Luís Campos confirms PSG are in search of a satellite club | OneFootball

Paris Saint-Germain’s sporting advisor, Luís Campos, has confirmed that the club are weighing up acquiring a satellite club, in order to aid the development of their youth players. 

Campos was speaking at a roundtable event, celebrating their academy’s 50th anniversary, attended by Get French Football News. PSG are looking to go further in their development of young talent and spend less on players, as confirmed by Campos. 

The likes of Warren Zaire-Emery, Senny Mayulu, and even more recently, Ibrahim Mbaye and Quentin Ndjantou have come through PSG’s academy. It is a trend that Campos is keen to continue and the Portuguese director is looking at the global strategy, part of which could entail the acquisition of a satellite club. 

“We are looking at solutions. It isn’t easy and so we cannot rush,” said Campos, who has rejected the idea of a reserve side seeing the light of day, at least in the current climate. Due to the lack of competitiveness, their reserve side was abolished back in 2019.

“We have to instil a more competitive setting. If French clubs take the U23 league seriously, it would allow us to move forward,” added PSG’s sporting director.

The privileged option, it would seem, however, is finding a satellite club, where their youth players would go out on loan to develop, much in the same way that BlueCo are – controversially – utilising RC Strasbourg Alsace. 

GFFN | Luke Entwistle