Paris Saint-Germain confirmed on Tuesday the signing of France defender Nordi Mukiele from RB Leipzig on a five-year deal.<\/p>\n
PSG did not reveal the fee for the former Montpellier right-back but media reports claim they have paid between 10-15 million euros ($10.12-$15.18 million).<\/span><\/p>\n Mukiele was born in Paris suburb Montreuil and came through Laval\u2019s academy before spending four seasons at Leipzig, winning last season\u2019s German Cup.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cPlaying for your hometown team is obviously a dream. Playing for Paris is a massive honour for me, for my friends and for my family, and I\u2019m really happy to have worked so hard to be here today,\u201d Mukiele told the club\u2019s website.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cBeing at Paris Saint-Germain, one of the best clubs in the world, shows that the work that I\u2019ve done in the last few years has been rewarded.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Mukiele is the French champions\u2019 third summer recruit after Portugal midfielder Vitinha and young French striker Hugo Ekitike.<\/span><\/p>\n Mukiele made his France debut and so far only international appearance last September and he said featuring at this year\u2019s World Cup is his goal.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cA player should have many aims, and my aim is to do my best to try to be at the World Cup,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ll need to be good in training and then in games and to perform well week in, week out.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cEither way, that\u2019s what I plan to do in order to take part in the next World Cup.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n AFP<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Paris Saint-Germain confirmed on Tuesday the signing of France defender Nordi Mukiele from RB Leipzig on a five-year deal. PSG did not reveal the fee for the former Montpellier right-back but media reports claim they have paid between 10-15 million euros ($10.12-$15.18 million). Mukiele was born in Paris suburb Montreuil and came through Laval\u2019s academy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5505,5506,714],"class_list":["post-9693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-leipzig","tag-nordi-mukiele","tag-psg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9695,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9693\/revisions\/9695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}