By completing the transfer of Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, PSG greatly pleased its coach Luis Enrique, known to be a fervent admirer of the Georgian winger. So much so that he had been hoping for it in Paris for much longer than imagined.
“It’s a very good reinforcement”it is with these simple words but which say a lot of the affection of the coach for the player that Luis Enrique commented this Saturday on the arrival of Khvicha Kvaratskhelia at PSG, made official the day before by the club. Obviously, the winger who has not played since mid-December was not in the group in Lens, but he was nevertheless a whole theme of the post-match press conference since that's it, “it has been made official, I can talk about it”explained his coach with a smile on his lips.
Parisian fans have learned over the past year and a half that Luis Enrique can sometimes be difficult when it comes to recruiting, with the coach even being known to turn down most of the players offered. But Kvara “has all the qualities we look for in a recruit: experience from youth, shots, goals, great defensive withdrawal ability. He is a player who will strengthen our already very good squad, very very good. »
Kvara, a player tracked for a long time by PSG
If the squad suits the coach as he has repeatedly said since last summer, a transfer window during which PSG failed to attract the Georgian because Naples had proven intractable, Luis Enrique revealed, however, that he had been hoping to attract Kvaratskhelia to Paris for much longer than the summer of 2024, when the rumors were at their strongest: “He’s a player we’ve been trying to recruit since we arrived”i.e. since July 2023!
-At the time, Kvara had just completed an exceptional first season with Napoli, being crowned Italian champion and best player in Serie A. But his name did not then appear around PSG, hired this summer – there in a huge construction site with the departures of Messi, Neymar, Ramos and even Verratti. It was for the first time in February 2024 that the capital club was linked with the Georgian winger. At the time, it was even… his agent Mamuka Jugeli who revealed Parisian interest in Kvara. A little less than a year later, PSG's number 7 belongs to him.
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