Crystal Palace defender Mamadou Sakho has spoken of his split from PSG.

The France international, in 2013, left PSG for Liverpool.

He recalled to So Foot: "Some saw in me as a kind of Maldini of PSG, who would stay at the club for 20 years. It could have been. At the time, I said that nobody could buy my pleasure to play football. And that pleasure, you can not feel it when you sit on a sideline.

"I grew up with the passion of PSG. Younger, I sometimes had places by the city hall of Paris. My back touched the wall of the Park, I saw the players when I was small as if I played Football Manager. I was a fan of PSG before being a player of the club. I came back on the field holding the hand of the players when I was at Paris FC, I was a ball-picker ... And I was a big fan of Gabriel Heinze ..."