‘What is the club’s standard?’ – Thierry Henry slams PSG after 3-0 loss at Monaco as Pochettino’s job hangs by thread
THIERRY HENRY has laid into PSG by questioning the “club’s standard” following a dismal defeat to Monaco.
The French side crashed to a 3-0 loss in the principality and were largely outplayed for most of the Ligue game.
And the Arsenal legend, 44, was extremely critical of the French giants, including how they seem to have lost their identity.
Speaking as a pundit on Prime Video Sport, Henry slammed PSG for accepting poor performances that wouldn’t be tolerated at other big clubs in Europe.
He said: “It’s not just the jersey. It’s been since the start of the season that PSG has been doing this. It’s often; it’s repetitive. What is the club’s standard? The jersey must transcend people. What is the standard.
“I played at Barça. If you don’t respect what you have to do, you leave, at Bayern, you leave, in the big clubs you leave, at PSG do you leave? Ten titles is huge, you must not trivialise it, but you must not do that.”
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Henry also slammed the disconnect at the club and compared it to before.
“There is a lack of connection between the club and the former PSG, the former supporters of the club, it is managed like a company and not like a club; you have to rediscover that connection with the community,” Henry added.
The bruising defeat has left boss Mauricio Pochettino’s job hanging by a thread.
The ex-Tottenham boss, who has been linked with a move to Manchester United, was also critical of his side after the final whistle.
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“I’m disappointed with how we started the game. This is unacceptable,” he told reporters.
“At this level of competition, you can’t start a match like we did. We can be happy to be 1-0 at half-time, because there could have been 2 or 3-0 already.
“In the second half, it was better, we created chances there, but our first half penalised us. I think it’s really not acceptable to start a game the way we did.
“It is clear that what happened in the Champions League did a lot of harm. The team clearly needs to break free from this. This prevents us from expressing our best performance.
“This international break should allow us to change the mentality and put us back in place. We have to come back to the game with this responsibility that exists when wearing this shirt.”