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"We are there to develop the ideas of PSG, not ours": Pochettino explains his daily work

2021-11-19T08:10:04.346Z


In a long interview with the newspaper L'Équipe, the coach of PSG, strongly criticized since the start of the season despite his results.


Since the start of the season, expectations have been immense around Paris Saint-Germain.

And, at its center, by Mauricio Pochettino.

Arrived at PSG a year ago in general enthusiasm, with the cap of former club and recent finalist of the C1, the Argentinian finally saw a contrasted first year on the side of the capital, between the loss of the title of Ligue 1 in the spring and this very average start to the season in terms of play, despite very satisfactory results in Ligue 1 and the Champions League.

In a long interview with the newspaper

L'Équipe

, the PSG coach was able to give his vision of things, of his position and in particular of the expectations placed on him. He believes that his place at PSG is very different from that he had at Tottenham, especially in the application and development of his ideas: “We came here to adapt and to win, with the structure and the characteristics of the players who are there. It is very different. We are there to develop the ideas of PSG, not to develop our defined ideas, which would require building with the elements in our opinion necessary for these ideas (...) Take Liverpool. It is a club that has recruited a coach

(Jürgen Klopp, in 2015)

, gave him the tools he wanted and gave him time.

With Tottenham, we have always been in the fight, until the final of the C1.

These are projects where there is time.

At PSG, the project is to win, and to win now (...) We also need some time, which often does not exist in football.

If we are not given it to develop our idea of ​​PSG, well too bad, we will not be the first nor the last.

"

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On the basic criticisms, on the identity of his team and the often poor game of Paris Saint-Germain this season, Mauricio Pochettino remains faithful to his speech: it is an ongoing process.

“The expectations born this summer mean that before you even start a match, you have to win and win 5-0.

And if after ten minutes of play you don't already lead 3-0, pfff ... what a disappointment!

(...) What is happening is normal in our planning.

We will tackle other aspects that we want to develop when certain things are acquired.

"

According to him, we must not forget the importance of human management in his work, before thinking about football.

“The first thing to settle in a group is to coexist in a harmonious way.

If you don't solve that, it's very difficult to find this harmony on the pitch.

"

He illustrates this in particular by the management of the two goalkeepers, Gianluigi Donnarumma and Keylor Navas, who have not been placed in a strict hierarchy. “When you have two players who you trust and who demonstrate every day that they can play, it would be unfair to prioritize one of them. That does not mean that there is not a moment when we will make a choice. But I would like you to understand that as a coach the ease would be to say: this one is number 1, that one number 2. It takes courage to put the two in competition, to make them understand that they must be ready when we call on them and they perform. Instead of saying that we lacked the guts not to designate a number 1 and a number 2, I would prefer that we emphasize the courage of PSG to have taken Donnarumma when he already had Navas and Rico."

Source: leparis

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