Like its president Nasser Al-Khelaïfi had already hinted at it, PSG has a rather positive view of the of Paris FC by the Arnault familysaid Victoriano Melero, the Ligue 1 leader’s new general manager, on Monday.
“PFC is interesting because of the competition and emulation on and off the pitch,” Melero told a press conference at the club’s headquarters in Paris. Parc des Princes. As far as young talent in the Paris region is concerned – a breeding ground from which Paris’s second-largest club intends to draw, thanks to the future presence of Red Bull as a minority shareholder – the manager pointed out that Reims, Lyon, Angers and Monaco were already fierce competitors. But he conceded that this new situation “will give an extra boost” to the battle.
Paris FC ambitious
Also present at the press conference, which focused on an economic study of PSG, Christophe Lepetit, head of the Centre de droit et d’économie du sport (CDES), agreed: “Ile-de-France is Europe’s leading recruitment pool, so there’s room for a number of clubs, each with a different project, it’s emulation rather than competition.”
Interviewed the day after the takeover process became officialParis FC president Pierre Ferracci had this to say about the club’s future policy in terms of detection and training: “The Ile-de-France region is the best in the world. […] We all dream of this backbone, a bit like La Masia and Barça.”