It would be funny: on Monday, September 22, at the Théâtre du Châtelet (in the heart of Paris), Gianluigi Donnarumma should logically win the Yachine Trophy, the award awarded to the best goalkeeper of the 2025-2026 season as part of the 2025 Golden Ballon. The Italian porter of PSG winner of the Champions League is well left to be crowned a second time, after 2021 Italy at the Euro). And this, at the expense of Lucas Chevalier.
In a few weeks, Donnarumma could thus be the knight's lining in red and blue goals! While the former AC Milan goalkeeper has managed to agree for an extension, Parisian leaders have decided to set their sights on the number 2 of the French team (which has not yet started in A) and would have reached an agreement at 40 million euros before bonus with the LOSC.
The finalization of the transfer of the 23 -year -old prodigy, north to the capital, a bit of a little because Donnarumma would not intend to leave (despite the 2026 World Cup after the season) and the DOGUES are in active research of a future successor to Knight.
Knight after Lloris, Maignan and Samba
After Mike Maignan three times, Hugo Lloris twice and Brice Samba in 2023, Lucas Chevalier is the tricolor representative of the list of 10 guards appointed by the Ballon d'Or. In addition to the two Ligue 1 players, we also find Alisson Becker (Liverpool), Yassine Bounou (Al-Hilal), Thibaut Courtois (Real Madrid), Emiliano Martinez (Aston Villa), Jan Oblak (Atlético), David Raya (Arsenal), Matz Sels (Nottingham Forest) and Yann Sommer (Inter Milan).
France Football launched this distinction in 2021 by paying tribute to the only goalkeeper elected Ballon d'Or in history, the Russian Lev Yashin in 1963. Journalists of FF and The teamas well as Luis Figo, Ballon d'Or 2000, and coach Fabio Capello has drawn up the list of nominees for the Ballon d'Or and the Yachine and Cruyff trophies (of the best coach). The jury of 100 international journalists (the top 100 in the FIFA ranking) will deliver its verdict next month.
