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Mercato – PSG: A player’s wife denounces a big lie
Published on June 30, 2024 at 1:30 p.m.
For this Euro 2024, Didier Deschamps has decided to re-sound three goalkeepers: Mike Maignan, Brice Samba and Alphonse Areola. If the last two mentioned will probably not have the opportunity to keep the blue goals during the competition, their presence can be a plus for the tricolor group. In an interview, Marrion Areola, Alphonse’s wife, returned to a difficult episode in her husband’s life: his departure for Real Madrid.
The life of a footballer is sometimes unfair. Selected to compete the Euro, Alphonse Areola should not set foot on the green rectangle for the next few weeks. But in an interview, his wife, Marrion Areolareturned to another episode in her husband’s career: his loan to Real Madrid in 2019. And the one that accompanies the goalkeeper West Ham since he was 14 years old, he has denounced a lie on the part of PSG in this operation.
“We learned about it 48 hours before the end of the transfer window”
In an interview given to Parisian, Marrion Areola came back on the loan by Alphonse au Real Madridin 2019. And clearly, this episode seems to have been difficult for the Frenchman: “ Of course, there are so many things that people don’t know. I have a very difficult memory… when Alphonse signed for Real, he was super happy. But it was the way his transfer happened that was complicated. We were having dinner with friends, and “Al” received a call from his agent, Mino Raiola at the time, who told him: You’re going to Real. Paris had just bought Navas. We found out 48 hours before the end of the transfer window, and that didn’t really give him time to look for another club. For a month and a half, Alphonse felt that PSG wanted a goalkeeper. He went to see Leonardo and Tuchel to ask them if they were counting on him, and they told him: yes, don’t worry. Alphonse, naively, believed them. »
“We tried to bring him lower than the ground”
In the continuation of his speech, Marrion Areola explains how this brutal announcement of PSG was experienced by her husband. She also explains how Zinedine Zidane knew how to make the doorman smile again: “ It annoys me, because they tried to put him down. It was hard for his parents, for me. He never showed it, because he is hardened. But that phone call to announce his departure, I will remember it all my life. The directors made him understand that they would do everything to find another goalkeeper if he did not leave for Real. We spent a sleepless night, we weighed the pros and cons, but then, there was Real Madrid! Who says no to Real? The next day, he received a call from Zidane, it is gratifying, of course. It lit up Alphonse’s face. Real saved him because he was really bad. »
