Mercato: PSG gives him a call to recruit Rabiot

Wednesday 13th November 2024 01:20 AM

Thibault Morlain
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Journalist

After trying different sports, Thibault turned to a career as an amateur footballer. When making a choice between becoming a professional footballer and a journalist, the qualities tipped the scales to one side. Here he is now in the editorial team of 10 Sport, after a diploma obtained at the International Institute of Communication in Paris.

After a failed adventure with Manchester City in 2008, Adrien Rabiot subsequently returned to France. The French international then arrived at Pau, while joining the Castelmaurou Hope Center. PSG would also be no stranger to this destiny as revealed by Yannick Stopyra, who welcomed Rabiot at the time.

In 2008, Adrien Rabiot made the choice to join Manchester City rather than the PSG. A failure which clearly did not discourage the capital club. “ Adrien had done it the other way around, but the recruiters never lost sight of him ”, we explained for 1899 The Weekly. always having Rabiot to the eye, the PSG thus intervened so that he joined the Hope Center of Castelmaurou following his failure with the Citizens.

“We want you to take a player for next season who will sign with us”

Pour 1899 The Weekly, Yannick Stopyradirector of the Hope Center of Castelmaurouthus announced that he had been called by the PSG to take Adrien Rabiot. “ One day, I received a phone call from Bertrand Reuzeau (then director of the PSG academy). He said to me: “We want you to take a player for next season who will sign with us”. Well that didn't suit me, I was full. But when he told me that he had taken part in the competition at Clairefontaine and that he had beaten PSG to go to Manchester City, I said yes straight away. “, he explained.

“The contact was good, they are not complicated people”

Yannick Stopyrathen confided regarding Adrien Rabiot : « The contact was good, they are not complicated people. His mother is very pleasant, he is very discreet but I discovered his great human qualities: I have never seen him in excess of anger, he is always accessible, calm, thoughtful and attentive. Sometimes some kids get big heads after coming to a big club, that wasn't his case at all. And on the pitch, when he played, it changed everything. He shone in the middle and made the others shine ».