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Thanks to an unpleasant combination of Financial Fair Play fears, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the collapse of the lucrative Mediapro TV contract, Paris Saint-Germain is suddenly in no position to spend money like Augustus Gloop at Cadbury. World.
Despite having deeper pockets than the Mariana Trench, a club funded – its critics would say founded – by the Qatari royal family is suddenly under pressure to control its spending.
Fortunately, the Ligue 1 champions have one of the most prosperous academies in European football to lean on.
The downside, however, is that their most promising youngsters don’t tend to stick around long.
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In recent years, Kingsley Coman, Matteo Guendouzi, Mike Maignan, Ferland Mendy, Christopher Nkunku, Jonathan Ikone, Odsonne Edouard, Moussa Diaby, Moussa Dembele and Tanguy Kouassi have moved away from the Park of Princes.
And despite making his way into the first-team image, making 21 Ligue 1 appearances this season, highly-rated left-back Mitchel Bakker is clearly unhappy about his suddenly reduced role in PSG’s image.
“(Mauricio) Pochettino makes decisions and sticks to certain people. I play less, ”Bakker tells Voetbal Primeur, living up to the stereotype of the Frankish Dutch.
“I still have a few months in Paris before the transfer market opens. Then we will see. ”
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According to L’Equipe, the 20-year-old left training camp in February after being dropped by a 4-0 defeat of Dijon.
Clearly, a player who appeared regularly under Thomas Tuchel is not loving life under his Argentine replacement.
Bakker has started only one of the last ten league games and was omitted in both stages of that titanic European fight with Barcelona.
Celtic failed with a loan offer for Bakker, 20, in September (Sky Sports). And, with Diego Laxalt’s loan deal coming to an end in a matter of weeks, the Hoops will be on the market looking for a replacement.
One would think that Bakker, an ambitious and confident player with an appetite for first-team football, would be deeply tempted by the prospect of swapping Paris for Glasgow this time.
After all, it worked out quite well for Dembele and Edouard.
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