After having, in mid-April, put forward the role of Neymar in the qualification during the knockout stages of the Champions League, during an interview with Canal +, Ander Herrera, the PSG midfielder, took advantage of '' an interview with the Spanish sports daily AS to pass some messages on the transfer window.
When asked how the Parisian locker room lived Real Madrid's desires to recruit Kylian Mbappé and those of Barcelona to recover Neymar, Ander Herrera was firm.
"It is true that a lot of information appears in the media and on the networks on both, but we do not give them much credit," replies the Spaniard. There is a fundamental aspect to take into account, and I discussed it with Kylian, it is that PSG is not a club that sells its stars, on the contrary, it buys them. He has enough economic strength to keep them both. "
Relaunched to find out if he imagined Mbappé in Madrid and Neymar at Barça, Herrera specifies: "What I see is that we are talking about them, as at the time we were talking about Verratti or Marquinhos. They are the best in the world and I still have four years of contract and I want to enjoy them next to them at PSG. "
Stopping Ligue 1 was a “hasty” decision
On the sidelines of this development, the midfielder, too often injured this season, also reacted to the decision to end the season which is still controversial. “When we learned that (Editor's note: end of April) , we were very surprised. Many of us were in shock, in fact some did not believe it. I think it was a hasty decision because the weather is right in the Bundesliga ”.
He particularly fears the repercussions that this lack of competition could have if the Champions League resumed in August. "Hopefully not, but I think so, because the others will have returned to competition and we will not," he said. In the end, it is the competition that gives you the rhythm and it is in the national championship that you play the most regularly. I do not know what they are going to do, but a solution will have to be found. "
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In addition, he judges that the final recruitment of Mauro Icardi is "excellent news" because the Argentine striker will reach, in his eyes, the "top 3" in the world in a few years.