Galtier, who left PSG's Ligue 1 opponents Nice final month, has signed a -year deal on the Parc des Princes with the French champions confirming the appointment rapidly after saying Pochettino's departure.
"Yes, I am emotional, sure I am proud," Galtier stated at a press conference inside the French capital. "I realise complete nicely the responsibility that has been given to me but I actually have organized for this. I would not have standard this task if I did not assume I turned into able to it."
Galtier may not be as famous the world over as a number of the alternative names who have been related with the PSG job, most considerably Zinedine Zidane, however he has an excellent recognition in France where he won the Ligue 1 title with Lille closing year. He insisted he was now not frightened of making his mark on a PSG dressing room complete of big name names even past Kylian Mbappe, Lionel Messi and Neymar.
"It is a privilege to have a dressing room complete of global-elegance gamers," he stated. "You have to speak with them but additionally impose yourself. There may be no compromises. We need to have a not unusual venture but there'll not be a revolution. I am going to look at and listen, and I recognize I can have the backing of the management if there may be a participant who doesn't fall in line with the undertaking of the club."
PSG's move for Galtier were an open mystery for numerous weeks and club president Nasser al-Khelaifi disregarded any guidelines he had to begin with desired to appoint Zinedine Zidane.
"We never spoke to Zidane. I love him as a player and as a train however for all of the admire I even have for him we by no means spoke with him," Khelaifi said. "Christophe Galtier changed into constantly the primary desire for us. He is right here and I wish that is the remaining query on the matter."
Galtier is PSG's 7th educate for the reason that Qatari takeover of the membership in 2011 and could be hoping to come to be the primary to supply fulfillment inside the Champions League. The 55-12 months-antique has evolved a recognition because the leading train in the French membership sport during the last decade. He loved eight a hit years at Saint-Etienne, wherein he received the League Cup in 2013, before a four-12 months stint at Lille turned into crowned with the Ligue 1 title in 2021, once they pipped PSG.
He left Lille inside the wake of that fulfillment and joined bold Nice, who are owned with the aid of Ineos, the group chaired through British billionaire Jim Ratcliffe. Galtier led Nice to fifth area in Ligue 1 last season in addition to to the French Cup final, which they lost to Nantes. The former Portsmouth assistant manager previously labored with Luis Campos, the Portuguese amazing scout who was recently named as PSG's soccer advisor and who built the Lille group that received the league below Galtier.
