Julien Laurens has watched a lot of Paris Saint-Germain over the years and speaking ahead of the UEFA Champions League semi-final against Bundesliga outfit Borussia Dortmund, he has said he believes that the no-nonsense approach of manager Luis Enrique has been key for the team.
He also had high praise for star forward Kylian Mbappe who will leave the club in the summer.
TNT Sports expert Julien Laurens believes that Kylian Mbappe is the greatest player in Paris Saint-Germain history, but that manager Luis Enrique will play a key role in their Champions League semi-final against Borussia Dortmund.
Both PSG and Dortmund have confounded the critics this season with their run to the final four and the former are looking to win the Champions League for the first time.
There’s definitely a different mentality this year to any I’ve seen before.
“I think it’s due to a few things. This is clearly the last season before there’s a big change, in the sense that Mbappe will leave after seven years.
There’s the fact that Luis Enrique has arrived. There’s no nonsense with Enrique, he’s the star and he’s always said that he just wanted a team where everybody played for each other, and not just superstars that play for themselves.
“There’s also the timing; all of that happening at a moment where there’s fewer issues, let’s put it that way, in the dressing room and less egos. So, no more Messi, no more Neymar, no more Veratti, who were the ones, as good as they were on, off the pitch, were a bit like the Dons of the dressing room, if you will.
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“I mean, Messi didn’t care that much, but still, it was Messi and now in the dressing room, you’ve got people who just get on with everyone, who tell jokes to everybody in different languages, whereas before you had clans, and it doesn’t seem that there are [any] clans anymore.
