No I don't know him personally. Really, none of us know any of the people we talk about on here personally or any of the clubs we talk about intimately so what is the point of any of our discussions?
The thing with France Football is not based on some misplaced quotes, he literally turned down the chance to be on the country's standby list.
The quotes coming out from PSG may indeed be biased, true. Though I find it slightly suspicious that he would turn down offers from his hometown club, a now moneybags club, who regularly win trophies and compete in the CL.
Also, can we please please stop with this appeal to authority as reasons for shutting down conversation? Yes, Poch is a great manager, I love him, but he is not perfect. He signed Pablo Osvaldo, who he managed at Espanyol, for a pretty hefty fee at the time for a club of Southampton's finances and spent 2 years making trouble, getting suspended, playing 13 times and scoring 3 before getting his contract terminated. He also got fined one of his loans during those 2 years for not turning up to train for a few days. We also currently have Janssen languishing in the reserves and with Poch making it clear that this £17 million striker is not in his plans at all, potentially for attitude problems in training.
Ferguson was famed for signing players with the personality he wanted and yet still had Tevez moving to City, Heinze trying to force a move to Liverpool, Keane eviscerating his own teammates on MUTV. He signed the likes of Obertan and Bebe. Simply appealing to authority is not a valid argument.
And no, I'm not saying at all that I know more about football than Poch or Ferguson.
