Are PSG the future of football? And transfers you’d like to see…

The Game Football Podcast

The Times

Sports, Soccer

3.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

PSG finally have their European crown, and they look phenomenal in winning it. Did their demolition of Inter Milan set a new standard? Gone are gifted forwards who don’t work for the team, now talents such as Doue, Dembele and Kvaratskhelia putting in performances with breath taking effort from start to finish. What st them apart as a team this year?

But… is their triumph tainted by where the money comes from? Does the influence of Qatar also set a new standard?

After the break, transfers you’d like to see, serious and not so serious, signings that haven’t worked this season and which might not work next year?

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0:00.0	1048 and there's been a murder in a podcast studio.
0:05.0	Right, let's go.
0:06.0	Hello and welcome to the game football podcast from The Times.
0:11.0	They were the favourite team of many neutral fans and now Paris Saint-German are officially the best team in Europe,
0:18.0	beating into Milan 5-0 in the Champions League final in a stunning
0:21.7	performance in Munich. On today's show, we'll discuss that win, what it says about modern
0:26.5	football, look at some of the transfers on the horizon back home, discuss the deals which didn't
0:31.3	work out last season, and dish out some more quirky end-of-season awards. I'm Tom Clark, and joining
0:37.4	me today,
0:38.0	we have the Senior Sports Writer and Sunday Times,
0:40.0	columnist Alison Rudd,
0:41.3	the reporter and tactics analyst Hamza Khalik Luna
0:43.6	and the former island, Chelsea and Marseilles striker,
0:46.1	Tony Cascarino.
0:47.5	Guys, it's June the 2nd and we're still here.
0:51.1	We are still podcasting about football.
0:53.8	Will it ever end?
0:55.5	I don't think it will.
0:56.8	I think we'll just still keep going the whole time
0:58.9	because there's loads to talk about.
1:00.4	And the people want it.
1:01.6	The people want it.
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