Paris St-Germain look to add fifth trophy in Uefa Super Cup against Tottenham

Bar perhaps Marquinhos, who is 31, Ruiz, 29, and Dembele, 28, there is nothing to stop PSG keeping this team together for the next six years.

Do that – and add some more players in the coming years – and they could take some stopping.

They are not planning any big signings this summer, despite earning prize money of about £78m in the Club World Cup alone, having learned lessons from the past.

“What we know is they won’t want to make a huge transfer with all the money they have earned from the Club World Cup,” said journalist Minonzio.

“It’s not the idea to do what they did in the past and buy someone like Neymar, the huge names.”

This PSG team are sensational to watch when they get going – and will take some stopping.

Unless other teams can learn from what Chelsea did in the final and repeat the trick.

“The idea was go man-to-man because if you leave spaces to PSG they will kill you, so we tried to be very aggressive and suffocate them early on and that intensity was crucial in the first 10 minutes,” Blues boss Enzo Maresca said.

“We had a lot of success exploring the left side of their defence. Things worked perfectly for us due to the effort the players put in.”

As a benchmark, only four clubs have ever managed to win three European Cups in a five-year spell – Real Madrid, Ajax (1971-1973), Bayern Munich (1974-1976) and Liverpool (1977, 1978, 1981).

Real have done it three times – including winning the first five (1956-1960), and four out of five between 2014 and 2018.

And AC Milan and Barcelona both managed three in the space of six years.

PSG could themselves be about to embark on a run of dominance, but equally fatigue could be an issue in 2025-26.

They played 65 games in all competitions last season – and there is only one month between the Club World Cup final and Uefa Super Cup.