Foot – PSG
He announces it, PSG has planted a star!
Published on June 28, 2024 at 12:00 p.m.
Passionate about sports, cinema and television (on screen and behind) since his childhood, Bernard has been a journalist for 10 Sport since 2018. More skilled with a keyboard in his hand than with a ball at his feet, he decides to mainly cover a sport that is both adored, criticized and hated (football) and a sport that is not one (wrestling).
If Italy is not at its best in this Euro 2024, Gianluigi Donnarumma is showing himself to be imperial on his line, he who was one of the great architects of the transalpine coronation three years ago. A serenity that the 25-year-old goalkeeper struggles to display over time on the PSG side. In the eyes of a former trainer of the Italian, the capital club is responsible.
Voted best player of the last Euro, Gianluigi Donnarumma confirmed its status this year in Germany and greatly contributed to the sluggish qualification of the Blue Team for the round of 16. The man with 65 caps displays great serenity in the cages and particularly stood out againstSpain (0-1), despite the defeat of his team. An image that differs from what we can sometimes see on the side of PSGOr Donnarumma sometimes seems feverish and lacking in confidence. In the eyes of a former trainer, the Parisians have only themselves to blame.
“A player must always be in the best possible frame of mind, and in a club, he is not”
« At the club, he started out competing with Navas, then the staff changed, and now there would be no more hierarchy. A player must always be put in the best possible conditions, and at the club, he is not. », he confides to The Team.
Safonov’s arrival does not help matters
The hierarchy is indeed likely to be relaunched during the coming season after the recruitment of Matvey Safonov for around €20M. “ Nobody ever told me I was number twodropped the Russian reinforcement on the channel Youtube Nobel. I come to Paris to fight. I want to play football. Even if they had told me I was number two, I would not have listened to them. It is up to me to give the best of myself. I do not see myself as a number two. I do not want to be a substitute. If I am placed as number two, it will not be easy for the number one… I will fight with him constantly. I have never lost a competition. I have always been the number one goalkeeper. In Krasnodar, I have always been number one. In the national team, I was a substitute in the first match, then I became the number one goalkeeper. I have always been number one until now. I cannot be a substitute. (…) I am Russian and nobody knows me here in France. Maybe they have not yet planned to put me number one right away. But I believe in it ». Gianluigi Donnarumma is warned.
