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PSG: the Blanc-Gasset duo returns to the Aurier affair

For L’Equipe Explore, Laurent Blanc and Jean-Louis Gasset came out of their silence about Serge Aurier’s famous Periscope video in 2016. The two men confirm that they had a bad experience of this episode.

Gasset and Blanc during their time at PSG.

Coach of Paris Saint-Germain between 2013 and 2016, Laurent Blanc was successful on the Parisian bench. But the former coach of the France team has also experienced difficult episodes, such as the famous Periscope video by Serge Aurier.

A polemical standard in 2016

In February 2016, Paris SG was shaken by a huge controversy after the broadcast of a video in which the side notably insulted his coach of fiotte . The incident causes the player to be laid off with a salary deduction. But not his dismissal. The Ivorian international even finds the pitch fairly quickly, from March 19, by participating in a match with the reserves.

This meeting is followed from the stands by Nasser Al-Khelafi in person. The president of PSG made the trip to attend the recovery of his player, before going down to the locker room to greet him. It may seem like a naïve ambition, but Nasser dreams of seeing his club as a family, explains a witness at the time for L’Equipe Explore. He therefore had the approach of a father whose son had made a mistake and who had to be brought back to the fold. apart from a good feeling but has weakened the institution.

a pataqus in the club and the locker room

This mark of support was not well perceived by White. It tended to confirm that the players had more power than the coach within the club of the capital. The lack of authority and internal support bothered me confides the Cvenol for the sports daily. This Aurier story capsized us. We have to deal with this wart growing in the night that puts a mess in the club and the locker room adds his assistant at the time, Jean-Louis Gasset.

Goalkeeper of PSG this period, Nicolas Douchez recognizes that the return of Aurier to the Parisian locker room had a negative effect for the rest of the season. When he returned to the group, everyone was happy to see him again, he begins. But there was a very negative external environment and sportingly, it screwed up a mess at a time when things were going very well.

The surprise Aurier against Manchester City

However, Blanc came as a surprise less than three weeks later by establishing Aurier for the double confrontation against Manchester City in the quarter-finals of the Champions League. After a disappointing first leg (2-2), the former Toulousain was established in central defense in an experimental 3-5-2 on the return (0-1). At the origin of the penalty obtained and missed by Sergio Agero, the former Toulousain left the hour of play under the whistles of the Parisian fans. And the elimination of the Parisians sealed the fate of the President, replaced at the end of the season by Unai Emery.

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