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PSG – Official: Pressure is on!
Published on June 29, 2024 at 2:30 a.m.
Graduated from the School of Journalism in Paris. Specialized in football, and more particularly in the transfer market. Fan of PSG and Stade Français.
Officially recruited by PSG, Russian goalkeeper Matvey Safonov therefore opens the 2024 summer transfer window for the capital club. And in his speech, the former Krasnodar player leaves no room for doubt: he wants to take Gianluigi Donnarumma’s place as quickly as possible and puts pressure on the starting goalkeeper of PSG.
Since June 14, it’s official: Matthew Safonov is a player of the PSG. The 25-year-old Russian international goalkeeper arrives at the Parc des Princes from Krasnodar, for €20 million, and he could therefore revive the hierarchy within the capital club. Moreover, in an interview given in recent days to the Russian media Nobel, Safonov very clearly put pressure on Donnarumma by showing his wish to become a starter at PSG.
“I come to fight”
« To be PSG’s number 2 goalkeeper? I do not understand this. No one ever told me I was number two. I come to Paris to fight. I want to play football. Even if I had been told I was number two, I wouldn’t have listened to them. It’s up to me to give the best of myself. I don’t see myself as a number two. I don’t want to be a replacement player. If they put me as number two, it won’t be easy for number one “, says Safonovwhich also specifies that the PSG had not told him that he would be a simple understudy of Donnarumma arriving this summer.
“I have always been number one”
« I have always been the number one goalkeeper. In Krasnodar, I have always been the 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. This is all about prejudice. It is not a question of origin… I understand. I am Russian and no one knows me here in France. Maybe they are not planning to start me right away yet. But I believe in it. », continues the new Russian goalkeeper of the PSG. The message has been received…
