Posted on November 13, 2021 at 2h00 by GdSS
Recruited for free by OL during the last summer transfer window, Jérôme Boateng could have had a very different trajectory in 2018 by joining … PSG!
Long unavoidable within Bayern Munich where he spent ten seasons, Jérôme Boateng (33) finally ended his contract with the Bavarian club and signed up with OL in the summer latest. However, the robust German defender could have discovered Ligue 1 long before since Thomas Tuchel had wanted to bring him to PSG during the transfer window summer 2018 as his agent Volker Struth told Sport 1.
“Everything was negotiated for 37M €”
“The transfer of Jérôme Boateng from Bayern Munich to Paris Saint-Germain is pretty much the biggest transfer of my career that has been canceled. Everything was clear. Thomas Tuchel wanted it, there were meetings, everything was negotiated. The transfer was 37M €. But a veto was then vetoed by sports management, “said Boateng 's agent on his abortive transfer to PSG.