There is reported to be a breaking concern in the PSG ranks over a lack of French used across the first-team squad and club in general.
Paris Saint Germain boasts one of the most diverse squads in all of European football but it is now said there is a knock-on effect with some of the cultural aspects of the team.
PSG now finds itself in a position where the majority language within the club is not French. It is reported that the language is now fading out in the dressing room. The report further claims that manager Mauricio Pochettino barely uses the French language and instead primarily addresses his players in his native Spanish or English.
While in England, Pochettino spoke with a translator throughout his time at Southampton. When Tottenham approached him, they underlined the importance of his communicating in English in public
Now, at PSG, some of his South American coaching staff are reported to have a good command of French. But, it is not the go-to language of the squad as a whole and the players now realize this.
A long-standing tradition of PSG hierarchy was to ensure new signings took up the learning of the language so as to converse with team-mates both socially and in a professional capacity. Though, this is said to have stopped.
Kylian Mbappe, playing in the capital of his home country, reportedly, makes an effort to speak Spanish or English. Fellow English speakers such as Idrissa Gueye and Abdou Diallo do likewise. Switching from their preferred tongue.
Neymar, Angel Di Maria, and Keylor Navas are said to never use French although they understand it.
New arrivals such as Lionel Messi and Nuno Mendes, however, have no knowledge of French and still no more familiar languages to converse.