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5 d. ago PSG’s Champions League win was thrilling. It was still sportswashing | Jonathan Wilson

After years as a directionless collection of celebrity footballers, PSG are a true team now. But they still represent one of the sport’s darkest trendsSign up for Soccer with Jonathan Wilson hereParis Saint-Germain’s success in the Champions League final on Saturday was a victory for youth and adventure. It was a victory for a team built with a coherent vision, and a rebuke to those who believe the game is just about collecting the biggest names. It was a victory for Luis Enrique, a very fine coach who has suffered dreadful personal tragedy. It was a victory for forward-thinking, progressive, fluent football.But it was also a victory for sportswashing. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Our Champions League team of the season: a teen sensation to a marauding Gunner

PSG left little doubt as to who the best team in this season’s Champions League was, but there was individual brilliance on plenty of other squadsGianluigi Donnarumma (Paris Saint-Germain) Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Viva Vitinha: how PSG’s deep conductor proved Lionel Messi wrong | Barney Ronay

Midfield fulcrum was not rated by the Argentinian maestro or Wolves but was central to Champions League triumph“Not only are you bad, but you’re hurting me.” The words, there, or so it was claimed, of Lionel Messi; and however you spin it, a fairly tough six-month performance review from the greatest player of all time and your own footballing idol.Back in February 2023 Vitinha was very quick to deny that any such training ground altercation had taken place between himself and Messi, whatever the reports in the French football press at the time (another version of that conversation has Messi saying: “Do you see? This is why you’re shit.”). Continue reading...

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7 d. ago ‘La débâcle’: Italian press turn on Inzaghi after Inter’s night of misery | Nicky Bandini

Writers bemoaned Inter’s ‘climax of suffering’ in Munich but saved their harshest words for Simone InzaghiOn the front pages of Italy’s newspapers, the Champions League final was told as a “nightmare”, a “humiliation”, and a “rout”. Tuttosport at least found room for humour with a “DisIntergrated” pun. La Stampa, in deference to the victors Paris Saint-Germain, went instead with a French phrase: “La débâcle”.Any team can lose a Champions League final but Internazionale were the first to do so by a five-goal margin. The final indignity of a season in which they aspired to repeat the treble they won under José Mourinho, only to come unstuck at the last: losing the Coppa Italia semi-final to neighbours Milan and then missing out on the Serie A title by one point. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Two people die and hundreds arrested in France after PSG Champions League victory

Vehicles torched in French capital as football supporters clash with police following match in MunichTwo people have died and hundreds have been arrested across France amid raucous celebrations after Paris Saint-Germain’s Champion’s League final victory.Cars were torched as flares and fireworks were set off while supporters clashed with police in the French capital on Saturday night following the match in Munich. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Game is up for Inter after Champions League journey ends in bitter humiliation | Jonathan Liew

After losing two finals in three seasons to state-owned investment funds, this ageing team reduced their fans to tearsThey stay just long enough to see the trophy lifted. Most have discarded their losing medals by the time the pyrotechnics go off and Marquinhos raises the European Cup into the muggy Munich night. There is a watery smattering of applause. Then, with a turn of pace so sadly lacking during the game itself, they turn and head for the tunnel, past a battalion of photographers whose lenses are facing in the opposite direction.What does it feel like to lose a Champions League final 5-0? Right now, and possibly for many years to come, this Inter team will be the only ones who know. Many of their fans were weeping uncontrollably in the stands, in the concourses, all along the road that leads back to the Métro station. For the 22 players and thousands of supporters who crossed the Alps so full of dreams, this is the sort of sporting trauma that defines generations. Continue r...

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7 d. ago PSG XI vs Inter Milan: Starting lineup, confirmed team news, injury latest for Champions League final today

Luis Enrique facing one big selection decision in attack for showdown in Munich

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7 d. ago Inter Milan XI vs PSG: Starting lineup, confirmed team news, injury latest for Champions League final today

Inter star set to start in Munich despite fitness issue

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7 d. ago UEFA make Champions League rule change for next season that could impact Man City

The latest Manchester City news as a new rule change for the 2025/26 Champions League is reportedly being brought in.

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7 d. ago Matchday live: PSG v Inter Champions League final buildup – as it happened

Our writers brought you all the build-up ahead of a mouthwatering final in MunichInter: Simone Inzaghi’s talent-packed team will be underdogs against PSG but believe they have learned from 2023 agony, writes Nicky Bandini.Ousmane Dembele: “This has been a dream of mine since I was a child,” said the PSG striker, whose form this season has been revelatory. “I am very concentrated. This will be an unforgettable moment. I just hope tomorrow will be history in the making. Tomorrow will be a tense game. We know Paris will be vibrating with excitement. You need to keep a cool head. We are very excited but, as has been mentioned, we need to be calm, cool, collected, serious but smiling, because this is an incredible moment for us.” Continue reading...

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7 d. ago When is the Champions League 2025/26 draw as Inter Milan and PSG battle for glory

Manchester City are among the sides who have booked their spot in next season's competitions

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8 d. ago Inter Milan XI vs PSG: Predicted lineup, confirmed team news, injury latest for Champions League final today

Inter star set to start in Munich despite fitness issue

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8 d. ago PSG XI vs Inter Milan: Predicted lineup, confirmed team news, injury latest for Champions League final today

Luis Enrique facing one big selection decision in attack for showdown in Munich

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8 d. ago Football matchday live: PSG v Inter Champions League final buildup

All the buildup to the Munich final Jonathan Liew: PSG v Inter is clash of styles on and off pitchYou can email Barry | Kick-off is at 8pm BSTLuis Enrique: “It has been a very difficult journey, with some really high-level matches since the very beginning of the competition,” said the PSG manager in yesterday’s pre-match press conference. “We’re used to playing these kinds of matches, and I think that can be a strength for us. Now we’ll try to take to the pitch with our best weapons. It’s a final. We’ve prepared for it, and we’ll try to draw the game towards areas where we consider ourselves to be better. We’ll see what tomorrow brings.”Paris Saint-Germain: Luis Enrique has given his star players a holiday since they wrapped up the French title 57 days ago, writes Luke Entwhistle in Munich. Is that how to prepare for a tough Champions League final against Inter? Continue reading...

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8 d. ago People are only just realising what players are singing during Champions League theme tune

PSG and Inter Milan will contest the 2025 Champions League final on Saturday night, and the competition's iconic theme tune will once again take centre stage before the match

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8 d. ago How to watch PSG vs Inter Milan for FREE: TV channel and live stream for Champions League final today

The pinnacle of European club football takes place tonight in Munich

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8 d. ago Champions League final the calm before storm as Uefa and Fifa battle rolls on | Nick Ames

Club World Cup looms after powerbrokers from both governing bodies mingle in Munich for Europe’s biggest club gameIn regal Odeonsplatz, the finishing touches are being applied to a fan zone that will accommodate Inter’s travelling fans under an azure sky. It will surely be full to capacity given about 40,000 Nerazzurri are expected to arrive in time for Saturday’s Champions League final, even if under half that number will officially make it into Allianz Arena for the match itself. This is not only an appointment with history for their opponents, Paris Saint-Germain; Inter have blended silk with street-fighting qualities to stand on the verge of their first European title since 2010.Gianni Infantino is unlikely to be among the melee but the Fifa president’s sympathies are well documented. He will be quietly rooting for Inter from the VIP seats and perhaps it will be an opportune moment for some bridge building. There is a constituency of Inter fans in Uefa’s higher echelons, after a...

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8 d. ago Despotism v capitalism: PSG v Inter is clash of styles on and off pitch | Jonathan Liew

Champions League final features opposing tactical approaches and two radically different ownership modelsIn 2021, Oaktree Capital quietly rebranded its “Distressed Debt” division as the “Opportunistic Credit” platform. For decades the LA-based investment fund had specialised in picking up what is known in the trade as distressed assets, a strategy it described as looking for “good companies with bad balance sheets”.So let’s say your company is screwed. You’re deep in debt, severely short of cash, perhaps even at risk of bankruptcy or default. In sweep Oaktree. They have a mosey around, shake down some creditors, restructure your cost base, perhaps offer you a high‑interest loan to stop the bleeding. Once they’ve got you battle-lean they find you a buyer, you sell up, and they take a fat cut. Four years ago, as they cast an eye over the Covid-emaciated carcass of Inter, this was exactly the strategy they had in mind. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Football Daily | PSG and Inter to serve up continental treat in Champions League final

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!With the 2024-25 season in Uefa-land drawing to its glamorous close, is there a better time to assess how the whole thing went down with everything considered in the round? Yes! But Football Daily doesn’t publish on Sunday morning, so let’s make the best of a bad lot. And it’s been a good year for English football all right. Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United went to the artistic and creative mecca of Bilbao and staged what can only be described as a dirty protest, a Chelsea squad worth £1,400,000,000 struggled against (though eventually steamrollered) a team collectively priced at 0.96% of a Mykhailo Mudryk, and it’s fair to say the rest of the continent will be extremely glad to see the back of us.This is an extract from our daily football email Football Daily. To get the full version, just visit this page and follow the instructions. Continue reading...

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