Laurent Blanc's experience when he was still an active player cannot be doubted and with France he has even won the Euros and the World Cup. At club level, he has also won all the titles and he has also played for several big teams in Europe. However, his experience as a coach is not that good, but at least with PSG he always won so many titles in French competitions. The Champions League is not an easy thing for a coach like him and I think that is normal.
Apart from that, I think Al-Ittihad was quite right in choosing him as the new coach and I think he was very right in choosing to join Al-Ittihad. Previously, it was predicted that Stefano Pioli would become Al-Ittihad's coach, but it seems that a final agreement was not reached and therefore Al-Ittihad is lucky enough to still be able to get another European coach here.
Things are still interesting because just few days back we have news about Stefano Pioli is going to be new coach of the Al Ittihad, but Karim Benzema was not happy, so management have another U-turn and now bring Laurent Blanc as their new coach which is looking good but star power working like this is not good sign for the league and club because they needed to be stick with better option.
There is no doubt this combo is going to be better for them in this season because after winning title in 2023 their performance at the end of the 2024 was bad and things were not well organized for them due to internal issues so having this option hopefully will bring success for them with they will be able to have challenging situation for the top clubs which dominate in last season and having still enough strength to stay at this level for the next season.