PSG – Trust the process, not the money
By Daily Tab24. Updated: 8: 43. Aug 11, 2023.
PSG football club have had great players and owners, but no owner has ever trusted in finances than the present owner of the revered Paris club – whose money once assembled the most expensive team in Europe but could not yet win the champions league – elite cup for European big shoes.
Notorious for wanting immediate success, Nasser Al-Khelaifi is worth in excess of $8 billion, a mouthwatering amount that came from his myriad of businesses, including beIN Media Group and chairing Qatar Sports Investments.
Since the purchase of Paris Saint-Germain by Qatar Sports Investments, a company believed to be directly owned by Tami bin Hamad Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar in 2011, the club has grown from individual players’ strength to another.
Ligue one glory has become a regular taste that appears to be a right than privilege; unsatisfied with it as the minimum bar of a failed season, the Paris club chase elite European glory that has eluded the club. The desperation to be among European big boys has led to sacking of coaches and trying new ones at every given turn.
The purchase of the world’s best player from Barcelona was to bring home the coveted trophy that would put the club in front of others in France. It was a shrewd business, to had convinced Messi to drape PSG shirt was one worth praising. Eventually; it was the same story by the time Messi regrettably left the club.
Champions league prize money is worth $20, but that no amount of money could buy it for PSG shows winning the European elite trophy is a process and not money based. The club owners believe they can use the market to bring home the trophy, but each new season, looks like the trophy drifts further away.
Fans of the Paris club have gone desperate for their coveted trophy; going woke was the least expected of fans, whose club need to be able to conquer their biggest challenge. The fans have often involved in protests against their stars and booed their players; instead of support them in bad good and bad times.
The new season is about to start and the club have gone to the market and spent massively on new players, while freezing out the likes of Mbappe and his cohorts who still have contracts running. The club owners have failed to learn from their pasts. They still believe in their money, the notion that money can answer all calls.
The club owners have no problem with spending and spending everything. They don’t care about balancing their books and this is why Mbappe could leave for free next summer. It was strange they didn’t see today. They would have cashed in on Mbappe when Real Madrid came knocking; but they held onto him to lose him for free.
Even with a team consisting of Messi, Mbappe and Neymar, PSG could not reach semi-final of the very trophy they desperately needed. It is indeed true as opined by Jurgen Klopp, money cannot win you everything, commitment and right recruitment with right mindset can do it quicker and better.
