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He was one of the five big players recruited in the summer of 2021 and supposed to allow PSG to win the first Champions League in its history. However, alongside Lionel Messi, Achraf Hakimi, Gianluigi Donnarumma and Sergio Ramos, Georginio Wijnaldum is surely the one who least met expectations. Author of an interesting first season under the aegis of Mauricio Pochettino, the former Liverpool player did not fit into Christophe Galtier's plans last year and was loaned to AS Roma. Now in the colors of Al-Ettifaq, the 33-year-old midfielder plays regularly and continues to be called up for the Netherlands.
However, the native of Rotterdam would have liked to return home and sign for Feyenoord last summer. However, as he explained on the microphone from ESPNPSG asked for a huge sum to release him from his last year of contract: “in fact, it's like this: I had to leave Paris Saint-Germain, there was no future for me there. There were almost no other options. I would have really liked to go to Feyenoord, but Paris asked for ten million euros, plus my salary. It was impossible to achieve.»
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