Zlatan Ibrahimovic had decided to leave PSG at the end of the contract in the summer of 2016 for a transfer to Manchester United, and it was therefore Javier Pastore who inherited the famous number 10. The former Argentinian playmaker returns to this beautiful gift at the time.
First major recruit of the QSI era to PSG with an arrival in the summer of 2011 from Palermo For 42M €, Javier Pastore will have spent seven seasons in total on the side of the Parc des Princes. The skinny long displayed number 27 within PSG, but following the transfer of Zlatan Ibrahimovic (free party at Manchester United in 2016), it is therefore Pastore who had inherited the number 10. and the microphone of PSG TVhe engages on this symbolic offering at PSG.
“He offered it to me and Verratti”
« The number 10 is number 10. It's class players, it's the different players from the team. I see it in the other number 10. When I worn number 10, Ibra leaves, he had to give it to someone, and he offered me to me, to Verratti, what we wanted to do…. And sincerely, I was happy to take the number 10 “, revealed Javier Pastorewho had therefore agreed to recover this issue after Ibrahimovic.
“And then arrives Neymar …”
Finally, only a year later with the historic transfer of Neymar For 222M € at PSG, Javier Pastore had sold this number 10 to the Brazilian striker: ” I had never worn it in my career, and it was symbolic for my style of play. But sincerely, that hasn't changed anything. The second year, I said to myself 'why? I don't interest me '. And then arrives Neymar, of course it was a brand for him, for the club too, and I returned to my special issue “Continues the former Argentinian international.
