On May 14, 2016, Nicolas Sarkozy raged in the central alley of the Parc des Princes which leads to the locker rooms and then to the pitch. The former President of the Republic targets an article in L’Équipe published the day before and titled “Paris targets Griezmann”. “It’s nonsense,” he grumbled in front of a few journalists gathered around him. I can’t tell you the recruitment for next season even if I know it, but Antoine Griezmann will never come to PSG. » That spring, it was about replacing a modern legend, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, whom the capital club did not wish to keep.
If the former head of state was correct in his conclusion, the reality of the negotiations is quite different. Antoine Griezmann, then at Atlético de Madrid for two seasons and soon to be a finalist in the Champions League, is indeed being tracked by the Parisian staff, played at the time by Olivier Létang, deputy sports director.
