It's year nine for PSG.
Back in the Champions League since 2012, the capital's team has since been trying to realize a dream, formulated upon their arrival by the Qatari leaders and out loud - which they may have been blamed for -: to win the club competition the highest in the world.
Paris hasn't won anything yet, but a little bit: credibility and respect.
PSG absolutely wanted to sit at the table of the powerful, participate in their banquet and he has just stepped in the door at the same time as his table awaits.
By reaching the semi-final of the Champions League for a second time in a row, he shows a permanence that makes possible the idea of a coronation.
In real life, when it's no, it's no, but with them, you always have to insist.
Of the last 23 Champions League winners, only one had never lifted this Cup before, Chelsea in 2012. Last year, Bayern Munich gleaned their sixth C1, like Liverpool in 2019. The winners form a club. closed, an oligarchy that protects itself and always seeks to strengthen its power.
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Paris is not poor, but it is precisely because it is tumbling in with its nouveau riche attire likely to shake up the Davos of football that it has long been looked down on and not admitted to the party.
Real, Barça, Bayern or Manchester had the head of the physio who told PSG that it is a private party and that he will not be able to return.
Everything changes, the signs do not deceive.
In added time on Tuesday, it's his goalkeeper who plays the commedia dell'arte in a delaying maneuver, a string - rather a rope - once used by his more experienced opponents.
Against Barcelona twice, or Munich twice as well, all four referees were good, whistling impartially, or getting it wrong, one blow favorably for Paris, another against.
In short, no scandal and the feeling, finally, of an acceptance, as if the PSG had made a (small) place in the sun.
For the sea view, he still has to wait.