The Immortals

One month after the Club World Cup final, Paris have barely had a summer. The legs are heavy, pre-season has barely existed, the mind still crowded by everything they have just lived through. But great seasons do not stop at their most beautiful night. On August 13, 2025, in Udine, Tottenham are waiting in the UEFA Super Cup, and PSG have to answer a simple question: what remains when the body has not recovered?

At 0-2 in the 48th minute, the match seems to belong to Tottenham. Paris have no freshness, no rhythm, no margin. But this team have learned one thing during their all-consuming season: the plan can crack without the group breaking. Lee Kang-in reignites the match in the 85th. Gonçalo Ramos snatches the equaliser at 90+4. In the shootout, Paris win again. Not through brilliance. Through refusal to give in.

December brings Paris back to Qatar, to Al Rayyan, against Flamengo. This time, the match is not about total attack or collective demonstration. It is about something else: the ability to stay upright when the decision comes down to a few steps, a few strikes, a few seconds. At 1-1 after extra time, Matvey Safonov takes centre stage. Four penalties saved. Four times in a row, the trophy stays alive.

The sextuple does not only say that Paris won six trophies. It says that this team held every form of demand: the long domination of the league, the expected finals, the absolute night in Munich, the matches of attrition, the penalty shootouts, the mornings after, when everything has to start again. Here, the sextuple refers to the six trophies tied to the cycle opened by the 2024-25 season: the Trophée des Champions, Ligue 1, Coupe de France, Champions League, UEFA Super Cup and Intercontinental Cup. After Barcelona 2009 and Bayern 2020, PSG enter that rare category: teams no longer reduced to a season, but remembered as a legacy.

And the trace keeps moving. At Montjuic, at the start of the following season, Paris arrive without Dembélé, without Marquinhos, without Doué, without Kvaratskhelia. The fixture could have become an excuse. It becomes a confirmation. Mbaye, Mayulu and Barcola carry the attack, the absences do not erase the idea, and PSG win 2-1 in Barcelona. Even diminished, this team keeps its shape. Perhaps that is what becoming immortal really means: no longer depending on one night to exist.