Internally, all is not rosy at Paris Saint-Germain since the defeat (2-1) in Dortmund in the Champions League. Leonardo sought to reframe a group at the heart of unwelcome communication, but the posture of the sports director would not necessarily have been understood by Thiago Silva and others.
Back in business since last June in the capital’s club, Leonardo was supposed to become the real boss, the iron fist in a velvet glove that President Nasser Al-Khelaïfi could never have known. And lately, it is an understatement to say that the Ile-de-France vessel has rocked according to the waves caused by this or that sporting or extra-sporting record. Between birthdays, Neymar on the one hand, and Cavani, Di Maria and Icardi on the other, the defeat in Dortmund in the knockout stages of the Champions League (2-1), goals conceded against Bordeaux (4-3) last Sunday, injuries, insults from the brother of Presnel Kimpembe in place of Thomas Tuchel, critics of Neymar against his trainer,… Critics of the capital’s club and its functioning have had a lot to grind.
The situation would therefore have prompted, according to information from L’Equipe, the sports director to come and transmit his way of thinking to the locker room. Thus, on February 21, the Brazilian would have come to deplore the image recently returned by the Red and Blue, especially after the setback conceded at Signal Iduna Park. But facing him, the group would not necessarily understand that the former international auriverde attaches so much importance to what is relayed on social networks, while the situation would be calm internally.
The tone was even raised several times between the leader and visibly annoyed players to be targeted. As if they did not understand that supporters and the public could be at least taken aback by the image returned for some time by a part of the locker room. According to the daily, it is mainly the executives who would have directly confronted the successor of Antero Henrique, which could lead, in the long term, the former Milanese to make strong choices in the optics of the summer transfer window to come.
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