Obviously, PSG would have done well without this controversy the day before a Champions League match.
All it took was a very light joke from Galtier and an infantile attitude from Mbappé to set social networks ablaze and give the image of an eco-irresponsible club.
The coach and the star burst out laughing when answering a question about the proposal from Alain Krakovitch, the boss of the TGVs to have the champions of France travel by train.
“I suspected that we were going to have this question, sighed Galtier.
To be very honest with you this morning we spoke with the company that organizes our trips.
We're trying to see if we can't get around in a sand yacht.
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Travel by PSG by plane: "We are seeing if we cannot travel by sand yacht", quips Galtier
At the club's headquarters, the unease spread as quickly as the messages of distrust.
Because ecology is not a subject taken lightly by leaders.
For several months, travel by train has been systematically put in competition with the plane and the bus on four main criteria: safety, disturbance to public order, overall travel time and cost.
The return at night, crucial for recovery
Until now, the SNCF has never won the bet, for three reasons: the Parisian stations are not easily accessible, the security criteria are not met, the return journey at night is not always possible.
This last factor, crucial for recovery, is sometimes misunderstood by the general public.
For the sports management of PSG, when the matches follow one another every three days, it is essential to return the night after the match.
Sunday morning, the day after the match in Nantes, the players met at 11 a.m. at the Camp des Loges for cleaning.
It would have been impossible by train.
At PSG, it is said that the train is not a taboo subject.
The women's team, which is not subject to the same repetition of matches, nor to the same late hours, regularly uses rail.
For the moment, their male counterparts prefer the bus.
This is the way that was chosen to go to Lille on August 21, the one that should be chosen for Reims, Troyes, Auxerre and Lens… where they had gone by plane a year ago.
