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My child seems more patient than you, which says it all about your reaction. You are 7/8th in a championship where 6 teams have more than 300/350 millions euros budgets. There are 3 or 4 layers in the Premier League. You are the first or second team in the second wagon. That's where you belong considering your budget and it's a beautiful performance. You could even be 12th and be happy with that. That's where your budget is (let's get real, that's what matters the most in football of today). If I were a Leicester fan I would wait and see. Puel is a very good coach and I would love to welcome him at PSG (not lying, I prefer him over big names in my club after I saw what he did in France). You don't know the man, clearly. The guy could change the dimension of your club if the supporters and the board give him the time to really work.

Hmmmm... Pascal sounds French. Salut à toi mon vieux. It's the same everywhere. Even when the results are good we have problems. Some people have a hard time to enjoy a simple 1-0. I'm a PSG fan since the end of the Canal+ era. I had to support my team during the worst moments of the club (Colony Capital, hools, deaths inside and outside the stadium, relegation zone, etc.). Our team is now on the top of the mountain in Europe statistically speaking. We often win by a margin of 2 to 5 goals. A lot of stars are in town, we should be very happy considering the past. Yet, you will always find half of the fanbase criticising the coach for this or that. Radio hosts are only debating about our weaknesses when we win 4 to 8-0 (I think it's crazy). Same for the fans. Actually, half of our fanbase hates Unai Emery. They tend to forget that we've never had such results before (even in 96/97). We are breaking record after record. Emery man lacks of charisma and is boring in the country of Napoleon and De Gaulle. For some French, it's a sin! The remontada didn't help (I personnally think that things like that can happen in football and that's why we love it). Too bad for him as I think he his our best coach since decades... Ancelotti doesn't even come close. Unai is doing a fantastic job at PSG and many idiots inside our fanbase can't aknowledge it. All the praises go to the players when we win. All the hate goes to Emery when we lose. That's how it is today. The fanbase of Leicester is more local and I think they are less demanding considering the difference in terms of financial investment. Still, I see that this kind of things happens in any club. At some point, the coach is targeted for what the players or the board fail to do or can't do. So don't be surprised if the wind turns and the fanbase goes crazy after Puel. Some people will think: "if the football is boring, it's obviously because the coach himself is boring" (even if there is no link whatsoever between the two things, that's what a lot of people deeply thought during crisis in France and Southampton, so... it must repeat somewhere else).

As soon as the wind turns for your team (and it will happen like for any team), people will hate Puel. He is no Mourinho. He won't hide himself behind fake dramas. So people will hate him and say that he has boring. That's how it is today in any industrial country. Some people can't even understand that a good manager is someone with a clear strategy, clear tactics, a good relationship with the players, a good understanding of the structure of the club, etc. They can only see "charisma" through punchlines in front of the media. As someone who loves football, I follow Leicester only for Puel. The man deserves that. I then discovered a great fanbase, a great stadium and a great history. I'll never become a fan of Leicester City as I deeply think that football is local... and I am from Paris. But I'm beginning to love Leicester City as a club that is worth my attention. Many thanks!

Thanks. I wrote the opposite. Puel does like fresh players.

Hello people, I'm French, not a Leicester City fan - sorry- but thanks to Puel I'm following your team. Some informations from France (I mainly follow Ligue 1 and I spoke with Puel in two occasions): 1. Puel is a very calm person. Even if he were fluent in english, he would be very calm and quiet. Some people hate him for that as football today is more about idiocy than football. Some of your fans will hate him for that. It's quite normal in our era. That's how he speaks in French: 2. Puel is passionate. Truly passionate. He doesn't care much about the media. Have a look at him when someone from your team scores and you will understand how he really is. 3. Puel loves discipline. He is disciplined towards himself and wants discipline from players. He built his own career around discipline (when he was a player at Monaco, it was his main quality). It's not only about yelling against players. Puel creates structures inside the club to make the players more disciplined and professional. 4. Puel can show a lot of love toward a player (it was the case with Ben Arfa and will certainly be the case with Mahrez). Yet, there are no free-pass for those players. 5. Puel is one of most respected French technician. Technicians from the French Federation of Football know he is one of the best technician in France right now. Actually, if he was not that quiet, he could have been the French national coach for the World Cup (that's what people say in football circles... sadly, not in the media). 6. Puel is known in France to take an average team with some potential and make it a lot better: Lille/ Nice/ Monaco (even if Monaco was a fairly big club at the time). 7. In big clubs he can struggle. With Lyon he struggled a lot. He spent 124 million euros in two transfer windows (which was a lot at the time) and still struggled. Lyon was like the PSG of today (in France) and he couldn't win the league. He is hated in Lyon for that. That semi in UCL was not that big for Lyon supporters. 8. Puel is stubborn. More than Wenger (I think it's natural for you to compare with another French coach, so... I'm doing it). If the board doesn't follow him, he can stop at the end of the season (he never abandons his teams like that, which I think is a good point). 9. Puel is a very hard worker. He dedicates his free time to football. 10. Puel is very demanding towards himself. It's not obvious like that, but he is physically a beast. You will often see him running with the players for kilometers or even playing football with them. He doesn't like being a spectator during the trainings. 11. Puel doesn't care about age. He will put the best player on the pitch. If this player is 16 years old, so be it. He gives many chances to young players. 12. Puel does like fresh players. Turn-over is very important for him (it's even more important in England because of the Boxing Day). 13. Puel loves trying new players. He can buy a lot of small players and make them good (or good enough to play league games). He takes some calculated risks and can sometimes win (or lose). 14. In terms of tactics, Puel likes possession. He can also do a kind of Catenaccio à la Française (same as Raniery), when he doesn't have the quality in his team. I think he is the best French coach right now (above Zidane as Zidane is managing egos). A lot of French people won't aknowledge it. I'm a PSG fan since decades. I've never been a fan of his teams. Still, I can aknowledge the quality he brings to his teams. I think Puel is the best French coach. P.S: Sorry for my poor english. I'm doing my best.