Coach confirms Messi’s departure from PSG – 01/06/2023 – Sport

PSG coach Christophe Galtier said on Thursday (1st) that the club’s next match will be “Lionel Messi’s last game at the Parc des Princes”. The team faces Clermont, in the last round of the French championship.

With that, the coach confirmed that the best player in the world is about to leave Paris Saint-Germain.

Saturday (3) “is his last game at the Parc des Princes. I am confident that he will be received in the best way”, said the coach about Messi, who has already received boos from his supporters several times.

Messi will leave PSG after two seasons. His future could be in Barcelona, ​​Saudi Arabia or Inter Miami.

Of his legacy over his two seasons at PSG, “a lot of things have been said about Leo, you’ve analyzed him a lot,” Galtier told reporters at a news conference.

He said he considered the criticism of the Argentine “not at all justified”.

According to Galtier’s calculations, Messi, with “35 years and a season with a World Cup in between”, has statistics of “21 goals and 22 assists”. According to the Transfermarkt website, there are 20. “That means he was decisive 43 times”, completed the coach.

In charge since 2022, Galtier considers it a “privilege” to have been able to “manage the best player in the history of football”.

“I won’t talk about the first season, he had to adapt, it was the first time he left Barcelona. But this year he has been an important element, always available, always present in training”, concluded the coach.