PSG's thumping 5-0 record-breaking win over Inter Milan in Saturday's Champions League final was a great result for the football purist, in so many ways.
Yes, the Gulf-owned club have spent fortunes over the past few years trying, and failing, to win Europe's most coveted prize, and there's plenty to be said about the state-funded nature of that bankrolling coupled with Qatar's well-documented issues.
But, let's be honest, we've all got bored with modern football. The way the whole game is now sanitised, from the actual product on the field of play to the way supporters are treated by clubs and the authorities - that's a story for another day.
At Hull City, we've seen it at close quarters in recent seasons. Managers so wedded to their philosophies that they cannot deviate from their own beliefs that what they do is the only way forward.
Pass, pass, pass and if in doubt, pass again. Usually, playing hundreds of passes before they're allowed to break the halfway line and then a rule where every player has to touch it twenty-five times before anybody can have a shot. And that shot, based on the XG of shooting at goal, must come from a very specific blade of grass on the pitch at a certain time in the game and only when a specific player gets it.
Of course, I'm being a tad facetious there, but the principle of what we're seeing now is similar. In PSG, and also Barcelona, we've seen teams this season have success by playing forward quicker. Less emphasis on passing lanes and all that modern jargon. PSG won the European Cup with such grace and style, simply because of their wonderful head coach, Luis Enrique, allowing his players to just go out and play.
Forget being restricted in what they can and can't do; allow them to express themselves and flourish. Get the ball forward quickly and create chances.
We've seen Nottingham Forest excel in the Premier League this season with some of the lowest possession stats in top-flight history. Knowing they cannot outplay the clubs with billion-pound squads, instead, Forest have been happy to wait and then spring on the counter-attack.
In the win at Wolves, Forest scored from a Wolves attack. Elliot Anderson collected it on the edge of his box, played one ball forward (that's the key here) to Morgan Gibbs-White, who in turn rolled it out to Anthony Elanga. The former Manchester United man galloped down the right before pulling it back to Gibbs-White to score. Easy as that. No fuss. Three passes and they've gone from back to front in the blink of an eye.
No need for going sideways and backwards, or making sure every player touches it a thousand times. Simple, effective football at speed. Not rocket science. In fact, very little science is involved at all. Football's actually really simple.
Long throws and corners have also come back into fashion. It's as if Sam Allardyce and Phil Brown knew what they were doing all those years ago.
Football has, and never will be, a complicated game. Fans are bored of watching teams pass it to death for the sake of it, to massage the ego of a manager who is so wedded to his beliefs that he cannot see what's in front of him.
And yes, PSG and Barcelona have huge budgets and can attract the best players in the world. That is not the case at City, of course, but it's all relative and feeds down the food chain.
Successful teams in the Championship, especially ones that don't have the massive budgets, have to find a way of winning games of football, and it doesn't have to be based around possession of the ball. Teams don't need to have 75 per cent to win a game. It's about being effective with it when you get it.
When you think back to that City side of last season: Tufan, Seri, Philogene, Giles/Vinagre, Morton, Greaves, Zaroury, Delap, Carvalho et all, it should have been a team full of attacking aggression, pace and power. Instead, at times, it was too pragmatic and slow. That scintillating first half at Southampton should have been the standard, but it was not. It remains a huge disappointment that under Liam Rosenior, the Tigers could not make that step up.
For City and incoming head coach Jakirovic this summer, it's about being effective. Fans want to be entertained, but entertainment comes from scoring goals and ultimately winning football matches. They want to see their players get the ball, go forward, play quickly and create a chance.
Even under Ruben Selles, City were far too negative and created very little. Selles spoke a lot about playing vertically, but we didn't see it nearly enough.
Clubs in the Championship without the luxury of parachute payments can have success without having all of the ball, and that should be the focus for the new head coach.
City fans want to see their side be effective. They want a manager who is not so focused on his own ego, but more importantly, doing whatever it takes to get the best out of the group of players at his disposal and PSG's blueprint is there for all others to follow, no matter what the budget.
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