'Scary' PSG must challenge in UCL: Henry
Paris Saint-Germain's "crazy" spending spree means the pressure is on to challenge for UEFA Champions League glory, according to Thierry Henry.
France legend Thierry Henry says Paris Saint-Germain's "scary" front three must power a UEFA Champions League title tilt in order to be deemed a success.
New boy Kylian Mbappe became the latest big-money PSG star to score on debut as he joined Neymar and Edinson Cavani in finding the target in a 5-1 rout of Metz at the weekend.
Unai Emery's side is the only team to boast a perfect record after five Ligue 1 matches as it seeks to reclaim its crown from Monaco.
But Henry insists the value of the club's incredible off-season spending, which included a world-record fee for Neymar, which was in excess of $300 million, will be judged solely by its performances in Europe.
"Neymar and Mbappe joining PSG is great for the French league. It will raise the profile massively," Henry wrote in UK newspaper The Sun.
"If you had told me that would happen at the start of the summer, I would have said, 'Are you mad?' It is crazy.
"There will be a lot of pressure, though, because they have joined the group of teams who are judged on whether they win the [UEFA] Champions League.
"That is what you must expect at a big side."
Henry won the UEFA Champions League while at Barcelona in 2008-2009 after losing in the final with Arsenal three years earlier, the second of five straight seasons in which an English team reached the decider.
A FIFA World Cup winner with France, Henry also believes the time is right for a Premier League club to again challenge Real Madrid's recent monopoly.
"It has been too long since English clubs regularly went deep in the Champions League," he wrote.
"Manchester City are well equipped, Manchester United too. OK, Spurs might not have the depth.
"But there are five English clubs this time so it would be nice to see one of them involved at the business end."
