The speeches of Layvin Kurzawa (31 years old) to denounce his treatment at PSG after his extension in 2020 annoy Jérôme Rothen who does not understand why the player did not leave the club sooner.
The adventure of Layvin Kurzawa (31 years old) at PSG will end at the end of June seven years after his arrival at the club. But it’s been a long time since the left-back wore the Parisian jersey. Since October 21, 2023 when he came into play against Strasbourg in L1, his only appearance of the season. Before that, he had experienced only one other, in 2021-2022, before a loan to Fulham where he had played very little (6 games in 2022-2023).
“It’s not possible to go so many years without playing when you’re supposedly in love with football.”
In two interviews given this weekend, the French international (13 caps, 1 goal) denounced the club’s lack of respect towards him after his four-year contract extension in 2020 against a very comfortable salary (500,000 euros per months according to certain figures). These interventions did not convince Jérôme Rothen who – although he understands the fact of having extended – is surprised not to have seen him choose another challenge sooner.
“After five years, he had lost his place and he was offered a four-year contract at the same salary, or even more, I resigned,” confides the former Monegasque in Rothen s’ignée on RMC on Monday. “I can understand the extension but after that, that’s how it goes. The first year of his extension, he plays around twenty games (27 in 2020-2021) and after that he doesn’t play at all. He is loaned to Fulham (2022-2023) where he doesn’t play, he comes back and he’s a replacement for the replacement for the replacement and the guy always stays. He must have had opportunities but not at the same salary because there, you have to make concessions.
“That’s where he takes us for idiots,” Rothen continues. “He tells us, ‘I’ve missed football so much for a year’ but no Layvin, you’ve been missing football for four years. It’s not possible to go so many years without playing when you’re yourself – said to be a football lover He is so out of touch that he doesn’t even realize that when he is on the pitch, he is ridiculous, that he doesn’t question things and that’s always the case. the fault of others.”
