While he has already played two Qatar championship matches with Al-Arabi in a certain anonymity, Marco Verratti must already regret his Parisian life, he who was also “marked” in every sense of the word by his confrontation with Al-Rayyan on September 23 for his first steps in the Qatar Stars League, losing on his debut, but also taking a spike under his eye.
And if the Little Owl is already nothing more than a distant memory for PSG who will face Newcastle this Wednesday in the Champions League, the 30-year-old Italian international no longer had any future in Paris. To be convinced of this, it is enough to refer to the Parisian who released a little bomb this morning. The regional daily indicates that Luis Enrique quickly indicated upon his arrival in Verratti that he was not counting on him. And the 53-year-old Spanish coach was not in good shape, to say the least: “you are the prototype of the player I hate”, the former Barça coach had told him. In the middle of the summer, the former Pescara man knew that he no longer had any future in Paris. It will take him many weeks to agree to join Qatar… by default.
