Topic: French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1) - page 1211. (Read 184956 times)

It seems that marseille team will put the pressure on psg and they will have a difficult time winning the ligue 1 on the contrary of what we expected but they still need to put a better performance especially when they face the leader in less than a month i think that game will have a major role on whatever they can compete for the title.

Ligue 1 problem is with marketing they arent on the level as premier league and they wont come even close to it. England fans are always on stands and their leagues stadiums are always full even the leagues below. PSG is the richest team in the league and the only one so this is why they win the title every year and dont have any competition. While in england premier league a lot of rich clubs and really powerfull clubs.

I'm not sure about PSG in the Champions League, but this season they have good stats with 2 wins in the group stages. For that, PSG have to prove many things, especially they have to get used to playing as a big team with very good cohesiveness. Mbappe, Messi and Neymar would be terrible if they helped each other but several times I have actually seen Mbappe play alone when he has the ball.

Earlier this season Messi had good stats for PSG. He started to feel like he found his game again and that made him perform better than the previous season. However, some players at PSG had high egos, it didn't really help the team in the end.

Ligue 1 could just transform after this season. What they need is just one or two clubs that will buy big players to compete with Psg. When this happens, one step is achieved successfully. Another step is to make Psg win champions league and if they do, Mbappe would be projected for Ballon d'Or and he will win the prestigious award. These are the promises that kept Mbappe in the club against going to Real Madrid.

I agree with your argument, it's the same with "building finances" my opinion this is the most important fact for any club, so that later they can buy expensive players. Being in the UCL isn't bad, in fact that's what all clubs excpet in this league and any league. For now yes PSG do dominate league 1, but in the future we will don't know what happens because the improvement of any club is always be surprise.

The first point will be great for the league, if some Billionaires can buy a club or two in the league, and build a very strong team for those clubs, it may not happen fast, but after a few years the clubs should be strong and provide competition to psg for the title, more viewers and businesses may find the league more attractive if it happens.

I feel if psg wins the champions league it will also be good for the league, they will be kings of Europe for as long as they are champions, and more eyes will be on them, and in the greater picture eyes will also be directed at the league. This year may be the year of psg in the champions league, their star players are in great form and shape.

There is nothing difficult in conducting an honest audit, but no one is interested in this (PSG has close corrupt ties with UEFA). Obviously, no auditor would believe the story (as UEFA believed) when Neymar received a ton of money as "Football Ambassador to Qatar" and used it to buy out his contract from Barcelona to go play for PSG. These are stories for morons.

With the caliber of players they have, the league is already theirs. And this is not because they put in so much to maintain the spot but because there is no competition in the Ligue 1. They very reason we see professional players play like average players in the CL and i doubt if there is any possibility they will make it through the the Semi finals

Yeah, they could be however ready to go to champions league back to back for a few seasons, and that's not that bad neither is it? I mean imagine a ligue 1 team constantly being in the group stages of UCL, if you do that a few years in a row then you are earning a good amount of money, both from UCL but also increasing merchandise and ticket sales as well, all of those income equals to finally having some more money and establishing your place, instead of being like Lille where you win once, then be bad later on.

The aim should not be one good season, the aim should be building a team that is always successful and always in the top 4 at all times.

There is no doubt that PSG will win the Ligue 1 title. But winning the UCL title is not easy. For this, star players are needed in the team. Bonding between players needs to be strong. Performance requires consistency. And lastly, experienced coaches are needed now. Because the coach will decide the strategy in the match. And without good match strategy, winning the title is impossible. Last season Real Madrid managed to win only because of great match tactics. So if Galtier can't create a good match strategy for PSG, there is no chance for PSG to win the UCL.

Well for me, Marseille and Lille were the teams that I thought were going to stand out the most in the French league, I thought they were going to face PSG, because a team like Marseille has everything it takes to be able to stop a team like PSG, my epseranzans changed in that direction, and it's not because I don't want PSG to stay in the league again, not at all, I just want a rival to come out that doesn't make it easy for them like it was last season, to That is very important to me, just as I think that for now these teams will hardly get out of where they are stuck, and PSG the only one that can give them a fight is any team from the UCL.


if you are partly right, it is very difficult to compete against a sheikh who has so much, so much money, but of course this gives room for teams like Marseille and Lyon to shake it off and that not all football should revolve around the stars, that they could also shine, it's like that time when Real Madrid had all the stars of the moment playing together, and Barcelona showed him that not everything was money but football that with good football they could win, something like that should be psyched up, you only need 1 or 2 stars in a team to shine, it all depends on the manager and the approach you want to give it, but Marseille and Lyon have the material to master.


Well, it's no secret to anyone that we always see PSG as one of the top teams in the French League, but they don't show the football they should, with a team with such a high number of stars, it's for them to have won the UCL, and they didn't, so this is an index that they lack a lot as a team, Real Madrid, which is a team that has veteran stars and beat an Mbappé in the prime of his life, a veteran Messi who can win up to a World Cup, next to a Neymar who can do whatever he wants on the pitch, this is something that PSG leaves a bad taste in the mouth of its fans, we have to wait, one thing is the French league, another is the UCL.

It is not easy for the Ligue 1 to attract sponsorships and investors too much while the English Premier League is the focal point for those. As long as the Ligue 1 doesn't do extra things which might draw the attention of people from that league more to themselves, there won't be anything changing. But as for how they can do this, it is a big question mark of course. To tell the truth I find Ligue 1 football quite boring except PSG's performance. While teams aren't rich it is impossible for them to build a squad similar to PSG's.

It looks like there are only two ways to increase the popularity of this league:

- Some more teams to be bought by very rich people to increase the competition level
- PSG's starting to win some Champions League titles to draw the attention here

All teams in Ligue 1 are very weak compared to PSG. While PSG has plenty of money, the rest of the Ligue 1 teams are not financially strong. And so they cannot buy star players to strengthen the squad. As long as clubs don't find rich owners, they won't be able to build a team as strong as PSG. As long as the teams are not able to strengthen themselves, we will continue to see PSG reign.

Actually, in terms of performance and individual players, it is clear that they are very superior, the problem is when they are able to manage players which should be able to be done but cannot at this time especially when there are players who are considered bigger than their own team will clearly affect the stability of performance.
It is undeniable that they are good in form but it is not enough if there is no harmony in the players.

Marseille is only able to provide competition in the top flight but cannot break PSG dominance as Ligue 1 champions. From year to year only PSG are able to win the Ligue 1 title, other teams are only complementary. The quality of Ligue 1 is still below other top European leagues, for that reason investors are less interested in looking at Ligue 1. So it is not wrong if Ligue 1 is called an agricultural league because only PSG always dominates the standings.

Assume for a moment that an investor wants to invest in another team from LIGUE-1.

Can you tell me which team he is going to choose?

Is there a team that seems like it will be able to generate a significant amount of money even after a year from now? The answer is no, I don't think so.

When you know that PSG is already one of the strongest teams in the league with some world-class players, you are not likely to want to compete against them.
Additionally, the money flow is much better in the English Premier League and La Liga as well as some other leagues compared to the LIGUE-1.
Therefore, investors would be wise to consider the most efficient financial decisions that they can make and choose to invest in those clubs that offer the highest returns.

Businessmen would always be attracted to invest in leagues that are more profitable. The French league is the fifth most profitable league in the world far behind the German Bundesliga, Spanish La Liga, Italian Serie A, and the English Premier League. Qatar Sports Investments (QSI) did not only buy PSG for profit but to portray Qatar as a potential football nation before this year's FIFA world cup.

So until the French league starts attracting lucrative viewing right contracts and other multi-million dollar endorsements, teams would keep suffering from financial challenges that would hamper them from buying world-class players.

PSG winning the Champions League would be a big boost to the league. It would attract more investors and at least an extra French team would be added to the country's champions league slot. And that team might raise funds from the competition and endorsements that can help it buy some good players.

This league makes a big advertisement thanks to PSG, but there are times when PSG actually harms this league. For many football spectators PSG is not a good team, spectators want to watch teams that struggle and can face the challenges. PSG, on the other hand, is a team that gets involved in many speculations almost every year and we hear about the problems of the players in the team.

It takes a long time for the league to be more recognized and attract more attention. This is not something that can happen in a short time. I think it is necessary not to rush for it to be like the Premier League or Serie A

Right now biggest problem is PSG management behavior they need to be professional, but their approach is never been ideal for any sports team so just because of this they are facing on and off the field issues and have no good results in Champions League specially in knock out stages where we have few top ranked teams which can exploit their weakness and can give you defeat with their professional approach.

Neymar, Messi and Mbappé three biggest stars but sadly never been good on field due to mostly Mbappé childish attitude which is surely hurting them but special treatment from PSG management is not allowing to have better thing for all players which can give them good results with current squad if they have no Mbappé they could be better and able to have better results in Champions League.

It's really not that other teams in Ligue 1 don't want to invest in buying star players like PSG did. But because other teams in Ligue 1 don't have
the financial strength like PSG, so they have a hard time competing with PSG. That's why I expect a lot of rich businessmen to buy clubs in Ligue 1,
just like some of the big clubs in the Premier League are owned by wealthy businessmen, so the competition in the Premier League is more competitive.
Unlike in Ligue 1, where only PSG are able to bring in many star players. That's what makes the competition in Ligue 1 in my opinion less competitive,
so it's very easy for PSG to win the Ligue 1 trophy.

But it's very different when PSG play in the Champions League, they get a lot of opponents who have almost the same strength. So PSG often fail
to win the Champions League trophy, because many PSG competitors do not only have many star players, but some of PSG's rival teams are
playing better than PSG. Because we know that PSG's weakness is that they have difficulty doing good cooperation between players, and some
star players at PSG are very difficult to control, many players are selfish in PSG. But I see a few changes Galtier has made as PSG coach.
Besides Galtier being more able to control PSG's star players, Galtier also doesn't spend a lot of money to bring in star players. Hopefully this season
PSG can play better than the previous season, and go further in the Champions League than the previous season. But I still doubt that PSG can win
the Champions League trophy this season even though their performance this season is better than the previous season.