Gianluigi Donnarumma transfer rumors explained: Why PSG’s star goalkeeper could be looking for a new club

The Italian keeper Gianluigi Donnarumma was omitted from the PSG team that traveled to Udine for the 2025 edition of the UEFA Super Cup against Tottenham that takes place on Wednesday (as always you can meet the action Paramount+). Donnarumma was one of the best, if not the best, players of the 2024-25 season when PSG won a Treble, including their very first UEFA Champions League, which was dismantled in Munich on 31 May. Later, later, PSG lost the FIFA Club World Cup final against Chelsea On July 13, but despite the loss, the former AC Milan goalkeeper was generally considered one of the reasons of the success of the team coached by Luis Enrique, thanks to his excellent versions, especially in the knockout phases of the run of their Champions League.

Today is Donnarumma from the PSG project with another year in his contract that runs until the summer of 2026. So what has happened in recent weeks? Why are the European champions prepared to let him go?

On Tuesday, PSG published the list of players who traveled to Udine for the match against Spurs and Donnarumma was not recorded, a omission expected on Monday by several reports. In recent days, PSG also signed former goalkeeper of Lille Lucas Chevalier, which means that the two players have no room to co -exist. The signing immediately sounded like the end of the Donnarumma era on PSG, after the two parties did not agree on a new deal, with the current one that ended in 2026.

The PSG statement that announced the signing of Chevalier was quite clear about how they intend to count on him from the start of the new season.

“Comfortable on his line, in one-on-one situations, and in the air he also has excellent distribution skills, qualities that have quickly established him as one of the best shot stoppers in the competition and one of the most promising players in his position in Europe. His progress was rewarded last May with the title of the end of the year at the end of the year of, the end of the year, the end of the year of, the end of the year, The year in the year.

The expression “excellent distribution skills” of the PSG declaration immediately pulled the eyes of the public, because Donnarumma was criticized on a large scale over the years, especially in his first years in France when he made some important mistakes, including a remarkable in 2022 against Real Madrid, when PSG lost to one of one of the Madrid in the Rondrid in the Rondrid in the Rondrid Comebacks in their champions in their 2022 Run champion. Despite a few mistakes over the years, Donnarumma improved a lot and the 2024-25 season was one of the most successful in his career, making some important rescues against Liverpool, Aston Villa and Arsenal who led his team to win their first Champions League trophy in the history of the club.

Since last season, there were many rumors about the future of Donnarumma, but the same player said Several times he was ready to sign a new deal if they could find an agreement. It never happened. The player of the player, Enzo Raiola, is now looking for options and the English clubs are considered the front runners to sign the Italian keeper, where PSG is willing to let him go too to prevent him from losing him as a free agent in 2026, an option to prevent Luis Enrique.

Donnarumma left AC Milan as a free agent in 2021, when the Rossoneri directors also had problems with a new contract with his former agent Mino Raiola and eventually decided to let him go, replacing him by the French goalkeeper Mike Mignan who won the Italian Serie A in his first season in the club. Allegedly Donnarumma AC Milan left with a heavy heart, but the fans never accepted his decision not to sign a new deal. Four years later, Donnarumma is again central to a contract dispute and with a future that should be resolved in the shortest possible time, because he is now about to start an important season that will lead to the World Cup 2026, where he hopes to play his first World Cup ever, after missing both 2018 and 2022 editions with the Azzurri.