# PSG: Why Kvaratskhelia and Doué Did Not Play in the Champions League

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2097825368317059183
- Source account: [@Xparisnolimit](https://x.com/Xparisnolimit)
- Source language: French
- Target language: English
- Duration: 1:17
- Published: 2026-09-10
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- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/C6cWo2z4JwcP/en/psg-why-kvaratskhelia-and-dou%C3%A9-did-not-play-in-the-champions-league
- Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/C6cWo2z4JwcP/fr/psg-pourquoi-kvaratskhelia-et-dou%C3%A9-n-ont-pas-jou%C3%A9-en-ligue-des-champions.md

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/C6cWo2z4JwcP/en/psg-why-kvaratskhelia-and-dou%C3%A9-did-not-play-in-the-champions-league) Tonight, neither Kvaratskhelia nor Désiré Doué have played a single minute.

[0:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/C6cWo2z4JwcP/en/psg-why-kvaratskhelia-and-dou%C3%A9-did-not-play-in-the-champions-league?t=3) This is quite rare in a Champions League match. Why is that?

[0:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/C6cWo2z4JwcP/en/psg-why-kvaratskhelia-and-dou%C3%A9-did-not-play-in-the-champions-league?t=6) And does this promise even more radical management of playing time this season?

[0:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/C6cWo2z4JwcP/en/psg-why-kvaratskhelia-and-dou%C3%A9-did-not-play-in-the-champions-league?t=10) this season? There is only one person who has to choose the players to play this match. I tried to, uh, find the best players for this match.

[0:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/C6cWo2z4JwcP/en/psg-why-kvaratskhelia-and-dou%C3%A9-did-not-play-in-the-champions-league?t=25) But Kvara and Us— Kvara and, and Doué, they are incredible players. For me, Kvara is a player who can win the current Ballon d'Or.

[0:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/C6cWo2z4JwcP/en/psg-why-kvaratskhelia-and-dou%C3%A9-did-not-play-in-the-champions-league?t=36) Ousmane Dembélé too, Vitinha too, Fabian too.

[0:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/C6cWo2z4JwcP/en/psg-why-kvaratskhelia-and-dou%C3%A9-did-not-play-in-the-champions-league?t=40) And that's very lovely for me as a coach and very lovely for our supporters. Today, when they, they sing "Ousmane Dembélé, Ousmane Ballon d'Or, Ousmane Ballon d'Or," it's a chance that in the future, perhaps, we can feel it in, in another player.

[0:59](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/C6cWo2z4JwcP/en/psg-why-kvaratskhelia-and-dou%C3%A9-did-not-play-in-the-champions-league?t=59) To be the team in the, uh, in the list of Ballon d'Or nominees, where there are only thirty players, to have, uh, more players than other teams, I think that's a motivation for us.

[1:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/C6cWo2z4JwcP/en/psg-why-kvaratskhelia-and-dou%C3%A9-did-not-play-in-the-champions-league?t=72) And that's what the current Paris Saint-Germain represents.