Cayzac: "We will improve"

[Carefree 95]

Paris Saint-Germain president Alain Cayzac insists that the time is ripe for his club to show improvement under Paul Le Guen, following yet another home defeat at the weekend.

Alain Cayzac, PSG supremo, remains confident of improvement at the Parc des Princes, although he admitted that he is feeling the pressure of persistent home defeats.

"I slept badly on Sunday evening," he said, following his side's 2-0 collapse against Bordeaux. Nonteheless, he feels that improvement is inevitable under coach Paul le Guen and his squad.

"Our home defeats... are for tactical and technical reasons," he insisted.

"That's Paul's job to fix it - I will not interfere," he added, insisting that the club has more "maturity" than to accept or demand a resignation from the embattled coach.

Indeed, Cayzac reiterated his support for the manager, saying, "Le Guen is not a man without pedigree. He has titles, history - I rely on him."

Nonetheless, he made it clear that improvement is not only probable, but a must.

"We will do better than last year," he stated. "After we assure survival, we will rebuild. I hope that our foundations are laid soon."

[SportBoy333]

Just more of the same old same old over there.

[HalfManHalfAmazing]

When was the last time that PSG was relegated? It appears to be a VERY realistic possibility.

[T3tsuo]

The club never went down. If I am not mistaking, PSG is currently the club with the longest run in Ligue 1.

Anyway, Cayzac is not going to say anything else than "We will improve". I mean, it would really surprising of him to say "We're crap. We're going to go down"... especially with half of the season left.

It may be another bad year, but I don't think the club is going to go down.

We're only 3 poitns behind the 12th place (Monaco) and 6 points behind the 6th place (Saint-Etienne). The rankings are very tight and there are still 21 games to play. A lot can happen in 21 games.

[lovingthegreen]

They have never been relegated. In 1970-71, they were in the second division and earned promotion for 1971-72. Following that season, the club split (Paris FC and Paris Saint-Germain) and PSG played 1972-73 in the third season. After two straight promotions, the team played the 1974-75 season in the first league and has stayed there ever since.

The lowest PSG has ever finished in the top league was 16th in 1971-72 (four points above relegation under the old two-points-for-a-win system). Since the split, they have finished 15th three times (1974-75, 1987-88 and 2006-07).

<by the way, that information was retrieved from the English and French (translated to English by Google) versions of the wikipedia listings for PSG, so if anybody has any corrections, feel free to post them>