In an interview to L'Equipe, Marco Verratti has talked about the mercato rumors about a move last summer: "To be honest, I've been asked to stay here for the first time since I'm here. They've reassured me about the project and ambitions, winning something with Psg will always be different than with another team, I'm very well here".
Temptation to leave for Barcelona?: "Last season we had some difficult times, we had to face teams that were more like a team than we were. Critics are usual here, we've got big wages and for that reason expectations are higher: look at Ranieri's Leicester though, things don't always go as planned... Anyway, I didn't expect to live a summer like this one, I didn't like a lot of things that happened especially the behavior of some people on my side that have thought about themselves and not about me. It's not true I told the club I wanted to leave".
The receiver of these words? Probably his former agent Di Campli: "He put in my mouth words I've never said without asking my consent. I hope one day we'll have a good relationship again, but in these circonstances I had to get far from him. Raiola (his new agent)? I'm fine with him, Ibrahimovic has advised me to go with him".
"When the new sportive director Antero Henrique got here, I turned back from holiday to understand how things would go. After the first meeting I already told him I would stay, even before the signings of Neymar and Mbappé; I didn't know at the time they would sign".
It's not true that "Il Gufetto" has chosen to stay for economic advantages: "People think that I play at PSG for the money but they're wrong. Last summer some teams would have spent 100M to have me, and they would have offered me bigger wages. Neymar would have also won more at Man City or at Chelsea but signed for PSG: the club's project has convinced him, like it convinced me".
Marco enjoys his new teammates now: "Mbappé is phenomenal, Dani Alves has a winning mentality".
