{"id":18851,"date":"2025-09-17T07:22:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T07:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/?p=18851"},"modified":"2025-09-17T07:22:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T07:22:28","slug":"psg-boss-reveals-real-reason-why-gianluigi-donnarumma-was-forced-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/17\/psg-boss-reveals-real-reason-why-gianluigi-donnarumma-was-forced-out\/","title":{"rendered":"PSG Boss Reveals Real Reason Why Gianluigi Donnarumma Was Forced Out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Paris Saint-Germain strategic advisor Luis Campos revealed that Gianluigi Donnarumma\u2019s lofty salary demands ultimately prompted the club to put him up for sale this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City snapped up the chance<\/a> to sign one of the world\u2019s best goalkeepers for a relatively affordable \u00a326 million ($35.4 million) this summer, waiting until the final hours of Deadline Day to strike a bargain deal as they had all the negotiating power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donnarumma confirmed<\/a> his own departure as early as Aug. 12 after being dropped from the first-team squad in favour of summer recruit Lucas Chevalier. The Italy international claimed that \u201csomeone has decided that I can no longer be part of the group\u201d shortly before manager Luis Enrique accepted the blame, explaining that he wanted \u201ca different profile\u201d of goalkeeper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Campos has now suggested that this was a decision based on finances as much as tactics. Donnarumma had entered into the final 12 months of his PSG<\/a> contract and talks over an extension had thus far proven fruitless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe club is more important than anyone else,\u201d Campos told RMC Sport<\/em><\/a>. \u201cThat\u2019s changed at PSG. Donnarumma, it was a combination of circumstances that led to this decision. When he asks for a salary at the level of PSG before, not the current PSG…\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Portuguese advisor went on to explain how the club\u2019s new contracts would be littered with significant bonuses rather than a high base rate. \u201cOur policy is very much based on merit: you earn more when you deserve it, and when you play,\u201d Campos outlined. \u201cWe took time to discuss the Gigio issue. We were obliged to find solutions if we couldn\u2019t reach an agreement with him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donnarumma\u2019s agent Enzo Raiola claimed<\/a> that his client did accept a lower salary during negotiations last season only to see the club \u201cchange the rules of the game.\u201d Talks were supposedly postponed until after the Champions League final, when PSG \u201cconfirmed their desire to continue\u201d according to Raiola, before a dramatic change in stance at the start of August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Campos was undeterred, insisting that every PSG player would be subjected to the same treatment as Donnarumma. \u201cThe salary policy applies to everyone,\u201d he shrugged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe club\u2019s stability will not change based on a player who wants to be different. We will protect PSG. We always have the desire to play well and win matches. With this policy, everyone understands that the coach does not prioritise a player\u2019s status or past. It\u2019s not your past that will make you a starter at PSG. That\u2019s our policy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paris Saint-Germain strategic advisor Luis Campos revealed that Gianluigi Donnarumma\u2019s lofty salary demands ultimately prompted the club to put him up for sale this summer. Manchester City snapped up the chance to sign one of the world\u2019s best goalkeepers for a relatively affordable \u00a326 million ($35.4 million) this summer, waiting until the final hours of Deadline […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":18852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,5,3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international","category-naija-news","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-26.png?fit=768%2C432&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18853,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18851\/revisions\/18853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}