Vitinha

Defensive Midfielder - Paris Saint-Germain
3 Dec 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Vitinha

111 Edition

The Paris Saint-Germain Post

11 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Khvicha Kvaratskhelia

Successful dribbles: 39. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Nobody wins at Paris Saint-Germain

14 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Market

Vitinha wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Paris Saint-Germain hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad

Tempers go at Paris Saint-Germain

Ousmane Dembélé was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Market

Ilian Mhand 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.

Squad

Words at Paris Saint-Germain training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Khvicha Kvaratskhelia is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Player ratings

Achraf Hakimi was the difference for Paris Saint-Germain

Marked 7.86. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

Squad

When it matters, Ousmane Dembélé plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Squad

A smaller club would suit Matvey Safonov now

He has had enough of the noise. Whether Paris Saint-Germain can be a quieter place for him, or whether the only cure is a move somewhere the phone-ins are gentler, is a question for the next few months.

In brief

Back issues
109 Edition

The Paris Saint-Germain Post

28 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

Ferran Torres damages knee ligaments — 25 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 25 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market

Atlético Madrid come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Paris Saint-Germain did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Maghnes Akliouche

Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Nobody wins at Paris Saint-Germain

13 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Market

Arnaud Bodart hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Paris Saint-Germain can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Tempers go at Paris Saint-Germain

Ousmane Dembélé was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Match

Paris Saint-Germain make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Paris Saint-Germain have 3 straight wins of it.

Squad

Words at Paris Saint-Germain training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Khvicha Kvaratskhelia is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Market

AC Ajaccio watching Wassim Slama

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Paris Saint-Germain have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

In brief

102 Edition

The Paris Saint-Germain Post

10 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Ousmane Dembélé comes home a champion

A Paris Saint-Germain player has won an international tournament, and there is no version of that sentence a club page can print without a certain amount of borrowed glory. He goes back into training in a fortnight with 14 caps and a medal nobody here had anything to do with.

Match

Paris Saint-Germain up to position 1

79 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Market

Khalis Merah arrives at Paris Saint-Germain in a $16.1M statement of intent

There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. Paris Saint-Germain have paid $16.1M for Khalis Merah, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.

Market

Barcelona come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Paris Saint-Germain did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

A move Khalis Merah would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Khalis Merah is living that version at Paris Saint-Germain, and it tends to show in the first month.

Market

Club Brugge watching João Neves

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Paris Saint-Germain have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

Ousmane Dembélé 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.

Squad

Real improvement from Khalis Merah at Paris Saint-Germain

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Khalis Merah is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Market

Ilian Mhand 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.

In brief

100 Edition

The Paris Saint-Germain Post

26 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Barcelona come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Paris Saint-Germain did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Barcelona watching Vitinha

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Paris Saint-Germain have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Market

Only the photograph left for Samed Baždar

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Samed Baždar will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Paris Saint-Germain the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Ousmane Dembélé 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.

Squad

Khvicha Kvaratskhelia falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

Djamy Olax signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Djamy Olax commits to Paris Saint-Germain for another 4 years.

In brief

85 Edition

The Paris Saint-Germain Post

13 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

21 unbeaten for Paris Saint-Germain

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 21 matches without defeat is a foundation Paris Saint-Germain did not have in the autumn.

Match

A European night to remember for Paris Saint-Germain

1‑1 against PAOK, 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.

Squad

Matvey Safonov decides it from twelve yards

1 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.

Squad

Vinícius Júnior is carrying Paris Saint-Germain

16 goals and a season average of 7.54. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Market

Vitinha wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Paris Saint-Germain hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad

Tempers go at Paris Saint-Germain

Ousmane Dembélé was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Words at Paris Saint-Germain training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Khvicha Kvaratskhelia is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Player ratings

Vinícius Júnior was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.49. 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.

Player ratings

Ousmane Dembélé was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.10. 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

75 Edition

The Paris Saint-Germain Post

3 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Vinícius Júnior leads the rout of AS Nancy

3‑0, and Vinícius Júnior took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Paris Saint-Germain tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Market

Paris Saint-Germain say no — this time

The offer from Inter for Vitinha was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Player ratings

Khvicha Kvaratskhelia runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 32. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

A brace, and Vinícius Júnior takes the afternoon — 8.57

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Vinícius Júnior provided it, and the 8.57 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Match

Paris Saint-Germain cannot stop winning

6 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad

The season belongs to Achraf Hakimi

An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Paris Saint-Germain have had the benefit of it.

Squad

Daniel Marques Nunes keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Paris Saint-Germain may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Ousmane Dembélé 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.

Market

Lucas Hernández wants more than Paris Saint-Germain are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

In brief

71 Edition

The Paris Saint-Germain Post

6 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Paris Saint-Germain run riot against Paris FC

3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Squad

Khvicha Kvaratskhelia takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Squad

14 seasons of Marquinhos

392 appearances across 14 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Paris Saint-Germain know what they have.

Market

Ousmane Dembélé wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Paris Saint-Germain hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad

Ousmane Dembélé 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.

Loan watch

Mika Godts keeps scoring at Clermont Foot

14 appearances away from home and 16 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Vinícius Júnior

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Khvicha Kvaratskhelia at his very best

Marked 8.57. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Paris Saint-Germain.

Squad

Vitinha has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Paris Saint-Germain will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

57 Edition

The Paris Saint-Germain Post

30 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Paris Saint-Germain run riot against FC Metz

4‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Player ratings

A brace, and Ferran Torres takes the afternoon — 9.59

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Ferran Torres provided it, and the 9.59 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Match

Paris Saint-Germain make home a hard place to visit

15 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.

Squad

Ousmane Dembélé 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.

Squad

Senny Mayulu is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Khvicha Kvaratskhelia

Marked 8.43 — 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

Ninety minutes of Vinícius Júnior at his very best

Marked 8.34. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Paris Saint-Germain.

Market

Zulte Waregem are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Paris Saint-Germain will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Squad

Vitinha has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Paris Saint-Germain will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

54 Edition

The Paris Saint-Germain Post

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Paris Saint-Germain refuse to drop out of the race

Position 1, 84 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Market

Paris Saint-Germain say no — this time

The offer from KV Mechelen for Lucas Digne was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

Tempers go at Paris Saint-Germain

Ousmane Dembélé was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Real improvement from Samed Baždar at Paris Saint-Germain

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Samed Baždar is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

When it matters, Vinícius Júnior plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market

Red Star are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Paris Saint-Germain will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

In brief

53 Edition

The Paris Saint-Germain Post

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Ousmane Dembélé 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.

Squad

Real improvement from Noha Tiehi at Paris Saint-Germain

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Noha Tiehi is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Market

Red Star watching Mika Godts

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Paris Saint-Germain have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Market

The Beraldo conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Red Star will make the call about Beraldo this week. Paris Saint-Germain have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

Boardroom

Paris Saint-Germain release $24.8M for the manager

The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.

Loan watch

Warren Zaïre-Emery counts the days

“I watch every Paris Saint-Germain game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Clermont Foot runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

In brief

50 Edition

The Paris Saint-Germain Post

12 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Paris Saint-Germain refuse to drop out of the race

Position 1, 84 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Market

Heracles come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Paris Saint-Germain did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Paris Saint-Germain may not be able to give Vinícius Júnior what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Vinícius Júnior wants continental football; whether Paris Saint-Germain can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad

Tempers go at Paris Saint-Germain

Ousmane Dembélé was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Words at Paris Saint-Germain training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Khvicha Kvaratskhelia is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

Matvey Safonov signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Matvey Safonov commits to Paris Saint-Germain for another 5 years.

In brief

46 Edition

The Paris Saint-Germain Post

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Nuno Mendes moves on

Real Madrid pay $93.7M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Squad

A fracture rules Óscar De Marcos out for 118 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Paris Saint-Germain will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match

Paris Saint-Germain refuse to drop out of the race

Position 1, 84 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Market

Paris Saint-Germain turn down AS Roma for Khvicha Kvaratskhelia

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Vinícius Júnior wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Paris Saint-Germain hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Market

Pierre François 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.

In brief

44 Edition

The Paris Saint-Germain Post

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

Paris Saint-Germain have won it

This is the season the town will measure the next twenty against. The trophy travels home with the squad, and the route through the streets was agreed days ago.

Squad

Ousmane Dembélé is named among the best

There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Paris Saint-Germain will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.

Squad

Tempers go at Paris Saint-Germain

Lucas Digne was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

When it matters, Vitinha plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market

A year gone for Quentin Ndjantou

The loan was meant to give him football. 0 games and 0 goals later he is back at Paris Saint-Germain no further forward, and everybody involved will explain why it was not their doing.

Market

The Ousmane Dembélé story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Ousmane Dembélé signs something — a contract at Paris Saint-Germain or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief

41 Edition

The Paris Saint-Germain Post

10 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Illia Zabarnyi is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Paris Saint-Germain is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Ousmane Dembélé 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.

Squad

Vinícius Júnior has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Paris Saint-Germain will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

40 Edition

The Paris Saint-Germain Post

3 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

New owners walk into Paris Saint-Germain

The sale has gone through and every plan made for next season is now provisional. New owners arrive promising patience; the promise has a shelf life.

Squad

Thomas Openda: 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Paris Saint-Germain

Ousmane Dembélé was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Boardroom

$24.8M on the table at Paris Saint-Germain

The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.

Loan watch

Quentin Ndjantou wants to come home

“I did not go to Clermont Foot to sit and watch. I want to come back to Paris Saint-Germain and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 13 matches say the rest.

Squad

When it matters, Vitinha plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

29 Edition

The Paris Saint-Germain Post

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Paris Saint-Germain make it 15 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Paris Saint-Germain have 15 straight wins of it.

Match

Paris Saint-Germain silence Olympique de Marseille

A derby is never about the football alone, but the football helped: 2‑0, and the away end emptied early. Bragging rights renewed for another season.

Match

Paris Saint-Germain are at home on the road

8 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.

Market

Only the photograph left for Illia Zabarnyi

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Illia Zabarnyi will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Paris Saint-Germain the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Ousmane Dembélé is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.38 with 16 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Player ratings

Vinícius Júnior wins the derby

There are goals, and then there are goals against that particular opponent. The Paris Saint-Germain support have their bragging rights for a year and they know exactly whose name is on them.

Squad

Tempers go at Paris Saint-Germain

Vitinha was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

When it matters, Ousmane Dembélé plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Squad

No hiding place for Hugo Magnetti

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Hugo Magnetti, and the manager let it.

In brief

28 Edition

The Paris Saint-Germain Post

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Nobody wants to play Paris Saint-Germain right now

14 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Match

No mercy from Paris Saint-Germain

AJ Auxerre will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Paris Saint-Germain were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Player ratings

Ferran Torres scores twice — 9.03

Two goals and a mark of 9.03 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market

So close: Lucas Chevalier’s move dies late

The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Barcelona moved on, Lucas Chevalier reports back to Paris Saint-Germain, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.

Squad

Ferran Torres is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.50 with 19 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Boardroom

Somebody wants to buy Paris Saint-Germain

Nothing has been signed and nothing has been denied. Supporters who have lived through one of these before know the quiet part lasts months and the loud part lasts a week.

Match

Paris Saint-Germain keep winning on the road

7 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.

Market

Vitinha raises the bar for Paris Saint-Germain

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Paris Saint-Germain heard it as anything else.

Squad

Ousmane Dembélé signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ousmane Dembélé commits to Paris Saint-Germain for another 4 years.

In brief

24 Edition

The Paris Saint-Germain Post

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Paris Saint-Germain make it 9 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Paris Saint-Germain have 9 straight wins of it.

Match

Paris Saint-Germain run riot against Monaco

4‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Market

Prince Adu Kwabena arrives at Paris Saint-Germain in a $18.6M statement of intent

There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. Paris Saint-Germain have paid $18.6M for Prince Adu Kwabena, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.

Market

Vitinha’s move to Inter falls through

The deal that would have taken Vitinha to Inter has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Paris Saint-Germain with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.

Market

Paris Saint-Germain say no — this time

The offer from VfL Wolfsburg for Ferran Torres was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

3 goals for Khvicha Kvaratskhelia

The match ball belongs to Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Player ratings

Senny Mayulu, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.69

A mark of 7.69 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad

A move Prince Adu Kwabena would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Prince Adu Kwabena is living that version at Paris Saint-Germain, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Ferran Torres

16 goals and a season average of 7.39 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

In brief

23 Edition

The Paris Saint-Germain Post

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Nobody wants to play Paris Saint-Germain right now

8 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Match

Ousmane Dembélé leads the rout of FC Nantes

3‑0, and Ousmane Dembélé took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Paris Saint-Germain tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Market

AS Roma come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Paris Saint-Germain did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Vinícius Júnior is named among the best

There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Paris Saint-Germain will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.

Market

Eyes on Vitinha again

The phone has started ringing about Vitinha again, and this time the name on the line is Inter. Paris Saint-Germain are listening politely and promising nothing.

Player ratings

Désiré Doué, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.73

A mark of 7.73 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

Tempers go at Paris Saint-Germain

Ousmane Dembélé was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Désiré Doué

At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Squad

Vinícius Júnior is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.29 with 9 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

In brief