Takefusa Kubo will be meeting with Paris Saint-Germain on 18 June and a contract may be announced, according to several Japanese news agencies.

Spanish newspaper Mundo Deportivo had reported earlier that Kubo’s chance of returning to Barcelona as extremely low. Kubo joined Barcelona’s La Masia when he was 10, but had to return to Japan after the club was found to have violated FIFA’s international transfer policy for under-18 players.

PSG was said to have offer him an annual salary of 1 million euros, which is higher than the amount Barcelona proposed.

Kubo, who celebrates his 18th birthday on 4 June, is representing Japan in the Kirin Challenge Cup, where they will play Trinidad and Tobago (5 June) and El Salvador (9 June). Right after that, he will turn out for Japan in the Copa America.

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Source: Yahoo

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