Who will keep the PSG cages this season? As we know, Mauricio Pochettino has been playing the watch for weeks on this sensitive issue. Friday evening, after the victory in Brest (2-4), he assured that there was no final choice but that he would make his decision before each match.
Costa Rican Keylor Navas, 34 and at the club since 2019, remains silent on this subject for the moment. This is less the case with its new Italian rival. After having delivered this week to Corriere dello Sport, an interview in which he said that this competition “fascinated” him, the former Milanese made similar remarks at the microphone of Canal +. “PSG contacted me and wanted me, and I wanted PSG. The competition does not scare me. It is there, and it does good to both and allows me to grow, ”he said in this exchange broadcast on Sunday evening.
“I came here to play and I will give my best to start. It is quite normal that there is competition to grow. There will be no problem, ”he continued. The hero of Euro 2021 also praised the personality of Navas, “an exceptional person”, with whom he says he is already “friends”. We have known more divisive words …
For the first time summoned to the group in Brest, the 21-year-old prodigy in any case remained on the sidelines on Friday evening. No one knows when he will play his first match with the capital club. One of the options being for the Argentine technician to split each other’s season between Ligue 1 and Champions League.
For the moment, PSG will not have a clear hierarchy for the goalkeeper position, for which two of the best in the world are fighting: Keylor Navas and Gianluigi Donnarumma. “It’s a decision that we must make like others in a workforce of 27 or 28 players, said the Argentine coach after the success acquired in Brest (4-2) on Friday. There is only one goalkeeper who can start the match, the decision will be taken each time in the interest of the group. “
