PSG Expert Journalist · 221 articles
A year on from his own coronation, the Dembele Ballon d’Or story has picked up a fresh chapter. The Paris Saint-Germain forward has spent this week talking about what it is actually like to be the reigning holder — and about the awkward question that trails the award around: whether an individual prize really belongs […]
If you follow Paris Saint-Germain closely enough, sooner or later a French colleague will mention the Coupe Gambardella as though everybody already knows what it is. For an English-speaking audience it is one of those pieces of furniture in French football that never quite gets explained — so here it is, in plain terms, along […]
The PSG third kit for 2026/27 has leaked online, and the early verdict from one corner of the Paris support is not a kind one. Images circulating on Saturday morning show a shirt that departs sharply from the club’s usual design language — and PSG Talk, who published the leak, described it bluntly as “an […]
Read enough Paris Saint-Germain coverage and you will keep meeting the same four words: “in the mixed zone”. A player has said something about the title race, about a manager, about his own form — and the line that carries it is almost always that he said it there. English-language readers get the quote and […]
Open almost any piece of Paris Saint-Germain coverage written in English and you will eventually hit four words: “according to L’Équipe“. A transfer is close, a line-up is leaked, a player is given a 3 out of 10 — and the trail leads back to the same French sports daily. For supporters following Paris from […]
Three letters turn up in French football copy every week and are almost never unpacked in English. A fixture is moved: the LFP did it. A kick-off time is confirmed, a broadcast slot is shuffled, a club official is sanctioned, a season-opening super cup is staged — the LFP again. For Paris Saint-Germain supporters following […]
When PSG sporting director Luis Campos was handed a one-match stadium ban after the draw at Lille, the punishment did not come from Ligue 1, from UEFA, or from the club’s own hierarchy. It came from the French Football Federation — the FFF — the body that sits above every competitive game played in France, […]
Paris Saint-Germain play for three domestic trophies in a normal season: Ligue 1, the Coupe de France and the Trophée des Champions. For a quarter of a century there was a fourth, and PSG were better at it than anybody else in France. The Coupe de la Ligue — the French League Cup — no […]
It is the phrase that governs half the football calendar, and almost nobody stops to explain it. Clubs cannot simply buy a player whenever they fancy one: they can only register new signings during two fixed stretches of the year, and the transfer window is the name for those stretches. Paris Saint-Germain spent this summer’s […]
If you follow Paris Saint-Germain closely you will have read the acronym a dozen times this month without ever being told what it stands for. The CIES Football Observatory is the source behind the report that named PSG the best net traders in world football, and behind a good share of the market valuations that […]
It turns up in every PSG season review, usually as a single line in a list of trophies, and almost never with a word of explanation. The Coupe de France is the competition Paris have won more often than any club in the country, the one that produces the strangest fixtures in French football, and […]
Paris Saint-Germain have played in it for more than half a century, dominated it for most of the last fifteen years and are currently sitting in it without a win. Yet for all the coverage the French top flight gets in English, the basic machinery of the competition is rarely spelled out. This is Ligue […]