The 2024-2025 season will forever remain like that of the ultimate fulfillment for Paris Saint-Germain, the one where the long caressed dream has finally become reality. Four trophies, total domination, a historic European coronation that came to top an exceptional year. Champion of France without real dispute, winner of the French Cup and the Champions Trophy, PSG especially conquered the Champions League, engraving its name at the top of European football on May 31 in Munich, in a final controlled with maturity and intensity rarely seen. Paris froze in a moment of eternity: hundreds of thousands of people, gathered in the streets, on the roofs, on the balconies, celebrated this victory as one celebrates a return to life. Neither the defeat in the final of the Club World Cup, conceded yesterday against Chelsea, nor the fleeting bitterness that she could arouse, began the aura of this exceptional season. For supporters, players, managers as for the whole city, this late reverse does not wave the grandeur of the path traveled. There remains a line at the bottom of an already mythical chapter, a detail in an epic whose heart always beats to the rhythm of the European feat. Because what Paris has experienced this year exceeds a result: it is a communion, a summit, a lasting pride.
The joy was pure, without filter, almost unreal. Dembélé, flamboyant from start to finish, elusive, brilliant and decisive, is now cited among the favorites for the Ballon d'Or, a symbol of a renewal as spectacular as it is outstanding. Donnarumma, he brought the team in its most fragile moments, multiplying the heroic parades, especially against Liverpool and Arsenal where he stood like a wall in front of history. Désiré Goué, revelation of the season, exploded in the eyes of Europe, combining technical insolence and tactical freshness, while Hakimi, tireless metronome of the right corridor, has continued to push the limits of endurance and impact. Under the supervision of a methodical and inspired Luis Enrique, the Parisian collective has risen to a level of cohesion rarely reached, where each player seemed to speak the same language, animated by the same faith. This season was not just victorious: she was founder. She offered to the club, to her supporters, and to the city of Paris a legendary page engraved in lively ink, a season where all possibilities have lined up in a rare, almost magical harmony.
A tribute to the canceled PSG?
Under a sky of Paris ie for the national holiday, there should have been a breath of recognition, a gratitude gleam, a wink assumed to an epic that capsized the city: that of Paris Saint-Germain, finally crowned European champion. For days, the idea circulated insistently, which was also widely announced and confirmed by the newspaper The team. Indiscretions suggested that the fireworks of July 14 – drawn as every year from the Jardins du Trocadéro and the Eiffel Tower – would reserve a final tribute to this historic season. We mentioned a painting entitled Parisa highlighting of the club, a visual symphony between drones, red and blue colors, and supporters. The emotion had to be there, the story had to engrave in the sky. But when the last sheaves sounded, another emotion dominated: disappointment. Because nothing came. Neither the colors of the club, nor the shadow of a logo, nor even a note of Here is Paris in the soundtrack. It is not so much the absence of a tribute that hurts the supporters – it is the promise, implicit or not, which was betrayed. This symbolic gesture, expected, imagined, hoped, never existed. And on social networks, the reaction was not long in coming.
Anger, bitterness, misunderstanding. Many fans speak of a blatant “lack of respect” on the part of the city of Paris towards the club which, for years, bears the name of the capital on the international scene. Others see it as a new demonstration of the growing ditch between the town hall and the PSG. Because this failed meeting does not fall from nowhere. It is part of a heavy, tense, almost toxic context: that of the showdown around the Parc des Princes. PSG wishes to buy its historic stadium to initiate enlargement and modernization works, but the Paris town hall is categorically refused. Result: a broken dialogue, public tensions, and the threat of a departure from the club to a new stadium, outside of Paris Intramuros. This July 14 without tribute therefore sounds like yet another demonstration of this fracture. In a city where football is often relegated behind other political priorities, this symbolic silence has taken on the appearance of a declaration. A cold, distant, almost provocative statement.
And yet there was so much to celebrate. This European season of PSG was not only glorious: it was founder. Memorable evenings, exploits in Madrid, Manchester or Munich, a rare popular communion. Images engraved in the memory of an entire people, far beyond the park stands. In the absence of an official tribute, it is therefore the Parisian people themselves who continues to bring this epic to life, through their songs, its flags, its intact passion. But on this July 14, festival of the nation and symbols, the silence of the city was understood as a disavowal. Paris celebrated the Republic, of course. But she forgot those who, this season, have wore her colors at the top of Europe. Supporters will not forget this failed meeting. And now ? This silence in full light leaves a bitter taste and questions: simple forgetting or symbol of a break now acted between the city and its club? In the burning file of the Parc des Princes, this July 14 without tribute is more and more like a point of no return
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