Thursday, October 17, 2024, 6:40 p.m.
Luis Enrique and PSG make up a well-matched marriage. The Asturian coach and the French club have reached an agreement to remain together until 2027, according to the newspaper Le Parisien. The renewal of the contract that expired on June 30, 2025 represents a gesture of confidence on the part of the entity chaired by Nasser Al-Khelaïfi towards the former Spanish coach between July 2018 and December 2022, who ended his first campaign at the helm. of the French giant, achieving a treble of titles at the domestic level and has become the great reference for a team devoid of the constellation of stars that it enjoyed in recent times.
The overwhelming personality of Luis Enrique has conquered Al-Khelaïfi, who was looking for a coach who was capable of imposing a recognizable style and putting an end to egos within the locker room. “He is the best coach in the world,” proclaimed the Qatari leader after PSG defeated Barça in the quarterfinals of the Champions League last year. “I have a lot of confidence in him,” then added the president of PSG, who had recruited him in the summer of 2023 to impart discipline in a booth full of stars who, however, had not managed to shine in unison to conquer the ‘orejona’. ‘, the Holy Grail that gave meaning to a pharaonic project that brought together Kylian Mbappé, Leo Messi and Neymar at its peak in the media.
Despite their subsequent elimination at the hands of Borussia Dortmund in the run-up to the Champions League final that was played on June 1 at London’s Wembley Stadium and the tensions with the French press, an extension of which they maintained in the past with The Spanish media, Luis Enrique’s leadership skills and the daring script that characterizes him have managed to seduce Al-Khelaïfi, who now has him as the flagship of a project with less flash than in previous campaigns but with a more supportive eleven in which players like Vitinha, Achraf Hakimi, Ousmane Dembélé and Bradley Barcola stand out.
A team above individuals
Winner of Ligue 1, the French Cup and the Super Cup in the 2023-24 season, Luis Enrique has dedicated his forces to building a team that is above individualities since his arrival in the city of light and love in June 2023. The results support it. He has led PSG in 62 games, of which they have won 40, drawn 14 and lost 8. With the man from Gijon on the wing, the Parisian team averages 2.35 goals per game and concedes 0.96 on average.
Since Mbappé’s departure to Real Madrid was completed, the Asturian has remained the undisputed reference for PSG and has not hesitated when it comes to imparting discipline when he did not like things in the locker room. This is what happened, without going any further, when he left Dembélé off the list for the recent Champions League match against Arsenal after the winger failed to fulfill his professional obligations. “I would do it again a hundred more times,” Luis Enrique then explained about a decision in which he had the support of both Al-Khelaïfi and Luis Campos, his other great supporter in the PSG leadership.
