Gianluigi Buffon, the legend of Italian football, was lucid about the failure of Paris Saint-Germain in the LdC during his whirlwind stint with the French club.
Gianluigi Buffon, the former Italian goalkeeper, takes a mixed look at his short experience at Paris Saint-Germain. Although impressed by the number of stars within the Paris team, he also understood the reasons why the club failed to win the Champions League.
“I said to myself, ‘Mamma mia’
Arriving in 2018 from Juventus Turin, Gigi Buffon joined a team already including renowned players such as Thiago Silva, Dani Alves, Marco Verratti, Neymar, Angel Di Maria and Kylian Mbappé. It is quite natural that the Italian admits to having been stunned by the quality of the PSG squad. “In Paris, I saw players of unimaginable quality,” he declared for the channel Youtube by Italian radio host Gianluca Gazzoli. I thought we were the best in the world at Juve, then I went to PSG and saw all these players together. I said to myself ‘Mamma mia’, if we had transferred them to Turin we would have won the Champions League four times in a row. »
A lack of cohesion
However, the veteran goalkeeper understood why the capital club failed to win the prestigious trophy. “Neymar, Mbappé, Verratti, Marquinhos, Thiago Silva… It was something sensational,” said the 2006 world champion. Each time, I asked myself: ‘How come they don’t win? the Champions League?’ It seemed incomprehensible. Then by living there all year round, I understood why…” he suggested, emphasizing that the simple bringing together of individual talents was not enough to achieve this objective.
