Comment: PSG - the star that doesn't shine!

Lionel Messi left. Sergio Ramos left. Coach Christophe Galtier was fired… The Ligue 1 championship seems less remarkable than that pile of information - all of which was announced before Ligue 1 actually ended. In the Ligue 1 arena, PSG had no worthy opponent that could not win the championship! But PSG was eliminated in the round of 16 in both the remaining two tournaments, the Champions League and the French Cup. The press commented: PSG will enter a major restructuring this summer. Is there anything wrong when a team that has just set a record for the number of national championships is facing the need for restructuring?

Next season Messi will no longer play for PSG

Many times, Messi was booed by PSG fans, even though this was the first season in his life that Messi won the World Cup. Putting aside the professional aspect, the story shows that Messi has no symbolic value in the French capital. That is probably the biggest failure that PSG's owners expected. Of course, PSG must always be the number 1 candidate for the championship in France, regardless of whether Messi is there or not. Not long ago, Messi even left for Saudi Arabia without permission, accepting a heavy fine from PSG.

That is the responsibility of coach Galtier, and he deserves to be fired for not being able to manage stars? In fact, PSG itself has always been an environment that is not compatible with stars, causing stars to wither or become dissatisfied rather than excited and on their feet. This has been a long story since Nasser Al-Khelaifi took over the club's chairmanship and ordered a separate phone line to be set up so that he could call directly into the players' room to give technical instructions! Previously, no one was surprised when sporting director Leonardo often "played the main role", instead of the head coach or any star. This season, when Leonardo had to leave (seemingly because of failure in the power struggle), people saw sporting director Luis Campos directing tactics in the match against Lille - while coach Galtier just... sat still.

PSG has always been a team of "big names", but unfortunately the symbols of power are not players on the field. That is the biggest reason why this extremely rich team is never qualified to compete for a high position in the Champions League. It is not a real team! Therefore, it is very difficult to expect anything from PSG's reform this summer. Only when president Al Khelaifi - a former tennis player who was in the top 1,000 (highest ATP ranking is 995) - does not want to "do professional work" anymore, then maybe!

The way PSG fired Thomas Tuchel said it all (Tuchel was the coach who made the miracle of PSG's first Champions League final appearance, then after being fired, went to Chelsea and won the Champions League with this team). The same was true of Galtier's selection last season. He was a coach who had been successful at small teams like St Etienne, Lille, Nice. But he had no ideas of his own, lacked both personality and philosophy, and in general, was not qualified to lead a team at the top. Al Khelaifi's level of understanding of football is no different from Todd Boehly, who really wanted to "professionalize" at Chelsea, fired Tuchel, replaced him with a low-class coach like Graham Potter, and then fired Potter again!

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