PSG farce

indeedido

indeedido

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I post below the Paris St Germain 2022-23 Financials from Swiss Ramble.

It is utterly obscene.
They have lost 487m Euros over the last 2 seasons.
Their wage bill is 621m Euros down from 729m Euros the previous year.

Put that into perspective their wage bill will be higher than the 24 Championship clubs combined, or about 30 times what Gibson said ours will be at £22m.

Of course, everything is legitimate...
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Colin Warnek said:
French football has just caved in for them and bet the lot on them winning the CL.

I hope they never do. The Qataris will be bound to lose interest soon enough.
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Sounds like all National Football authorities are the same - they will look after their own league.

Forest, Everton, Leicester, Man City etc
 
Colin Warnek said:
French football has just caved in for them and bet the lot on them winning the CL.

I hope they never do. The Qataris will be bound to lose interest soon enough.
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Once they lose Mbappe it feels like they don’t really have the players to, and the greedy players with no morals are now flocking to Newcastle and Saudi and of course plenty are still going to City.
 
They shouldn’t be in the Champions League semis if it wasn’t for dodgy officials. Anyone but them to win please.
 
atypical_boro said:
It wasn’t actually a two-bit league until they destroyed it.

Like what City are trying to do here.
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It may have been more competitive in the past but In the terms of European football it has always been a two bit league, Marseille fixed their way to title and subsequent CL win and as a league they have won the same number of European cups as Scotland.
 
There has been a definite sea change at PSG, even if it's not evidenced in their finances! Going forward, it will be less of the "galaticos" approach and more youth focused and hand picking talent from the French league (similar approach has served Bayern well in Germany).

Ironically they actually look a much better this season to me at least. Appears Enrique has the freedom to build a squad capable of competing rather than having the very best players in the world foisted on him with little thought for how it fits together.
 
Pak_Doo_Ik said:
It may have been more competitive in the past but In the terms of European football it has always been a two bit league, Marseille fixed their way to title and subsequent CL win and as a league they have won the same number of European cups as Scotland.
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Well, fine, but its a league that has played no small part in producing 2 x World Champions and 2 x European Champions in my lifetime.
 
Muttley said:
IIRC most of the star players in those squads played in Spain, Italy or England.
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But you don't win tournaments purely with star players do you? You need a squad of 20-26 and all of those 4 squads have had significant contributions from the French league.

And pretty much ALL of those players (inc. star players) started out in the French league. I'm just not sure we should be turning our nose up at it that's all. Sure, PSG have dominated it recently and its boring, but its not Scotland.
 
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atypical_boro said:
but its not Scotland.
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True.

France, pop 68 million
Scotland, pop 5 million

It's true you need a cadre of competent players to make up the squad but it is the exceptional players that make the team your Zidane, Henry, Deschamps, Cantona, etc. capable of winning the Euros or the WC
 
Pak_Doo_Ik said:
It may have been more competitive in the past but In the terms of European football it has always been a two bit league, Marseille fixed their way to title and subsequent CL win and as a league they have won the same number of European cups as Scotland.
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There is only one difference between so called ‘two bit’ leagues and the rest.
£££££££s

As the OP has said - some clubs with those £££££s are effectively cheating.
In France, Spain and England
 
Muttley said:
True.

France, pop 68 million
Scotland, pop 5 million

It's true you need a cadre of competent players to make up the squad but it is the exceptional players that make the team your Zidane, Henry, Deschamps, Cantona, etc. capable of winning the Euros or the WC
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Indeed. But I think some people fall into treating France like it IS like Scotland and it’s far from it.

For whatever reason, their best players do tend to leave for Spain, Italy and England though, you’re right.

Should point out that Cantona won nowt with France.
 
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