“I plan to be the coach of PSG next season”. Signed Christophe Galtier this Thursday, at a press conference. It is also not the first time that the Parisian coach, under contract until 2024, has made this kind of remark, he who assures us “to work with Luis (Campos) on the architecture of the workforce for the season next”. Except that the future should still be written without him “unless there is a surprise, in the unlikely state”, as indicated by the daily L’Équipe. However, our colleagues imagine a scenario in which Galtier could be kept, in the event that the management does not find the suitable profile to replace him.
Still according to the same source, it is in any case not Luis Campos, football adviser in charge of the club’s sports policy, who will choose the next coach… The decision will indeed, as often, be taken by Doha. . L’Équipe recalls that Zinédine Zidane still remains the top priority of the Qatari leaders of the capital club. Not surprising. Remember that the former playmaker of the Blues is still free since leaving Real Madrid in the summer of 2021. In fact, he is even more free than before knowing that his dream of taking the reins of the team of France flew away with the extension of Didier Deschamps… It remains to be seen whether “ZZ” would agree to train Paris, him the Marseillais… It was not a problem for Galtier, born in Marseille and who even played at the ‘OM. But “Zizou” has a whole other weight in the collective unconscious of Marseille.
For the rest, the sports daily put forward names already known, such as that of the former Parisian midfielder and current coach of Bologna, Thiago Motta. There is also talk of another former PSG player in the person of the Argentinian Marcelo Gallardo, free since leaving River Plate. Finally, there is the José Mourinho track, under contract with AS Roma. The former Real coach “has let it be known that he would be interested” in the Parisian challenge, we are assured. However, our colleagues are not sure whether the Qatari decision-makers would be ready to comply with the wishes of a coach who is not used to letting himself be stepped on… “In Qatar, the profile of Mou is very far from being unanimous”, we summarize. Moreover, no discussion would have been started with the Portuguese “Special One”.
