We thought the case folded. An announced verbal agreement, a five -year contract on the table, and a Gianluigi Donnarumma pushed towards the exit. The path seemed all traced so that Lucas Chevalier became the new goalkeeper of Paris Saint-Germain. A formality for the Parisian giant, accustomed to obtaining what he wants in Ligue 1. But that was without counting on the iron grip of a man who has nothing to do with the status of his interlocutor.
The wall has a name: Olivier Létang. And it has a price. According to information from RMC Sport, the president of LOSC set a price that had to make coughs in Paris: around 55 million euros. We are far from the 40 million mentioned a few days ago. The message is brutal, almost a provocation. Létang is determined to make Paris “Cease”. He knows that the capital's club has the means, and it intends to make the most of it. He is right, after all. It's the game.
Letang blocks Paris: the knight soap opera bogs
Those who thought that his past as a leader in PSG could facilitate things have been heavy. We know the character. Olivier Létang does not make a feeling in business. Its only interest is that of LOSC. We remember how he had opposed an inflexible firmness from Paulo Fonseca for Marseille. The score is known: when Létang says no, you have to come with very, very solid arguments to make it change your mind.
Létang sets a demential price for knight, PSG in shock
For PSG, it's a cold shower. The club must now decide its strategy. Fold and sign an XXL check, far beyond the player's initial value? Or withdraw from the file and look for another target, at the risk of losing a French talent that seemed promised in Paris? It is a real showdown that is committed. Létang has laid down his conditions, and he doesn't seem to bluff.
The file is therefore relaunched, and spectacularly. Contrary to what many thought, the arrival of Lucas Chevalier in Paris is anything but acted. It will depend on the will of PSG to bend, or not, to the requirements of a president who transformed a simple negotiation into a game of poker with very big stakes. The soap is just beginning.
