Ligue 1
To the exit door Leonardo, first contact with Paratici
The painful Champions League ban will bring drastic changes in Paris, with sporting director Leonardo paying the price for Europe’s failure first and foremost.
For another year, Paris started the season with impressive transfer performances (Messi, Ramos, Donaruma, Hakimi and Vainaldoum, his select acquisitions) and for another year will end it on the bitter smack of failure in Europe.
This is the responsibility of Real, who qualified for the quarter-finals thanks to an epic surprise that bore the signature of Karim Benzema (hat-trick) but also the Paris side, with Mauricio Pochettino and most of his players in the last half hour collapsed of the game in Madrid and prove to have fallen short of the circumstances and expectations.
The Argentine manager is unlikely to stay in the new season as scenarios already want him to return to the Premier League to continue his career on the bench at Manchester United, but he won’t be the only one of the people at the top “Sacrifice” org chart team.
Paris strongman Nasser Al-Kalaifi has reportedly made the decision to part ways with the Leonardo squad, with the Brazilian sporting director standing at the exit door and only with an incredible reversal of the scene will he keep his next post.
According to Italian website Tuttomercatoweb, Paris managers already have a successor in mind, having already been in contact with current Tottenham chief executive and former Juventus sporting director Fabio Paratici to fuel his intentions.
At the same time, if the Italian doesn’t want to leave the Londoners, they are considering other candidates for the sporting director position, including Jean-Claude Blanc.
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