227 minutes. Here is Renato Sanches’ total playing time at the start of the season with AS Roma, in all competitions. Between new physical problems, a glaring lack of confidence and too irregular and insufficient performances, the loan of the Portuguese midfielder in the Italian capital did not have the effect sought by the Italian club and the Portuguese player. However, the Giallorossi represented a wonderful opportunity to revive Sanches’ career after the complicated end of his adventure at Bayern and his difficult first season with Paris Saint-Germain. But the years seem to follow one another and look the same for the native of Lisbon. “Renato Sanches is a player who is too often uncertain. It’s difficult to understand. Bayern Munich did not understand, neither did PSG. We get tired of trying to understand. He’s a great player who needs to play.”José Mourinho declared in September.
A few weeks later, the Portuguese coach even decided to leave the 26-year-old midfielder, just 18 minutes after he came on. “I hoped, after the sixty minutes played against the Sheriff, that Renato, with the adrenaline of the match, would be able to shake himself up and get rid of these emotional scars that condition him. He is a boy who is afraid of getting injured and who also works in training at very low intensities. It hurts to see a player like him enter the field and leave a few minutes later., added the Special One last week. But Roma made a decision and the management of La Louve made a drastic decision for the future of Renato Sanches. Everything could be resolved in the coming days.
An ordeal that continues…
This nightmare could soon end. Indeed, according to our information, the management of AS Roma, led by Tiago Pinto, is ready to call Paris Saint-Germain to break the loan of Renato Sanches this winter. Our Italian colleagues from Corriere dello Sport adds that relations between the two presidents of the two clubs have been very good for several years, and the Giallorossi therefore hope to rely on this point to convince the Parisian management to take the Parisian environment back into its ranks. The objective for AS Roma is to free up a place in its squad and especially in its UEFA list in order to register Sardar Azmoun or Rasmus Nissen Kristensen for the rest of the Europa League, while the Romans will play against the Feyenoord club in the round of 16 of the competition. The time has come to pick up your phone and convince the Parisians to get your player back.
This hasty departure should therefore add a new winter objective for Paris Saint-Germain, especially since Luis Enrique’s troops have already planned to enrich the competition in the middle with the arrival of the young Brazilian, Gabriel Moscardo. The Parisian management could well have the difficult mission of finding a new suitor, capable of welcoming Renato Sanches and his salary of around 3.5 million euros net plus bonuses – what he receives at Roma. As for the Italian club, losing a midfielder during the winter transfer window would not be a big loss since José Mourinho intends to rely more and more on his pair of young people formed by Niccolò Pisilli and Edoardo Bove, while Tiago Pinto makes central defense the main project of the winter transfer window due to Chris Smalling’s long-term injury coupled with the upcoming absence of Evan N’Dicka for the CAN.
