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Paris is not a soccer city. Not if Liverpool or Bilbao is understood as such. The current hypertrophy of the PSG does not cease to be the result of a whim of sheikhs backed by a State and representative of a contemporary model of which old football seems to protect itself every time it grants victory in Europe to a dynastic team. To one who does not have to graft a false sentimental memory like a replicant. As imitating the This is Anfield , the Parisians labeled on the walls of the Park of the Princes the expression: Ici, c'est Paris! . But, obviously, it does not work the same because, unlike who is warned to be in Anfield, who is to be in Paris does not find great nights of glory in the memory and run over him with intimidation. The future may try to be bought, but the past has no way.
The previous edition of the Champions League, which to the victory of Liverpool added the ride of Ajax , was, in this sense, a reason for joy for the haters of modern football. Among which I have an eighties passion that goes to more. Real Madrid will now come back to the PSG in the warm part of the European calendar, before the Champions League starts in earnest, because it does not do so until the knockout stages in February.
Beyond the last-minute surprises that the market can still hold, among the Real Madrid rivals will be Neymar , assuming he is finally resigned to being a PSG player. And, what seems even more difficult, assuming that his teammates are resigned to Neymar being a PSG player. The last hint about this was when M'Bappé literally pushed him out of a group photograph with a newly won domestic cup. It is not surprising.
M'Bappé, who could have played where he wanted to, is making a huge effort to believe the Ici, c'est Paris! and for giving it meaning. Compared to that, Neymar's erratic character alludes to a boy he can't count on. And we are not claiming great boasting of adhesion as the topic of having dreamed of that particular team already as a child - did anyone ever dream of the PSG?
How is this solved? I mean, how is it possible to re-integrate a player who has done what Neymar into group dynamics? One who felt captive in the team with which others have made a commitment. One who sent SOS messages to different football capitals to be rescued from a minor destination in a smaller team. One who, beyond bad luck with injuries, never finished being, but only thought about how to leave. And he just spent the summer despising his surroundings to the point of declaring in an interview that his favorite memory is when Barcelona, the team he wanted to go to, destroyed the PSG with a 6-1 , the team in which he did not I wanted to stay. All while keeping open a second escape plan towards Real Madrid if the first one was twisted.
It's Monday, ten in the morning. You are M'Bappé or any other PSG player. You are knotting your boots to go out to train. Suddenly, the door opens and Neymar appears. How do you get it after all this and knowing that it is there just because it has not escaped?
I don't know the inside of professional changing rooms well and that's why I don't know how these things are resolved there. But, come on, in the field soccer in which I played, no one would have risen at that moment to give Neymar a welcome hug. I suspect that it would not have been easy to return to a team with strong values and identity, one that does not admit grievances or defections, integrated into a soccer city that takes itself seriously. The PSG, which tries to manufacture the legend that it does not have, perhaps now finds that the Ici, c'est Paris! It is something that is only credible if you restrict it in the face to its most expensive, craving and unbearable star.
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