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it just makes me angry when teams buy their way to glory.
No offense to Citizens etc that were there when they were shit, but yeah besides that it just attracts glory hunters.
I wanna give a french reply to the Mbappe/Madrid thing..... I'm no football expert (rugby union's more my thing) but the complaints about PSG are super hypocritical. French clubs have been outgunned money wise in Europe for at least 30 years. Just count how many french players from the WC winning squads of 98 or 2018 play or played in French clubs. at least 90 % play abroad, because French clubs did not have the money to keep them. Mbappe was born in Paris and grew up in the suburbs, him staying at PSG is what "real" football fans should want.
Barcelona, Real Madrid, Tottenham, or Manchester United all have millions or even billions in debt. so all this talk about fair play is just laughable. considering the contributions French players like Zidane, Thierry Henry, Cantona, Benzema etc etc etc, have made to non-French clubs, it's only time that the tide turns a liitle at least.
Yeah its nice that a french talent is staying in France and brings more attention to ligue 1. You are right this is what every Football romantic wants to hear.
But PSG is still a shit show and one of the worst constructs you have in modern Football. Same applies to City, Chelsea, Newcastle etc...I am sorry but If you support one of these Clubs you have no morals
dude I honestly can't see how one can talk of morals considering the obscene amounts of money involved in football today..........French sports newspaper L'Equipe recently wrote that Antoine Dupont, the highest paid French rugby player (voted world player of the year mind you) makes a 100th of what Messi is paid by PSG. A 100th! And rugby is the second biggest sport in France after football.
Also, I'll never understand people who "support" clubs from some other city they have no link to whatsoever....I'm from the Paris area so I'll always support PSG in football and Racing in rugby, in my mind there's no other way.
what Siota said just shows how absurd it is to think otherwise: I know Irish and French folks that support Chelsea but would be attacked if they actually went to a match but won't listen or care.
so....they'd be attacked? and then we talk of morals? come on guys. so again, yes PSG is funded by shady oil money, but in the current football world....so what??
Anyways, that's the beauty and curse of football I guess. No other sport like it.
Two wrongs don't make a right. Yes, the football industry is corrupt and full of shit, but you are part of the problem if you still buy psg merch, etc.
My club is no saint either, and as long as you belong to FIFA or any other corrupt national soccer federation you are basically guilty by association, but still there should be some sort of red line.
Paris, Qatar, Newcastle, City etc is the red line I will not cross.
The team I support, which is also my hometown team, peaked when I wasn't even born. We have been lurching back and forth between first and second division for three decades. The budget these oil clubs have is so far away from "our" reality like it is for your Rugby Club.
Yes, you're right, morale in soccer is at a low point, but that's precisely why it should matter again.
I think there are also other parisian Football Clubs
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