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Transfer window – PSG: Zidane saved a Parisian player!
Published on July 1, 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.
Suddenly pushed towards the exit by PSG at the very end of the 2019 summer transfer window, Alphonse Areola had found a last-minute landing spot on loan at Real Madrid. His wife, Marrion, gives a behind-the-scenes look at this last-minute operation and pays tribute to Zinedine Zidane for having “saved” the French goalkeeper.
With the recruitment of Keylor Navas in the last days of summer 2019, the PSG had found its new starting goalkeeper, which undeniably pushed Alphonse Areola towards the exit. The Parisian titi had very little time to find a new club in this final straight of the market, and it is finally the Real Madrid who had agreed to welcome him on loan with Zinedine Zidane who was at the time the club’s coach merengue. Marrion Areolathe wife of the former PSG goalkeeper, talks behind the scenes of the operation in the columns of Parisian.
Areola ejected by PSG
« We were having dinner with friends, and “Al” got a call from his agent, Mino Raiola at the time, who said: 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. », confides the wife ofAlphonse Areolawho does not fail to pay homage to Zidane and to thank him for reaching out to the French international in this moment of doubt.
“Real saved him because he was really bad”
« The management made it clear to him that they would do everything to find another goalkeeper if he didn’t go to Real. We spent a sleepless night, we weighed up 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’s gratifying, of course. He lit up Alphonse’s face. Real saved him because he was really unwell “, precise Marrion Areola.
