The now ex-sporting director of the capital club returns to his ousting for L’Équipe.
Leonardo and PSG, it’s over. For the third time, the former Brazilian international leaves PSG, as in 1997 as a player and in 2013, already as sports director. A departure linked to Kylian Mbappé, with whom relations were fresh? In any case, “Leo“Was served with the end of his mandate on the day of the extension of Bondy’s crack, on the evening of the last match of the season, against Metz (5-0). It’s hard not to make the connection…”No. It was the end of the championship and maybe it was time to decide things for the future“, he corrects in an interview with The Team . And to add, about the idea that his departure was a condition for “KM” to extend: “No, I was not told that. But I don’t want to get into that stuff. And the fact of having kept a player of this level, French and Parisian, is important for PSG and L1.»
Aged 52 and courted by the Spanish club Valencia, it is said, Leonardo leaves PSG in any case “with zero bitterness“, as he says in this interview, his first speech since his departure. “When I take stock of my three years, I see a C1 final, a semi-final, the 10th league title, seven national trophies and I add (the arrival of Lionel) Messi“, he slips satisfied with his career with the Red and Blue. It is the so-called Luis Campos who took over as Football Advisor.