Donnarumma away from PSG? What happened with Luis Enrique- Corriere.it

Two years, but it feels like an eternity. July 11, 2021: we win the European Championship at Wembley e Donnarumma he was (rightfully) named player of the tournament, after mesmerizing the English from the penalty spot. Three days later, PSG announced his signing. Adieu, Gigio: Milan say goodbye to him after eight years, the disappointment remains for losing him to zero, but he arrives instead Maignan, who drives away the ghost of his predecessor and immediately wins the hearts of the Rossoneri fans thanks to his saves but above all to the very modern interpretation of the role, where feet count like hands. the infamous restart from the bottom, so fashionable in modern football for about ten years, where the goalkeeper becomes the first director of the team. A fundamental that has certainly never been a strong point of Gigio.

The 24-year-old from Castellammare di Stabia who never really grew up was amazing between the posts, in managing the ball: a defect that could now cost him dearly, given that the new coach of the Parisians, Luis Enrique is thinking of joining him with a high-level rival to stimulate competition between the posts. A backstory revealed byTeam, never tender with the blue number one, sometimes even excessively. The French newspaper outlines a real technical incompatibility between Gigio and Luis Enrique, who makes ball possession a cornerstone of his football ideology. So far he has shown a lot of uncertainty in this phase and on paper he does not have the technical means to meet the needs of the new technical staff, according to the newspaper.

The names of the potential bis-holders are those of Lloris And De Gea
, both without team. The first has just left with Tottenham, the second has said goodbye to Manchester United. Whether they are overall better than Italian remains to be seen. The fact is that at the dawn of its third season in Paris, Gigio is already on trial. And without even starting to play. There is no peace for him. Competition from Keylor Navas conditioned him for a year and a half, taking away his certainties and serenity, but after the Costa Rican went on loan to Nottingham Forest last January, it seemed that Gigio was finally ready to take Paris and deserve the superstar salary from 10 million a year including bonuses. It wasn’t like that.

The fans still dispute his mistake in the 2021-22 Champions quarter-finals: him waiting too long to play the ball, Benzema’s clever push, the Frenchman’s decisive goal with Real Madrid to celebrate the next round. A controversial episode, on which there was perhaps a foul, but which many media have placed in all respects on Donnarumma, who has always divided since he was 16 and made his debut with Milan. Not so much for his unquestionable talent, but precisely for his enormous media coverage, for his uniqueness. But also for his salary, which already in 2017 at Milan was six million euros net per year. On the one hand that mountain of money made him rich, but on the other it condemned him to always be in the crosshairs of critics, in the eye of the storm. Until it often becomes a dangerous alibi. To be clear: the fault, if PSG has never won the Champions League, cannot only lie with the goalkeeper but more logically with an ineffective sports project and an eternal powder keg locker room.

The former AC Milan player returns from holidays on Monday and in Paris I will no longer find the preparer Gianluca Spinelli, close to Inter. One more trouble. There are those who speak of a transfer, but unlikely. Because Gigio has a heavy contract until 2026, but above all because he intends to stay, as he has confided to those close to him. For PSG he said goodbye to Milan, his first love. And it wasn’t easy. That’s why he won’t give up. Now it’s his turn. All in his hands. And in his feet.