Membership stability, a problem or a solution?

After a historic 2024-2025 season, PSG has determined to maintain an virtually an identical squad to defend its titles. A stability assumed by Luis Enrique.

After a historic 2024-2025 season on all fronts, PSG didn’t revolutionize its workforce within the offseason. Certainly, the capital membership solely recorded three arrivals (Renato Marin, Lucas Chevalier and Illia Zabarnyi) and noticed just one govt from its squad go away the membership (Gianluigi Donnarumma). And with six defeats already this season, together with three in 2026, a number of elements can clarify the present difficulties of the Rouge & Bleu: the absence of holidays and the athletic and psychological fatigue which adopted.

An identical instance at AC Milan and Actual Madrid

However one other drawback additionally exists this season. “For the second, Paris is much less sturdy as a result of its greatest gamers have by no means performed an enormous match on the identical day. For the second, the season has not determined the relevance of the selection of stability of the squad, to the detriment of its regeneration via recruitment,” explains L’Equipe in immediately’s version. “Even when we should resist the temptation to evaluate a recruitment in the midst of the season, Paris has weakened within the important place of goalkeeper and, by in search of to introduce competitors in central protection, it has particularly launched pleasure when Zabarnyi performs. »

In opposition to Stade Rennais, Luis Enrique was in a position to area eight outfield gamers who had began the Champions League last, and this didn’t obtain the hoped-for end result. “As a result of they haven’t performed collectively typically sufficient this season? It is doable. » In forty years, solely two groups have managed to retain their European title: Arrigo Sacchi’s AC Milan and Zinedine Zidane’s Actual Madrid. Ten of the eleven Milan starters from 1989 in opposition to Steaua Bucharest (4-0) had been nonetheless there, a yr later, in opposition to Benfica (1-0). Relating to the Merengue membership, they fielded the identical eleven in the course of the finals in 2017 and 2018. If the 2 groups had not modified goalkeepers, the essential concept is near that of Luis Enrique. “And curiously, or not, PSG can discover a parallel in its present home difficulties: Actual can have solely been Spanish champion as soon as (2017) throughout its three seasons of European domination, and Milan failed in 1989 (third) as in 1990 (2nd). It’s not his dream, a priori, however, on this degree, Luis Enrique remains to be in time to do just like the others,” concludes the sports activities every day.