While Mauricio Pochettino’s future is known to all and that PSG is working to find a replacement for him, a former member of the QSI house returned to the end of his Parisian adventure and the attitude of the leaders towards him. He is Carlo Ancelotti, who plays the semi-final first leg of the Champions League with Real against City on Tuesday evening. If the story of the divorce between Carletto and PSG has already been told, the Italian gave new details to the Spanish press recently.
After having experienced a period of adaptation in a championship renowned for its lack of rigor in work, Ancelotti was finally beginning to feel at ease. Until this Champions League match against Porto which changed everything. He tells Movistar +: “French culture is not just about football, there is rugby, horses… The French arrived half an hour before training and left half an hour later. We started to build a structure, to install a kitchen… I liked the project but the second year, they were not so happy with me”, cleared the Mister before coming to the facts.
Victory or the door, Ancelotti does not digest
“For a Champions League match for which we were already qualified, we lost a league match (against Nice, 1-2) before winning (against Evian, 4-0), and they told me that if I didn’t beat Porto they would fire me…. I told them how they could tell me that, it breaks trust. I decided in February that I wanted to leave, even if they wanted to renew me”.
New to football at that time (in 2013, two years after the takeover of PSG), the Qatari leaders led by Nasser Al-Khelaïfi committed their first real blunder. You don’t talk like that to Mister without paying the price. Too bad, because he repeated that the Parisian project “pleased him a lot” on paper.