PSG Owners may scale back investment due to Media criticism / (Allegedly for Sale After the World Cup - Pg 17))

Well, i really think they will keep PSG unless something big happens in the (geo)political world. Qatar is surrounded by hostile neighbors and France is a solid "ally". PSG is like the flagship of those investments, even if it is peanuts compared to the other stuff they got an hand in.
As the article conclude, they may try and do something like City though. Having some investments in several clubs in several countries since the goal is soft power.
 
Well, i only know the media talks the same way you do. But, it is not le Parisien that is making a fake news. The chief of Qatar observatory said something along the lines : "Qatar is unhappy because the french people are not grateful of the Emir investment in PSG", "something about being unhappy because they pay too much taxes (PSG alone pays more taxes than PL, Serie A, la Liga, and Bundesliga clubs united or soemthing like that)", "but that any move before World Cup 2022 is very unlikely".

There has been noise about possible takeover of Roma before, after Qatar Airways became their shirt sponsor. Noise that has been denied by the owner of AS Roma.
To be honest, as another poster has said here, if they were to withdraw from PSG, i don't see why they would go to Roma. This club has not won more significant trophies than PSG (in fact, they won less) while being way older. Their brand value is lower than PSG's one and Italian clubs have it hard with FFP too, because of their TV rights being low like France.
However, it is a club from Rome, the capital of Italy, so it may have some political interest hidden there, the same way there is with PSG and France.

As someone said here, Qatar won't move before their World Cup. They bought PSG to get the political influence to gather votes for this competition. They sign a 3 (+additionnal 3) year deal with Accor as the main sponsor shirt for 60-75 M and Qatar is a major shareholder (second highest stake) in the group, which puts us at 2022 (or 2025). They have just started building our new training field and academy center valuated at 200-300 M. And Nike is supposed to renew for 75 M (+ high bonus if PSG go far in CL, according to an insider in our forum, it could go way past 100 M) until 2027.

So, no one can really predict what will happen in the future, as we didn't even know beforehand when they took over. It is all in the hand and mind of the owner. All i know is, while they didn't meet the sporting success they would have hoped for (like City in CL), their commercial and brand building strategy is working. PSG, while being in an inferior league, has a top 10 brand value. Only Qatar will know if it is worth starting all over somewhere else. If that was the case, i wouldn't chose a Serie A club since they are low in incomes from stadium + TV rights. Even a club like Milan AC can't seem to develop fast enough and are battling FFP every day. And they would get criticized a lot in Italy due to the origin of the owner, especially with Lazio being their rivals. I would invest in British league because even the last club in PL gets more money than the first one in the other leagues. Also, being broadcasted everywhere, you don't have to put so much effort to build a brand. If you are good or your team enjoyable, you'll get new fans and a good visibility. And people will give you more credit for finishing 4 in PL than winning any other league, bar la Liga. Leaving PSG will mean that Nasser will lose that seat at UEFA as well (exactly as it happened with Gazidis), and i'm not sure they would be happy to lose a seat of influence unless they quit football altogether.

I take that as a warning. They are sending their message by their channels in order to threaten and stop the smear campaign about them. PSG has always been hated in France, while being one of the most popular club at the same time. Now, we are probably the most hated club in Europe or in the World. And, in those articles, it is said Qatar is unhappy about the french people being ungrateful. This is really true, i can't deny that. People like the money but despise the owner or they despise both if there is jealousy.

Good point abour Qatar perhaps going for an English club in addition to PSG. They certainly had a look at Liverpool a few years ago. They may even try and beat the Saudis to taking over United. That would open up a fierce proxy war between our owners and the Qataris. As a City fan I hope this doesn't happen but it seems clear that the Glazers want shot of United and money always talks. Football used to just be about sport but it is totally embedded in politics these days.
 
Good point abour Qatar perhaps going for an English club in addition to PSG. They certainly had a look at Liverpool a few years ago. They may even try and beat the Saudis to taking over United. That would open up a fierce proxy war between our owners and the Qataris. As a City fan I hope this doesn't happen but it seems clear that the Glazers want shot of United and money always talks. Football used to just be about sport but it is totally embedded in politics these days.
Interesting to see if a big investor like them would take on a league which had a similar big investor like us. The risk would be they could well spend a lot more than we have and still win nothing or even compete particularly when you factor in the 10 years of careful investment.
 
Interesting to see if a big investor like them would take on a league which had a similar big investor like us. The risk would be they could well spend a lot more than we have and still win nothing or even compete particularly when you factor in the 10 years of careful investment.
That's true but taking over the United brand (given the sycophantic way that club is covered) would do a lot to restore their reputation. United's treatment at the hands of the media will never be as critical as that suffered by City and PSG. United have a lot of powerful allies high up in UEFA and FIFA. The media narrative would change overnight with no mentions of "oil money" or so-called human rights abuses. The same would also be true if the Qataris took over Liverpool. They are another Teflon club when it comes to media coverage.
 
Interesting to see if a big investor like them would take on a league which had a similar big investor like us. The risk would be they could well spend a lot more than we have and still win nothing or even compete particularly when you factor in the 10 years of careful investment.
Would it be any different to Wolverhampton? Their owners are pretty rich but had to use Mendes to deal with FFP in a smart way and accelerate their rise to the top 4.
 
That's true but taking over the United brand (given the sycophantic way that club is covered) would do a lot to restore their reputation. United's treatment at the hands of the media will never be as critical as that suffered by City and PSG. United have a lot of powerful allies high up in UEFA and FIFA. The media narrative would change overnight with no mentions of "oil money" or so-called human rights abuses. The same would also be true if the Qataris took over Liverpool. They are another Teflon club when it comes to media coverage.
The idea of investing in the rags or the dippers crossed my mind as I typed my post and your point of the media narrative is a good one. The cost of buying one of them outright would be considerably larger than our 2008 investment and that is before allocating funds to infrastructure and player transfers. I wouldn’t rule it out.
 
Would it be any different to Wolverhampton? Their owners are pretty rich but had to use Mendes to deal with FFP in a smart way and accelerate their rise to the top 4.
Are their investors as rich as ours or the guys at PSG? Good luck to wolves, I hope they give the dippers a bloody nose next week.
 
No, but does it really matter? The amount of investment is restricted by FFP anyway.
FFP is a restriction and we have been punished once (wrongly) but we have spent more and are continually to spend more than Wolves, so I would suggest it does matter to a degree.
 

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