If you’ve been a PSG fan your whole life, I got nothing but love for ya.
But as a FIFA player online who is still playing last year’s version, all the PSG bandwagoners and the fools at EA sports, I just wanna say, retirement home talent doesn’t make you a contender.
Two years of FIFA were virtually ruined by the Messi, Mbappe, Neymar group up front, but when you play them the defense and goaltending are also world class. Video games often do that because they know some kid who bought the game to play with Messi doesn’t want 2021 Messi, he wants 2012 Messi.
There’s no shame in Messi slowing down in his 30s, but it is reality.
Now no one cares about my video game frustrations with this team, but I’d like offer up that the PSG management had 12 year old gamer’s idea of how to build a team. It’s all about the biggest name, even if you get him at the end of his career.
I mean we could put together a team with Lebron, Jordan, Bird, etc but if it’s the last year of their career, they are going to get smoked by younger teams with more energy. PSG was doing what now the Saudi league is doing, buying up guys on their last legs in terms of the highest level of club football.
A lot of people are worried about it, but I think it’s a great opportunity for European clubs. You can sell someone you know has lost a step for enough money to acquire multiple potential young stars.
It only gets scary when the majority of young players want to go there, but that won’t happen because the Saudi league wants “names” not guys who are busy making a name for themselves. Saudi league only gets them all when it has the same TV viewership and the same brand name impact. A young star player who goes there now risks losing millions in endorsements and an unquantifiable amount of brand recognition, both due to the limited television exposure.