Far from being an indisputable starter at Paris Saint-Germain lately (16 game ends in 2021-22), Abdou Diallo has decided to change scenery. Indeed, arrived in 2019 in the French capital, the Senegalese wanted to relaunch, following a first good stint in Germany at Borussia Dortmund. Loaned this season to RB Leipzig, with a purchase option of 20 million euros, the versatile defender has reconsidered his decision. ” I arrive in this transfer window where I say to myself: I have been at PSG for three years, there have been some great times. There was a Champions League semi-final, a final, which are the two best campaigns in the club’s history. But there were much more difficult moments, where I played less, where I was injured or something. I felt that I was coming to the end of something and that I did not intend to stay at the club to be uselessin fact, “said the player trained at AS Monaco.
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“And the transfer window, as long as the championship has not started, is the time when you also have to think regarding yourself. I wanted to be important in a project, to count and to be able to bring my stone to the building. I was very demanding because I didn’t want to make a mistake. And Leipzig, for me, it ticked all the boxes: a good club, with ambitions, with a big project, a stable project. It played the Champions League, it plays the leading roles in the Bundesliga, Diallo later explained, during an interview with the Carré media. I found players that I knew, a championship that I knew and I also wanted to put myself at risk. “For the moment, this season, the Senegalese has played three games in his new colors, including two in C1.
