The €437m worth of players that PSG let go
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- Опубліковано 13 вер 2023
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PSG have, in recent years, built a team of superstars. But by including Mbappe, Neymar and Messi in the same team, they’ve had to say goodbye to many young and homegrown players.
Over €400million worth of young talent in fact. They’ve sold so many players, they could theoretically field a team capable of competing at the top level.
These are some of those players. Written by Seb Stafford-Bloor, illustrated by Craig Silcock.
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I’ll always remember about 20 years ago Arsene Wenger saying the club in the world with the most untapped potential was PSG. He said that because of Paris’ massive population which is like 11 million people and the fact that cities like Lyon, Marseille and Monaco are so far away from Paris, and it being one of the most famous cities in the world, they should be able to attract top players and produce more academy stars than any team in the world. And how right he was 😂
Did he say that before the QSI era?
@@awesome_hh7002 yes he did, if you do the maths 20 years ago was in 2003
Thats insane, what a prediction from Arsene.
@@awesome_hh7002 way before 😂
The City of Paris has like 2 million inhabitants lol. It's not that big. Paris Region, or Île-de-France Region has a population of ~12m
I think the one that hurts more is Coman considering he put a dagger right thru PSG hearts
Coman* but literally one of the best moments for me as a Bayern fan
*Coman
They have hearts?
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A homegrown base of Maignan, Kimpembe, Mendy, Rabiot, Coman, and Nkunku with Mbappe in there could be such a solid base. Even Muani grew up in Paris
that's the new dream of psg and the reason why the kick out ney.
@@emanuelriquelme1133too late, they let go of their good player to me room more wash messy and neymar
You have to admit, PSG dropped the ball on many talented players and sold them for a pittance. If they weren’t so focused on splashing the cash, then maybe their squad would be more harmonised with plenty of home grown talents.
Look at their position though, you might be great. But they need world class, Mignon is good and so was Rabiot, never good enough for where PSG wanted to go.
@@jimbojimbo6873 Mignon isn’t world class? One of the best keepers in world football and current France No.1??
Since the takeover, PSG have been more interested in being a lifestyle and fashion brand than being a football club.
Who tf is Mignon?
@@matteomigliore1477 footballer in AC Milan, and his closefriends are Bolognese, and Paela when they're at PSG
Daily reminder that Jenifer Anniston is older than PSG
PSG’s youth academy is so underrated, easily in the top 10 best academies in Europe
Yeah but they sell them at a young age for cheap 😂
Monaco’s been better historically.
I’m not sure you can call it one of the top ten in European when literally none of them get into the first team when they are worthy of it. What’s the point of producing great talent and not using it. Plus you have to remember that psg is literally the only top club in Paris. They literally have a monopoly in what is considered one of the best football talented areas in the world. It’s not like Ajax or Dortmund who literally Scout everywhere
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Is PSG’s academy actually good? Or is it more likely that they just hoover up all the talent from one of the greatest hotbeds of football talent in the world (Paris/suburbs) plus other youths from all over their empire.
I’d argue that they don’t actually have a “good” academy - instead PSG just have the money to sign nearly every player they want (a lá Chelsea). When you take that kind of “shotgun” approach then you are of course going to have more “hits” even when you aren’t doing much to develop them.
Was gonna say that Xavi Simons should be on the list too until I realise that he left on a free transfer to PSV then went back to PSG for €4M the next season
Also, he joined PSG after turning 18, so he wasn't part of PSG's academy at any point of time. He's a La Masia product. .
@@darshanv5200he joined when psg he was 16 and he was apart of the academy
This is nothimg. Chelsea academy has let go players worth 600-700m easily.
Declan Rice
Jamal Musiala
Mason Mount
Nathan Ake
Andreas Christensen
Fikayo Tomori
Tammy Abraham
Micheal Olise
Marc Guehi
Tino Livramento
Lewis Hall
Dom Solanke
And about 15 more players in top flight across europe.
Yet they still have about 300m of homegrown talent in first team
Reece James
Levi Colwill
Connor Gallagher
Trevoh Chalobah
Armando Broja
Ian Maatsen
Don't forget the non academy early signings, like KDB, Salah and Lukaku
everyone knows about Cobham already, so nobody cares.
@@ydfash23what does cobham do?
All these to finish 12th
you're being extremely generous rating your current academy graduates at 300m. Players like Colwill really aren't anywhere near as good as some people seem to think they are
PSG could have genuienly had the best squad on the planet without spending 1 dollar had they just focused on academy players instead of superstar flopbuster. How do you screw up this bad while being in the world's most talent producing region for footballers
Honestly
Qataris don’t understand anything but money, they don’t love Paris or France so of course they can’t see the literal goldmine of players that are in Paris
*extra dollar
Not exaggerating at all. :)
They'd have a decent goalkeeper, 1 decent winger, 1 good winger and one good cam.
Careful guys! They will win the champions league!
Not even close. Almost every top club produces good youth players, the difference is that other clubs actually give them a chance
As a FM guy, how are PSG not slapping sell on clauses into these transfers?
They are. I don’t know why you assumed they didn’t. Diaby, Nkunku, others recently all had them
PSG could have actually built a MONSTER squad with all French players if they had more patience and faith in their academy products (plus maybe a couple foreign superstars). They would also actually be loyal!!
Right now there are three Parisian players at Sunderland, two of which were threatening the PSG first team (Pembele & Aouchiche). The other is Ekwah, who is Parisian, but was at Clairfontaine rather than PSG. We also had Michut on loan from PSG last season. It's mad how many players roll through the Parisian system.
The sad thing is, probably without the takeover and the right ethos running the club, PSG right now could likely have a very good team built around a core of homegrown talent, many of which literally born in Paris or the surrounding areas, with a connection to the club, pride in it and very likely would be just as successful if not more so, whilst it being a way prouder situation for the fans and them being less disliked by fans of the other clubs. Instead they got taken over, through loads of money at the problem, ignored the grown talent and ended up with a squad of superstars no doubt, but really mercenaries only there for the big bucks and struggling to form a real team ethos.
without the takeover they'd have lost any emerging talent as they'd be unable to offer them better deals than they'd get elsewhere.
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Had PSG kept most of their youth academy prospects instead of going for their failed superstar project, they would be winning at least two Champions League titles. Coman, Maignan, Nkunku, Augustin, Simons, Dagba, Kimpembe and Eduard along with Mbappe would dominate Europe for many years to come. Instead, they are the Legacy of Failure that feeds many content creators to expose their failures on and off the pitch.
Augustin, Dagba and edouard 😂 what are you on mate.
I'm sorry but how is that better than the billions they spent on world class players instead?
Moussa Diaby
@@Jotgut Simple. The cohesion and chemistry of the team is in a much better place with that team growing together for a number of years than it is just recklessly signing superstars left, right and centre and expecting them to instantly click. You only have to look the failed Real Madrid Galacticos project in the 2000's that made them considerably worse after the 3 Champions League trophies they won in 1998, 2000 and 2002 in very large part to former President Lorenzo Sanz hard work and cohesive recruitment model because they kept selling a bunch of important players just to fit in all the big superstars they were bringing in during that period. That massive failure lead to Florentino Perez resigning as President and he only came back a couple years later after he learnt his lesson and realised how crucial it was to let the team grow a bit, retain the important players that may not nescessarily be superstars, invest in solid young talent and then gradually add some big superstars. The result lead to much greater cohesion and understanding within the Real Madrid dressing room in time they were leading to achieve La Decima in 13/14, the 3 peat under Zidane and the number 14 just a couple seasons back.
They wouldn't even win the League
As a chelsea fan such can be said for chelsea too.
I fear recent strategy of hoarding many young tallents will give more cases similar of salah and kdb.
So glad Pulisic left that sinking ship
@@rodgermurphy5721 not a pulisic hater but i felt he isn't quite the level of player to be at top 6 prem club.
I know chelsea aren't good for now but you can say it was good for both the parties that he left😉
@@apnawhite5175 I think Chelsea just didn't know how to use him. Look at him at AC Milan. He's doing quite well .Chelsea would sub him on in the 75 minute losing, and then expected miracles out of him
Yeh good point, Colwill, James, Livramento, Mount, Gallagher, Abrahams, Chalobah, Loftus-Cheek, Gilmour, Tomori, Guehi, Chelsea could have the core of a very good squad right now all who came through their academy.
@@rodgermurphy5721he was good for Chelsea in his first season as well.. Let's give it time and see if he'll play like this consistently.
They're a CB partnership away from having had a Champions League level XI from academy players available to them with a few squad players to make up the numbers.
probably in a season or two they could add CB Bitshiabu into that list, who they sold to Leipzig in the summer.
They should invest in the talent in the city of Parice and not rely completely on blockbuster signings. Homegrown talent can prove to be useful especially those deemed promising e.g gavi at barca, Forden at cty etc
Anyone noticed the Spanish audio and subtitles of this video? That is a nice touch from Tifo.
Given FFP and how their squad has underperformed for the money spent they may start giving more home grown talent a chance at the club
The only one i would have back is nkunku, he bounced back nicely from that injury with leipzig at the end of last season, but is out again with no guarantees of being back to his best...most fans would also take coman back, but other than the fact that he scores against us in the CL every time he can he hasn t done that much at bayern, had he not scored that winner most fans would probably call him out for being erratic on the ball and not really getting those numbers up...rabiot i would also take back tbh but you ve gotta deal with his mum😂😂😂
Just a thought: this was a well-thought-out plan and not a lack of vision from PSG. The club owner, i.e., the country of Qatar, wanted that image of Messi, Mbappe, and Neymar-all three world cup contenders from the biggest footballing nations-to be owned by them while the world cup is held on their land. Why did it matter? My thinking is for geopolitical reasons, and that's another topic that was talked about extensively in one of Tifo's series. Maybe there will be a different PSG project after this stunt is now over.
Jean Kevin Augustin was another great prospect, glad he shined in the Bundesliga
Very underrated academy institution
The sad thing is that next year when Mbappes contract runs out it will increase to 600mil
Mbappe isn't from PSG's academy
Feel another good mention would be Xavi simons while yes he is still technically at psg he has been loaned out to both psv and now at rb Leipzig I felt this season would of been perfect for him to return after scoring 16 goals and getting 8 assists
Wooow tifo in Spanish! Thank you so much! 🎉
Had an idea once to do a Football Manager save with PSG but instead of signing big names, you would have to stick to players that came through the club. You could easily continue to win Ligue 1 this way. Europe, another story.
can you guys do a video about the new salary cap issued by la liga and how does it affect barcelona moving forward
something about french teams and spanish academy teams that are insane. so many talents gone thru psg, monaco . monaco has just improved their players more by using them historically. barca is a big one and real madrid and many other spanish clubs where they produced top talents
can you do a video of what’s happening to Sancho at united
As a psg fan I think the costly mistake psg made was selling kunku for 13 million euros and selling Coman because ironically coman
scored the winning goal for Bayern in the UCL final
You can also make this kind of video about Chelsea
Nkunku would have been the best option instead of them buying all these strikers he was on a free n if they wanted to buy hik back he was available for less than 50 mill
Do the same video on Chelsea
well duh, these players were from the period when PSG MO was to replicate the Galacticos brand of Madrid. They have no interest to play long game of developing academy talents, but rather to assemble the squad with established players money can buy. Plus, the €400M+ figures here actually consisted of 10+ players, chief among them are attackers. Realistically, you can only accommodate so much and sold the rest or risk losing them for free anyway
It’s funny because in my football manger save all of the top teams top players have come form psg youth and psg still hasn’t won a champions league in 2040 😂
To be honest PSG wasted the opportunity to build on their youth system and organically build a UCL winning monster, and now it’s sorta too late.
PSG is the biggest club in Paris but if I’m a generational talent from there why should I play for a club that is best known for being Hollywood FC and doesn’t care if I was a childhood fan. I would rather play at a Bayern Munich, Barca, or Real Madrid.
Just saying. It’s not like PSG can just shift to a youth academy based system and win Willy Nilly.
Psg will be psg. Pretty soon we may be seeing Xavi Simons tearing up the pitch in Paris
Think how much PSG wasted instead of bringing through young talent
Could we not do this with every club that has a large area of scouting
Tifo gonna make this video about Cobham in a few months
Waiting for the Cobham video in 1-2 years!
Can do the same list for Chelsea
U all also better remember Junior Dina Ebimbe, im saying it now in 1 or 2 years hes gonna leave Frankfurt for 25+ Million
Fulham should have signed Dembele back this transfer window. It would have been a decent replacement for Mitro
Just proves that money cant buy you class.
I find it amazing how smart Lille are. Ransacking PSG for amazing talents with bucket loads of potential and just selling them on for insane amounts of profit. They've really found the infinite money glitch.
When QSI bought PSG there were two paths that they could follow :
-a long term project (like City) that focuses on buying young players that are full of hunger to win, on play style and with no obsession on winning the Champions League.
-the other is a short term project that aimed to quickly win the Champions League by buying older players who are quite skillful but who have huge egos and who have already won the Champions League like Messi, Ramos etc...
In 2011, PSG chose the first path. Now that they saw City win the UCL, they switched to the second path with Luis Enrique as the head of the project.
As a PSG fan it's great to see my club evolve in a good way
but you aren't on the second path (of developing youth talent). Sadly you've fallen for the PR that PSG started trotting out last season that they're supposedly focusing on a "project" which involves developing young players. It's nonsense. The first opportunity PSG get to sell a graduate and they take it. Bitshiabu off to Leipzig whilst Skriniar, Hernandez etc are brought in for a huge outlay as usual.
The reality of psg now is that you're still on the first path of buying your way to trophies, only now you aren't signing outright galacticos, you're signing players a notch below that, just like at all those 7 out of 10 midfielders like Soler that were brought in.
That isn't youth development and it isn't going to win you a champions league. It's a fairly half arsed strategy tbh
@@WOOOPdoctorFROGhere i hope that Zaïre Emery will make PSG conscious of how good the academy is
So basically, PSG's youth academy is owned by Lille, which pays 10/15 million for players who are almost ready, while in Paris they pay billions for prima-donnas. Excellent sports management!
K about a conveyor belt of talent
Good case. But how many others did they let go and they went into oblivion?
Need a Chelsea one
At first I thought they had let go of 437 million players but this is good aswell
In other words their team could be insane right now 💯😅
When Bayern beat PSG 1-0 in the UCL final it was Coman that scored the goal 💀😂
Chelsea should be the next team TIFO should do this series on.
they're genius at producing talent but too obsessed on short term/instant success.
Psg academy is so legendary yet they end up never investing themselves in their future
This is the reason why I started hating psg as there was loads of talent at the club but since the rich owners arrived, they only focused on names instead of talent, let example being Neymar.
*_pristiano the "tappin merchant penaldo"_*
Remember the days when this Chanel only used drawings, now they got the money for actual pictures lol
Can we see the chelsea team?
i think chelsea would be very interesting to
You could easily do this but for a team like Chelsea.
Please do one for chelsea academy kids
No tally? Video is hard to follow without it
We have Zaire Emery so we fine now
PSG❤️💙
lots and tons of comments but that's after the facts. Being a long time PSG supporter, I saw the club go from mediocre to very good. I assure you, It's not a PSG thing but a France thing. France can't keep its talent because of the money that the EPL and Liga threw, and are trowing. PSG had to double pay players just to attract them. Those PSG academy player wouldnt have stayed at PSG even without the superstars. You don't sell tickets by playing academy players. Football is entertainment and people want to see stars. PSG departures are more visible because of the club visibility. France produces more pro soccer players than any other countries beside Brazil yet the league is not as attractive as others. The nail on the coffin is that , YOU WONT PLAY for the national by playing in ligue 1. not everyone is Mbappe. Youngsters understand and are forced to leave.
From this i learned that psg do actually have a good youth academy
Paul Rudd is older than PSG, let that sink in.
So basically, PSG sold their young talents because they were too busy buying expensive players or superstars just cuz they have money, and yet they haven’t won a single UCL title which was their main objective of their project with world class players and managers. I do think that PSG should have retain their players. Just as How Barca and United won UCL titles with academy players. Or at least develop the players and sell them with good price tag like Dortmund Benfica ETC. PSG has a good academy but the transition to senior team is the problem. Altho I think this season PSG releasing their superstars is a lot better
Xavi Simons???
PSG youth system 👏
PSG as a modern day club, is nothing short of a Complete Joke and Cautionary tale.
indian
No one of then had the level to start for Psg. PSG had better players and has better players.
Honestly Coman is a pace merchant, he is successful in a very organized team like Bayern. PSG isn't, they don't have a system. At the time they had Lucas Moura a much more talented player than Coman in my opinion, yet Moura struggled with Blanc who was a terrible manager.
The only one who should have had a better chance was Maignan.
And Nkunku
No love for Tanguy Nianzou?
PSG catchment area is unfair
i like maigan better then donaruma to me he just seems clumsy at times
This demonstrates poor management and an obsession with celebrity and star players, they had the chance to really succeed and fumbled it.
The PSG agenda is in full swing. Biggest club in the world for a reason.
what??
Biggest according to what??
I always tought konate came psg. Guess not
PSG buy/sell policy is the worst! Whoever made these decisions should be fired. If those players stayed PSG would be formidable
PSG wasting their academy their top management from the CEO is garbage
They have to be up there with Man Utd as the worst ran club
It is nuts how much PSG have fumbled the ball in recent years. You could literally build a team good enough to win the Champions League purely out of players from Paris and its suburbs, but PSG's owners were more interested in playing FUT than football.
Doesn’t really matter. The academy is only getting better and more are being incorporated like Warren Zaire Emery
You forgot Moussa Dembele played at Atlético de Madrid and became La Liga Champion. You want to hide Atlético de Madrid.
Arsenal did bad selling players with low prices. But PSG more bad at business.
As a psg fan, it angers me that we lost all these young talents who had actual love for the club. This is solely because we had big egos like messi and neymar, who the managers were never allowed to put on the bench for a game or two to let these youngster play. Nkunku is by far the transfer that angered me the most on this list.
I have seen a switch this season with Enrique, who seems to have the green light to do whatever he wants. Warren Zaire emery was given trust and is now a starter at only 17. Hope to see more players like him move into the first squad.
Messi and Neymar were big egos? don't you see how ridiculous your words are. Mbappe is the big ego and the club owners. They want to see results fast, so no long term plan.
@@thawfeeqjamaal1777he did say he was a psg fan, so putting the blame on Messi and Neymar sounds about right.
@@thawfeeqjamaal1777Mbappe held them hostsge or something? They literally dont let him leave
Messi big ego??😂 are you also the same person who constantly sucks Mbappe off?
you clearly are blinded by the messi dickride. As a psg fan, Messi had a huge ego. He never came back to defend, he never thanked the fans, and insisted to play with neymar. Let's not start with neymar who cried about anything that didn't go his way and liked twitter posts all the time that talked about drama@@thawfeeqjamaal1777
If PSG was a player, it would have 1 decision making
Manchester City next! pleaseeeee!!
The bar for world class has dropped a fair bit.
In what world is Maignan worth 45 million?
Not one French name lol
PSG is the poorest run club of the richest clubs in the world
Please, don't let uploading the videos in English langauge for Latin America
Here after they let go of Mbappe 😂
PSG producing stars for other clubs just to buy players their fans gonna protest about 😂
PSG are like a kid who grew up watching the galacticos era and are trying to emulate it badly