2023-07-08 03:50:07
Lee Kang-in of the Korean national soccer team./Newsis
Lee Kang-in (Mallorca), the next-generation star of the Korean national soccer team, finished his domestic schedule and departed.
An official from Lee Kang-in said on the 8th, “Lee Kang-in left the country via Incheon International Airport this morning. It was early, so he boarded the plane quietly without accompanying officials.”
As a result, it seems that Lee Kang-in’s move to Paris Saint-Germain (PSG, France) will be officially announced soon.
PSG plans to start the pre-season schedule ahead of the 2023-2024 season from the 10th local time.
With the appointment of new coach Luis Enrique earlier, and the announcement of new faces such as Milan Skriniar (Slovakia) and Marco Asensio (Spain), the announcement of Lee Kang-in’s joining is highly likely to come within this weekend at the earliest.
Lee Kang-in played 36 matches in the 2022-2023 Spanish professional football Primera Liga, scoring 6 goals and 6 assists, and performed brilliantly.
Due to this performance, he has been strongly linked with Atletico Madrid since last winter. At the time, the transfer was unsuccessful, but as Atletico prepared to sign once more this summer, they raised great expectations, but a problem occurred in the process of adjusting the transfer fee.
Lee Kang-in, who finished the season, entered Korea on the 7th of last month and greeted domestic fans while participating in friendly matches once morest Peru on the 16th and El Salvador on the 20th.
According to reports from Spanish and French media, Lee Kang-in’s team, Mallorca, is understood to have agreed to a transfer with PSG on the condition of receiving a transfer fee of regarding 22 million euros (approximately 31.1 billion won).
Foreign media reported that Lee Kang-in had already completed the medical test.
Reporter Romano, a reporter specializing in the transfer market, once once more announced that Lee Kang-in’s move to PSG was imminent. On the 2nd, Romano explained, “All parties involved in Lee Kang-in’s transfer to PSG are confident in the contract that will be concluded soon. Medical tests have already been completed and an oral agreement between the two clubs has been made. We are waiting for the signature.” .
PSG recently won the French professional football league 1 for two consecutive years, and in particular, Lionel Messi (Argentina), Neymar (Brazil), and Kylian Mbappe (France) have played for two years.
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