Pochettino: “It’s unfair to judge Messi that way”

“I don’t think you can talk about Messi in this way, the same as I talk about Maradona. He is not an ordinary player, they are at the same level. It is clear that the passage from Barcelona to PSG has been a change and has a process of adaptation, which is necessary, “said the Argentine coach about the whistles that the Rosario footballer received. In that line, he continued: “It is unfair to judge Messi in that way, to be analyzed in that way, there is no doubt about him. Next season is going to be completely different for him, he’s going to make it. It was a year of life-level and professional learning. He came to PSG, at the family level it can affect a player, it is a new league, new teammates, we all have to take it into account. It’s always a major disorder that can affect.” This championship has a lot of merit, people think it’s easy to win the league but it’s not like that, there’s a lot of merit,” Pochettino said of PSG’s Ligue 1 title.He added: “There is a perception for not having won the Champions League, for that disappointment, but you have to separate on the one hand the joy of the League and on the other the disappointment of not being where we wanted in the Champions League. For me it was a dream and I got it, it’s the club’s tenth title.” We are in the world champion country, they minimize it but you have to give it a lot of credit. France has great coaches and great players all over the world. I think French football is underestimated, there is a perception, but it is an aggressive, dynamic, very physical football,” he said. Finally, in relation to his future, he said: “I have one more year of contract, desire to continue in the next season, beyond the rumors my desire is still intact. The management of the club is the one that makes the decisions, always respectable. I participate in what happened, in the present and in the future. Team? We have to be very precise, as I told Leonardo, these are issues that we are going to discuss.”

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