Interviewed this Saturday by the newspaper The Teamthe coach of Clermont Foot Pascal Gastien responded to the attack of his Saint-Etienne counterpart Pascal Dupraz who had criticized the Clermont game last February “who claims the precepts of Pep Guardiola” according to the coach of the Greens. A spade that the Auvergne technician did not like. “No, I don’t claim anything at all. He imagines all the time, he likes to get into other people’s heads. I like what Guardiola is doing as I like what Valeri Lobanovski was doing with kyiv thirty, forty years ago. It was extraordinary. I liked what Arrigo Sacchi was doing. Above all, I don’t compare myself to Guardiola and the game that all his teams are capable of playing. Never. We have convictions, a game project that we try to pass on to the players. It’s hard enough”explained the Clermont coach.
Gastien then returned to the attitude of Pascal Dupraz who is a good communicator according to him. “It doesn’t matter, but I know how it goes, I’ve been in football for forty years. I didn’t answer but I didn’t like what he said about the club, the environment, our stadium. He tried to destabilize us because he needed it at that time. He is a very good communicator. Between communicating well and telling nonsense or lies is another problem. I don’t want to argue with him.”said Pascal Gastien, currently 17th in Ligue 1 just ahead of ASSE Dupraz.
