Mauricio pochettino He barely coincided for one season with the three great stars that the team had. PSG in the 2021-2022 season, but it was enough time to understand the enormous difficulty of making a forward with such enormous talent work. A question of egos and also of different profiles between Messi, Mbappé and Neymar.
“Messi I wanted to build from below, slowly, with associations and passes. Because he has the quality to have the ball and dribble one, two, three… But, if we played for Mbappewe couldn’t play for Messi,” the coach said in Argentine in statements to The Overlap.
“If we played for Mbappé, we couldn’t play for Messi.”
“Instead, Mbappeif we were behind and recovered the ball, he looked for space. It was giving him the ball and letting him run. But when we played for MessiMbappé told me: ‘My quality is running, but I can’t.’
With Neymar I didn’t have that problem. “Neymar wanted to play with the ball,” he acknowledged Pochettinowho was aware of the great difficulty of combining these pieces. At the end of that season the coach was dismissed despite having won Ligue 1, the French Cup and the Trophée des Champions. In the Champions League they fell in the round of 16 against real Madrid.