Through the back door and without making too much noise. So Marco Verratti said goodbye to PSG, even though he was one of the club’s biggest figureheads over the last decade. This makes him the second-largest player with the most games in the Paris jersey.
He was at the forefront of the failed projects of coaches like Tuchel, Laurent Blanc or Mauricio Pochettino, but he did not consider the same for Luis Enrique, who was clear from day one: straight to the launch pad.
At the age of 30, Marco Verratti packed his bags and embarked on a new adventure in Qatar, more precisely in Al-Arabi. An experience that, if there is no radical change, It will serve the Italian to burn the last cartridges of his career in a much more exotic football, far from the first European level.. A strange departure, but one that PSG experienced as a May rain.
The French club has “loaded up” the highest salaries on its payroll in one fell swoop, said goodbye to a player who counted nothing for Luis Enrique and, moreover, managed to get a pinch in the form of the transfer of almost 50 million euros . An all-round business. At least for the Paris club.
We will have to wait and see what progress Verratti makes on Qatari territory. The Italian midfielder still has a few seasons of football ahead of him and who knows if a good season in a more exotic game will open the doors to European football again. He would neither be the first nor the last to make a tour.
