While Lionel Messi has left for Miami, and Kylian Mbappé could join Real Madrid, another key PSG player is in a position to be transferred. Marco Verratti is indeed put under pressure by Saudi Arabia.
PSG supporters must have their hearts set at the start of the transfer window. For the moment, no reinforcements have signed with the champions of France, but worse still the date of the resumption of training could be postponed for lack of a coach, the signing of Luis Enrique being now expected next week. In the meantime, it is the column of departures that will fill up.
After Messi, Mbappé and Verratti?
After the official Lionel Messi, and while rumors are buzzing about the Parisian future of Kylian Mbappé, it is now Marco Verratti who is in the crosshairs. The Italian midfielder, whose return to Serie A had been mentioned, is in the crosshairs of Saudi Arabia. And, more precisely of the club of Al-Hilal. Proof that this story is not a canard, a Saudi delegation is even currently in Paris to find an agreement with Verratti and with Paris Saint-Germain.
Last December, Marco Verratti had extended until 2026 with PSG, he who had joined the capital club in 2012, the same day as a certain Zlatan Ibrahimovic. But, within a few months, little owl understood that he was no longer as much desired by Nasser Al-Khelaifi, who had nevertheless said a few months before all the good things he thought of the Italian international. According to L’Equipe, the Qatari president is still having trouble getting used to the idea of seeing Marco Verratti leave, despite the pressure put by the Saudi leaders willing to make a big financial offer to Paris Saint-Germain, and salary. in the 30-year-old midfielder. In Saudi Arabia, it is nothing less than 30 million euros per year that would await the one whose lifestyle has often been called into question. Something to make him think, and the rest proves it.
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While Al-Hilal’s emissaries are in Paris, the player discussed this offer with Kylian Mbappé and some of his relatives in the PSG locker room. Marco Verratti is all the more reluctant to say banco to Saudi Arabia as Luis Enrique, future coach of the French champions, has already made it known that he was counting on him next season. A reflection is therefore underway both on the side of Paris Saint-Germain, who cannot completely strip their team of all their stars, but also on the side of the midfielder, aware that between Paris and Saudi Arabia, the Sporting ambitions and private life are not quite identical. The next few days should therefore be decisive in this thorny issue.
