Xavi Simons for sale, but only in a year, sounds from Paris

Eight goals and eleven assists in 2600 league minutes with RB Leipzig. In addition, 2+2 in the Champions League and currently three assists at the EURO before the semi-final kickoff. That’s Xavi Simons in raw numbers. A young super talent under contract with PSG. Available on loan this summer. What’s in it for the Parisian club?

• The return from PSV to Paris had its conditions
• Both RB Leipzig and Bayern Munich have their eyes on Simons
• But why is it only a guest appearance this year?

Six million euros, that’s how much PSG brought the Dutch international from PSV in the summer of 2022. Four million entered the books of the 25-time Dutch champion. Two million richer for the player’s side. But that was not the only price for the player’s return to the French capital.

Only twelve months earlier, Paris Saint-Germain had let Simons go to Eindhoven. And as artfully as the sporting management in Paris negotiated a buy-back clause, Xavi Simons and his representatives negotiated terms with the Parisians.

As Eindhoven News reported at the time, the return from PSV to PSG was conditional on the player’s agreement. And it came at a price. Thanks to that, Xavi Simons headed to the Bundesliga on loan just three days after his contractual return to Ligue 1.

Performances in Leipzig colours convinced Simons to the point where the Red Bull stable club were willing to break their own transfer record for the player’s signature. However, there is another predator on the scene, Bayern Munich. It was Bayern Munich’s newly appointed sporting CEO, Max Eberl, who brought Simons to Leipzig last summer.

The Säbener Straße hasn’t been cleaned up yet after the introduction of Michael Olise, but that doesn’t stop Simons from coming. Fabrizio Romano confirms this. For Bayern, a sum in excess of €60 million for Simons is not inconceivable. According to reporter Florian Plettenberg, it is an option in the range of 60-70 million euros.

All reports linking the La Masia Barcelona graduate with Leipzig or Bayern contain one important condition – PSG do not want to sell the player. Only a loan deal is on the table.

The reason, however, is not Nasser Al-Lhelaïfi’s ambition to make Xavi a PSG mainstay in the future. The reason is much more controversial. Later this summer, the Parisians would have to share a share of the sale of Simons with PSV.

According to Christian Falk, it should be 20% of the transfer sum. But next summer? The entire sum, every last cent, will remain on Paris Saint-Germain’s FFP balance sheet.

Florian Plettenberg’s mention of “the participation of all four clubs in the negotiations”, referring to PSG, Bayern Munich, RB Leipzig and PSV Eindhoven, suggests that such a move by PSG is not to the liking of accountants in the Netherlands.

Simons himself, currently busy with national team duties, will have the last word. “I will decide my future after the Euros. Now I want to concentrate on the championship,” the player replied to reporter Rik Elfrink before the match against Turkey.

Florian Plettenberg, GetGermanFootballNews, GetFootballNewsFrance, Eindhoven News