TRANSFER – Tanguy Kouassi was not yet vital to Paris Saint-Germain. But he could quickly become one. Instead, the “Bar” has chosen to leave the cocoon, according to RMC. And for the capital club, it is a failure of great magnitude.
Force, we finally stop to count them. For several years, Paris Saint-Germain is losing its young players in the cluster, and this trend is no longer surprising anyone. Nevertheless, it remains a substantive problem that the capital club seems incapable of resolving. Proof : Tanguy Kouassi, one of her “Titis” the most promising, has decided not to sign his first professional contract in Paris, according to RMC. His departure raises yet more questions. And sends signals frankly negative for the short, medium and long terms.
As crazy as it may sound, the loss is first sport : certainly, the player of 18 years has played thirteen meetings in all competitions, since the start of the season. But the situation is changing. The capital club is preparing to lose three defenders including Thiago Silva, as intimated by Leonardo, Saturday, during an interview with the JDD.
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Leonardo act the great household : 5 players are going to leave Paris, Thiago Silva and Cavani
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Tanguy Kouassi, the young defender from PSG
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The sports director in paris has also, in part, justified these departures by a desire to make the place “a generation that is coming.” Evidence that the club had allowed more responsibilities at her “Titi”. And that he was not planning his departure. As Thomas Tuchel, who is very sensitive to the integration of young players to the first team, had never stopped bragging about “his talent, his capabilities and personality”.
In Paris, a defensive sector out of the blue
The conditions offered effectively real prospects to Kouassi. With the departures of Miller, Kurzawa, and Thiago Silva, Paris will not have more than six men able to evolve at a very high level in the defence – considering that Colin Dagba has the confidence of his coach and that Mitchell Bakker is not yet a reliable alternative. While Thilo Kehrer (right) and Abdou Diallo (left) could still be of options to double the positions in the corridors if Paris fails to recruit one or two side at the mercato, the hinge consisting of Marquinhos and Kimpembe would then be without joker. The young defender offered a security that PSG needed. Even if, of course, the champion of France still has many weeks ahead of him to fill the holes. This will not be easy.
The market for defenders is particularly complex, and may become frankly unaffordable given the financial disaster that is affecting all the european clubs. This is a proof that the loss of the young Parisian is going to impact the club economically. Both in a direct way, since PSG will seriously have to consider the recruitment of an extra rear. But also indirect : a player 18 years of age, talented, mature, versatile – it can also evolve to the position of defensive midfielder – and who have benefited from the training in paris would have been able to monetize the gold price if he had signed a professional contract. The capital club may well be one of the most powerful in the world, financially speaking, it is not in a position to neglect this factor. It has never done.
The failure of the “project Mbappé”
Over the past two seasons, the sales of players from its training centre have produced a little over 80 million euros. A substantial amount of money. And welcome to the moment of balance, a balance which was leaning to one side since the transfer records of Neymar and Kylian Mbappé. Mbappé, precisely : the prodigy Bondy had come to embody a new project, and illustrate the will of the PSG, to build on the basin, île-de-france, the largest pool of players on the planet.
Tanguy Kouassi during the meeting between Lille at Paris Saint-Germain, the 26 January 2020
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Since then, the juggernaut parisian is becoming rather the club that the young shoots want to escape the more quickly. Apart from Kimpembe and Rabiot, who embody a generation already mature (1995), none has established itself permanently in the first team. Some recent decisions, such as the dissolution of the reserve, which has further accelerated the process. The leak Tanguy Kouassi risk of sounding like a new warning signal for future talent. And if, tomorrow, the PSG succeeds in forming the new Kylian Mbappé, it could be very difficult to keep…
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Leonardo act the great household : 5 players are going to leave Paris, Thiago Silva and Cavani
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