Gianluigi Donnarumma is set to start when Italy host Bulgaria at the Artemio Franchi, which will be the Paris Saint-Germain goalkeeper’s first game this season.
The 22-year-old moved from Milan to PSG on a free transfer this summer, after starring at EURO 2020 with Italy, playing a big role when the Azzurri needed penalties to win in the semi-finals and the Final at Wembley.
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However, that was his last competitive game, as life started slowly with the Ligue 1 giants in the French capital.
PSG coach Mauricio Pochettino has decided to stay with Keylor Navas in goal and Donnarumma, who signed a deal until June 2026 at Parc des Princes, has yet to make his Ligue 1 debut.
“Only one goalkeeper can play and this is one of the decisions I have to make, like many others,” Pochettino told reporters after the League win at Brest. “We will go ahead making choices each time.”
But Donnarumma is now back at Coverciano with Italy, where he’s a protagonist in Roberto Mancini’s team, as the Azzurri prepare for tonight’s World Cup Qualifier against Bulgaria.
I see him sold off at the end of the current season. While he left his ‘boyhood club’ for nought, he’s going to fill PSG coffers so they continue to dominate the market! Pathetic!
He should’ve stayed with Milan or preferably moved to Juve instead of seeing himself sitting on the bench in the French league!
raolio only works on the financial side of things but never really looks after the football interest of his clients. he did the same with balotelli, kean and pogba. balotelli at that time the move to england was the last thing he needed. moise kean if you watched the type of long ball everton played, you just knew Kean would struggle. for pogba he left a good juve side to go play for a man utd side that was struggle on all fronts. this psg move was all aout money. keylor navas is a good gk. one would have thought that donurumma would have moved to a club where he would be the undisputed number 1.
Totally agree with Serie A lover.
Everton are also a bit of a joke as a club, and Kean with the discipline problems he’s had needed to be somewhere he felt comfortable, where people would keep an eye on him. Moving to the money league, and to one of its most clownish clubs, he was always likely to be unhappy and totally out of place. I’m sure Kean wasn’t exactly innocent there, but they wouldn’t have known how to handle him.
I believe Italy can’t risk keeping him as number one if he is number 2 in psg. The kid made a mistake and a stupid one especially since his salary after tax is actually less than what Milan offered him to extend but Mino got his way and his commission and after winning the euros and being named man if the match the kid thought he would just walk in and be number one….. That didn’t workout as he planned obviously and now he will probably move to second choice in the national team unless he starts playing. None is taking a second choice GK who plays 3 games a season to the world cup when Italy has other options. I’m sorry but as a Milan fan living in Los Angeles I used to fly to Italy to watch games and buy season tickets every year. I have been a Milan fan since I can remember and this guy had the chance to be a legend and would have won everything eventually with Milan and Italy and the sad thing is he would have still been one of the highest paid GK in the world but chose to go sit on a bench in PSG a team that’s never won anything and will probably never win anything significant because none really wants to be there it’s just the money. When you have a chance to play in Italy, Spain, UK, Germany I really don’t think you’re going to go to France for the competition.