Topic: French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1) - page 224. (Read 195473 times)

Napoli wants to get rid of Victor Osimhen as they have eyes on Romelu Lukaku therefore PSG will have a good chance of signing Victor Osimhen if they want him. Victor is ready to move and also willing to reduce his wages but Napoli is holding him back as he has a very high prize tag but PSG need a star player in their squad since they have lost Mbappe to Real Madrid therefore they should go for him and not be worried about his price tag. Osimhen can fill Mbappe shoes and score many goals since the French league is less physical as the Italian league. If PSG doesn't show much interest they'll lose Osimhen to other teams as I think other top teams are following up with the transfer update and looking for a good opportunity to come in and steal Victor osimhen.

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.

It was Osimhen's own fault for accepting the contract extension because after all, at that time Osimhen was also basically very confident to stay at Napoli even though Napoli had clearly changed coaches. After all, at that time I also said that Osimhen had made the wrong choice, because it was very likely that it would be difficult to leave when the results obtained decreased after the success in the previous season to get the Scudetto.

At the moment, it is at least evident that Osimhen is difficult to leave because elite teams like PSG are also considering the feasibility of a high price but declining performance in his last season with Napoli. Although of course, basically Osimhen will still be very capable of making a big contribution if he is in the right team.

I still think that Osimhen should be sold, dude doesn't want to stay and he saw that the year they were all great was just one year and they are not all great like that. So, I think he will be asking to leave, and they will be forced to sell him.

I don't know how much they will make from him, but I am 100% sure that it will be more than sixty million, even if he forces them to sell, they won't accept anything lower, and there is a potential for upwards of hundred million, which won't be easy to find anyone to pay that much because teams that have that kind of money already have strikers so I doubt that will happen. I think his agent should just be talked to, and tell the agent to find some good offers, that's it.

Previously PSG managed to keep Mbappe in the squad after PSG offered him many privileges, but currently all PSG offers for Mbappe are unable to make him want to extend the contract, rumors about Mbappe desire to leave PSG have actually been circulating since the previous season but PSG actually ignored it and their was confident that Mbappe would stay at PSG,  but the reality is that now PSG has lost a player worth 200 million euros who left for free to Madrid,  when the rumours of Mbappe leaving were getting bigger and bigger, PSG should indeed move faster to ensure Mbappe future and that will give PSG a lot of time to sell Mbappe even though it is a little cheaper than he left for free as it is today, although PSG may not be weakened in Ligue 1, but losing Mbappe will make it difficult for them to compete in the Champions League next season, so Inevitably, PSG must look for another striker to be their mainstay next season and Osimhen seems to be a good option at the moment.

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.

Franck Haise brought stability to Lens but not success. Stability without success is useless and that's why coach Haise has left Lens. His next destination is Nice. I think Haise will bring stability at Nice. Lens has now turned over a new leaf and has brought in Will Still to lead the team. This must have come as a surprise to everyone. Still has been in the coaching kitchen from a very young age and I think he will make a name for himself for many years to come. Reims was one of the mediocre teams in Ligue 1 and Still made this team shine. Still's game plan emphasizes counter attacking football and has very little possession. Lens will actually have to completely change their tactics after Haise, but Still is a manager who makes good use of the players he has. I don't think Lens' poor transfer window will matter for Will Still.

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

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

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 because for new players i saw Lens only buy Jhoanner Chávez and Hervé Koffi and about Lens performance of next season i still confident they still stable under Will Still and probably Lens can compete for European zone

Mbappe has always been highly valued by PSG and they feel that if Mbappe leaves their club, their performance will drop drastically. Despite their best efforts, PSG could not keep Mbappe at their club as Mbappe moved to Real Madrid after thinking about his career. It was supposed to happen but PSG realized it too late. Maybe PSG thought that Mbappe would stay at their club if they gave Mbappe all the perks as well as a huge annual fee, but that was not the case. Mbappe has left PSG so their club now needs a suitable replacement for Mbappe which PSG have not been able to do so far. Maybe they won't get a player like Mbappe but spending money in this transfer window will definitely strengthen their squad.

Yes, PSG is still quite strong in League 1 even though they have lost Mbappe they also have good quality players so they don't have a problem competing in League 1, but what PSG is worried about is that when they have to compete in the Champions League, they haven't found the right players they have performance like Mbappe, they have to find him quickly before the season starts or they will fail again in the Champions League. Victor Oshimen is a player who has been strongly linked with PSG to replace Mbappe but it seems this player is not really interested in playing at PSG even though the club has made a high salary offer. Oshimen doesn't want his future to be wasted like Mbappe. He definitely also has dreams of winning the UCL title or other prestigious titles, being at PSG doesn't guarantee that apart from the domestic title.

Without Mbappé things are more difficult now , of course that doesn't mean that they can't continue being the best, just that now they have to work harder, make a new formation and be able to adapt to the new players to see how they approach the game, it should be noted that many Ligue 1 teams want to dethrone PSG and this is a fact, therefore they have to take much more care Because they win if they have them, I imagine that the other teams like Maserella, Lille, all will bet on going for that 1st place, they have a good chance, we'll see how Luis Enrique approaches it.

PSG remain adamant about Osimhen, unwilling to meet Napoli’s ₦230 billion fee




Source: https://soccernet.ng/2024/07/psg-remain-adamant-about-osimhen-unwilling-to-meet-napolis-%e2%82%a6230-billion-fee.html

PSG president, Nasser Al-Khelaifi have future plans for the club, he's doing everything within his power to ensure he gives his best and deliver excellent job for the club. Paris Saint-Germain have priorities to meet next season. Luis Enrique is a prominent coach and he's given good time to handled the club at his convenient radius. PSG have just one main trophy, the UEFA Champions League title becomes compulsory for Les Parisiens and they're doing everything for the big winnings.

PSG tried their best to win the Champions League title. PSG management spent a lot of money. But even then PSG could not progress in the Champions League. Can't dominate the Champions League. One of the reasons for PSG's poor performance in the Champions League was the lack of an experienced coach. The squad had a lot of talented and experienced players. But PSG did not have an experienced coach.

PSG have now appointed Luis Enrique in charge of the squad. Enrique is a very experienced coach. And I think Luis Enrique will be able to make this PSG squad even stronger if given enough funds and opportunities. But it is definitely time consuming. It cannot be done very quickly.

It's saddened that after several attempts by PSG to try to bring this trophy home ,PSG has been this unlucky despite the fact that they've had the presence of these trios MNM, Mbappe, Neymar and Messi play in same team and now that Mbappe who happened to be the last two leave the team among the trios, now I don't know what would actually be the faith of PSG in winning the Champions League competition henceforth and with the player replacement for Neymar.

That's true because they had big plans long before Luis Enrique arrived but they always failed to achieve success in the Champions League. To compete in Ligue 1, PSG doesn't need a lot of money to recruit other players because the strength they have now is much more sufficient and no other team has been able to break PSG's dominance for so long. Mbappe's departure will certainly make space in that position more problematic and when playing in the Champions League it will be a bit difficult for the attack line to score goals.

That is why it is important for PSG to bring in players who have experience so they can help PSG to compete. Luis Enrique definitely has the right replacement and maybe it's only a matter of time before we see the right replacement. The Champions League is always a target for any club and it is also a big target that PSG has not been able to achieve.

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.

I think we are going to see them do a lot better, we just need to make sure that we are doing all we can, and doing a better job at it as well. Lens is a proof that if you put a very reasonable and smart person in charge, then you are going to get good results, results that nobody expects from you. This is going to be tough but it has to be the most important key situation for them.

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.

Some teams have moved quickly in the current transfer market to find new players but if you pay attention of course you will see that the team first has to sell other players to get a certain amount of money, so it actually does not have a real enough effect on improving their performance next season because there are only substitutions and not additions to players in squad,  when there is indeed no improvement that has occurred in the team then how can we expect them to be able to compete for the Ligue 1 championship trophy, I think teams like Lens should be able to keep their star players and not just continue to look for cheap players and sell them when they become star players, so far the underlying reason why Ligue 1 has become a farmer league is none other than the penchant of Ligue 1 teams selling star players and indirectly making PSG even stronger in the league.

I actually don't want to compare Lens with PSG, but there is no more significant comparison for us to see at the moment that results in a gap that is too big between one club and another, many teams are financially weak but are still able to compete with strong teams in other leagues today such as Atlanta, Leverkusen,  Leipzig and even Aston Villa in the English league, who can still compete with big teams by only relying on players who have been there before in their squad, this season indeed many players from the clubs I mentioned above left for other teams but I think that will not make them weak next season because they also buy players whose quality is equal to the players they sell.

Yes @arimamib you are right. I also think that PSG is going to be fine because they have enough money to bring in players. It is definitely going to be hard for them to financially recover from the Mbappe situation. They really let a player who could give them more than 200 million for free.

Anyway, why I believe that PSG is not going to have a big problem is because they have a really good coach right now, Luis Enrique. a coach who has had incredible success with Barcelona. if they actually got him  A little earlier probably they could have even won the Champions League title. Anyway, You can't deny PSG still has a decent squad without Mbappé. They just need to get a player who is a genuine striker and will be able to score goals when needed.

There are many things that must be considered when a club wants to bring in new players, one of which is looking at their financial strength. They also definitely don't want to force themselves, because if they force themselves it will cause problems for them in the future. especially if it is related to financial problems, it will be very difficult to get out of that problem once they get into it. There are many clubs that can be taken as an example as they struggle to regain financial stability.

If you compare everything with Paris Saint Germain, I don't think it can be compared. The reason is that Paris Saint Germain is at a different level from the clubs in Ligue 1. We will be able to compare Paris Saint Germain with big clubs from other leagues. Take for example the Champions League, they are equal to the clubs that subscribe to the Champions League, and sometimes they (Paris Saint Germain) are even below it.