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Quote from: Smack That Ace on July 17, 2024, 04:59:44 AM

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Marseille are still battling to secure a move for Mason Greenwood within 48 hours and it looks like it will be a thrilling few moments if the deal is locked. Marseille has given 30 million euros including bonuses to Manchester United and it seems this is still a serious consideration for the Red Devils whether to release the player or not.

On the other hand, this deal will also see Mason Greenwood contracted for 5 years and I think Marseille made the right move. However, if progress shows good things and Mason Greenwood's performance can be sharper, then Marseille will also benefit from his sale in the future. But first Marseille's focus is on needing his services to improve the attack line which has started to dull since last season.

Source: https://twitter.com/FabriceHawkins/status/1813327406276440207

Marseille continue to try to immediately complete the deal so that it happens immediately because indeed they are currently starting to improve the squad to face the competition next season, Roberto De Zerbi who will be their coach next season seems to have a very big ambition to bring a lot of changes to Marseille next season, the arrival of Greenwood will be able to add depth to their squad especially the midfield sector which was indeed their weakness last season, Greenwood will be the right choice for De Zerbi, especially Greenwood a player who can play in several other positions in a team, so that it will be easier for De Zerbi to place him according to the needs of the team later, in addition to Greenwood, currently Marseille is also eyeing Niketiah from Arsenal to replace Aubameyang who has reached a personal agreement with the Arab League team.

In the 2022–23 season Marseille finished third in the table. But last season we saw a decline in Marseille's performance. This team was in eighth place in the table. And Marseille managed to win only 13 matches. The team's performance deteriorated badly in the last season.

This season Marseille management are looking to add depth to their squad. They are keen to strengthen the squad. This is why Marseille management wants to add young talented players like Mason Greenwood to the squad. Mason Greenwood is a talented player. He will be able to perform well in Ligue 1 next season if he can adapt properly to the players at Marseille.

Greenwood was not lucky because if the drama hadn't happened to this player he could have played in a great team but now he is under contract with Manchester United while he had to play for the team on loan which cannot be good for him.
On the other hand, Marseille was lucky to have Greenweed on the team. This prayer had a good performance in Getafe and he can definitely help Marseille.

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Quote from: Velvet78 on July 17, 2024, 04:02:30 AM

NY Times says Marseille has already reached agreement in principle with Greenwood.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5628329/2024/07/16/mason-greenwood-marseille-manchester-united/

The details of the offered deals are:

- €31.6m in total
- €27.6m fixed fee + €4m add-ons

Manchester United didn't have an intention to let him go for a cheap price as far as I know. Talks were pointing a sum around €50m. If it's true then I'm really curious about the Red Devils' answer to the offer.

He is a really talented youngster honestly. If I were in their place I would try to keep him or make as much profit as possible.

Wow, I did not know Marseille had that much money. Paying 28 or so million euros for Greenwood isn't bad, he definitely deserves that much money and he should be bought as well, loan offers were a lot, a dozen teams would be able to not only pay Greenwoods salary, but pay even some extra to United as well, so in order to make a change, United just wanted to get rid of him.

First of all, I would like to mentioned that he got cleared from accusations, which is a very important thing, he is not guilty of what he was accused of, and considering what we are seeing right now, I do not think that it really matters that much neither, we shouldn't really be considering that as a big deal, it's just what we have seen so far.

However, if we are going to talk about a situation that is getting wider and bigger, then we could also talk about the fact that Marseille bought themselves a player for cheaper than what he normally would have worth if this did not happen. It means that Greenwoods curse, became Marseilles blessing, while they wouldn't say that exactly because it would be upsetting to keep reminding Greenwood what could have happened, it's definitely a benefit that Marseille took advantage of.

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Quote from: Smack That Ace on July 17, 2024, 04:59:44 AM

In the 2022–23 season Marseille finished third in the table. But last season we saw a decline in Marseille's performance. This team was in eighth place in the table. And Marseille managed to win only 13 matches. The team's performance deteriorated badly in the last season.

This season Marseille management are looking to add depth to their squad. They are keen to strengthen the squad. This is why Marseille management wants to add young talented players like Mason Greenwood to the squad. Mason Greenwood is a talented player. He will be able to perform well in Ligue 1 next season if he can adapt properly to the players at Marseille.

In my opinion last season Marseille did a fatal mistakes because they had decide to hire Genarro Gattuso in the beginning of season and under Gattuso Marseille even was failed to advances to the group stages of Champion League and in Ligue 1 Marseille performing poor because with total 24 matches under Gattuso Marseille only gets 9 wins and this makes their position is out from top 4

Actually i have already to gave my opinion about Gattuso before the league begin because although he is a good player but as a manager Gattuso is a mediocre and before train Marseille he was quite often to sacked and his track record makes me very doubt the arrival of Gattuso will give positive impact for Marseille performance and my prediction was correct because within 6 month Marseille has decide to sacked him

Marseille seems have already to learn from their mistakes and they did some of improvement including to their squad but a bit shocked to see their manager Roberto De Zerbi because i never thought De Zerbi will accept the job as Marseille manager because previously he was linked to several big clubs however regarding Mason Greenwood transfer congratulation for Marseille because they can successfully to gets his signature and i am confident the arrival of Greenwood will makes Marseille stronger

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Quote from: Palakka on July 17, 2024, 12:50:10 PM

Losing Mbappe I think it won't have much of an effect on PSG front line next season if their can get another striker at the later, PSG have lost messi and neymar but didn't make PSG collapse as a team, so losing Mbappe probably won't make PSG collapse either, and we're just waiting for time for them to get a replacement for Mbappe.

Mbappe was the most important player in PSG's squad. PSG's main scorer was Mbappe. And this team was also dependent on Mbappe as we saw. Hence, Mbappe's absence will definitely see PSG's performance deteriorate.

But Luis Enrique is an experienced coach. He will surely try to find someone suitable for his squad as a replacement for Mbappe. But we still don't know which player Luis Enrique will add to the squad as a replacement for Mbappe. Perhaps Luis Enrique will be interested in adding Osimhen to the squad. PSG's attacking performance is likely to stabilize if Osimhen joins PSG. Osimhen is a very talented player.

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Quote from: MAAManda on July 17, 2024, 12:48:57 PM

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On the other hand, this deal will also see Mason Greenwood contracted for 5 years and I think Marseille made the right move. However, if progress shows good things and Mason Greenwood's performance can be sharper, then Marseille will also benefit from his sale in the future. But first Marseille's focus is on needing his services to improve the attack line which has started to dull since last season.

This is a good step from Marseille considering that the results they got last season were not good, only being ranked 8th in the Ligue 1 standings, even though the previous season they were in the top 3 of the standings. Mason Greenwood is also still young (22 years), this could be a double advantage for Marseille, on the one hand they get a new striker to add to the squad, especially on the front line, and on the other hand it's a long-term investment, last season with Getafe he was successful made 10 goals & 7 assists from 30 appearances, not bad at all.

Not only did they finish in a bad position, because Marseille may also have been a worse team last season because they failed to finish in a better position than Lyon, who previously had bad results at the bottom of the standings. With results like that, of course Marseille really needs to make improvements regarding better players in every line to be able to make Marseille get better results in every match. Although indeed, we also cannot fully believe that Mason Greenwood will have a great impact for Marseille.

But at least, since Mason Greenwood was loaned to Getafe last season, it seems that Mason Greenwood's performance and quality have also improved again, although not completely well. Because, considering that Mason Greenwood is also still young, that gives Mason Greenwood a great opportunity to play for Marseille. Because maybe, Mason Greenwood is able to produce good results, at least to make Marseille strong enough to compete in the Champions League zone in the Ligue 1 standings later.

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Quote from: Chilwell on July 16, 2024, 03:18:58 PM

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PSG does not need to spend much to compete in the French league. But this team's only target was never the league, they always targeted UCL and they spent accordingly. Now they have removed Mbappe and sold him, they need to make transfers to fill his place, for this they need to make a lot of meetings, convince the players and managers, work extra hours and at the same time increase the offers for the players they want.

I really agree with you, indeed what PSG are targeting is not French league but champions league but unfortunately their dream as not come true after gathering top players but still it doesn't work out, now Mbappe his done and he was the face of PSG and now he went to Real Madrid, PSG will find it difficult to get Mbappe replacement because he was special to them in time of scoring goal, my worry is that can PSG get a replacement fast because the season is near, I know they will definitely do well even though Mbappé is not among them, they will only fill is absent in short term before they can get partial Mbappé.

So far the ligue 1 trophy has no again the main target of PSG after they spent a lot of money in building the PSG squad so far, since PSG was taken over by the new owners, their it directly made PSG a team that dominated ligue 1 and managed to continue to win the ligue 1 trophy so far, but this did not make PSG owners satisfied and instead increased their target to win the Champions League trophy for the first time in the history club, the Champions League trophy has been the main target of PSG and that is why they continue to gather star players of their main squad so far, but unfortunately the depth of the squad owned by PSG is not supported by a good enough mentality so far in competing in the Champions League.
Losing Mbappe I think it won't have much of an effect on PSG front line next season if their can get another striker at the later, PSG have lost messi and neymar but didn't make PSG collapse as a team, so losing Mbappe probably won't make PSG collapse either, and we're just waiting for time for them to get a replacement for Mbappe.

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Quote from: rendravolt on July 17, 2024, 03:19:11 AM

On the other hand, this deal will also see Mason Greenwood contracted for 5 years and I think Marseille made the right move. However, if progress shows good things and Mason Greenwood's performance can be sharper, then Marseille will also benefit from his sale in the future. But first Marseille's focus is on needing his services to improve the attack line which has started to dull since last season.

This is a good step from Marseille considering that the results they got last season were not good, only being ranked 8th in the Ligue 1 standings, even though the previous season they were in the top 3 of the standings. Mason Greenwood is also still young (22 years), this could be a double advantage for Marseille, on the one hand they get a new striker to add to the squad, especially on the front line, and on the other hand it's a long-term investment, last season with Getafe he was successful made 10 goals & 7 assists from 30 appearances, not bad at all.

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Quote from: Lidger on July 16, 2024, 08:39:24 AM

Maybe they won't get a player like Mbappe but spending money in this transfer window will definitely strengthen their squad.

They should do it, they have all that money for something, they can't be marrying the players with the club, because now they have different proposals and different ways of seeing things in other teams, I personally say something, it's not that I like that Mbappé has gone to Madrid, in fact it's the first time in history that Florentino Pérez accepts a player who initially said no to the club and preferred PSG at that moment, so due to his high ego I hope he doesn't Interfere with the harmony of Madrid, however everything is a risk, in fact in life there are always risks, in this case PSG has to go out and form a good team if it wants to continue being the best in Ligue 1.

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Quote from: Altryist on July 17, 2024, 09:39:41 AM

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They should wake up because losing Mbappe is really a big problem, it's not same like losing Neymar and Messi where they're replaceable. If PSG didn't sign any great player, their goal should be win Ligue 1 since there's a high chance they might not become a champion in this season.

Lyon have successfully sign 7 players, 4 of them are from Premier League. I wouldn't be surprised if Lyon will finish in the top 3 considering they can comeback from relegation zone to rank 6 in the last season.

That is, the loss of Messi and Neymar was not significant at all for PSG, but the loss of Mbappe was a disaster? A little strange logic, in fact, the loss of Messi was also significant, it immediately affected their attack. I don’t think they were very worried about Neymar, because they wanted to get rid of him for a long time, the salary list only improved from this, and they were not very happy with his results. Mbappe's importance was only that he was the only striker left from this great trio in the team, but his departure was expected, and PSG just need to find a replacement for him, he is not the only striker who can score goals.

My thoughts also don't match the logic that OP conveyed, because it's like considering Mbappe to be the most important player compared to the other two players who were at Paris Saint Germain. Yes, I will not deny that Mbappe is a player who has contributed a lot to the team's play, but that doesn't mean he is everything that will determine the fate of Paris Saint Germain in the future.
Personally I would have an even squad rather than just having one or two star players. Even though the squad they have is not that luxurious, by having an even squad that can work well together, the team will be more solid than just having one or two star players. Meanwhile, we know that Paris Saint German always has star players, but in terms of play their teamwork is still lacking, so this makes them always have difficulties when facing teams that are at the same level as them.

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Quote from: Helena Yu on July 17, 2024, 03:07:56 AM

They should wake up because losing Mbappe is really a big problem, it's not same like losing Neymar and Messi where they're replaceable. If PSG didn't sign any great player, their goal should be win Ligue 1 since there's a high chance they might not become a champion in this season.

Lyon have successfully sign 7 players, 4 of them are from Premier League. I wouldn't be surprised if Lyon will finish in the top 3 considering they can comeback from relegation zone to rank 6 in the last season.

That is, the loss of Messi and Neymar was not significant at all for PSG, but the loss of Mbappe was a disaster? A little strange logic, in fact, the loss of Messi was also significant, it immediately affected their attack. I don’t think they were very worried about Neymar, because they wanted to get rid of him for a long time, the salary list only improved from this, and they were not very happy with his results. Mbappe's importance was only that he was the only striker left from this great trio in the team, but his departure was expected, and PSG just need to find a replacement for him, he is not the only striker who can score goals.

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Quote from: rendravolt on July 17, 2024, 03:19:11 AM

Marseille are still battling to secure a move for Mason Greenwood within 48 hours and it looks like it will be a thrilling few moments if the deal is locked. Marseille has given 30 million euros including bonuses to Manchester United and it seems this is still a serious consideration for the Red Devils whether to release the player or not.

On the other hand, this deal will also see Mason Greenwood contracted for 5 years and I think Marseille made the right move. However, if progress shows good things and Mason Greenwood's performance can be sharper, then Marseille will also benefit from his sale in the future. But first Marseille's focus is on needing his services to improve the attack line which has started to dull since last season.

Source: https://twitter.com/FabriceHawkins/status/1813327406276440207

First, I'm excited they have a great likewise sound manager handling Mason Greenwood next season ( Roberto De Zebri ). Mason is a fine lad, we all saw what he could do for Manchester United before whatever that happened to him shut down his career for a while. This deal is already a done deal right now. You can go see for yourself again. It's the best decision for both Manchester United and Mason Greenwood. He needs a fresh start elsewhere and I'm certain he'll do well with Marseille next season.

Mason Greenwood would definitely be worth more than they bought him in the next two seasons. I wouldn't be surprised seeing him moving to another club in the future. He is one of the finest yougins before the issues came up with his girlfriend. Godspeed to him. While making swinging that way, former Arsenal and Borrussia Dortmund forward Per Emerick Aubameyang has left the club for a Saudi Arabian Premier League Club.

He had such great impacts for them last season during the European Europa League Competition. The fans will miss watching him. What a player!

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Quote from: mammusu on July 17, 2024, 04:49:21 AM

Quote from: rendravolt on July 17, 2024, 03:19:11 AM

Marseille are still battling to secure a move for Mason Greenwood within 48 hours and it looks like it will be a thrilling few moments if the deal is locked. Marseille has given 30 million euros including bonuses to Manchester United and it seems this is still a serious consideration for the Red Devils whether to release the player or not.

On the other hand, this deal will also see Mason Greenwood contracted for 5 years and I think Marseille made the right move. However, if progress shows good things and Mason Greenwood's performance can be sharper, then Marseille will also benefit from his sale in the future. But first Marseille's focus is on needing his services to improve the attack line which has started to dull since last season.

Source: https://twitter.com/FabriceHawkins/status/1813327406276440207

Marseille continue to try to immediately complete the deal so that it happens immediately because indeed they are currently starting to improve the squad to face the competition next season, Roberto De Zerbi who will be their coach next season seems to have a very big ambition to bring a lot of changes to Marseille next season, the arrival of Greenwood will be able to add depth to their squad especially the midfield sector which was indeed their weakness last season, Greenwood will be the right choice for De Zerbi, especially Greenwood a player who can play in several other positions in a team, so that it will be easier for De Zerbi to place him according to the needs of the team later, in addition to Greenwood, currently Marseille is also eyeing Niketiah from Arsenal to replace Aubameyang who has reached a personal agreement with the Arab League team.

In the 2022–23 season Marseille finished third in the table. But last season we saw a decline in Marseille's performance. This team was in eighth place in the table. And Marseille managed to win only 13 matches. The team's performance deteriorated badly in the last season.

This season Marseille management are looking to add depth to their squad. They are keen to strengthen the squad. This is why Marseille management wants to add young talented players like Mason Greenwood to the squad. Mason Greenwood is a talented player. He will be able to perform well in Ligue 1 next season if he can adapt properly to the players at Marseille.

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Quote from: rendravolt on July 17, 2024, 03:19:11 AM

Marseille are still battling to secure a move for Mason Greenwood within 48 hours and it looks like it will be a thrilling few moments if the deal is locked. Marseille has given 30 million euros including bonuses to Manchester United and it seems this is still a serious consideration for the Red Devils whether to release the player or not.

On the other hand, this deal will also see Mason Greenwood contracted for 5 years and I think Marseille made the right move. However, if progress shows good things and Mason Greenwood's performance can be sharper, then Marseille will also benefit from his sale in the future. But first Marseille's focus is on needing his services to improve the attack line which has started to dull since last season.

Source: https://twitter.com/FabriceHawkins/status/1813327406276440207

Marseille continue to try to immediately complete the deal so that it happens immediately because indeed they are currently starting to improve the squad to face the competition next season, Roberto De Zerbi who will be their coach next season seems to have a very big ambition to bring a lot of changes to Marseille next season, the arrival of Greenwood will be able to add depth to their squad especially the midfield sector which was indeed their weakness last season, Greenwood will be the right choice for De Zerbi, especially Greenwood a player who can play in several other positions in a team, so that it will be easier for De Zerbi to place him according to the needs of the team later, in addition to Greenwood, currently Marseille is also eyeing Niketiah from Arsenal to replace Aubameyang who has reached a personal agreement with the Arab League team.

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Quote from: rendravolt on July 17, 2024, 03:19:11 AM

Marseille are still battling to secure a move for Mason Greenwood within 48 hours and it looks like it will be a thrilling few moments if the deal is locked. Marseille has given 30 million euros including bonuses to Manchester United and it seems this is still a serious consideration for the Red Devils whether to release the player or not.

On the other hand, this deal will also see Mason Greenwood contracted for 5 years and I think Marseille made the right move. However, if progress shows good things and Mason Greenwood's performance can be sharper, then Marseille will also benefit from his sale in the future. But first Marseille's focus is on needing his services to improve the attack line which has started to dull since last season.

Source: https://twitter.com/FabriceHawkins/status/1813327406276440207

NY Times says Marseille has already reached agreement in principle with Greenwood.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5628329/2024/07/16/mason-greenwood-marseille-manchester-united/

The details of the offered deals are:

- €31.6m in total
- €27.6m fixed fee + €4m add-ons

Manchester United didn't have an intention to let him go for a cheap price as far as I know. Talks were pointing a sum around €50m. If it's true then I'm really curious about the Red Devils' answer to the offer.

He is a really talented youngster honestly. If I were in their place I would try to keep him or make as much profit as possible.

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Marseille are still battling to secure a move for Mason Greenwood within 48 hours and it looks like it will be a thrilling few moments if the deal is locked. Marseille has given 30 million euros including bonuses to Manchester United and it seems this is still a serious consideration for the Red Devils whether to release the player or not.

On the other hand, this deal will also see Mason Greenwood contracted for 5 years and I think Marseille made the right move. However, if progress shows good things and Mason Greenwood's performance can be sharper, then Marseille will also benefit from his sale in the future. But first Marseille's focus is on needing his services to improve the attack line which has started to dull since last season.

Source: https://twitter.com/FabriceHawkins/status/1813327406276440207

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Quote from: Hvdv on July 17, 2024, 01:09:45 AM

There was no financial problem for PSG. Naturally, their target was always UCL. After such a team cannot achieve its goal, it needs to work harder towards that goal with better transfers, but PSG seems to be a little tired of this. The French league is already a very simple level for them. There is a huge difference in quality between them and other teams. So if they are to fully focus on their goals this year, they must convince the best players. This is very difficult because League 1 is not a dream league like the Premier League.

They should wake up because losing Mbappe is really a big problem, it's not same like losing Neymar and Messi where they're replaceable. If PSG didn't sign any great player, their goal should be win Ligue 1 since there's a high chance they might not become a champion in this season.

Lyon have successfully sign 7 players, 4 of them are from Premier League. I wouldn't be surprised if Lyon will finish in the top 3 considering they can comeback from relegation zone to rank 6 in the last season.

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Quote from: Hanadawa on July 16, 2024, 11:48:43 AM

Euro 2024 is over. The players will leave their national teams and return to their respective clubs or take holidays. I'm sure PSG management has negotiated with several players they will recruit. Several weeks ago there were many rumors circulating that PSG had entered into negotiations with Osimhen's agent, but was the transfer canceled because the two parties could not reach an agreement? To be honest, without Mbappe, I also think PSG is still hard to beat in their league and has a very big chance of becoming Ligue 1 champions again. But PSG has a bigger goal, namely becoming UCL champions. So I think this season Enrique will buy several players to strengthen their squad and hope to compete in the UCL.

Competing in the UCL will still be PSG's main target because the team will not be affected at all by not having Mbappe in their squad because in the past PSG has also experienced things like now when they lost Messi and Neymar so for now PSG's condition itself is still will remain strong in the domestic league. Even though PSG still has to add more strength at this time in order to be able to compete fiercely in the UCL because in the UCL there are many teams that are at the best level in every season.

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......but I believe that he can become a coach that all PSG fans will be proud of because he is one of the coaches who has always dared to speculate about playing PSG without Mbappe before and in this way Enrique was able to measure how strong PSG's performance will be without Mbappe.
After everything was answered, Enrique knew several things he had to do to build a stronger club by bringing in more reliable midfielders.

Yes, this will be a new challenge for Enrique to manage PSG without top superstar football players. He once said that he still wanted Mbappe to stay at PSG, but after the decision, Enrique remained confident that he was still able to keep PSG strong, with PSG's composition without Mbappe. He quite believes in the various talents that are actually possessed by the talented footballers at PSG who are actually very good and solid as a team. Therefore, he is not necessarily looking for a replacement who is equal to Mbappe. Even when Mbappe was still at PSG, Enrique had started to compose the team without Mbappe, because after all they had to get used to it because Mbappe would also be leaving.

PSG was previously very interested in signing Barcelona's young star, Lamine Yamal. However, recent news suggests that Barcelona blocks PSG's $200m bid for Lamine Yamal. Barcelona has closed the possibility of transferring the young Spanish player and keeps him at Barcelona.

Apart from that, PSG's hopes of getting Kvaratskhelia also seem to be very difficult or will even fail, because the player prefers to stay at his club, Napoli. whereas previously, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia was one of the most rumored candidates to move to PSG after the departure of Mbappe.

So, PSG will need more and more efforts to bring in top players to strengthen the team, because the competition in the French League may be normal, however, their target is still the UCL, which will be very difficult to achieve.

Source: FC Barcelona blocks PSG's $200m bid for teenage sensation Yamal
Source: PSG's dream of landing Kvaratskhelia was shattered by Napoli

PSG does not need to spend much to compete in the French league. But this team's only target was never the league, they always targeted UCL and they spent accordingly. Now they have removed Mbappe and sold him, they need to make transfers to fill his place, for this they need to make a lot of meetings, convince the players and managers, work extra hours and at the same time increase the offers for the players they want.

There was no financial problem for PSG. Naturally, their target was always UCL. After such a team cannot achieve its goal, it needs to work harder towards that goal with better transfers, but PSG seems to be a little tired of this. The French league is already a very simple level for them. There is a huge difference in quality between them and other teams. So if they are to fully focus on their goals this year, they must convince the best players. This is very difficult because League 1 is not a dream league like the Premier League.

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Quote from: bering on July 16, 2024, 08:47:14 AM

Lens cannot be considered as big team in Ligue 1 but they are tough team in this league and last season is one of Lens best achievement during their participant at Ligue 1 because they can being an the runner up and playing at champion league but in the beginning of this season Lens performance a bit decline but luckily before this season ended Lens can able to bounce back and finally finish at 7th place

Lens' performance since he was promoted to League 1 is in the ordinary category but he has always been in the top 10 in the last 4 seasons and that is not bad and even finished runner up in the 2022/23 season but his performance declined in the following season because he had to participate In the Champions League, it is natural that Lens will have difficulty stabilizing their performance.

Quote from: bering on July 16, 2024, 08:47:14 AM

Unfortunately their previous manager Franck Haise has decide to withdraw from his position because he will being an the manager of Nice starting next season and i think this is a big lost for Lens because since 2020 Franck Haise has successfully to bringing Lens to performing stable in Ligue 1 and one of his best achievement is when Lens can playing at champion league

It is very unfortunate that the coach had to leave because while being coached by this coach, Lens continued to improve, but I also understand that every coach would want his career to continue to progress by coaching a club at a higher level than the previous club and he also needs experience in various clubs.

Quote from: bering on July 16, 2024, 08:47:14 AM

Lens has new manager now Will Still and if i am not mistaken he is currently as one of the youngest manager in Ligue 1 because currently Will Still age is 31 years old and what he was done in Reims actually is really good because this season Reims can finish at 9th place under him and about transfer players apparently Lens isn't too active this summer.

Yes, Lens has recruited a new coach, but the new coach doesn't have much good experience. He is a coach who has average abilities, but his skills when coaching Reims can be used as a reference. Hopefully he can be a good fit at Lens.
I don't think Lens has any intention of bringing in any players because up to now they are still quiet in the transfer window. Moreover, League 1 clubs don't have as much finances as other leagues, so I think Lens is just keeping existing players.

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Quote from: el kaka22 on July 15, 2024, 12:58:34 PM

Lens still looks like a good team, in the past 4 seasons, they finished 7th 3 times, which I do not think I have seen a team be 7th for that many frequent times lol, but finished second previous season which is amazing for them. When a team is managed properly, you can see how great they can become, which is the most important thing for these teams.

Yes, but the club's decline was quite significant. Previously, they were able to become runners up in the French League 1 and entered the UCL even though they lost in the group stage. However, last season, they even failed to survive to enter the UEFA Europa League. This 7th position is the same as their position in 2021-2022, but in terms of points earned, last year it was also much less, only 51 points, whereas in 2021-2022, they got 62 points.

And for this season, their purchases are still not experiencing very rapid progress. Yes, we really understand the financial conditions of small clubs there, it's definitely not easy to get good finances.
They just got 2 players that they bought, namely:
1. Johnner Chávez
A Left-Back who they bought from the Esporte Clube Bahia club
2. Herve Koffi
A Goalkeeper from R Charleroi SC

Source: RC Lens Transfer

Where, neither of them are famous players. So, we can't expect much from this club, unless they can provide much more significant and consistent progress, so that they can take over at least some of the clubs above it in the future.

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