“Uncontrolled” arbitration, decisions taken “against” the Parisian club… Saturday, after the defeat of PSG in Nantes (3-1), Leonardo, the Parisian sports director, said, at the microphone of Canal +, all the although he thought of the arbitration of Mikaël Lesage and his assistants. The Brazilian added a layer of it in the mixed zone, then, castigating “the referee [qui] doesn’t even want to talk. We ask for a little respect for that. »
Leonardo was followed a few minutes later by his midfielder Marco Verratti: “It’s not possible, he gives a penalty and a yellow card for Wijnaldum, OK, then we get a penalty, on an even clearer fault, and this is not a yellow card [pour Appiah, déjà averti auparavant], when it should have been a red card. Even if some decisions made at La Beaujoire seem incomprehensible, this is a new episode in the hit series, The referees against Paris.
Letters to Garibian and Le Graët
Already in November, after the match against Saint-Etienne, during which Neymar injured his ankle, Leonardo had sent a letter to Pascal Garibian, technical director of arbitration, to request a meeting to express his dissatisfaction, explain The Team and RMC Sports.
A meeting, to date, which has still not taken place, even if Pascal Garibian called the management of PSG to discuss the subject. And to get to the bottom of things, Leonardo even wrote to Noël Le Graët, president of the FFF, to also complain about the decisions of the men in black.