World Soccer

Jonathan WILSON

TECHNICALLY SPEAKING

PSG’s cult of celebrity undermines everything else

Five times now in seven seasons, Paris Saint-Germain have gone out of the Champions League in the last16. Over the past12 years, they have spent in excess of £1.5 billion on transfer fees and their reward for that, aside from the French league titles that should essentially come as standard when you have that much money, has been to get beyond the quarter-finals of the Champions League twice. And what must be really galling is how the same

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