To bolster its line of attack, PSG dreams of bringing Christopher Nkunku back to the fold. A player chased by Neymar in 2019!
The attacking midfielder, who can also play as a second striker, is unmanageable at Leipzig and is the dream of many clubs. The German team understood that it would be impossible to keep him this summer, especially as the PSG, Manchester United, Real Madrid and Juventus are following him, to varying degrees. As a result, it will cost around €80 million to bring him in this summer, especially as Christopher Nkunku is now a France international, which has only increased his value. A huge sum for a player born in Lagny and trained at PSG, arriving in 2010 at the age of 12. But whoever was playing on the right side of midfield at the time had decided to slam the door of Paris SG to join Germany against 13 ME, the day after his missed shot on target in the Coupe de Coupe de final. France 2019 against Rennes.
PSG is here…to sell young people
A departure explained by a lack of playing time, especially in view of a starter, but also by a sideline linked to Neymar, as explained by his then agent Jose-Karl Pierre Fanfan. † He didn’t fit into a project. There is no project for many young people at Paris Saint-Germain. The problem is there. If there was a project for them, they could be loaned out to get stronger and come back with other arguments. But they are not interested. If the PSG can do something financially, it will go. When Nkunku left PSG, there was no regret on the Paris side. They had raised money financially. But he is a pure Parisian”said the former PSG player, before sharing an anecdote that says a lot about the welcome Nkunku had received from a star of the team: Neymar.
Neymar fires Nkunku, it almost went wrong
“There are players with status, it is also up to them to be exemplary. I’ll give you an example, a game in Guingamp at the beginning of the season (August 2018). Christopher Nkunku is the starter. At the end of the first period, he has a ball close to the surface. He is a player who has always been collective, but the sense of the game leads him to this: he has the ability to shift Neymar, but he prefers to strike. Neymar, excess of temper, he will berate him and yell at him. Three minutes later, it is half time, he will continue to see the young player, grab him, push him into the locker room. It almost went wrong, it was ‘Marqui’ (Marquinhos) who came to divorce them. And behind, it is he who was sanctioned, it is not the experienced player. He’s the sanctioned youngster who hasn’t been in the group for months “, underlined Pierre-Fanfan, for whom Neymar clearly did not help Nkunku to find his place at PSG, on the contrary. A behavior that also illustrates why the Parisian Titis has not often succeeded in imposing himself in their training club. Especially when stars like Neymar let him know that they won’t miss them at the slightest chance.
