Anelka Wants to Invest in PSG

Are Nicolas Anelka and PSG a match made in heaven or what?

I adore them. They charm me. There’s a roughness and an edge and a vitality to both that I love.

Seriously, when I was in Paris in September, I came home with a PSG keychain for my son. And it’s not that he wasn’t grateful, but I could also tell he wasn’t overwhelmed with the love. And I’m thinking, “Fantastic! I get to keep it for myself!”

Of the two, Nico has at last apparently found redemption.

But PSG — club and fans alike — is still kind of like an ultra-charming, well-intentioned juvenile delinquent. The one you adore so much that you absolutely, positively believe them each time they say they’re going to start coming home before curfew and going back to school.

You trust them, your hopes are raised, and then… Dammit, there they go again.

So how appropriate is it that Anelka has expressed an interest in investing in PSG to lift them out of the doldrums?

“I love this club,” he said on radio station RMC. “I really want to win something and to show that there is a great club in Paris.

“I am ready to put money because I am confident in the club that I love. Why not, at the end of my career, doing something with PSG?

“We have to think of a different strategy, changing something in the club for next year. I am a fan for life and will always be behind the club.”

Like I said: A match made in heaven or what?