Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, Robin Hood of European football? The image would have had something to smile about a few weeks ago. And yet… If Florentino Perez and Andrea Agnelli, respectively president of Real Madrid and Juventus, are the big losers in the fiasco that represents the Super League, the Qatari boss of Paris Saint-Germain emerges from this whole story. Certainly, the refusal of the club of the capital to be among the founding members of the stillborn competition on Tuesday was probably not only out of kindness. Without seeing evil everywhere, at PSG, everything is political. It's not a secret. And a year and a half before the start of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, as discontent mounts as the tally of deaths on the construction sites climbs, not to mention some legal troubles,QSI had every interest in going straight. "He's my friend, but he's also very close to the UEFA president (Aleksander Ceferin)," Mr. Perez shrewdly underlines, in
The Team
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Florentino Perez got it all wrong
Which Florentino Perez adds: "I am convinced that PSG and Bayern will eventually join us."
Missed.
Like when the president of Casa Blanca swore that no club would leave the Super League ship.
"No one came under pressure," he hammered.
The six English clubs (Manchester City, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester United and Tottenham) left anyway.
We are still waiting for the Spaniards and Italians to take a stand, but the project is well and truly suspended.
"Given the current circumstances, we will reconsider the most appropriate steps to reshape the project," promise the organizers, without giving more details on the direction of their approach in the future.
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One thing is certain: ostracized yesterday, ridiculed for its haphazard respect for financial fair play, PSG appears today on the front line to defend the interests of true football. It may be a laughing matter, but it is nevertheless what took place under the astonished eyes of the football planet. All hand in hand with FC Bayern boss Karl-Heinz Rummennigge. Moreover, "NAK" and the former German international - soon to be replaced by Oliver Kahn - were elected Tuesday to the UEFA Executive Committee as representatives of the European Club Association (ECA), proof of the place that the two clubs loyal to UEFA took while others saw their odds decrease at great speed. “Nasser, thank you from the bottom of my heart, you show that you are a great man and that you respect football and our values ,we are learning a lot from you, Aleksander Ceferin said on Tuesday. The same compliments to Karl Heinz Rummeingge, Jean-Michel Aulas (president of OL) and José Castro Carmona (president of Sevilla FC). You are a true football lover, the supporters of your clubs are lucky to have you. ” Just that !
"As a football club, we are a family and a community, whose heart is made up of our supporters, we must remember that"
Nasser Al-Khelaïfi
PSG have conquered their place among the greats on the pitch in recent weeks, confirming their Champions League final last season with qualifying against Lionel Messi's FC Barcelona and his executioner in Lisbon last summer, Bayern. Nasser Al-Khelaïfi did the same behind the scenes, making himself one of the most influential post-Super League leaders on the Old Continent. “Paris Saint-Germain has the firm conviction that football is a sport for all, promised“ NAK ”on Tuesday. I have been consistent on this point from the very beginning. It should be remembered that as a football club, we are a family and a community, whose heart is made up of our supporters. We have to remember that. ” All while promising that "Paris Saint-Germain will continue to work with theUEFA ”and by lambasting those who are motivated only by“ personal interests ”to respond to the crisis facing the world of football, the whole world.
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Nasser Al-Khelaifi got everything right.
He won the battle for the image.
And he also allowed himself to set the Spanish media on fire by claiming that Kylian Mbappé remained at PSG.
"Yes, that's for sure," he said in images captured by the program
El Chiringuito
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The show of force of its president in recent days can not hurt the club of the capital in its business of seducing the 22-year-old world champion, under contract until 2022, still undecided about his future and that the 'we know ardently courted by ... Real Madrid, among others. PSG-Real Madrid, it could also be the poster for the C1 final, on May 29, in Istanbul. Between would it be necessary that Parisians and Madrilenians respectively dismiss Manchester City and Chelsea, the first two English clubs which we have learned that they rejected the Super League of Perez and company. Yesterday, it was the nice Real against the three wicked nouveau riche of Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Russia in these semi-finals of “Champions”. Today, the situation has changed significantly… With Nasser Al-Khelaïfi in the beautiful role.
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