According to [MENTION=19996]romain[/MENTION]_Molina, Leonardo lobbied Mauricio Pochettino to give Mitchel Bakker and Xavi Simons more playing time because of his friendship with agent Mino Raiola ? who represents both.
https://twitter.com/ZachLowy/status/1399119320823779328?s=20
For whoever follows PSG, you would know it is bs.
Xavi Simmons barely played few minutes with PSG and was rarely even in the professional group called for L1 games. Rightly so, he is still a youngster and not ready at all to play with the seniors.
Bakker played a lot this season because of the lack of performing LB. Bernat who is the starter got his ACL done very early in the season and is still in recovery. Kurzawa who is the number 2 is shit, injured and shit again. This left this guy who wasn't even supposed to play for the first team ever to be a starter even in semi finals of CL. Diallo played there too sometimes and is better than Bakker but this guy is always injured as well.
Despite being bad, i can only thank Bakker for his presence because all the other LB failed us this season. Funnily enough, Bakker was in the European Leagues under 23 y.o team of the year.
https://psgtalk.com/2021/03/bakker-was-selected-to-the-iffhs-uefa-u20-team-of-the-year-2020/
Mitchel Bakker had his breakout run last year for Paris Saint-Germain.
With PSG dealing with injuries to the likes of Juan Bernat and Layvin Kurzawa, Bakker stepped up for PSG over the summer fixtures and the start of the 2020/2021 campaign. Last season, Bakker made starts for PSG in the team?s Coupe de la Ligue and Coupe de France final wins. And this season, the Duch talent has gone on to record over 20 appearances in all competitions.
As a result of his recent promising play, Bakker was named as a left-back to the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS) UEFA U20 Team of the Year 2020.
Try to think and inform yourselves instead of following some random twitter guy like sheep.