On March 11, 2020, Edinson Cavani played his last match in the colors of Paris Saint-Germain, without knowing it. It was during the round of 16 second leg of the Champions League, against Borussia Dortmund. Three months later, Leonardo announced that the Uruguayan striker was leaving the capital club.
“El Matador” therefore did not take part in Final 8 which saw PSG reach the final. “My contract was ending and they didn’t offer to renew it. They had planned for me to be released. The end of the season came, the pandemic hit and they played this ‘mini Champions League’, this strange format. When they knew that the Champions League was going to be played, they started calling me because they wanted me to play in this competition. I have my principles, and I know that I give the maximum where I am, because there is a club which trusts you and which pays you, so I give everything I have. But if something goes wrong, I’ll tell you. That’s how it happened. I said I wasn’t going to renew my contract, because they wanted to do it, so that they had this competition in attack, because there was this competition.”confided the second top scorer in the history of the Rouge et Bleu during an interview given to
ESPN.
Cavani at PSG, the story ended badly
Edinson Cavani does not understand the treatment reserved for him by the Parisian leaders at the time. “Why didn’t you give me this opportunity sooner?” Why didn’t you tell me you trusted me and wanted me to continue?he questions. Afterwards, I would have made the decision to continue or not. But the end came and I left at peace with myself because I follow my principles. I would have liked to leave with a full stadium, but no, I felt that it was the time to leave this PSG, that it stopped there in this way and that there was no need to think about it longer. I’m like that because I live it to the fullest and I don’t hold anything back. »
As early as September 2019, Cavani’s position at PSG had been weakened by the arrival of Mauro Icardi, on loan from Inter Milan. In October 2020, the Céleste striker signed a free one-year contract with Manchester United.
