PSG rules out a wish of Luis Enrique
The Parisian club continues to seek options to strengthen its offense in January.
The PSG has decided to definitively cancel the signing of the international Algerian attacking midfielder Ibrahim Maza, a 20-year-old player belonging to Bayer 04 Leverkusen, for the winter transfer market of 2027. One of the main candidates to replace Kvicha Kvaratskhelia, who will miss the rest of the season due to injury, has fallen through.
According to journalist Sasha Tavolieri via Sky Sport, the sporting advisor of the French club, Luis Campos, cut off all contacts after rejecting the methods used by the player’s environment and the German club to force discussions. The Parisian club will have to look for new options to strengthen their attacking rotation and fulfill the main desire of Luis Enrique, who knows they need to add a piece to win the UEFA Champions League again.
The disagreement between Luis Campos and Ibrahim Maza's intermediaries
The reactivation of contacts was jointly driven by the father of Ibrahim Maza and the Bayer 04 Leverkusen, who turned to the representation agency Stellar to inquire with the Paris entity about the firmness of their interest.
This initiative found an immediate rejection from Luis Campos, who considered that the methods used did not align with the contractual negotiation protocols established by the PSG.
In light of this disagreement in communication channels, the Portuguese official informed the parties that the file for the attacking midfielder was archived and no longer a priority for the Parc des Princes. PSG is exploring more options like Abde from Betis, and there are even rumors linking them with Brahim Díaz, a winger from Real Madrid.
The institutional stance of PSG regarding Leverkusen's demands
The management of PSG maintains that the club never took the first step to open a formal negotiation for Maza, but rather their initial approach was a response to a prior inquiry where the player’s father expressed willingness to meet in Paris.
The accumulation of interlocutors between the player’s family, the management of Leverkusen, and the agents of Stellar generated a clash of positions that ultimately frustrated the transfer before entering economic evaluations.
With the French club completely out of the bidding, the Bayer 04 Leverkusen will have to decide in the coming weeks whether to keep Ibrahim Maza in their squad until the end of the 2026-2027 season or activate negotiations with other European clubs that accept the intermediary terms that PSG formally rejected.
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