Leonardo was the guest of CFC on Sunday September 6, 2020. -

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Paris SG “needs to sell players before buying” during the transfer window which will close on October 5, sporting director Leonardo launched on Sunday, responding at the same time to his star Kylian Mbappé who demanded “good recruitment”.

“All clubs today need to sell to buy.

Paris Saint-Germain is in the same situation, ”assumed the Brazilian on Canal +.

Paris, recruitment at a standstill?

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Leonardo returns to the transfer window of PSG in the #CFC 💰 pic.twitter.com/8tbd2j0GHm

- Canal Football Club (@CanalFootClub) September 6, 2020

Already a big investment on Icardi

A few hours earlier, Mbappé had urged its leaders to "make a good recruitment" on TF1.

“I think it's important.

You have to buy players.

I hope that there will be good recruits and that we can start the season with the objective of doing better than last season, ”where Paris lost in the Champions League final, he said in the Téléfoot program.

"A lot of teams lost a final and won the following year. You have to recruit well, you have to buy players. I hope that we will have good recruits"



Kylian Mbappé's plans to win the LDC next year, at the microphone of @JulienMaynard pic.twitter.com/xNBi9Tkjqs

- Téléfoot (@ telefoot_TF1) September 6, 2020

Leonardo indicated that he and Mbappé thought "the same thing": "PSG is always ambitious", he admitted, while repeating that "we must look at the exit side because it is obligatory", in assuming that Paris would not sign "not ten players" in a month and recalling that the club had "already made a large investment in Icardi", whose renegotiated call option is estimated at less than 60 million euros against 70 at the base.

The Brazilian even admitted that he had thought about the Messi option when he was looking for a way out in Barcelona. 

“Mbappé?

The marriage with PSG is perfect ”

But "The base exists", reassured "Leo", listing all the players still in their twenties, including of course Neymar and Mbappé.

While both are at the end of their contract in June 2022, Leonardo assured: “We want to continue with them.

After that, you have to find the right time and the right way ”.

🗨️ Leonardo: "For me, the marriage between Kylian Mbappé and PSG is perfect" #CFC pic.twitter.com/cs6eGSlHrl

- Canal Football Club (@CanalFootClub) September 6, 2020

On the young French (21 years old), perhaps tempted by a departure abroad soon, he insisted moreover: “There are so many great things here for him the Parisian.

The marriage is perfect.

We must not forget that the project is difficult for all the other teams.

There are teams that will spend years in difficulty.

I think Paris is the team that will be present in the years to come ”.

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