All eyes on Paris – it’s what their owners wanted. It’s what they’ve gotten following all of their high-profile transfers over the past decade. But there is another side to that particular medal. Fans, neutrals, and especially the media tend to get overly critical when the team isn’t performing to high expectations.Beat the champions to become champions! Parisian Angel stars as PSG come from behind in a thrilling Lille winMessi isn’t at his usual best, Neymar and Mbappe aren’t scoring as many goals as the fans would have liked, and the wins aren’t quite as convincing. Those are just some of the complaints shoved in the Parisians’ faces over the past weeks. But PSG’s sporting director Leonardo Araujo has had enough of that.”You can say we’re not doing well but it’s starting to cross a line now. To say that the coach is clueless about football, that the big players we signed are rubbish – there are people who want to make themselves look smart by talking about PSG, it’s for personal promotion. Ok, we’re not playing as we want to. But we are on a path. You can’t talk about Messi, Mbappe, Verratti, Neymar, or the coach like that.”Leonardo on Pochettino: “On the coach [talking about the critics], it’s too much. We are looking, everyone is looking, but Mauricio Pochettino before he came was top five and now nothing? Everyone needs time.”🔵🔴🇦🇷#PSG #Pochettino pic.twitter.com/40hjin6kIJ— Daily Transfers (@DailyTransfer1_) October 29, 2021 It was too naive to expect that all new signings would gel quickly and perform as well as individual players’ reputations would suggest. To Leonardo – it’s only logical.”The fact that we have things to improve is obvious, it’s normal even given the context. Some players arrived at the end of pre-season, there were big changes. We are not where we want to be but the team is working hard. The only thing I don’t like is the way we are judged. There is a right way to speak.”##NAJAVA_MECA_5938191##Leonardo wants coach Mauricio Pochettino to succeed, but he can’t believe that the Argentine is being questioned constantly.”We are demanding, but we are where we wanted to be, top of the league, top in our Champions League group. Indeed, we’re not playing well, but we are aware of it. People are acting as if the manager didn’t know about a style of play, that he understands nothing. He’s searching. Pochettino, before arriving, was a top 5 coach. Now, apparently, he’s clueless. We changed some aspects. We’ll assess things at the end.”
