Did the Champions League carried out by Thiago Silva change Leonardo's mind? In an interview with L'Équipe, the Brazilian defender's agent, Paulo Tonietto, reveals that the sporting director offered an additional year of contract to the captain who arrived in Paris in 2012.
A position which particularly surprised the representative of the player, who is committed to Chelsea: “Thiago Silva was no longer hoping because Leonardo told him two months ago that he did not wish to extend it. But last Tuesday, Leonardo called Thiago and raised the possibility that he had another year left. Thiago had already agreed with Chelsea. […] A sports director who tells a player that he no longer wants him, and two months later wants to extend him, how do you take that? "
"To stay would have been humiliating"
The agent took the opportunity to bring to light the differences of opinion between Tuchel and Leonardo on this file: “Tuchel always wanted to keep Thiago. The one who did not want is Leonardo, and it is he who has the power. That's why, even though he hadn't signed with Chelsea, Thiago couldn't see how he could have accepted Leonardo's offer given what he had told him two months earlier. It would have been humiliating. "
Paulo Tonietto describes a player “very affected by the way he leaves PSG and by Leonardo's attitude. "He also places a severe tackle to Unai Emery, who has criticized several times since his departure for the supposed mental weakness of Thiago Silva:" PSG lost two years the day he recruited him. His problem is that he has trouble managing the stars. […] He was a terrible trainer for PSG. If there had been a coach of another caliber during these two years, PSG would have already won the C1. "