It’s amazing what this new Champions League format has produced.
Celtic certainly benefited from the new league phase because it allowed Brendan Rodgers to progress to the play-off stage and compete for knockout football for the first time in a very long while.
But nobody benefited more than Luis Enrique’s men after Paris Saint-Germain secured Champions League glory by outclassing Inter in Munich on Saturday evening.
Celtic have two things in common here. The first being that this was the venue where Rodgers’ side bowed out of Europe this term, after that late and heartbreaking Alphonso Davies equaliser for Bayern Munich.
But Inter are also the same team the famous Lisbon Lions beat in 1967 on their way to glory, and now PSG have done exactly the same.
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PSG join Celtic by winning the European Cup after thrashing Inter in the Champions League final
PSG have pumped serious money into the club for over a decade now, after the arrival of Qatari ownership in 2011.
And now, after years and years of trying, including losing the Champions League final to Bayern Munich in 2020, they can write their name amongst some of the best.
Stan Collymore noted on social media how PSG have joined the ‘elite of the elite’ by winning the European Cup/Champions League, and they are the 24th side to do so, alongside the mighty Celtic.
‘And now there are 24 elite of the elite,’ wrote Collymore. ‘Felicitations PSG.
Real Madrid, AC Milan, Bayern Munich, Liverpool, Barcelona, Ajax, Internazionale, Manchester United, Juventus, Benfica, Chelsea, Borussia Dortmund, Nottingham Forest, Porto, Celtic, Hamburg, Steaua Bucharest, Marseille, Manchester City, Feyenoord, Aston Villa, PSV Eindhoven, Red Star Belgrade, and PARIS SAINT GERMAIN.’
Celtic and PSG’s revenue
Celtic could win the Europa League, or the newly formed Conference League, but the chances of lifting Europe’s main prize again are next to nothing.
Money talks a lot in the modern game, just look at the success of PSG in France, as well as the rise of Chelsea and Manchester City in the Premier League since the turn of the century.
It makes a lot of things a closed shop, unless you have a bucket load of money to spend.
In 2024, Celtic released on their official website that ‘general revenue’ had increased by 3.9% to £124.6m, when you compare that to PSG, it’s night and day.
- Celtic’s revenue in 2024 – £124.6
- PSG’s revenue – £646m (Forbes)
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