PSG and Celta share a guru

Luis Campos at the Toulouse stadium in 2019.REMY GABALDA (AFP)

“I am very happy to join Paris Saint-Germain, which I consider to be the most ambitious club in the world.

We share the same vision, in which I firmly believe”, explains Luis Campos, a 57-year-old Portuguese who will be a football adviser at PSG.

Campos, de facto, will be a sports director to replace the Brazilian Leonardo, but his work, even in the powerful empire of Nasser Al-Khelaifi, will not be exclusive, but will be combined with the same responsibility at Celta, where he is already hands on work since last March.

Campos paves the way for the consultant who builds sports management structures with the condition of not having more than one club in the same League.

"We couldn't have it only us", assumed the president of Celta when he joined him.

Shortly after, Campos' break with Galatasaray excited Vigo to such an extent that they considered staging a presentation.

The agreement with PSG casts a halo of confusion in full boiling of the market.

There is no precedent for such a situation.

However, Campos has already started up his machinery in Vigo, where he has been seen quite a bit on a day-to-day basis and in several first-team and subsidiary matches in April and May.

It helps that his usual address is an hour away, in Porto.

Since the end of March he has also had a valid player in the club, Juan Carlos Calero, an Albacete who left his job at Andrés Iniesta's football school in Japan to settle in Vigo and join the technical secretariat made up of some former players such as Mario Bermejo, Milorad Ratkovic or Borja Oubiña.

At Celta, who hope to release an interesting wage bill, they believe they are going in a good direction, with their eyes on players they never thought they would have access to.

PSG knows Campos well.

The only two Leagues that the Parisians failed to win in the last ten years were Monaco and Lille with Campos behind the scenes, dressed in an air of guru that has nothing to do with his discreet career as a coach in second-tier clubs in Portugal .

His first experience close to the elite was at Real Madrid in the 2012-2013 season, in Jose Mourinho's

to carry out different tasks, but above all as a tactical analyst.

Campos makes available to those who hire him a wide contact list and knowledge of the market that in previous experiences helped him reach talent before large teams.

In Monaco and Lille, he revalued and sold.

He gave Lemar a run in the Principality, signed from Caen for 4 million euros and sold for 70 to Atlético, or Bernardo Silva, whom he recruited from the Benfica subsidiary.

But above all he polished and advised the teenage Mbappé to professionalism.

At Lille he also launched new sensation Rafael Leão, whom he brought in for free and sold to Milan for 30 million.

That summer before the pandemic he also released Nicolas Pepé, for whom he paid 17 million to Angers before transferring him for 80 to Arsenal.

A quarter of that went to Victor Osimhen,

At PSG it will not be as necessary for him to count tickets as it will be to guarantee results.

And there is only one focus: the Champions League.

"He will be in charge of the organization, recruitment and performance of the men's professional team," says the club, where they see no impediment in sharing knowledge with Celta, which they do not consider competition.

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