Topic: French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1) - page 208. (Read 189416 times)

If we talk about opportunities then indeed this could be a wrong choice when Ximons chose PSG over Bayern but when talking about money then of course PSG's temptation will be much greater.
Honestly looking at Xavi Ximons' posture, I personally don't see anything in him but when he plays on the field then we can see that posture and age don't seem to be an obstacle for him to shine because for this season his performance is getting more mature even at a very young age.

He shone at Leipzig but indeed in several statements he also said that if indeed he was still comfortable enough to stay at PSG so it was difficult to hijack him from this Paris club especially with the temptation of money and the possibility that his position at PSG would be more comfortable after Mbappe left then indeed the chance to stay was very high.

Now actually for Xavi Simons apart from Bayern there are several other big clubs that are said to be approaching him including two EPL clubs (Manchester United and Arsenal) but this is still just a rumor without any clarity.

Xavi Simons, this young man has it. Raw ability is not something you can impart. Watching him weave through defenders is like poetry in motion, man. Bu PSG resembles a circus, a disaster

Bayern is great. Top-notch coaching, world-class organization, a complete package. Though they lost the Bundesliga, they could bring Simons into his peak. Plus, youthful talent thrives in the Bundesliga. It is physical, forceful, the ideal proving ground. But PSG is desperate. Mbappe left wing is wide open. Simons could enter and take over as the main man, walking in that attitude. The ego boost alone would be insane

So, Xavi, what then is it?? The smart move, the growth path, or the glamour, the spotlight?

Honestly though, if he chooses PSG over Bayern, it's a head-scratcher. Hey, who am I to judge though? The kid's young, he's got time to make mistakes

It was during one of the Netherlands games in the ongoing UEFA Euros Championship that I knew that Paris Saint Germaine is the parent club of Dutch midfielder Xavi Simon through one of the commentators in the game. Personally, I think Paris Saint Germaine already have a strong squad that Luis Enrique can build to become one of the strongest teams in Europe but it seems they're used to letting their rising quality players leave the club while they keep searching for already established world class players. There's a report that Xavi Simons might leave Paris Saint Germaine this summer on a permanent basis as he's not ready to return to the club that loaned him to German club RB Leipzig past summer.
Kylian Mbappe have left the French champions in his search to get a club that'll help him achieve his dreams of winning the UEFA Champions League but if Paris Saint Germaine manager can convince player like Simon to remain at the club, I think he'll be very useful in his quest to build a very solid Paris Saint Germaine team that'll always depend on team football to win games than signing known football superstars and expect them to help the club win trophies with their individual brilliance

In fact, PSG will not have any significant difficulties in bringing in new players, who can replace the role left by Mbappe, because financially they are very stable. Quality players clearly demand high salaries, which is how the football industry works at the moment. PSG actually has an attraction in the eyes of European players, apart from being able to provide high salaries, PSG can give them the opportunity to experience the Ligeu 1 trophy every season. Apart from that, it is certain that they will play in the Champions League too, this is something interesting about PSG, which perhaps not all elite European teams can get every season. However, competition within the PSG squad is also tight, even though Mbappe has left, that is a fact. Squad overhaul due to frequent manager changes may be a more reasonable reason, when some players are reluctant to join PSG.

PSG is very confused about getting good players for next season too, and I think PSG must think more carefully if they want to release Simons to another team. Because PSG still needs to think about other players they have to bring to PSG after Mbappe's departure to Real Madrid and if Simons is also released to another team, of course that will add more burden to PSG in finding a replacement. Because currently it is not easy to convince players to move to PSG unless they are offered a higher salary.

One of those talents that is rarely seen and I am always happy to see him on the pitch. Xavi Simons is a talented young player and I think it would be a bit of a shame if he continues to stay at Leipzig. If there is an offer from Bayern Munich, he must consider it because after all it is very important for his experience. His position as an attacking midfielder and being able to fill both wings is very important for player rotation so his role will be very useful.

However, if you look at PSG's current situation, it is clear that they really need Xavi Simons, especially with Mbappe leaving, he can fill the left winger position. So maybe if PSG wants him back, it is possible that the offers from the two German clubs will be rejected and Xavi Simons will have to work under Luis Enrique.

As long as Monaco doesn't sell its important players who performed very consistently last season, I think Monaco can compete in the UCL, but one thing I doubt is that Monaco will definitely have difficulty maintaining consistency in League 1 matches.
Reason is quite easy if the next season's UCL is a hot topic of discussion when the addition of UCL participants means that all the players appearing in the competition must be ready to face more opponents and Monaco must get more reserve players to be able to rotate players perfectly and maintain consistent performance all Monaco players.
If they fail to maintain consistency and fail in the UCL, Monaco will probably return to focusing on League 1 and give up the UCL title because competing in the UCL is very difficult and requires a lot of experience.

And in the coming season it will be a big opportunity for Monaco if they choose to focus on league 1 matches and give up the UCL title, Monaco will easily get the league 1 title beating PSG and this opportunity comes when PSG no longer has a mainstay player after Mbappe left , there are lots of small teams that will try to take the title from PSG and I hope that Monaco no longer needs to think about the UCL title because that is very impossible and prioritize getting the league 1 title and leading until the end of the season.
And regarding Wissam Ben Yedder, it seems that Monaco has so far not made any effort to retain this player and for some reason this will be a little worrying because he is one of the players that Monaco can really rely on or maybe Monaco has a new player that is being targeted to replace his position.

In the bid to making sure the strike position isn't left vacant as PSG needs Suitable replacement for mbappe, who was their only striker, looking at the performance of xavi Simons he may look like the replacement they will be needing for mbappe, so far his performance in his club and now the Netherlands side has been really a good one and if he is in a team like PSG under the leadership of Enrique, I believe he will be able to improve much better and even do more then he has been doing at his former team, he's will get more competitive adventures especially when he's to participate in the champions league than he would in the Ligue 1.

With Leipzig he's going to face more competition both in their domestic league and in other leagues but mostly it will be in their domestic league because they are looking forward to a more competitive league next season. Because most teams in their domestic league are going to be more focused on trying to perform much better than they have always done as there's a current kind of revolution going on in their German bundesliga where almost all the teams are now having the opportunity to seeing a chance at winning the league title because Leverkusen last season made them to see the possibility in it, so the competition to be experienced in Leipzig will be tougher than that which you will see in the PSG.

Monaco used to be Paris Saint Germaine's biggest and strongest rival in the French league but in recent seasons, they've not been able to live up to expectations of fans of the French league. I think the reason behind their inconsistency is the fact that the club management aren't spending a lot again in signing world class players like they used to do before now. I'll be extremely happy to see them bounce back to winning ways again and competing for the biggest trophies both in domestic and European competitions. They finished as the first runners-up to Paris Saint Germaine in the French standings last season which means that Monaco will be playing European football come next season.
Now that they're going to be playing in the UEFA Champions League competition and also be competing for the French league title come next season, I think it's necessary for the club management to sign players that'll help them improve significantly in their performance. I'll be happy to see Monaco competing for the biggest trophies come next season

These squads qualified for Ligue 1. Give 'em credit for that. Auxerre, Metz, Le Havre – they've got heart, but Ligue 1 is the big leagues.  The talent gap is wider. The intensity of the pressure is higher. Although last season they showed promise, that was Ligue 2. Metz and Le Havre must prove themselves all over once more.

PSG's money doesnt exist in these teams. They cannot simply buy their path to the top. They gotta be smarter. Better coaching. Better tactics. Perhaps discover a diamond in the raw form among players. Its a tough road ahead. They gotta adapt, and they gotta adapt fast. Should they not, well, you know what happens - its back to Ligue 2.

Monaco will be very busy next season because they will playing at Champion League and finally after 5 years absense they will playing at this competition again and looking forward to see their performance next season whether Monaco can managed their consistency or not because unlike previous season which they only playing at Ligue 1 and next season Monaco have to playing with several different competitions which is not easy for them

About their performance in Ligue 1 i thought Monaco can being an strong contender for PSG for race title because at the beginning of season Monaco performing well they even can occupy first place several times but unfortunately consistency is still their main problem because Monaco has been slipped and lost several times which makes them only able to occupy runner up place at the end of this season and for transfer players i have to says the news about them is still lack because i couldn't find any information who is their target player for this summer but first of all Monaco should be give Wissam Ben Yedder contract extension because he is Monaco top scorer this season so he deserved to gets new contract and besides that i think Monaco should be buy new attacking players because front lines is one of their weaknesses of this season

Xavi Simons' contract runs until 2027, so at the moment we are talking about extending the rent. He spent last season with Leipzig and now he would like to extend his rent again. Bayern would also like to have this player at the team, but if he spent a year in Leipzig, then it is clear that he made friends there and would like to continue working in Leipzig, although if we evaluate this from a development perspective, he should consider Bayern, but it is not clear whether he will be able to get enough playing time in this team.

Monaco is a team that can be said to be a team that can compete in Ligue 1, but again consistency is their main problem, where they cannot maintain their performance every season, so they often find it difficult to compete, especially competing with Paris Saint Germain . Even though I see that they are very capable of competing closely, as long as they can have consistent performances. I think this is the job of coaches in Ligue 1, where they have to be able to make their team play consistently every season.
Monaco is a clear example, this season they are in second place in the final standings, but if we go to the previous season, we will see they are in 6th place in the final standings. This is proof that most of the teams in Ligue 1 cannot maintain their consistency well so they have difficulty competing. We can only see Paris Saint Germain as a fairly consistent team, although that really doesn't need to be said.

PSG and RB Leipzig are potential for haunting talents. Xavi Simons is 21 years and still young, he's in possession of stellar stats in both country and club level football. He's a key player for Netherlands and have played a major role under Netherlands headcoach, Ronald Koeman. Perhapes Xavi Simons have made his intention clear, he's not talking about any possible moves either leaving or extending his contract, everything concerning his decision will be made after the Euros because he doesn't want to be distracted from performing good job.

Simons has made himself develop at RB Leipzig and he is in the spotlight of many clubs to bring him from PSG because Simons has not yet found a place at PSG, with many clubs interested in him, one of which is Munich which is very ambitious to bring him in. This is a good thing for him because he can develop with a team that has good performance and also the Bundesliga is better than the French League and with this he can decide to leave PSG and work with a team that really wants his performance.

It seems like we have different opinions but it's very interesting to discuss and I understand why you say it's not about winning but also the sensation of tension when you see the club you play for having to compete strongly to get a winning result too, right?
Meanwhile, for me, for example, in League 1, having a player like Mbappe, of course many people bet on PSG because the match will be easier to predict because Mbappe is one of the best scorers in League 1 and I'm sure you also remember how PSG performed without Mbappe at that time which made disappointed, many people bet on PSG but actually lost.
From my statement, there will definitely be a huge decline in the number of viewers in League 1, which will decrease after all Mbappe fans will also follow him to LaLiga and the PSG owner's efforts will continue to try to maintain League 1 to remain an attractive league.

Maybe everything will be different if Enrique manages to maintain PSG's performance even though he is not with Mbappe and Enrique can give an extraordinary performance. I am sure that League 1 will again become an interesting league and is often a place to bet.

The task that Enrique must complete is currently looking for professional players to strengthen PSG's performance and ignoring all criticism, remaining focused and believing that everything will be fine.

Other team in Ligue 1 can have sufficient funds if they can find investors who are willing to provide large amounts of money, several team are already owned by Saudi billionaires and those Ligue 1 team can offer to own them.
Yes, it cannot be denied that PSG has huge finances and can bring in several great players with large expenditures of money, this makes PSG team capable of dominating the league.
But at least for now the conditions are little different, I sure Ligue 1 will have better competition in the next season and we can see how each team tries to surpass PSG which is not in the same condition as before.

So that must be the motivation for all Ligue 1 teams to be able to develop team with all the players they have, there must be sense of enthusiasm in making it happen because solid team will be difficult to beat.
But everything also lies in the performance of the coach, if the coaches of several team are able to work well then it is possible that Ligue 1 will have surprises like last season Bundesliga.

Since when is it a problem to have a lot of money? Manchester City has a lot of money, too. And by the way as far as I know the on average best paid players in Europe are those from Real Madrid. Was a year or so ago when I saw the statistics, so can't exactly tell whether it is the same today, but guys like Kroos earned 20 million at least as a standard. They can afford crazy transfers as well. Mbappe was an exception at PSG and he did it correctly, he just milked the cow as much as he could and PSG made him an almost billionaire.

But too much money isn't a problem. Bad management and bad coaches are a problem. PSG has had bad management forever now and they have had coaches that were an A- rather than an A+. Galtier, who is Galtier? Liverpool wins the Champions League with Klopp, City wins it with Guardiola, Real Madrid wins it with Zidane and Ancelotti. Who the heck is Galtier?

Enrique had an incredible timing at Barcelona. Attacking line was Neymar, Suarez and Messi in their prime. Iniesta, Busquets, Alba, Mascherano etc. I guess there is no need to go on.

The problem with PSG is that they have a little too much money right now. And they are literally someone who wants to achieve anything with money. We know that is not possible all the time. You can get everything top of the level. But you cannot buy experience with money. You also cannot buy the chemistry between the players that you should have with money. Yes, it was very unfair to Christophe Galtier what they did. They should have given Galtier more time. But as you all know, a rich club who has a lot of money is not getting good enough results and was just trying to make changes to bring in better results. Sadly they do not understand that it does not work like that.

Anyway, Luis Enrique is definitely a very good coach. he has had huge success with Barcelona previously towards the 2016/2017 time period. So if Enrique is given enough time and if he is also given enough money, I think he will be able to bring in good results.

The strength of PSG isn't totally dependent on mbappe and getting rid of mbappe isn't what PSG sees as priority at this time, all along mbappe has been if great importance to PSG so getting rid of him just like that isn't something I think they will be planning on doing, his exit from the team was mostly a self decided action and not one that was influenced in any way by PSG, As a matter of fact ,PSG would still have loved to have mbappe back in the team and wanted him extending his contract but I think he wasn't agreeing to it and so they have to let him go to his choice destination as at the end of the season and Madrid has been his choice where in he is now except for the rumors of confirmation needed and all that.

Putting together a team that will be able to get the kind of results PSG desire is very possible but the challenge has always been in them been patient enough to allowing it eventually happen, they are more bent on just getting a team that will be able to get them to win the champions league at once because they know that with the Ligue 1 they don't really have much to stress about, but then if they can monster the patience to build a team that can grwo gradually to the point of been able to win the champions league in the future then the dream will become a reality and not just wantu the dream to manifest at once when they are yet to have a team with such capacity.