Even if the dismissal of Thomas Tuchel by Paris SG was “a shock”, it had become inevitable, told his Hungarian deputy Zsolt Low to the media Nemzeti Sport.
“Let’s be honest, the situation would not have been sustainable in the long term,” Low said in an interview published on Saturday.
“Looking back, it was better to say goodbye now, being pretty much at the top, with a lot of great memories,” he said, “these two and a half years have been beautiful”.
“We were surprised, on December 23, after a 4-0 victory against Strasbourg: (the sporting director) Leonardo called us to tell us that he no longer needed Thomas in the future”, said the deputy recalled, adding: “Even if we felt it coming, Leonardo’s announcement was a shock”.
“Somewhat incomprehensible decision”
“After facing considerable difficulties in 2020”, he continued, we found this decision somewhat incomprehensible. “
Among these pitfalls, Zsolt evokes in particular “the innumerable injuries which weakened the workforce” and considers that it was “a great professional success to end the year thus”, first of his group in C1 and one point behind the leader Lyon in Ligue 1. “The truth is that we have outperformed,” he said.
But the Tuchel-Leonardo relationship had come to an end.
“Everyone knew”
Everyone “knew that there were tensions between the sporting director and the head coach in recent months. In other words, the announcement was not a thunderclap in a cloudless sky”, commented Low .
The deputy does not want to “go into details” and summed up: Leonardo and Tuchel “had different principles of governance” and “different ideas in many areas, and these differences of views have only increased over time. .
“This led Leonardo to consider the future with another staff,” he concluded, that of Mauricio Pochettino, whose arrival was formalized on Saturday and who was to lead his first training on Sunday.
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