While waiting to define the continuity of Mauricio Pochettino or the arrival of a new DT, Paris Saint Germain puts themselves in first place for a semester in which they will try to change the image they left last season. To deal with what is coming, the top management of the Parisian team are aiming to once again break (and are going …) the market, but for this they will have to part with many of the higher contracts.

Is that, after assuming the cost of ensuring the continuity of Mbappé, PSG has become even more complicated with a financial fair play with which UEFA has proved rather permissive. The truth is that the French team has an overpopulated roster of stars, who often don’t see as many minutes as they would like, but who have a very high salary. The goal is to sell, but a problem arises.

Players like Icardi, Paredes, Draxler and Kehrer, who have more than important contracts, would be the main targets for leaving Paris in this market, but the conflict would be about their position. The cases would be similar, but the most difficult situations would be those of Icardi and Paredes, who have a contract with the club until 2024 and 2023 respectively. Both have made it clear that their intention is to continue and PSG would have their hands tied.

Now the club is working against the clock to unlock these situations, since in a few days of transfer, clubs like Real Madrid have already started to move the first chips. And if we talk about the cases mentioned above, it should be noted that none of these players added too many minutes in the last season, even if their salaries represent a large expense for the club. Together they receive around 2.5 million euros gross each month.

Referring to the case of these “rebel” players was former PSG player Jerome Rothen, who has leveled criticism through his radio show RMC Sport. “When you see the salaries and the sporting impact it is catastrophic. When your name is Icardi or Paredes, when you make such a speech even when you no longer play, you pretend to train and watch others play … you are out, and it’s this is where the passion for football is born “, he launched.

And if the club tells you: ‘We don’t love you anymore, because we bought you 50 or 60 million and we give you a million a month’, respect the decision, because you can also say that you were lucky. There are still others who will surely react in the next few days by saying: ‘I want to stay’. To all that gang I tell them to look to themselves and to respect the club. Shame has no limits “.

The words of Rothen, clearly outraged by the situation that the club is going through, have to do only with these 4 cases in particular, as other players reported by the management would facilitate their departure. Colin Dagba, Abdou Diallo, Idrissa Gueye, Layvin Kurzawa, Ander Herrera, Georginio Wijnaldum, Danilo Pereira and Keylor Navas, just some of those who would leave this market.

The case of the Argentines

Going deeper into the situation of Icardi and Paredes, it can be said that between the two they have barely played a little over 2,000 minutes this season with the PSG shirt, given that it contrasts a lot with those of the previous season, as he knew how to be key pieces of the first team. Today his case is the most complicated of all and, with years of contract in sight, they would aim to continue in France.

The truth is that, while Icardi was practically excluded from the World Cup, not having been in Scaloni’s consideration for some time, Paredes was able to carve out a place in the ideal eleven of the Argentine national team. Months away from Qatar and with an undisputed Guido Rodríguez in his club… Will Paredes give priority to the added minutes over continuing in the cast of the French capital?