Pochettino launched projection on Messi with PSG: “Next season will be completely different”

Lionel Messi will close the 2021-2022 season with the Ligue 1 title. Despite the conquest with PSG, the striker was singled out by fans, experts and local media because they consider the player irregular. Faced with this, Mauricio Pochettino came out in defense of one of the best in the current squad.

For the coach, beyond the inconveniences throughout the course (injuries and a coronavirus infection), the quality he shows on the field makes Leo Messi, as well as Diego Maradona, one of the undisputed in football. In that sense, the DT of ‘Les Parisiens’ highlighted the best virtues of the number 30 of the team.

“I think that you can’t talk about Messi in this way, the same way I talk about Maradona. He is not an ordinary player, they are on the same level”expressed the coach in a conversation with Europe 1. Then, ‘Poche’ argued that the adaptation (the transition from Spain to France) was also a factor that influenced.

“It is clear that the passage from Barcelona to PSG has been a change and has an adaptation process, which is necessary. Where the circumstance that I explained, that did not favor him to feel as comfortable as in a club where he was 20 years. It is unfair to judge Messi in that way, to be analyzed in that way, there is no doubt about him.”said the former Tottenham.

So, after what he experienced in his first season with Paris Saint Germain, Pochettino projected that the striker will have a better 2022-2023. “Next season is going to be completely different for him, he is going to make it”Maurice asserted.

“It was a year of life and professional learning. He came to PSG, at a family level it can affect a player, a new league, new teammates and at a family level we all have to take that into account, which is always an important disorder that can affect it “ruled on the Messi case.

The PSG title

Pochettino gave an important value to the Ligue 1 championship achieved by the Parisians. And it is that the DT recognized that there was a sector of the fans and the French press that tried to detract from the work done by the team.

“This championship has a lot of merit, people think that it is easy to win Le Championat but it is not like that, there is a lot of merit. There is a perception of not having won the Champions League, because of that disappointment, but we have to separate the joy of the League on the one hand and the disappointment of not being where we wanted in the Champions League on the other. For me it was a dream and I got it, it’s the club’s tenth title “he concluded.