Laurent Blanc agrees £15.5m pay out to leave role as PSG manager this week, Unai Emery to replace him at Parc des Princes
Failings in the Champions League have forced the club's Qatar owners into action despite triple Ligue 1 success
LAURENT BLANC has agreed a £15.5million pay out to leave Paris Saint-Germain imminently.
Yahoo Sport have reported that the 50-year-old has agreed a golden handshake with the club which was negotiated by phone, and Blanc's agent Jean-Pierre Bernes has confirmed that he will be "parting ways" with PSG this week.
“Before the end of the week, PSG and Laurent Blanc will be parted,” he told French radio station Europe 1.
The Frenchman will be replaced by former Sevilla coach Unai Emery later this week.
Blanc, a World Cup and European Championship winner as a player, won three successive Ligue 1 titles with the Parisians – but only reached a Champions League high of the quarter-final. The club's Qatar owners decided this is not good enough after their heavy investment into the club.
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It will not just be Blanc, who ended his playing career at Manchester United, that will be leaving PSG this summer.
The French champions will also be losing their talismanic striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who has been strongly linked with move to United this summer. Ibrahimovic, 34, has impressed in every top European league he has played in – but is yet to test himself in the Premier League.
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