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"He was scared": Verratti's ex-agent recounts his abortive transfer from PSG to Barça

2021-02-16T11:10:23.942Z


The Parisian environment wanted to join Barcelona in 2017 before retracting. His possible departure had animated the start of the 2017 summer transfer window. Coveted by FC Barcelona, ​​Marco Verratti had wanted to join the Catalan club before changing his mind in the face of PSG's fierce desire not to see him strengthen his great rival on the European scene . An episode on which his former agent returned on Tuesday in L'Equipe, before the reunion of the two teams in the k


His possible departure had animated the start of the 2017 summer transfer window. Coveted by FC Barcelona, ​​Marco Verratti had wanted to join the Catalan club before changing his mind in the face of PSG's fierce desire not to see him strengthen his great rival on the European scene .

An episode on which his former agent returned on Tuesday in L'Equipe, before the reunion of the two teams in the knockout stages of the Champions League.

“When Barça contacts me, I ask Marco what we're doing.

He told me to speak with them, that we would speak with PSG then since an extension was in the pipes, remembers Donato Di Campli.

PSG was not great at the time, I said to Marco:

Are we going or are we staying?

He said to me:

OK, let's try another experiment

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On July 6, his representative gave an interview to Corriere dello Sport in which he criticized the attitude of Parisian leaders, who refused to negotiate with their Barça counterparts, and considered that his player was "a prisoner of the Emir of Qatar".

The next day, his protégé returned to training, where he recorded a video broadcast by the Parisian club to say that “(his) agent was wrong”.

"This team is like a big family to whom I will always give 100%", maintains the Italian.

"He was afraid that he would be blocked without playing"

“I was forcing to go to the break, waging war to transfer him to Barcelona, ​​but he backed off.

I left with a Kalashnikov and, in the end, I finished with a water pistol.

(…) When he realized that it was not possible, he was afraid.

He was afraid that he would be blocked without playing, believes his ex-representative.

When he returned to Paris for the takeover, they told him: "We're going to take Neymar, we're going to extend you, but you're throwing your agent away."

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Marco Verratti then left Donato di Campli to join Mino Raiola's team, which still defends its interests today.

The Verratti soap opera closed in early July, PSG will recruit Neymar less than a month later.

Arousing even greater anger from Barça leaders.

Source: leparis

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