The Marseillais coach does not have eleven footballers for the French champion’s new project
“You have to reduce the workforce. You can’t have players who hardly ever play all season,” Christophe Galtier assured at the press conference last Tuesday to introduce him as the new Paris Saint-Germain coach. Said and done. The former coach’s first big decision from, among others, Olympique de Marseille, Lille or Nice is to clean the changing rooms of up to eleven football players that he does not have for his new project in the Parc des Princes.
That list, already delivered to the PSG leadership, is said to include Paredes, Diallo, Wijnaldum, Icardi, Kurzawa, Ander Herrera, Draxler, Kehrer, Danilo, Gueye and Dina-Ebimbe, footballers Galtier doesn’t have and whose performances in recent seasons, according to the French coach, were below what it takes to be starters in the new project. The Marseille coach wants there to regularly be a block of fewer players than Mauricio Pochettino had and thinks he can find an obstacle in these players. Following this line, sports adviser Luis Campos, a strong man in the office after the Brazilian Leonardo left, has already banned ten footballers from the ‘stage’ that PSG will hold in Japan between July 16 and 25. According to “L’Equipe,” this list includes Icardi, Kurzawa, Draxler, Ander Herrera, Wijnaldum, Dina-Ebimbe, Diallo, Sergio Rico, Rafinha, and Gueye.
The main obstacle PSG will face in starting this exit operation is the search for housing for high-salary players. This is the case with Wijnaldum, who receives 916,000 euros gross per month, Icardi (800,000), Paredes (750,000) or Ander Herrera (650,000). All this corresponds to the demands of a club chaired by Nasser Al-Khelaifi, which is unwilling to give away players and who, without going further, stood out by asking Manchester United €35 million when the red devils expressed interest in taking over the services of Leandro Paredes.
One of the players not on the list who appears to be under Galtier’s command is Neymar. “He’s a world-class player, what coach wouldn’t want him in his roster? I have a very specific idea of what I want from him,” the new PSG coach said in his presentation in words that slammed the door on the rumors surrounding a hypothetical departure of the Brazilian.
Source: La Verdad
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