Qatar Sports Investment have purchased 70 percent controlling stake in PSG, the football team that plays their football In the glamour of Paris but with a history entwined with stadium violence, they failed to get into the Champion's League last year, but that has not stopped a stream of new players coming in, who could easily be playing for teams in the Champion's League. Unlike they city of Manchester, who also have Arab billions to splash around with on whim, the idea of going to play and live in Paris has to be way more endearing than playing in a dull industrial city, laden with rain and ugly British people. Whatsmore they beat Chelsea to the signing of Javier Pastore for a mouth watering 42 million euros, the Argentinian play-maker, may well be up for player of the year awards across the globe, in the coming years.
Give them another 2 year or 3 years when they are established in the Champion's League,and the men with groves of money trees may start to bring players in the same fashion as Real Madrid's Galactico project.
They have added plenty of new faces besides Pastore to their squad; €11 million signing of France striker Kevin Gameiro, €30 million up front for Jeremy Menez (Roma), Mohamed Sissoko (Juventus) and Salvatore Sirigu (Palermo), and the Ligue 1 duo of Blaise Matuidi and Milan Bisevac. Menez and Matuidi have been recruited as replacements for the aging Ludovic Giuly and Claude Makelele, these will make up a new side by 75 percent, and there is still a few weeks left for more spending sprees.
Although PSG have to be careful, after Pathe, a cinema chain in France, invested in Lyon, and spent 100 million on players in two seasons, they still ended with no trophies to show for it, even in a league which is considered weaker than the German, Spanish, English and Italian league.
Here is a video of that sexy pink panther, Javier Pastore, that may give you another reason to travel to Paris:
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