Paris Saint-Germain and Real Madrid have become major rivals in recent years. Not only on the pitch but also on the transfer market – in the fight for players and reputation. We will see how long that will last and whether the French club will manage to get closer to the Spanish in terms of popularity. This season, by winning the Champions League and La Liga, Real Madrid showed why they are the biggest club in Europe, but then they received a strong blow with the negative answer of Kyllian Mbappe to the invitation to come to Santiago Bernabeu.PSG managed to keep a great striker and showed that they have their trump cards, which would be even more solid by bringing Zinedine Zidane to the position of coach, but that will not happen. According to Nasser Al Khelaifi, the former Real Madrid strategist was not even an option.PSG President Nasser Al Khelaifi has announced Zidane won’t be their new manager.He would have been the first person to coach both Ronaldo and Messi 🐐 pic.twitter.com/0sYUexa7dg— ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) June 21, 2022 It is hard to believe that they did not think about Zidane at Parc des Princes, who has been without an engagement for a year, although it seems that the trophy-laden strategist (before that the player) will sit on the bench of the French national team instead of Didier Deschamps when the World Cup in Qatar ends. As for Paris Saint-Germain and Al Khelaifi, they are currently busy negotiating with Nice to release Christophe Galtier.”I love Zidane, he was a great player, of incredible class, and he is exceptional as a coach, which is seen in the three Champions Leagues he won. But I will tell you one thing: we have never negotiated with him, neither directly nor indirectly. Many clubs want him, national teams as well, but we never talked to him”, claims the first man of PSG in an interview for Le Parisien, which he gave almost at the same time as for the Spanish Marca, with some other topics being more represented in the conversation with the Spaniards, but we will talk about that later in the article.Khelaifi is aware that Zidane would be a great asset for the club, but he believes that his arrival in Paris is not realistic at the moment.”We have chosen a different option. We have chosen a coach who will be the best for what we want to do. It is nice to have the highest goals, but at this moment we must be objective first of all. We have done some great things for the past 11 years, but every year we have to ask ourselves how to progress and be better.”Wed 00:55: (2.04) Chapecoense (3.00) CRB (4.00)Given the money that the club has, it seems that PSG can achieve everything they imagine when it comes to the domestic market, that is, to bring any player or coach you want in France. However, Nice do not want to let Galtier go that easy.”Nothing is over. We have a shortened list of candidates for our new coach, it is no secret that we are negotiating with Nice and I hope we will reach an agreement soon, but I respect that club and president Rivere. Everyone is defending their interests,” Al Khelaifi is aware that the club from the Cote d’Azur is after a certain amount. It is mentioned that 10 million euros are needed for Nice to release Galtier.In the part of the interview with the first man of Paris Saint-Germain, which was published by Marca, in the foreground, as expected, was Kyllian Mbappe. Nasser Al Khelaifi confirmed that Real offered 180 million euros for the fast-footed goal scorer.”I turned down 180 million last summer from Real Madrid because I knew Kylian wanted to stay in Paris. I know him very well, I know what he and his family want and not fall under the influence of money.”Nasser Al Khelaifi in June 2021:“I am going to be clear, Kylian Mbappe is going to stay in Paris, we are never going to sell him and he’ll never leave for free.”A man of his word. pic.twitter.com/ojJM7yglE3— 🦅 (@Ani7ii) May 21, 2022 Although after the end of the season, it seemed that Mbappe would still travel to Madrid, the young striker remained in Paris Saint-Germain and extended his contract until 2025.”He chose to play for his city, his club and his country, as well as for our sports project. He is just thinking about playing and winning.”Khelaifi also mentioned the failed project of the European Super League, in which PSG did not want to get involved from the start. He called the idea “dead”, and he also had an answer for the first man in La Liga, Javier Tebas, who reported the Parisians for violating financial fair play.”What we do, we do because we know we can. It is not our style to talk about other leagues, clubs or federations. We do not give lectures to others and we will not allow anyone to preach to us. Every year the same thing, but we will continue to build our project”, said the president of Paris Saint-Germain.
