Hugo Ekitike came, but not Robert Lewandowski, nor Gianluca Scamacca for that matter. A 3-5-2 with Seko Fofana in the middle and Bernardo Silva on the side, the PSG of Luis Campos and Christophe Galtier had aimed big for its summer 2022 transfer window with a sublime attacking duo on paper, Kylian Mbappé and Robert Lewandowski. An alloy worthy of rekindling the flame of his Monegasque years when he played alongside Radamel Falcao. Hugo Ekitike and Gianluca Scamacca would have played the doubles of this shock ticket, these two points to dance on the opposing defenses of the European scene, with two infernal triggers capable of combining ad libitum.
Nothing obviously went as planned, PSG remaining a club apart in the world. The true-false arrival of the Pole had the gift of angering the entire club, of tense up internally and of reviving tensions between managers, each passing the buck for this failure, in particular between Luis Campos and Antero Henrique, a dispute which extends further into April 2024.
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