt they have had to negotiate with star players as to when they should return from holidays.
In his latest book, Adrenaline, the former PSG striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic said he called Al-Khelaifi to offer his services as a sporting director last summer. He claimed PSG’s players felt it was a good idea. He wrote: “One of them said to me: ‘Zlatan, only you can sort the team out and impose discipline.’ Another one said: ‘Zlatan, if you were around, this thing in the dressing room wouldn’t happen’.” I liked the project, but it wasn’t enough to make me overcome the feeling of fear and panic that gripped me at the thought of retiring.”
Ibrahimovic later claimed to have exasperated PSG by advising Mbappe to leave the club and join Madrid. Ibrahimovic says Al-Khelaifi called him to complain but he argued: “There’s not enough discipline at PSG and Mbappe needs it if he is to improve and go to the next level. Right now it’s impossible in Paris because there aren’t the right people.”
The former striker added: “If there was more rigour, everyone would run on the pitch, no one would be late for training and no one would be allowed to do what they liked.”
Igula
after a period of due consideration your going on ignore mostly because you bore me. Do not waste your time commenting on my posts or addressing me directly. Your dead to me...
