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What Stands in the Way Between PSG and Total Success

The Supreme Team has been assembled. Now comes the hard—and what should mostly be fun—part.

Not since Real Madrid’s binge in 2009 has a single summer transfer haul resulted in so many high-profile stars reshaping a global contender. Twelve years after Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema, Xabi Alonso, Kaká and Raúl Albiol headlined a class that transformed the Spanish power, PSG has hit back with a legendary class of its own. Lionel Messi, Sergio Ramos, Gianluigi Donnarumma, Achraf Hakimi and Georginio Wijnaldum have taken what was already a fine collection of individual stars and supersized it, mostly through the help of a perfect storm of out-of-contract standouts and the cash in reserve to pay their outlandish wages.