At Metlife Stadium, the Englishman challenges the current European champion who plays the best football in the world
East Rutherford – Chelsea AND Paris Saint-Germain Decides this Sunday, from 16h (Brasilia), which raises the unprecedented trophy of the World Club World. Stadium Metlife in English and French with a similarity: both have reached the top from the billionaire investments from their owners, the tycoon Todd Boehly AND Nasser al-Khelaifi. Their investment profile in launching the cast also resembles, so that the priority is betting on young talents.
Since May 2022, Chelsea belongs to a group of entrepreneurs led by American Todd Boehly, owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team. Bought it for 4.2 billion pounds (R $ 26 billion in the citation of the time) The Russian oil group Typonellean, Roman Abramovich, who decided to sell his actions so as not to suffer sanctions from the British government as soon as the Russian troops invaded Ukrainian at the end of February of that year.
Like Abramovic, Boehly has maintained Chelsea as the protagonist on the market. Only in this transfer window, 243 million euros were spent (1.5 billion dollars) for taking, according to the transfermarkt data.
The presence in the final offers the coach Enzo Maresca the possibility of reimbursement after being questioned due to difficulty reaching the summit with a cast of numerous that costs more than 1 billion euros last season, with the acquisition of expensive and talented young people. In office since June last year, he has won only the league conference, a minor title in Europe.
The game will be a chess game, he compared Maresque. “I don’t believe in the movements of the chess during the games, but the coach has to react when the other coach reacts. It will be a game of chess against Luis Enrique, but we will try to have fun.”
For the Argentine Enzo Fernández, Chelsea will face the “best team in the world”, considered one of the favorites. “But we have a large group and we will know how to use our weapons,” he said. “This club title is very important.”
Fernández does not know if the partner Moisés Caicedo will have by his side, with which he forms one of the best pairs of the steering wheel in the world. The Ecuadorian recovers from the distortion on the left ankle and did not train on Friday.
In front, one of the protagonists is Pedro Neto Portuguese, who wants to dedicate the conquest to his friend Diogo Jota, killed two weeks ago in a car accident. “We did good things and improved a lot. We all believe that this team can do more.”
In PSG, the star is all
Considered one of the richest men in the world, the 51-year-old Al-Khelaifi was head of PSG for a decade and does not care about spending stratospheric quantities to make the world football club dominate. The former professional tennis player and member of the Qatar royal family, the owner of Qatar Sports Investments managed to make the club sovereign in France. The project reached the peak with the conquest of the Champions League this year from an important change.
After getting rid of Neymar, Messi and Mbappé, PSG continued to spend large quantities to bring protagonists. The difference is that nobody is the caliber of the three, but everyone play for the team, as loved and determines the coach Luis Enrique.
A profound change of the board of directors in the hiring strategy has renewed the team, made up of many young people today, and the plan has worked. The French won everything they played last season, including Champions League for the first time. Now they are looking for the World Cup: the team has never won the tournament organized by FIFA, both in any version.
The explanation of this change of direction in the reinforcement policy involves the administration of the Qatar sports investment fund (QSI) connected to the Government of Qatar, which became the owner of the majority of PSG in 2011. The country of the Middle East had to take great stars to make the team known before the 2022 World Cup, based on the Arabic nation. The other reason is simple: sports failure with the stars on the field.
“It’s a team of 11 stars,” said Luis Enrique. “We don’t want a star, we want 11, and that’s what we have. In fact, we have up to 15 stars. We have been able to reach this commitment for the management agreement, to have from 11 to 15 stars. We want the stars, of course, but that game for the team.”
The strategy has changed, the investment has decreased a bit, but the club is still one of the most spent for the reinforcements of the world. In 2024-25, he invested over 239 million euros (1.56 billion dollars) in hiring, just more than the amount spent only in Neymar seven years earlier. In 2023-24, there were 454 million euros toasted in the new athletes for the French club.
The positioning and movement of PSG players reveal a small synchronization and the objectives divided between different athletes show that the group’s star is even the collective, as all players show. Everyone is dedicated to marking, construction and attack. The heart of the team is the midfield, the sector in which the Portuguese interpret João Nees and Vitinha and the Spaniard Fabián Ruiz.
From the European classified in 2020, only the Brazilian defender Marquino, captain of the team. “In recent months we have, in fact, playing at an excellent level. From the point of view of mentality, the team is ready,” said the defender, for over a decade at the club.
The sample will take US $ 40 million gross (about $ 223 million), while the deputy will be with 30 million US dollars (R $ 166 million). So far PSG has collected $ 106 million and Chelsea has pocketed $ 104 million. Therefore, with or without the cup, the two will return home with more than 130 million dollars.
