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“That some stop making their autopromo on the back of the PSG”, annoys Leonardo

Leonardo did not name or name anyone. Friday evening, at the end of the Parisian victory snatched against LOSC 2-1), the sporting director of PSG appeared before the press in order to defend his coach and his players with whom some observers overtake, according to him, the limits of criticism.

Why does your team only play thirty minutes per game?

LEONARDO. That we have things to improve is obvious. It’s even normal, given the number of players who have arrived, the important changes, injuries, returns from selection, the time to adapt, to understand the way of playing… We are not yet where we want. But the team is working hard. What I don’t like is the way we are judged, with which the coach and the great players who have arrived this year are criticized for free. I do not understand why. We accept because we know that we are not well. But there is the way …

Do you think we are too hard on PSG?

It’s the way that bothers me. We can say that we are not well, but not exceed the limits. We cannot say, for example, that the coach does not understand anything about football or that the players we have taken are zero. I’m going to keep my cool, but people want to dress up when they talk about PSG. Everyone can criticize, say they don’t like it. But to self-promote on our backs, no. Even if we do not play as we want, today we have 10 wins, 1 draw, 1 defeat in the league where we have a 10 point lead. In the Champions League we have 7 points with 2 wins and 1 draw.

But the content is not satisfactory, can’t you deny it?

That we do not play as we want, OK. But we search, we do our best and we never spare our efforts. This is our fourth victory like this. We were led to the score, it’s true. But in the end we win 2-1. This is the fourth time that we have won in the 90th minute. This is the characteristic of a team that wants. There, we talk more about instagram and the rest. It makes me feel uncomfortable. We can’t talk about Mbappé, Neymar, Messi, Verratti, the coach or Marquinhos like that. Ramos neither. With Ramos, you play the game of the Spanish press, which says it sucks. We knew everything. The great players are out there running all the time. But a little calm, no personal promotion.

Isn’t it normal to expect more from PSG?

It’s okay to be demanding. I’m just talking about the way. It’s true, we don’t play well. We know it. But we minimize our great will. Winning against Lille, which had a great match, was not easy. We are led and we win. Against Angers, the same, against Lyon too. This is why we are first. It is not a coincidence.

What is your take on Messi’s form?

Messi arrived and, with these stories of international truce, spent his first two months more in selection than in Paris. When you travel so much, it makes sense that there is muscle discomfort. It’s the same for Neymar who made a great match tonight. He had a sense of sacrifice, of envy. It’s the same with Di Maria and tonight they were decisive. We are not talking about Danilo who is having an incredible match… I am not worried because I see what is happening on a daily basis. We want to make people believe that we don’t know anything, that we learn things like that, that they party right to left. But that’s not the truth, we know everything that’s going on. If the players are doing something wrong, we talk to them. And it’s always been like that.

We have an important coach, a large workforce, we will move forward

Neymar is very criticized … (he cuts)

Unfairly, I think! If we look at tonight, he made a very big game in terms of volume, even in the defensive fold. There are still things to adjust, of course. But a player who lives in the party, as they say, cannot play a game like that for 90 minutes. It’s impossible. I’m only talking about Neymar, Messi or Kylian, but the general vision we have on PSG. Calm down, this is a bit too much. Some must stop doing their self-promotion on the back of PSG.

And on the coach?

The coach is too much. We pass him off as someone who does not understand anything, who does not know what a game fund is… It’s true he searches, we search. But Pochettino before arriving was a Top 5 and today he does not understand anything. But that’s normal, he’s looking for the right way to play. We’ll do the accounts at the end.

Does he need time?

Everyone needs time. At PSG, it’s normal, we are in a hurry. We don’t want to wait six years before playing well. With a team like that, we want to win this year, that’s for sure. I’m not saying we’re going to be successful, but we have all the means. We have an important coach, a large workforce, we will move forward.

Do you have a word for the supporters?

I didn’t say anything about the supporters, because the Park makes us win matches like that. Everyone sees that we can play better. The whistles at half-time, it’s okay if you play badly, okay. But I don’t see the supporters speaking like some people… I’m not talking about you, eh, but I don’t see the supporters like that, I see them singing, and that’s why we win at the last minute too. It is because they are there, they are always there.

There is, therefore, not nature to be worried is that right?

Tell me why. There are no reasons… Do you think we can be better than that? We don’t just have eleven players, we have a squad. Why would anyone be worried when you see what we have? We will try to play better, it’s good, but with a little respect.

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