When QSI arrived in France, one of their aims, as well as to turn Paris Saint-Germain into a European powerhouse, was to keep—or improve—their French identity.
When you look at the starting XI, with Thiago Silva as captain, Marco Verratti and Thiago Motta patrolling the midfield and a front-three of Lucas Moura, Angel Di Maria and Edinson Cavani, it would be easy to think they had slipped away from the original plan.
In the last France squad, Didier Deschamps picked four PSG-based players for the games against Netherlands and Belarus. Add in one of their summer signings and a young midfield pretender and PSG’s home spine looks intact.