Only a huge difference if you look at it in the specific way you’re looking at it. Every single club in the world knows city frequently pay 50-70m for players even if said players are average. This raises the price of the market. PSG’s signings also raised the price in the market. 2 things can be true at the same time.
PSG is the worst of the lot for me. Sure, City, and Chelsea before them, are doing similar stuff on the whole, but with more class and more football nous. For example, neither CL win by Chelsea was obtained with PSG's obnoxious model, neither 2012 or 2021, both are great underdog stories of fighting hard against all odds. Chelsea has an identity that exists outside of the spending stuff, that's the point. And I felt that when they played Barca too, signing superstars was never their calling card, for me at least. PSG don't have it, they are what they spend. That's how the Qataris made sure they are seen by the way they handle themselves.
Does anyone wonder how PSG will win CL when they will win it? They will basically spend their way to a CL. Buying and buying and buying until they will inevitably buy their way to the CL title. It's all pretty distasteful. These clowns sacked Tuchel, a top 3 manager...
to preserve their galactico way of flamboyant superstars acting like spoiled brats. When in fact they should've seized that moment and built a real team around a world-class manager, rather than being seen as some sort of plastic football-equivalent of Harlem Globetrotters, buffoons that win fuck all when the pressure is on.
It's like they try to copy Barca and Madrid non-stop and achieve that status in record time, but end up only copying their worst parts.
