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Transfer window: PSG gets tackled for its latest transfer!
Published on June 30, 2024 at 02:30
Graduated from the School of Journalism in Paris. Specialized in football, and more particularly in the transfer market. Fan of PSG and Stade Français.
PSG launched its summer transfer window with the recruitment of Matvey Safonov, a 25-year-old Russian goalkeeper who comes to compete with Gianluigi Donnarumma. He has already expressed his desire to dislodge the Italian goalkeeper as quickly as possible from his status as an indisputable starter at PSG, but a former trainer from Donnarumma does not support this type of method and makes it known.
What if the hierarchy of goalkeepers was once again upset this season at PSG ? The capital club recently formalized the transfer of Matthew Safonov (25 years old) from Krasnodar for €20M, and the Russian international goalkeeper already seems to have solid ambitions. Indeed, in an interview given to Nobel, Safonov seems to openly threaten Gianluigi Donnarumma for his starting place at PSG.
“I will fight with him constantly”
“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. 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… I’m going to 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 (…) I cannot be a substitute », indicated the new recruit of the PSGwho therefore claims that the Parisian management did not explain to him that he would be number 2.
The Donnarumma clan does not understand
And a former educator of Gianluigi Donnarummaquestioned in the columns of THE TEAMtackle this management of PSG with the guards: “ At the club, he started by being put in competition with Navas, then the staff changed, and now there would be no hierarchy. A player must always be in the best possible condition, and at a club, he is not. », notes this person close to the Italian goalkeeper. To be continued…
