The German national player Julian Draxler (left) has been playing for PSG since 2017. Image: dpa / Francois Mori
After Messi move: These five PSG stars are set to leave the club
The first domino in the large summer transfer window fell with Lionel Messi. A consequence of the superstar’s change: Paris Saint-Germain has to cut salaries in order not to have problems with financial fair play. In addition, the squad with 35 players is much too big.
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Therefore, according to “Le Parisien”, five players should leave PSG this summer. Including two German national players: Julian Draxler and Thilo Kehrer. Layvin Kurzawa, Rafinha and Pablo Sarabia are also on the sales list.
Draxler is associated with a Bundesliga club, among other things. It is not known which one it should be. Thilo Kehrer is being courted by Bayer Leverkusen. The Bundesliga club should be ready to pay a 20 million fee for the defender.
Kurzawa is the focus of Galatasaray Istanbul and Olympique Lyon. There are still no specific requests for the other two players.
On Tuesday PSG had on the Social media Accounts posted a photo of the “winning team” in training. There are the superstars Neymar, Mbappe and Messi together with goalkeeper Navas, Di Maria and Julian Draxler in the photo. That especially worried Twitter for many humorous comments on Draxler. Even the official German Uefa account commented and wrote: “Interesting training group with Julian Draxler and a few others ..”
PSG do not pay any transfer fees for Ramos, Donnaruma, Wijnaldum and Messi
Paris launched a major transfer offensive this summer. Central defender Sergio Ramos, EM hero and goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma, Georginio Wijnaldum and Lionel Messi all came to the French capital for free.
In addition, PSG paid 60 million euros for the former Dortmund Achraf Hakimi and 16 million euros for Danilo Pereira. Especially the free transfer players should collect a large amount of hand money and salary. Messi is said to receive 35 million euros a year, among other things.
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