Mercato | Mercato – PSG: Leonardo is back to square one for Icardi!

Posted on December 27, 2021 at 5.30 p.m. by AC updated on December 27, 2021 at 5:32 pm

The future of Mauro Icardi is a much discussed issue at Paris Saint-Germain, just a few days before the opening of the winter transfer window.

It might just be the solution that Leonardo is looking for! This winter, the sporting director of Paris Saint-Germain will need to focus on sales and L’Equipe just recently announced that it will need to collect no less than € 100m. If a first step will soon be taken with the departure of Rafinha to Real Sociedad, but there is still a lot to do … and Mauro Icardi could well be the next one. The Argentinian is very little in sight this season with PSG and his extra-sporting issues have not helped matters. If he's the only real number 9 you can count on Mauricio Pochettino, he is also a valued player abroad and especially in Italy, with Juventus. In Turin the first part of the season was also not brilliant and Icardi could be the striker so sought after by Massimiliano Allegri, who has seen his players score just 27 goals in 19 Serie A games.

Icardi more in Juventus' plans …

Several transalpine media have relaunched the track Mauro Icardi at Juventus, a few days before the start of the winter transfer window 2022. However, La Gazzetta dello Sport tells us this Saturday that this file would be more than compromised! According to daily reports, the Bianconeri did offer Paris Saint-Germain a loan, but Leonardo categorically refused, imposing a mandatory buyout option. An unacceptable condition for Juve, who has no intention of making a long-term commitment with an attacker soon to be 29.

Who now watches Scamacca, Isak … and Milik!

Leonardo's demands do not really seem to be the only reason for the possible failure of this operation. Also according to La Gazzetta dello Sport, the leaders of Juventus would have started to work on other files, in particular those related to Alexander Isak of the Real Sociedad as well as to Gianluca Scamacca of Sassuolo. Younger and with lower salaries than Mauro Icardi, they would currently be the main names evoked in Turin to strengthen the workforce of Massimiliano Allegri. That's not all, since Gianluca Di Marzio also spoke of a flashback of the Arkadiusz Milik track, currently on loan from Napoli to Olympique de Marseille .