Topic: French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1) - page 196. (Read 189580 times)

After the exit of Kylian Mbappé and having troubling time between Osimhen and Napoli mostly peoples were having feeling he is going to join PSG but as things are going we are having nothing predictable because Luis Enrique is having few other players under his radar for the suitable replacement of the Mbappé and Osimhen is having some links with Chelsea but as we all know in soccer nothing is last until we have all things settled so here we can have changes but right now it looks like Osimhen to PSG is looking no realistic.

Currently, mostly peoples are working on Euro which is going to end in few days then all will be clear about which player is going in which club for the next season right now we have just rumors and all personal views which are not officially working for any player or club Luis Enrique is having hard job in hand for restructuring PSG after the exit of Mbappé which is now all set with Real Madrid for long time.

Of cousre PSG must be able to build a solid foundation to be able to continue their desire to win the Champions League trophy so far, but without tight competition in the league, it will not make them have a strong enough mentality to support their performance, so far PSG has done so there are many things to be able to get their first trophy in the Champions League, including bringing in star players, but it turns out that this doesn't actually guarantee that they can win the Champions League so far, although PSG Is starting to be considered one of the strongest competing teams in the Champions League so far, but to be able to win the champions league, of course squad depth and player quality alone are not enough without a strong mentality.

PSG has failed with its star players, hoping for a competitive league also seems impossible happen in Ligue 1 in order to improve their mentality, so I think what you say might be the right solution for PSG now, it seems like it's time for PSG to start changing their current mindset of continuing to rely on star players and of course  building a young squad may be more likely to give them hope of becoming Champions League champions in the future.

Osimhen possesses aptitude, passion, and a hunger to win. Like a good manager, a great coach can transform a decent player into a superstar. Check Ronaldo. Manchester United wasn't playing to his strong points when he was with them. At Al Nassr, however? They let him do what he is most suited for and developed a structure around him.

Spalletti is a champion. He is aware of how to maximize his athletes. That's a fantastic combo, Osimhen alongside Spalletti. You assemble a championship squad this way. It's about assembling the correct pieces and making them sparkle, not only about personal ability.

PSG must build a solid foundation if they have the ambition to appear consistently in every competition, it is not an obstacle to winning the Champions League even though they come from Ligue 1. PSG should be able to change their transfer culture which is too ambitious with star players, PSG must start by providing stage for young players. Dedication and loyalty will not be achieved by just giving high salaries to players, PSG must ensure that every player is happy at the club, that way they will give everything to the team. There are no instant results that can be obtained by relying on star players alone, all players in the squad should be treated special by the club. In my opinion, if PSG can change all that, they will succeed in realizing their ambition of winning the Champions League in the future.

It is very natural that the French League is a less competitive competition than other top leagues in Europe, as reported by several media letters in 2023, if Ligue 1 drops out of the top five UEFA top leagues. Moreover, currently several famous stars who competed in Ligue 1 have left. The Ligue 1 competition lacks interest from investors to invest in Ligue 1 clubs, especially since most of the Ligue 1 clubs only compete to produce young players and then they are released after they have potential and a fairly high transfer value. The gap is inversely proportional to the PSG squad which has abundant finances, in fact they are always ready to spend large amounts of money to recruit the players they are after. Well, we can assess and see if the gap makes it difficult for the teams competing in the French League to shift the dominance of Paris Saint-Germain.

On the PSG side, this team is also having difficulty making their team able to win the Champions League title. For me, it's natural, especially since PSG is not handled by people who are competent in it. I mean, whether it's the PSG owner who is too involved in every matter of bringing in players, the sporting director whose competence I don't know and whether they are people who understand football. plus, choosing a coach who lacks experience managing a club as big as PSG. But at least now PSG has Luis Enrique who has a lot of experience and is used to handling big clubs. We saw last season, Enrique was able to bring PSG to play quite well and very aggressively. Unfortunately, the depth of the PSG team is not filled with competent players in each line. So, let's see what PSG and Luis Enrique do in this summer's transfer window.

A player's performance cannot be separated from the role of a coach who knows him well. Many players are successful with one coach and fail with another coach, that's why I say the role of the coach is also very crucial for a player, even though in the end it is the player himself who will determine the shape of his game. but usually coaches really know a player's strengths and they know how to use them.
I will talk about the mega star, Cristiano Ronaldo. When he was at Manchester United he didn't get many opportunities and the coach said he couldn't be relied on any more. But when he went to Al Nassr, he could be very dangerous and he managed to score a lot of goals and become top scorer. This is a simple example where the role of the coach will also be very necessary in determining and utilizing a player's abilities. For me it is something that is interconnected.

I believe one of the features you are trying to commend is self work, I believe osimien is one of the few players that works so fucking hard on himself that even when the team is actually having a bad day he stretches out and want to make things work out for the team. I could relate to what you are trying to say because despite the hard times and poor form that the whole entire Napoli team was having I believe some players were still made exception of it and one of them is osimien.

I don't know if you did watch osimhen play at the AFCON, are you going to credit his performance to the strategy of the coach of his national team too? away from any coaches strategy, is the personal efforts and performance of a player which is first examined before talking about the coach strategy. There are performance we will see from a player and you can tell if the coaches strategy is the reason he is doing so well or not nevertheless I'm not disputing the impact of spallerti's strategy and tactics during his time at Napoli but beyond that are other factors which I believed played huge role to osimhens performance than spalleti's strategy. I wouldn't want to stretch this argument but I know for sure that osimhen is a very good and brilliant player.

I also think Osimhen can perform better at PSG. Luis Enrique is rebuilding the PSG squad. Luis Enrique is building a youth-oriented squad. We may see this team improve slowly, but it will be long-lasting. Luis Enrique and PSG management have long-term plans for PSG's squad. PSG have spent a lot of money in the last few seasons, but it hasn't really paid off. So now the PSG management has hired a coach like Luis Enrique to revamp the PSG squad.

Osimhen performed superbly with Napoli in the 2022–23 season. He scored a lot of goals and assists. Osimhen was not present in several matches due to injuries in the last season. However, Osimhen managed to perform well enough throughout the season. Osimhen has the potential to score more goals with PSG's squad. Moreover, Osimhen can become more experienced if he is with an experienced coach like Luis Enrique.

Osimhen must realize the situation he is currently facing. The decline in performance he experienced was due to not being handled by a coach who could develop his hidden talent. Spalletti succeeded in making him a great player, his level of sharpness in scoring goals also increased. After Spalletti left he seemed to lose his magic, his performance slowly began to decline which caused his selling value to become cheaper than before. Maybe Luis Enrique can develop his talents like Spalletti did, he must look for a club that can improve his abilities because it is very important for his future.

I understand your point but one thing we must understand in football is that no matter the kind of pattern a coach will introduce on a club if the player does not have a good performance there is no way he would perform well because there are so many other clubs that has a very good coach but still some of there players are still messing up, so actually in the aspect of Osimhen I don't think he is a weak player because we cannot easily forget how hard he has tried for Napoli in terms of putting his possible best to enforce there attacking speed, don't get me wrong I'm not saying that Osimhen is the best player for Napoli but what I'm just saying is that he has contributed a lot towards improving the performance of the club.

Although there is no doubt that Osimhen performance is no longer the same as before because there has been a serious decline on his performance lately, so actually who knows if his performance will improve immediately he changed club or league because I still believe that with time he will come back to the way he normally use to play.

But a player cannot be good just because he plays with some coach, and then he will be an ordinary forward because the coach has changed. I think the team plays a role, because Osimhen was good when Napoli became champions, he cannot act separately from the team. Sometimes it happens that a team starts to play better with a certain coach, but many factors play a role, both the coach and the players. In fact, I think that Osimhem could score more goals at PSG than he does at Napoli, because PSG is an attacking team, and Napoli were like that with Spalletti, it is always easier for a forward to play in an attacking team.

If you look further, why this league is not as competitive as other leagues is because the teams there do not have the financial capacity like PSG so they cannot buy players to compete. The level of Ligue 1 is actually far behind several other leagues and PSG's dominance cannot be separated from their financial capabilities so that the quality of the players they have is above the average of the players owned by other teams there.

Football now requires the involvement of sufficient money and that is very important because they will look strong when they are able to buy the players they need. The strength of other teams only relies on limited players and in fact it will be quite difficult for them to break PSG's dominance.

PSG owners have huge ambitions to make PSG a strong team not only in the league, but they are obsessed with winning the Champions League, so they don't hesitate to spend a lot of money to recruit star players at that time, Neymar, Messi, Mbappe and Donnarumma become players that they can recruit and make their team look very strong, Previously, the president of PSG really wanted the two best players in the world who had been rivals to join the PSG squad, but this didn't happen after Ronaldo preferred to join another club, I think If Al Naseer previous ambitions are realized then we will see PSG like an Avengers team that has many stars in their squad.

What the PSG president hoped to make PSG a big team has of course been fulfilled now, but even though they have gathered many star players in their squad, PSG is only able to compete in the domestic league without being able to do much in the Champions League so far, even though one by one the star players are leaving PSG at the moment, of course they are still a big team so I think they will still be able to compete in the Champions League even though they may still need a lot of time to become champions.

Saying they are the weakest league, I don't think so, because there are leagues that are weaker than LIgue 1, but overall they will find it difficult to compete in the Champions League. Comparing them with the English League and La Liga for example, you will see quite striking differences between these teams, except for Paris Saint Germain who are still said to be capable because they have a better squad or players than other teams from Ligue 1.

The gap in Ligue 1 is one of the reasons why they look like that and one of them is because they don't have good enough finances to support them to have an even better performance. I wonder why they can't bring in sponsors or they can't have a big source of income, even though in terms of popularity they are also quite a popular team in my opinion. If they want to quickly be able to have good finances like Paris Saint Germain, then in my opinion there must be rich Arab people who take over their ownership. 

There was a time when the hype about PSG was high because at that time PSG broke all the records of the transfer market and signed one after another the best players to their club. As they continued to buy players to strengthen their club, it looked as if PSG would dominate alone but the performance was not the same. Even when other top star players including Neymar Messi Mbappe played for their club, their club team performance was almost nil. 

Neymar playing at the same time as Messi Mbappe could not overcome the barrier of the Super Sixteen of the Champions League was certainly a big surprise for them. 
PSG has changed a lot since the new manager took over and many players have been sold by the club. The team that PSG has now is an average quality team. To improve the performance of this team, better quality players must be appointed

In my opinion, the French League is one of the weakest leagues among the European leagues. The quality of football in this league is not very high, the players and teams are below the Champions League level.
For a few seasons PSG performed well, among the other teams there was no team that had a chance of winning the title, perhaps they have not been very successful in the last 20 years. The 3rd and 4th teams in the Champions League will be easy opponents for other teams

His last season wasnt his greatest, but thats not his fault. It was Napoli. Team was a mess. They couldnt help themselves, and he suffered. Even so, he scored 15. Imagine what he could do on a well-oiled squad. Teams like PSG, Chelsea, and Arsenal are smart. They want him for a reason. Napoli has him like a lifeline, but if they cant help him succeed, they're hurting him.

Osimhen requires a winning team. A strong defense, inventive midfield, and off-ball forwards. There, he'll shine. Premier League would suit him. Fast, strong, instinctive. Probably rip it apart. Such skill wasted on a losing squad is unfortunate.

I think people keep making mistakes about Osimhen and his performance in the recent years. Osimhen had a good performance when Spalletti was working there as a coach and this made people think Osimhen was a great player while one reason for Osimhen to have better performance was the strategy of Spalletti and it was not because of Osimhen himself.
Does'nt matter if Osimhen plays in PSG or Napoli the thing thing about Osimhen is we can't expect to see a miracle from this player.

Any player that is moving ro PSG will always play in the Champions League because they are the strongest in Ligue 1. I don't see PSG reaching far compared to this past season in UCL next season because Mbappe that is their key man has left the club and the replacement will not have the qualities that Mbappe has to take them that far to the semifinals.

When PSG had the players that could win the champion league it was futile effort for them and that makes me feel that it is going to be very hard for PSG to win UCL soon because the clubs in Ligue 1 are not strong and competitive enough for PSG which will make it easy for strong clubs to eliminate them in UCL since it is not Ligue 1 clubs.