Posted on December 2, 2021 at 9:15 p.m. by AD
During the last summer transfer window, Leonardo took advantage of Gianluigi Donnarumma's contractual situation to recruit him freely and for free, despite the presence and XXL performances of Keylor Navas at PSG. According to Jérôme Rothen, the sports director of PSG would have recruited the Italian goalkeeper because of a clash with the Costa Rican.
In the summer of 2019, PSG secured the services of Keylor Navas to enter a new dimension on the European scene. A choice that paid off, since the Costa Rican goalkeeper chained XXL performances under the Parisian colors, and the red and blue club have played a final and a semi-final of the Champions League since his signing. Despite everything, Leonardo did not want to pass up the opportunity to sign Gianluigi Donnarumma for 0 €. While the best goalkeeper of the year 2021 was at the end of his contract with AC Milan, the sporting director of PSG did everything necessary to recruit him freely and for free during the last summer transfer window. On the airwaves of RMC Sport, Jérôme Rothen revealed the reason why Leonardo had recruited Gianluigi Donnarumma despite the presence of Keylor Navas . And according to the former left midfielder of PSG, the Italian-Brazilian sports director would have made this decision, because he had a clash with the former goalkeeper of < strong>Real Madrid two years ago.
Leonardo took revenge on Keylor Navas with Gianluigi Donnarumma
“Two years ago, Leonardo found himself facing the players, and it's rare that a whole locker room faces a sports director, and they said to him: “you are not going in our direction, you are not defending us enough …” There are players who have spoken and who have been hard with him, namely (Keylor) Navas, (Edinson) Cavani and others as well. Leonardo couldn't alienate an entire locker room, so he had to go their way. Behind, Cavani out, because he had brought Icardi back. Thiago Silva might also have got into it. And Navas, he couldn't, because he's the best goalie in the world. But Pochettino did not want Donnarumma and he put him in the paws, and that to show Navas that he will play a little less because now, there is a star ”, explained Jérôme Rothen in Rothen ignites.