Not really spared from injuries, Javier Pastore had a frustrating experience at Paris Saint-Germain between 2011 and 2018. Now in Elche, where he hardly plays anymore, the Argentine attacking midfielder spoke of his departure from the French capital, decided against heart.
Pastore marked the Parc des Princes.
All Paris Saint-Germain supporters remember and will remember Javier Pastore (33). QSI’s first major recruit in the summer of 2011, the Argentine attacking midfielder left an indelible mark on the capital’s club, where his reserved personality but above all his whimsical style of play marked the lovers of the French champion. But after eight years of ups and downs, El Flaco decided to jump ship.
Messi-Mbapp, Pastore would have liked
A choice to leave AS Roma, in the summer of 2018, made reluctantly. It was super difficult, yes, because I didn’t want to leave. My heart told me: we will stay five years and I will finish my career here. It was the dream adventure for a football player, playing twelve or fifteen years here, playing with Messi, Mbapp, training with them, and being able to tell my children later. It would have been the best gift judged the playmaker for Oh My Goal.
Nevertheless, his many physical glitches which spoiled part of his passage and which have still not been resolved between his failed experience at La Louve and now Elche, got the better of him. But it wasn’t fair. I couldn’t find it right. I did not have the level of Paris Saint-Germain coolly analyzed the former Albiceleste player, author of 45 goals and 57 assists in 269 games in Paris.
Pastore did not want to force
According to him, it would not have been good to stay to stay. For me, it was the right time, I didn’t want to be obstinate, but it was complicated too, because the president didn’t want to let me go. We talked a lot and had discussions, meetings at his home, I remember very well. He said to me: ‘but no, you’ll see, everything’s going to change, we’re going to see a doctor for your injuries’. But it wasn’t about a retorted the South American.
In the end, you have to be honest. Paris Saint-Germain gave me a lot, at all levels, personal, sporting and financial. He made sure that I was known all over the world, he made me known to the national team. To keep our relationship intact, I felt I had to stop there. , finished the former player of Palermo, recruited for 42 M€. Even nearly five years after his departure, his name has not been forgotten on the side of the Parc des Princes. And this is perhaps his greatest victory.
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