Jurgen Klopp ensures that Liverpool beat Paris Saint-Germain both on and off the pitch

Thomas Tuchel, who needed a goal, turned to his bench and told his number 17 that he was going to start painting one of Anfield's most incredibly chaotic nights.

Tuchel knows Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting from their time in Bundesliga in Mainz and, therefore, he probably appreciates better than anything that the German center from 6 feet to 3 inches can bring.

In all fairness, Kylian Mbappé followed the equalizer three minutes later. And yet, the introduction of a 29-year-old who scored only five times in the Premier League before relegating to Stoke last season, reflects a deeper history of the club he now represents, which is under pressure to balance his books and meet. Rules of financial fair play.

The involvement of Tuchel – especially as director of Paris Saint Germain – has provided Liverpool with the opportunity to highlight the distance traveled by Jürgen Klopp about two and a half years ago since the last coaches meeting Germans at Anfield. .

This improbable Liverpool victory over Borussia Dortmund had taken place in the Europa League rather than in the Champions League, on a night when Klopp had selected ten different players to play under the lights of a stadium. construction.

If you are looking for a reason why Liverpool seems to be a club where the possibilities seem endless, you will come to Klopp. However, it was the owners of Liverpool who sought to name him in the first place, ignoring the suggestions of "prominent advisers" having invited him to a lawyer's office in Manhattan where he dazzled them by his personality and his appetite for post.

Fenway could have gone otherwise, with Carlo Ancelotti – once PSG, ironically – away because it was thought that Liverpool could be too extreme a place for him and he was better placed in the largest cities in Europe. In this spirit, it will be intriguing to see how Ancelotti is linked to the zeal of Naples, where Liverpool played in a fortnight, after hitting the same opponent in a pre-season friendly at the beginning of the month. 'August.

The team reported Tuesday that Klopp spent several hours trying to convince Mbappé to join Liverpool in the summer of 2017, promising to make him the biggest teammate next to Philippe Coutinho. Mbappé was "seduced by the eloquence and enthusiasm of Klopp," but Liverpool could not compete with the offers of PSG and Real Madrid.

Fenway's ambition and expertise were questioned at the time, perhaps not unfairly taking into account the opportunities that the different people representing them in the transfer market had failed to negotiate.

The reality here is that contrasting commitments to FFP influenced the results, although they may not be final against Liverpool, considering that they were so far from their current position.

There is a very simple explanation for Fenway's sudden willingness to start spending heavily on players like Virgil van Dijk and Alisson Becker, even though the numbers that brought them to Anfield remain well beyond the financial stratosphere in which the PSG took Mbappé from Monaco. Was Klopp's advice so easy that for those who evaluate his work, it's easy to forget that he sold Coutinho mid-season and reached the Champions League final five months later ? It is encouraging that Fenway has trusted Klopp and Michael Edwards, the sports director, to reinvest 200 million pounds, but that's not outrageous. It is simply a meeting of basic economics, managerial judgment and confidence building.

If Fenway sold Liverpool tomorrow, the coldest assessment of the last eight years would not have been generous given the lack of Liverpool trophies. History tends to ignore processes and focuses instead on winners and losers. But then, the Qatari investment in Paris began at about the same time as Fenway in Anfield. Would the story reflect so well on the arrangement if it ended quickly, even if there were five Ligue 1 titles in seven years?

These are owners who have very different ideas about the best way forward and despite Fenway's struggle to win hearts and minds on Merseyside, Klopp's nomination looks much better. for a new training center. Compare that to Paris, where the seats in the floor have changed color to reflect the team it represents, but the ground still belongs to the city council and little has been developed outside of the quality of a team that the authorities are trying to establish if was affordable according to the laws of the game.

As the World Cup reached its quarter-finals this summer, a two-paragraph statement was posted on the Uefa website, announcing a new review of PSG's alleged mismanagement. The basic principles of the FFP program stipulate that any club can not spend according to the income it receives. A survey conducted in 2014 focused on a sponsorship agreement with the Qatar Tourist Authority, which had a much lower free market value than the £ 167 million requested by PSG. 60 million dollars of money were won playing in the European competition.

The spotlight is now on them again after the measures taken to bring Mbappé and Neymar to the French capital in 2017. For the first time, the Uefa court has taken over the case of PSG and deliberations continue. The thorny question of credibility: will the governing body of European football have the courage to enforce its own rules and punish a club that will really hurt it? PSG can not be excluded from the Champions League this year, but it is conceivable that a heavy punishment will follow.

One of Uefa's responsibilities will be to separate the coincidence of the facts. PSG was forced to sell players to balance the accounts at the end of the year in June. It's a fact, for example, that on June 26, Javier Pastore left Paris Saint Germain after seven seasons to return to Italy with AS Roma. In addition, the Argentine midfielder had just turned 29, but his value was not depreciating either for the clubs involved.

When he left Palermo in 2011, he was detained by a third party, which means that Sicilians received two million euros less than PSG ended up selling for all those years. It is also a fact that in April, Roma signed one of the most important sponsorship deals in Italian history. Maybe it's just a coincidence that Roma now has the Qatar Airways logo on their shirts.

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