02/09/2023 and las 14:40 CEST
They said that their transfer strategy had changed, that they no longer paid out ‘pharaonic’ amounts in the transfer marketsbut PSG this year has come back stronger than ever. The Parisian entity has spent more than 400 million in players this summer to replace the outputs of Neymar and Messi.
Al-Khelaïfi knew that the loss of the Argentine and Brazilian seriously affected his aspirations for the next season. The Parisian team continues to choke on the knockout phases in the Champions League, and despite reaching the grand final in 2020, they have fallen in the round of 16 consecutively the last two seasons.
Once the ‘soap opera’ with Kylian Mbappé, striker who will wear the jersey of ‘Les Parisiens’ again on 23/24, has been resolved, Luis Enrique already has his entire squad closed. PSG has taken its portfolio out for a walk in the market, making its own names in the major European leagues, operations that have not come cheap.
THESE HAVE BEEN ALL THE SIGNINGS
Despite taking over the services of Asensio, Skriniar and Arnau Tenas At zero cost, PSG has once again ‘overpaid’ for some players who, despite aiming to become stars, are still unknown today.
These are all the players signed this transfer window: Manuel Ugarte (Sporting Lisboa, 60M), Ousmane Dembélé (Barça, 50M), Lucas Hernández (Bayern Münich, 45M), Barcola (Lyon, 45M), Hugo Ekitiké ((28M), Kang-In Lee (Mallorca, 22M) , Xavi Simons (4M), Gonçalo Ramos (Benfica, future purchase 80M), and Randal Kolo Muani (Eintracht Frankfurkt, 90M)
In total there are 424 million euros in new faces. Kolo Muani starred in the ‘soap opera’ on the last day of the market, and it is that his arrival seemed completely ruled out after the refusal of Eintracht Frankfurt, who had not found a replacement in time for their star. Finally, PSG managed to sign the French ‘in extremis’, in an exorbitant operation of 90 ‘kilos’.
It should be remembered that Gonçalo Ramos has arrived this summer on loan, but next summer the French club is obliged to pay 80 million to Benfica.
In Ugarte, Barcola and Simons (on loan to Leipzig)the Parisian team has made a bet on the future, but they are not certainties, but rather risky profiles with which they can end up punishing the price paid for them. Dembélé and Kolo Muani They stand as the main direct replacements for Messi and Ney in the attack trident, a plot that Now Kylian Mbappé will lead as Luis Enrique’s main offensive reference.
PENDING ACCOUNTS IN EUROPE
The Asturian coach has an arsenal of weapons adjusted to his requests, and It is that he has also carried out an exit operation with numerous players. In terms of sales, Messi ended his contract, but the French were able to get a ‘slice’r Neymar, transferred to Al-Hilal for 90 million euros. The sale of the Brazilian along with that of Diallo, Bitshiabu, Icardi y Ebimbe adds up to a total of 136 ‘kilos’ entered from the sale of assets.
Other names like Paredes and Renato Sanches They will not be in the Parc des Princes this coming season either, and now all eyes are on Verratti. The Italian could be the ‘bombshell’ of the last hour of the market, cwith numerous clubs in Qatar and Saudi Arabia willing to get hold of it.
With this list of players, PSG is forced to perform in the Champions League, his great ‘headache’ in the past decade. They lost the final in 2020 against Bayern Munich, but these last three seasons have gone from more to less. A semifinal and two ‘hits‘ in eighths do not justify the pharaonic disbursement in the offices.
Al-Khelaïfi and the entire PSG board of directors demand European success.
2023-09-02 12:40:19
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