CRAIG HOPE: PSG have transformed from a team of disconnected superstars to one worthy of 尊敬（する）・点 and 賞賛 - winning the 支持する／優勝者s League would 供給する Kylian Mbappe with his perfect ending

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Paris Saint-Germain have been here before - twice in a 支持する／優勝者s League 半分-final in the past four seasons - but not like this. Not with a team who are, whisper it, likeable. Not with a team who have structure and 戦略. And not with a team for whom football, not fame and fantasy, is the 単独の 焦点（を合わせる）.

There is still Kylian Mbappe, and the flashbulbs that illuminated his presence here in Dortmund on Tuesday night 確認するd the circus remains in 輸送. But the ball jugglers and those elevated on stilts - Neymar and Lionel Messi - are no more. Prize tigers like Sergio Ramos have also been returned to th e wild.

'In the past, PSG was a club of Harlem Globetrotters,' says 新聞記者／雑誌記者 Dave Appadoo of フラン Football. 'There were superstars, but they weren't 伴う／関わるd or 投資するd in the club. The same players, when they arrive in Madrid, Manchester or Munich, they are honoured to be there.

'For PSG, it was the 逆転する, it was the club who were honoured to have them. It was not a healthy 関係. It was a show of communication and marketing, not football. It was uncomfortable. Now, fans, the マスコミ, it is like, "Oh, we are talking about football". It is unusual, because PSG are not used to 存在 liked!'

This 存在 PSG, the high-wire 行為／法令／行動する has not been altogether abandoned. Luis Enrique's 味方する were 長，率いるing out at the group 行う／開催する／段階 before teen sensation 過密な住居 Zaire-Emery 救助（する）d a draw against Dortmund, at this very same stadium. They lost at home to Barcelona in the ４半期/4分の1-final first 脚 and the turnaround in Spain was 補佐官d by a home red card.?

PSG have long dreamt of a maiden 支持する／優勝者s League 肩書を与える but it has continued to elude them

This year's iteration of the Ligue 1 serial 支持する／優勝者s has a different feel under Luis Enrique

The club is 始める，決める to call time on its 時代 of Galaticos - typified by the 調印 of players such as Lionel Messi (left) and Neymar Jnr (権利)

Even 確定／確認 of a third-straight Ligue 1 肩書を与える at the 週末 needed 競争相手s Monaco to lose after PSG drew 3-3 at home lowly Le Havre. But まっただ中に the 大混乱, there has been 証拠 of cohesion and competence. Spirit, too.

'The last 10 months, the philosophy has changed,' says Appadoo, with PSG unbeaten in 32 国内の matches and on course for an historic quadruple.?

'They have brought in players who are not superstars. They are very good players, but they arrive without the ego. There are no more divas, the emotional 演劇 queens. The new structure of the dressing-room, with a good coach who has （疑いを）晴らす, football ideas, has made the change possible.

'Before that, for any coach - Unai Emery, Thomas Tuchel, Mauricio Pochettino, Christophe Galtier - it was impossible to manage, to coach.'

Ahead of last season's 一連の会議、交渉／完成する-of-16 tie with Bayern Munich, Neymar met the 圧力（をかける） at Parc des Princes. I was there. He bounced into the マスコミ auditorium with his mega-ワット smile and diamond earring. Over his shoulder, however, was a 捕らえる、獲得する of dirty linen. He seemed to revel in hanging it out for the world to see, 確認するing 報告（する）／憶測s of a dressing-room 対決 with 冒険的な director Luis Campos and then 開始する，打ち上げるing a 追跡（する） for the squad mole. Next to him, the muted coach Galtier may 同様に have held the washing line. They lost 1-0 to Bayern the に引き続いて night and 2-0 in the second 脚.

The Brazilian superstar 削減（する） a casual 人物／姿／数字 during his 圧力（をかける） 会議／協議会 ahead of a European run-in with Bayern Munich?

Messi's 明かすing at PSG in 2021 began a 星／主役にする-crossed （一定の）期間 in フラン for the Barcelona icon

I was also 現在の in the same auditorium at Lionel Messi's 明かすing in August 2021, and seemingly far happier than the Argentine to be so. It was not so much an 明かすing as a 隠すing of the truth. He 手配中の，お尋ね者 to be in Barcelona, not Paris. It was, on reflection, 完全に appropriate that he walked in wearing a mask.

PSG twice 出口d this 競争 at the last-16 行う／開催する／段階 with Messi and so, after 13 years of Qatari 所有権, 敗北・負かす to Bayern in the final of 2020 remains their best return. Critics of the 明言する／公表する-基金d 事業／計画（する） have salivated at their European 干ばつ and, while PSG will never be universally loved, there is at least now 尊敬（する）・点 and 賞賛 for those on the pitch, and in the dugout.

French newspaper L'用意する on Tuesday 宣言するd: 'The new 星／主役にする of PSG is Luis Enrique. With the 出発s of Messi, Neymar and soon Mbappe, Luis Enrique has become the main incarnation of the PSG 事業／計画（する）'.

At Dortmund's Signal Iduna Park on Tuesday night, the Spanish boss met the マスコミ in typically feisty mood. One reporter 明言する／公表するd that PSG were big favourites to 勝利，勝つ. 'It shows the 圧力（をかける） doesn't know much about football,' replied Enrique. He laughed, but he wasn't joking.

Enrique is confrontational, yet ひどく 保護の of his players. 'He doesn't take any s***,' says one source. Striker Goncalo Ramos spoke of a 'family'. The days of Messi and marriages of inconvenience are over.

長，率いる coach Enrique is gunning for a historic quadruple after all but 調印（する）ing the league 肩書を与える

Portuguese striker Goncalo Ramos (権利) has discussed how the team feels more like a family?

Vitinha is one of the standouts in a 味方する 以前 littered with boldface-指名する superstars

Kylian Mbappe is 始める，決める to call time on his 旅行 in Paris but fervently dreams of European glory