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PSG for sale?

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A shocker if this turns out to be true although a word of caution, it's from the Daily Excess! Maybe Arnaud has some info? If this is correct, you'd guess they'd look to maybe buy a PL team and spend shitloads on them? Werent this lot sniffing around Leeds a year or so? I hope not.

 

Oil-rich Paris Saint-Germain are set to be sold by Qatar Sports Investments, according to an incredible report in the Spanish media. The French side have been owned by QSI since 2011 but successive Champions League failures have put the control of the club into doubt. 

 

QSI, a subsidiary of the Qatari state-run sovereign wealth fund, has pumped over £1.3billion into the club to spend on big-name stars since their takeover over a decade ago. The latest was the summer acquisition of Lionel Messi after his Barcelona contract expired. 

 

But the enormous spending has failed to deliver a highly-sought Champions League title. PSG went close in 2020, reaching the final before being beaten by Bayern Munich.

 

A 3-2 aggregate defeat by Real Madrid in this year’s last-16 was particularly galling for those in charge at PSG. The Parisians led 2-0 on aggregate at half-time in the second leg but a Karim Benzema hat-trick completed a dramatic turnaround. 

 

President Nasser Al-Khelaifi was understood to be fuming after that game and manager Mauricio Pochettino’s job was understood to be on the line. The Argentine could still leave PSG when they seal the Ligue 1 title in the next few weeks. 

But the club could soon be under new ownership as it has been reported that QSI has put them up for sale. According to the extravagant Spanish television magazine show El Chiringuito, QSI are ‘throwing in the towel’ and Al-Khelaifi will not be president after December’s World Cup. 

 

The World Cup is a significant landmark in the sale of PSG because it is controversially being hosted in Qatar. 

 

https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1594641/PSG-to-be-sold-Qatar-Nasser-Al-Khelaifi-Champions-League-failures

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I do wonder at what point the sports washing will have served it’s useful purpose and some of these concerns move on.

 

The Russian Oligarchs, it was said needed a couple of generations to truly infiltrate British Society and become accepted. Basically arrive, spend money living and moving in the right places, send your kids to the right school, maybe get a peerage, couple of generations down the line your children and Grandchildren are accepted and the money is secure and immovable, and Britain being Britain you’ve got a hefty slice of influence and tax breaks for the elite and international movers.

 

Maybe for Qatar time to move on is post World Cup as the job is done, perhaps that is the centre piece they craved. PSG are a mess and it’s not reflecting well on them so cut losses and avoid having the big prize of the World Cup tainted.

 

Not sure what Abu Dhabi’s end game is. At what point do you stop spunking money on the 2nd biggest team in a provincial city in northern England? What do you need to achieve before you’d rather keep your money. Peak oil and move to renewables probably means in the next 30 years the investment funds need to be making money not wasting it.

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4 hours ago, RJ Fan club said:

I do wonder at what point the sports washing will have served it’s useful purpose and some of these concerns move on.

 

The Russian Oligarchs, it was said needed a couple of generations to truly infiltrate British Society and become accepted. Basically arrive, spend money living and moving in the right places, send your kids to the right school, maybe get a peerage, couple of generations down the line your children and Grandchildren are accepted and the money is secure and immovable, and Britain being Britain you’ve got a hefty slice of influence and tax breaks for the elite and international movers.

 

Maybe for Qatar time to move on is post World Cup as the job is done, perhaps that is the centre piece they craved. PSG are a mess and it’s not reflecting well on them so cut losses and avoid having the big prize of the World Cup tainted.

 

Not sure what Abu Dhabi’s end game is. At what point do you stop spunking money on the 2nd biggest team in a provincial city in northern England? What do you need to achieve before you’d rather keep your money. Peak oil and move to renewables probably means in the next 30 years the investment funds need to be making money not wasting it.

i heard one of these journo's on 5live a while back saying he thought PSG would go up for sale soon because it's served it's purpose from a sports washing perspective. As soon as WC2022 is done, they'll have no interest in ploughing hundreds of millions into PSG and they won't want to be linked with failure if PSG go backwards domestically and in Europe. 

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1 hour ago, MegadriveMan said:

Haven't they just offered Mbappe a two year contract worth £150 million? Doesn't sound like the actions of owners that are planning to leave. 

 

I've heard a few times that where prepared to offer him an insane short term contract so he's a PSG player at the World Cup. If Putin is an example of sport washing then the timing would suggest they have run their course. 

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4 hours ago, TheHowieLama said:

PSV are Dutch cunts.

It's an obscure long-standing 'in' joke on here , Howie.

 

One of the Danish lads on here ( DT ? ) got called a Dutch cunt in a heated thread years ago and it has been de rigueur to swap anything pertaining to Denmark and Holland.

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On 12/04/2022 at 07:17, Paul said:

It’s been denied apparently but even if it is for sale, who’s buying? They bought the wrong club in the wrong league. They’re not worth anything without sports washing intentions. 

 

They got their dirty fingers into UEFA amd FIFA though so probably job done with the WC this year

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