By recruiting Icardi this summer, would PSG break the century?

• Mauro Icardi scored a hat-trick and delivered a assist in the League Cup semi-final against Saint-Etienne on Wednesday evening.
• He brings his total to 17 goals in the jersey of PSG this season ... in 19 games.
• What convince the PSG to exercise its purchase option which only amounts to 70 million euros.

At the Parc des Princes,

We may not be fans of the dictatorship of statistics that has plagued modern football for years now, sometimes we have to make an exception and let the numbers speak. And Wednesday evening, after the brilliant Parisian victory in the quarter-final of the League Cup against Saint-Etienne, the figures concerning Mauro Icardi were screaming “MONS-TRU-EUX !!! ". Since his arrival this summer at PSG at the very end of the transfer window, the player on loan from Inter has posted pig stats.

See more: 19 matches played, 17 goals scored and two assists passes. Señor cien por ciento (Mister 100%), roughly. At this rate, Icardi will have surpassed King Cavani at the top of the classification of the best scorers in the history of PSG in mid-April. We’re kidding, but what the Argentinian is doing in just five months is simply amazing.

19 Matches
17 goals
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Flash adaptation and spades

In addition to his hat-trick - his first with PSG - Wednesday against outmoded Greens, Icardi offered a magnificent decisive pass to Mbappé at the end of a world class technical sequence. On a long bell balloon given by Di Maria, I18 (well what, we say CR7, KB9 or KM7) performs, during the race please, an extension control of the tip of the right foot before serving Mbappé with the left foot, all at a supersonic speed. A gesture that we had already seen him succeed with Inter, proof that this player is not just a surface killer but that he is neither technically clumsy nor selfish when facing goals.

It will start to be very hard to find fault with Icardi. What is this magnificent sequence of controls in full extension and the decisive pass for Mbappe? It's a delight.

After praising his teammate's defensive efforts against Sainté, Marco Verratti said all the good he thought of Icardi. "Mauro? He may not touch a ball, it does not matter, he knows that it will eventually happen to him and that he will score. He is always ready. This is its main characteristic. "More than the finisher talent of the loustic, known to all in the Parisian locker room, it is above all the express adaptation of the player that surprises the Italian environment:" We did not think he was going to be as well as quickly. We know that the first six months in a club is always difficult, but not for him. It is incredible and we hope it will continue like this. "

Nasser, get out the checkbook!

What a blow made this summer by PSG anyway ... By drawing Icardi on the wire at the very end of the transfer window as we leave a Château Latour 95 out of nowhere after a meal washed down on the spike, Paris hit very hard. But the best is yet to come since, by negotiating the striker's loan last August, Parisian and interior managers have agreed to include a purchase option.

Its amount? 70 million euros! The price of a baguette for the Emir of Qatar. Especially since on the exceptional number 9 market, such an animal is not traded, at the very least, unless twice. It remains to be seen whether the player, very attached to Inter despite his chaotic departure and his confusion with the supporters, will want to make his nest in Paris.

Mauro Icardi costs 70 million euros. It is a real robbery to have a number 9 of this quality at this price if the purchase option is exercised.

PSG should not even hesitate. This man is made for this club. It was almost obvious.

The park's public has already made its choice. Ovated at his exit from the field, the Argentinian was entitled to preferential treatment - deserved - from the Auteuil turn, which definitively dubbed him Wednesday evening. He has not yet had the right to his song as is the case for the idol Edinson Cavani, but that should not be any longer.

Icardi has the typical scorer profile that appeals to the Parisian public: like Cavani, a clebs doubled by a matador in front of the goal. As the Uruguayan will leave the club next summer, PSG would be wrong not to convince his No. 18 to settle permanently in the capital. At 70 million euros, we would not be far from the braquo of the century.

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