In the sights of PSG last summer and close to joining Paris for a time, Rayan Cherki extended with OL and is having an excellent season. Enough to more than double its value on the transfer market and move away from PSG.
Today the best player in OL and among the best in Ligue 1, Rayan Cherki almost became a member of PSG barely six months ago. The three parties agreed on a €15m transfer, despite the frosty relations between the two presidents Nasser Al-Khelaïfi and John Textor, but it was ultimately the 21-year-old who changed his mind at the last moment. It was then a question of Borussia Dortmund, whose coach Nuri Sahin ultimately did not want him.
Six months later, Cherki extended his contract with OL until 2026 and has just produced the best four months of his career, finally becoming the player who was expected on his debut. Enough to explode its market value as well. The aborted transfer last summer for 15 million euros is now to be forgotten and L'Equipe du jour, which devotes an article to this theme, ensures that the market value of the player has more than doubled, therefore greater than 30 million Currently.
As for a possible transfer of Cherki to PSG, this is no longer really on the table. After making new contact at the end of the transfer window when Paris saw that Cherki would ultimately not go to Dortmund, nothing has changed since. According to L'Equipe, “PSG has not digested the about-face of the summer” but there is still clearly room in the Parisian squad since Dembélé and Barcola ultimately have no real competitors despite the recruitment of Désiré Doué.
Cherki rather sold in June?
On Cherki's side, we seem to be mainly focusing on the current season even if a short sentence after OL/Frankfurt (3-2) on Thursday evening suggested that a departure this winter was possible: “For now, there are still two matches left, we will see at the end of the season if I am still here or not. » His replacement is even already known, the Argentinian attacking midfielder from Botafogo Thiago Almada who announced his arrival this winter in the Rhône, as planned for months.
But with the DNCG which has banned Lyon from recruiting and is instead forcing the club to sell to bring in money, a transfer of Cherki as quickly as possible is necessarily possible. Around OL, it is rumored that it would however be rather next June, before the 30th which officially closes the 2024/2025 season, than this winter that a departure would be possible. And it is now rather unlikely to see Cherki arrive at PSG in January. To see him at the Parc des Princes, however, it will be from Sunday evening.
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