Bradley Barcola at PSG? A priori, Luis Campos and the Parisian leaders are thinking about it. According to the Italian journalist Fabrizio Romano, the young (20 years old) French striker from Lyon is in the small papers of the recruiters of the club with 11 titles of champion of France. A priori, Leipzig is on the spot too. RMC confirms and specifies that the Parisians particularly appreciate his versatility and the fact that he can evolve indiscriminately on the entire front of the attack. An interest which is, they say, not new, we even speak of several months, but which has been validated by the future Parisian coach, Luis Enrique. Issue ? A priori, Olympique Lyonnais is not a seller… “If the club needs to sell in the coming weeks, Barcola is not at the top of the list and other attacking elements should leave before him”, specifies t -on to RMC, quoting Man. City as a suitor.
Currently hard at work with Les Bleuets during Euro U21, Bradley Barcola is coming off a season with seven goals and 12 assists in 44 matches with OL, his training club. He had notably been very prominent during the Lyon victory… at the Parc des Princes (0-1), against a PSG still groggy after leaving the track in C1.
Who to coach AS Monaco? The silence was becoming deafening on the Rock. Finally, the princely club made its choice: according to information from L’Équipe, ASM’s choice is Austrian Adi Hütter. Free since the end of his mandate in Mönchengladbach, in 2022, the 53-year-old technician is not unknown in the Red Bull galaxy, he who notably trained Salzburg (2014-15). He also served with Young Boys Bern and Eintracht Frankfurt. The sports daily indicates that “discussions are continuing” and that “nothing has been signed”, also suggesting that the future successor of Philippe Clement may not be hard at work for the recovery, Monday, but doubt is, it seems, no longer permitted.
Sixth in the 2022-23 Ligue 1 standings, AS Monaco will not play in Europe in 2023-24. Also passed by the Red Bull group, the Brazilian Thiago Scuro now officiates director of football for the Monegasque club. He will now be able to focus on shaping the workforce.
Respectively aged 33 and 35, former Marseillais Alvaro Gonzalez and Luiz Gustavo are leaving Al-Nassr, Cristiano Ronaldo’s Saudi club. They will have spent a season in Riyadh.
According to information from Sky in Italy, José Mourinho could make a big candle to Luis Campos and PSG. Recruited for €15m last summer, Renato Sanches spent most of his time in the infirmary. Roma would nevertheless be in the running to offer him a way out this summer. The former Bayern player, however, would only be a plan B in the event of failure in the Davide Frattesi (Sassuolo) file. A priori, the two clubs have not (yet?) Started discussions, but the player seems ready and Mourinho has been following him for a long time. Renato Sanches has played 27 matches with Paris Saint-Germain (2 goals), where he is under contract until 2027.
It’s the end of a great career. Cesc Fàbregas (36 years old, 110 caps, 15 goals) announced this Saturday on his social networks the end of his history as a football player. After a final challenge in Italy in Como, after his departure in 2022 from Monaco, the Catalan is ending 21 seasons of a rich career. Trained in Barcelona, he won 16 titles, the majority of which with Barça (6), including La Liga (2013). He was also champion of England with Chelsea (2015 and 2017) and winner of the Europa League with the Blues (2019), he who also won the FA Cup (2005 with Arsenal, 2018 with Chelsea). With La Roja, he won the World Cup in 2010, without forgetting the two coronations at the Euro (2008 and 2012). The conversion of Cesc Fabregas is all found: he puts on the coach’s costume in Como (Italian D2).
According to Sky, the Portuguese U21 international from Celtic Jota is very close to Al-Ittihad. The two clubs are in “advanced negotiations” for this 24-year-old winger, under contract until 2027 in Glasgow. A priori, everything should go very quickly when the agreement is sealed for the transfer fee. Trained at Benfica and passed through Valladolid, Jota joined Celtic Park in 2021.
The Turkish club of Adana Demirspor formalizes this Saturday the taking office of Patrick Kluivert. Briefly passed through the PSG organization chart (2016-17), the former Dutch international, now 47, will officiate as coach of this first division team, fourth in 2022-23 and qualified for the Europa League. Conference. Two-year contract for the former Losc player, who succeeds Vincenzo Montella and is about to live his first experience as number 1 on a bench. He previously officiated at the head of the selection of… Curaçao (2021) and the U21s of Twente (2011-13).
What about Maxime Lopez’s future? One thing is certain, the former OM player wants to leave this summer, after three seasons with the “very good club” that is Sassuolo, 13th in the Serie standings in 2022-23. “I think the time has come for me to look a little higher”, he underlines for Le Média Carré, he who is said to be courted by his former coach in Marseille, Rudi Garcia, recently appointed to the head of Naples. An interest that obviously did not escape the interested party… “I am very well in Italy, I like the country a lot, there are quite a few top clubs here… It would be the best to go to one of these clubs”, he slips, before adding, mischievously: “There is a team in the south of Italy that I like (smile). It looks a lot like Marseille. That’s all I like in a club, I was born with that, I was used to that. Last winter Brighton tried their luck. And this summer? “England? It’s not up to me. If the coach (Roberto) De Zerbi calls me, of course, we will discuss seriously”, loose Maxime Lopez, who evolved under the orders of the Italian technician in Sassuolo during the 2020-21 campaign.
And there is OM. Not quite a late news track, but something that will always be on the 25-year-old’s mind. “To be honest, sometimes I think about it… But I’m like, ‘Is this a good thing?’ Coming back, I would love it. But you don’t have to come back to come back. So there you go, I don’t know, I’m a little mixed on OM, it will remain my favorite club, but afterwards, there you go… In addition, they took on the Spanish coach (Marcelino, editor’s note), this n isn’t bad either. To see, I don’t know,” he said. Lopez is under contract until 2025, he who has played 150 matches with OM and 98 under the colors of Sassuolo.
Former Portugal coach, Jorge Jesus takes the reins of the Saudi team of Al-Hilal. It’s official. The 68-year-old Portuguese technician, free since leaving Fenerbahçe at the end of the season, will notably have Rúben Neves and Kalidou Koulibaly under his command, but also the Frenchman Moussa Marega.
Lucas Hernandez will defend the colors of PSG well. After successfully passing his medical examination on Friday, the 27-year-old world champion signed his contract on Saturday, as various sources report (L’Équipe, Le Parisien…). A transfer of between 40 and 50 M€ according to sources for the tricolor international, recruited for 80 M€ by Bayern Munich in 2019. We are only waiting for the formalization of Paris Saint-Germain. The news, however, will not only be happy among fans of the Parisian club, knowing the affection of the person concerned for … OM. Former Atlético, Lucas Hernandez has not played since his serious knee injury in the first match of the Blues at the 2022 World Cup.