Will play ?
Won't play?
If he trained separately this Saturday morning, due to para-costal pain, Lionel Messi could, nevertheless, be in the game on Sunday evening at the Parc des Princes against Troyes.
The club decided to wait until the day of the match to make a final point on the Argentine's condition.
The doubts surrounding the presence of the Argentinian did not spoil Mauricio Pochettino's humor any more than his absence from the list of coaches nominated for the UNFP Trophies, rewarding the major players of the season.
"Maybe I don't deserve to be there, but Miki (Editor's note: D'Agostino, his deputy) deserves to be there", he laughed at the end of the press conference to salute the talents as a translator of his faithful second.
For three games the PSG evolves in 3-4-3.
What is your assessment of this new system offensively and defensively?
MAURICIO POCHETTINO.
Setting up a new system requires rigour, discipline and hard work.
It takes time to find sensations.
In fact, I am neither satisfied nor disappointed.
It was an alternative linked to the moment, we will see if we renew it tomorrow.
Danilo Pereira seems to have established himself as a leader on the pitch and in the dressing room.
How would you define it?
He has a lot of experience.
He has a sense of the collective, is always available and gives more than what is required of him.
He is a great team player and a great professional.
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You are the first coach of the QSI era not to be nominated for the UNFP trophies.
Do you consider this a lack of respect?
No, I don't have to express an opinion.
I didn't when I was voted one of the three best managers in the world with Jurgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola.
It is a fact and nothing more.
How would you rate the PSG season?
It is difficult to rate the season.
Firstly because it would be necessary to determine objective and subjective parameters in order to be able to judge it.
And as we said when we arrived a year and a half and a half ago, at this club the absolute priority is to win the Champions League.
And if we don't win it, we can't say that we had a good season since there is no satisfaction in having achieved the main objective.
Does leading PSG to its tenth league title make you go down in club history?
Beyond the disappointment of not having won the Champions League, there is the satisfaction of having been able to participate in the tenth title.
It's not nothing to win a new national title, the tenth.
I am proud to have been able to participate.
EL Chadaille Bitshiabu recently praised your kindness to young people.
Why should we pay more attention to players like him?
The issue of young people is close to our hearts.
Being able to follow young people, see them develop and accompany them to the first team, it's exciting.
Players like El Chadaille have a good profile to one day become PSG first-team players.
It just takes a little patience.
He is a player who will have to play, like others, with the pros.
It is important for the identity of a club.
“Chad” is technically good, physically good.
But he is 16 years old and still needs to mature.
We must understand that for young people, the timing is different from the others, because they need to acquire a little maturity.
