Edinson Cavani of Paris Saint-Germain is on The National's Sport cover for Saturday, October 1, as the French champions have lost a bit of their lustre of late.
Ian Hawkey details the sudden, if not steep, decline of French giants PSG.
“The aura around PSG has diminished, and the delight elsewhere in Ligue 1 is palpable.
The simplest diagnosis for the fall in standards would be to pinpoint the absence of the walking, talking, strutting, towering aura that is Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Ligue 1’s dominant individual for most of the five-year period in which PSG have benefited from the patronage of their Qatari majority shareholders.
“It was almost assumed that wrapping up the Ligue 1 title early is a given. What was not anticipated was that Emery would, after less than two months, be in charge of a PSG who the rest of a league suddenly look at as vulnerable, far from invincible.”
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