With Kylian Mbappé but a B team around him after the withdrawals of Leo Messi, Marco Verratti, Presnel Kimpembe and the suspension of Neymar, PSG are going to Angers with a great idea in mind: to win the tenth title in their history.
He would certainly prefer to have in mind an upcoming Champions League semi-final against Manchester City, but it's the Angevin slab and that's how it is.
The case does not depend only on him.
He will have to win in Maine-et-Loire hoping that Antoine Kombouaré's Nantes will upset Marseille at the Orange Vélodrome with at least one draw.
"The sooner the better," announces Mauricio Pochettino, eager to win the first championship title of his record as a coach.
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Obtaining the coronation outside, at the 14th in L 1, would not change the Parisians who play a little every week away from home, even at the Parc des Princes, with defiant ultras.
This is PSG at the end of the season: a club which can become champion of France at any moment but where not much is going, where questions remain unanswered and accumulate while no one speaks.
See Ramos and Di Maria again
He continues to respond, more or less, to questions and no longer hides from feeling like an intruder.
When asked if he wanted to continue his job next season with the capital club, the Parisian coach took off the mask, put away the affect and recalled the data of the problem since it is one, obviously: "I have one year left on my contract, so logically it's not a question of will but a contractual question", blows the Argentinian, between ordeal to live to carry out his last year and legal reminder on the conditions of 'a separation.
He would have liked to indicate that he no longer has any desire to sail in this galley that he would not have gone about it otherwise.
He also added, just to never insult the future: “I am always driven, with my staff, by the desire to be better, to take revenge on the season which has just ended.
“Paris prefers that it rebuilds itself elsewhere.
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In Angers, Pochettino has promised to launch understudy and young people, which should make it possible to see Sergio Ramos and Angel Di Maria again, who would like to stay one more season, while Parisian decision-makers are already looking for them. an exit door.
They will play for PSG but also to show off and perhaps attract the eye of recruiters who are wondering if there is not something to try with these well-packed thirty-somethings.
In the meantime, it's Wednesday and for Paris, the desire to put an end to the debates.