AS Monaco have confirmed today that 18-year-old Italian striker Pietro Pellegri has suffered yet another injury setback, in what has been a hideously stricken young career.

Pellegri, who arrived to Monaco in January 2018, has played just 6 times for the Principality side.

After appearing in Monaco’s 15th November friendly encounter with Genoa for the first time since September 2018 in a Ligue 1 match against Angers, the young Italian has suffered a new muscular problem to his right thigh in a training session on Thursday.

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It is his seventh different injury since being at AS Monaco.

Speaking to Sector Bostero, 25-year-old Argentinian D.C. United midfielder Luciano Acosta admitted that he had already chosen his PSG shirt number, before a move to the current Ligue 1 champions fell through on the most recent January window’s transfer deadline day.

“I travelled to France to sign, the day that the window was closing. I passed my medical, they gave me my shirt number, which is today taken by Mauro Icardi (#18). Everything was done, but D.C. United did not accept the offer and the transfer was cancelled.”

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L’Équipe report that AC Milan have recently made contact with PSG for 27-year-old left-back Layvin Kurzawa.

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The Frenchman’s contract is up at the end of the season and Les Parisiens are angling to make him the subject of a January sale, seeking €7m in return.

The newspaper also claims that Kurzawa has had concrete discussions with English sides in the top 6 in recent times.

Speaking on RMC show Le Vestiaire, Atletico Madrid scout Eric Olhats discussed two players that he wished the La Liga side had signed who they had previously been looking at.

“There are always players that you get a soft spot for. Last year, we were looking at (Nicolas) Pépé, I would’ve really liked us to bring him in. (Ramy) Bensebaini as well (Ex-Rennes and Algerian left-sided defender now at Gladbach). Yes (I put these names to the Atletico board), but you know how it is, for each position there are three, or four or five names. And I am not the one who decides. (Benjamin) Bourigeaud is another one.”

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Speaking exclusively to RMC Sport, Ivorian attacker Nicolas Pépé discussed his mixed start to life at Arsenal.

“I would say that my start has been a bit negative. Based on my own expectations of myself, I expected a bit more. I expect more and it is up to me to work hard and make the difference in each match. It is normal for people to criticise me as much as they are doing because I am not making the difference in each match. I understand them. It is certainly up to me to reverse this situation through hard work.”

“There are lots of aspects that I need to improve. Score more quickly, take the opportunities to score that I’ve been missing. It’s like that, that’s football. I also need to improve on the physical aspect because coming from France to England, there is this box-to-box aspect that you have to take into account.”

Would you say that the Premier League is very different to Ligue 1?

Yes, that’s how I’ve experienced it. In every aspect. Things are going in every direction all the time in England and that’s the biggest difference compared with France.

On his price–tag:

I wouldn’t say that I am carrying that pressure on my shoulders no. But it is normal for people to talk about that. That’s how football is.

Were you warmly welcomed? I know that you are a bit of a trio with Auba (meyang), Lacaz (ette). Tell us a bit about your day to day.

Of course I have a good relationship with them because from the moment I arrived, they spoke French, I spoke French so immediately we formed a relationship. The same with Mattéo (Guendouzi). On the pitch, we look for each other, which is normal. Aside from that, in training it is the same to create chemistry with each other. Here the competition is really healthy. When you are an attacker, you constantly think to score, but honestly here we also think about passing so that the other one can score. Here that’s what we look to do.

On the departure of Unai Emery:

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It was painful because he is a coach who gave me the chance to come to Arsenal. We mustn’t forget that. For me, it was something painful.

On the “arrival’ of Freddie Ljungberg:

As he was a player, he understands us better. He speaks a lot with us, so for us it is quite simple for us to understand him like for him it is quite easy to understand us.

On not currently being in the starting XI:

Right now there are some players who are playing others who are not. That’s football, it’s like that. It is the coach who decides. If I am on the bench, it is up to me to put the work in to get back in the starting XI.

Our colleagues at Goal France report that Ligue 2 side Le Havre have approached PSG to discuss the possibility of loaning teenage central defensive talent Loïc Mbe Soh until the end of the season.

Sporting Director Leonardo has already told the 18-year-old that it might be a good idea to find a club for the rest of the season where he can get a build up of regular playing time.

Mbe Soh has played just one match with the PSG first team this season, during a 2-0 defeat to Reims in September.

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Mohamed Bouhafsi of RMC Sport tonight provided an update on the future of Lille midfielder Boubakary Soumaré.

He claims that Lille are very open to selling the French youth international this month, reiterating his reporting from last summer that Wolves made a bid worth more than €40m back then.

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Now, in January, he claims that Arsenal, Manchester United, Chelsea, Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid are all interested in doing a deal.

Eurosport add Tottenham Hotspur on that list as a club that wants to acquire the player this month.

The player will have to make a decision as the interest is high and the oral offers are around €50m. Soumaré wants to stay at Lille until the end of the season, unless he is forced to leave the club, which could occur at the board’s say so.

LOSC want a decision on this quickly, because it informs their transfer policy for the rest of the midfield, notably for Brazilian midfielder Thiago Maia, who has an offer from Flamengo and a Turkish club.

Speaking to Canal + after a 4-1 victory over AS Monaco at the Stade Louis II, PSG attacker Kylian Mbappé touched on a number of topics.

On the 4-2-4:

I think above all that we are talking a bit too much about us playing with 4 attackers. I feel like we are playing with 4 attackers in a 5-a-side team. But we are playing with 11 men. We know that we have very good players, but this whole Fantastic Four thing, all that, it is not our thing. We, we want to help the team to win, we want to win trophies and we leave superlatives used to describe us to someone else.

On attackers making defensive efforts:

I spoke with your colleagues not too long ago, I said that we were aware. Now, it is going to be throughout the entire campaign and not across 3-4 matches that you will see if we are capable of making defensive efforts when the team needs us above all.

On not celebrating the first goal that he scored tonight:

No, I must show respect. This is where I was first discovered, I experienced my first great moments here, so I must show respect. (Why did you celebrate for the 2nd goal?) There were some insults from the crowd, I had to respond but it was playful.

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