Luis Enrique has tactical nous to handle PSG's treacherous managerial challenge

A new training centre, the latest state-of-the-art declaration of Paris Saint-Germain’s yearning for elite status among Europe’s superclubs, greeted the French champions’ new manager on Wednesday.

Luis Enrique, formerly of the Spain national team, Barcelona and Roma, enjoyed his inspection of its facilities, but can only hope that future activities there run more smoothly than they did for his official unveiling.

The ceremony, Enrique’s first official act of his two-year contract, was delayed for more than three hours as attendees waited for the club’s president, Nasser Al Khelaifi to arrive after his flight into Paris had been delayed.

It was an inauspicious start to a job that has become notoriously treacherous, its previous incumbent, Christophe Galtier having lasted a single season, and his predecessor, Mauricio Pochettino, barely 18 months.

They both won the Ligue 1 title shortly before being fired, but fell a long way short of capturing the prize Al Khelaifi craves most urgently, the Champions League title.

The training site at Poissy certainly looks a fitting launchpad for the next attempt at that dream, and, for the first time since Carlo Ancelotti was appointed coach 11 years ago – to coincide with Qatar Sports Investments taking full ownership of the club and a big-spending recruitment drive that has characterised the last decade – PSG have brought in a manager with previous experience of winning the European Cup. Luis Enrique guided Barcelona to it in 2015.

He returns to club football after six years away, most of them spent in charge of Spain, who reached a European championship semi-final and a Uefa Nations League final on his watch. In Qatar last December, however, the momentum petered out, with elimination