Carragher: 'PSG loss is good for football'
After a 0-1 defeat from the first leg at the Parc des Princes, PSG again lost 0-2 when they rematched Bayern at the Allianz Stadium yesterday and spent the second consecutive season being eliminated in the 1/8 round of the Champions League. This match, Neymar is absent due to injury, while the star duo Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappe, and Carragher think that PSG's big loss is a good thing for football.
"I'm very happy that PSG are eliminated," Carragher commented on CBS Sports after PSG lost 0-2 to Bayern in the second leg of the 1/8 Champions League round. "This result is great, because it shows the importance of a team. That's really important in football. I don't like the way PSG operate, everything about it. PSG is not a team, it's a team. is a mess".
Since the acquisition of PSG in the summer of 2011, the owners of Qatar have spent about $ 1.5 billion on the club to upgrade the squad with the world's top players. But the best achievement of the Paris capital club was reaching the Champions League final 2020 - where they lost 0-1 to Bayern because of a header from Kingsley Coman, a striker who played for the youth team and first team of PSG in 2004- 2014.
In the 2021-2022 season, PSG's salary fund is up to more than 750 million USD - the highest in the football world. This number is even higher this season, when the owner of the Parc des Princes stadium extended and doubled Mbappe's salary. But PSG continued to disappoint with the second consecutive elimination in the round of 16, after losing to Real in the 2021-2022 season.
"You can lose to Bayern, of course, a big name can always be eliminated in the Champions League," Carragher continued. "But the fact that PSG - long owned by Qatar, spend more money than any other club in the world, buy the best players, get eliminated five times in the last 16 in the last seven seasons - is a joke. It really is."
The former England defender also cited the fact that Fenway Sports Group (FSG), the owner of Liverpool, was criticized for not investing heavily, despite the club winning many titles over the years. "Sometimes there's a lot of criticism for Liverpool's ownership. They want owners with more money, like the Qataris. But it doesn't make sense if you don't have expertise in what you're doing. do," Carragher analyzed.
Carragher also advised Mbappe to leave PSG and join Real when the transfer window opens. He said: "PSG is still a long way from the level to win the Champions League. I don't think next season will be better if PSG keep the current frame. In my opinion, the sooner Mbappe comes to Real, the better."
In fact, Mbappe publicly intends to join Real from the summer of 2021 and can dock at the Bernabeu on a free form last summer. But before the transfer window opened, the French striker renewed with PSG under a contract until 2025 with a weekly salary of $ 815,000 and a bonus of up to $ 125 million.
