Manon Fossat 3:01 p.m., August 26, 2021

Nine months ago, sports journalist Daniel Riolo announced on RMC Sport that Lionel Messi was going to sign for PSG.

A sentence that then provoked mockery and torrents of hatred on social networks, before the Argentinian actually signed in Paris.

An episode on which returned the person at the microphone of Philippe Vandel Thursday in "Culture Media" on Europe 1, Thursday.

INTERVIEW

It is an understatement to say that the arrival of Lionel Messi at PSG caused the excitement.

The 34-year-old Argentinian football star is arriving in the capital for the next season.

A transfer announced nine months ago by sports journalist Daniel Riolo on RMC Sport.

Guest of Philippe Vandel in

Culture Médias

on Europe 1, Thursday, he returned to this sentence dropped in the middle of the broadcast and on the information he had or not at that time.

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"From the deduction"

"Very oddly I said it on a little show on a Thursday and not in After Foot which has been our show with Gilbert Brisbois for 15 years. I wanted to say it, I planned to say it, but I couldn't hold out until the evening, "he laughed. "I didn't have a real scoop but it so happens that at the time we were working on the After Foot review which was going to release its first issue in May and we had focused the first issue around football and football. 'economy. I was talking then with a lot of people in Spain and according to the study and what I saw, the situation of Barça was so catastrophic that it seemed to me almost impossible that they keep Messi. he continued. 

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For the sports journalist, too many conditions were not met for the Argentine to stay at the club.

"Then it was deduction. It was only PSG who could have jumped on it and take it. Qatar could not pass up the opportunity to have Messi at Paris Saint-Germain," continued Daniel Riolo.

He also recounted the criticisms he was the target of after announcing this arrival.

"When I saw the noise that it made in the days that followed, I said to myself that I was going to take on the head, even if I am relatively used to it". 

Towards a departure from Mbappé 

Daniel Riolo finally explained that he did not regret this episode. "In the After, we are used to fairly strong opinions around football so it always makes waves. I am very detached from all this even if I sometimes respond to certain insults," he said. he recognized. The sports journalist finally said that according to him, Lionel Messi would be well in the group for the meeting against Reims on Sunday evening. Match for which places are snapped up at exorbitant prices. 

Finally, the journalist assured that it would not be surprising that Cristiano Ronaldo leaves Juventus Turin. "He wants to leave and he told his agent to find him another club. And not a lot of clubs can pay him apart from Manchester City and PSG. As for Mbappé, he wants to leave and I don't see the club holding him back by force. " Answer therefore by August 31 in the evening, date of the end of the transfer window.