The former Paris Saint-Germain coach came out of his silence in an interview with a South American site.
A little less than a month after being thanked by the leaders of Paris Saint-Germain, Mauricio Pochettino gave a long interview to the South American media Infobae in Barcelona. The predecessor of Christophe Galtier takes stock “very positiveof his visit to Paris. “I think it has been very positive. We must always capitalize on our experiences and learn from them. In sporting terms, we have won the Coupe de France, the Trophée des Champions and Ligue 1 in a year and a half.“, recalls the Argentinian, nevertheless aware that the European failure weighed heavily in the balance when taking stock for its leaders.
«It is clear that PSG’s project is to win the Champions League and not winning it can always be seen as a failure, Pochettino continues. In any case, it’s a failure of fifty years, not only of last season, because PSG, especially in the last 10-11 years, with the arrival of the new owners, has the objective of winning the Champions League.»
«Benzema’s foul on Donnarumma existed»
A trophy that Pochettino sees PSG win one day “because the means are there” even though “there are factors that cannot be controlled“. The technician also responds to Jorge Valdano who pointed to the “trac” of the Parisians against Real Madrid, in the round of 16 second leg of the Champions League (3-1). “So we should put a psychologist in Chelsea, we should put a psychologist in Manchester City, we should put a psychologist in Liverpool and therefore, we should put a psychologist in all the teams that have faced Real Madridquips the Argentinian.
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«I believe there are circumstances in football that happen that cannot be controlled, he believes. I think that Benzema’s foul on Donnarumma existedand if it had been reviewed by the VAR, today we would be talking about something else, the elimination of Madrid. But it’s a trigger that gave Real Madrid a lot of confidence, a different energy on their pitch and logically we made a kind of mistake, but that’s football and it shouldn’t go beyond that what is football analysis.»
Finally, Mauricio Pochettino does not believe in Kylian Mbappé’s influence in PSG’s decision to terminate his contract: “What I think is that PSG did everything to retain Kylian. He is one of the best players in world football today and I think PSG, having all the resources to do so, convinced him to stay. But I don’t think Kylian is the one who designed the new project either. Those who govern, in this case the president, are those who would have thought that the most convenient was a new project in the club.»
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