The Paris Saint-Germain Post
Market22 Jul 2030
Ilan Kebbal agrees terms with Atletico Bucaramanga
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Paris Saint-Germain people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market22 Jul 2030
Only the photograph left for Jean-Philippe Mateta
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jean-Philippe Mateta will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Paris Saint-Germain the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market22 Jul 2030
Mathieu Guyot puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Paris Saint-Germain, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad22 Jul 2030
Nuno Mendes in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Paris Saint-Germain this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad22 Jul 2030
Words at Paris Saint-Germain training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Willian Pacho is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market22 Jul 2030
Young Boys join the queue for Olivier Boscagli
Add another name to the list: Young Boys have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Olivier Boscagli. The answer from Paris Saint-Germain has not changed — yet.
Squad22 Jul 2030
Jean-Baptiste Olivier is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 17 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Boardroom22 Jul 2030
Belts tighten at Paris Saint-Germain
The accounts are being read more closely than the results. Wages before ambition is the order of business now, and the manager has been told so.
The dugout22 Jul 2030
When it matters, Désiré Doué plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
In brief
- The dugout Ilan Kebbal gets it from the manager
- The dugout A door opens for Jean-Philippe Mateta
- The dugout Zayon Chtaï-Telamio knocks on the manager’s door