A little surprise as an appetizer. To get a few messages across and probably save his coach a few questions on the winter transfer window, Leonardo invited himself as a preamble to Thomas Tuchel's press conference on Friday, January 31 at the Camp des Loges. Faced with an audience devoid of pens, microphones and cameras, the PSG sports director answered the question that all the journalists present had on the tip of their tongue. All dressed in black and smiling, he assured that Cavani would no longer argue with anyone. "He is available for tomorrow's meeting (opposite Montpellier) ," he revealed, thus closing the Paris transfer window. Nothing more will happen. The idea of the transfer window was to keep a group. This group has demonstrated that it is competitive, complete, well, it will stay like that! "
Kurzawa "has its place in the team"
The same goes for Layvin Kurzawa who, after being on the verge of joining Juventus Turin, will ultimately be Parisian until the end of his contract next June. The Brazilian sports director nevertheless agreed that everything was almost complete for his side since "Layvin, De Sciglio and Juventus had found an agreement". If he hinted that it was on the side of Juve that it got stuck at the last moment, Leonardo said he was nevertheless "happy" to keep his left side. "He played a lot of games, 16 I think," he said. "That means that boy has his place on the team. "
Closing the winter transfer window a few hours before the deadline therefore allows PSG to focus on other files, possible extensions of Thiago Silva or Thomas Meunier or the signing of the first pro contracts of Tanguy Kouassi or Adil Aouchiche. If he assured that the relationship with the two young hopefuls and their entourage was positive, the Brazilian nevertheless stressed that now "the priority was the sportsman". "The matches, the matches, the matches, Leonardo had fun. We already have a Coupe de France final to play, a knockout round for the Champions League (February 18 in Dortmund) … That's what we're going to focus on. "
