Two Champions League titles in a row changes everything in a transfer negotiation. PSG aren't just winning on the pitch anymore — they're winning the room before any contract is even opened.
That's the argument RMC's Walid Acherchour made on After Foot, and it's hard to dispute. With PSG crowned again on Saturday — this time defeating Arsenal — Luis Enrique has turned a club that players were quietly avoiding into the most attractive project in European football. The timing couldn't be more significant for the summer window.
The players everyone wants are suddenly PSG's to lose
Yan Diomande at Leipzig and Eli Junior Kroupi at Bournemouth have both been linked with Liverpool, Chelsea, and Bayern Munich in recent weeks. Under normal circumstances, that's a proper three-way battle. Now? Acherchour thinks PSG enters as the immediate frontrunner, almost regardless of what the others offer financially.
"Whether it's the Yan Diomandes, the Eli Kroupis, the Akliouches, the Konates... All players today will want to come and play for PSG under Luis Enrique," he said. "You are a player, an entourage, an agent, there is a club where you want to come, it is there."
That's not spin. That's how football actually works. A club that wins back-to-back Champions Leagues with a young squad, playing an identifiable style under a manager who develops players individually — that sells itself. Liverpool can offer Premier League football. Chelsea can offer a project. PSG can offer a dynasty. Those aren't the same thing in a 22-year-old's head.
What actually changes at PSG this summer
Not much, by design. Luis Enrique has signalled he won't tear up what's working, and that makes sense — you don't rebuild a squad that just went back-to-back. Joao Neves and Vitinha, both linked with exits in recent weeks, have reportedly made clear they're staying. Those rumours appear to be exactly that.
The movement will likely come at the margins. Goncalo Ramos and Lee Kang-in haven't been getting minutes, and clubs have noticed their quality. Both could move on. Meanwhile, PSG are reportedly closing in on Atletico Madrid's Marc Pubill — a versatile defender who can play centre-back or right-back — ahead of Barcelona, who are also interested.
For anyone pricing up next season's Champions League markets, the structural argument for PSG repeating is already there: same manager, same core, another year of experience together. A three-peat in 2027 is already being discussed internally. That's the kind of confidence — justified or not — that makes agents pick up the phone to Paris first.
