PSG / « The club will make choices »: Gianluigi Donnarumma foresees the end of the alternation with Keylor Navas

Both are on the same wavelength. After Keylor Navas, Gianluigi Donnarumma also indicated that he no longer wanted an alternation with the Costa Rican goalkeeper in the PSG cage next season. « I think it will surely not happen like that, because I think the club will make choices« said the 23-year-old Italian goalkeeper, crowned European champion with his selection last season.

Navas had already spoken on the subject after the victory of PSG in Angers (0-3) on April 21. « JI have a very good relationship with ‘Gigio’, I want to play all the matches, said the former Real Madrid goalkeeper, 35, who arrived at PSG in 2019, at the microphone of Canal +. Before clearly expressing his position on his future within the Parisian club. « I’m happy in Paris, but that has to change« .

“I could not give the maximum”

Arrived free after the end of his contract at AC Milan last summer, Donnarumma felt that this alternation had been well managed by the two goalkeepers. « I have a very good relationship with Keylor, we are two good guys, we understand the situation, but it was hard, and for him too, but let’s say that we managed it well, with the whole group and especially between us of them“, he assured.

However, Donnarumma believes that he was not put in ideal conditions to display his best level of performance. « I know I can do more, I haven’t played so many matches, only half, it hasn’t been easyhe conceded. In the conditions I experienced, I could not give the maximum, but I am convinced that I can give a lot more to this team and this club.. »

Madrid? « I am not guilty of anything »

The alternation between Navas and Donnarumma has been debated throughout the season at PSG. Parisian coach Mauricio Pochettino refused to establish a clear hierarchy between two goalkeepers who are among the best in the world. The Argentinian technician, however, started Donnarumma for the two matches against Real Madrid in the knockout stages of the Champions League, thus suggesting that the Italian was the number one in his mind.

The Italian goalkeeper had lived a nightmare in Madrid, with a recovery countered by Karim Benzema which had led to the equalization of Real and precipitated the fall of PSG, finally beaten (3-1) and eliminated. He denied having made a mistake on this action. « The goal was not valid, but we could have managed the s betteraway, he said. We know how it happened, I’m not guilty of anything. Now we have to look ahead, what is past is past, there is nothing we can do to go back and play the Champions League again quickly to show everyone who we are. »

Arrived free after the end of his contract at AC Milan last summer, Donnarumma told AFP his intention to stay in Paris, where he has signed up until 2026. Navas under contract with PSG until ‘in 2024, the Parisian leaders will obviously have to decide between one of the two goalkeepers this summer. It would be time…