Owner of PSG, QSI is currently a discreet shareholder in Braga

In Braga, the daily life has not changed at once with the acquisition of 21.67% of the club by Qatar Sports Investments (QSI), definitively recorded on December 9th. By seizing the shares previously held by the sports rights group Olivedesportos, the owner of Paris Saint-Germain has become the second largest shareholder. of the current third in the Portuguese Championship.

The exact nature of the rapprochement between the two clubs remains to be defined. Sportingly, the collaboration remains embryonic. Jordan Monteiro and Enzo Tayamoutou (19), the two hopefuls on loan from the capital club at the start of the summer, have played exactly ninety minutes between them this season in Liga Revelaçao, the Under-23 Championship years.

The only real indication of a cooperation in the making, the discreet passages of Antero Henrique in the ultramodern premises of the club. The former sports director of PSG, sidelined in Paris, among other things because of his icy relations with football adviser Luis Campos, is the man charged by QSI with defining the cooperation between the two entities.

In the Champions League like Paris?

Having worked for more than twenty-five years in FC Porto, the cumbersome neighbor, the 54-year-old leader knows local realities perfectly. He lets, for the moment, SC Braga live his life.

Like selling Vitinha to a PSG rival during the winter transfer window. It was difficult to oppose it because OM paid the amount of the release clause (€32m, bonus included) to attract the 22-year-old center forward. And he does not, a priori, fall into the category of attackers targeted by Paris. Vitinha is the last representative of the center of the local academy, always more successful (Trincao, David Carmo or Pedro Neto were trained in Braga).

The first team is recognized for its constantly improving results and for its tactical science. And Antonio Salvador’s club is now looking eye to eye at the three “big ones” (Benfica, Porto, Sporting). So subsidiary, satellite or partner club? This should be more clearly defined by June. By then, the rankings will also have delivered their verdict: for the time being, the probability that Paris and Braga will both play in the next Champions League remains strong.