Issue Nº 27 · Spring 2026

The Footnote.

A magazine of European football, in long form and short

★ Liverpool five clear at the top· Real Madrid host Barcelona Sunday ·★ Mbappé on 22 La Liga goals· Bayern–Dortmund in Munich ·★ PSG unbeaten in 14· Inter top of Serie A ·★ Champions League quarter-finals next week· The Footnote · The Footnote · The Footnote ·★ Liverpool five clear at the top· Real Madrid host Barcelona Sunday ·★ Mbappé on 22 La Liga goals· Bayern–Dortmund in Munich ·★ PSG unbeaten in 14· Inter top of Serie A ·★ Champions League quarter-finals next week· The Footnote · The Footnote · The Footnote ·
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Analysis · 7 minute read · 22 Apr 2026

PSG Without a Star: Luis Enrique's Invisible Project

No Messi. No Neymar. No Mbappé. And yet the football has rarely been better.

By Camille Dubois

There is a version of Paris Saint-Germain that exists in the popular imagination: the assemblage of galácticos, the dressing room of egos, the team that wins matches but loses dressing rooms.

Luis Enrique's side is not that. It might be the opposite of that. Bradley Barcola is twenty-three. Désiré Doué is twenty. Warren Zaïre-Emery is nineteen. The tactical demands are punishing. The collective output is electric.

For years the question about PSG was who they would buy next. Now, oddly, the question is which of their own they will eventually be unable to keep. It is a much better question to have.

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