Topic: French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1) - page 223. (Read 189248 times)

Star players alone cannot bring PSG to the highest level of the UCL, Messi, Neymar and Mbappe have their own egos and want to be superior to others so it is not clear why PSG failed at that time. Now PSG management is starting to learn that what they need is not just star players, but a history of struggle. This means that PSG in League 1 is used to lifting trophies, but in the UCL competition it is just an ordinary club because PSG does not have stability. This season there is only Mbappe in the UCL and the results are not too bad, meaning that basically PSG must be able to create a stable squad. Now Mbappe departure will leave a lot of work to do, without a pure striker replacement then I'm not sure next season in the UCL we can go any further.

In my opinion, PSG's initial plan to bring in Messi, Neymar and Mbappe was only to increase the big names in League 1 to become more popular and the second plan to achieve success in the Champions League all ended badly.
Why do I say it ended badly?
Yes, because after bringing in several star players, PSG has always depended on these star players, like most recently Mbappe has left but PSG still hopes that he can stay because he is one of the most reliable players and he can always make the biggest contribution.

Mbappe's mistake should have been that when they still had Messi, Neymar and Mbappe, PSG should have thought about the long term in bringing in young players and given the opportunity to appear with these star players so that the young players could gain experience from star players which could improve the talents of these young players.
It would be a shame if PSG never thought about this and thought more about continuing to bring in experienced players at high prices without thinking about the future of the club like now after losing star players, PSG does not have the next generation for Mbappe.

Yes, Paris Saint Germain will continue to dominate the league even though they are without Mbappe next season, because if we compare the composition of players they have with other clubs, then losing Mbappe should not cause them any problems. However, it is their dependence on Mbappe that may cause problems at the start of their season.

Their squad is quite even compared to other clubs, which makes them have no reason not to dominate the league anymore. Maybe some surprises could happen, but when we look at the level of consistency that the clubs in Ligue1 have, then they probably won't have as many problems as other clubs will do to them.

They have to learn from what they have experienced so far, they have to let go of their dependence on one player. because that will be a problem they will face one day, because after all no player stays at one club forever. Mbappe is a real example for them.

Seems bad impact after leaving by Kylian Mbappe make Ligue 1 get difficult with TV official broadcast for next season until right now still not find bid offer yet, seems reputation of Ligue 1 will get decreasing after some top players leaving PSG since Lionel Messi, Neymar and recently Mbappe joined to Real Madrid. Actually Ligue 1 the top five of European teams competition but they got difficult to find any TV official broadcast for next season and seems waiting good offer such as Bundesliga or Serie A competition broadcast fees.

Its make difficult position for some Ligue 1 teams because they have not stable financial and waiting official announcement with TV broadcast to make transfer and registering their player for next season. Seems PSG need to sign some top players on winter transfer window opening for making interested from TV broadcast take offer with Ligue 1.

Mbappe's departure has had a much bigger impact than many people imagined, and it is time for Ligue 1 to improve to make this league interesting. This will have an impact on other clubs who have minimal income apart from selling players and sharing broadcast rights, while clubs like PSG will continue to survive and dominate, which will make this league remain an unattractive condition unless their owner decides to leave this club.
Previously, Ligue 1 faced quite a big challenge during the pandemic after the television station broadcasting this league's matches postponed payment for broadcasting rights, but that can be overcome, but currently the challenges are much bigger, but regarding broadcasting rights, it seems that this is not entirely because Mbappe is leaving this league because the LFP has been in conflict with Canal Plus since several years ago.

The problem is that currently Julian Alvarez wants full playing time, he feels that his position at Man City is always secondary, because Man City often plays Julian Alvarez out of position, and Man City often uses him as a substitute, especially since Julian Alvarez is still young and really needs development. While playing, he has to hone his skills on the field, and it seems that Man City is relying more on Haaland as their spearhead.

Moreover Chelsea interest in this player is quite high, they are trying to bring in young players in their squad, it seems that this would be a good choice for Julian Alvarez so that he can develop himself and also get more playing opportunities, because his current performance is in good condition so it is very unfortunate if you don't get a position on the team.
If Alvarez chooses to leave Man City, this will be a very good choice for him to develop his performance because at a young age like him, he will work optimally if he plays.

In some news actually I have never seen Julian want to leave Manchester City but for some of the news that is busy is that currently several clubs are starting to approach not him who wants to leave.

Currently at least rumors of Atletico and Chelsea wanting Alvarez to be a partner of Palmer are still busy but it is clear that with the current situation I also feel that Manchester City, especially Pep, will make Alvarez just leave.

Although indeed sometimes his position always alternates with several players such as Foden or Haaland but in terms of flying hours Alvarez actually also gets enough time where this season alone prayers play 36 times in the EPL even though it starts from a reserve player or when in the line up is always replaced.  It's just that for playing time I think Pep has given a good time so there are no money rumors saying Alvarez wants to leave but many rumors say that Alvarez is being lured by several big clubs at the moment.

There's always a reason PSG gets to do that which they do that always looks like they are doing everything possible just to keep or get a player signed into the team, remember when they had to bring in messi and Neymar, they still had mbappe in the team as at that time, and then it looked like they were spending too much but the goal and target was to get a chance at winning the champions league so they taught that by getting those players in their team, winning the champions league looks more achievable, they are very much settled with the fact that they can almost always win the Ligue 1 title but for the champions league.

The bid of wanting to win the champions league even if it's once has always made PSG not mind investing so much in signing of players and even coach when needed, asides the champions league I doubt if PSG will be willing to spend such money just to win the Ligue 1 title almost every season when they know there's a bigger and more prestigious title ahead that they can win by the end of the season if they are in the very good form required of them to be able to contend and win those teams ahead of them.

Ligue 1 still attempts to find any TV Station who willing to buy their Broadcast rights for next season but seems they having problem with that because until now there was no companies who interested to buy and it could be serious problem because the affect from these conditions is some of Ligue 1 teams have not been able to register their new players especially for promotion just like Auxerre because reported this team was unable to register their 14 players due to the absence of cash receipts from broadcasting

Now i understand why PSG previously want to hold Mbappe even they dare to pay with huge money to Mbappe as long as he willing to signing new contract because they fear people will be lost interest to Ligue 1 because no more star players who playing at this league and it just happend now that after Mbappe leave it greatly affect to the future of this league
However correct me if i am wrong but mostly all of the teams in Ligue 1 is still facing financial conditions unless PSG and mostly the main income from them is from broadcasting rights and usually those money will be used for operating expenses for whole season so if about Broadcast rights still cannot be resolved then it will have negative impact to Ligue 1

As expected no one is interested with Ligue 1 anymore after Mbappe leaves PSG because they have a problem with broadcaster https://www.insidehook.com/sports/ligue-1-broadcast-rights-psg

It's the time for Championship or Eredivisie to overtake Ligue 1 as rank 5 domestic league.

Alvarez is popular than Osimhen, Alvarez is also a Manchester City player, right now many people are overrating anyone who work for Manchester City. That's why PSG want to sign Alvarez.

I'm not sure Paris Saint Germain will be able to do that, because they are a team that when they want a player they will do everything they can to do it, including spending a lot of money to bring in that player. The financial power they have encourages them to do that, even though we think it is something excessive, but they don't care as long as they can get what they want.
We can remember that when they wanted to keep Mbappe, they even gave this player big privileges and they didn't care about that. I think they will continue to do the same things to get what they want. Even though they have to spend a lot of money and it's not actually worth it. However, we'll see how things develop, because currently we have only heard rumors and in fact they have not made a specific approach to bringing Julian Alvarez to Paris Saint Germain.

Julian Alvarez is a back-up for Halaand, Pep Guardiola will try to keep him, because Manchester City really need the services of the player from Argentita as a rotation option, considering the many competitions they are participating in next season. Julian Alvarez talent not only attracted the interest of PSG, Chelsea and Atletico Madrid were also very interested in him. Playing in 54 matches in all competitions, Julian Alvarez managed to score 19 goals and 13 assists, and Manchester City is not actually in a financial crisis so they feel the need to release one of their talented strikers.

Osimhen is a more suitable player for PSG to recruit, Napoli reportedly wants to let him go in the transfer market next summer, they need big money to build a squad to support Antonio Conte. In my opinion, there is no doubt about Osimhen's sharpness, because he was once Serie A top scorer. It's just that this season, Osimhen performance has decreased slightly due to injury, but he can find his sharpness again next season and he is good enough to fill PSG front line.

Álvarez is a striker while Mbappe is a winger, can Álvarez be a direct replacement for Mbappe? I think No, they just need a striker to increase their goal scoring ability because one of the main players they relied on in terms of goal scoring is left them, and if they didn’t sign a striker that can be scoring goals, their performance will drop drastically even though they can still win the League 1 title because the teams in the tournament are not as strong as them; they will only suffer in the Champions League.

I don’t think Manchester City will allow Álvarez to leave the team at this moment, therefore, I will advice PSG to diversify their hustle for signing striker, they should try signing Osimhen since the EPL teams didn’t look ready to offer the money Napoli is demanding for.

Julian Alvarez without doubt is a fantastic player who is very good with the ball on his feet and also knows how to make unexpected run ins that does create chances for his teammates to score or square the ball to him to convert. He's a modern day striker that can easily play in any of the big teams in Europe but I don't think he worths the 100 million euros you just said now. At Manchester City, he's not been regular player because he's the second choice striker behind Erling Haaland and if Manchester City are willing to sell him, any amount above 60 million will be in excess if you ask me.
Paris Saint Germaine as we all know have the financial strength to sign Alvarez but they shouldn't allow Manchester City to put them under any unnecessary pressure which will make them pay above what they're supposed to pay for the Argentine striker.

Salary has not been a problem to him all this while, except if he has needed an increment in the salary and the team probably have turned it down then it could be seen that it's very tangible reason for his exit from the team which I think is a very reasonable one. Another could be just like you rightly mentioned that a player would want to change their environment and wouldn't want to be in that same place they have been long enough anymore.

If a player is refund from moving at the time he want to move to a particular team, the chances that he will still be playing optimally as he should without the reservation on the fact that he's not playing in the right conditions where he should be playing as at the time when he's playing, it will be just best for him to leave and if need be with the clause the team may wish to add .

Considering all the financial situations going on there, I feel like it wouldn't be a bad idea to get 100 million euro to be fair. City right now is on a very risky legal battle against FA and we are talking about a team who would be hated so much that they could literally turn into a club where no player would want to stay or go to. I mean like literally on every away game, other teams may literally create chaos, fans would be mad like hell. So, it would be quite obvious that we are going to see City value money over players, because those players may want to prefer to leave for free.

The situation is that we are going to end up with something that will take a while to recover. Or maybe they trust their lawyers and will win and that is why I think they may keep him, but still 100 million feels like a lot of money to say no.

The difference in player quality and also finance is certainly the reason why currently PSG is like a giant among the dwarves, so it is very difficult for other teams to break their dominance in the domestic league, the financial incompetence owned by PSG rival team certainly makes them unable to compete in the league championship and I think as long as there are no other teams that rise in terms of their finances, of course PSG will continue to dominate Ligue 1 even for In the next few seasons, compared to other leagues, of course Ligue 1 is a league that is boring for us to watch so far because there is indeed no fierce competition in fighting for the championship trophy, even when this season PSG lost Mbappe and the league has not started yet, I am still sure that the Ligue 1 trophy next season will belong to PSG again.

PSG is reportedly interested in bringing in Alvarez as a replacement for Mbappe next season, indeed if we look at Alvarez ability of course he deserves to play in a competitive league, but I think it doesn't hurt for Alvarez to play with PSG if possible, because I think at PSG Alvarez will of course appear regularly and that way he can continue to show his ability to score goals,  So that in the end it can make him on a par with other great strikers in the future like Mbappe today, at the young age of Alvarez, of course he can make PSG a ladder to get the attention of elite clubs in the future.

His decision of wanting to leave can be due to the way he's being treated at the club to the salary and wages that he's earning and wants to leave for a greener pasture and also could be a matter of the individual player wanting change of environment, Therefore, If a player decides to leave a particular club for another, the best thing the management should do is that he should be given that opportunity because refusing him will not really do the team any good as he won't be playing with he's total mind and strength and offering his best to the club because he had lost interest spending more time at the club.

right, I support your opinion and that is one of the wrong decisions if Alvarez will receive an offer from PSG and this will be a very silly decision if Man City releases Alvarez to join PSG who will only give achievements in the domestic league or League 1, but will continue to have difficulty achieving achievements in big competitions.
but on the one hand we cannot see what the plan is being thought of by Alvarez at this time or in the next few seasons when a player starts to think about money compared to his career and for example when Alvarez receives an offer from PSG, I'm sure if Alvarez is not thinking about About his future career but thinking about money with a large salary.

but if you look at his current age, Alvarez has a broader thought to prioritize his career than thinking about money in his youth.
24 years still looks young and has a very long career so it is only natural that PSG is interested in the player because he can become a player of any option and also still has a strong physical and reliable if with PSG.
after Mbappe departure, PSG became more aggressive to bring in quality players from other league teams in the hope that they could get the same achievement when there was still a mbappe and of course this was a concern for the president of PSG who was afraid that later it would look weak even though competition in League 1 was not too tight.

Basically, at least Julian Alvarez is still the first choice for Manchester City's main squad but strangely, Julian Alvarez wants to leave and I think that's a very absurd statement. But,  ifJulian Alvarez really intends to get a newchallenge, then playing for any team in anyleague is not a problem. Because anyway, the problem and the question is,  how canJulian Alvarez want to leave while he always gets a place in Manchester City's main squad.What's more,  Manchester City is also a big team that always promises to win trophies every season but unfortunately, it seems like Julian Alvarez is not comfortable being at Manchester City,I think that's strange.