The transfer window: Mbappé would like to stay in Paris, farewell Messi? – Transfers

The possible Mbappé-Messi crossover at PSG, Lille which retains Botman or Arsenal who would hold the replacement at Lacazette: find all the information of the football transfer window of this Monday, February 15, 2021.

Rumors are rife on the future of Kylian Mbappé, whose contract at Paris Saint-Germain expires in June 2022. As the daily recalled The team, if the French striker (22) does not extend before this summer, he will be sold. PSG should take advantage of its significant market value, which blithely exceeds € 100 million even with only one year of contract remaining. But according to the Catalan daily Sport, this scenario is now excluded by Mbappé. He and his entourage would have made the decision to postpone his departure from the capital to the summer of 2022. So by extending his contract so that Paris can sell it at a good price? Sport does not say it, but it goes without saying. Mbappé would have already made this choice in order to be able to concentrate on the sporting plan for the end of the season, but also because he does not believe that his mission in Paris has already been completed. This information from the Catalan newspaper, the day before the knockout stages of the Champions League between FC Barcelona and PSG, remain to be taken with a grain of salt.

Mbappé’s goal against Marseille on February 7 (0-2)

If Mbappé and Neymar stay, Messi will not come to Paris

In France too, we speculate on the rumors of transfers before the Franco-Spanish shock in C1. The newspaper The team devotes two pages of his edition to Lionel Messi, still at the end of his contract at Barça. Winks sports director Leonardo, Neymar or Angel Di Maria suggest that PSG will try their luck for the six-fold Ballon d’Or next summer. Even more so if Mbappé leaves. Or rather: only if Mbappé leaves. The team underlines the financial infeasibility of having Messi, Mbappé and Neymar in the same team, whose contract extension is in the works. The colossal emoluments of the Argentine striker (33) would require PSG to clean up its workforce. For his part, Messi would not want to hear about all this again before the start of the summer.

Alexandre Lacazette’s future darkens at Arsenal. The French center-forward remained on the bench during the great victory of the Gunners on Sunday against Leeds (4-2). The Daily Express reports that an extension of his lease, which ends in June 2022, is less and less likely. And Arsenal have already found their replacement for next season: it would be their compatriot Odsonne Edouard. The French hope international (23) has scored 15 goals in 21 league appearances with Celtic this season. Trained at PSG, he has been a hit in Scotland since his arrival in 2017. He too is at the end of his contract in 2022, and his price would not exceed € 17 million.

Recruited for € 8m last summer at Ajax Amsterdam, Sven Botman has everything a great deal for Lille. The 21-year-old central defender, called up for the Dutch selection, is an indisputable holder among the Mastiffs, leaders of Ligue 1 after 25 days. This Sunday, Canal+ argued that a departure from Lille for England was already completed, with a transfer to the tune of € 45 million. “Let those who propagate this rumor go into the wall alone since they do not take any information”, retorted the president of LOSC, Olivier Létang, on the airwaves of France Blue North. Botman’s agent Nikkie Bruinenberg called the news “fake news”. “I was asked not to line it up because it was sold,” quipped Christophe Galtier on Sunday after the LOSC draw against Brest (0-0). Liverpool and Tottenham had been mentioned as contenders for Botman as early as January 2021.

Essential with Reading in English D2, Omar Richards will continue his career at Bayern Munich, according to the German magazine Kicker and confirmed by image. The left side and international hope English (23 years) is at the end of his contract at Reading, 5th in the Championship. Bayern would have already signed a pre-contract, as with the French defender Dayot Upamecano whose transfer was formalized on Sunday.

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