PSG and the Spanish press, a great love story… In any case, on the side of our Iberian colleagues. Not sure that the feelings are shared by the club of the French capital. Not to mention the many television and radio programs which regularly (very) mention the news of the champions of France, the main Spanish sports newspapers take pleasure in multiplying the information and other more or less credible rumors. The proof this Saturday, with the Madrid newspaper ASwho "teaches us" that "Operation Mbappé (at Real Madrid) is hot". A closer look, not much hot in fact ... We rely on the statements of a mysterious agent, who explains that the world champion would have been angry with the idea, peddled here and there these last days, according to which the PSG will refuse all the offers concerning him, even if it means letting him go free in 2022. Idea which seems already far-fetched: one can hardly imagine Paris making a cross on a transfer around 200 M € if Leonardo did not manage to convince the former Monegasque to extend by the summer of 2021…
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Whatever, AS makes it its front page, slipping that Real is still aiming to recruit the Parisian in ... 2021, knowing that a transfer in 2020 seems excluded. All while confirming that, for Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, THE priority of priorities is to extend it. It is less difficult to believe that.
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The Catalan press is not to be outdone. And this Saturday, it is SPORT that goes there from its headline shock in One: "Neymar will ask to leave PSG upon his arrival in Paris". In fact, it is simply explained in the article in question that Barça will only go on the offensive if Neymar rejects the Paris extension offer and asks to leave when he returns from Brazil, where he is currently in confinement. All before adding that Samuel Umtiti, Ousmane Dembele, Antoine Griezmann, Philippe Coutinho, Nelson Semedo and Ivan Rakitic appeal to Leonardo with a view to a possible barter. One thing is certain for SPORT : "There is no doubt that Neymar will be Barça's priority at the opening of the transfer window."
Yes, but here it is: the coronavirus crisis has gone through there and the coffers of the clubs of the Old Continent are empty. At Barça as elsewhere. What makes the hypothesis of a return of "Ney" to Camp Nou this summer complicated, to say the least. Especially that the champion of Spain would negotiate at the same time for the Interiste Lautaro Martinez. “It's not true, tempers Javier Tebas, in videoconference, on Adea Conecta . They are more focused on when the season could resume rather than on new acquisitions. In the short term, we can rather consider player exchanges, but transfers are not yet at the top of the priorities of European clubs, which already want to limit the damage caused by the cessation of activity. ” And the boss of the Spanish federation to add: “Neymar and Lautaro (Martinez) are not at the top of the list of priorities for Barça. The club currently does not have the capacity to record these signatures. At the moment, it's totally impossible. ”
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If he is not frankly a fervent supporter of Paris Saint-Germain, this is nothing to say, Mr. Tebas is certainly right to refocus the debate. The Spanish media could, perhaps, be inspired by it… Meanwhile, Neymar and Mbappé are under contract until 2022, in Paris, and they are expected on the banks of the Seine at the end of the confinement. To resume training. And bring PSG on the roof of Europe?
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