Definitely, André Villas-Boas, the Marseille coach, never stops defending Tomas Tuchel, his now former PSG counterpart.
After having already judged as "a scandal" the forgetting of the German by Fifa in the nominations of the best coach of the year for the The Best trophies, at the end of November, this time he attacked the circumstances of his departure of PSG.
Tuchel had learned on the night of December 23-24, after a success against Strasbourg (4-0) that his Parisian adventure was over.
This Monday, in a press conference, Villas-Boas launched: "When a coach is sacked, it's not a very good thing, mainly him after what he did (
Editor's note: reaching the final of the last League champions
).
Everyone knows exactly what the Qataris are waiting for… In the end, it unfortunately happened for him.
»And Villas-Boas to say« surprised by the timing ».
“It's hard, not very nice, he adds, but hey it's their decision.
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"It will be harder to prepare for the match against Paris"
OM is particularly concerned by the news of PSG since the Champions Trophy is looming, Wednesday, January 13, in Lens.
Therefore, when asked what the arrival of Mauricio Pochettino was changing, Villas-Boas underlined: “It changes the approach compared to what we expected.
We will only have two benchmark matches.
It will be harder to prepare it.
I don't know what Pochettino has in mind as his preferred system.
We will see what will happen in their next two games in Saint-Etienne and against Brest.
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Villas-Boas is not the first to publicly state its surprise at the Paris scenario.
On Saturday, Zsolt Löw, one of Tuchel's deputies, spoke of a "somewhat incomprehensible decision" in the Hungarian press.
In addition, fate has already brought Villas-Boas and Pochettino together since the latter had succeeded the Portuguese on the Tottenham bench six months after his dismissal in December 2013.