Super League: why PSG is not one of the founding clubs

For now, it's no.

PSG is not on the list of twelve clubs at the initiative of the creation of the private football Super League, which must compete with the Champions League.

No French club - nor German - appears besides alongside Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, ​​Liverpool, Manchester United or Juventus of Turin, who announced the birth of this new competition, Monday.

Europe 1 explains to you the reasons why the Parisian club is not one for the moment… And those for which its position could evolve. 

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"PSG leaders are not going to alienate Fifa"

"Paris Saint-Germain has leaders who are linked to the Qatari state", explains Charles Villeneuve, former president of PSG and "Great voice" of Europe 1. "However, Qatar is organizing the next FIFA World Cup It is supervised by Fifa, the international football federation, which reacted very quickly and very firmly ", he continues. The president of the body, Gianni Infantino, said "strongly disapprove" of the Super League project, criticizing leaders who "will have to suffer the consequences". "Therefore, they [the leaders of PSG,

will not alienate Fifa to go with twelve clubs which are trying to secede," concludes Charles Villeneuve. 

However, a doubt remains as to the "refusal" formulated by Paris-Saint-Germain: has the question of its participation been openly raised at this stage?

"We have not yet invited PSG and we have not spoken to German clubs," Real Madrid boss Florentino Pérez said on Monday.

According to a leak from

, PSG and German clubs have "invitations" allowing them to change their minds depending on how events develop. 

The fear of a flight from Parisian superstars

If secession were to become effective, with UEFA's appeals to the courts appearing to be weak, could PSG move? According to

, President Nasser al-Khelaïfi could act as intermediaries between UEFA and the famous twelve clubs, with which he shares the ambition to become a benchmark on a global scale. 

Another argument, advanced by the former great footballer Jean-Claude Darmon: if the Super League were to emerge without PSG, the repercussions on the Parisian workforce would be felt. "The financial stakes will be such that the PSG, even with potentially enormous means, will find it difficult to compete," he believes at the microphone of Europe 1. "They will make the effort on a player, on perhaps two… "And will potentially have to see their other superstars join the closed club of participants in this new competition.