Real Madrid and PSG are going to have crossed lives this summer. Market movements gradually interweave a network of names in which the two clubs converge. Both entities maintain excellent relations, as Madrid itself has taken pains to emphasize when in previous years news of contacts of the white club with Mbappe. A player called to be the main meeting point for locals and Parisians. But until they meet to talk about crack, the market will cross them with Conte, Pochettino, Sergio Ramos, Varane, Achraf, Theo ...
Achraf
The passage of the Madrid youth squad for Inter looks like it will barely last a year. The entity nerazurra he needs to sell and has found a bidder in PSG very interested in the purchase. And that goes with the money ahead: 60 million euros. Madrid has the right of first refusal, but it will not exercise it to resell it later and risk muddying its relations with the Parisians. Club-states have an advantage. 60 million for a side is unaffordable.
Achraf and Theo statistical comparison.
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Theo Hernandez
Another ex-Madridista who can embark for Paris from Lombardy, in this case from Milan. The German press reported this week the interest of the French club, but the San Siro are very satisfied with their performance. Although with the economic potential of PSG you can never say never. The interest in the Milan player and Achraf comes from another derivative: Conte's possible arrival on the Paris bench, a coach who likes to play with three center-backs and two lanes in a drawing in which both fit perfectly.
Varane
The central defender ends his contract in 2022 and he intends not to renew to prepare for a change of scenery, so Madrid will be forced to sell him this year if he wants to make his departure profitable. The option of PSG would give him hierarchy in the French quota of the team, but Manchester United have shown a strong interest in him. For PSG it is a great reinforcement, symbolically and sportingly. If Conte's arrival materializes, the Parisians will need to add another guarantee center to Kimpembe and Marquinhos to complete the rear. Varane is French, world champion … Madrid is not willing to sell it for less than 60 million euros. United, which has always had an eye on him, is the club that has sounded the strongest as Varane's destination, but few clubs have as much muscle as PSG to face the signing.
Statistical comparison of Sergio Ramos and Raphael Varane.
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Bouquets
The captain remains unrenewed with only 31 days left until his contract expires. Madrid maintains its one-year offer in exchange for agreeing to sign the salary cut that the club has proposed to the entire squad (10%). PSG has always been on the lookout and The beach bar revealed at the time that on December 30, at the team's concentration hotel in Elche, Ramos had communicated to Florentino Pérez the interest of the Parisians for him. Ramos and the president will see each other this week, Renovation or end to a glorious stage.
And, of course, Mbappé
The summer operation. The name that has always been attached in recent years when Real Madrid and PSG were mentioned, since the same summer that both clubs bid for the then Monaco footballer, when the pulse turned to the French side. It is without discussion the next galactic, the figure that monopolizes all the conversations when the madridistas talk about signings. Madrid have always avoided any maneuver that could cloud their relations with the Parisian institution, even with official denials when Mbappé has been linked to the whites. This time yes, this may be the year of Mbappé. He ends a contract in the Parc des Princes in 2022, he refuses to renew and PSG must avoid the risk of him leaving free within a year. The immediate goal ahead of him is the European Championship and he wants to participate in the Tokyo Olympics afterwards, a double that his current club does not like. Madrid is attentive if it continues to be castled. His signing is called to be the jewel in the crown of this summer white market … as long as the movement of one of the other pieces does not do irreparable damage to the relationship between both clubs.
The revolving doors of Pochettino and Conte
Allegri's decision to accept Juventus' offer upset Madrid's plans, which had at bianconero among his preferences to succeed Zidane. However, the range has reopened with two names already linked to the white bench in the past … and in which PSG also converges: Mauricio Pochettino and Antonio Conte.
The Argentine has always been loved by Madrid, who does not lose track of him. Pochettino has been in the Parque de los Príncipes for just five months and has a contract for one more year, but his relationship with Leonardo has deteriorated and both from France and England feed the rumors of a possible march. Tottenham, from where he was dismissed at the end of 2019 after five and a half seasons at the club, want to re-fish him, to make him his particular Ferguson and put together a long-term project.
Conte he has just left Inter after winning the Scudetto after a decade of drought. He was able to train Madrid in 2018 and after leaving the Lombard team he has been linked to PSG. PSG's recent interest in Achraf and Theo dovetails with the hypothetical arrival of the former coach nerazzurri: they are two lanes that come like a glove to the drawing with three centrals proposed by the Italian. The construction of a team tailored to the transalpine technician.