Honest and hardworking.
Among the men in the shadows making up the new Parisian staff, Thierry Oleksiak is the confidant, the one in whom Christophe Galtier devotes an almost blind trust.
"At a glance, he knows what I'm thinking," says the 55-year-old Marseillais very often when he talks about the deputy present by his side in Saint-Étienne, Lille, Nice and now Paris.
The former Libourne Saint-Seurin coach, 60, is not one to take the spotlight, but his role is essential.
The two acolytes know each other by heart.
After their meeting in Angers as players, during the 1993-1994 season, they maintained good relations, before finding themselves several years later, in Forez, without knowing at the time that this would one day lead them to head of one of the biggest European clubs.
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