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With a new affluent owner in the form of the Qatar Investment Authority, there’s a new club making a foray into football’s high-profile transfer market with big bucks to spend.
That is the French outfit Paris Saint-Germain (PSG).
With new motto ‘Dream Bigger’ emblazoned all over their home stadium, PSG has soared to the level of the richest clubs in football today.
With glitzy purchases this season of the volatile Zlatan Ibrahimovic and rising star Thiago Silva from Italian giants AC Milan, PSG is going all out to make its presence felt in the European game.
The goal of Chairman Nasser Al-Khelaifi is for the world to see PSG in the same light as Barcelona, AC Milan and Manchester United, in terms of standing and of silverware.
To achieve it, he plans to invest a staggering 100 million euros in club transfers in the years to come (are top players listening?).
The ambitious owner obviously has long-term plans and laid the foundation for the club in 2011 by first purchasing young stars such as Argentine midfielder Javier Pastore (from Palermo), French international Jeremy Menez (from Roma) and later invested in a coach with an enviable track record, Carlo Ancelotti. The combined salary for the three was nearly 60 million euros.
Despite the splurge, PSG failed to capture Ligue 1 in 2011, most likely prompting the high-profile purchases of Ibra for 20 million and Silva for 42 million euros in 2012.
The two stars in their prime have been lured to the less popular French league by the money offered. A player who did the same in 2011 was Samuel Eto’o, who is now dancing his way to the bank with a salary close to 20 million euros playing for Russian club Anzhi Makhachkala.
Keeping the astounding salary figures aside and taking a cue from fashionable Manchester City, a club that has brought success and fame with an influx of surplus funds in a short span of time, PSG has now set its sights on bigger goals and bigger bucks.
At the rate they are progressing they might be a team to watch out for in the next few years.
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