The walls of this “boutique” were lined with images of the Argentine star, but without a trace of the French player.
After the closing of the transfer market, the store of the Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) located on the central Parisian Avenue des Champs Elysées woke up this Wednesday with Kylian Mbappé eclipsed by the team’s new star: Lionel Messi.
The walls of this “boutique” were lined with images of the Argentine star, but without a trace of the French player, who will wear the colors of the PSG at least until June 30, 2022, after an intense struggle of Real Madrid for his signing.
“I would have loved for him to have come. I wanted Madrid to re-create a project with a figure like Mbappé, like when the two Ronaldos arrived.”, Said Carlos Garcia, a meringue fan who visited the store PSG.
The white club did not get this long-awaited signing, for which it came to offer up to 200 million euros – according to the French newspaper The team-, as the Qatar owners of the Parisian club did not give their arm a twist.
“They set challenges,” admitted Almeria, who believes the white club has missed a “unique opportunity” to sign. Mbappé and he is not optimistic for the Champions League this season: “I don’t see it as something we aspire to.”
Noa and Bené, two young French supporters of the PSG who had just compared a Messi jersey, felt “disappointed” and “angry” because they believe the Frenchman is leaving next year in Madrid, although They celebrate that he has stayed – for now – to win the ‘Champions’ with Messi, whom they consider “the best player in the world”.
TAILS FOR MESSI’S T-SHIRT
Fans and onlookers who arrived at the club store this morning were essentially looking for the t-shirt of Messi, Who wears the number 30 on his back -after undressing from the number 10 he wore for thirteen years as a Barcelona player-.
This is the case of the Spaniards María José and Isidro, who bought equipment for their two grandchildren with the name of what has become the signing of the summer. “They had to print it for us and in the queue they were all Messi”, She explained.
“There are queues and queues to look for Messi’s shirt,” said Sergio and Josseline, two Mexicans who took advantage of their trip to enter the store, “which has become a tourist attraction in Paris,” and in the door can still be read “Welcome, Leo Messi.”
“Everything is Messi. We are looking for others like Mbappé and Neymar but there is nothing”, Detailed one of these twenty years, which took away three T-shirts, and for which the staff of the PSG is the best in the world.