Fellow Brazilian centre-back Marquinhos has been filling in in the number 6 role, but new faces could soon arrive in Paris <\/p>\n
Paris Saint-Germain captain Thiago Silva has said that Borussia Dortmund’s Julian Weigl and Everton’s Idrissa Gana Gueye are quality players and would be welcome at the Parc des Princes.<\/p>\n
PSG are in the market for a new number 6, with Brazilian centre-back Marquinhos having been deployed in that role of late due to a lack of options in the area.<\/p>\n
And Silva, widely regarded as one of the best centre-backs in world football, believes that Weigl and Gueye could be just the players the French champions are looking for.<\/p>\n
Article continues below<\/span> <\/p>\n Juve on alert: Exiled Icardi may have already played his final game for Inter Sarri vindicated for dropping Kepa as Chelsea & Pedro impress in Spurs win Magnificent Mane takes centre stage as league leaders Liverpool put on a five-star show Lukaku sends reminder that his Man Utd career is far from over <\/p>\n \u201cI don’t know them too well but we’ll try to pay attention now that we know the situation!\u201d the skipper told the media after Tuesday’s training session in Qatar.<\/p>\n \u201cBut I do know that they have the quality to play in Paris and they will be welcome if they arrive.<\/p>\n \u201cWe haven’t spoken about it between ourselves in the squad, but we trust Antero [Henrique, sporting director], Maxwell and the president too.\u201d<\/p>\n Silva’s quotes come just a day after a similar question was posed by AFP<\/em>, but the 34-year-old was unwilling to speak on potential incomings at that time.<\/p>\n \u201cI don’t want to get into the transfer window, but everyone knows we need a players in this position because Marquinhos has been playing there and that’s not his job,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cI’d prefer to leave it to the president and Antero, who, of course, is working on this issue. They try to do the best for the team.\u201d<\/p>\n Another of PSG’s stars, Marco Verratti, echoed his captain’s sentiments in an interview with RMC<\/em>, highlighting the Champions League-chasing side’s need for extra bodies in the centre of the pitch.<\/p>\n \u201cThe best players, whether that’s midfielders, attackers or defenders, are welcome here because we know that to win you have to have the best players.<\/p>\n \u201cIf the club decides to buy a number 6 then we will be happy because it’s true that we don’t have much depth in the middle.<\/p>\n \u201cBut these are things that depend on the club. We will welcome any player because we know that to win we must do it all together. We need the best players, even if we already have a lot of them!\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fellow Brazilian centre-back Marquinhos has been filling in in the number 6 role, but new faces could soon arrive in Paris Paris Saint-Germain captain Thiago Silva has said that Borussia Dortmund’s Julian Weigl and Everton’s Idrissa Gana Gueye are quality players and would be welcome at the Parc des Princes. PSG are in the market…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Editors' Picks<\/h3>\n