James Rodriguez Is Still a Star but Would Be a Risky Signing for PSG

It sounds like a lot, and that’s because it is. 

Last week, Madrid-based AS (h/t Goal) reported that Paris Saint-Germain are considering an €80 million offer for Real Madrid’s James Rodriguez, who’s grown increasingly peripheral at the Santiago Bernabeu this season and looks a likely candidate to depart this summer. 

For the Parisians, such a move would be the marquee sort many expect the club to make, in what looms as an important off-season period. Indeed, with Zlatan Ibrahimovic set to move on, PSG are approaching a summer in which regeneration looks necessary in order for the club to entrench itself as a European heavyweight.

Luring James to the Parc des Princes wouldn’t be simple, however. According to ESPN FC, Manchester United is the playmaker’s preferred destination if he leaves Madrid, and there’ll be no shortage of other suitors if his current club makes him available. 

And yet it’s not just getting the Colombian that would be difficult for PSG; fitting him in would be problematic too. 

James is still a star despite a difficult season, but a move for him wouldn’t be without risk. 

Still a Star 

In many ways, James is precisely what PSG need: an attacking weapon, a player to add incision and a major name.

And it might be that last point that’s most relevant.  

Indeed, James would be more to PSG than simply an elite player; like Angel Di Maria, he’d represent a certain proof …

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