Hello and welcome to the 11th episode of Libero.

I'm Jack Pittbrook from The Athletic.

I'm joined today by Rory Smith of The Observer and John Bruin.

Now, next week is the return of Champions League football, and I think this is a week which

is going to pose us a question

that I have been wondering about for the last few months really. It's a question I want to put to

Rory. Rory, a PSG, the best team to watch in Europe at the moment. And has that ever been true

before? That's a really good question that obviously I can't answer in a like actually accurate

and scientifically reasonable way because I haven't watched

every team in Europe. But I think in. You haven't watched PSG through the entirety of their what

50, 54 year, 55 year existence? I remember I'm going to compare them to the team of Hrae in 1992.

Now I think for the champ in the champions league this season after you get past the kind of weird false start that they had of the first like four, maybe five games, they have become like breathtaking in a way that I'm not sure any other team is.

Barcelona, maybe at points get to that same, like, that edge of the seat,

like you are thrilled. So watch them. I watched the Barca brushed up with the first side of the

semi, of the quarter, sorry. And Barcelona, in patches in that game were really, really, they

looked really good. Like, Lamin is a brilliant player to watch. And Lavandowski's got this kind of authority and calmness and everything he does, and Rafinia is totally, you know,

transformed and all that stuff. But there is something, there's something quite breathtaking

about PSG, like a combination of excitement and novelty, directness, technical ability,

and also youth that makes them maybe the most...

Can I kind of sit on the fence and say they're the most compelling team to watch in Europe?

Tom, do they compel you?

Yeah, definitely.

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