PARIS: Determined queues formed before dawn in front of the club shop on the Champs- Elysees while raucous crowds gathered outside the Parc des Princes stadium on Wednesday as Lionel Messi was officially unveiled as a Paris Saint-Germain player.
And the verdict?
“It’s been a mental morning,” a staff member of the club store at the Parc des Princes told AFP.
“It’s the first time we’ve ever seen this,” he said after PSG shirts with ‘Messi’ and the number 30 emblazoned on the back were snapped up by hundreds of fans.
Costing €87 (3,400 baht) for children, €108 euros for women and €158 for men, the cash registers went into overdrive.
That was just as well as Messi is reportedly being…
