The agent of Gianluigi Donnarumma, Enzo Raiola, has hit out at Paris Saint-Germain for changing the agreement over a new contract for the axed Italian goalkeeper, Afrosport reports.
The 26-year-old has been excluded from the PSG first team for the upcoming season, with the club moving to sign Lucas Chevalier from Lille.
Donnarumma has a year left on his PSG contract and has not been able to reach a new agreement, stemming from his reported refusal to take a pay cut, after playing an instrumental role in helping them to a historic treble last season.
Speaking on Fabrizio Romano’s YouTube Channel, Raiola said: “After the summer vacation, I met director Campos and reminded him for the last time that Gigio still had a year left on his contract, which he wanted to respect all the way to the end.
“Then, towards August 7, Campos confirmed the coach had taken this decision to not call Gigio anymore, cutting him out of training sessions and the first team. He just said it was not a decision wanted by the club, but by the coach.
“Until a month ago, we were talking about a new contract, so I don’t think the coach alone made this decision during the vacation, especially after all Gigio did. The decision is senseless, and with hindsight, it was made because they are scared of keeping a goalkeeper like Gigio near to someone inexperienced [Lucas Chevalier] who might suffer that pressure and be damaged by his presence.
“Even that isn’t particularly convincing, because when Gigio arrived, he had to fight it out with a great goalkeeper like Keylor Navas. He did the same at age 16 at Milan. This is really a lack of faith in the new goalkeeper they signed.”
Donnarumma has been earning a reported €12 million per season salary at PSG, but the club was reportedly moving towards cutting down wages significantly and moving towards performance-based earnings.
Raiola denied that his client was unwilling to take a pay cut, as speculated in the media, but asserted that PSG never listened to his demands.
“The team was having incredible results, so it seemed disrespectful for us to create any problems for the club in the media. We never even got the chance to make a request. I had dropped hints a year ago, but they never got my signals,” he added.
“They had made promises based on the conditions we could accept or not. But then, as time went on, they just wanted to say this was the maximum they could do because of their financial situation. Gigio understood this could penalise the club, so he made a gesture to get closer to their position.
“Despite that, when the documentation arrived, we saw different conditions to the ones we had initially agreed to. I said we would stop there and resume talks after the Champions League final, but it went the way it went. We never got the opportunity to make a request.”
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Donnarumma joined PSG as a free agent in 2021 from AC Milan and has played 161 times in all competitions, keeping 56 clean sheets and winning 10 titles.
He has been nominated for the 2025 Ballon d’Or as well as the Yachine Trophy for best goalkeeper.
