Hollywood FC is the best description of PSG. They got more drama than reality TV. Edit: All the Bayern comments clearly don't watch the video. I'm just agreeing with the video.
@@vi9126 Nah, Bayern was nicknamed FC Hollywood in the 90s for their drama, personnel, and success. Sure Real Madrid might be European royalty today, but this name goes way back (edit: typo)
Appreciate the video was already quite long but in mind definitely more you could've spoken about so much here 😅 I mean the fact that they don't comfortably win ligue 1 every year with 100 points baffles me considering the wage difference between them and the rest of the league. PSG just can't seem to handle the better opposition in the ucl and probably points to the fact that they basically play on autopilot for the majority of the season. Love your videos as a fellow 🇿🇦
If that was the case, then City, Bayern wouldn't go far in the CL either since they dominatr their leagues. PSGs biggest issue is having 11 superstars playing with the intention of who can shine the brightest rather than playing like a unit. Having a front line that doesn't press is guaranteed failure.
Yeah, but they dont. Because PSG was one of the few allies of UEFA during Superleague's battle. Because Bein sports is one of the TV rights owner of the UCL. And because the UCL would win less money without Mbappe, Messi, etc...
I think Messi arriving to the club really upset the already tense diva-status of Neymar and Mbappé, and also compromised the system and tactics. Imagine having to play the MNM every match they're available, your tactics basically have to revolve around having these 3 players on the pitch. It's enough for Ligue1, but then playing in the UCL with a squad where 3 players don't press nor defend is overkill, there is no other club that does it. Against Bayern they looked very hindered tactically and physically. Also having these 3 players and their enormous wages compromises the ability to sign better players in other positions, so when looking at PSG's bench and at Bayern's bench, it was clear one was a team built more or less carefully and with a plan for the team and the individuals, while PSG looked just like a rich guy's pet project.
Exactly. ONly club that could have sustained 3 players that don't press was Barcelona in that one season, and only that season. And they have done it by scoring more goals than they conceded, which PSG obv cannot do
Makes you appreciate Luis Enrique more. They way he used MSN. He knew the power of that trio and boldly went against the Barcelona DNA of tiki taka instead being more direct. In the end the fans became disgruntled because of this but still you can't deny he was a winner
@@donaldduck2756 That’s the problem with you idiots. You think owners define a club. There are millions of PSG fans who actually LIVE in Paris and have supported the club for years/decades. They’re not “cUstOmeRs”.
FC Hollywood used to be the title for FC Bayern in the late 90s when lots of drama was happening with the likes of Klinsmann, Matthäus, Effenberg, coach Trapattoni's outburst at a press conference, and so on :D.
I don't think that. Even Zidane don't do all work alone . It's not the manager the probleme when you see Tuchel and Ancelotti are quite this club , they are make a very good job but the dirigeants doesn't care of this club . They are prouved this with a new promotion campaign where we can see only Mbappe.... The PSG dirigeants don't seek to win with a good team but to have a stars in her team so , this club can't be become better to make a same mistake . Sorry if there is a fault , I'm french ;)
I look at PSG and I don’t see a football club, I see more of a marketing and profit generating scheme. That’s it really. I’ve never seen a club more devoid of real passion and emotion in my entire life.
I agree with you that PSG's Owners don't have to win the UCL but I often wonder for their fans are things actually better? I really want to know if they would rather have a club run like circus with great players, or go back to being a smaller club with no chance against Europe's elite.
Glad you touched on a fact that a lot of people often leave out. The main function of PSG at the moment is to sanitise the image of a regime guilty of numerous human rights violations. That's why they're happy to throw such an obscene amount of money after Mbappe to the detriment of the rest of the squad; the publicity they gain from their main stars far outweighs the benefits of actually winning the Champions League
It's not about sanitisation. It's simply about a display of wealth and power. Ot about being movers and shackers. The gulf states by no means want to seem sanitised or secular. I think that's a big misunderstanding of their motives.
@@misfitplayer9999 So what is the term for your bible? Because it is filled with heinous thing that christian cherry pick to make them look good. With western it is okay if they commit attrocities but when Qatar do it need scary a new term.
The problem with PSG is they are to big to fit in the ligue1. Yes other teams in Ligue1 still cause them troubles here and there, but there are no Barcelona to Real Madrid, it was like EPL with only Man City and there are no Arsenal, Man Utd, Liver, Chelsea, just mid table dark horses and relegation teams. There are no higher standard to strive, once PGS got the oil money, they automatically became the best team in the league. In the end they have to rely on a few C1 matches they could play to test out their meter. Yes Bayern to the rest of Bundesliga is kinda the similar problem if you only look on their recent dominant years, but there is a very different mentallity in Germany. Bayern choose to be this way and they desparately want to be the only best team in the league despite valiant and very close attempt by kind like Leipzig and Dortmund. And these 2, (or some others in the past) despite still bottlejob, they still have very big chances to win the title. That's why we see Bayern still have to try so hard to protect their position. While looking at ligue1, i see no other team could ever apply any constant pressure on PSG years after years, they always jazzing to the title almost every year. And of course we have to mention that Bayern spending are no near the level of PSG, and they still archieve the same domestic dominant
La liga is not that better either especially now once the El Clasico was historical with Ronaldo vs messi and even athletico was more threatening now it's meh
@@sarov7658 while in ligue1 you can't name any club that can fill in that kind of role. There is no el clasico, no derby Ruhr, no derby manchester, mersyside equivelance in ligue1 that include PSG in it. The only way to improve PSG and ligue1 is making a true rivalry.
The last time PSG was a proper team was when Ancelotti, Ibrahimovic and Thiago Silva was still there, after the 3 of them gone, it's the era of Neymar. That's where things go wrong.
PSG fan of 20+ years and a contributor of a large English-speaking PSG podcast here,, I could write an essay on our situation but this guy did a great job. Every football RU-vidr has a take on our club but this guy gave the best unbiased report from a neutral I've seen in a while. In short, I believe we suffer from the club being run by QSI, where their main goal is to use the club as a sportwashing and marketing tool. Our spending was a bit high comparatively from 2011-13 and actually not bad at all from 2014-20 even with the two biggest transfers ever (and yes I'm aware the artificial revenue inflation helped us), but the wage bill increasing 44% from 2020 to 2022 was a huge problem that I believe put us in the bad spot we are now. It's crazy that while we're located in maybe the biggest talent hotspot in the world (the city of Paris), we have completely ignored that and sold young players to sign the next Icardi or Idrissa Gueye for millions. In a perfect world QSI learns their mistakes and either becomes a more passive owner or sells the club but we all know that's unrealistic. I believe this season was a step in the right direction (wage bill lowered greatly, deadwood loaned/sold), but we still need to cut costs by a lot next year, and I hope at least one of MNM is let go/sold to shift towards financial stability
I think there will be a change in the future Especially if Qatar realy buys manchester united Their approach of investment and their goles for the club will probably have a big change
I would absolutely love for someone to do a documentary on them, but make sure they aren't aware because it would be great to see how things work and what actually happens, I'd be very interested tbh
This is very good and interesting. I like your humour too. One thing you didn't seem to consider is that the first half of the season was played before the WC,when they were fresh and full of vim and vinegar. The second half is after the WC where they shot their wad. WC is horrendously intense and it's all concentrated in one month. Even I as a fan haven't got the energy to get excited about the games post-WC. I've shot my wad too. It's interesting that the players who shone at WC, Neymar (injured), Messi, Mbappe, Hakimi haven't been playing that well. They're tired. They're not robots. They should have had a longer rest period. Nowadays they seem to be recovering and their playing shows it. The main pb with PSG is that it's not a team. So they can't really compete with a well regulated team like Real or Bayern. I have to say PSG has the most impatient, bratty, ignorant, stupid, and downright nasty fans. They've managed to make themselves hated all over the world by booing Messi. Made their team the most hated and it's even seeped over to their country, France.
As a PSG supporter, I think the best way to summarize it is in two words, "clown fiesta." I'm tired of signing these people who don't give a fuck about the club and don't fight for the badge. How can we be a serious French team with only one French player on the team? Nasser Al-Khelaifi needs to step down and let someone competent run the club. Clearly, Galtier is a fraud too but we have had great managers underperform because the team isn't authentic.
I agree man! Im a parisian too, and i am so done with some of the players in the team. Probably a bit controversial, but i think it is time to get rid of both messi and Neymar. Messi (understandably, he isnt supposed to be here) doesnt want to be here, and i think its time he goes back home. Neymar also needs to go, most expensive signing in history, and he doesnt even care about the club. Hes been good in 1 of 6 seasons hes been here, its time to go! Also don't think this is galtiers fault, we were brilliant before the world cup. It feels like none in the team except for Kylian has any motivation anymore. For years now weve complained on the managers, i think it is time we look at the players for once.
@@thommelom9650 Tuchel made it to the UCL final with this squad(before Messi, Ramos, Hakimi or Donarumma) so you better be kidding if you think it's a manager thing
@The Squid Man … Interesting to hear how a PSG feels about the current regime. I don’t know how old you are but I remember PSG having an excellent team in the mid 90’s; Djorkaeff, Loko, Rai etc. I can recall when my club Celtic played them in the Euro CWC in 95/96, the season PSG won the competition. I actually also travelled the PDP in Paris. That was quite a tight match but you slaughtered us 0-3 in the second match in Glasgow. We were very naive defensively but PSG were lightening quick on the counter. Would you prefer those simpler days again? Decent on the field but much less drama (and possibly also much less controversy) off it?
Another problem is the lack of passion for football by the french public which results in an uncompetitive football league, and a lack of respect for the institutions within it like PSG. I mean when your average frenchman sees football as a dirty sport of "22 racailles qui courent derrière un ballon" i wouldn't expect anything else.
Another great video! I quite like the fact that it's longer than usual, especially since there's so much to tell. Always looking forward to the next one!
One of the problems with PSG is that no one sees them as a big club NOT even their own players! When a player plays for Real Madrid, Bayern, Barcelona, Liverpool etc they know and feel the sense of duty in a big club. Even Chelsea during the Abramovich era had that pressure of winning. But PSG feels only like a ludicrous easy job for footballers to earn, party and chill
I'll have to give it to you, your videos are very elaborately structured with one of the best introductions compared to other sporting channels, your content is very well researched and i am really impressed by your analysis, not to forget all those humourous snippets you put in between. I have been following you actively for the last couple of years and have seen almost all your recent videos. Keep doing the great work.
Hazard is a genius. After the hardwork in stamford bridge, he took a vacation in real madrid with no 7 jersey, sit on the bench, and literally being handed all trophies to him while maintaining to be the highest paid player in the team. Now that's life
The biggest difference between Galacticos and PSG is the era in which they existed. This is an era of collective functionality, high press, building from the back as a team. It's not an era where a super team can be created by stacking up talent, as they did in the Galacticos time. And even then, it worked a lot less than expected. Galacticos era shouldn't be romantized. They failed more often than not. Stil, tactics have advanced too much to build a team on individual talent. Talent needs to click perfectly. Every team needs balance, tactical players.
Look at it two ways: 1. PSG the Brand 2. PSG the Brand PSG have no football philosophy nor did they even try to create one. What a waste! With all that money, you have no innovation, no new ideas, just copying the Madrid playbook. PSG fans should not be mad at the players or coaches, focus on the people behind it, they're messing it up BIG TIME.
@@jackfloc0 Real doesn't want him. Maybe at the end of his contract when he's for free. By then he may have ruined his reputation as a great player. And he's too much trouble.
@@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633don’t be delusional, Mbappe even in his current worst form is still competing with numbers if the likes of vini Mbappe said it himself, life is easier with a solid team and it’s no coincidence he miraculously performed significantly better in the French national team this year.
Ego has always been the demise of PSG and its players. Neymar leaving Barca because he didn't want to be Messi's shadow. Mbappe choosing to stay at PSG because he is getting paid more and because it's a club that will do anything to keep him happy. Even undermine managers and directive/sporting staff (probably). And having a dressing room that thinks too high of itself. Imagine if Messi had taken mbappes attitude with Luis Enriques Barca when he restricted Messi's movements to allocate Neymar and Suarez. This club, from a sporting point of view, is a true disappointment
@@lazyartiste_2357 The Franco’s regime, although primarily inward-looking, was hugely concerned with the way it was perceived by the rest of Europe, and Real Madrid were the perfect PR tool, projecting an idea of a wealthy, happy and united Spain that was at odds with the reality.
I was waiting for that last 2 minutes. The then French president Sarkozy asked the Qataris to buy the club and in return convinced Platini to give them his vote to host the last World Cup. They don’t care about performance. They sign the biggest names to increase the club's profile which helps their foothold in the country and political ties.
Your final was very spot on. Even more than Man City, PSG was nothing. As fans we look at it as a failure, but Hollywood FC is a success in terms of the marketing. What was Qutar known for besides US Military bases and NG. Now it's known the world over.
@@alwallace4538 Before Qatar, PSG already had 2 league titles, 8 french cup titles, 3 league cup titles, 2 supercup titles and 2 european trophies. All that in only 40 years of existence. So stop embarassing yourself with your non-existent football knowledge.
I don't really follow Ligue 1 but I do know something about Neymar from watching him over the past 13 years. That lad really loves his sister. Really really.
as a massive galtier fan he should leave the club this summer cause it's tanking all his stock. but the biggest problems at psg is that until now they never really cared about the academy post qsi considering they could have had konate,coman,nkunku,maignan,diaby as either starters or some of the best depth possible , they had a terrible sporting director before campos which lead to poor squad building, the obscene wages they give to players makes it impossible to sell them as well and don't really have much competition except when monaco and lille won the league . even the german league which is seen as the bayernliga still at least makes it competitive enough so that bayern can't slack at all
@SAFAT GAMING because a club like psg doesn't deserve a player like Messi. And how psg fans have treated him since his world cup clearly shows how pathetic p$g fans are.
@SAFAT GAMING I need him too, gotta make sure he gets his champions league trophy and with how things have been, psg does not seem like the club to do it
@SAFAT GAMING ain't no way bro all clubs have drama but PSG is just on another level when it comes to drama. PSG higher-ups don't even hide their contempt for South American players makes you wonder why they signed Messi in the first place
It's all a part of the club's identity. You finish 6th the same season you become champions of Europe. The next season, you crash out of every competition you're playing in and the one you end up winning is the one you weren't even expected to play in to begin with. You win the league one season, finish 10th the next, then win it again the following season. One season, you're 9th whilst being managed by your most legendary player with him expecting to be sacked. A few months after sacking him, you're champions of Europe. One season later, you're world champions only for your owner to have to sell you a few weeks later cause of a freaking war.
Tottenham hotspur, Chelsea 2022-23, Barcelona cf: Allow us to introduce ourselves Edit: since these are all bottle job clubs anyway, removing Union might be a good idea, my bad
@@lexkanyima2195 Tuchel helped PSG to reach their first UCL final. A guy like Zidane who won 3 peat UCL with RMA certainly will. Most French people respect him
@@lexkanyima2195 He’s managed Ronaldo who has one of the biggest ego. Most of the players ego will immediately evaporate after they are coached by either Ancelotti, Zidane or Mou.
You can tell PSG's leadership and project has a severe lack of football culture because of one often overlooked detail: They never pay off referees. Seriously. Nearly all big successful clubs constantly have games and scandals of referees benefitting them (Barça, Madrid, Man Utd, Liverpool, Chelsea, etc). When's the last time you heard of that happening with PSG?
I’m a PSG, and I admit, we’ve been an absolute circus of a club for a while now, and there are many problems that we need to fix to be able to get anywhere in the next 5 years. 1. We truly are an oil club at the moment, and we are just signing players for the sake of signing them. We aren’t actually looking at players that we already have, trying to get a functioning team, and getting players to work with each other. All of the players that we have signed are insane as INDIVIDUALS, not as a team. 2. At this point, everything has been exhausted into attack, or literally singularly Mbappè. We have barely tried to develop our midfield, and are not giving any attention out for the actual potentially amazing players like Hakimi and Hugo who could become exceptional. 3. For some reason, we still think that everybody is in their prime? All the big names that we have signed are exceptional, don’t get me wrong, but bodies age, and people just slowly start to decline, you aren’t going to be seeing Messi re-creating iconic moments like “Ankara”, and Neymar isn’t going to be pulling some of the most breathtaking goals to ever be scored. 4. Some players we could sign to be boost the squad could be: - Nkunku -Osimhen -Young stars like Gavi who can grow into and adapt to a new midfield -Tomori -Saliba -Camavinga -Actually use Xavi Simons and not throw the poor dude out the window Just some good players I think could make an actual good and functional squad
Arsene Wenger once said "we don't sign superstars, we make them" and perhaps there's some irony as Arsenal is today owned by Rich American Guy. But anyway the sentiment has lost its meaning on these mega-money clubs of which I am growing so tired and uninterested. I'm not impressed by a club or the team of players purchased with unthinkable amounts of money. It is for real ruining the game as the only way to win or even survive is becoming who has the largest bank account. Leads to all kinds of problems like the EPL manager merry go round (lets see a vid on that)! Well done video, by the way.
Paris is so weird, they should be comfortably winning their league like Bayern would do in Germany, they have talent up and down the field, yet they get smashed about in the Champions League.
Their kit and how they branding in fashion industry is truly amazing and don't forget their academy player is fire tho but the first team and how they run it.... i mean bro watching them it's like watching morbeus honestly
Successful clubs sign players because they fit into the team's philosophy and style of play. PSG signs players as if they are collecting rare collectables, then design their philosophy and style around these players. It will never work because it just highlights that the club doesn't even have a basic philosophy or a stable foundation, but their philosophy now is to just throw money at a broken system and hope that it will bring them success. That's what separates Manchester City from PSG. City learned this quickly and they haven't really been signing any big names especially since Pep's arrival with very few exceptions in Haaland and Grealish (Grealish wasn't even a huge name tbh, he only made headlines because of the huge price tag rather than for his ability as a footballer at the time). Most players on the City squad over the past years became famous only after arriving at City. Gundogan, Bernado, Dias, Rodri, and EVEN KDB all weren't huge players until they joined City and very few English fans even knew who they were before. PSG needs to get rid of all their Hollywood stars and build from the ground up with a solid and stable philosophy. Otherwise they will never win anything meaningful. But I hope that will never happen because I simply love watching PSG crash and burn year after year. It never gets old.
Hi, nice job on this video, I'm french, football fan-ish, not so anymore, because since 10 years I am mainly interested by the "behind the curtain" of french football, and it's pretty terrible, here in france, football = politic = money = sex , and for the PSG it's a bit worse than what you think, a player like Mbappé can call directly the Prince and the "President" Nasser is just his employe, Mbappé, even with the money involved, would have never stayed if some of the closes you talk about are not here, or something approaching that kind of agreement, and do not forget that Mbappé said himself that the french President Macron called him to persuade him, Mbappé want to be involved in french football in general it seems, for his own interest ofcourse. So, keep going, I did not know your channel before today, glad to see your work ! (ps: and sorry for my english...=p )
2:01 Indian football already have their own version of FC Hollywood in form of mohun bagan which has become national champions only few days ago despite of terrible performance and poor coaching tactics.I can understand what's going on PSG.Atleast Messi didn't deserved it.PSG owners should be shameful for this mess.
I saw a comment which compared PSG with Bayern Munich so I thought about giving my own point of view.I was talking about club mismanagement.Since I am from India and mismanagement of football clubs are norm I just tried to gave example.I would have done same if I was from a country which is way worser in football than India.Don't get offended I'm not even special.
@@shreyanganguly261 I would like to know Why u think ATK is anything similar to PSG...... Like although they have won it most times 4 times..... They have not been completely *dominant*..... I mean ATK reached the finals and won it fair and square.... I am asking, genuinely curious, like u might know something I don't... Btw u Bengali?
@@shreyanganguly261 not getting offended we do a little trolling....btw why would someone compare Bayern to PSG .....oh and 100% correct about mismanagement in India.... Hoping someday we Indian football can actually get respect from Indians
Just wanna say if you want more stuff like this there's a ton of great channels on yt like maqwell and vizeh there's also FNG for more like banter I guess
