Competition with Keylor Navas to keep the PSG cage is "an additional motivation", assures Gianluigi Donnarumma this Thursday in an interview with Corriere dello Sport where he discusses the reasons for his departure from AC Milan.
"I stayed eight years in Milan, it was my home, I lived there magnificent moments", details the 22-year-old doorman, named best player of the Euro won by Italy at the beginning of the summer , against England at Wembley, during the penalty shoot-out, an exercise in which he has never lost.
“I will always remain a supporter of the club. Eight years will not be forgotten, but I needed to change to grow, to improve myself and to become stronger. I felt the need for new spaces, for a new reality, ”he adds. Donnarumma, who was at the end of his contract with the Rossoneri, claims to have made his choices "alone", specifying that his agent, the influential Mino Raiola, "respects the wishes of his players 100%" before "of course to do everything to meet their demands ”.
At PSG, where he is currently continuing his preparation without having yet played a match, he says he feels "very good, very relaxed": "Last season, the team did not win Ligue 1 but the real objective is different : the Champions League, ”says the Italian goalkeeper, who has never played any C1 game in his career. As for the competition that awaits him against the experienced Costa Rican Navas, 34, it does not scare him: "It's an additional motivation, something that fascinates me," he said, not particularly worried. Mauricio Pochettino, the coach, will soon have to decide between the two goalkeepers and appoint a holder. Unless he "offers" them each, a competition, Ligue 1 for one, the Champions League for the other.