Resumption of PSG training: Edinson Cavani will not return

Paris Saint-Germain resumes training on Monday, but we will no longer see Edinson Cavani in this jersey. The Uruguayan striker will not be fighting for the end of the Champions League. For Virginie Phulpin, the end tastes as bitter for the player as it does for the club, and there is no winner in this story. 

If we were looking for proof by football that love stories end badly, in general, here it is! Edinson Cavani, top scorer in the history of PSG with his 200 achievements, goes on the sly. His last match with the Parisians will remain this knockout round of the Champions League against Borussia Dortmund. It was early March, a century ago. The Parc des Princes was empty, there was victory at the end, but it was only outside that the passion was still rustling. It looks like an image to summarize the last months of Edinson Cavani in Paris. Missed farewells. As if we were deprived of the conclusion "they lived happily and had many children". Virginie Phulpin may look for the winner of this too brutal end, but she does not see any. The club had retained their striker only lip service in January, Cavani knew that he was living his last months at PSG. It is not surprising that he did not want to sign two months of additional contract to dispute the end of this champions league. When you are no longer looking at you, when you choose to trust a younger replacement, when we talk about the end of the cycle to explain that we are putting you aside, you do not necessarily have the heart to do a last flower, in the name of all these beautiful years spent together. A question of pride, no doubt, a question of revenge, perhaps. Even if he does as much harm to himself as to PSG by not participating in this event in August. We are still talking about the Champions League. There is nothing more dangerous than a rejected lover. For himself, and for the other.

PSG can pay dearly for the absence of Edinson Cavani in August.

It's easy to say afterwards, but it might have taken a little more diplomacy. Perhaps he should have told him loud and clear how important he was to the club, and swore eternal love to him, even in the event of separation. PSG did not play on feelings. It is understandable, a sports policy and a transfer window, it is not exactly made of love and fresh water. But yes, it could be expensive. It would be better if Mauro Icardi, Cavani's replacement, did not injure himself before the final phase of the Champions League, nor during. Because Kylian Mbappé cannot do everything in attack, and because Choupo-Moting, without offending him, is not exactly at the level of the best in Europe. A small grain of sand, and the departure of Cavani before time can leave eternal regrets. All that remains is to organize a farewell party worthy of the name, in a full Parc des Princes. Like a love story that would end up "I prefer that we stay friends".