Julien Laurent

And I think Luis Enriquez said that after the win against Monaco, the qualification against Monaco.

But the Ruiz absence is a big, big one.

Yeah, I think Luis Enrique today, I think probably for the first time, kind of hinted into it.

He said, listen, we had... When you mentioned the Champions League final, by the way, after that we had an international break, remember, with the Nations League.

So a lot of the PSG players then went with the national team, then went to the US for the Club World Cup, then had a week off, and then went straight into the European Super Cup against Spurs in Bergamo, or in Oudiné, and that was it.

And after that...

You go along and you try to manage the minutes and the fitness of each player and you lose players to injury.

I don't think it's an excuse.

It's just the reality.

It's the same for Chelsea.

I think you saw City with injuries because they went not as far but still quite far.

And I think that was probably a bit of a consequence of the summer that they had, really, all of them.

And that's the problem.

And when you know how much...

fitness is to this PSG team because they need the intensity.

They need to be outrunning you and outpressing you.

If you don't have the fitness side of it, it's obviously more difficult.

God, I absolutely despise that competition.

Over two legs.

I think it's a very fascinating one because we mentioned De Jong and Riley Sobh, but Bruno Guimaraes won't be back either for Newcastle.