PSG is going through an extremely volatile summer when they parted ways with the two biggest stars of the team, Messi and Neymar . The club later also brought in some quality names to replace such as Marco Asensio, Goncalo Ramos or Ousmane Dembele.
The parting of the old and the new entrants also entails a change in the number of the club’s shirt. Here, PSG decided to give the club’s iconic number 10 shirt to a rookie, instead of the current biggest star Mbappe.
The person chosen to inherit Neymar’s shirt number is Ousmane Dembele. His official shirt number has been announced by PSG on the team’s online store. This is considered a great favor of the Ligue 1 club for the French rookie.
Dembele will be the new owner of the number 10 shirt at PSG (photo: Actu Foot)
Since the Qatari took over, PSG has only given this iconic number 10 shirt to two super rookies, Neymar and Messi, who refused to take the number 30 in 2021. Even the legendary Ibrahimovic when he first joined also had to wear the number 18 shirt before switching to number 10 in the second half of the 2012/13 season.
The fact that Dembele becomes PSG’s new number 10 means that Mbappe will still wear the number 7 shirt this season. Previously, the French press predicted that the 24-year-old striker would inherit Neymar’s shirt number after his senior left the club to join Al Hilal. The actual number 10 was no stranger to Mbappe when he was his shirt number in the French national team.
The pair of close friends Mbappe and Dembele will be PSG’s new duo this season (Image: Getty)
However, changing shirt numbers does not seem to be too important for Mbappe right now. According to RMC Sports, although he will stay in Paris this season, the French captain is still determined not to renew with PSG.
Mbappe’s side is said to have compromised that it will not take the loyalty bonus at the end of the season in exchange for a place on the pitch this season as well as a free departure in the summer of 2024. Due to the determination to leave the club, Mbappe does not want to change. number of shirts because this will cause many fans to spend more money to buy new shirts.
Kylian Mbappe uses a “dirty trick”, pushing Neymar to leave PSGSport (France) believes that Kylian Mbappe used a “dirty trick” to push Neymar away from Paris Saint Germain (PSG).
Just two days after Mbappe decided to stay at PSG, Neymar left the team to switch to Al Hilal in the Saudi national championship. According to Sport, those moves did not come about by chance.
The conflict of Mbappe and Neymar was pushed to the climax. The French striker pressured the PSG leadership to sell Neymar (Image: Marca).
Instead, Mbappe issued an ultimatum asking the PSG leadership to resolve Neymar’s future soon. To convince the French striker to stay, the tops of the French club were forced to push “little Pele” away.
The relationship between the two players has been broken for a long time. Most of the PSG players said goodbye to Neymar after the player left, except Mbappe. The French striker kept quiet and did not say goodbye to his teammates.
Remember, in 2021, the camera lens at the PSG match against Montpellier discovered Mbappe telling Idrissa Gueye that Neymar was just a parasite. The reason is because the Brazilian star did not pass the ball to Mbappe in the match.
The French striker later admitted: “Yes, I said so. It’s a normal thing in football. I spoke to Neymar afterwards. We had a frank exchange and there were no complaints. “.
Neymar and Mbappe have fought many times over the years (Image: Getty).
Last year, these two players clashed again when they competed for a penalty in the match against Montpellier. In the end, the coaching board arbitrated Mbappe to win when awarding the right to take a penalty kick to this player.
Neymar was also cold to Mbappe during Messi’s appearance at PSG. They do not appear together at parties. Recently, Neymar also caused a storm when he pressed the “like” button on posts criticizing Mbappe on social networks. Even before leaving, the Brazilian striker also made a similar move.
Neymar and Mbappe are equal but not satisfied. They all want to be the leader of PSG. That is why both of these players gradually drifted apart, even though in their early days at PSG, they were close to each other.
After all, Neymar’s departure is reasonable in the period PSG is aiming to stabilize the squad. They cannot use too many strong personality players. That led to the interior of the Paris club continuously “troubled” for many years.
