Topic: French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1) - page 167. (Read 185116 times)

the problem with the other Ligue1 teams is that they are teams that don't make big investments in their squad, I don't know exactly why Ligue1 teams haven't made big investments in their squad, but I can assume that the reason is a lack of money, the Ligue1 teams There has been no management that makes an effort to bring in a good coach and a good player negotiator so that they can sign good players for a low price, what I have seen are signings of players who come from Africa but who cannot stay in Ligue1 for a long time and when they go to other big leagues they start to shine, it's funny that the same African players who are shining in other leagues when they were playing in Ligue1 didn't shine

There are things that France's politicians have done that make good players stay away from Ligue 1, for example a very recent case was this bad behavior by the mayor of Marseille


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the politician is trying to give orders at a club, he is trying to get involved in sport, these types of attitudes are not good, when neymar played for PSG there was also a mayor who constantly complained about the things that neymar did in the city, the french fans didn't either help, they were constantly criticizing messi and neymar and that made the players leave. France needs to separate politics from sport and French fans need to start being humble

I agree more if you call Ligue 1 a farmers league, the other clubs are just complements without being able to compete with the strength that PSG has. PSG always dominates every season, even before the season starts we can guess who will win the Ligue 1 title race. Due to the very weak competition in Ligue 1 making it difficult for PSG to compete in the Champions League, PSG will be surprised when they face another strong team because in Ligue 1 they have never faced a club whose quality is equal to theirs.

PSG is an elite team, the quality of the squad they have always places them in the group of favorite teams to win the Champions League trophy. Their failure to win the Champions League was because the players did not have the mentality to win the competition. This was because the PSG players' mentality was not honed in the domestic league because every match they played there they were always able to win easily.

Dont say things like "PSG is a semifinalist, so they're not weak." The only thing that Ligue 1 is good at is one thing: PSG is the league's mascot, and they always look happy. Even though they've gotten some shiny objects (read: expensive stars), what's the point when their own team is so bad? The Ligue 1 is a vanity project with a shiny outside and a hollow inside. The success of PSG is a mirage, caused by cheating with money instead of real talent growth. Its a game that encourages mediocrity and stops real competition.

In fact, I don't see Ligue One as one of Europe's top five leagues if only one team completely dominates each season. Ligue One is just being overly exaggerated because there are starting to change with the arrival of new stars who were at PSG previously and I'm sure that after this this league will no longer be so interesting in the future.

Apart from that, PSG is indeed an icon for this league, but overall they are not much different from other teams from the Portuguese or Turkish leagues who always suffer the same fate of being eliminated in the Champions League and not achieving anything they want. So Ligue One is nothing more than a decoration that is too forced.

The condition of the league is always fluctuating, maybe for Europe UCl can be the standard of the team's ability. But PSG I think is quite good, they have reached the semi-finals. This condition is also not always true, Ligue 1 is the weakest league. The draw in the UCL is also unpredictable, so the team that is in the UCL is the best team in my opinion.

Talk about the other is the attraction of the league. After Mbappe officially leaves, maybe Ligue 1 will decline for the audience. Because this season and before Mbappe and Neymar are the magnets. For next season, it looks like they will have to rebuild to make the league more interesting to watch.

You say this because in Ligue 1 there is a dominant team with which it is very difficult to compete and other teams look weaker against its background, recently Bayern also dominated other teams very significantly, but this cannot be a determining factor in the strength of the championship. For me, Monaco is very similar in its politics to Dortmund, France also has good teams and by the way, I don’t watch Bundesliga matches much more often than Ligue 1 matches.

Comparing the league 1 with the other big leagues is not really fair to me because still takes a lot of time to be a big league and in fact it's all in PSG's possession that brings star players to attract football fans and boost financial traffic. But the way the PSG is doing it is actually wrong to bring the star players because the team cannot be recognized if it can't score a good young player. And in this case the other team in the league 1 is not even able to follow a team from the league to be able to score a talented young player from the academy so that it can be known with a popular team and have a good reputation and also can compete with other top teams.

And with regard to the PSG being able to compete at UCL, it's actually all thanks to star players like Mbappe who helped the team fight to the semi finals. In the next season we can see how far PSG can compete in UCL without star players and I don't doubt PSG but this is a fact.

I agree with your opinion that Ligue 1 is one of the weakest leagues among the top European leagues. In fact, we can see how dominant PSG is in Ligue 1 and how other teams are unable to compete with them. This is different from other top leagues such as La Liga, Premier League, Serie A or even the Bundesliga which have rivalries in competition. But I think PSG is not a weak team when compared to teams from other leagues. PSG dominates Ligue 1 because other teams are weaker than them, but I see PSG can also become one of the best teams in European competition. PSG made it to the semifinals in the UCL and that shows their level. It's just that they have never been among the favorites to win the UCL in my opinion.

Exactly!
For one team to have all these players that have played with each other in some clubs before and have enough experience in Champions League and yet failed to win the Champions League, there is a question tag among the team management because I don't know who to blame because the team PSG had then, even without a coach they should perform and probably win all any team in the European top teams, but yet they failed; I don't think the coach is the problem because they have tried several coaches and no result yet; therefore, no player will join the team to help them win the Champions League unless if the management has changed somethings and maybe sign new players in the team.

I am thinking that if the players will play as a team for the next coming season without depending on single payer as they used to do during Mbappe's time, they can do better even in the Champions League, because the attention of the oppositions will be divided as they will not know who to target.

It's not confirmed yet if PSG is really interested in hiring Osimhen or not but I'm sure there are some offers for this player and since PSG lost Mbappe recently, Osimhen can be a good option for them to fill his place however these two players are not in the same level at all and Osimhen can't fill the place of Mbappe in PSG.
Napoli made a smart move when they extended the contract of Osimhen and as you said I think Napoli will not lose him easily.

I feel like the reason why they sucked those times is not because of players but because they just bought names and did not care about how it would fit. Like if they needed some defender with passing skills, but had a good defender who was a famous player that is known by everyone, but was a no-nonsense style, they would get him instead, or if they needed some quick winger, they would get a player maker one, if they need a striker, they would get a false nine.

They always ended up doing things that were not that great and this resulted with them having some sort of issues. They did not look at what they needed, they looked at who they can afford was the most famous player. If they stop getting the most famous they can, then they will do fine.

Everybody is expecting to see PSG's performance without Mbappe. The club has been preparing for his departure which was why Luis Enrique kept on the bench in some games to test the abilities of other players. Replacing him will be difficult but some quality players in the market can be impactful in the club's pursuit of Champions League glory. The French player is not the first superstar to leave PSG without winning the UCL. Top players like Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Edinson Cavani, Ángel Di María, Neymar, and Lionel Messi failed to lead the French side to Champion League glory. Maybe they will have to search for another world-class player.

Victor Osimhen has already started pre-season with Napoli. He is one of the five players who have arrived at Castel Volturno for the season's preparations. He will be expected to undergo some medical tests and get ready for a new era under Antonio Conte. We all know the striker wants to leave but if there are no offers, remaining in Napoli will also not be a bad decision for both the player and the club.

A reasonable reason, because when talking about Ligue 1 in this era, then of course anyone will agree that PSG is the best. Although indeed, in the past Ligue 1 at least had Marseille which also managed to have a good  history in the Champions League,because Marseille had won the Champions League trophy in the past. But in this era, even though PSG has made great efforts by buying great players, but PSG still failed in the Champions League.

What's worse, the other teams in Ligue 1 are unable to put up a strong fight against PSG in the race for the Ligue 1 trophy. Thus, even though PSG is the best team in Ligue 1, but in reality PSG is still veryweak if PSG are in difficult competition with teams that have another great level in the Champions League. So yes,it's not wrong if you say that Ligue 1 is the weakest league compared to other big leagues in Europe.

Marseille won the Champions League in 1993 and at that time they also won Ligue 1, but unfortunately from the history that I read, Marseille Ligue 1 trophy was revoked after they were proven to have committed a bribery violation and made Marseille relegated in the next season, in that era, strength and competition in Ligue 1 it is still very competitive and even PSG is a team that is no different from Monaco or Lyon  in the fight for the title of champion of Ligue 1, the ability of clubs in Ligue 1 at that time was very balance, so there was indeed fierce competition between teams and that is why Marseille was able to won the Champions League because their mentality was tested by the tough competition in Ligue 1.

What we see now is of course very different from the past so we cannot equate two very different eras, In this era of modern football we can see how competition continues to increase and teams that have very strong finances will definitely be able to dominate the league, previously PSG was no different from other teams in Ligue 1, but the entry of large investors has changed their status to become a very strong team in Ligue 1 with the finances they have, unfortunately the effect of PSG  current dominance is actually starting to make reduce the level of competition in Ligue 1 has reached its lowest point and makes PSG mentality very low when competing with other teams in the Champions League.

Napoli cannot sell a player who will strengthen Napoli without a high profit. The transfer fee he will bring to them must be too high for them to allow Osimhen's transfer. Osimhen will be one of the important names for Conte next year. So he will be a player who will contribute if he stays in the team, but we heard last year that he wanted to go to the Premier League. I think he is less likely to go to Paris. If he goes, it will be the Premier league.

Paris Saint Germain is by far the best team in League 1. Their performance last year was not bad at all, but now the UCL championship is expected from them and the League 1 championship is out of the success line for them. Winning League 1 is the easy thing. There will be no Mbappe next year, let's see how the squad will be structured in PSG.

When compared with previous games, of course it is very different from today's football games, especially as we know that many changes have occurred, for example the use of VAR and many other new things that are used in today's football, so there may be difficulties and differences in team play, we You can see how Marseille currently is definitely very different from the previous season as well as PSG, don't compare the two in the past and present, it's clear it's difficult to find similarities too.

But PSG still has to learn from all their failures and this must be corrected immediately, there are many mistakes made by PSG. They are very happy to pay high prices for expensive and great players but they don't prepare support players to make the players more productive, for example buying players for the line. front, while for the midfielders there are no updates in the main squad, it is clear that there will be difficulties due to the lack of assists to score goals, PSG still has a lot to improve and hopefully they will improve everything in the main squad, especially looking for a replacement for Mbappe.

In this case it seems like we are talking about the context of leagues in Europe and one of them is Ligue 1 which is too monotonous in terms of competition between clubs so far, Ligue 1 can be said to be the least competitive league in Europe and even not makes it difficult for PSG to achieve success,  the championship trophy has been very difficult for other teams in Ligue 1 so far because the significant differences in finances have created a large gap between one and other clubs in the Ligue 1 which indirectly makes competition too easy for teams like PSG, but in fact it is very difficult for other teams.

 PSG is the ruler of Ligue 1 and we can say that every season the championship trophy belongs to PSG, while other clubs in Ligue 1 tend to only compete to get one ticket in the Champions League without the possibility of breaking PSG dominance have been champions so far, previously actually Ligue 1 it was quite competitive before when PSG had not been taken over by Naseer Al Khelafi, and we can see that the teams in the Ligue continued to take turns getting the championship trophy at that time so that in the end PSG, which was acquired by Naseer Al Khelafi, became the team the most dominant and made Ligue 1 a farmers league today.

In this case, not only Osimhen’s desire plays a role, perhaps De Laurentiis will play a decisive role, if he decides that he will not sell Osimhen for less than 130 million, then he will remain in the team. Napoli bought Osimhen for 70 million (possibly some other bonuses, I’m not sure), does De Laurentiis really think that his value has doubled during this time. By the way, Arsenal is ready to buy Osimhen now for exactly this price, that is, it is quite possible that Osimhen’s market value is as such. And by the way, if PSG are not ready to buy Osimhen at the price for which Napoli wants to sell him, then the price is still too high, because PSG have money and they could start bargaining if they wanted. I suspect he may stay at Napoli again for another season.

In my opinion, League 1 is not the weakest league among other competitors because there are still several leagues that are weaker, but compared to the top 5 leagues such as Serie A, Bundesliga, La Liga, English League and League 1, yes, League 1 is the lowest league because have competition that is not very competitive, apart from that, they also do not have the financial support, only PSG is the most striking among the others, so it is very natural that League 1 is left behind, maybe if they have the same finances as PSG and can recruit star players, most likely League 1 This will be on par with other top leagues and can compete competitively in the Champions League.

It is recorded that the only League 1 club that won the UCL title was Marseille, but that was a long time ago, even PSG, who dominated League 1 for years, have not been able to achieve results like Marseille