PSG Officially Offloads Player, Signs 18-Year-Old on Five-Year Deal
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Seventeen-year-old midfielder Aymen Assab has officially left PSG for AS Monaco, where he has signed his first professional contract. Meanwhile, Paris has officially signed its first player of the summer: 18-year-old Italian goalkeeper Alessandro Longoni. He has signed a five-year deal after joining from AC Milan.
A member of PSG's famous 2008 generation that won the French U19 championship and the Coupe Gambardella this season, midfielder Aymen Assab officially joined AS Monaco on Monday, as had been reported for several weeks.
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After initially offering him a trainee professional contract, PSG changed its approach and offered the Clichy native a professional contract. Assab made 36 appearances this season, scoring three goals and providing four assists. But the midfielder, who will turn 18 on July 18, rejected the offer and signed his first professional contract with AS Monaco instead. The length of the deal was not disclosed by Monaco.
After becoming a France U18 international last March, Aymen Assab joined PSG in 2021 and is a diminutive midfielder who is effective under pressure and possesses excellent passing ability. Those are qualities he will now look to showcase at Monaco, where he returned to training with the first team on Monday under new head coach Filipe Luis, the former Flamengo manager.
However, Aymen Assab is expected to spend most of the season with Monaco's Elite Group, coached by Dennis Schmitt. That could also be the path taken by young PSG center-back Emmanuel Mbemba, another member of the 2008 generation who has been linked with Monaco.
In recent days, several members of PSG's 2008 generation have left the club: Mathis Jangeal signed with Famalicao, Pierre Mounguengue joined Dynamo Kyiv, while Samba Coulibaly and Elijah Ly moved to Club Brugge. Adam Ayari and Arthur Vignaud, meanwhile, signed their first professional contracts with PSG.
History will remember that PSG's first signing of the 2026 summer transfer window was a goalkeeper whom almost nobody had seen play. In a statement, the club officially announced the signing of 18-year-old Italian goalkeeper Alessandro Longoni. He arrives from AC Milan after his contract expired and has signed his first professional contract with PSG, a five-year deal running through June 2031.
Longoni, who spent nearly a decade with the Lombardy club, has been assigned the No. 16 jersey in the first-team squad, a sign that he is expected to be part of it when preseason training resumes. He is expected to take over the role previously held by Renato Marin, who had been loaned to Nacional in Portugal earlier that day.
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At 18, the Como native is also known for his performances with Italy's youth national teams, having won the UEFA European Under-17 Championship at just 16 before helping Italy finish third at the FIFA U-17 World Cup the following year.
On PSG's official website, Alessandro Longoni spoke for the first time: "First of all, I would like to thank President Nasser Al-Khelaifi, Luis Campos and Luis Enrique for the opportunity they have given me and for the confidence they have shown in me. I am very happy to join Paris Saint-Germain, and I will continue to work as I always have in order to repay that trust."