PSG is targeting a Champions League threepeat. So how do you make the best better?

by | May 31, 2026 | Sports

MANCHESTER, England — After going back-to-back in the Champions League, the next target for Paris Saint-Germain is the threepeat.The French team, built with Qatari riches and styled by a Spanish perfectionist, looks capable of setting all kinds of records in European club soccer’s biggest competition. And after triumphing 4-3 in a penalty shootout against Arsenal in Saturday’s final, there is no indication that PSG is ready to relinquish its position of dominance. “Of course we’re going to go to the market,” president Nasser Al-Khelaifi told TNT Sports while celebrations were just getting started in the center of the field at the Puskas Arena in Budapest.Those words will ring ominously around Europe. When Qatar-backed PSG goes to the market, it goes hard. That was the case when signing the world’s biggest stars during its Galactico era of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Neymar, Kylian Mbappé and Lionel Messi. And the same is true in its current incarnation, where it has amassed a remarkable array of young talent that has swept all aside and taken a stronghold on the Champions League in a manner only bettered by Real Madrid in the modern era. The team that started against Arsenal had an average age of 25.8 years. Ten of the starting XI was in the starting lineup that won the trophy 12 months earlier. In other words, Spanish coach Luis Enrique has built a squad that looks capable of dominating for years to come. “It’s whet our appetite,” said man of the match Vitinha. “You always want to win again. Never give up. Never stop. Luis Enrique i …

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