“I thought we were talking about football on this show“. This is how Laurent Blanc first tried to dodge the question that everyone has been asking for four and a half years. Invited on Téléfoot this Sunday to pay tribute to Diego Maradona, the former PSG coach ultimately did not balk when discussing his personal situation.
“I still want to train a club or a selection, he said. That hasn’t changed. But the more time passes, the less I believe in it“. A way to turn the page, already? Not necessarily but an indication of his current state of mind.”Either way, I will be back on the bench but it might not be with adults, he added. Surely with children. There are things to do in amateur sport“.
Without a club since the summer of 2016 when he had been sacked by PSG, who had decided to appoint Unai Emery to succeed him, Blanc has still not managed to find a bench that meets his expectations. At OL, he was close to replacing Sylvinho last fall before being grilled by Rudi Garcia. At Barça, his candidacy did not weigh very heavily against that of Ronald Koeman. Faced with these failures, difficult to leave for the former coach of the Blues.
Faced with this exit, Grégoire Margotton relaunched it: “Did you make a cross?“, he asked.”I do not know“, White replied soberly before explaining, too, what bothered him now.”Football is taking a direction that I don’t necessarily like but that’s how it is, he said. It’s up to us, the coaches, to adapt. I think we are in total speculation in football so it is more and more difficult for the coaches to manage. We value the players, not by what they do on the field but in relation to what they generate as financial value. We buy 10 and sell 30. Or 40. That’s how it is. But I find that the job of coach is becoming more and more difficult since we ask him to increase in value above all“.
