Currently at Manchester City, Rayan Cherki played for a long time in Ligue 1 with his training club Olympique Lyonnais. And the adventure could well have continued, since former Lyon president John Textor revealed that the player was very close to a transfer to Paris Saint-Germain.
For several years, the PSG decided to focus on young French talents, as with Bradley Barcola. But the latter could have been accompanied by another nugget of theOLsince Rayan Cherki was regularly announced in the viewfinder of the Parisian club.
“Cherki had to go to PSG for 15 million”
In any case, this is what was explained this Monday John Textorin the show Rothen ignites. « Cherki had to go to PSG for 15 million. There was a very unusual clause in his contract that wasn’t a true release clause, but still gave him some leeway to leave. » declared the former president of theOL.
“I think that financially, we did as well as possible”
« In the end, if he had been completely our player without all these complications, we would have gotten more for him » continued Weaverat the microphone of RMC. « But to get more than 30 million for a player whose clause was set well below that amount, I think that financially, we did as well as possible ».
