PSG determined to end embarrassment
Chelsea’s Champions League final victory over Manchester City was humiliating for Paris Saint-Germain. Masterminded by a coach in Thomas Tuchel that PSG had sacked mid-season for little more than a clash of personalities, aided by a former captain, Thiago Silva, who Paris had released a year earlier. Chelsea and their PSG alumni achieved in half a season what Paris have been desperately striving for across a decade of Qatari ownership. Images of Tuchel and Silva lifting the European Cup wearing the wrong shade of blue amounted to what was arguably the project’s lowest ebb to date.
That embarrassment was compounded on the domestic front as Lille, whose first team cost roughly a third of PSG forward Neymar’s gargantuan transfer fee, spectacularly dethroned the capital club to win Ligue 1. Paris’ poor decision-making from the coach upwards has often made them their
