Luis Enrique Shrugs Off Praise For Psg’s Season With Club World Cup Final To Come

There is conscionable 1 crippled near successful nan play successful which Paris Saint-Germain yet won nan first Champions League successful their history to complete a historical treble and that crippled is nan Club World Cup final, but Luis Enrique says it has not been his best. He was better, he claims, erstwhile he lost. Besides, nan PSG coach said, Manchester City stay nan champion squad astir and his broadside must look a Chelsea squad he likened to his ain which tin still contradict them nan cleanable run and person a head he “loves”.

“The Champions League was our first and it was very important: that was our main nonsubjective erstwhile we came to Paris past year,” Enrique said. “And connected Sunday we person nan chance, pinch nan past crippled of nan season, to triumph different one, pinch nan Club World Cup. But it is important that we are conscious of nan trouble of nan game. [Enzo] Maresca is simply a coach I love. I emotion nan measurement he has of playing pinch nan ball. They person a batch of bully individual platers but they besides person a existent consciousness of duty. They are a spot for illustration our team. They are physically beardown too. It will beryllium a very moreover crippled and a very difficult one.

“Chelsea won nan Conference League, they vanished 4th successful nan league, they are increasing a lot. They person awesome players, method players, and a awesome coach who I for illustration a batch because of really they effort to play from deep, ever press, ever want to attack. They are a very complete squad that has produced a sensational season. This is nary easy squad and it is not a formality aliases thing for illustration it. We will attack it 100% focused to effort to information disconnected a historical season.

“Was it our champion season? Maybe, but we person to triumph to complete it. Anyway, you spell a last and location is simply a loser and location is simply a victor too, but that doesn’t mean nan loser has done badly. We will springiness 100% and spot which prize we get.

“A squad is 11 stars, that’s football,” nan PSG coach continued. “We don’t want one, we want 11, aliases 13, 14, 15 … that is what we want. We are looking for nan existent prima to beryllium nan full team. It’s for illustration nan fans: location is not 1 star, it is nan full of nan Parc des Princes. I deliberation nan way is clear for everyone. We want stars, but astatine nan work of nan team.”

It was past put to him that nan prima was him, and that he was nan favourite to triumph nan Ballon d’Or coach’s award.

“I don’t judge successful individual awards successful wide and still little for a coach,” he replied. “The squad is ever supra nan individual and that is thing we effort to transmit astatine PSG. Ousmane [Dembélé] is nan champion for what he has done individually, for nan goals and assists, but supra nan goals and nan assists it is because his activity has meant that PSG won each nan trophies. And that should beryllium nan only criteria by which a subordinate is rewarded individually. That’s my opinion, and I americium judge location are others.

“There is thing prima astir me. There wasn’t arsenic a subordinate and location isn’t arsenic a coach. I for illustration nan activity I do. I enjoyed my profession arsenic a subordinate and I americium enjoying it arsenic a coach – particularly nan difficult moments. That’s erstwhile I consciousness astir happy. It is bully erstwhile things spell good because successful our occupation you tin make a batch of group happy, and I person learned to admit that arsenic nan years passed.

“But I cognize really this ‘show’ works: I cognize that group deliberation you are bully aliases bad based connected your results. The praise comes because you win. The champion squad complete nan past decade was Manchester City. They suffer 10 games and everyone kills them. They still person nan champion coach, they’re still nan champion team. It’s incredible.

“I judge that. But I person been amended erstwhile I lost. I don’t mind; I for illustration being criticised much than being praised. I deliberation I person sewage it correct overmuch much erstwhile I didn’t triumph and everyone killed maine pinch criticism. You each deliberation that because we’re winning, I americium getting everything correct now. No. I sewage it correct overmuch more, I did overmuch better, erstwhile I lost. But successful position of ratio it has been an bonzer twelvemonth and now we person to decorativeness it off.”