PSG Expert Journalist · 221 articles
Ousmane Dembélé’s ‘chosen one’ reply to Kylian Mbappé has pulled this year’s Ballon d’Or race out of the polling stage and into something a good deal more personal. Speaking after Paris Saint-Germain’s 1-0 win at Brest on Sunday night, the reigning holder answered a France Football interview in which his former Paris team-mate had drawn […]
Bacary Sagna has delivered a blunt verdict on the widening gulf between the Premier League and Ligue 1 — and named Paris Saint-Germain as the one French club that has climbed out of it. Speaking to Get French Football News in an exclusive interview published on Monday, the former Arsenal, Manchester City and France defender […]
Read enough coverage of a European transfer window and the same three words arrive without ever being defined. A club cannot sign a striker because of them. Another sells an academy graduate in June for reasons that have nothing to do with football. UEFA financial fair play is doing the work in both cases, and […]
Few things unite a Parc des Princes crowd faster than a referee jogging towards a pitchside screen. VAR in Ligue 1 has been part of French football for long enough now that the theatre is familiar — the raised hands, the rectangle drawn in the air, the ninety seconds of silence before a goal is […]
Every August, Paris Saint-Germain’s European season is shaped by a number almost nobody outside UEFA’s offices can quote. It decides which pot Les Parisiens land in, how many Ligue 1 clubs get a European night at all, and — in a format that now runs on one enormous table — who Paris avoid on the […]
Paris Saint-Germain’s European season has only ever had one address. As back-to-back Champions League holders, Les Parisiens are in the league phase of the competition they have won in each of the last two campaigns, and nothing about that is likely to change soon. Underneath it, though, UEFA runs two other continental trophies that shape […]
Ask a Parisian where the club trains and the honest answer is not the Parc des Princes. It is a 74-hectare site in Poissy, half an hour west of the capital, and it is the single biggest piece of infrastructure Paris Saint-Germain have built in the Qatar Sports Investments era. Campus PSG is where the […]
The PSG most expensive sales list used to be a short and slightly embarrassing document. For most of the Qatar Sports Investments era, Paris Saint-Germain bought at the top of the market and sold at the bottom of it, letting World Cup winners walk out of the Parc des Princes for nothing rather than cashing […]
Every list of the PSG most expensive signings starts in the same place: a summer night in 2017, a release clause paid in full, and a transfer market that never quite recovered. Neymar’s €222m move from Barcelona is still the biggest fee any club has paid for any footballer, and it is still Paris Saint-Germain’s. […]
Four matchdays in, Paris Saint-Germain finally have a Ligue 1 win. Brest 0-1 PSG was not the performance of a side that has retained the European Cup, but it was a result — and after two draws and a defeat, a result was the only thing that mattered in Brittany on Sunday night. It took […]
The Mbappe Ballon d’Or campaign has been running quietly for months. This week the candidate decided to run it himself. In a long interview with France Football, reported by Get French Football News, Kylian Mbappe was asked to make the case for the season he has just had. He did not bother with the usual […]
Every May, French football stops arguing for one night and hands out its medals. The Trophees UNFP ceremony is the moment Ligue 1 crowns its player of the season — and unlike almost every other award in the sport, the people doing the crowning are the players themselves. For Paris Saint-Germain supporters used to seeing […]