Recapping Paris Saint-Germain’s record-breaking summer transfer window

Coming in to the club, PSG have signed a number of players, having spent the most money in attacking zones. Maghnes Akliouche, Ferran Torres and Mika Godts are the three star forward signing, coming in from Monaco, Barcelona and Ajax respectively. All three players were signed for a fee in between 45 and 50 millions euros, with each of them playing some minutes in Ligue 1 already this season.

PSG have come back from 2-0 down to draw in both of their first two games of the season, away at Rennes and then at Lille, and Ferran Torres has been instrumental in particular in those comebacks, scoring a brace against the former side as PSG avoided defeat on the opening day of the season.

Recapping Paris Saint-Germain’s record-breaking summer transfer window

Paris Saint-Germain have also brought in Lucas Digne from Premier League club Aston Villa for a fee of only €7 millions. The Frenchman, part of the Aston Villa side who won a historic Europa League last summer, was one of many departures from PSG over this summer, and will probably feature mostly as a rotation option, swapping places with Nuno Mendes and with Lucas Hernandez on the left hand side of PSG’s back four.

On the way out are mostly attackers, with Bradley Barcola, Gonçalo Ramos, Ibrahim Mbaye, Randal Kolo Muani and Kang-in Lee all leaving the club: PSG have offloaded a lot of their forward area rotation options, with one of the reasons for this perhaps being the lack of starts suffered by all of these aforementioned players.

PSG have recouped a remarkable total of €334 millions over the summer, meaning that their net spend remains in the green, as they have only spent €152 millions on the players coming in. It’s the most money PSG have ever made in a single transfer window, with Bradley Barcola’s move to Liverpool accounting for the majority of that money: €125 million received by the club in exchange for the services of their star left winger.

PSG also managed to offload Ramos and Lee, neither of whom had had scintillating careers in Paris but both of whom were perfectly serviceable bench options who will perhaps have achieved cult hero status at the Parc des Princes due to their tenures coinciding with the most successful period in the history of the football club.

Mbaye is perhaps a more disappointing departure, as he is a 19-year-old prospect and academy star who looked promising last season for the Parisians, and was excellent at the World Cup, scoring a stunning goal against France, but €55 millions would have been a difficult fee to turn down for a player who has played relatively few minutes at senior level. As for Kolo Muani, he departs to Juventus after a very disappointing loan spell at Tottenham from which it would have been hard for him to bounce back into PSG’s first team.

Overall, PSG fans will be glad that the attack has been refreshed, and although none of their individual signings will perhaps be able to provide the same star power as Bradley Barcola, they will perhaps all be able to contribute enough that the departing attackers will not be too greatly missed over the course of this season.

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