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The Paris Saint-Germain Post

4 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

A European night to remember for Paris Saint-Germain

2‑1 against Partizan, under lights, against people who do not speak the same language as the crowd. These are the evenings a club measures its decade in, and there are never as many of them as anybody expects.

Match

Paris Saint-Germain make home a hard place to visit

16 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Player ratings

Warren Zaïre-Emery, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.89

A mark of 7.89 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad

Fabián in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Paris Saint-Germain this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces

One of their own: João Neves

He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Match

Ferran Torres sends Paris Saint-Germain past Stade Rennais

It finished 1‑0, and it was Ferran Torres’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Paris Saint-Germain.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Ferran Torres

Marked 8.30 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Tiago Santos

Marked 8.25 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Player ratings

Ousmane Dembélé was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.03. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief

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56 Edition

The Paris Saint-Germain Post

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Arsenal tell Paris Saint-Germain: Vinícius Júnior is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Transfer targets

Paris Saint-Germain make their move for Ricardo Pepi

$34.4M on the table at Middlesbrough. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Match

Paris Saint-Germain make home a hard place to visit

13 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

The dugout

Philipp Köhn: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Paris Saint-Germain have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Théo Mouyemé has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Paris Saint-Germain they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Paris Saint-Germain

5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Market

One of our own: Henri Muller joins the Paris Saint-Germain first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Henri Muller is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Philippe Legrand steps up from the Paris Saint-Germain academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Philippe Legrand has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Thomas Bernard steps up from the Paris Saint-Germain academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Thomas Bernard has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

In brief

  • Player ratings Renato Lopes beats them one at a time
  • The dugout Vitinha has become a man the manager trusts
  • Player ratings Marquinhos stands above it all