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Chelsea defender Silva 'p***ed off' over PSG exit: Cavani & I didn't deserve this

Thiago Silva says he wasn't happy with how PSG handled his exit from the club.

The 36-year-old signed with Chelsea as a free agent this summer after eight years with PSG.

And Silva has revealed he was upset with how the Parisians did not offer to keep himself or Edinson Cavani.

He told France Football: "It's a situation that pissed me off. Even if there was lockdown, things should have been done differently.

"I was in Brazil, in quarantine, when Leonardo called me to tell me that because of the pandemic and the difficulties… No, first, he asked me if I was OK to continue for two more months in order to play a eventual Final 8. I told him yes. But he replied that the club would not go beyond these two months. It would be two months and nothing else. It should have been done differently.

"All my career at PSG, I gave the maximum, I never cheated. It's as if three matches in Final 8 changed everything? And everything I had achieved in those eight years didn't matter anymore?

"It is not consistent. Leo did this in an awkward and hasty fashion. Not just with me by the way. I also think of Cavani who is the top scorer in the history of PSG. I say this so that the club can progress and not make these kinds of mistakes in the future. "

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