Congrats PSG, they did the same thing BArca did but with a squad collectively faster and Inter Milan whose average age is 32 had their worst form of the season starting with the coppa italia lose through the lazio draw and ending with the uefacl final lost. Inter Milan have made two of the last three uefacl finals so keep going with their project. As for PSG congrats. PSG have always wanted to win all trophies, before the qsi era , during the qsi era, and after the qsi era, those who accused them otherwise are liars. But, this season PSG did. It wasn't a fiscally neutral team who has to sell like pre qsi nor was it a team that mandated media attention like the highest profile squads qsi era psg had in the galactique era. It is a team of youth average age 24, half french with no superstars or globally known players. That did the trick. Now PSG wants to win the first of the quadrennial club world cups. A huge victory if possible. And to cap it off, PSG has joined Chelsea+ MCFC as a club based on oil money that has won its first the uefacl . Chelsea used Mourinho's old squad, then won one after. MCFC used a guardiola team with a radical element in a center forward in haaland. PSG used a team of youth high priced youth, with the huge midseason sale of kvart from Napoli who made it where psg could implement the overall strategy enrique wanted.
Khaleefi when he chose to be sporting director as well as president made an interesting choice, instead of supporting the galactique era and having a hard reboot, he used the last seasons of the galactique era to put players in for the coequipe, Vitinha/Donnarumma/Fabian Ruiz all underhwelmed in the galactique but in the coequipe rose.
yeah fanatic fans, but that is fine for me. Some people live through sport, they use sport to fight the wars they want to fight off the pitch. and when a team wins they release that exuberation with violence. Most fans of any sport or sporting team or organization have a civilized reaction, win lose or draw, so I even with the gladiatorial games so for me, I don't need the inhumaness of an end in violent fanatic fans to occur. Humans have to learn to accept being human or humanity in the human collective.
This is an interesting time, Since the QSI came in and bought PSG, I felt Ligue1 became an imbalanced league, in that QSI's PSG is a radical, while all the other teams are the same. As time has gone on after QSI bought PSG, Bordeaux/ASSE/Montpellier/Sochaux have all fallen , teams with great histories in french soccer. Now Lens/Nantes are returning OL + OM + Monaco are maintaining while OGCNice is growing and potentially followed by PAris FC. But, while I saw ligue1 in the galactique era as ligue1 pre qsi with a real madrid type team above, I look at ligue1 now as a ligue1 before the qsi era with a bayern munich type team above. When I look at Barcola from OL who went from starting to the bench Kvart from Napoli + DOue from PSG youth have replaced him I see a clear Bayern Munich way of ripping players from fiscally poor rivals in their league destabilizing those squads while said players become benched and atrophy. so... now that PSG have won the uefacl and media pundits in uefa change their narrative on them because of it, citing they are now traditional and have tradition:) the rest of ligue1 must be wary. When I look at german futebol, many clubs seem to capitulate to bayern in many ways. The good news for the remainder of ligue1 is ligue1 is still the league who plays the most youth, most caf players so the business model doesn't need to change but they must be careful in transferring players to psg because PSG will buy players just to harm competitors in league, as bayern munich does.
And for the record, the PSG coach who had the best season for PSG in terms of wins was LAurent Blanc in 2015-2016.
