PSG: Messi is "happy, with crazy energy", rejoices Pochettino

Press conference event at the Camp des Loges this Friday with the first appearance of Mauricio Pochettino in public since the arrival of Lionel Messi at PSG.

Almost all the questions revolved around the new Parisian star.

Without forgetting the Kylian Mbappé file.

Has the club assured you that Kylian Mbappé will still be in Paris in three weeks?

And do you agree with the president when he says that Mbappé has no more excuses to leave?

MAURICIO POCHETTINO.

I am not commenting on my president's comments.

He is a hierarchical superior.

I have nothing more to say.

He doesn't need to assure me of anything.

He is our player and he will continue to be.

What would you advise Kylian Mbappé?

To take advantage of Messi's presence above all?

I am not an adviser to anyone.

I am a PSG coach.

I want the best players in the world, like all coaches.

There is no surplus.

We have a good balance in the workforce.

I cannot say anything more than world opinion.

Leo is one or one of the best in history.

His arrival produced something incredible for Paris.

But we have other players, like Kylian, who is also one of the best in the world.

We have to find this fluidity so that everyone goes in the same direction.

All these talents must be at the service of the collective.

What do you feel with this arrival of Lionel Messi?

There is a very positive mindset, good energy.

We all felt it, throughout the club.

All the coaches want to have these problems, to have the best players to raise the level of the team.

Can you tell us about the last days before the formalization?

It all started when Barça's decision fell.

Communication started there.

We must salute the great work of the whole club, of our president, of the sporting director Leonardo, to carry out an operation of this level.

What the club has achieved has enormous value.

Does Messi's presence put extra pressure on you?

We all know what Leo stands for.

It's a privilege for me.

It doesn't put more or less responsibility on me.

Beyond names.

This responsibility, I had it in all my former teams.

We have a lot of big names.

Our main challenge is to be able to make them play together, to build a team, that they integrate well into the group, with joy and create a good state of mind.

We live it with enthusiasm.

We have a team with a lot of talent.

The most important thing is to create this dynamic, that everyone finds their space so that everything works well.

You have to be a team.

To win, talent is not enough.

Collectively, we have to build a united group.

Not just on social media, which is what everyone sees.

It's very exciting for us, the staff.

When can he start with PSG?

This is his second day of training after a month off after the Copa America.

The priority is that he feels good and that he can start in good conditions.

He is very special.

We listen to the players a lot.

They understand that our first mission is their good health, their feelings.

In relation to that, we will follow the evolution to know when it will be ready.

How did you observe its evolution?

Is he still the best player in the world?

I have always appreciated it, with admiration.

Often at a distance even if we weren't very far when I was playing or training my dear Espanyol Barcelona

(smile)

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There was this rivalry.

I cannot compare the times.

I can only speak of the current days.

I see him happy, happy with mad energy.

It's positive.

I am his trainer.

I'm Argentinian too… We always admire these players.

I found a very mature person, the player everyone knows.

Messi, Neymar, Di Maria, Mbappé… There are many players in attack.

Does Icardi still have a future at PSG?

Like all the players who are here, Mauro is part of the team.

Anything can happen in football.

But there is no reason to believe that he has no future here.

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Do you have any idea of ​​the tactics to put in place and the competition between guardians Navas and Donnarumma?

Slowly, it will come

(laughs)

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There are a lot of things to sort out first.

All that will come later.

We are thinking about all the solutions, the possibilities for the future.

Do not believe the opposite.

Can you count on Neymar, Marquinhos, Paredes, Di Maria and Verratti?

And how to focus on tomorrow's game with the context of Messi's arrival?

We will see tomorrow

(Editor's note: this Saturday)

if they are in the group or not.

The job is to get them to focus on this game, that the priority is to take the three points by finding the balance between pleasure and concentration.

How was the meeting between Sergio Ramos and Lionel Messi, the two former captains of Real and Barça?

Everyone saw the welcoming of the players to Leo.

The last few days it was kind of like a reality show

(laughs)

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There is a good feeling.

Leo is happy with this welcome from the whole club and his teammates.