An official delegation from Al-Hilal Saudi Club is visiting the French capital, Paris, this weekend, in order to attract Paris Saint-Germain midfielder Marco Verratti, who expressed his desire to leave to his club officials during the current summer Mercato.
The French newspaper L’Equipe said, “The leaders of the Saudi Al-Hilal club are in Paris to try to persuade Marco Verratti to join the ranks of the team this summer, as there are three years left until the end of his current contract with Saint-Germain.”
This is not the first or last time that Al-Hilal Saudi club officials have discussed with new players in the French capital, Paris, where they made a previous visit to discuss with Belgium striker Romelu Lukaku, who rejected the idea, preferring to continue with Italian Inter Milan for a new season after the end of his loan from Chelsea.
revealed L’Equipe newspaper About the representatives of the Saudi club talking about Marco Verratti this time.
The name of the 30-year-old Italian international circulated in the corridors of Al-Hilal club several weeks ago, and the last offer that was offered to him amounted to 50 million euros per season, according to the news published on May 22.
No official offer has been made yet to buy Marco Verratti, but Al Hilal sent a strong delegation this time, according to L’Equipe’s description, to make the deal as soon as possible.
L’Equipe added, “Al-Hilal was restored with trusted people to try to reach a final result with Verratti, and the deal will be managed by officials from the club and not the government agencies responsible for including world stars in Saudi clubs, unlike other transfers.”
Verratti talked about leaving with Mbappe
L’Equipe confirmed Marco Verratti spoke personally with Paris Saint-Germain star and top scorer in the past five seasons, Kylian Mbappe, about his intention to leave the club, during their dinner at a restaurant in Cannes, France.
Verratti made it clear during his conversation with Mbappe that it would be difficult to leave due to Paris’s intransigence in his financial demands.
However, PSG sporting director Luis Campos has shown he is open to the possibility of Verratti leaving, while club president Nasser Al-Khelaifi is struggling to come to terms with the loss of an element he considers one of his team’s best players.
The arrival of Spanish coach Luis Enrique to train Paris may lead to the relaunch of the Euro 2020 champion’s career in Paris, given his previous expression of his admiration for Verratti’s potential in 2015 during his training period with Barcelona.
In order to persuade Verratti to abandon his home in Paris, in which he stayed for 12 years, the crescent envoys must be very convincing, as they did recently with the Portuguese Ruben Neves, who came with an amount exceeding 50 million euros from Wolverhampton, and the Senegalese Calido Coulibaly, who also joined the blue wave from Chelsea, about 24 million euros.
2023-06-27 23:13:48
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