The Qatari consortium will undoubtedly maintain its investment in the team after the World Cup and continue to chase the dream of the Big Ears Cup, but gradually weakening the political color of the club may be a further way for PSG.
Without good helmsman dispatch, it would not be surprising that a giant ship would hit an iceberg. With the collapse of the Bernabeu, the Paris Saint-Germain aircraft carrier once again sank in the first round of the Champions League knockout round. For politically charged clubs, such an outcome is like a thorn in the back – the World Cup will be played in Qatar at the end of this year. The premature collapse of Paris undoubtedly means that Qatar's ambitious former World Cup strategy has been hit hard. Endless infighting and complex politicization are undoubtedly important triggers for the failure of this strategy.
In 2011, at a time when Qatar's world cup hosting rights were being questioned by many parties, qatar sports investment companies (QSI), which have a royal background, completed the acquisition of Paris Saint-Germain. The Move by the Middle Eastern nation clearly has political implications, using the Paris Club as a bargaining chip for the 2022 World Cup. Since then, Qatari financiers have continued to invest heavily in Paris for years, first, to meet their own political demands, expand Qatar's overseas network, and second, to bring capital that French football is happy to see.
The Qatari consortium, which sees Paris Saint-Germain as a political capital, will naturally not relax its demands on the competitive level. The Paris hierarchy has been dreaming of winning the Champions League for years, so they signed Neymar in 2017 for a world-record transfer fee, earning qatar eyeballs while showing their ambitions to win Europe.
If they can win the Champions League before the 2022 World Cup, the members of the Qatari royal family will be smiling: they will have a good harvest on both political and competitive lines. In the Paris high-level "pre-World Cup" strategy, winning the Champions League must be an important part, but it has been repeatedly broken. In the early hours of yesterday morning, in a heartless manner, real Madrid reversed, the Ambitions of the Qatari people suffered a heavy blow. The disintegration of this ring not only contains technical and tactical factors on the field, but also is not unrelated to the top level and management. The lack of direction is a major ill of Paris, and the political structure within the club shows that the system is chaotic, the goals are disorderly, and there is a hierarchy of sports without a common vision of unity.
In an interview, the always straight-out former Paris coach Tuchel bluntly said that discord between management and coaches is a common phenomenon. The German boss believes that what he has done in Paris goes beyond the technical and tactical dimensions and devotes a lot of energy to managing the internal politics of the club. Helefi has long used a divide-and-conquer strategy to govern the club, and the Paris president who caused a lot of internal friction is obviously to blame. The impetuousness inside was reflected from the top down by the lack of blood on the pitch and the incompetence on the sidelines, the post-game loss of The Ugly Herofello, Leonardo how much of the Bernabeu, the rage charge of the dressing room and the death threats against Real Madrid employees, it may only be a matter of time before the ticket is eaten.
Earlier, French investigative journalist Molina, who exposed the laughter of Arsenal players and the alcoholism of Real Madrid defender Mendy, released a video dissecting the political struggle within Paris Saint-Germain and its extreme complexity. One of the important points is the natural divide between paris and Doha between the Paris hierarchy. When the backward "Doha Palace" leadership style collides with modern football, it is almost inevitable that many civil wars will break out among members of the leadership. The tension within Paris is no less intense than that of a large palace fight.
As two powerful figures in the club, although Helefi and Leonardo have a good relationship in front of the camera, it is inevitable that there will be differences between the two. The revelations point out that Leonardo has established direct ties with the Emir of Qatar (head of state and supreme commander of the armed forces) – theoretically only the president of Paris has such powers in the club. It's easy to think: Are Brazilians intent on subverting Helefi's authority? It was enough to make Helleffi feel a lack of leadership and prestige.
On The Hand of Helefi, he had a variety of means of checking and balancing power. Brokers are a group that cannot be ignored, and predators such as Laiola, Mendes, and Simonian are close to the president of Paris and give advice on the management and decision-making of the latter. Even the players with the lowest "political rank" have had an influence on Elaf's decisions, such as the Qatari who asked Ibrahimovic what he thought of bringing in David Luiz. Former captain Thiago Silva used to be a "cloud" in the dressing room during his time at Paris, as everyone feared he might "say something to Helefi".
To complicate matters further, Halid, Herofi's brother, also has an important influence within the club. More than 10 years ago, the man had drawn 200,000 euros from Pastore's transfer through one of his private companies; he had also brought his confidants to the club as being responsible for safety and daily affairs, but was suspected of using drugs inside the club.
At a higher level, Tamim, the Emir of Qatar who employs ElAfee, also has a vast network of contacts and continues the Middle Eastern-style management model under their influence. In 2016, Paris signed Lo Celso in a deal allegedly linked to former Argentine tennis player Gaudio, who gave the emile's head of scouting advice. Guardiola is also in the emir's network, where he is said to have had a "significant influence" on Tuchel's inauguration as paris-new manager in 2018.
After the defeat, the bottom line of the attack is not difficult to judge: the club's endless infighting has greatly depleted the overall atmosphere, in exchange for the mutual suspicion between the top and the general, the appearance in the dressing room, the discounted combat strength on the field, and the difficulty of transforming the spiritual temperament. The Qatari consortium will undoubtedly maintain its investment in the team after the World Cup and continue to chase the dream of the Big Ears Cup, but gradually weakening the political color of the club may be a further way for PSG.
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