Perhaps there is no surprise given the great expense with which it's taken to build Paris Saint Germain's individually garlanded squad but a whiff of arrogance has been detected by some around the playing staff.
None more so than ahead of France's version of El Clasico, Le Classique, which took place this weekend as PSG drew 2-2 away at Marseille.
A heated rivalry, it appeared that some players like Dani Alves, were treating the fixture somewhat flippantly, with the former Barcelona, Sevilla and Juventus right back claiming that he couldn't name a single player in the Marseille squad (ironically one of his international team-mates Luiz Gustavo is a Marseille player).
Indeed, Kylian Mbappe, who joined officially on loan ahead of another ultra-expensive permanent move next summer, admitted: "Maybe we did not give Le Classique the importance it deserved.
"I am French but the club has other objectives. When I signed, it was not just in order to win Le Classique. The aim is to win titles. First of all, in Ligue 1. We also want to win the champions League."
Paris Saint-Germain's kylian Mbappe during the French Ligue 1 Olympique de Marseille (OM) v Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) football match on October 22, 2017, at the Velodrome Stadium in Marseille, France. ABACA/ABACA/PA Images
Yet in the end it took an Edinson Cavani free kick late on to rescue a draw from the jaws of defeat at the Stade Velodrome. Ironically, had the world's most expensive player Neymar not been sent off, he may well have usurped Cavani when it came to taking that free kick.
L'Equipe editor Jean Philippe Leclaire joined us to make sense of the situation at PSG, who top Ligue 1 but are under the microscope due to the perceived arrogance ahead of and during Le Classique.
"It's a bit like Juventus against Napoli or something like Man United versus Liverpool," he said of the way the fixture is viewed in France.
"The funny thing is that something like 30 years ago, there was no Classique. It all started with Bernard Tapie when he was the boss of Marseille. He really started everything, being very aggressive towards Paris Saint Germain and that's when it really started.
Edinson Cavani celebrates during the French Ligue 1 Olympique de Marseille (OM) v Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) football match on October 22, 2017, at the Velodrome Stadium in Marseille, France. Liewig Christian/ABACA/ABACA/PA Images
"But we were concerned this year that there wouldn't be a real Classique for the last five or six years. Marseille hasn't been able to beat Paris Saint Germain and last season they were beaten 5-1 at home by Paris Saint Germain - PSG without Neymar or Mbappe."
Perhaps that fed into the PSG players' mindsets pre-match but of more concern have been the faultlines in the dressing room, especially between Neymar and Cavani, in terms of their objectives of being viable Champions League contenders.
"Of course, there have been some tensions between Cavani and Neymar and more generally between the Brazilians and the rest of the dressing room and Mbappe is kind of in the middle," said Leclaire.
"The concern is how Unai Emery as a coach is going to deal with that because his authority is very fragile. There's a lot of pressure on Unai Emery, like the feeling that he's not good enough for these kind of players, that he was good enough for Sevilla, for the Paris Saint Germain of last year but not for the Paris Saint Germain of this year. So every incident is in the papers. We know that it's not always very peaceful inside the team so now we are pretty excited about what's going to happen in the Spring when PSG reach the second round of the Champions League. That's when we're going to find out what type of team this is."
And as for PSG's place within the hearts of the French public, Leclaire explained that "they are not very popular outside Paris because they only represent the richest team and only a team from Paris in a country where you have 'Paris and the rest of the country'. So that doesn't make them very popular. Even when they were crap, they were not very popular outside of Paris but the main difference now is that you like it or you don't like it. Everybody is interested in Paris Saint Germain. We can see that with the paper. Every time we put them on the front page of the paper, we sell well. Every time we put Marseille on the front page, we sell well. When we put Monaco last year, it was even in the Champions League semi finals, we didn't sell well. So there's a lot of excitement and it was obvious in Marseille."
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