Senny Mayulu is the answer to a question Paris Saint-Germain supporters have been asking for the best part of two decades: when does an academy midfielder actually become a Paris player rather than a Paris story? Mayulu wears 24 in Luis Enrique’s 2026/27 squad, he has already scored in a Champions League final, and he did it all without ever leaving the club that raised him. Here is the full profile.
From the Titis to the first team
PSG’s academy graduates are known as the Titis Parisiens, and for years the club’s reputation was that the pipeline produced talent for everybody else. Mayulu came through that system and, crucially, stayed. He signed professional terms with Paris and was folded into the senior group rather than sold on or loaned into obscurity, which under previous regimes was very often the path of least resistance.
What made him different was not a single highlight but the fact that he never looked out of place. A tall, long-striding midfielder who is comfortable receiving on the half-turn in tight areas, Mayulu arrived in the first team already able to do the two things Luis Enrique demands of everybody in midfield: take the ball under pressure, and keep running once it has gone.
The Champions League final goal
Mayulu’s defining moment so far came in Munich in the 2025 Champions League final, when Paris dismantled Inter Milan 5-0 to win the trophy for the first time in the club’s history. Mayulu came off the bench and scored the fifth — an academy kid finishing off the biggest night the club had ever had.
It is the kind of detail that will follow him around for the rest of his career, and rightly so. Paris then retained the trophy the following season, making them back-to-back European champions and turning the 2025 win from a one-off into the start of something. Mayulu is one of a very small group of players who can say he scored in the match that changed the club.
What kind of midfielder is he?
Mayulu is best understood as a hybrid rather than a specialist. He is not a holding midfielder in the mould of Vitinha or Fabián Ruiz, and he is not a pure creator either. He operates in the space between the lines, arriving late into the penalty area, and his physical profile — height, stride, a long first touch that eats ground — makes him awkward to press and awkward to pick up.
That versatility is why he has been used across the front and middle of the pitch rather than nailed to one job. In Luis Enrique’s system, where positions are fluid and the eight-to-ten distinction barely exists, a player who can rotate between roles without needing a week of drilling is worth more than a specialist who can only do one.
Where he fits in the 2026/27 squad
The competition is brutal, and there is no point pretending otherwise. Paris go into 2026/27 with Vitinha, João Neves, Fabián Ruiz, Warren Zaïre-Emery and summer signing Maghnes Akliouche all fighting for midfield minutes, with Dro Fernández also on the books. That is a Champions League-winning core plus a €50m arrival from Monaco.
Mayulu’s route to minutes is the same one that got him here: be the player Luis Enrique can throw on in any of three positions without the shape falling over. In a season featuring Ligue 1, a Champions League title defence and the FIFA Intercontinental Cup final in December, squad depth is not a luxury — it is the whole plan. You can see how the rest of the group lines up in our full PSG squad guide for 2026/27.
Why he matters to Paris
There is a symbolic weight to Mayulu that goes beyond his minutes. Paris Saint-Germain spent years being characterised as a club that bought its identity. The current version — younger, harder-working, built around a coach who has been ruthless about who fits — has leaned into the academy instead. Zaïre-Emery got there first. Mayulu is the proof it was not a fluke.
If he becomes a regular starter, Paris will have produced a Champions League-winning midfielder from their own system in the same era they won back-to-back European Cups. If he does not, he will still have scored in the final that ended the club’s long wait. Either way, the Titi pipeline is no longer a talking point about what might have been.
Senny Mayulu at a glance
- Club: Paris Saint-Germain
- Squad number: 24
- Position: Midfielder
- Route to the first team: PSG academy (Titi Parisien)
- Career highlight: Scored in PSG’s 5-0 Champions League final win over Inter Milan, 2025
- Manager: Luis Enrique
For more on the man picking the team, read our profile of Luis Enrique. Squad details are listed on the official Paris Saint-Germain website and the Ligue 1 site.
