Neymar, Messi and Mbappe are the wrong players to play in combination if you want to win the Champions League, both in football terms and ego terms.
None of them work on the pitch. You can afford to carry one player who wonât work at most. At the stages of their careers each is at, that one player has to be Mbappe.
Messi now needs to have everything set up for him to produce the goods. Barcelona were willing to do that when he was there, PSG are not. Neymar is now a pure showpony of a player.
Di Maria and Ibrahimovic played for Manchester United and they didnât advance them.
PSG are always an incoherent collection of top stars, good players who have sold themselves short by taking the easy option of a pay day rather than test themselves in the more competitive leagues, and players who arenât quite at the level. A meltdown is never far away with them.
Best never lost his skill. He lost the ability to keep himself in the physical shape to be able to demonstrate that skill at the top level because he wasnât arsed to put in the work needed. Neither is Neymar, or at least he hasnât been since 2017. Heâs more interested in the money, the fame and the trappings of fame. And youâd wonder is Mbappe beginning to fall into that trap too.
I get what youâre saying. I think with the likes of Neymar, he is basically carrying teams since he was 16 ir 17 and theres a certain wear an tear there. I appreciate what went into all that skill is probably what I shouldve written.
I think the balance was already wrong before Messi came in but heâs tipped it further the wrong way.
Because PSG change managers so much and the focus is always short term they never seem to have a system of play, they never seem to know what theyâre about.
Manchester City did an absolute number on them in the second leg of that Champions League semi-final.
One might argue that Real Madrid can get away with a watered down version of what PSG do, but they can do that because theyâre Madrid, because theyâre eternally jammy cunts, because they play at a higher level on a regular basis and because they have key individuals like Modric and Benzema who always seem to produce when needed.
They should have built their whole team around Mbappe. They didnât near neymar and messi. Playing with those two is like playing with ten and a half players without the ball.
Mbappe doesnât seem like a great character to build around, crying and giving up when heâs not passed the ball and only staying because he was given the power to make off field decisions
Again, im not sure. Didnt he get taken off in most games? Certainly didnt start the first couple. Heâs a great fella to blow up or get sent off when the chips are down, as we see refularly in the champions league. A fine lad to cycle downhill with the wind at his back i suppose.