Madrid (EFE) – The team’s coach PSG, the Argentine Mauricio Pochettino, assured that He did not lack respect for Barcelona when Di María is “asked” if he would like to play with Leo Messi and asked “not to drive things crazy” on the eve of the clash between the two Champions League clubs.
“He asks Di María, you would like to play with Messi … Well, what do you want me to answer. That’s not why you don’t respect Barcelona, let’s not take things out of context,” he said in a statement. interview on Zero Wave’s El Transistor program.
Pochettino insisted that he must “have respect for all clubs and players” and acknowledged that “all clubs in the world, not just PSG, are designing strategies to improve their teams”.
“It was a difficult situation to understand, for a player to talk about a teammate and talk about how they would like to be together, I think it’s valid, “he said.
With regard to the next Champions League draw against Barcelona, Pochettino admitted that he has been preparing for that confrontation for a year because he did not stop watching football at any time and considered Neymar’s retirement essential because of the way he infects his teammates and the conditioning of the rival.
“I was very excited to return to Barcelona to play. There is also the obsession with winning the Champions League here. And the fall of the injured as he fell is a sad situation because of the way he is on the field and the opposite condition. He was almost 15 meters injured in the injury, and Mbappé was warming up and had decided to replace Neymar because he noticed him irritating because of the mistakes he was receiving, “he said.
Regarding Mbappé and his future, Pochettino said that, despite his youth, “it is a reality and not a promise”. for the charisma and game he imagines in the “short list of the best players in the world”.
“He can speak French, English and Spanish,” he recalled before referring to Real Madrid, a club he was close to as a player, although he did not join in the end. “Valdano and Camacho told me a lot about Real Madrid. Camacho’s conversations continued to stay with me. And to see what Real Madrid means worldwide is left to him. I have no clause where Real Madrid comes from. “I am confident that I will be there for many years at PSG and I will meet my goals,” he said.