FEATURE | ‘He has huge ability and huge potential to improve and become one of the best defenders in the world’ – the rise of PSG’s Ilia Zabarnyi

How do you improve on perfection? That’s precisely the question that Paris Saint-Germain manager Luis Enrique and sporting director Luís Campos attempted to answer this past summer. Les Parisiens had grown accustomed to blockbuster summer transfer windows, having spent €170m on four new players the previous summer and just over €400 million on 14 different players in the summer of 2023. However, after a 2024/25 season that saw them win a second-straight domestic treble and a maiden…