Mauricio Pochettino commanded the paris st germain heading for their tenth league title after losing the crown to Lille last season, but the expectations surrounding the galactic squad that had been assembled were much higher. The early elimination in the Champions League, added to the exit from the Coupe de France, put the Argentine coach at the starting gate and generated a climate of deep change for the next season.
the french newspaper The Parisienwho in the last few hours had warned that the Kylian Mbappe’s contract renewal slowly begins to lean towards the side of the Parisian team, revealed what are the “priority projects” for the capital club in the face of what lies ahead in 2022/23.
President Nasser Al-Khelaïfi is preparing changes that “could be significant” because of their “magnitude” journalists Sebastián Nieto and Benoit Lallement clarified. The focus is placed on four pillars: players to be signedthe stars that will leave the clubthe coach who will be in charge of the squad and the sports directora position held by the Brazilian Leonardo for several years.
In this context, the hours for bag they seem to be counted: Zinedine Zidane is the top priority and the board is ready to “open the doors wide for him”. Although on the other side there has not yet been a movement that would make us believe that Zizou he is interested in PSG and the information indicates that will wait until the end of the World Cup in Qatar in December to make a decision on his career, speculating on the possibility of replacing Didier Deschamps. The former Cannes and Girondins de Bordeaux footballer would understand that accepting a deal with a club would force him to spend at least two years on that substitute bench, for which he would lose the new process of the French team.
The arrows from the bench, then, are redirected to three other names that in recent weeks have already begun to appear on Pochettino’s back. Anthony Conte (today in Tottenham), Joachim Low (historic DT of the German team) and Thiago Mottatoday DT of Italy’s Spezia but who was an emblematic figure at the beginning of the process of the Qataris in Paris.
This assumes that the 50-year-old Argentine coach, who took command of the ship in January 2021 and would have an important termination clause (it would amount to 15 million euros), he would leave the club despite his “good relationship” with Kylian Mbappé. And this detail is not minor because the club tries to seduce the young star with a revolutionary plan for the coming seasons in order to beat Real Madrid in the fight to sign him, taking into account that his contract ends in the middle of the season.
But the reform process does not end at that limit; he will also move to campus. The Parisien mention that there is a group of “untouchable players” including Marco Verratti, Marquinhos, Presnel Kimpembe and goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma.
Regardless of current year of contract that Lionel Messi still has and that the obsession to retain Mbappé is obvious, the first leadership question is about the steps to follow with Neymar. PSG made the Brazilian the most expensive footballer in history when he paid 222 million euros for his record in 2017, but “a reasonable offer from another club” to buy it will be studied by the board. “One thing is certain: the patience of the Qataris with the former Barça player has come to an end”French journalists assured. “I’ll stay, I’ve been here for three years… either they stop or they have to find more air”Neymar had declared, between joking and defiant, in the face of criticism from the tribune.
The list of “untouchables” also leaves another certainty: Donnarumma will begin to own the bow in the board’s plan after rotating throughout the season with Keylor Navas, something that did not satisfy either of the two archers. Therefore, the Costa Rican will be one of the surnames that will make up the list of players who will leave the ship together with the Argentines Mauro Icardi and Angel Di Maria, who ends his contract in the middle of the year and has several polls on the table. To them we will have to add the French Layvin Kurzawa Y Colin Dagba.
The report of the French newspaper does not emphasize the situation of the other Argentine on the campus, Leandro Paredes. However, for weeks your name appears on different lists of possible departures from PSG while recovering from operation that would only allow him to have activity in June. The key in this story is called Paul Pogbawho will leave Manchester United and told his intimates his preference for the club from the French capital, according to the Catalan newspaper Sports world. “The first objective is to incorporate in the center of the field, a deficit sector this season”clarified The Parisien positioning the last piece of this puzzle that would leave the “5” of the Argentine team out of PSG.
The head of the structure is also in doubt, since the future of the sports director Leonardo “is still in the air” while the entity is already thinking about winning the first Champions League in its history in 2023. The plan is already underway…
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