The departure of Gianluigi Donnarumma from Paris Saint-Germain this summer aroused many questions. Was it a purely sporting choice of Luis Enrique, eager for a more comfortable goalkeeper at the foot? Or were the reasons deeper? Guest of the show Rothen ignites On RMC this Monday, sports advisor Luis Campos ended speculation. And its version of the facts, delivered without detour, sounds like a real settlement of accounts with its former goalkeeper, revealing a divergence above all financial and philosophical.
A question of salary … and “merit”?
With a franchise that may seem brutal, Luis Campos has directly linked the departure of the Italian international to his wage claims, deemed incompatible with the new club policy. “” When he requests a salary at the PSG before, not the current PSG … Launched the Portuguese leader. He then detailed the new Parisian doctrine: ” Our policy is very linked to merit, you earn more when you deserve it. A sentence that suggests, in filigree, that Donnarumma no longer “deserves” a superstar salary in the eyes of management.
Words lacking in class?
This media outing, if it has the merit of clarity, questions the form. Critically criticizing the financial requirements of a player who has just left the club is not necessarily of great elegance. For some observers, these remarks are similar to a way of “paying” the player behind his back, and justifying a posteriori a decision that was perhaps more complex. Campos thus reveals that the departure was less a sporting choice, as Luis Enrique had been able to suggest, than an economic and disciplinary decision.
Campos breaks the silence: Donnarumma did not “deserve” his salary
The Donnarumma case, symbol of the new PSG doctrine
Beyond the person of Donnarumma, his declarations are above all a manifesto of the new PSG policy. Campos hammered it: ” The star is the club is the whole group. The departure of the Italian goalkeeper is only the first concrete application of this line of conduct. The message is sent to the whole locker room and the transfer window: no player, whatever their status, can no longer dictate its conditions. “” It is not your past that will make you a holder at PSG“, Warned Campos.
A strong message for the future
In conclusion, by delivering its version of the departure of “Gigio”, Luis Campos made one stone two strokes. He justified a major transfer of the transfer window while sending a free warning to the whole world of football. The load may be not very classy, ​​but it is effective. She confirms that PSG has indeed shot the page of the “bling-bling” era to enter a new era where the institution and merit take precedence over everything else. The players are warned.
