Former PSG striker Nicolas Anelka defends Qatari involvement in Ligue 1
Ligue 1 would endure tremendously with out the Qataris, based on former Paris Saint-Germain striker Nicolas Anelka, who believes their involvement has been good for the French prime flight.
“If Qatar decides to go away, it might be very dangerous for the French league, which is already in bother. It’s as much as them to ask themselves the query. Why a lot stubbornness with Qatar and Nasser Al-Khelafi as a result of that’s not the answer,” the previous Euro 2000 champions with France informed .
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For the reason that arrival of QS1 in 2011, PSG have dominated French soccer, profitable 10 Ligue 1 titles, seven Coupe de France trophies, and 11 Trophée des Champions.
Whereas they’ve not gained something on the European stage since Al-Khelaifi’s arrival, Les Parisiens have completed as UEFA Champions League runners-up as soon as (2020) and made the semi-finals on three separate events.
They at present discover themselves within the quarter-finals of that competitors with a match in opposition to Aston Villa arising. Anelka additionally factors out that the membership have made a whole lot of funding currently in a brand new coaching centre.
Whereas he acknowledges the sort of energy Al-Khelaifi has, for Anelka, it’s regular for others to be involved about issues, however he believes it’s par for the course when your membership has the largest finances in France and also you’re the president of that group.
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He added that Al-Khelaifi’s energy isn’t that completely different from Jean-Michel Aulas’s tenure at Olympique Lyonnais within the early 2000s and Bernard Tapie’s tenure within the Nineteen Eighties and 90s at Olympique de Marseille.
Aulas noticed Lyon win seven Ligue 1 titles within the 2000s, and by 2008, the membership was the thirteenth most dear soccer group based on Forbes, with the journal valuing them at €383m.
Tapie’s Marseille group was suffering from stars and high-end expertise profitable 4 French top-flight crowns within the late Nineteen Eighties and early 90s.
OM additionally made two Champions League finals and have become the one French aspect to raise the trophy when it was referred to as the European Cup in 1993.
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