The January merchant arrives temporarily and France promises to return to being a very popular grocery shopping site for reasons.
With the collapse of the Mediapro TV rights deal and the effect of Brexit on the ability of Premier League clubs to buy French skills in abundance, adding to the apparent challenge of the day’s earnings relief due to the existing COVID-19 crisis. , Ligue 1 clubs will look for money, if possible.
While many notable names are nearing the end of their contracts, those French clubs can look to pay fees now to waste star names for nothing this summer.
Here are some to see in France this window.
Leaving a contract this summer and to extend their existing contract at Groupama Stadium, Olympique Lyonnais is in a more complicated position with respect to Depay than the highly sought after Houssem Aouar, under contract until 2023.
On the one hand, they fight for the name ligue 1 for the first time in years with a very realistic option of pushing to the end a lazy Paris Saint-Germain; on the other hand, Barcelona was already looking to bring in the dutchman abroad last summer when Ronald Koeman took office. Sources told CBS Sports that interest in getting Depay, Camp Nou and beyond remains.
OL will not be able to qualify a significant move-in payment for the 26-year-old due to the expiration of his contract, the economic outlook for French football and the limited resources of interested parties such as Barca. However, it is now or never to take credit for Depay, potentially saving cash on the rest of your contract to fund other extensions or an addition to the team.
The prolific form of Karl Toko Ekambi and Tino Kadewere so far this season suggests that Les Gones may be Depay’s departure in terms of goals (eight in one position this season), but Manchester United’s modeler is in a position to turn his back on him. A victory imaginable for the title of Ligue 1?
As extensions of the PSG contract for Angel Di Maria and the injured Juan Bernat, Julian Draxler could be located leaving the Parc des Princes in January, as the deal also comes to an end.
Sports director Leonardo has already broken ties with dear Jese Rodríguez and the Brazilian has moved to Germany abroad since returning to Paris in the summer of 2019.
Sources tell CBS Sports that the PSG remains willing to move Draxler after a failed move to Berlin’s Hertha last winter and back last summer, but the 27-year market is limited and has little functionality to justify his high salary, to name a few moving fees. .
If the Parisians simply don’t move Draxler, Leonardo may try to use former Schalke 04 and VfL Wolfsburg players as a component of an offer for some other player, which he tried, and was accepted first, with Layvin Kurzawa for Juventus’ Mattia De Sciglio last January.
PSG has been credited with an interest in Inter Milan’s Christian Eriksen and Tottenham Hotspur’s Dele Alli via CBS Sports’ insider Fabrizio Romano, so Draxler can be used as a potential trade-in option, as they have already been. demonstrated the Italians.
Kurzawa, Leandro Paredes and Idrissa Gueye are other candidates for use, but Draxler is firmly in the most sensible of the group given the importance of French with Bernat still injured and an already gentle midfielder.
The effect of the collapse of Mediapro and COVID-19 on French football is already being felt and Lille OSC has been sold to Callisto Sporting S. A. rl, owned through Merlyn Partners last week in the first of what deserve to be several examples. clubs that attract new investors or homeowners who are fully promoted.
Rennes’ former president, Olivier Letang, is now in the position of losC’s new president and arrives just in time for the January play window with a number of players expected to tie after a first part of the season at Stade Pierre Mauroy.
Prior to Merlyn’s arrival, Sanches had been the main candidate for a move in January after resurrecting his career under the skilful tutelage of Christophe Galtier. The Portuguese foreigner refused to devote himself to his long term in the Dogues when asked about it in November.
“I don’t know if I’ll be here next season, ” he said at a press conference. “I am satisfied here and I feel smart at the club. I’m also under contract for three more years. We’ll see, the end of the season comes. “
The feeling that Sanches, now 23, was setting the bar for a imaginable move grew when Lille’s monetary problems were exposed before Merlyn’s inauguration of the club and Letang’s claims that an “economic balance” is needed, as well as the “best team imaginable” dance. around the issue of sales.
Sources told CBS Sports that there is nothing complex, not even close, between Liverpool and Sanches, but that it is to place a new club at former Bayern Munich and Benfica because it does not need to remain in Lille.
Turkish couple Yusuf Yazici and Zeki Celik, as well as French striker Jonathan Bamba, are also imaginable sacrificial lambs, while LOSC seeks monetary stability without wasting their competitive merit nationally or continentally.
Lyon, PSG and Lille are the only clubs that can look to do business this winter because OGC Nice, Olympique de Marseille AS Saint-Etienne, Stade Brestois 29 and Dijon FCO can also improve skill at the right price.
The disappointing start of the Nice crusade has already claimed Patrick Vieira’s task and being outside the Europa League can push the British club to take credit for one of his most talented players with Amine Gouiri lately excelling and Youcef Atal a regular on European movement lists.
Marseille is in the race by name, but has past monetary considerations at Mediapro and COVID-19, while coach André Villas-Boas is also calling for attack reinforcements. Offers for outlying personalities like Kevin Strootman and Morgan Sanson will be welcome.
Dijon is anchored at the bottom of the Ligue 1 table and the bet to keep Mounir Chouiar at the club in the face of significant interest has failed because the 21-year-old has not scored the entire quarter and has only controlled a couple of assists. possibly have to sacrifice to fund survival reinforcements.
Brest is comfortably in the middle of the table right now and has several talented young players who can recover wisely in winter through a number of European clubs with goalkeeper Gautier Larsonneur, left-back Romain Perraud and striker Irvin Cardona, all key. Players.
Saint-Etienne goes through a difficult time with Claude Puel who is suffering to give new life to one of the top historical clubs of French football and the key to this procedure is to locate touchdown problems for Wahbi Khazri and the unwanted goalkeeper Stéphane Ruffier – easy. .
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