Pierre Ménès admits he was wrong about Zidane and Luis Enrique's PSG

Pierre Ménès admits without hesitation: he “missed” Zinédine Zidane at the start of the future France manager’s career. It was in his column Face à Pierrot that the former journalist made this confession.

“At Cannes, I found him heavy and lazy,” Ménès acknowledges, despite never hiding his reservations about the man off the pitch. He had recently described Zidane’s public speaking as a player as “the worst voice in the history of humanity”.

The self-criticism doesn’t stop there. The ex-Canal Football Club pundit also admits to underestimating Paris Saint-Germain under Luis Enrique, a two-time Champions League winner. “I would never have imagined that Luis Enrique’s PSG would become such a winning machine,” he concedes.

Ménès treats these misjudgments as inherent to the exercise of real-time sports commentary. “The very essence of my channel is to do post-match analysis, so you’re always working with a snapshot of that moment in time. Either you take no risks and this channel has no interest, or you take risks, and there we go… When I’m wrong, I have no problem saying it, and when I’m right, I have no problem saying it,” he concludes.