PSG Expert Journalist · 221 articles
PSG nicknames come at you from every direction — Les Parisiens on French television, Rouge et Bleu on the club’s own channels, the Titis in the academy, the Parc on matchday. Follow Paris Saint-Germain for a season and you will hear all of them, often in the same broadcast, without anyone stopping to explain which […]
Luis Campos is the name that sits behind almost every Paris Saint-Germain signing of the last four years, and almost none of the headlines. He does not pick the team, he rarely speaks in public, and he has never been the most powerful man in the building. Yet the shape of the squad that is […]
Matvey Safonov is not the goalkeeper Paris Saint-Germain planned on. He was signed as cover, he took the jersey anyway, and two summers later he is still the man standing behind the back-to-back champions of Europe. For a club that has spent a decade buying certainty, that is an unusual way to fill the most […]
Khvicha Kvaratskhelia has waded into the Kvaratskhelia Ballon d’Or debate himself, and he has done it with the shrug of a man who knows the ballot papers are somebody else’s to fill in. Speaking after Paris Saint-Germain’s midweek win, the Georgian responded to public backing from Michel Platini and Toni Kroos by insisting he is […]
Bradley Barcola gave Liverpool a scare on his Champions League debut for the club, limping out of Wednesday’s 2-1 win over Atletico Madrid at Anfield with a hand on his calf. The verdict afterwards was the one everybody wanted: cramp, not a tear. Liverpool manager Andoni Iraola confirmed as much post-match, per Get French Football […]
Ferran Torres scored a hat-trick in 26 minutes on his first start for Paris Saint-Germain. Asked afterwards to mark his time in Paris out of ten, he gave himself a seven. Wednesday night at the Parc des Princes was the sort of evening that invites exaggeration. Paris opened the defence of their Champions League crown […]
September in football now comes with its own weather system: the Ballon d’Or shortlist lands, and the arguing starts. Paris Saint-Germain are at the centre of it again this year, with ten of the thirty nominees on the club’s books, according to PSG Talk. Which raises the question a lot of newer supporters ask and […]
Ousmane Dembele had just produced two goals and two assists in a 6-1 win. He chose to talk about what has gone wrong. Paris Saint-Germain opened the defence of their Champions League crown on Wednesday night by taking Slovan Bratislava apart at the Parc des Princes, a 6-1 win that was as close to a […]
Ferran Torres was supposed to be the useful extra body. Three goals into Paris Saint-Germain’s Champions League defence, the summer signing from Barcelona looks a good deal more like a problem — and the problem belongs to the forwards ahead of him. Torres scored a hat-trick as Paris beat Slovan Bratislava 6-1 at the Parc […]
Lucas Beraldo wears the number four shirt at Paris Saint-Germain, which in most squads would mark him out as a defensive cornerstone. At the Parc des Princes it makes him something more complicated: a 22-year-old Brazilian centre-back who has been at the club for two and a half years, who owns back-to-back Champions League winners’ […]
Paris Saint-Germain have been transformed since Qatar Sports Investments bought the club in June 2011, and the men in the dugout tell that story as clearly as the trophy cabinet does. Eight PSG managers have taken charge in that time, from a caretaker-turned-title-challenger to the coach who made Paris back-to-back European champions. Here is every […]
Yaya Touré walked into the Parc des Princes press room on Wednesday night having just watched his Slovan Bratislava side lose 6-1, and he did not reach for a single excuse. The former Manchester City midfielder, now cutting his teeth in management, instead delivered the assessment Paris Saint-Germain supporters will happily frame: PSG are a […]