Paris is a great world city and I could understand it if he wanted the experience. He would be well paid and presumably would have a real job to do, as so far they have just been a cheque book outfit.
A real job? playing FM with a cheat code isnāt a real job. Heād lose a lot of respect if he did move to somewhere like PSG.
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Iām not sure he would.
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Iāll still have respect for what he did but yeah a āreal jobā I canāt see the two going together at Paris.
Hasnāt he mentioned that he was taking a break from football when he leaves LFC?
From me, not that means a lot haha.
A real jobā¦ IF they want to evolve away from just being a cheque book club.
Iām not burning any candle for PSG and they represent a lot that is wrong with the game, like Man City and now Newcastle. I would not take a job there, but if Edwards did, I was just trying to imagine the appeal. Yes of course the money, but also a beautiful world city, and also (speculatively on my part) the mandate to help them become a proper football club, with scouting, systems, procedures, player identification, value for moneyā¦ all the things Edwards does that PSG do not do very well, as a cheque book club.
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I donāt even think he would necessarily stay within football.
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One interesting thing about football is the contrast in the stress of the working day between the players and everyone involved in the football side of the club. For a player, a long working day might be 6 hours. For everyone else involved in football behind the scenes, theyād be regularly putting in 12+ hour days. I think that weighs the pull of the city differently if youāre a player with a ton of free time vs anyone else. A beautiful city you dont have time to enjoy isnt that much of a perk, especially a busy one that is difficult to get around and adds even more time your already packed day may not be the pull for these guys as it sounds.
EDIT: although Iām pretty sure PSG are based a little bit out of the city so not as if heād need to deal with inner city traffic on a daily basis
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If I was Edwards I would 100% consider going to Paris
Great City, will have a blank cheque book to sign players and if (more probably - when) they win the champions league as some point in the next 5 years they probably will heāll build his stock by taking a lot of the credit.
Seriously he could go there and probably double his annual income.
Would you do that in your profession - I know I would
Would he replace Leonardo or would he work under / with him?
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Leanardo is fucked at PSG aint he.
Whatās he been there 5-7 years and no champions league
Replaces him would be my bet.
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Some top clubs/teams (bigger and more balanced than this PSG side) have gone sometimes multiple decades without the CL, itās not all that simple.
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to elaborate on that, I had a friend who made a good career in the championship and I remember asking him once about a move (house) heād just made with his family that put him 2 hours away from the training ground of his current club. I assumed it was indicative of an upcoming transfer, but instead he said it was a way to fill his day given he tended to only spend 3 to 4 hours a day actually in work. If he didnt find vanilla ways to fill his free time he worried about the sort of trouble he might find himself in.
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Itās easy to forgot now given the run they went on, but recall the complex Real had in chasing La Decima. What was it? 11 years between #9 and #10? All while pouring obscene money into the side
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Yeah, there are multiple examples. Not easy to compare, but Real have gone around 30 years (between '66 and '98) once without winning the CL. The quest for #10 also took a while like you say. Barca won their first one only in '92. Bayern had their hole between '76 and '01 and then another 10 years or so. Juventus with their first in '85 and only two to this day. And those are all domestically serial winners, more often than not. There are other examples like United, us (although we also had that ban), Inter (half a decade), etc. It just doesnāt happen that often. You can have some purple patches of course and the odd surprise here and there. But itās very difficult to āplan to winā. In fact, in modern times, weāve seen that the more a club wants it or is desperate, it can be counterproductive. Chelseaās āonlyā two times was arguably when they least expected it.
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Real won 6 (?) in row before it was even really a thing. I donāt put much store in their 13 wins to be completely honest.
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Their early ones are equivalent to charity shields
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I think they won the first five, which all definitely have an asterisk next to them. It wasnāt the same competition, it wasnāt contested by all of the best in Europe, and it was more of a processional glorified friendly sort of thing.
To my mind Real Madrid have 8.
Definite European giants, but the record is inflated with 5 gimmies.
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Is there nothing that Mikey canāt fix?
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