Dembélé backs Zaire Emery as PSG targets another Champions League win
Ousmane Dembélé said zaire emery and PSG are ready for a Champions League final that could add another title to the club’s record. Speaking before the match against Arsenal, the forward said winning again would be historic after PSG’s first Champions League crown last year.
“Todavía tengo hambre de victoria, las ganas de ganar trofeos con este club, con el staff, con toda la plantilla y esto es lo único que tengo en mente,” Dembélé said at the press conference before the final. He added that the most important thing is winning with Paris Saint Germain and making the club and its fans happy, not individual trophies.
Budapest final at 18h
The final against Arsenal is set for tomorrow at 18h at the Puskás Aréna in Budapest. Dembélé described Arsenal as a very good team, pointed to their first-place finish in the Champions League league phase, and said their run has been incredible.
He also singled out Arsenal’s attack, defense and set pieces, along with Mikel Arteta’s work with the squad. That is the kind of opposition PSG has to solve in a one-off final, where one lapse can wipe out a year of control.
PSG’s 10-15 day reset
Dembélé said he used 10-15 days to prepare properly for the final and feels 100% ready. He called the season very difficult for PSG players because they have not had vacations, but said Luis Enrique and his staff handled that workload well enough to get the team here.
He also said Luis Enrique has been one of the best coaches of his career and helped him improve with and without the ball. For PSG, that leaves one straightforward measure of progress: another title, or a season that falls short of the standard the club set when it won its first Champions League last year.
Paris fans watch closely
Dembélé said Parisian fans will be able to watch the final and that the team wants to give them back the happiness they gave the squad after last year’s win. PSG is carrying a very young, ambitious group into Budapest, and he made clear that the club is not treating this as a finish line.
That is the real test in Budapest: a second Champions League would turn last year’s breakthrough into a repeatable standard, while a loss would leave PSG’s next step framed by the same question it has already answered once. Zaire Emery and the rest of the squad are playing for more than a medal; they are playing for the club’s place in the competition’s new hierarchy.
