With several stars ending their contract at the end of the season, the year 2022 is announced to be especially busy in the transfer market … unless their current clubs manage to renew them or sell them in January.
A look at the players who will be free from next July 1:
Mbappé, the pressure
A step towards a new galaxy? World champion at 19 years old and goalscorer for Paris SG, Kylian Mbappé (23 years old) is six months away from finalizing his contract with the French club, so from January 1 he will be free to negotiate with the team he wants.
Real Madrid fans have been waiting for years to see the French striker in the white jersey. Will it be a reality in 2022 or will the player, who signed from Monaco in 2018 for an amount of 180 million euros, finally decide to stay in the French capital?
Pogba, misunderstanding
Another figure of the ‘Bleus’ champions in Russia-2018 delights lovers of rumors of the January market: Paul Pogba. The Manchester United midfielder, who will turn 29 next summer (boreal), should change teams taking into account the complicated relationship he has with the English club.
Injuries and erratic performance seem to push him away from Old Trafford as well, although the arrival of a new coach, Germany’s Ralf Rangnick, could turn the tide.
Kessié, the revelation
Indispensable this season with AC Milan, Ivorian midfielder Franck Kessié has caught the attention of all the big European clubs.
It will be difficult for the Lombard club to retain the 25-year-old, according to the Italian press, and Paris SG is already seen as one of the possible destinations of the former Atalanta player …
Say Maria, the option
One more year in Paris? According to L’Equipe, Argentine winger Ángel Di María, who already renewed his one-year contract last season, could again extend the deal for an additional year.
But for the moment, the ‘Fideo’, who will turn 34 in February, ends his contract in June.
Rüdiger, protection
In the defense market, Chelsea risks losing one of the architects of the Champions League title won last season: the tough German Antonio Rüdiger.
"Everybody wants it to stay", has said his coach Thomas Tuchel, but the negotiations for the renewal do not advance and other big clubs begin to be interested …
Insigne, the lasting relationship
Will the love story between Napoli and their captain Lorenzo Insigne continue? At the club since the beginning of his career, he has not yet renewed his contract, which ends next June.
"Not an easy question", admitted in September the small forward in the pages of La Gazzetta dello Sport, specifying that the negotiations continued with the Neapolitan entity.
Lloris, the patron
After a decade in goal for the Spurs, Hugo Lloris sees the end of his contract with Tottenham approaching.
The world champion goalkeeper with Bleus, 34, did not close any doors for the end of his career and in November he was willing to renew with the English club or return to France.
Onana, redemption?
Another goalkeeper who will be on the market is the Cameroonian André Onana, who recently returned to the courts after serving a year of punishment for doping, a situation that has made him lose, at the age of 25, the title at Ajax Amsterdam.
Trained at FC Barcelona, the Cameroonian could try to return to Barça, as long as the Barça club, beset by debts, makes him an offer.
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