The loan of Randal Kolo Muani could not be made official this Friday as explained due to an unexpected imbroglio on the Parisian side, PSG having too many players on loan. Explanation of this problem, and how Paris can get out of it with Cher Ndour in the key.
At a time when it was preparing to formalize its flashiest offensive recruit in ages, the Georgian Kvaratskhelia from Naples, PSG experienced a tragicomic episode worthy of its best (or worst) moments. It was expected that the loan of Randal Kolo Muani to Juve would be formalized at the same time but this did not happen because a point of regulation blocked this movement, provoking the anger of Juventus Turin when it learned of the Parisian problem .
A point of settlement which evolved in 2024/2025
As explained on our X account this Friday, it was the FIFA regulations linked to the loan of players which caused the problem in the Kolo Muani file. Since February 2022, the world body has put in place a regulation which limits, from the 2022/2023 season, the number of players that a club can loan abroad, loans within a same country being managed locally by the local league (the LFP in the case of PSG). From eight the first season, there are now only six loans per season abroad which are authorized, the final figure.
However, PSG has actually already filled this season its quota of six players loaned abroad: Bayer. The doubt rested around a settlement point, which changed in 2022 after the loan limits were announced. When FIFA put in place the regulations, it was explained that players under the age of 21 and players trained at the club did not count towards the quota of six loans.
However, Cher Ndour is under 21 (he will be in July) and Xavi Simons is considered trained at the club since he played three seasons with PSG between the ages of 15 and 21 (between 16 and 19 in his case). But FIFA then corrected its regulations, specifying that both criteria had to be met in order not to count in the quotas. Problem is, the two players only meet one of the two criteria: Ndour is not trained at PSG and Simons is over 21 years old. Their loans therefore fall into the quota of six and PSG effectively no longer has room.
-Dear Ndour in file key
Even if PSG has assured that it has been aware of the problem for a long time, the panic described this Friday in the Parisian offices by L'Equipe seems quite clearly to indicate the opposite… Juve is obviously furious at this gross error by the Parisian club and He takes particular aim at Pasquale Sensibile, the manager of loaned PSG players who is therefore not aware of the regulations. But Paris assures that it can quickly find a solution.
The solution is… Italian and is called Cher Ndour. As revealed by L'Equipe, PSG is trying to urgently sell the Italian midfielder currently on loan to Besiktas to an Italian club whose name has not yet been leaked. By selling the mid-20s, PSG could loan one more player, Randal Kolo Muani, to a foreign club like Juventus Turin. This setback has in any case already deprived the French striker of the beautiful Juventus/Milan AC poster of this Saturday evening which he could have played without the administrative problems.
[MAJ 9h28] According to Le Parisien, the Italian club in negotiations with PSG to buy Cher Ndour is Bologna. In his country, the international hopeful enjoys good odds and could well find a buyer, which would unlock the file.
