This Saturday, PSG will play its second Champions League final against Arsenal in Budapest. A meeting not to be missed for Parisians, focus on this last match of the season. At the same time, the club has been working behind the scenes for several weeks. Nasser al-Khelaïfi, Luis Campos and Luis Enrique have already made progress on several issues, starting with the extension of the Spanish coach, whose new lease should run until 2030 and will make him the best paid man at the club, ahead of his own players.
In addition to this important file for the club, we must also think about the arrivals and departures of the summer. In this sense, the big story of the moment in the Parisian offices concerns an unexpected recruit. Indeed, according to the information from the Teaman 18-year-old goalkeeper, whose identity has not yet been revealed, is set to sign with the capital club. According to this same source, the doorman could be Spanish.
A recruitment that could open the door for Chevalier
This recruitment is part of the philosophy dear to Luis Campos, who since his arrival has favored the detection and integration of very young goalkeepers with high potential, as he did last season by attracting Renato Marin from Roma when the Italian was not yet twenty years old. The fact remains that this signing comes at a delicate time for the management of goalkeepers within the club, where three elements from the training center are reaching the end of their contract. One of them, Bilal Laurendon, is preparing to commit to Azerbaijan, while Arthur Vignaud and Martin James are still in negotiations with Paris to initial a new lease, despite proposals for professional contracts made for several months.
But beyond training, it is on the professional hierarchy that this operation could have the most significant repercussions. The management and technical staff believe that Renato Marin has the level to progress very high and do not wish to slow down his progress. If Lucas Chevalier, currently second in the hierarchy behind Matvei Safonov, were to leave the club, Marin could then inherit the status of number two. In this scenario, the position of third goalkeeper would find itself vacant, and this recruitment would take on a whole new dimension. This young 18-year-old goalkeeper would no longer only be a promise to be developed in the long term, but an immediately useful piece in the Parisian system. To be continued…
