Messi and Neymar help explain it, but Barcelona and PSG tensions go deeper still

Tonight’s Champions League quarter-final brings together two institutions whose relationship has badly deteriorated over the past decade

Tonight’s quarter-final first leg between Paris Saint-Germain and matches two institutions whose relationship has badly deteriorated over the past decade. The biggest point of friction between the clubs currently centres around Barca’s continuing support for, and ’s opposition to, a European Super League. The Catalans are desperately looking for new sources of income while PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaifi, who also leads the European Club Association, is dead against it.

A shot of the VIP seats at the Camp Nou, before Sergi Roberto’s 95th-minute winner During this time, at least Barca could take comfort from the fact they had the upper hand on the pitch. They knocked PSG out of the Champions League three times between 2012 and 2017 — including on their way to the 2015 title. The Catalans could proudly brag that European success was something their Qatari-owned rivals could not buy.

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