Topic: French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1) - page 176. (Read 193103 times)

Now it looks like for this transfer saga PSG will only remain passive where they will only improve the midfield and defense according to what they brought in this transfer for Joao Neves, William Pacho and Safonov but for the attack line they will still let the same players (minus Mbappe).
The Champions League target is still there, it's just that the target is increasingly not easy for them to realize especially with their strength which is definitely reduced due to Mbappe's absence which will have an impact on the attack scheme and formation later, so their probability has definitely decreased for now.
Since the beginning of the Champions League they have always been left behind, especially the Champions League benchmarks are still in Madrid and Manchester City and now it will make them even less in terms of probability considering that PSG in recent seasons has always been synonymous with Mbappe and Mbappe's absence in the squad next season, it is clear that it will reduce their probability greatly.

I think PSG can still be seen as a jumping-off point. Of course, they can achieve more statistics in the French league because it is a league that seems easier than other leagues. PSG is also the strongest team in this league. I think PSG would be the best first stop for a young Frenchman. Mbappe was one of those players who thought like that and now he went to Real Madrid as one of the best in the world. I think it is still a good choice to be at PSG.

I also do not deny that PSG can indeed buy any player they want at a price that is not low, but this factor is not the only way that PSG can use to get good players because PSG must also have an agreement with other teams regarding any player and must also see the interest of certain players to want to be at PSG before recruiting them. Mbappe's move to another team from PSG not only weakens the line, but it can also be a trigger for other players who may be a little reluctant to be at PSG when they are young, but it will be a different story if there are players who are more interested in money than their own careers in other competitions.

I don't think there will be any limitations for Paris Saint Germain. PSG is a team with a strong economy that can buy players without any limitations. They are trying to make up for Mbappe's absence and this will be very important for them. It is very important who will fill that wing and forward area. Even if they fill this area alone, they will become an important European team again.

Last season Brest's performance was better than Marseille's. Brest was third in the table and Marseille was eighth in the table. However, this season Marseille management has tried to strengthen their squad. Elye added Wahi and Greenwood to the squad to strengthen the squad. Marseille spent 25 million to add Wahi to the squad and 26 million for Greenwood. For a club like Marseille, this means a huge amount.

Marseille will fight for the top spot in the table next season. So strengthening the squad was crucial for Marseille. Marseille's performances in previous seasons were erratic and poor due to the forward's players. This is why Marseille have strengthened their forward line this season. Looking forward to see how Elye Wahi and greenwood perform in Marseille.

But it can't be said as mistake because it is only natural that PSG has high hopes for Mbappe because he is the only player that PSG has relied on the most so far in achieving victory or several championship titles.
Previously, no one knew that Mbappe would leave PSG like this because the initial goal of bringing in Mbappe was to strengthen the team and be able to win the Ligue 1 or UCL title.
Departure of players from football team is natural thing, PSG did not do anything wrong and they should not be disappointed by all of this because Mbappe departure was his own decision.
Now what PSG needs to do is to see all the potential of young players, they must focus on this and not make the mistake of spending large amounts of money on players who cannot be relied on in the future.

Brest will not make a tough opponent for Marseille not especially with the new Marseille squad that has been fortified to stand against PSG as their like, I believe that Marseille will do much better as most of the new players will be having this game as their debut and wouldn't want to for any reason jeopardize their chances to win the games and appear to having a good starting for the season.

I used to not be a big fan of Luis Enrique, but I know that he has been through difficult times and that has made him a little more human, he sees things Differently and he sees the true value of his Players, not only in technical and sporting terms, but he also sees them in a more human way, and that's good, because now he gives them the true value of the players, he sees them, then from that point of view that many do not value, he sees experience, he sees youth and he puts them on a scale, yes, perhaps the best player has left him, but he has a team, one player does not do what an 11 does, so this is what the coach sees with more Sense.

Luis Enrique sends message to Manuel Ugarte after Manchester United transfer talks




Source:https://metro.co.uk/2024/08/13/luis-enrique-sends-message-manuel-ugarte-man-utd-transfer-talks-21414187/?ito=newsnow-feed

Every teams ambition will not only be limited to the domestic league trophies only, but they’ll also want to fight for other competitions they’re participating in. Thinking or assuming that PSG should only sign good quality players because of the champions league may be wrong because even the players they have now, if not of the good quality they have, they might miss out of the domestic league title fight when they least expect just like what happened to Bayern Munich in he Bundesliga last season. So quality players should be signed and trained immediately in order to be used for the long prospects of the club because fighting to win the champions league is also an achievement for them and they should not joke but fight for it every season, they never can tell their lucky season to win the title.

It's the same way they have no such plans to chase Jadon Sancho of Manchester United who we have recently seen different rumours about. I don't know if there'll be a shock transfer happening during the last days of the transfer window though, but right now? They do not have any interest going all out for Sancho. Victor Oshime right now toois most likely going to end up as a Chelsea player but we don't know yet, since Chelsea management are not even straight forward about what they want. They've just been beating around the bush when the main figure needed is Victor Oshime in the number nine position.



I also wonder and ponder when they'll let go fo Manual Ugarte. The lad has been pushing for a switch to Manchester United and had also rejected other clubs in the process. Paris Saint Germans are just being greedy and wouldn't want to slash down the price. Besides, he has been a player more on the bench than on the pitch. He would be a long term Casemiro replacement in Manchester United. Having together ahead of the new season would be a great idea.

Osimhen performance declined drastically last season due to being affected by injuries, and overall Napoli also experienced a very severe decline. PSG seems to be worried about Osimhen injury history, therefore they are reluctant to meet the price set by Napoli for their striker, I think that is understandable. Financially, PSG can easily realize Osimhen transfer this summer, especially after their expenses decreased drastically after Mbappe departure. However, it seems that PSG also does not want to spend too much money on just one player, who may not be able to meet expectations even though he looks very promising.

The transfer window is still open for the next 15 days, PSG certainly has alternative plans to deal with Mbappe departure, either by recruiting new players or wanting to utilize the players who are already available. If we analyze it simply, PSG really needs a replacement for Mbappe on the front line, which can increase their chances of going further in the Champions League. However, if Enrique prefers to maximize the potential of Ramos and Muani on the front line, then the new era referred to by Nasser Al-Khelaifi is really underway. Changing the tradition of building a star-studded squad, then trying a new approach by building a collective squad with even talent within the team.

Although in head to head Marseille has a good winning record against Brest but at least, if only considering about their last five meetings at least Marseille is also not better than Brest. Moreover, last season also Brest was clearly better than Marseille but indeed, although Brest last season had good results compared to Marseille at least it cannot be used as a reference also Brest will be able to beat Marseille.

Because of course, with the players leaving and entering will make their performance also likely to have changes. Therefore, it still cannot be a guarantee for the home team to win and although Brest is still able to beat Marseille, it will certainly still be a difficult match for them in an early match like this.

Not only PSG, other teams are backing up with Osimhen’s bid because the Napoli managements don’t looks serious about the deal; they are putting too much money on player that was not in good form last season, although he is a good striker that have the ability to score plenty goals especially if he is playing for teams like PSG where the competition is not intense as the EPL, Laliga and Seria A.

If Napoli management wants to sell the player, they should be open for negotiations by cutting down their demand for the player because no team is willing to pay such huge amount for the player unless of any team from Saudi Pro League will come for the player. And going back to Napoli is not an option because Conte will not use him.

Brest is not a terrible opponent for Marseille, their long history of meetings can be proof that Marseille is more dominant than Brest even though Marseille is playing away. Odds on this match are @2.8 for Brest & @2.49 for Marseille, not that far, last season was too scary for Marseille, but with new players coming in, Marseille can definitely win against Brest.

When Napoli rejected PSG previous second offer for Osimhen, of course at that time PSG had decided to withdraw from the competition for Osimhen, PSG had very strong finances so far but it seemed like they were too selective and didn't want to be careless in buying Osimhen for more than 100 million euros, PSG squad has of course experienced a slight improvement after they brought in several new players in defense but instead their move to get strikers is very passive at the moment, Ramos and Muani are good players but I don't think if they will be able to replace the role who will be left by Mbappe next season.
Currently there is no definite news about the new striker that PSG will buy after they failed to get Osimhen, but in my opinion before the transfer market closes of course they will most likely still buy several new players, including strikers.

I don't think PSG will even find it easy to win their domestic league next season if they don't get a good striker in the team, may be overconfidence because of how they have dominated the league but looking out their performance in the league last season you could see a lot of errors which led to the losses they encountered in the league.

They will definitely want to win the champions League because they are participating in the competition and the coach needs to get more good players not like what they had in the past but Luis Enrique knows the quality of players he needs to have a good performance and competition in the champions league the management has to give him the finance to do a good signing if they want the club not to be knocked out in the the group stage.

Even I have to be agreed about this but PSG is never been work for their domestic workout usually they are having target to win Champions League but now in this season what is their tactics it's fascinating because no one having any idea about them with mostly their players are quality and can give them good results in early rounds of the Champions League but in last rounds they need to have good quality without this it's never been easy for them to go through for the good results.

But here maybe we will have some changes in January transfer window because currently things are not going as they are looking for so they can change their strategy in coming days after having good results into early rounds of this season with in domestic league no team will be challenge them.

French Ligue 1 is mostly having unpredictable results even many big clubs are having troubling time as mentioned Marseille they have never been stable with in last season they are having troubling time and finished eight now in this season they are doing good work for having better performance even this all is looking promising but still we can expect anything solid from them because things can take changes without any prior notice.

Even we are having PSG on their weakest level but still no French club is able to challenge them and having create problems for winning title Marseille is going to have first game tougher as they will be visited Brest who was at his best in last season and having spot into Champions League things could be entertaining in this game because this will give prediction about Marseille how their season will be.

PSG has been confirmed that they will not pursuing Osimhen anymore because the negotiation between them and Napoli has been deadlock and seems PSG will switching their target to other players but until now i didn't see any news that they were linked to the striker from other clubs and the rumours about Osimhen now has been change that he was linked to premier league clubs Arsenal and Chelsea but i am not sure this could be valid news or not because we all know Napoli owner always set unreasonable price to Osimhen and this makes many clubs who interested to him has withdraw because too expensive

The latest rumours about PSG is currently they were attempts to gets Jadon Sancho from Manchester United even there is possibility Jadon Sancho will be swap to Manuel Ugarte but this is also still not certain and most likely only a rumour

But it turns out it's not as easy as you said, because PSG has to evaluate their team's performance. moreover, Mbappe has left. if PSG doesn't target the Champions League trophy, they will still bring in some players to fix their squad. either for team deficiencies, or to deepen the team. what is certain, PSG's goal is not just for one season ahead. that's why, some of the players they bring in are young players. in other words, they will plan for the next few seasons. while building the foundation of the PSG squad to be more solid, in the end their goal is to form a PSG that is much more ready than the previous PSG. as for the steps that PSG is currently taking, IMO, they have done it right. it doesn't mean that PSG can't afford to pay Osimhen's clause for example, but now they are more calculating before making a decision. after all, if Enrique is given financial freedom and brings in expensive players, there is no guarantee that PSG will immediately be able to win the Champions League competition. well, it seems like they have learned and may follow the style applied by Manchester City management. before targeting the UCL trophy, City made sure their team was worthy to compete in the event. proven, City has always been one of the favorite teams. the point is, PSG must reorganize their team before they are really ready to target the Champions League trophy.