The transfer of Marco Verratti from PSG to Al-Arabi last summer brought in nearly 50 million euros for the Parisian club… which still has to pay part of it to Pescara.
Arriving in 2012 at Paris Saint-Germain, Marco Verratti was gently pushed out a decade later. This is how the Italian midfielder was transferred to the Qatari club Al-Arabi in the summer of 2023. A good financial operation for PSG which recovered a sum estimated between forty-five and fifty million euros. But of this sum, the Parisian club will have to remove a part which it will then transfer to the account of Pescara, the training club of the “little owl”. Verratti’s former team is also starting to find the time is long.
In remarks given to Rete8 at the end of November, the president of Delfini, Daniele Sebastiani, expressed his impatience with the famous expected payment. “ We cannot say for sure how much we will earn (on the resale of Marco Verratti, editor’s note). At the moment we don’t know the price it was sold for, nor the amount we will get. » And a month later, the situation seems not to have changed. A problem for a Pescara team which now plays in Serie C, the third tier of Italian football, and which would like to recruit this winter.
Between 500 and 600,000 euros?
The manager then hoped for a sum of between “ 500 and 600,000 euros “. Obviously enough to make for a very different winter transfer window. Provided you receive the amount on time. “ If we believe that reinforcements are necessary in January, we will act according to what we can do », concluded Daniele Sebastiani.
