Foot – Market – PSG
According to L’Equipe journalist Arnaud Hermant, PSG has changed all of its strategies, particularly in the case of young players, because of the signatures of Neymar and Kylian Mbappé.
In the summer of 2017, the Paris Saint Germain broke his piggy bank to bring Neymar and Kylian Mbappé in the capital. Two football stars recruited to compete with the biggest clubs in the Champions League race. Two seasons later, in the summer of 2019, the PSG announced the return of Leonardo to the post of sports director. And the Brazilian had to face difficult choices shortly after his arrival. Five young players from the capital’s club have left Paris. Moussa Diaby, Christopher Sheep, Stanley Nsoki, Arthur Zagre and Timothy Weah were all pushed out by the management of the PSG. And for the reporter from The team Arnaud Hermant, it’s because of the signatures of Neymar and of Mbappé that Paris has changed its strategies.
“With Neymar and Mbappé, PSG has entered a new logic”
« Evolution does not date from yesterday. There was the Kingsley Coman case with a dispute between Laurent Blanc and Olivier Létang. This is an example that has shown that PSG trains players but does not know how to offer them a first team perspective. “, valued Arnaud Hernant at the microphoneEurope 1. “I know things that have come up in recent years: the feeling of being treated worse than young foreigners. For example Thilo Kehrer. Some considered themselves less well regarded than a Kehrer who had not necessarily done much more than they did when arriving from Schalke. There is this somewhat new problem at PSG with regard to young people: what can we offer them? You have Kimpembe but who was not an indisputable holder either. Generally, the pair was Silva-Marquinhos. Those who left, perhaps they could have entered a turnover. Except that with Neymar and Mbappé, PSG has entered a new logic. PSG said that to balance the accounts it was necessary to sell players. Selling players not necessarily indisputable … but with a certain value. Last year they sold Nkunku and Diaby for more than ten million euros each time. This helped balance the accounts. Today, PSG is also a club that trains players to sell them in order to balance the accounts. The concern is that when he wants to keep one, he leaves … and that’s more annoying! »
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