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“Let’s be honest, they’ve tried every (type of) manager that you could possibly imagine. “I’m not surprised,” Jose Fonte, Galtier’s title-winning captain at Lille, tells The Athletic when asked about Pochettino’s successor. What we can say for sure is that the decision to appoint Galtier represents a change in approach from the profile of the last three PSG coaches - Unai Emery (2016-18), Tuchel (summer 2018 to December 2020) and Pochettino - and the broader strategy since Qatar Sports Investments bought the club in summer 2011. How much substance there is behind that sort of rhetoric, or the “end of the glitter” line for that matter, remains to be seen, bearing in mind that PSG’s squad still reads like a who’s who of world football and, realistically, will do for some time to come. After outlining his frustrations about last season, in particular a lack of effort and a sense that some players have been taking advantage of the club, Al-Khelaifi said that his “goal for the next few years is to have only Parisien players in our team”. That feeling of belonging has been lost for some time at PSG, fuelling talk of the need for a change in identity as well as a shift in mentality. If the fans identify with the players, then they (PSG) can be strong.”

“His biggest challenge will be to create a feeling of belonging to the club and the shirt.

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“He will consider lots of parameters, like the history of the club, the fans and the academy,” Jordan Galtier, Christophe’s son who is the assistant at Ligue 1 club Ajaccio and a former professional footballer, tells The Athletic when asked about his father’s approach to the job. We are talking, however, about PSG, a club who have developed a reputation for being almost impossible to manage, where success is defined by what happens in the spring on Champions League knockout nights, and where there has long been a perception that the power is in the hands of certain players rather than the coach ostensibly in charge of them.įor Galtier, it will be a huge test, albeit one those close to him expect him to embrace. “You can be lucky once, but not so many times,” says a senior figure at Lyon, who had been keen to appoint Galtier last summer before he chose to go further south still and join Nice. In short, the 55-year-old is a highly respected figure in French football - someone who is seen as a talented coach, emotionally intelligent and capable of producing tactically disciplined teams who consistently punch above their weight. (Photo: Yusuf Ozcan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) Galtier, who finished fifth in Ligue 1 with Nice last season, 20 points behind title-winners PSG but 11 ahead of defending champions Lille, arrives at the Parc des Princes without any of the stardust Zinedine Zidane would have brought to the job (the French football icon and former Real Madrid manager was the fans’ favourite to take over).īut what he does have is a track record of galvanising teams, dramatically improving results - both Lille and previous employers Saint-Etienne went from fighting relegation to winning silverware under his watch - and extracting every ounce of ability from his players. That will be the mission of the new coach.” “We have to create a real team, find a real collective spirit. “We don’t want flashy-bling-bling anymore, it’s the end of the glitter,” PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaifi told French daily paper Le Parisien last month, sounding like a man who was preparing to trade in a fleet of Bentleys for some Volvo estates. Galtier was confirmed as PSG’s new head coach today, replacing Pochettino in a development that would have been unthinkable a couple of months ago, let alone last summer, and signalling what is being described within the Paris club as the start of a new era. I am not saying that it is a handicap to be French.” “I think PSG prefer to have a foreign manager because this team, the club, and its atmosphere has an international dimension and they need an international manager - just like Monaco, who work in an international environment with foreign managers.

Pochettino had a very good spell with Southampton and Tottenham. “At its core I say that, but I don’t know. “Because I am French, no?” Galtier said to the country’s top daily sports newspaper L’Equipe.

“What separates you from Thomas Tuchel, or a Mauricio Pochettino, to be able to manage Paris Saint-Germain, for example?”Įleven months after that question was posed - at a time when Christophe Galtier had just confirmed that he was stepping down as Lille coach two days after leading them to the 2020-21 Ligue 1 title, denying runners-up PSG a fourth straight championship and eighth in nine years - the Frenchman’s response is worth revisiting.

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