If you're gonna lie, lie for a friend
If you're gonna steal, steal a heart
If you're gonna cheat, cheat death
And if you're gonna drink, darling drink with me😋
#lastcall
🗣️ Reporter: “How do you feel knowing you ended in the semi-finals with Mbappé in your first season, and after he left, you went on to win it twice?”
🚨🗣️ Luis Enrique: “As much as I wouldn’t want to answer that, things like this happen in football, it’s not because he’s unlucky for his team or anything like that. The reality is that he was no longer comfortable playing with us, and when situations like that happen, sometimes you have to let players make their choices and move forward, because if a player is not fully with you as a manager, it can affect the whole team.”
We needed players who were completely in love with the project, committed to the team and willing to fight for each other every day, that’s how I’ve always coached my players.
I have a lot of respect for Kylian Mbappé and I genuinely wish him the best of luck to win the competition soon
🚨🗣️ Luis Enrique back in 2024 on Mbappé's departure:
"Do I think we're going to improve? Without ANY doubt."
"Next year I will control everything. Everything, without exception."
"I think I was very brave last season when I said that we were going to have a better team without Mbappé. I still think we are better, the stats are there..."
"I'd rather have 4 players who score 12 goals each than 1 player who scores 40 goals."
PSG are the biggest example of how important the environment is at a football club.
If you told someone 4 years ago that they need to get rid of Neymar, Mbappe and Messi to become successful, you would have been called an idiot.
But literally everything changed once they got rid of them and built a team with no egos, no privileges and no player power.