Except for a major surprise, he will be the next coach of Paris Saint-Germain. The French team hopes to make the arrival of Luis Enrique official this week. The former coach of Barça and the Spanish team will take over from Christophe Galtier in the shaky bench from the Parc des Princes.
The agreement between both parties is very advanced – it could even be announced this Wednesday, according to what he pointed out. The Parisian— and the Asturian will sign for at least two seasons. The official confirmation of him has only been delayed for the time required by the negotiation and the drafting of Galtier’s settlement. Once these fringes are over, Luis Enrique will become the 33rd coach in the history of PSG and the eighth since Qatar took control of the capital club in 2011.
After his dismissal as coach in December and that his tenure at the head of La Roja will end —with good results, although hectic due to his tense relations with the press, especially with the Madrid press—, Luis Enrique, 53, will return to the bench. He will do it at the head of a French team that has become one of the greats in Europe thanks to petrodollars. How could it be otherwise, his goal will be maximum: break the European jinx and win PSG’s first Champions League. It is the great obsession of the team chaired by Nasser al-Khelaïfi. And renowned coaches such as Carlo Ancelotti, Thomas Tuchel, Mauricio Pochettino or Unai Emery failed to satisfy it.
Will he recover the best Neymar?
The Spanish coach will not have the right to a first season of transition -perhaps not even to the first 100 days of summer tranquility-, despite assuming the reins of a team immersed in a moment of uncertainty. After two strange seasons in Paris, Messi decided not to renew and began his probable golden retirement at Inter Miami.
Mbappé’s future is also up in the air. Despite the will of the Parisian board of directors to make him his franchise footballer —he is currently the highest paid in the world—, Bondy’s striker decided not to exercise his automatic renewal option until 2025. The rumor mill will accompany you in the coming weeks. But no one would be surprised if the third season of the series Mbappé’s summer It ends like the previous two: one more year in the French capital and frustrating the expectations of Real Madrid.
The great beneficiary of the arrival of Luis Enrique can be the crack of the trident that offered a weaker performance this season: Neymar. Although the leaders of PSG contemplated its sale, and still do not rule it out, the newspaper The Team remember that “the coach had very good relations at Barça” with the Brazilian “10”, “who welcomed the incorporation of Spanish”. Curiously, if Neymar stays in the end, they will take the reins of the Parisian team, both on the bench and on the pitch, two of the main architects of Barça’s 6-1 win against PSG, which left a trauma that is difficult to forget in the Parisian team . To the point that it favored the incorporation into the current French language of the word “remontada” in Spanish.
Bernardo Silva, the desired star for the new project
Despite the uncertain future of two of its main stars, PSG have made progress in their market. The signings of the Slovak center-back have already been agreed Milan Skriniarthe Uruguayan midfielder Manuel Ugarte (for about 60 million) and Marco Asensio, who had his best minutes this season on the attack front for Luis Enrique’s La Roja. He is also working on the signings of the French winger Lucas Hernandez, from Bayern Munich, and the young South Korean Lee Kang-in, from Mallorca.
However, the star signing longed for for this new project is that of Bernardo Silva. The technical secretary Luis Campos sees in the Portuguese midfielder the ideal replacement for Messi. From Italy they also speculate with a sailing offerof more than 100 million, to snatch the Nigerian striker Victor Osimhen to Naples. If something will not lack to Luis Enrique in Paris, it will be money and talent in the field. There are more doubts that they give him time and a good work ecosystem to leave his personal mark. And thus build a competitive team and play offensive football.
2023-06-27 16:45:56
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