A priori, Christophe Galtier and Antero Henrique will not go on vacation together … Back in business this summer, the former sports director of PSG was, it is said, in charge of sales during the transfer window.
Admittedly, Paris has shed all the players for sale, with the notable exception of Mauro Icardi, whose name insistently returns to Galatasaray.
But as Galtier said at a press conference on Friday, and as he recalled on
Canal+
on Saturday , after the quiet victory of his players on the field of Nantes (0-3) before Juve in C1, there is had "
a lot of departures, a lot of loans
".
Except that to buy, especially in defense, Paris needed to sell...
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In recent weeks, there have been reports of tensions on this point between Henrique and the Galtier / Campos tandem.
Tensions that appear implicitly in the answers of the Parisian coach.
“
Tensions?
I am in permanent contact with my president (Nasser Al-Khelaïfi) and Luis Campos
”, he declared, taking care not to mention the name of Antero Henrique, a bit like Thomas Tuchel, of the time when the German technician officiated on the bench of Paris-SG.
Which Tuchel had already had his little problems with the said Antero Henrique …
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The Skriniar Failure
In the end, the Parisian transfer window is attractive (Vitinha, Ekitike, Mukiele, Renato, Ruiz, Soler), but incomplete, with a hole in the racket in defense.
The priority target was well known in this sector of play, Milan Skriniar.
A player who had, it is said, given his agreement to Paris for weeks.
Except that Inter have been inflexible, while the Slovak has only one year of contract left at San Siro.
Pricing?
70 to 80 M€ depending on the sources.
“
Skriniar was a player that we had identified.
We thought we were very close to an agreement at one point, but over time, the prices went up… I can understand our president: such a transfer amount over the last year of the contract, it's huge
, ”slips the technician 56 years old, who will have to do without and "
adapt
“, as he had already regretted on Friday
.
