Coach keeps talking about potential but conservatism and unrest are holding his team back, and they are getting worse

By Luke Entwistle for Get French Football News

When Luis Enrique speaks, there is an increasing sense of separation between discourse and reality and it has never been more evident than a week in which PSG’s shortcomings were laid bare for all to see.

A misalignment between what a football manager says, what he does, and what he is achieving is far from uncommon but Luis Enrique explores the extremities of duplicity. “We’re not far from Arsenal,” he said after the humbling 2-0 defeat at the Emirates at the start of October; all those in the stadium and watching on TV likely arrived at a different, much less flattering conclusion as far as PSG are concerned.