Paris (AFP)
Uruguayan striker Edinson Cavani, who ends his contract on June 30 in Paris, will not fight for the end of the Champions League with PSG, Spanish newspaper Marca announced on Saturday, which RMC Sport confirms by adding the case of Thomas Miller.
The 33-year-old striker "will not play the Champions League this season with PSG", writes the Madrid sports daily, information confirmed and supplemented by the French media.
Defender Thomas Meunier "also decided to leave PSG on June 30th. The Belgian will therefore not be taking over the professional group next Monday," said RMC on its website.
Crowned champion of France at the end of a season stopped by the coronavirus, PSG must play the quarter-finals of the Champions League between 12 and 15 August. The club of the capital is also engaged in the final of the Coupe de France against Saint-Etienne and in the final of the Coupe de la Ligue against Lyon, two matches scheduled for the end of July.
If press reports are confirmed, Cavani's departure will leave a bitter taste for Parisian supporters, who made the Uruguayan who arrived in 2013 one of the idols of the Parc des princes.
Top scorer in PSG history, with 200 goals, the striker has lost his starting position this season in favor of the Argentinian Mauro Icardi, loaned by Inter Milan and then recruited definitively at the end of May.
Leonardo, sports director of Paris SG, formalized his departure at the end of the season in an interview with the Journal du Dimanche published last week, reserving the same fate for Brazilian captain Thiago Silva (35), also at the end of the contract.
French defender Laywin Kurzawa and Cameroonian striker Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting, in the same situation, have agreed to extend their lease to end the season, according to RMC.
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