In the French league, PSG has secured just eight points from five matches, its worst total since the 2010-11 season. It also lost at home to Nice 3-2 over the weekend.
Paris Saint-Germain started its previous Champions League campaign with a team featuring Lionel Messi and Neymar and a win over Juventus.
The two football greats didn’t score that night and PSG later was eliminated from Europe’s top competition in the last 16 for the fifth time in seven years. The premature exit, once again, highlighted the blatant failure of PSG’s strategy of assembling star-studded teams without a real backbone.
However, its owners changed their master plan during the offseason and it’s a revamped PSG that takes on Borussia Dortmund on Tuesday as the group stage of the elite European tournament kicks off.
As usual, the French champions spent a lot of money on new recruits, but they no longer seem obsessed with the need for big names.
