Donnarumma kicked out by PSG, the underside of a manipulation

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The Paris Saint-Germain goalkeeper, who played a decisive role in the Champions League victory last season, will be removed from the capital to make room for his newly recruited colleague, Lucas Chevalier. This will be done in an operation designed to covertly sack him.

Goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma during the Paris-SG-Real Sociedad match on February 14, 2024 at the Parc des Princes. (Franck Fife/AFP)

In November, while Lille OSC goalkeeper Lucas Chevalier was just coming off an explosive October on the Champions League front with the scalps of the two Madrid clubs hanging from his belt , the Parisian directors and the de facto sporting director Luis Campos made it known to just about everyone, including the main person concerned, that he was to join the capital club at the end of the season. Sportingly logical: counting among the goalkeepers "at 40 million euros on the transfer market" according to a director of a French football giant (which is not Paris-SG), the Northerner by birth was destined to go higher.

And quickly, that is to say at the end of the 2024-2025 season: PSG was not alone on the case and football does not wait. All that remained was to make him p