PSG faces Man City: The arrogants are looking for the only glory

Young people seek their dreams

English football has changed since Manchester City appeared, it is a new era, a new way of doing football in the transitional period between integration and breakthrough. Compared to the neighboring team Manchester United, Manchester City has been searching in the dark for many years about a vague thing. That is not a title, nor is it a search for glory or to reach the brink in the foggy country. So, what is it?

It was not until 2008 that Man City was truly "reborn" when they were bought by Abu Dhabi. The 145-year history of the team, the few trophies, and the comparisons have made many fans of this team feel sad when looking at Man United. However, things are different now.

13 years is a very long time in a person's life, but it is not much to help a club move up. What does Man City know to do to compete with traditional and heavyweights like Man United, Chelsea or Liverpool? Only money, even a lot of money to burn the stage.

13 years, from £32.5 million for Robinho to £100 million to buy Grealish, it has been a short but continuous journey that has left the mark of the Etihad team. From not knowing what a ticket to the Champions League is, Man City won the championship, dominating almost absolutely the past decade until now. The saying " money cannot buy everything" is still true when Etihad has not yet received the Champions League trophy. However, what if there is a lot of money, even a lot of it in a crazy way?

responsible for that question, let PSG give it when only in their best dreams for gamers, they can collect Messi, Neymar and Mbappe in the squad. If it was not until 2008 that Man City was "born", PSG would have been born three years later. 2011 is also considered the most important highlight in the club's history as they also belong to a group of investors from the Middle East (Qatar Invesment Authority).

A century ago, the price of 222 million Euros for Neymar in 2017 changed the way world football viewed and spent money. Players fall into a period of price chaos, virtual prices and price increase also partly because of PSG's cheap play 4 years ago. PSG welcomed the legendary Messi, Mbappe and a series of good players at the same time to realize the Champions League dream. In 2020, they reached the final after spending a lot of money and failing. Therefore, we have to continue to spend more.

Have money, have rights, are you afraid of who?

In mid-February 2020, a media explosion engulfed the entire Etihad Stadium because they were almost certain to be banned from playing in the European Cup for 2 years for violating financial fair play. Rival and anti-fan rally can be streamed on social media. They know that if Man City is banned from playing, there will be major personnel disputes, even from the owners of the Middle East, making this team unable to rise up any longer.

But just 5 months later, the headline in the Daily Mail disappointed and even angered many people who had been complacent, which was "Manchester City 1-0 UEFA".

UEFA literally lost in the match against Man City. Chairman Ceferin does not like outstanding products from the platini era, the Financial Fairness Act (FFP) is one of them. FFP was born but could not stop teams like Man City from using money to create, increasing the gap in level between clubs and causing chaos in everything. And what? Although they did not like it, Ceferin and UEFA could not do anything.

For PSG, they are also the type to have money, rights and relationships. President Al-Khelaifi is the only one of the European giants to reach UEFA through the Super League typhoon two months ago. The oil tycoon himself has also begun to move forward as a UEFA official by taking the ECA Chair. The friendly and genuine smiles between Al-Khelaifi and Ceferin are like a shield for PSG against all storms.

If Man City had a problem with the FFP, it seems that this law has no way to reach PSG. From Neymar's deal in 2017 to the 5 super rookies last summer, PSG's lawyers have never had to appear in court. The French financial control agency did not regret to ask CEO Leonardo again where the 180 million Euros raised for player sales that he had committed to was. Or like paying Messi, PSG has begun to enter a complex virtual currency market to gradually find a foothold for themselves.

Money is also a tradition

In 2020, PSG lost to Bayern in the Champions League final. A year later, it was Man City's turn to suffer the same result against Chelsea. The opponents who beat them are all teams with a long tradition, having won the Champions League and still maintaining their influence.

Man City spent 13 years investingcrazyly and failed, this figure for PSG is 9 years. Some people think that, to win the Champions League, that team must ask for a miracle or must have a strong tradition for decades. PSG and Man City don't have any of those, they only have money.

It would be unfair if super-powerful teams like this were lucky and miraculously helped. Their internal strength is already too strong and that is a form of luck better than most of the remaining teams in Europe.

billions of Euros have been spent in exchange for teams that have been at a disadvantage in the title. The tradition of PSG and Man City is like that, they are willing to use money to "buy" the title.

It was not known what the Champions League group stage was like to have reached the final for the first time, that journey, for other teams, could take several decades, but it was the tradition of using the money to burn that period that helped both PSG and Man City shorten it.

Hot-tempered, smiling and holding hands

Only when... the sky collapsed could PSG and Man City not pass Group A (the remaining 2 teams were Club Brugge and Leipzig). It will be top-notch performances at both the Parc des Princes and the Etihad but it will be fine. It is heartbreaking and painful for any of these two giants to stop, be eliminated from the European Cup or fall to the Europa League.

Messi will face De Bruyne, Neymar stirred up the best defense in Europe on the opposite side. Young stars like Foden and Mbappe were free to waver in a match that the whole world was waiting for.

In each country, the concept of Derby is always used to refer to the fierce competition between teams in the same locality. More broadly, in the continental arena, it is used to refer to internal matches. For PSG and Man City alone, their matches should also be associated with the Derby, in their ownership of tycoons.

There, the time between each superstar's breaths can earn a lot of money.