Messi’s PSG hired a new nutritionist and surprised with an immediate disqualification

Paris Saint Germain is not having its best days. The French club has an increasingly infamous internal ego war that contrasts with the great start to the season at a sporting level. The discussion between Mbappé Y Neymar for a penalty that the Brazilian finally hit generates a certain climate of tension that destabilizes a team in need of success in Champions League.

To tidy up the club, PSG management hired the technical director Christophe Galtier. The Frenchman, a few days into his administration, made strong decisions. Before there were the “rules of coexistence”. And then, a purge of heavy players to reduce the squad.

But Galtier and Luis Campos, PSG sporting director, made another important decision a few days after his arrival: hire a full-time nutritionist for the first team. Oddly, according to the French newspaper The Parisiansthe club had a professional who looked after all areas. And someone who works exclusively for the first team was missing.

With the signing of the Spanish expert, PSG stars will have to get used to the new bans. “The new nutritionist’s first decision was to eliminate Coca-Cola and iced tea from mealstwo drinks that are not very compatible with high-level sports “, describes the Gallic site. we will have to say goodbye to these assumptions.

The nutritionist is a “former footballer” who has become a professional in this field. Also, second The Parisianshe is “obsessed with the competitiveness of the first team” and is one of Luis Campos’ great bets to restructure Paris Saint Germain.

In this way it is known that the ban on sugary drinks for first team players will be both in the morning meals and in the lunches that will take place daily at the PSG facilities.

But the question that arises is the following: why is this decision being made only now? The explanation is almost obvious. Coca-Cola has been an official partner of PSG for 22 years and the contract with this company was renewed last year until 2024.

The other novelty established by the new sporting director is the obligation that the dressing room be once again reserved for the players. The 57-year-old Portuguese wants this to return to being a “sanctuary” for the players and that the employees of the Parisian club do not have access as they did before his arrival.

The cold war between Neymar and Mbappé

War declared between Neymar Y Kylian Mbappé turn on the alarms. After the missed penalty by the Frenchman and the one made by the Brazilian in the 5-2 victory against Montpellier on Saturday, the social networks echoed a possible confrontation that already worries the managers of the most powerful club in France.

Over the weekend, for the second round of Ligue 1, Mbappé missed the first penalty of the match but still transformed the team’s fourth goal, but did not celebrate. The question, then, remained in the air: was the annoyance at his mistake still lasting or was there something else?

At the Parc des Princes, the French striker criticized Vitinha for not giving him a pass and arguing with the Brazilian crack to see who executed the second penalty of the match, which was eventually hit (and hit) by Neymar.

The problem continued on social media, where the maximum tension between the two was discovered when several Twitter users criticized PSG’s decision to make Mbappé the “owner” of the club, comments to which the Brazilian gave “like” .

Mbappé’s new contract: the problem

In 2017, when PSG spent 222 million euros on Barcelona, ​​Neymar became the most expensive footballer in the world. However, this year it was Mbappé who signed a contract that made him the cornerstone of a team that has had the best footballer on the planet, Messi, since last year.

As is well known, when the Frenchman signed in May and ruled out the interesting proposal from Real Madrid, he did so to be “the cornerstone of the project and the cog from which the others must work” at PSG.

Neymar, of course, would not agree with this, nor Messi, who in all his teams opted to be one of the group (and it did not go badly).

Even without Mbappé on the first date against Clermont, both Messi and Neymar shared the spotlight and understood each other perfectly to lead the team to victory. In the second game, already with Mbappé on the pitch, Neymar was once again the protagonist and made a better match than his teammate.

Furthermore, the environment of the Brazilian star would be dissatisfied with the club for giving more importance to Mbappé in the squad, including the issue of taking charge of penalties in the squad.

“The order of selection of the players has been defined for this match. Kylian kicked first and it was logical that Neymar would have done so later. We will see in the future,” Galtier warned after the win.

In this sense, it seems logical that the chosen one was the one who was proclaimed best player in the French league, being its top scorer (28 goals), and ended up renewing the contract with the champions.

Last season, meanwhile, Neymar turned three of four of his 13 goals during another season in which he missed several games due to injury. While Messi has been criticized for being more present in the Argentine national team – where he won his first title during the Copa América – than in the club.

While any team would like to have Paris Saint Germain’s dream attack (Messi, Neymar – captains of Argentina and Brazil respectively – and Mbappé), ego and division could wreak havoc on that trident at the end of the season. .