Laurent Blanc: “It doesn’t matter not to be the first on the list”
After the departure of Carlo Ancelotti for Real Madrid in the spring of 2013, the PSG staff struggled to find a new coach and had to cross off a good number of names on their wish list over the refusals: Wenger, Mourinho, Benitez , Mancini, Pelligrini, Villas-Boas, Hiddink, Capello, Laudrup, Rijkaard… When he arrives in the grand auditorium of the Parc des Princes on June 27, 2023, Laurent Blanc does not pretend to face the press and has prepared his response “It’s no big deal for me not to be first on a list […] The most important thing is the outcome. And we succeeded. At his side, a Nasser al-Khelaifi who had not personally taken care of his recruitment: “The only time I had met him before, six or seven months ago, I had to adapt to speaking English, admits the coach. But my English is worse than his French today. »
