🚨🎙️ PSG President Nasser Al-Khelaifi responds to reports of Florentino Pérez wanting both Vitinha and João Neves at Real Madrid:
“Florentino is a friend, but this… this obsession with our players every summer is becoming almost nostalgic at this point. Vitinha? Joao Neves? Beautiful talents, yes - players who are helping us dominate Europe right now. But if Real Madrid thinks they can just point at our squad and take what they want like the old days, they are living in the past.
We saw this movie before with Mbappé. They celebrated like they had won the future. ‘Galacticos are back!’ everyone screamed. And what happened? We kept building, we won, we evolved. Now they are chasing midfielders again while dealing with the reality that one player doesn’t fix structural decline. The dominance they once had… it’s slipping, slowly but surely. You see it in the results, you feel it in the pressure.
João Neves and Vitinha are happy here. They are part of something new, something hungry. Not a club still trying to buy its way back to the throne it used to sit on so comfortably. If Perez wants them, he can call me. But he should know: PSG is not in the business of giving presents to ease Real Madrid’s transition into the new football era.
We wish them luck in the summer market. They’ll need it.”