A shoestring budget, divisive characters, rivalries, a story with twists and turns and a good dose of suspense. The most commented series of the summer is not an “original creation” of TV screenwriters: far from being a fantasy, it is the daily life of Paris Saint-Germain (PSG). A football club, certainly different, that begins the new season of the French championship with a welcome ceremony to Lorient on Saturday, 12 August at the Parc des Princes (at 9 p.m.).
We rewind. On 3 June, fireworks were set off at the Porte d’Auteuil enclosure after the last match of the 2022–2023 financial year (a 2–3 loss against Clermont), causing the general apathy supporters regarding the 11 badly disguised.I The title of champion of France of the club. Because it was time to end the season. Since the World Cup was held in Qatar, the Paris team seemed to be disintegrating. Not only were PSG shamefully eliminated in the Champions League in the round of 16 stage (against Bayern Munich), but they won the title by only a narrow margin, despite having incomparable means against all their opponents.
Management, coaches, players: all were in sight of supporters who expressed their discontent in front of the club’s headquarters factory in Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine) on 3 May. The competition of the club’s management, repeatedly expressed by the militants in recent seasons, then reached a level: dozens of fans went to sing “Neymar, break up! , In Bougival (Yvelines), in front of the house of the Brazilian star of the team.
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Since then, the off-season has been particularly eventful. A year after his arrival – with the promise of a new era – coach Christophe Gaultier has been sacked. At the end of the contract, Argentina’s Lionel Messi and Spaniard Sergio Ramos have not been extended. Neymar and Italian Marco Verratti, the other veterans on the club’s payroll, have now been tipped to find a new destination. As RMC Sport reported, he was among the players that the club – through the voice of its new coach, Luis Enrique, and the sports advisor in charge of recruitment, Luis Campos – announced on Wednesday, 9 August, that it did not . Don’t count on them for the season.
Even more shattering, even more divisive, the Kylian Mbappé file. PSG’s figurehead for six seasons, the top scorer in the club’s history (212 goals) has been training for three weeks in a Parisian “loft” with elements deemed undesirable by the club – hence, the new coach’s arrival on the fringes of the group. in leadership. Written on the placard, the star was not invited on the traditional day to take official photographs this week, and his name should not appear on the PSG-Lorient match sheet.
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