Xavi Simons will renew for PSG but if he will be assigned

Xavi Simons’ future becomes clear. According to the journalist specializing in the market, Fabrizio Romano and RMC, the midfielder who emerged from the Barça academy will renew with PSG despite playing little this past season in the first team under Mauricio Pochettino and will be loaned to PSV Eindhoven to have more minutes in the Eredivisie and gain more experience.

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The contract of Xavi Simons, 19, expires this Thursday, June 30, and several weeks ago he already decided to renew while waiting to speak with the new PSG coach to find out first-hand if he was still at the club or if he was starting a tour on loan.

Although Pochettino’s dismissal is not yet official, the arrival of Luis Campos as sports adviser has led PSG to finally opt for Christophe Galtier as new coach and now the Parisian club is negotiating with Nice the amount with which it will compensate him before releasing PSG. your technician.

Goodbye to Barça with 19 years

Simons left Barça at the age of 16 after playing for Cadet A and, before moving to the youth team, he accepted PSG’s three-year offer in May 2019.

He initially joined the U-19 team and, following Pochettino’s arrival at PSG in January 2021, he made his debut a month later in the first team as a substitute against Caen in a French Cup match.

First team debut in 2021

In the 2020-2021 season, Simons only played the final moments of another match, that of his Ligue 1 debut against Strasbourg in April 2021. In the last campaign he has participated in 3 Cup games, debuting last December as starter, and in 6 league games being his debut as a starter in February against Rennes.

A background that he considers insufficient and now, despite rumors that Barça intended his return, Simons opts to renew and go on loan to PSV.