Christophe Galtier will not be doing his second year of coaching contract with Paris Saint-Germain, we learned on Monday from a source close to the negotiations confirming information from several media. Unsurprisingly, the 56-year-old technician will not complete his contract despite winning the eleventh French championship title, as L’Equipe announced on Saturday. Contacted by AFP, his lawyer declined to comment.
Asked about the subject on Saturday after the defeat against Clermont (3-2) on the 38th and last day of the season, the technician said he had an appointment with his leaders at the start of the week. “We will then see what decisions the management will take”, he added, a few minutes after being booed by part of the Parc des Princes during the celebrations for the 11th Parisian title.
Unsatisfactory second half of the season
Recruited last summer by football adviser Luis Campos, with whom he had already worked in Lille, Galtier is paying for his team’s second half of the season. Because after a very successful start, without the slightest defeat, the game of his PSG frayed and the club suffered, in all competitions, ten defeats in 2023, notably failing in the 1/8 finals of the Coupe de France and, above all, the Champions League, the main objective.
Galtier has repeatedly pointed to the influence of the calendar, with the World Cup organized in the middle of the season and after which his team did not play as well. “The fair analysis, which you don’t want to do, is that there was a PSG before the World Cup, and a PSG post-World Cup, with very important players who for some have not played since. 16, 17 matches”, he underlined the evening of the coronation of champion, in Strasbourg during the 37th day, alluding in particular to Neymar, injured since February.