According to L’Équipe, the club of the capital is concretely advancing its pawns to attract the Nice coach and entrust him with the reins after Mauricio Pochettino.
Christophe Galtier at the head of Paris Saint-Germain? The rumor is not new. However, it takes a little more momentum this Thursday evening, The Team evoking the first contacts between the capital club and Nice about the 55-year-old technician. Contacts, also mentioned by our colleagues from RMC in the aftermath, which should not have surprised the leaders of the Côte d’Azur. In fact, Julien Fournier was waiting for them and even seemed to call for them in a recent interview with the sports daily. “If PSG wants Christophe Galtier, he mustn’t wait too long, otherwise it will be more complicated for him“, had thus indicated the director of football at the Gym, seeming to push Galtier into the arms of Paris Saint-Germain. In any case, the said Fournier did not retain the person concerned, it is very clear…
The divorce is clearly consummated between the two men, while Luis Campos has never lost sight of his former partner at Losc. It is indeed the new PSG football advisor who went to get Galtier to entrust him with the reins of Losc in December 2017, after the dismissal of Marcelo Bielsa. Which Galtier guided the Mastiffs to the title of champion of France in 2021, a few months after … the departure of Campos, cold with the management. Still, the Portuguese is targeting Galtier according to multiple sources, while the Zinédine Zidane rumor is still present.
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Seventh coach of “Qatar-SG”?
Remember that Christophe Galtier, formerly in post at Saint-Etienne (2009-17), is under contract until 2024 within an OGCN which he guided to fourth place in the Ligue 1 standings at the end of the 2021-22 campaign, with a (lost) Coupe de France final against FC Nantes by Antoine Kombouaré, the first coach of the Qatari era at Paris-SG. Galtier may be the seventh, after Carlo Ancelotti (2012-13), Laurent Blanc (2013-16), Unai Emery (2016-18), Thomas Tuchel (2018-20) and Mauricio Pochettino, appointed in January 2021 and whose contract runs until the end of next season, in June 2023, but who should be sacked in the next few hours, the next few days. It’s only a matter of time, according to multiple sources.
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To see if Galtier will be his successor. With PSG, you should never swear to anything. The first contacts with the management of Nice seem to confirm the interest of Campos and the decision-makers for the native of Marseille, but that does not mean that the Zidane option is buried or that another name cannot come out of the hat. Moreover, Daniel Riolo hinted, this Thursday in theAfter Foot , that “ZZ” is still on pole for Paris, with Galtier in ambush for… the French team, in the event of Didier Deschamps’ departure after the World Cup. One thing is certain: with the recovery scheduled for July 4 and a transfer window to think about, there is already no more time to waste.
