Pardon our French, but what the fuck is going on at Paris Saint-Germain? News coming out at the moment reads like the plot of some sort of souped-up soap opera.
* Earlier this year, PSG started paying for round-the-clock security at their players’ homes after Angel Di Maria and Marquinhos both fell prey to violent burglaries.
* Last month, Ander Herrara claims to have been robbed in his car by a prostitute who got in at a red light, nicked his phone and wallet – then demanded a lift.
* Power couple Mauro Icardi and Wanda Nara are on/off/on/off. Their relationship has been tabloid fodder from day one as Wanda was initially married to Mauro’s teammate, Maxi López. Mauro’s decision to get Maxi’s kids’ names tattooed on his arms caused friction; Maxi’s refusal to shake hands with Mauro caused more. Wanda took over Mauro’s career Spinal Tap-style as girlfriend-manager, posting lots of John-and-Yoko pictures of them near-naked in bed. Now she claims that he slept with an Argentinian model, which he is brushing off as just “slutty chat”.
* Things are even crazier with the women’s team. Midfielder Kheira Hamraoui was also carjacked recently, but by masked men who beat her legs with metal poles. Teammate Aminata Diallo (who’d been driving) was first accused of orchestrating it, as a sort of Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan inspired plot, but police have a new lead. Reports emerged that one of the attackers shouted “So you like to sleep with married men?” Hamraoui’s mobile phone is registered in the name of Eric Abidal, Barcelona’s (married) ex-Sporting Director, with whom she is rumoured to have had an affair. Which would help explain reports that four of her teammates received calls from a man in Barcelona saying she’d “broken his life” and he “wanted revenge”… |