a trident in serious danger

El PSG He has been working on next year’s project for a long time. louis fields is the one who leads the plot and despite the failure in the Champions and the disappointing staging of many of his reinforcements will continue at the club. It remains to specify the situation of Christophe Galtierbut he is the main candidate to pay the piper although it is not at all clear who his successor would be. Zidane remains Qatar’s impossible dream.

PSG intends to shed to some extent its fame as a galactic team, for image and financial need it wouldn’t hurt at all. The goal is to focus on recruiting young talent, like Real Madrid years ago, and if possible to gather among those pearls the best Frenchmen who feel identified with French football and this club. And surround him around Mbappé, which will be the center of the project and which, according to his latest statements, will continue in Paris. In other words, seek a greater bond of identity and affinity to the culture of the club.

With Mbappé inside, the trend with respect to the other two great galactics is very different. Everything indicates today that the dream of Qatar is in serious danger. Bringing the three tenors together with the arrival of Messi last season was considered a success and something historic, but for them to continue together seems increasingly distant. It is also the fastest way to reduce to the wage table, the highest among the big clubs in Europe, of 728 million, although there was also a record of income of 570 million. In addition, it is another direct way to adjust to the new Financial Fair Play that requires from next year to spend 90% of income on salaries and commissions to agents and that will be reduced to 70%. The club has already paid a 10 million penalty in accordance with UEFA and the other 65 depends on whether or not it conforms to the new norm.

Therefore, what happens with Neymar and Messi is going to condition the rest of the project, because it is going to affect the amount the club will have to sign, given that salary alone would be around 70 million euros net less per year. This is the situation of the trident:

Messi, increasingly far from renewing

PSG would like Messi to continue for another year, but not at any price. In fact, the club does not seem willing to satisfy the Messi’s requests. The agreement was almost closed before the World Cup, but the world championship has changed the player’s claims. PSG knows that Leo is a round business at the image level, but considers that the current conditions are in line with reality. For his part, the Argentine no longer closes the door of Barcelona and does not rule out returning.

Neymar, the preferred exit but the most complicated

PSG opens to consider Neymar’s adventure in Paris closed. A destination to the Premier League seems the only option, but if Messi thinks of leaving, Neymar is the opposite. The Brazilian is going to be a father this year and he is happy in Paris. He also has a contract until 2027 and for the club letting him out would never be an interesting operation on an economic level. In this campaign, a new injury that dragged on from the World Cup has once again put him out of action in the decisive stretch for his club and there are more and more voices in Qatar who consider that the player is already more than amortized.

Mbappé, in Paris for now

Mbappé is capable of demonstrating his disagreement with the club’s policy through his networks, with the controversial message for the club’s season ticket campaign, declaring just a week later that his future is linked to winning the Champions League in Paris. Apart from these disparate movements, the reality is that to this day the club is calm because he believes that the footballer will continue and he also seems to be clear about it. In June 2024, if there has not been a new contract review before, it will be when the player will be free to execute his third year of contract and go free.

This is how the French press sees the future of the trident

Among the French media, there is also agreement that the future of the trident in Paris is more than uncertain. “It will depend on who decides. If it is Luis Campos, although it is not clear, I think that the will is for Neymar and Messi to leave. With Leo I think the trend is already clear and it seems that he will leave because it is his will, but Ney will not He wants to leave and he also has a contract until 2027, so I see it as almost impossible and for me he will continue at the club together with Mbappé”, comments the journalist from The Arnaud Hermant Team.

Julien Stephan, from Le Parisien, He considers that Mbappé will stay safe. “With Neymar the club would like to see him leave, there is talk of Chelsea, but I don’t see him packing his bags. He lives very well in Paris. Messi is different, his contract ends, but I think that for Doha it is an extraordinary showcase and even if they already give him Due to finishing in Paris, I think they will try to keep him, so the three of them continue in the end”.

Loïc Tanzi also follows PSG for L’Équipe: “I think Messi will leave and Neymar and Mbappé will stay. The will of the club, especially Luis Campos, is to separate Neymar from Messi. I think Qatar would like to continue with all three, but I see it as difficult.”

Philippe Sanfourche is in charge of PSG information for RTL radio and also differentiates the will of PSG with what will happen next: “I think that like last summer the club would like to do without Neymar, but he has four years left on his contract and he is coming out of a long injury, so he would miss me. In the In the case of Mbappé, Qatar is not going to let him leave with a contract in force like he did two years ago. The most probable thing is to see Messi leave. There has been no progress in the negotiations for a long time. I think the club is looking more at the numbers now and The fans are starting to get tired of a team of stars without balance and with players who don’t run”.