When a world class guard speaks to defend a colleague, we listen. But when he took the opportunity to settle his accounts with a former coach, it becomes tasty.
The decision caused a stir this summer. Putting out Gianluigi Donnarumma, hero of the historic triplet of PSG, to replace it with a more comfortable profile at the foot, was a strong choice on the part of Luis Enrique. A choice that did not fail to make react. And the latest reaction to date is that of another big name in the post, who knows the Spanish coach very well: David de Gea.
Of Gea destroys the choice of Luis Enrique with Donnarumma
In an interview with the monthly So
Footthe former Manchester United goalkeeper does not go there by four paths. For him, the management of the Donnarumma case is an aberration. “It doesn't make sense … If Paris won the Champions League, it's largely thanks to it”, He lets go, before criticizing this modern obsession for the game on the foot.
“We sometimes forget that the goalkeeper must above all stop the shots. »» A direct charge against Luis Enrique's play philosophy.
This criticism is not innocent. De GEA takes the opportunity to settle his own accounts. He recalls how the arrival of Luis Enrique at the head of the Spanish selection ended his status as an indisputable holder. “He arrived and looked for another goalkeeper style, point”, he explains, without hiding his bitterness. For Gea, the Donnarumma affair is a copy and paste of his own story: a fixed ideas coach who does not hesitate to dismiss a pure talent in the name of a system.
The solidarity of the guards … and the banished
Behind the defense of his Italian colleague, it is indeed a acerbic criticism of the man Luis Enrique who takes shape. Of gea describedt “a world where there are quite special people, to whom we give a lot of power in clubs …”. A barely veiled way of portraying a dogmatic and all-powerful coach.
This outing has what to make you smile. Donnarumma, now fulfilled in Manchester City under the orders of Pep Guardiola, has undoubtedly already turned the Parisian page. But this mark of support, coming from a goalkeeper who has experienced the same thing, must please him. Luis Enrique, he will no doubt appreciate less. It is the solidarity of the “banished” which is expressed. And she recalls that in football, the old grudges never really go out.
