Paris Saint-Germain, Champions League winner. At long last the club that was transformed by Qatari billions and bought and sold a succession of the world`s greatest players in an extravagant bid to get to the top has got its hands on the big one.

European club soccer`s grandest prize has a new home after PSG thrashed Inter Milan 5-0 in Saturday`s final in Munich. "It`s in the bag, it`s coming home with us to Paris tomorrow," coach Luis Enrique said. "My first day at the PSG campus I said the ultimate goal was to fill the trophy cabinet. The only trophy missing was the Champions League. Here we have ticked that box."

It was the trophy that not even Lionel Messi, Neymar or Kylian Mbappe could deliver to the French club. Luis Enrique has achieved it after overseeing PSG`s shift from the era of galactico signings to one of genuine team-building.