By After dismantling Manchester City 4-2 in the Champions League on Wednesday, Paris St-Germain are eyeing a third successive European crown — and the question is no longer whether they are elite, but whether they are building the greatest dynasty European football has ever seen.
PSG celebrate after beating Manchester City (Credits: BBC Sport)
The back-to-back European champions sliced through City with astonishing ease, taking a 3-0 lead into half-time before surviving a spirited second-half fightback from the Premier League leaders. “This PSG team are on a different level,” Chris Sutton told BBC Radio 5 Live at the break. “It’s been an absolute pummelling for Man City.”
Chasing the Three-Peat Club
If Luis Enrique’s side lift the trophy again this season, they would become only the fifth team since 1956 to win three consecutive European Cups — and just the second in the Champions League era. Their pedigree is already formidable: a 5-0 demolition of Inter Milan in the 2025 final, followed by a penalty-shootout triumph over Arsenal last season.
The End of the “Bling-Bling” Era
The transformation traces back to a deliberate cultural reset. After years of lavish spending on superstars, president Nasser Al-Khelaifi declared it was “the end of the glitter,” ushering out the “flashy, bling-bling” era. Enrique arrived in 2023 intent on building a coherent, disciplined unit — still well-funded, but built around younger players he could mould. The result: two scintillating Champions League triumphs and a team whose press, in Sutton’s words, has an “intensity and ferocity” no other side matches.
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