So it’s Slot’s fault.
#Slot-out!
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Just saw the highlights. Gotta say, that was a romp by PSG. Haven’t seen a team move the ball like that in a long time. Breathtaking, and without a lot of big-money players. Good system, athleticism on display. Vitinha’s run from the back for their third was outstanding
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@Semmy, I wouldn’t say that. They have excellent young players, yes, but they didn’t get them for cheap. From the wiki page:
PSG bet on promising prospects such as Warren Zaïre-Emery, Vitinha, Bradley Barcola, Lucas Beraldo, Manuel Ugarte, João Neves, Willian Pacho, Lee Kang-in and Désiré Doué.[117][118][120] Some of these youngsters came at a cost, though, with three of them breaking into PSG’s top five most expensive signings: Randal Kolo Muani from Eintracht Frankfurt for €75m,[121] Khvicha Kvaratskhelia from Napoli for €70m,[122] and Gonçalo Ramos from Benfica for €65m.[123]
They might have moved from their ‘stars at any cost’ policy, but they fundamentally remain one of the big oil-cheating clubs, owned by a country ruled by a despotic regime, and are in a league of their own in Ligue 1. All other clubs are very rarely given a chance to compete with them for the title. Once in five or six years maybe?
Bottom-line: they’ll never get any compliments from me as long as these facts remain.
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Other than Donarouma who arrived on a free, Fabian Ruiz is their “cheapest” player at about 40 million. But given how in demand he was when he left Italy and he went straight to PSG without even talking to anyone else you have to assume he is on a big wedge, which mitigates the relatively cheap signing fee.
It is an incredibly expensively constructed squad
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I might be misremembering but wasn’t Donarouma also lured to PSG with a significantly eye wateringly high salary?
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I think that’s a given with these clubs when they get players on a free.
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PSG are just a different despotic flavour cheaty. Plastic scum, arguably even more plastic than cheaty who used to be a proper (crappish) team before Thaksin Shinawatra.
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Don’t know about the league and cup performance, but Donnarumma was absolutely the difference in the two games I saw against us and Arsenal in the CL. Not much to do in the final though. Those are standout performances and I always wonder what more a keeper can do to win the likes of Balon D’or.
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True, but whom they HAD on their team without winning it shows that you can win a CL without the likes of Messi and Neymar and Ramos and Pepe and Verratti and Matuidi.
When we are looking at Wirtz for €115m, it becomes a bit of a glass house argument when it comes to money and more about the ethics of it.
I think think Nunez may be the biggest flop in our history, even moreso than Keita, Carroll, Benteke.
Agree Donnarumma had a splendid game in the 2nd leg at Anfield against us. But Alisson’s performance in the first leg was possibly the best performance by a keeper that I’ve seen. Atleast that I can recollect.
Isn’t it odd how Wilson, and others, aren’t so quick to use The S Word when it comes to Manchester City (and Newcastle, for that matter)?
Odd, that.
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‘British’ double standards, get it all over the place were money is involved.
Always ready to shit on an individual though!
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Didn’t really know where to put this but seeing as it’s the 40th anniversary of Heysel and there’s been barely a mention anywhere , it lands here.
French / German channel Arte revisit the tragedy with this documentary. It contains unseen and harrowing footage from the events inside the stadium and also provides some social commentary and context.
What remains the most remarkable thing about that day is that they still played the game and that all the European broadcasters apart from one (ZDF Germany) showed it.
While the Liverpool fans (deservedly) bore the brunt of the blame for the tragedy , once again the football authorities , the police and the politicians managed to exculpate themselves for what was so clearly a catastrophe of their making.
English subtitles.
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Great channel, ARTE.
Recently saw something about Heysel on YouTube which contained some horrible scenes I’ve never seen before.
Gonna watch this one also, thanks.
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The stadium was a shit pit and both teams asked for the venue to be changed. The cock up started well before the fans even had tickets.
Anyway it was atrocious what happened.
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The stadium was fucking unreal. I’d only seen it during the tragedy but the documentary shows it before and during the fans’ arrival. It honestly looked like something that had just been left abandoned for decades. Never can a more unsuitable venue been chosen for a major sporting event. The documentary doen’t go into it but how the fuck UEFA came to choose that tip is beyond belief.
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Like Everton’s trophy cabinet? 
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