With each change of coach, it's the same catchphrase.
What's more at PSG.
If we magnify the line a little - even though - the "fired" technician appears as a man who let the stars do their work and did not make his group work very hard.
A little music heard in the capital during the successive departures of Carlo Ancelotti, Laurent Blanc, Unai Emery or even recently Thomas Tuchel in recent years.
This did not prevent, proof of their supposed lack of grip and seriousness, three of his four coaches, from spinning, after their end of collaboration with PSG, on the side of Real Madrid for the Italian, Arsenal for the 'Spanish or Chelsea for the German.
Not so bad despite all these flaws.
Only Laurent Blanc took a long time to find a bench, to fall recently in the most total anonymity and at a low level in Qatar.
"The warm-up is very thorough with Pochettino, it is equivalent to training with Tuchel, they work"
A relative of the Parisian cloakroom
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This Wednesday, in the columns of
L'Equipe
, we learn that the arrival of Mauricio Pochettino has brought a certain rigor in the daily work, seriousness and involvement during training sessions.
In other words, with the ex-coach of Tottenham, no more jokes and days on the menu.
"Neymar and Mbappé had a little tendency to do what they wanted", even advances a "close to the locker room" put forward by our colleagues.
An article in which it is revealed that the French world champion often spent time in the treatment room than in the field and that the Brazilians spent their turn on the morning training to "be able to sleep" longer.
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With Pochettino, that time seems to be over.
Meet at 9:30 am each morning for common breakfast and two hour sessions.
A program that would contrast with that of his predecessor, presented, remember, when he arrived in Paris in the summer of 2018 as a technician with a strong personality, very hard worker and who would not give in to the whims of the stars ... But everything goes very quickly in football.
Much more than elsewhere.
"The warm-up is very thorough with Pochettino, it is equivalent to training with Tuchel, they work" jokes "the entourage of an executive".
Translation: the dose of work is not the same with the new coach.
History repeats itself, over the years, and the first big test of the new staff against Barcelona in the round of 16 of the Champions League (February 16-March 10) will, or not, validate the new direction taken by the bosses. of the PSG.
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