PSG is not at its best. Slowed down in the championship and especially with its back to the wall in the Champions League, where outright elimination from the new formula group stage is certainly not to be ruled out, the capital club is seeking its second wind under the orders of Luis Enrique has recently been struggling to hide his annoyance and his helplessness.
While the Spanish coach is credited with degraded relations with his locker room – and even with the president’s sports advisor Luis Campos – the crisis is looming on the horizon, probably hanging on a possible and improbable misstep against Salzburg in C1. And the speech of support officially given by Nasser Al-Khelaïfi himself is not necessarily the most reassuring.
“Yes, Luis Enrique is threatened”
“ It’s com (communication, editor’s note), believes Bixente Lizarazu this Sunday on the Téléfoot set. When you are at a club like PSG and you suffer a failure – and not qualifying for the rest of the Champions League is a failure – you have to accept the consequences. » And the 1998 world champion assured: “ If PSG does not qualify for the final phase of the Champions League, yes, Luis Enrique is threatened; It’s part of the game, it’s normal. »
As for the hypothetical intentions of the Iberian strategist to relax a little and be more flexible with his players, Bixente Lizarazu does not believe it for a second: “ Not at all… Having followed him with Spain, not to mention Barça, that was already it. Luis Enrique is the boss, the leader, his team plays his way, his players are interchangeable pawns. The method has not changed, with this pressure put at each press conference, it will always be the same Luis Enrique. That he adapts to the quality of his players, I don’t believe it, no. We have to adapt to Luis Enrique, otherwise we have to leave… » Unless the latter leaves first.
