Laurent Blanc takes time for PSG. He did the same thing last season after the elimination against Chelsea in the quarterfinals of the Champions League. Reading between the lines, he even asked a lot of time, after another failure against Barcelona Tuesday (1-3, 0-2). “It took how to Barcelona to win the Champions League?” Thirty-six years. Patience QSI, the shareholder of Qatar came in 2011, will not go far. Next season it will be his fourth attempt. On the morning of the third consecutive defeat at this stage of the competition, it is still difficult to imagine that this will be good. Paris from too far.
In 2013, he made waver Barcelona, had not lost (2-2, 1-1), and he had missed him to believe, according to the latest analyzes of Leonardo and Carlo Ancelotti. In 2014, it had grown to a few seconds of the semi-final and beat a “big” in a knockout match (on the way, note), Chelsea, winner at the last minute on a bold choice of Jose Mourinho (3-1, 0-2). It does not happen this time, that installs any proximity to the last four. Wandered home at Parc des Princes (1-3), PSG was also the return (0-2), where Barça has the luxury of a second period at a trot.
The eighth final against Chelsea will stay the one night stand. To win the Champions League, we must, like for example Real Madrid last year, beat Bayern Munich twice and eliminate the best team in the league that season. There are at least three obvious reasons for this large persistent gap between the ambitions of the PSG and its level of play.
1. PSG did not have all the best players
The Parisian club and its supporters point out that he had disposed of Zlatan, Thiago Silva, David Luiz and Thiago Motta in normal to go, the story would have been different. With both Thiago to return, probably. It would lie to reduce the failure this bad luck. The profusion of muscle injuries in an effective is never an accident. Paris has the material for meditation methods of preparation and management of staff.
-The one Zlatan suspensions in occurrence- do not get more of the sky. If he defended mostly, the Swede would not have been so awkward in his speech on Oscar to go. Furthermore, it is within the skill of the clubs that level of knowledge compose without its best. Tuesday, Bayern Munich sprayed Porto (6-1) without five members: Ribery, Robben, Alaba, Benatia and Javi Martinez.
2. PSG has not grown fast enough
His quest for greatness led PSG to schedule an exponential increase in the level of his team, and it is this result that he will succeed if he achieves an unprecedented France tripled-Cup-Cup Championship League nationally. But the content of the current season teaches that the PSG not progressing fast enough. The resistance of Lyon across L1 same brand form regression from last season.
Aware that his eagerness to gain needed a touch of stability, PSG decided this summer to keep the players who last season already, did not return the full compatibility with the signal very high European level: Sirigu, Van der Wiel, Lavezzi, Pastore, Cavani … If Pastore has turned a corner this season -even if it was light years of cracks Barça mardi- others stagnate or regress on the individual level.
On a collective level, there are only a few memories of the Paris steamroller of it a year ago, ball Authority mixture foot and almost equivalent physical impact. Laurent Blanc has failed to cultivate its achievements. To pass a course, with or without their coach, PSG will need to review the basic elements of its workforce. Sell players in which he believed and choose the most just of the elements capable of advancing, as all his rivals in Europe. Since PSG is a shareholder in QSI, Barcelona recruited including Neymar and Suarez. Rakitic but Ter Stegen and Mathieu.
3. PSG is deprived of its main line of development: his bank account
If the legal environment of European football was the same that three years ago, the newspapers would wonder how striking force PSG would attack the transfer market this summer. 300 or 400 million for Hazard, Pogba, Cech and Suarez? We would be there or nearby. Meanwhile, UEFA has placed two balls ankles Parisians. These balls have a name: the financial fair play.
This very restrictive economic measure from a good idea: to prevent clubs from spending money at all-will to protect their long-term viability. Technically, it requires clubs to spend only the money they earn. In the case of PSG is a double punishment. By spending huge sums drawn from the almost infinite funds of the State of Qatar, PSG did would endanger the extent UEFA is virtually irrelevant regarding it. Furthermore this measure freezes the benefit received by the big clubs in Europe. For ten to fifteen years, they have recruited, built, won, without worrying about the balance today so dear to UEFA. Their ability to generate revenue now exceeds those of PSG.
UEFA, somehow reversed the balance of power between PSG and his rivals on their ability to punctuate their development. “Patience is not the greatest virtue of consultants” White dropped Tuesday. This is not a priori the highest quality of its leaders either. Their strategic skills are now more important than their sponsorship capacity. Future success will be even tastier.
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