{"id":552640,"date":"2020-06-01T12:40:04","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T16:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=552640"},"modified":"2020-06-01T13:42:37","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T17:42:37","slug":"report-alex-telles-target-for-paris-saint-germain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/06\/01\/report-alex-telles-target-for-paris-saint-germain\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Alex Telles a Target for Paris Saint-Germain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to French outfit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lequipe.fr\/Football\/Actualites\/Transferts-alex-telles-se-rapprocherait-du-psg\/1131157\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">L&#8217;Equipe<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/category\/ligue-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ligue 1<\/a> giants Paris Saint-Germain are on the lookout for a new left-back. The idea is to push <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/433dc9a2\/Juan-Bernat\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Juan Bernat<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/41e7ef1c\/Layvin-Kurzawa\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Layvin Kurzawa<\/a> and challenge them for the first-team spot. <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/e73c9bb2\/Alex-Telles\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alex Telles<\/a> would be the perfect fit for PSG&#8217;s left flank as he contains both attacking and defensive qualities any big team would require. Rumour has it Telles is keen on a switch to France.<\/p>\n<h2>Alex Telles Set for a Big Move to Paris?<\/h2>\n<p>With PSG coming out on top once more this season donning a star-studded squad consisting of <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/69384e5d\/Neymar\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Neymar Jr<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/42fd9c7f\/Kylian-Mbappe\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kylian Mbappe<\/a> and more technically gifted footballers, they will look to add to the quality primarily to challenge more for the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of signing Alex Telles would have the ambition of strengthening the left side of the team going forward and defending at the same time.<\/p>\n<h3>The Brazilian Connection<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/d5f2f82b\/Marquinhos\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marquinhos<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/86e7deaf\/Thiago-Silva\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thiago Silva<\/a> are the two mainstays of the PSG defence no doubt. Both hailing from Brazil, a country where football is worshipped, Alex Telles would be a quality fit. Communication in the defence is usually key to outsmarting the opposing attack and dominating the play at the back- which will ultimately lead to winning games.<\/p>\n<h3>The Factors of the Move<\/h3>\n<p>There have been no agreements between PSG and <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/squads\/5e876ee6\/Porto\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Porto<\/a> just yet, but PSG are said to be confident of landing the Brazilian international. A \u20ac30 million fee is said to be what Porto are wanting from the Parisians.<\/p>\n<p>According to French outlet, <a href=\"https:\/\/parisunited.fr\/le-club\/actualites-du-club\/le-psg-et-porto-se-seraient-mis-daccord-pour-alex-telles\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paris United, <\/a>PSG have recorded a bid of \u20ac25 million.<\/p>\n<h3>Player Analysis<\/h3>\n<p>Alex Telles is said to be a balanced full-back. Donning both attacking and defensive qualities, he&#8217;s been one of the standout performers of the Portuguese Liga NOS. Eight goals and five assists in 23 games are what made up his season. Although primarily a left-back, he is also capable of playing on the left-wing.<\/p>\n<p>He has experience of playing in the Turkish Super Lig, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/category\/serie-a\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Serie A<\/a>. His time with <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/squads\/06d05f19\/FC-Internazionale-Milano\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Inter Milan<\/a> in 2015\/16 was a brief one before returning to <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/squads\/ecd11ca2\/Galatasaray\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Galatasaray<\/a> from the loan. He was then shipped off to Porto where he plies his trade now.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"9Prua7dVTWR4TXMp20unTg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1211130023\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'9Prua7dVTWR4TXMp20unTg',sig:'htW-B6VoX9wtfWqGBKDlN9A7v2xFzZZWRdA27XHsRH0=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1211130023',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to French outfit L&#8217;Equipe, Ligue 1 giants Paris Saint-Germain are on the lookout for a new left-back. The idea is to push Juan Bernat and Layvin Kurzawa and challenge them for the first-team spot. Alex Telles would be the perfect fit for PSG&#8217;s left flank as he contains both attacking and defensive qualities any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3283,"featured_media":552661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1367,2,7,28],"tags":[4538,621,1118,367,261,1179,136],"class_list":["post-552640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paris-saint-germain","category-featured","category-ligue-1","category-transfers","tag-alex-telles","tag-brazil","tag-fc-porto","tag-porto","tag-psg","tag-transfer-news","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}