For her first season at PSG, Désiré Doué bursts the screen! Recruited last summer in Rennes for 50 million euros, the young French winger (19) was not always holder under the orders of Luis Enrique, but he very often managed to prove his value. His statistical assessment confirms this: in 46 matches in all competitions, he scored 13 goals and delivered 12 assists.
His progress earned him to be elected best player in March in Ligue 1, ahead of Mika Biereth and Ousmane Dembélé. And it may not be the only individual reward that he will take down this year. The tricolor neo-international actually sees his name releasing with insistence for the Golden Boy, who honors the best player under the age of 21 each year.
British media Score90 Place the Parisian crack in the first place of its latest “power ranking” for this trophy created in 2003 by the Italian sports daily Tuttosport. The native of Angers is ahead of the Barcelona defender Pau Cubarsi and his teammate Warren Zaïre-Emery, who finished third in the vote in 2024 behind Kobbie Mainoo and the laureate Lamine Yamal.
Desired by Paul Pogba and Kylian Mbappé?
If Désiré Doué were to be crowned Golden Boy, he would become the fourth French to register his name in the charts. Until then, Paul Pogba (2013), Anthony Martial (2015) and Kylian Mbappé (2017) are the only three tricolor footballers to have succeeded in this feat, accomplished by other very big names in the ball like Lionel Messi (2005) and Erling Haaland (2020).
But the old nugget of Stade Rennais probably does not yet make a goal. Already crowned champion of France with Paris Saint-Germain, the one whose market value is estimated at 60 million euros per Transfermarkt Can still win the Champions League, where he will challenge Arsenal in the semi-finals, and the French Cup, of which he will play the final against Reims.
