Funny New Year’s Eve served by Paris-Saint-Germain. The capital club put an end, Friday, December 24, to the contract of its coach, Thomas Tuchel, four months after he took him to the final of the Champions League. The management of PSG has not yet confirmed or denied the information, a spokesperson having just told Agence France-Presse (AFP) that he ” no idea “ as to when an official communication would take place.
But on his Instagram account, PSG striker Kylian Mbappé formalized this dismissal by writing: “Unfortunately, it is the law of football but no one will forget your passage here. You have written a beautiful line in the history of the club and I say thank you coach. “
In early December, the German technician may have thought he had swung on the right side of the ridge line – after flirting with the precipice. By winning in the north of England on the lawn of Manchester United (3-1), his club had caught up with a situation badly embarked on in the Champions League, before confirming its qualification for the knockout stages a week later , during the match against Istanbul Basaksehir.
His unceremonious dismissal on Christmas Eve confirms an irreversible cutoff with the management of the club. His chances of extending his Parisian adventure beyond the end of his contract, in June 2021, certainly seemed compromised: the club’s sporting director, Leonardo, had made no secret of wanting to replace him. But the German will leave PSG six months early.
His dismissal comes the day after the broadcast of an interview on German television channel Sport1, during which the coach regretted the lack of recognition of the club towards him, despite the results he considered convincing. “We missed a game to win the Champions League, and we never felt that we were convincing people, or that they appreciated our performance., he was sorry. We have the feeling that the recognition – especially in the league – is not the same as at Bayern [de Munich] for example. It is a bit lacking. “
PSG management assured that this interview, carried out without his approval and since put offline, had not influenced his decision to part with the Bavarian coach – although it constitutes the epitaph of two and a half years of common life.
The first flaws arose very quickly
Arrived in the Parisian club in the 2018 offseason – and then preceded by the reputation of being one of the most innovative coaches of the moment – the native of Krumbach, in Bavaria, relied on his vision of football to try to make to take a step forward to a team whose domination was undoubtedly on the national scene, but which happened to be struggling in Europe.
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