O Paris Saint Germain Pre-season training begins this Tuesday (11) with Neymar and Lucas Hernández, but without the players called up for their selections in June, including Kylian Mbappé: the club wants to renew his contract or sell the striker in the mid-window year, while he wants to stay until June 2024 to leave free of charge.
After the physicals on Monday, with coach Luis Enrique in charge of the team, PSG are back to routine at their new training center, located in Poissy, west of the French capital.
Neymar, who has recovered from ankle surgery he underwent in March, and Lucas Hernández, who suffered a serious knee injury in France’s first game at the 2022 World Cup, will be in attendance. The young Uruguayan defensive midfielder Manuel Ugarte will be new on the first day of pre-season.
The other reinforcements, Milan Skriniar, Marco Asensio and Kang-in Lee, will have an extra week of vacation.
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In turn, Kylian Mbappé, as well as the Italians Gianluigi Donnarumma and Marco Verratti, the Portuguese Danilo Pereira and Vitinha and the Moroccan Achraf Hakimi, will only return on the 17th of July.
But the most expected is, without a doubt, the striker intended by the Real Madridwhich has been maintaining an arm wrestling match with the PSG board.
After the letter sent by Mbappé explaining that he will not activate the automatic renewal clause until 2024, the French club gave the player until July 31 to decide whether to renew his contract or leave PSG in this transfer window.
According to a source close to the Parisian board, this situation “hides Mbappé’s brilliance on the field. He is the best player in the world and during all this time he has been magical for PSG”.
The club “doesn’t understand why Kylian Mbappé doesn’t accept the mutually agreed-upon plan: he renews until 2025, then a transfer agreement is reached next summer, as he wants, and the club gets feedback on the investment”, adds the source, noting that the player posed with a shirt with the number 2025 stamped on the back when he last renewed.
After a first friendly against Le Havre on July 21, PSG will travel to Japan for an 11-day tour.
In Osaka, the French team faces Cristiano Ronaldo’s Al-Nassr on July 25 and Cerezo Osaka, three days later. In Tokyo, on August 1st, the friendly will be against Inter Milan
PSG make their home debut on French Championshipagainst Lorient, on the weekend of the 13th of August.
Source: Gazetaesportiva
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