Topic: French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1) - page 215. (Read 189367 times)

It is definitely a failure for them as they are single champions in League 1 tournament so there is no extra pressure on them and their plan should be only Champions League. They were not short on spending money but what was lacking was the lack of a proper manager. Now that they have handed over their club to Luis Enrique, if they had done the same thing 5 or 4 seasons ago, they might have won at least one UCL trophy. When they hire a manager after one season with that manager who has expired and hire a new one again, team performance is not as good as different managers use different strategies at different times. Now that they have appointed one of the best managers at their club, if they are willing to spend money again, maybe they can do well in the Champions League.

Exactly, you have a point there. PSG has been paying tons of money for salaries. According to the source below, the current total is 300 million euros per year and there are 77 million bonuses additionally as well.

https://www.capology.com/club/psg/salaries/

This is mostly due to Mbappe's costs of course. But PSG wouldn't refrain from spending a lot of money on other talented players either. You can play for money there for some time. But at one point you need to think about your career as well.    This is what Mbappe has done now. PSG just can't win a Champions League title. But it is much more likely to do it at Real Madrid.

PSG are delaying the choice of a new forward for the team, this is not very good, because the summer will pass very quickly, and Enrique will still need time to prepare him for the new season and will need time to adapt to the new team. Kvaratskhelia wants to move to PSG, but Aurelio De Laurentiis does not let the striker go, it seems to me that the same thing happened with Osimhen, when he overpriced him, and don't let him leave Napoli. But it seems to me that PSG should not focus attention only on him, if Napoli do not let him go, then they need to have a backup option.

In fact, when Mbappe last season was not in the PSG squad on several occasions, PSG more often got bad results when Mbappe was absent. Therefore, it will certainly still be a difficult season for PSG to get good results next season, because at least PSG will also still adapt after Mbappe departure. Indeed, I also admit that PSG will still be able and easy to bring in their target players in the transfer market later. But still, for me personally quite sure, even though PSG still has a good squad and manager, but to be consistent and to dominate Ligue 1 without Mbappe it will still be difficult. Therefore, this factor will open up a good chance for other teams to be able to enter the team in the title candidate next season.

Of course, Mbappe is an important player. His deficiency will affect Paris badly, but Paris is a team with financial strength. That's why there will be a transfer to PSG to fill his absence. League 1 will still be a good and followable league, but the fact that there will be competition will make the viewers even more enjoyable. We may not see the dominant PSG leadership after Mbappe leaves.

I think ligue 1 is not a league that has quite high popularity in the other 4 European leagues, if we pay attention to ligue 1 maybe we can interpret if they are at the lowest level in terms of the popularity of the current European league league due to the uncompetitive competition so far, ligue 1 is not a competitive league while PSG is the strongest and dominating team so far in ligue 1,  Mbappe, who has been a mainstay player of PSG, of course has a huge contribution to PSG, but his departure will certainly not make PSG lose dominance in ligue 1 next season, since PSG became a rich team in ligue 1, of course they already managed to dominate ligue 1 even when Mbappe was not a PSG player at that time.
Ligue 1 so far does not have a team that can indeed jeopardize PSG's position as a dominant team, because indeed apart from PSG, the team team in Ligue 1 does not have the financial strength to be able to compete with PSG so far, even without Mbappe at PSG next season, PSG is still the favorite to win while other teams will only continue to compete for a position to qualify for the Champions League and Europe.  But if you say PSG without Mbappe then they will have a hard time in the Champions League, of course agree with you.

I don't agree with you, Ligue 1 will lose popularity if there are no world class players playing there, the LFP as the League authority is still having difficulty finding parties who will broadcast matches there. Kylian Mbappe departure will have a big impact on the popularity of Ligue 1, LFP really hopes that PSG can bring in several quality players to increase the sales value of the competition.

PSG will not lose its dominance in Ligue 1 even without Mbappe, Mbappe departure will not leave a big hole in the PSG squad because they still have other quality players. PSG can bring in other players with the money they have, they are able to make Mega transfers without any financial problems. It is very unlikely that PSG will lose their dominance because they still have time to bring in other top players before the League starts.

Ligue 1 will not lose its popularity but PSG will lose its dominance. I actually think that without Mbappe, other teams will have the opportunity to eliminate PSG's dominance. Yes, PSG is still the #1 favorite for now, but at least they won't be as dominant as they were when they were with Mbappe. We might be able to see where PSG has to fight to win the league championship, unlike this season where PSG really dominated Ligue 1 with a goal difference of +48 goals and collected 76 points, 9 points ahead of Monaco in second place.

Source: https://sportsbrief.com/football/67147-kylian-mbappes-brother-ethan-quits-psg-days-french-star-dumped-club-real-madrid/

Seems like Ethan Mbappé has also understood that staying in PSG is actually not going to give him anything substantial in his career. So it is in his best interest to leave PSG and build up his career with some other big club if possible. And if not, even some other clubs that might not be S tier but A tier are also going to be OK for his future. The only thing Ethan will be able to do in PSG is farming Ligue 1 title.

You know, the only reason players actually go there is because of the money they can offer to those players. I am not saying there is anything wrong if the players go to PSG for money. But they also have to understand that potential that they will be wasting, right?

All of this will only happen for moment because starting next season it will return to normal as before, it is not Ligue 1 but PSG that will lose popularity and dominance because Ligue 1 will remain league that can provide competitive competition.
Presence of Mbappe means that PSG can really dominate the championship title which can very rarely be replaced and now the opportunities have changed, Mbappe is gone and PSG has lost one of their biggest strengths which gives all team great chance of fighting for the championship title.
This is what many people want, to be able to see Ligue 1 competition much more competitive and what makes Ligue 1 monotonous is when only PSG dominates it, we see how next season goes and I sure several teams are very superior with Mbappe departure from PSG.

But regarding star players, perhaps only PSG can bring them in because from financial perspective, only PSG has more, the question is who these players are because there is no clear certainty yet.

It all depends on the decisions of PSG's management who always make wrong decisions. They think that changing coaches and having star players in it is enough to make PSG appear strong in the Champions League even though in fact it is not enough to win a prestigious title, because PSG is used to less competition competitive in league 1 so it is difficult to compete competitively in big competitions and even though the coach can bring PSG to a domestic title but that is not enough for PSG and sometimes they make the decision to change the coach and PSG always does this if the coach cannot give the prestigious title.

Even though it is true, as you said, the coach also needs time to improve PSG's performance, so the club must also give the coach the opportunity to not only provide a short-term contract but also provide the opportunity for at least the next few seasons, if the coach can still provide domestic titles, at least PSG must be patient so that Being able to get a prestigious title all requires a process, at least the coach continues to make PSG dominate League 1, so for the Champions League title, PSG must be more patient to get it.

In my opinion, there is nothing wrong with what PSG is currently experiencing because both parties have their own desires, such as PSG wanting to retain Kylian Mbappe in order to maintain spectator traffic in League 1 to support their favorite club.
Meanwhile, Kylian Mbappe has the desire to join his dream club, joining Real Madrid, so both parties cannot have the same desire and it's just that PSG is more selfish in continuing to force Mbappe to stay at PSG and in the end they have to suffer big losses.

PSG should realize that a reliable player like Kylian Mbappe will one day want to have a career at a big club and think more about the long term to sell him at the right price.
Certainly, if PSG realized this at that time and reduced their selfishness, they would not have suffered big losses and could still bring in reliable players to replace Mbappe.

PSG's behavior is what makes reliable players who are given offers by PSG always refuse the offer because they are afraid that if something happens like Mbappe is tied and stressed at the club, he won't be able to have a career in the future.
Whatever the current results that PSG has achieved, one of the negative impacts of their efforts is that their ambitions are too big, so they have to be confused about finding TV broadcasters who want to cover League 1.

PSG took quite difficult decision when retaining Mbappe in the January transfer window in the hope that Mbappe would extend his contract, but had to accept a different reality after Mbappe announced he would not renew his contract and PSG would have to lose millions of dollars if he sold during the January transfer window.
I think its main problem not sell the players with contract remaining one year left because most of them unpredictable will extend or looking another excited offer from other team and make them become free agent players.

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After leaving by Mbappe, make Ligue 1 loss the popularity about their competition and recently has bad news after difficult finding TV broadcast official, its problem for Ligue 1 how to bring another star players for next season and make Ligue 1 more interested again not only dominance by PSG but the other team has opportunity for winning Ligue 1 trophy.

PSG is in a dilemma due to their own decisions, while Mbappe feels free from the shackles that have bound him to the club. It is clear that Mbappe is more enthusiastic about playing at his beloved club Real Madrid after waiting so long. Therefore Enrique will now work harder to ensure the club's balance is maintained. Indeed, without Mbappe there is a main axis missing, but PSG finances are stable and they can bring in a striker this summer. Note that the principle of bringing in players must be based on the quality of the team that wants to develop, not just to waste money. The PSG president must immediately change his mindset regarding club management, even though the finances are adequate, this needs to be accompanied by the ability to think long term. Nasser Al-Khelaifi is a character who doesn't want to learn from other people who are more successful than him. If he wants to change then take Florentino Perez's thinking in managing a team.

I mean if your only goal is to win UCL and the only thing you do is spending money, then you are bound to lose some money anyway and not get it. Just spending money alone doesn't get you a win, that is not how it works, you need to end up with something much better.

We should consider that they have never kept a manager for too long, and kept on changing their manager, that could be one of the reasons. They need to get some good manager, and a great director of football and let them do what they do for five seasons in a row. Right now they have Enrique, about to go on his second season, just let him run for 4 more seasons, I guarantee you that they will have a higher chance, even without Mbappe, because manager would create his ideal team.

If they can't find a suitable replacement for Mbappe, PSG will not be able to perform well next season. Because Mbappe was the most important player in PSG's squad. Coach Luis Enrique experimented with his squad by keeping Mbappe on the bench for several matches last season. But without Mbappe, PSG's overall performance was not very strong.

Luis Enrique is a very experienced coach. I have no doubts about Enrique's ability. However, if PSG are to do well in next season's Champions League, PSG will definitely need a suitable replacement for Mbappe. If not, the team will not be able to do well in the Champions League next season. It will also be difficult for PSG to win the Ligue 1 title at the same time.

Previously, PSG was a team that was indeed on par with AS Monaco and Lyon in Ligue 1, but after Nasser Al-Khelaifi succeeded in acquiring PSG, Nasser Al-Khelaifi immediately made PSG a rich team and dominated the league to date, the financial capabilities possessed by PSG of course made PSG very easy to strengthen their team by bringing in many star players to their squad,  But after Mbappe left, at the moment it may be only Donnarumma who is indeed one of the players still left from their big signing a few seasons ago, Messi, Neymar and Mbappe have now left, so we don't know what will happen to PSG next season.

Currently, PSG should learn from their experience of continuing to fail in the Champions League, so far PSG has always relied on star players and also luxury squads to compete in the Champions League, but this has not resulted in the trophy they have wanted so far, it should PSG is currently trying to build a squad by relying on talented young players so that PSG will have a good squad depth to project in the long term Just like Madrid at the moment. 

Indeed this is a good strategy to emulate or copy from but also know that things worked out well for Manchester City this way because they have the right manager like Pep Guardiola in place who knows how to buy the right players and bring the desired result, whereas there are coaches even though all the necessary funds are being provided to them and as well given opportunity to make that decision themselves, would still end up not achieving the expected result.

PSG once built a squad with fantastic value when Nasser Al-Khelaifi acquired PSG in 2011. And that squad still exists today. But PSG's failure to win the UCL should be an important lesson for club management to start trying to develop young players from their academy or recruit potential young players instead of spending a lot of money recruiting a superstar. I also believe Luis Enrique will be able to build a PSG squad with young players. It will take a few years but I think PSG could try this method.

From League 1, the players have moved to different clubs and there are not many rumors about whether they will sign a new contract with the star player, so maybe there will be less discussion about this team in the football world in the upcoming season compared to other seasons. Basically a league is more talked about when the teams in that league compete hard against each other and most of the teams in the league have players we know. Until now, as the only team in this league, we used to directly follow PSG, but in the last two seasons, PSG has released their players from the club one by one, so if we do not sign new contracts with star players and increase the strength of the team, maybe this league will lose more popularity.