Undisputed leader in Ligue 1, PSG is struggling in the Champions League. Some observers point the finger at the recruitment of the capital club which focuses more on young people in the making than on big stars.
Since the arrival of Luis Enrique at the head of
PSG in the summer of 2023, the capital club decided to change plans. No more buying big stars but rather promising young players who will try to break out within the Rouge & Bleu. If it works in Ligue 1in the Champions League, it is much more difficult. In
Europe« for the moment, the voluntary turn taken by the Parisian club, present three times in the last four during the last five editions, seems to send it into the decorationr », lance The Team. After having reached the limits of its policy of stars at all costs, in the long term, it seems to have reached the limit too quickly of its reconstruction with young players who are not ready for the level to which the Parisian club should aspire, believes sports daily. “ This provisional failure, which remains to be confirmed, raises the question of the relevance and origin of this sporting policy of a club with a budget of 800 million euros.. »
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A shocking gap between investment and staff level
The dizzying and shocking gap between the money – more than €600 million – spent by the PSG et
Luis Campos since the summer of 2023, and the level of the workforce, is at the heart of Parisian impotence in
C1. « Too many players recruited by the Portuguese leader – Ugarte, Skriniar, Kolo Muani, Beraldoetc. – have contributed nothing, others need to grow – Barcola, Neves, Douéetc. -, and no one, starting with the supposed leaders (Dembele's), is unable to take responsibility for pulling the team up when the road gets steeper. » The Team believes that the failure during the first five days of the league phase of the
Champions League is first and foremost that of its recruitment. By continuing to overpay average or very young players and by refusing to overpay experienced players like the Munich player Joshua Kimmich that could have made a difference, Paris has weakened, criticizes the sports daily. “ From now on, the question is to measure a potential change in this project in the coming weeks/months. Said differently, Parisfaced with this observation of failure, can it evolve? This was not the direction of the post-defeat comebacks in recent hours. On the contrary, the elements of language broadcast called for a form of “patience”, “stability”. With the assumed desire, after years of sudden and sometimes unreasonable decisions, to assume the shift taken a year and a half ago towards a more collective project which must be part of the long term. »
The Team concludes by explaining that there is no question of calling into question the position of Luis Enriquewhich recently extended, even if it is not yet official, until June 2027.
