After the announcement Tuesday of the departure of Farid Benstiti, the PSG has already found a replacement in the person of Patrice Lair. A way to repeat the story because Lair had already taken over from Benstiti in 2010, but this time on the side of Olympique Lyonnais. Since Tuesday, it was part of the two names that circulated with that of Laurent Fournier in a shortlist of three candidates mentioned Tuesday by Benstiti in his interview to Progress.

When the name of Patrice Lair was released in the press on Tuesday morning, Patrice Lair said that his priority was to be able to get a job in a men's club. He had in particular been in contact with the club of Niort who finally chose another coach.

This situation meant that Patrice Lair was finally "obliged" to accept the Parisian proposal which proposed to him a project sufficiently ambitious and which corresponds to his will to find the grounds from which he had been away for two years. Officialized last night by PSG, the signature of Patrice Lair goes with a two-year contract (and an additional year optional).

The Lyon industry
Patrice Lair is now adviser to Louis Nicollin at Montpellier Hérault. A position of eminence grise alongside the President Héraultais and Jean-Louis Saez, the Montpellier coach. Montpellier is currently preparing the final of the Coupe de France this Sunday against Lyon, a competition that Patrice Lair won with the MHSC against these same Lyonnaises in 2006 and 2007 at the time when the competition was called the Challenge de France .

The first trophies of Patrice Lair, it is with Montpellier that it wins them: two Challenges of France (Coupe de France) in 2006 and 2007

But if his first moments of glory take place on the side of Montpellier, Patrice has forged a huge list of achievements on the side of Lyon. The OL with whom Patrice Lair has won everything, including the two European Cups won by OL in 2011 and 2012 with the famous triplet achieved by the Lyonnaises.

It is therefore on the side of Lyon that PSG continues to draw its revenue and resources to finally win titles. Because if the arrival of Benstiti and greater financial means have allowed the PSG to play in the big leagues, no title has been gleaned since the professionalization of the club. The choice of Patrice Lair reflects this desire to seek a coach who has already experienced victory and trophies combined with a mentality of "winner" regularly put forward by Patrice Lair himself in his statements and analyzes.

Patrice Lair in 2012 during the second title of OL in the Champions League. Will he win with PSG?

Behind the hiring of Patrice Lair, we also see that the club is trying to highlight the external signs of this new cycle announced in the capital. In the team, Patrice Lair talks about the arrival of a sports director who would be in charge of recruitment or the desire to bring out players from youth teams. Recipes that were already germinating and discussed in recent months by Farid Benstiti but that probably needed a second wind to be put into practice.

Titles and OL as an obsession
As Patrice Lair points out, the judgment on his work will be on the titles and the ability of the Parisian team to close the gap that separates him from Olympique Lyonnais in the results but also in terms of the game, and out of attacks-defenses which often resemble the meetings between OL and PSG.

An issue that is halfway between work on the ground but also to get this "state of mind of winning" to use the words of Kenza Dali. But before even planning on the next season, the question for Patrice Lair is to know what elements he can keep in the workforce in Paris, in which the initial hints seem many.

Shirley Cruz, Caroline Seger or Jessica Houara d'Hommeux, essential PSG players who could leave the capital this summer.

A summer period that will inevitably be decisive, especially for the championship. We remember that the late arrival of several players (Erika, Christiane, Lisa Dahlkvist) had delayed their integration into the workforce and partially explained some poor performance early in the season, especially against Montpellier and OL.

So many challenges that should "enthuse" Patrice Lair, who says he is constantly looking for new challenges. And why not garnish the trophy cabinet of PSG remained closed since 2010 and a Coupe de France remains the only title won by the club.