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I wouldnāt write PSG off with that forward line.
I know theyāve got the superstars and Bayern have the team, and usually the latter prevails, but itās a one-off game.
COME ON BAYERN
Iām not the best predictor of football I must admit & Iāve followed Bayern more than any other team in Europe except My beloved Celtic so Iām a bit biased for zee Germans.
And if thereās any team thatās gonna stop them itās PSG & Mbappe + Bayerns defence aināt the best. 
Still, I expect them to take it downā¦ I aināt got any $ on bayern too so thatās a + for them. 
https://mobile.twitter.com/NorthStandNiall/status/1296889831356878849
https://mobile.twitter.com/stephmcgazz82/status/1296745058000089088
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Inter Miami goes for their first point in club history in their 6th attempt today. Got my jersey on ready to roll.
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Would be cool if they didnāt earn a single point until Messi arrives.
Iād be ok with this
We did it lads. Couldnāt watch because Iām not paying for ESPN+ good job MLS really expanding the game.
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In case anyoneās not aware of the corruption behind Sundayās finalists PSG, their Qatari owners and EUFA:
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Not sure you read the article but none of the clubs you mention have owners with such obvious close relations with corrupt EUFA officials leading to obvious conclusions about how Qatar might have won the bid to host the world cup.
Also while your point about how purchase debt is loaded onto an EPL club by new owners is fair criticism, the same does apply to more important things in British life than football.
Yeah, its a legal way to purchase a company. Perhaps it shouldnāt be, but its not really a football issue.
Thatās bad too. No oneās claiming purity here, but there are degrees of awfulness.
Take a look at the number of workers who died building stadiums for the Qatar world cup and the living standards they had to endure in a super-wealthy nation. Nothing that Iām aware of was done by FIFA to protect those people.
Before the Qatar takeover PSG were a fairly average top flight French club: in 40 years theyād won their mediocre domestic league just twice, and the old Cup Winners up once. No conventional business with such an unimpressive track record and prospects would attract such a huge investment, so your analogy falls down.
But thatās irrelevant because the point youāre missing in all this is that sport, as opposed to business, is supposed to be about competition on a playing field that hasnāt been artificially raised at one end by the injection of third party cash unrelated to the teamās success or maketability.
That after all was the principle behind the failed FFP that most people in football supported.
Football sans FFP begins to resemble an athletics race in which, instead of being content with the best training facilities and dieticians, runners with rich parents can also start much closer to the finishing line.
As you know, broadcasting revenues are apportioned according to league finishing position, not to some unsuccessful club that wines and dines Sky execs. Iād like to see the money more evenly distributed but this doesnāt contradict anything I said.
I didnāt expect to see you such an advocate of free markets when it comes to sports. I mean even the last bastion of free enterprise, the USA has a player draft to ensure that this sort of situation doesnāt happen there.
Iām not ignoring Skyās money at all. If I had my way weād kick them into touch and go back to how it all was pre-EPL when football was free to watch on TV and small teams like Notts Forest could go on to win the league by getting a great manager, buy some good players on the back of that success and win the European Cup, twice.
Thatās how itās supposed to be done - not by selling off all your assets to some shady billionaire who can at any point lose interest (or oil revenues) and turn your club into a shopping centre. Is that what you want?
The current situation was obviously seeded by Skyās money but greatly exacerbated by aforementioned billionaires buying up clubs and investing huge sums in their latest toy.
Good. Iāve never understood why people are happy to be walking, unpaid sandwich boards.