Topic: French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1) - page 137. (Read 184973 times)

That was a mistake that was quite painful for PSG in the past so PSG must be able to really learn from it when they want to make any decision in terms of buying players and also in releasing players targeted by other teams. Nico Williams is a very suitable player to be targeted by PSG at this time with a fairly reasonable price considering that Nico Williams is a young player and could be able to replace players who have left PSG at the end of last season. In addition, PSG who are trying hard to be able to perform optimally in the UCL competition next season must also get new techniques from their own coach so that PSG is not only a candidate for the Ligue 1 champion, but can also go further in the UCL competition later.

One of the team that's is gradually making moves to pose a threat at PSG in the new season is olympique Marseille, all the years PSG has have a good dominance in their league, they have been able to maintain this stance sometimes from the beginning of the season till the end of the season and interestingly, this season they had got a key player been sold away has made other believe they have got a chance at an attempt to probably get challenging heads on with PSG and the number of signing Marseille ahs done so far is a good indication they're very conscious about strengthening their squad to the point they are going to make something really good of the season.

Marseille are far less quality than PSG with players they have and only a coach is not enough to make their squad becomes stronger a lot to be competitive enough and be able to beat PSG.

PSG will have a transitional season without Mbappe after many years but with all star players they have, their strength is good enough to win Ligue 1 again. This is challenge but also opportunity for PSG to build up a new squad, without Mbappe, and taking this chance to get rid of too much dependence on a single star player. A new era is coming for PSG but will the succeed in Ligue 1 and continue their domination or this new era means chance for other clubs in France to challenge and beat PSG in next seasons. I am keen on a first scenario, a continuous domination of PSG in Ligue 1 because they are simply rich and can improve their squad easily.

Do you seriously think that appointing De Zerbi as Marseille coach will allow them to compete with PSG? I think it is impossible, PSG with Enrique will only get stronger, and De Zerbi is not such a good coach, at least his recent results look too mediocre to expect him to make Marseille champions. In Ligue 1 everything will remain unchanged and PSG dominance will be undisputed, maybe Monaco will try to lag behind PSG not too far, but I am not so sure about that either, as for Marseille, they simply have no chance with or without De Zerbi.

Maybe it will be a little different PSG will learn from their previous mistake where their mistake was setting Mbappe's price too high so that no club dared to recruit this player even though at that time Real Madrid wanted him to replace Karim Benzema if PSG accepted Real Madrid's offer maybe at that time PSG would not have suffered a loss like now where they did not get a penny from the departure of this star player and Real Madrid also benefited greatly from getting the player they were after without having to dig deep into their pockets, and for Nico Williams if he is willing to come here I think PSG will not be careless anymore if his contract is almost up and the player does not want to extend his contract they will set the price according to his quality without seeking excessive profit.

Of course they have to have a revival for their team with last season which was less than satisfactory, of course they have to bring in some new players to their team so that they can be better in the coming season, currently Marseille has locked in some players and of course the big name recruited is Greenwood because this player has a good left and right foot so he can maximize both feet to score goals in any aspect, this Man United academy player has a good game and of course this will be their most successful recruitment.

But the rest with their recruitment this season I want to see how far Marseille can compete, my main hope is that they can win the French League 1 title next season because they also have good experience there and with the arrival of some additional new players I hope they have to bring Marseille better than the previous season.

Seeing Marseille efforts to overhaul the squad and change managers, they have the potential to finish in the European zone next season, and it is possible that Marseille can become a tough competitor for PSG at the top of the standings. The presence of De Zerbi as a new manager has increased expectations, it seems that Marseille is really ambitious to win their 10th Ligue 1 trophy in the future, this is clearly seen from their movements in the transfer market. Last season Marseille finished in 8th place, and failed to get a ticket to any European competition. Thus, they should be able to achieve their targets more easily next season, because they only focus on domestic competitions. We are aware of PSG dominance in Ligue 1, but who knows Marseille could be like Leverkusen in the Bundesliga. In my opinion, Ligue 1 is quite boring if PSG continues to be champions.

Marseille is quite active in the summer transfer window, they have brought in several newcomers to strengthen their team under De Zerbi. After changing coaches several times, it seems that De Zerbi has good prospects to overcome Marseille's declining performance. As we know, this team experienced a decline in performance after Igor Tudor left Marseille. The presence of Greenwood and several newcomers in the Marseille camp, at least has the potential to improve Marseille's performance. Moreover, there are still several names associated with Marseille in this summer's transfer window. Moukoko expressed his interest in joining Marseille, maybe the club offered more playing minutes to attract him to Ligue 1. Moreover, he did not have many opportunities with Dortmund in the Bundesliga, plus Dortmund has recruited a new striker. I do not doubt Moukoko's talent, that he might be able to develop further if given more opportunities. However, is Marseille only enough with Moukoko, the problem is that we do not yet know the performance of this young striker if he joins Marseille. Ideally, De Zerbi would have another established striker for his front line. Perhaps, then Marseille can return to being a strong team in Ligue 1.

Mbaooe is good world class player and no doubt about that, his presence in Real Madrid will give more confidence to the team and will also scare other teams just as it was when Mbappe was in PSG.

I don't think that PSG will be able to have a replacement like Mbappe in next season and it will be funny to watch Mbappe playing against his former club if Real Madrid dhiukd clash with PSG in UCL next season. City gat everything they need to win their matches but sometimes it does not go down the way we think it would be.

Real Madrid faced many strong opponents before getting to the finals no doubt but during the finals against Dortmund last season, Dortmund created so many chances they would have resulted to more than 3 goals in the first half but they couldn't make good use of their chances to score that is why I talked about the winning of Real Madrid coming by luck.

PSG will need to take every advantage they have to defeat top teams if they ever want to get to the champions league finals or winning the Champions League but if the young players that are recruited in the PSG team are well experienced in the champions league competition they will have a good opportunity to be in the champions league finals within the next two seasons.

Marseille have lost Aubameyang as their main striker at the moment, so they are eyeing Nketiah as the main target to replace him next season, So far Marseille have brought in several new players to face the Ligue 1 competition next season, Marseille who has also lost Ismaila Sarr, but their not been able to bring in a striker that they can really rely on in the next seasons, their first offer has rejected by Arsenal because it was considered too low compared to the price that Arsenal are currently selling, previously I thought that after this rejection, Marseille would come up with a new offer to recruit Niketiah, but it seems that now they are actually trying to recruit Moukoko as an alternative, Moukoko might not be the last striker they will recruit because currently Marseille no longer have a capable striker in their front line.

we can see whether Nketiah is important or not from his match history and performance last season. In my opinion, Marseille just needs to give the right amount to recruit Nketiah, because in any case Nketiah is not a player that Arsenal will retain next season because he is not able to meet the  expectations from Arteta last season, I think Arsenal are just waiting for the right time or if they succeed in recruiting a new striker before releasing nketiah  to other teams.

Niketiah Statistics in the Last 5 Seasons with Arsenal:

Marseille has a really nice route when it comes to transfers. Mason Greenwood is the biggest signing among them in my opinion. He is a great talent. I thought Manchester United would rather even keep him. Marseille is lucky to sign him.    Moukoko would also be a good signing. As far as I know, he couldn't find the chances he wanted exactly at Dortmund.

Marseille is taking good steps forward after completing the previous season at the 8th position. It was a nightmare-like season for them really... Maybe these steps would help them have a good start to the new season.

Olympique Marseille are having some very good changes, for example in these friendly matches they have had good results, in the first friendly match they lost against Nimes, in a match in which they conceded 2 goals and did not manage to score any goals, but in the second friendly match they won, they scored 3 goals and did not concede any goals. In the third friendly match they won again, they managed to score 3 goals and did not concede any goals. And yesterday they had another friendly match in which they managed to draw, it was a match in which they scored 2 goals and conceded 2 goals. This is a good preparation for the new season

But Olympique Marseille is also strengthening its squad, they managed to sign the following players:

Bamo Meïté (Central Defender)

Derek Cornelius (Central Defender)

Ismaël Koné (Central Midfielder)

Mason Greenwood (Right Winger)

And now I read this news that says that Olympique Marseille signed Youssoufa Moukoko



Youssoufa Moukoko is a Dortmund player and will go to Olympique Marseille on loan but with an option to buy, as mentioned by Fabrizio Romano


source: https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1819684810626842967

Maybe this season that will start this month we will see a more competitive league where teams strive to win the league and it is not just PSG dominating the entire league from the first games to the last game. Last season we saw Nice being on top in the first games, but when it got closer to the half of the season Nice fell a lot and PSG started to dominate the league until the last game and became champion before the league ended, I hope it will be different this season.

Mbappé joining Real Madrid is quite significant. Folks, they are the best squad on Earth. Surely not a question. Real Madrid is the place the little lad wants a Champions League trophy from. Its exactly the match. Recall, this is the team that has won the thing more times than any other. They are a legacy not only a team.

Indeed, Manchester City is excellent. Pep is a fantastic coach; he is hardly a miracle worker though. And they are on still another level with Mbappé on Real Madrid. Though both are good, one is obviously better. So mark me: Real Madrid will rule this season. Everyone other is catching up; they are the team to surpass.

Nketiah has been a very key and vital player for Arsenal in the days he was in his prime and now he looks like one in his decline phase and that is a challenge to Arsenal and a reason thy wouldn't mind putting him out on sale. Marseille has been making signings in the market in recent times and wanting to add this to their squad shouldn't be a bad target because I believe he may do better in Marseille than he has done all this while in Arsenal but the challenge here is Marseille may not be seeing him to be valid at the price he's been placed at and so they want to price down and probably may sell him off when he gets better, more like a business pattern. Which isn't going to really be a bad one but then age may not be on his side, hopefully the deal pulls through because soon the transfer windows may close.

I think it is a good decision taken by Marseille to cancel their desire to bring in Eddie Nketiah because they cannot fulfill Arsenal's wishes in terms of price. They must also have a limit on how much money they can spend on players and it must be based on their appearance and their overall abilities. The reason is if Marseille forces herself to fulfill the wishes of Arsenal, it is at risk for them because Eddie Netiah also does not have very good performance for Arsenal last season. Marseille can look for other players who can match the price they want because time is still there for them to do it all.
I do not know exactly what the financial condition they have, but clearly they will not have the same financial situation as the team that is the ruler of Ligue 1. So they also have to consider carefully with the money they can spend.

Marseille seems to have given up on convincing Arsenal, because they want 35m euros for Eddie Nketiah and that makes Marseille cancel their intention to buy him. I think Marseille's offer is deadlocked and also very appropriate for a player who has not been so good since last season. But here Arsenal does look very greedy and even they are blind if Eddie Nketiah has rarely contributed so far.

With this Marseille must look for other striker options and it would be much more beneficial to spend that much money on a more promising striker with comparable statistics. I know that De Zerbi is a smart coach and it seems that it won't be long before his advice can help Marseille determine the next player to be brought in.



Source: https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/arsenal-transfer-news-eddie-nketiah-33389207

There is nothing bad about both of them and they are big team in Europe, but certain conditions are the difference between Barcelona and PSG and of course this will affect their careers or the achievement of success for the players.
Moreover, I sure if he really makes wrong decision will be fails to develop to get better skills until winning the title, there will be regret.
Just look, there are some players who want better team and decide to leave immediately, but some teams complicate things by putting some pressure on the player to stay.
Wouldn't it be shame if Nico Williams experiences something like that in the future, with his very young age he should be able to make wise decisions in the long term.
But all decisions are in his hands and whoever is chosen, hopefully they can provide success for Nico Williams, what is clear for now is that I would be very happy if he chose PSG.

Real Madrid can be champions because they are lucky? is that not wrong? because in terms of the opponents they face, they also meet many strong teams, one of which is the defending champion Manchester City which they managed to beat. So I personally do not agree if I have to say that Real Madrid was just lucky last season. Talking about Paris Saint Germain, they can be champions without relying on other teams, as long as they can show impressive and consistent performances. The problem is that until now when they are in the Champions League they can't do anything and even when they still have 3 star players at once in the team they also can't do much to bring Paris Saint Germain to be champions in the Champions League.

The losses suffered by PSG were caused by the selfishness of the club president who did not give Mbappe the opportunity to join another club, whereas if the PSG president was not selfish, he would certainly not have suffered a major loss.
PSG should not have done something like this which caused a major loss just to follow the president's wishes to hold back his professional players and fear losing the club's performance.
Meanwhile, professional players need experience and careers with other clubs that should be given freedom.

Nico Williams might also end up the same as Mbappe when his talent continues to develop but the club management wants to continue to retain the player and create drama that ends in a major loss when the player has free agent status.