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

Parisian said:
Don't think the club has to complain.
We went from being under the very worst owner of our history that almost managed to make us going down in Ligue 2, which has never happened in our history, to being successful in the league, the national cups (well we were already specialist in that matter) and being relevant in Europe again (after our 5 consecutive european semi finals in the 90's ).
Sure, the fanbase is less good in the stadium than utiliser was 10 years ago but it has to do with the events that unfolded before the Qatar takeover (battle between rival fans of PSG, deaths, etc.).
The club will get a state of the art academy that pretty much no one can dream to build in France (and few in the world), they upgraded the stadium while it remains a property of Paris city, they pay a shit ton of taxes that benefit french people.
And the joy to see players of that quality is simply a gift. Some of them are straight up among some of our best players ever under our shirt like Zlatan, Neymar (Ronaldinho was good but didn't show enough at PSG during his time). Even the fans of our opponents hate us but like to see those players against their team in real life.

Sure, they are often doing a mess with the sporting director position but overall, they did a pretty solid job.
They took a club for 80 M and made it one of the biggest brands in the world while playing in a less exposed league and considered the hypest club in the world thanks to their collaboration with Jordan and co.

It is way better than what i had initially imagined. And we will be well off when they will decide hey have done enough.

And to be fair, they gueninely want to win the Champions League and back up their ambitions (Neymar, Mbappé). An owner that only care about winning, isn't that what any fan dream about ?
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looks like you are enjoying the ride, and so you should. we are enjoying it too.
psg and city have had similar traumas in the last 8 years regarding ffp and the chumps lge. the biggest difference i can see is the amount of slander city have had to deal with, that has put a bit of a dampener on things for us city fans. its been a wonderful decade, but constantly hearing the vitriolic reporting and having to deflect these broadsides from pretty much the entire media industry has become tiresome.
psg have had their detractors too, but with the acquisitions of mbappe and neymar you are (in some parts) the architects of your own bad press. those transfers were never going to end up being all rosey, too many industry top dogs were worried about their dividends being marked down, or the brown paper envelope streams disappearing .
the funny (ironic) thing is that those transfers also affected city in a detrimental way. we were, and are, accused more vehemently of financial doping, by proxy. as Khaldoon said, we are not even in the top 10 of highest transfers of all time.
what we have both had to deal with is the jealousies of others for our good fortune, something neither city or psg fans cant rectify, unfortunately!!
 
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https://www.francefootball.fr/news/Le-qatar-au-psg-une-histoire-partie-pour-durer/1024535

Interesting article about the importance of PSG in Qatar strategy and why they won't/can't leave as easily as reported sometimes.

A bit too long to translate though at the moment.
Key points are:
-PSG is a vital element in their strategy of "sport washing" with their World Cup. Can't leave PSG before this tournament.
-PSG is the only high profile club of Paris. Paris being the capital of an highly centralized country, who is also permanent member of UNO, major military actor (important ally). PSG is perfect to make connections with the right people.
-Leaving PSG on a whim would be losing the hard earned benefits they got from this ownership
-PSG is now a very valuable asset : bought for cheap and worth a lot now. A sale would be carefully prepared since the value is very important.
-Edit: forgot about the point made that they are also investing heavily in the infrastructure with the new state of the art academy (200-300 M€) and Parc des Princes improvement (70 M€).
-Qatar not happy with PSG failure in CL but leaving PSG like that would be a bad story-telling. It would mean they aknowledge they have been a failure.
 
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Parisian said:
https://www.francefootball.fr/news/Le-qatar-au-psg-une-histoire-partie-pour-durer/1024535

Interesting article about the importance of PSG in Qatar strategy and why they won't/can't leave as easily as reported sometimes.

A bit too long to translate though at the moment.
Key points are:
-PSG is a vital element in their strategy of "sport washing" with their World Cup. Can't leave PSG before this tournament.
-PSG is the only high profile club of Paris. Paris being the capital of an highly centralized country, who is also permanent member of UNO, major military actor (important ally). PSG is perfect to make connections with the right people
-Leaving PSG on a whim would be losing the hard earned benefits they got from this ownership
-PSG is now a very valuable asset : bought for cheap and worth a lot now. A sale would be carefully prepared since the value is very important.
-Qatar not happy with PSG failure in CL but leaving PSG like that would be a bad story-telling. It would mean they aknowledge they have been a failure.
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Absolutely agree with the last point ..would be very bad PR .. leaving them high and dry
 
Oleole123 said:
It's coming guys. Qatar will visit Leeds on Monday
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Nasser Al-Khelaifi negociating Leeds takeover for QSI (Qatar Sport Investment). The Leeds current owner has decided to sell.

Article saying Premier League has become a coveted league for Qatar as UAE is there winning.
 
Parisian said:


Nasser Al-Khelaifi negociating Leeds takeover for QSI (Qatar Sport Investment). The Leeds current owner has decided to sell.

Article saying Premier League has become a coveted league for Qatar as UAE is there winning.
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If QSI buy Leeds, what are their intention's? Leeds and PSG can't both play in the CL with the same owners, so what gives?

Edit. Salzburg and Leipzig both owned by red bull were allowed to play in the CL at the same time but the case had to go to the cfcb for judgement.
 
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Murph said:
If QSI buy Leeds, what are their intention's? Leeds and PSG can't both play in the CL with the same owners, so what gives?
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Only them know what their intentions are.
But you could say the same with City and Girona, Leipzig and Salzburg, etc.

At the moment, Leeds is not even in Premier League.

I only think that the qataris are proud and wouldn't buy Leeds to be an average team. They would definitely invest.

And at the same time, there are rumour they are goign to extend the contract of Neymar for 1 more year (2023). That would mean they are not pressed to leave Paris either.
Imo, what will be important is what happens after their World Cup.
 
Parisian said:
Only them know what their intentions are.
But you could say the same with City and Girona, Leipzig and Salzburg, etc.

At the moment, Leeds is not even in Premier League.

I only think that the qataris are proud and wouldn't buy Leeds to be an average team. They would definitely invest.

And at the same time, there are rumour they are goign to extend the contract of Neymar for 1 more year (2023). That would mean they are not pressed to leave Paris either.
Imo, what will be important is what happens after their World Cup.
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I think the City and Girona partnership is different, in that CFG only own about 43% of Girona and aren't looking to invest heavily to challenge for the CL places.

If QSI do buy Leeds they could definitely challenge for the CL places in 3 to 5 years.
 
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