Winning the Champions League, he knows how to go about it: Georginio Wijnaldum won it with Liverpool in 2019. At a time when PSG begins its 2021-2002 campaign which it hopes will be successful this Wednesday in Bruges, the 30-year-old Dutch midfielder spoke to our team colleagues on Tuesday morning.
He particularly focused on the XXL summer recruitment of the capital club.
"It is not because we have such a workforce that we will automatically win the C1," said the former player of PSV Eindhoven.
Even with all these great players, we will have to train and behave as a team.
When you look at the winners, it's not always the team with the best individualities that wins.
"A little further on, Georginio Wijnaldum clarifies his thoughts:" You have to play as a team.
When we won (the Champions League) with Liverpool two years ago, we faced PSG and Barça, and they really had great teams.
But we had a superior team and that's what made the difference.
We have incredible players, but we have to become an incredible team.
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In this interview, the Dutchman also reports that he could have signed in Paris in 2015. There were solid contacts but he preferred at the time to continue the experience with PSV alongside his friend Memphis Depay. "It's true, the first contacts date back to 2014 after the World Cup," he says before explaining why he said yes in Paris this year.
“Several months ago, I had expressed the idea of staying in Liverpool but, without going into details, Liverpool did not give me the feeling of wanting to keep myself, confides the Batavian midfielder. In these cases, we must move forward. Barcelona have come. I was really happy because from a very young age, as for the majority of Dutch players, it was the club of my dreams even if I must admit that my idol was Zinedine Zidane, a Real Madrid player. I really had a good feeling about signing up with Barça. But the negotiations lasted a very long time and Paris arrived. The club showed me its desire to recruit. It was time for me to see something else. "
Outside of Paris and Barcelona, Georginio Wijnaldum was not lacking in proposals. "Other clubs interested? he asks himself. There have been discussions with Bayern, but they go back further. I also had it with Inter Milan, which made a very strong impression on me, the kind of impression you want when you are a player. So why Paris? Because the project exposed and because I was explained that I would be part of this project. The leaders did everything to convince me. Paris went very quickly in the negotiations. And before we negotiated, I spoke with the manager, Mauricio Pochettino, and with Leonardo. They assured me they wanted to build one of the best teams in Europe. "
