VII

For Eternity

It’s over!! It’s finished!! Today, and forever, for eternity, always, Paris Saint-Germain are European champions!! Paris Saint-Germain win the Champions League!

Paul Tchoukriel

Live commentary, UCL Final, May 31, 2025

I don't think we have played a team this season who combined that much quality with intensity.

Arne Slot

Before Liverpool-PSG, UCL Round of 16, March 2025

Clearly we're disappointed and bitter. But we faced a team that deserved much more and won the Champions League. Huge credit to PSG.

Simone Inzaghi

After UCL final PSG 5-0 Inter Milan, May 31, 2025

I am very proud of everything we did. To get to this level is the best step forward.

Unai Emery

After Aston Villa 3-2 PSG (5-4 on aggregate), UCL quarter-final, April 2025

A performance you could hang in the Louvre.

The Sun

On Désiré Doué after the UCL final, May 31, 2025

PSG can now be counted among the teams that can go all the way.

Daniel Riolo

After Foot, RMC Sport, April 2025. The man who in June 2024 said: 'Luis Enrique is a complete fraud.'

My story with PSG was over. I left without regrets. Even the things I did wrong are part of my story. When I played there, we came very close, two semi-finals and a final. We didn't win, and my time had passed.

Kylian Mbappé

Interview with L'Équipe Magazine, republished by Eurosport, September 10, 2025

The run speaks

4-2 Manchester City UCL League Phase

1-1 (4-1 TAB) Liverpool UCL Round of 16

5-4 agg Aston Villa UCL Quarter-finals

3-1 agg Arsenal UCL Semi-finals

5-0 Inter Milan UCL Final

4-0 Inter Miami Club World Cup

2-0 (9v11) Bayern Munich Club World Cup

4-0 Real Madrid Club World Cup

2-2 (4-3 TAB) Tottenham UEFA Super Cup

1-1 (TAB) Flamengo Intercontinental Cup

2-1 Barcelona UCL 2025-26

In the end, there was not much left to prove. The opponents had fallen, the numbers had followed, the trophies had piled up. But the essential thing was not only there. This PSG changed the way people could talk about it. It was no longer a collection of names, nor a promise endlessly delayed, nor a club condemned to carry its European wounds. It had become a complete team, able to press, to suffer, to create, to start again. Those who knew had not predicted everything. They had simply recognised, before the others, that an idea was becoming a story.

Presnel Kimpembe and I are the only ones left who experienced that final. I also wanted to win it for them.

Marquinhos

Official PSG interview, on the 2020 final and the second chance in 2025

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