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Journalist
Graduated from the School of Journalism in Paris. Specialized in football, and more particularly in the transfer market. Fan of PSG and Stade Français.
During the 2012 summer transfer window, PSG made an XXL recruitment, notably with the signings of Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Thiago Silva. Moreover, in an interview given to the official website of the capital club, the latter lets slip an anecdote about Nasser Al-Khelaïfi and the transfer of Marco Verratti, who was only a simple hope at the time.
After the buyout of the PSG speak Qatar which was carried out in 2011, the Parisian club has had a series of periods of transfer window XXL where big international stars were recruited to grow the team very quickly. In 2012, the president Nasser Al-Khelaïfi had put the package on the market, notably snatching the signatures of Zlatan Ibrahimovic And Thiago Silva. And the latter, who later became an emblematic captain of PSG, remembers his first day at the club perfectly.
Thiago Silva talks about his arrival at PSG
In an interview given this week to the official website of the PSG, Thiago Silva recalls the very beginning of his adventure in the French capital, which lasted until 2020: “ It wasn’t easy to arrive in a new country, to get used to a completely different culture, but the club, the people at the club, the President, helped me feel comfortable. The President especially, he did a lot for me. And then Carlo Ancelotti too “, says the 40-year-old Brazilian central defender, who now plays for Fluminense.
Verratti, the “phenomenon” announced by Al-Khelaïfi
And Thiago Silva then reveals a funny anecdote about Al-Khelaifi And Marco Verrattiwho had also just signed for PSG when at the time he was just a hopeful of Italian football: ” I remember, the first time I went to the Training Center, I arrived on the pitch and he came to welcome me and said: “Here, we are going to do great things”. And he immediately told me about Verratti. He told me: “This boy is a phenomenon and I think he is going to help you a lot, especially when you get the ball out”. That’s the first thing he said to me. “, continues Silva.
