Since 2011, PSG had tried everything: stars, records, springtime promises. The Parc had watched Ibrahimović, Neymar, Messi and Mbappé pass through, yet the same question returned every year: why did Paris collapse when Europe closed in? 2017, the Remontada. 2019, Manchester United and Rashford's penalty. 2020, Coman breaking the dream in the final. 2022, Benzema turning everything around in seventeen minutes. Over time, doubt stopped being purely sporting. It became collective memory.
I had the best players in the world. But the best players in the world do not make a team.
Christophe Galtier
Interview with ici Paris Île-de-France, republished by A Bola, May 30, 2025
Summer 2024. Mbappé leaves for Real Madrid, and the natural reflex is to talk about the void. How do you replace the club's all-time top scorer? Luis Enrique chooses another question: what if the answer was not to replace one player, but to stop depending on one? This PSG would not be built around a name. It would have to press together, defend together, attack together. The most visible loss becomes the start of a more demanding idea.
The moment he leaves, the team becomes the cornerstone. Having one player who can do whatever he wants on the pitch means there are situations I cannot control. Next season, I will control all of them. Without exception.
Luis Enrique
Movistar+ documentary, on Mbappé's departure
Luis Enrique is a complete fraud! He's a deception like we've never had at PSG! Time will prove me right.
Daniel Riolo
After Foot, RMC Sport, June 2024
Pre-season Champions League odds
20.0
PSG odds
5% de chances
2.0
Favorites: Manchester City
4.5
Favorites: Real Madrid
In the Champions League, autumn brutally reminds Paris that big ideas protect you from nothing. Arsenal expose the limits, Atlético punish them deep into stoppage time, Bayern close the door again. The press exists in flashes, the attack lacks edge, and doubt slips back into its old place in the conversation.
Champions League - League Phase · 2024-10-01
Arsenal 2-0 Paris Saint-Germain
20' K. Havertz 1-0
35' B. Saka 2-0
Champions League - League Phase · 2024-11-06
Paris Saint-Germain 1-2 Atlético Madrid
14' W. Zaïre-Emery 1-0
18' N. Molina 1-1
90+3' A. Correa 1-2
Champions League - League Phase · 2024-11-26
Bayern Munich 1-0 Paris Saint-Germain
15th out of 36. High enough to survive, low enough to worry everyone. From the outside, the verdict looked simple: Paris had lost its most decisive player, and the collective idea was not enough yet. Inside the dressing room, something was forming away from the noise: less dependence, more connections; fewer isolated gestures, more shared runs.
We have created a real group, a real team. I think that above all we're a collective, a family.
Warren Zaïre-Emery
Interview, PSG official website