Paris Saint-Germain will arrive in Lille in Ligue 1 on Sunday not as championship leader, but as a name finder with their hosts ahead of a bachelor point.
While LOSC will settle for the quick sale of the club through modeling owner Gerard Lopez to Merlyn Partners and Paris modeler Olivier Letang’s sporting director, PSG will change its recent national form as it tries to sail so far in a confusing season.
It would be a desirable fit between the most consistent team in the Championship and the continental representatives of France this season and the protective champions as they seek their tenth French crown.
PSG’s greatest urgency at the moment is its national form.
After provoking their level of Champions League organization to take down the most sensible of Group H when he looked bleak after the defeats to Manchester United and RB Leipzig, it seemed that he had bent the corner.
However, two wins out of five since then is what the Qatari-owned club is used to and there are already 4 losses this season if we come with all the effects: a record start.
Perhaps the most disturbing facet of all this is the identity of its conquerors in this campaign; Olympique de Marseille and Olympique Lyonnnais ended up with long droughts at parc des Princes, Monaco went back 2-0 to win 3-2 and the ascended Lens used a team affected by COVID.
Only in form, a fifth defeat in Ligue 1 so early is unacceptable, but this is the only fear in the French capital.
Pressure has been rising on Thomas Tuchel for some time, when he led PSG to the Champions League final last season.
The team’s taste for the game leaves everything to be desired in the matches and there is not much to convince about its start 11 and tactical decisions at stake.
If we add to that his freezing public appointment with sporting director Leonardo, despite a recent thaw, as well as his expiring contract, it seems that the two parties are coming to the end of their time together.
Former player Mauricio Pochettino and former Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri have been in role-playing and Tuchel himself has piqued United’s interest in recent times.
CBS Sports Sources can verify PSG’s tentative interest in Pochettino and Allegri, while Thiago Motta was also a candidate at one point, but has since dropped out of the race.
United and PSG’s conditions for being connected to the two shared perspectives and the Premier League team are also willing to Tuchel, but no concrete action has been taken.
The money from the Champions League award for achieving the knockout phase, driven by the poor performances of Marseille and Rennes has also brought some financial relief, but the collapse of the lucrative mediapro tv rights agreement will be a vital attention in any long-term movement for players or staff.
PSG’s key to changing things in the Champions League was superstar Neymar, who scored six goals in three games in the back of the level of organization for safe victories over Leipzig, United and Istanbul Basaksehir.
However, the Brazilian foreigner sprained his ankle and stretched at the end of the 1-0 defeat to Lyon following a scissor shot via Thiago Mfinishes that earned OL the red card.
The PSG has shown that Neymar will not be back until January at the latest, so it will not be available for Lille this weekend and RC Strasbourg Alsace next week.
The 28-year-old’s absence gives Kylian Mbappé a chance to step up after a few weeks combined, but make no mistake, Tuchel’s look is weaker without the now South American talisman and Lille is a position. that must happen with few personnel.
Another situation that has been brewing in the Princes’ Park for some time is the long history of Neymar and Mbappé, any of which will be without contract in the summer of 2022.
Chief Executive Nasser Al-Khelaifi has spoken publicly about the long-term of the two players following Basaksehir’s 5-0 demolition recently, but nothing official has yet materialized despite the confidence of Qatar’s boss.
The longer the stage goes on, the more distraction it becomes and, as winter holidays approach, it provides an ideal time to move forward so that all parties have a transparent view of their individual and collective future.
In addition to the hypotheses about Neymar and Mbappé, there are also normal claims that PSG is a great money movement for Barca legend as of January.
While CBS Sports resources can verify that the French giants are paying attention to the stage at Camp Nou, and just before the Champions League clash, there is still no concrete plan to launch an offensive.
Such a move would require the kind of making plans that are entering a summer move-in window and with so many other uncertainties, adding tuchel’s long-term and the monetary danger of French football due to Mediapro, which means it will last until next time. summer or fade away.
Leonardo said a few months ago that opportunities should be considered for signs like Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo, but there are too many things at this time that can be replaced in the coming months for such a resolution to be an option in January.
Therefore, the PSG heads to Lille knowing that it cannot lose and, after getting a break, thanks to the mid-week effects.
A victory over Christophe Galtier’s men would allow them to regain control of the stage and the intellectual impact on the recent sale of LOSC could contribute to this, but a defeat would put them in great difficulty.
As the middle of the season approaches, Tuchel now knows it is less expensive for PSG to fire him than he does in the summer and the deterioration of the national form would give them justification.
Two victories would likely ensure that the German remains in position during the winter and has one last chance for Champions League glory before leaving.
Lately there is no situation where Tuchel remains beyond this season and his recent press meetings have started to paint a guy he knows is on parole in Paris.
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