2025 UEFA Champions League final — Paris Saint-Germain vs Inter Milan | 5-0

Delight for Enriquez but the owners………not so much. Really hope this shit gets washed down the sewer.
 
I mean, they did.

Easy to forget that they also made the Champions League final in 2020. It's not as if this PSG made the CL final and the Neymar and Mbappe side didn't. The difference is that PSG came up against a great Bayern side that had Lewa, Muller, Thiago, Davies, Kimmich, etc, and PSG today came up against Inter Milan with, well, Acerbi, Mhki, and a slew of other bang average overachievers.

That's not to take away from today. It was one of the most exceptional final performances in CL history, but we also can't revise history. That PSG team of individuals did get this far; they just lost to a far more superior team than PSG played today.
True but to be fair and to give it more context. That PSG side had to beat Leipzig and Atalanta to get to that final. This one had to beat Liverpool and Arsenal. This side is simply much, much better than the 2020 one.
 
So conflicting, a great team to watch and a sign of hope for a post-Pep style of football to emerge, but oil money etc. ugh.
I don:t understand this. Football that teams like PSG play is exactly Guardiola's legacy in modern football. At their best, Guardiola's teams are still the benchmark for this style of football.

The 'robotic' argument is just people being deliberately obtuse or simply hating. Yeah, high scoring, technically brilliant, attacking football is somehow 'robotic'. Sure.
 
Regardless, both teams made the final.

The run up is more convincing, yes, but the final isn't even close in terms of quality of opposition, and that has to be factored. Note that I'm not making an negative argument as to this current PSG team's accomplishment, which stands on its own merits, but It's not about them. It's about the previous question as to why the Mbappe and Neymar team didn't win the CL, and the answer is that one faced a great Bayern in the final, and the other faced a poorer Inter in the final. This is indisputable. Questioning why PSG couldn't beat a world class team in a final is an incredibly bad argument when in a single game, any great team can beat another.
This version of PSG is better than any team Neymar, Mbappé and Messi played in.

I'd argue that this one would've had a better chance to win against Bayern.
 
Some serious rumours about Inzaghi going to Al Hilal after this final. A sad end for him at Inter, he did very well there with very limited resources.
 
I don:t understand this. Football that teams like PSG play is exactly Guardiola's legacy in modern football. At their best, Guardiola's teams are still the benchmark for this style of football.

The 'robotic' argument is just people being deliberately obtuse or simply hating. Yeah, high scoring, technically brilliant, attacking football is somehow 'robotic'. Sure.
This was way better than the slop Pep serves up.
 
What a shame for them poor clubs. They should just have insurance that they're the only ones who can keep winning and buying the best players for the next 100 years just like the previous 100 years.

Rules and a level playing field are insurance now. Football clubs relying on football revenue should compete with state-funded teams.

I want to say that people like you will wake up when european leagues are like the Saudi league, but even then, for some, there is just no hope.
 
I don:t understand this. Football that teams like PSG play is exactly Guardiola's legacy in modern football. At their best, Guardiola's teams are still the benchmark for this style of football.

The 'robotic' argument is just people being deliberately obtuse or simply hating. Yeah, high scoring, technically brilliant, attacking football is somehow 'robotic'. Sure.
Exactly. The notion that this is something different is laughable because actually PSG under Enrique are basically a Pep team in all of the meaning..
 
Well deserved. Happy for a guy like Luis Enrique.

Still, any victory by a fake and cheating team likenPSG, is a loss for football.
 
I don:t understand this. Football that teams like PSG play is exactly Guardiola's legacy in modern football. At their best, Guardiola's teams are still the benchmark for this style of football.

The 'robotic' argument is just people being deliberately obtuse or simply hating. Yeah, high scoring, technically brilliant, attacking football is somehow 'robotic'. Sure.
It's amazing the length people would go to. Enrique himsefl would tell you how much his football owes to Pep. When Pep's Barcelona, Bayern and City were at their best, they were just as dynamic and quick as it gets. You'd hear endless tributes by the likes of Iniesta, Robben and many others on how Pep's football gave them the best platform to show their skills. It's like people refuse to recognize, that any style not executed well, like several Pep copycats, will look pedestrian and slow by definition.
 
I don:t understand this. Football that teams like PSG play is exactly Guardiola's legacy in modern football. At their best, Guardiola's teams are still the benchmark for this style of football.

The 'robotic' argument is just people being deliberately obtuse or simply hating. Yeah, high scoring, technically brilliant, attacking football is somehow 'robotic'. Sure.

Pep is the antichrist who ruined football. Keep up :D
 
Which one? I didn't see it.
"The PSG fans unveil a huge banner of Luis Enrique and Xana planting a PSG flag. Enrique, smiling broadly but also awash with emotion, clearly appreciates the gesture. His t-shirt, which has a cute cartoon representing him and Xana with a PSG flag, comes with the caption: We are the champions! What beautiful and touching tributes." Guardian
 
Some serious rumours about Inzaghi going to Al Hilal after this final. A sad end for him at Inter, he did very well there with very limited resources.
Two CL finals and some national cups is respectable, but only one league win in four while Inter had the best team - by a margin - every season is a bad record. Also that performance today was really shameful. He’s not a bad coach but a bit uninspired
 
I don:t understand this. Football that teams like PSG play is exactly Guardiola's legacy in modern football. At their best, Guardiola's teams are still the benchmark for this style of football.

The 'robotic' argument is just people being deliberately obtuse or simply hating. Yeah, high scoring, technically brilliant, attacking football is somehow 'robotic'. Sure.
Alright Guillem, calm down.
 
Rules and a level playing field are insurance now. Football clubs relying on football revenue should compete with state-funded teams.

I want to say that people like you will wake up when european leagues are like the Saudi league, but even then, for some, there is just no hope.
What is the level playing field you speak of? The one in Spain where 2 or 3 clubs have the revenue of the rest combined? And when that fails, they get bailed by their government? Or the playing field whereby a club like Dortmund or Leverkusen can win the league one year and look to build something only to lose their players to their direct rivals because they just don't have the cash?

We all want a level playing field, the problem is it never existed. Football has always been unfair where money made the difference. The last clubs that get to cry about unfairness or deserve any sympathy are the old money aristocrats of European football.