Kang-in Lee & Minamino set to miss early 2024 club football due to AFC Asian Cup

Kang-in Lee is a fan favourite at PSG

The AFC Asian Cup, scheduled to take place in Qatar, will begin on January 12, 2024, and go through February 10, 2024. This implies that players who compete will miss many club games and that the tournament is going to take hold beyond the FIFA international schedule.

A crucial choice that must be made by both parties might have a big impact on how certain clubs start the season and their winter transfer windows. Numerous Ligue 1 teams are impacted, and the Asian players are frequently essential components of their teams’ setups.

Due to their importance to the Japan national team, Stade Reims may suffer the most loss if their Japanese winger tandem of Junya Ito and Keito Nakamura departs for Qatar.

They have combined for seven goal assists this season, which would create a significant hole in Will Still’s lineup. Ito, in particular, has started every one of Reims’ 15 Ligue 1 games thus far and is the team’s primary offensive source.

Mousa Al-Tamari (26), of Montpellier HSC, might be coming from the Jordan national team, whose best-ever performance in the tournament was a quarterfinal in both the 2004 and 2011 seasons. This could be an equally troubling loss.

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To improve on that performance, they would thus hope to add the Jordanian to their roster. The winger, who joined Montpellier from OH Leuven last summer, is now in incredible form.

Last but not least, given that he has only made 12 appearances for the team, PSG‘s Kang-in Lee (22) may also be interested in playing for South Korea in the Asian Cup.

The Parisians may not be as reluctant to let go of their player as some of the other teams. The majority of those appearances, though, have been fulfilling because the Korean player offers something unique to the team’s midfield.

The choice may be strongly influenced by the players the club can sign in the winter window, as well as by how soon Warren Zaïre-Emery (17) and Fabián Ruiz (27) recover from their recent injuries.

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