Topic: French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1) - page 224. (Read 189248 times)

For dominance in Ligue 1 I am not sure there is another club next season that can beat PSG because they have indeed formed as a strong team with a more even player capacity in all positions. Mbappe's departure will not necessarily make PSG have difficulty in the Champions League because if you look at PSG's ability, it is still sufficient to buy some of the players needed. Now what Luis Enrique needs to think about is how to maximize and try to find the players needed to help the team be more solid.

If management gives him the freedom to buy players, Luis Enrique's steps will be much easier. Because actually it is not seen from the big name but the players who are bought have the best ability to work together with the team. This is a tough task that must be completed and PSG can fix the team to be stronger when competing in the Champions League next season.

There is no need for Alvarez to leave Manchester City like I said before. He is already playing for one of the best teams in Europe. He is able to find so many chances to play at the same time. Why would he want to leave in this situation right?   

Besides PSG should be out of his mind already. Just as you said playing in the Ligue 1 by leaving the Premier League doesn't make sense. It is a big prestige loss. He is showing his skills much more comfortably in his current place. It is going to be really difficult for PSG to convince players in similar situation in my opinion. After Mbappe's departure they have got much weaker and they will need to find a solution to this until leagues start again.

This could be the main reason that Julian Alvarez should consider, because apart from the possibility of getting a trophy through the team he plays for, he himself also has to highlight how his career will develop in the future. But he can also follow in the footsteps of Mbappe, who was at PSG for a very long time, but eventually moved to another team in a more competitive league. Because Ligue1 is known for not being very competitive, so there is no curiosity for the audience that one or two matches have been missed.

but will Manchester City also agree to let go of one of its valuable players? In my opinion, it will not be so easy for them to let go of this player, because this player is still young and is a player who can still be relied on in the long term. Julian Alvarez has a contract until 2028 with Manchester City, and with a long contract like that, it means that Manchester City really has long-term goals with this player.
However, I don't know if Pep Guardiola will leave, because the role of the coach will also affect the players. It could be that when Pep Guardiola left he also wanted to leave following the departure of his coach, this is something that is difficult to explain. but for now I still believe, as long as Manchester City is still with Pep Guardiola then Julian Alvarez will also still be in their squad.
Unless Julian Alvarez prioritizes money, then maybe he wants to leave, on the other hand I also doubt he prioritizes money.

PSG will certainly experience ups and downs in performance at the start of the season, Enrique squad needs time to adapt to Mbappe departure to Madrid, because so far they have been very dependent on Mbappe. However, PSG can still dominate the competition in Ligue 1 thanks to the depth of the squad they have, Mbappe departure gives other players the opportunity to develop, Enrique is not short of options even though he did not bring in a replacement for Mbappe in the summer transfer window. Given its financial strength, PSG will probably continue to dominate Ligue 1 for the next few seasons.

Next season the gap will continue in Ligue 1, but I hope one of the Ligue 1 contestants can perform impressively to put pressure on PSG. As Leverkusen did in the Bundesliga, it made Ligue 1 more competitive and more interesting. In fact, this can make PSG stronger when playing in the Champions League, because they have tough competition at domestic level. This season PSG has been very successful at domestic level, Enrique managed the team in his first season. Regarding Julian Alvarez, I think PSG will have difficulty recruiting him because Man City has no intention of letting him go, besides that PSG will have to compete with Atletico and Chelsea if they want the player.

You are right, even though Ligue 1 is one of the big leagues in Europe, some people think Ligue 1 is not interesting, this happens because the competition here is very minimal and is only dominated by Paris Saint Germain. For Paris Saint Germain, becoming champions in Ligue 1 is something that is very easy, because they have everything needed to make them champions. Meanwhile for other clubs it becomes difficult because of the presence of Paris Saint Germain.

Julian Alvarez going to Paris Saint Germain? To be honest, personally I don't want him to be here, because he is a player who has good abilities and he can compete in a bigger and more competitive league than in Ligue 1. His presence at Manchester City also makes a big contribution to them. , that means he can really compete even though the competition at Manchester City is not easy, and he is even in the most competitive league at the moment.

Ligue 1 isn't as popular as the Premier League, and some label it a "farmers' league" with a snicker. But PSG's not your typical club. Always competing in the Champions League gives Julián a chance to shine against the best. This young, hungry boy has a lot of potential. Who'll refuse PSG's huge cash offer? Money isn't everything. He needs a platform to prove himself on the biggest stage. Neymar too jumped and is still a global celebrity

While charming, the Premier League is hardly the pinnacle of football. Players evolve, leave a legacy, and push themselves. PSG could be the ideal fit for Julián Alvarez. Man, trust his intuition.

There is no doubt that Paris Saint Germain can meet the large salary that the player wants according to the agreement, they are a team with a very good financial situation, so spending a lot of money on the player's salary is not a problem for them. They have even done it to 3 players at once, Messi, Neymar and Mbappe, they spent a lot of money on these 3 players and it didn't cause them financial difficulties.

But what you say is true, Julian Alvarez is still 24 years old and with his good performance he can find an even better team. In Ligue 1, especially when he was at Paris Saint Germain he wouldn't find tough competition and I don't think that's good for a player. Because no matter how good a player is, they still have to face tough competition to keep them from being in their comfort zone which ultimately is not good for their career. If Paris Saint Germain wants him, then he should consider not accepting the offer that comes.

It looks like PSG will soon get a new goalkeeper this summer and he will be Matvey Sazonov. Previously, Keylor Navas said goodbye to PSG at the end of the season along with Kylian Mbappe too. Matvey Sazonov is the goalkeeper for one of the teams in the Russian league, namely FC Krasnodar, and he is quite young, 25 years old.

As a second or back-up goalkeeper, Gianluigi Donnaruma seems quite suitable, especially since PSG currently doesn't have another good goalkeeper in the squad. PSG seems to be starting to work optimally after this season ends and they don't want to delay any more time to strengthen the depth of their squad. Apart from that, although this has not yet been confirmed, PSG is very confident that they can bring him in, especially since the two parties have been in contact since last May with an offer of 20 million euros from PSG and a contract until 2029.

Source: https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1799469046766936508

One by one the star players left PSG in the last few seasons, after Cavani, Messi and Neymar left, precisely this season PSG also lost the players they have relied on in the last 6 seasons, Mbappe has now officially become a Madrid player and of course Mbappe departure now leaves a big hole in the front line that must be immediately covered by PSG in order to remain a scary team next season,  Mbappe departure will certainly not have much effect on their dominance in Ligue 1, because there is indeed no other team that is stronger and dominating than PSG at the moment, but losing Mbappe will of course have a big impact on PSG competition in the Champions League next season.

The management continues to improve the team every season and even they continue to bring in a coach who is considered capable of handling PSG, but unfortunately until now they are still not able to get their first champions league trophy, currently PSG of course has very high hopes for Luis Enrique and of course Enrique also still needs a lot of time and support from management to realize their dreams.

Romano's tweet has been explaining it all.

Alvarez still has a long-term contract with Manchester City and there has been no plan to let alvarez to join in another club. However, Chelsea has been associated with him, but I am unable to provide an update on this considering there has no concrete talks between chelsea and manchester city regarding alvarez. I meant that if Chelsea wants to sign Alvarez from Manchester City but the citizen does not want to sell him caused by city has sold palmer which was performing so crazly in manchester city. It's absurd that the city will sell this talented player again for the second time to the its rival which has been successfully developing palmer.
Alvarez's main lack of regular playing time was due to Haaland, who was always the most professional pick by Pep Guardiola last season. This is why he has requested the club to give him more playing time in the main squad.

It appears that Pep will strive to give Haaland and Alvarez equal playing time in the upcoming season. No chance for PSG to get him. City will not sell their best talent. Alvarez stays for another season in city.

Yes, compared to when Man City got him last season, Alvarez's market value has really increased drastically. That's so, wow...
Look at how this graph explains Alvarez's market value which has skyrocketed very quickly and significantly.



If we look at his performance, it is true that there are not enough flying hours. So far, he is still mostly on the bench. The problem is that when he plays, he can make a good contribution to Man City. And maybe this is the reason why Alvarez's market value rose very quickly this season when he was at Man City.



Source: Julián Álvarez Market value

So, is it worth it or not, Alvarez with a market value of that size, and PSG are still interested in having him, certainly because there is a special reason. And maybe it is worth it to have such talented young players. However, of course in the approach, there will be discussions about prices to be agreed upon until a deal is reached. However, so far there is still no clarity regarding this agreement.

Some big names sank after joining a Ligue 1 team, but there were also those who shone by successfully bringing change to their careers. Julian Alvarez is of course a target for PSG because PSG wants to bring in a quality striker to be able to close the gap left by Mbappe. For Julian Alvarez, of course he has to think wiser in making decisions about his future because currently he is in a big team and he can achieve many trophies in the future if he stays at Manchester City.

It is also reported that Manchester City does not want to let go of Julian Alvarez in the near future, but because he is not getting enough playing minutes, Julian Alvarez has asked to be sold in this transfer market. In this situation, of course Pep Guardiola doesn't want to lose quality players in the team, of course Pep will encourage Julian Alvarez to stay and provide more playing minutes next season. If Manchester City releases Julian Alvarez to Chelsea or PSG, they will definitely regret it in the future because Julian is a talented player and he is still very young.

the harsh reality is that PSG without Mbappe may have great difficulties in winning Ligue 1, see that so far PSG has not made any major signings since Mbappe left the team and that is not a good sign, I don't know if The management of the PSG team is waiting for the Euro games to end before making signings or not, but in my opinion they need to analyze the players very carefully because they will hardly find a very good player like Mbappe, if they only look at last season

PSG scored 81 goals and of these 81 goals, Mbappe scored 27 goals and made 7 assists



source: https://www.transfermarkt.com/kylian-mbappe/leistungsdaten/spieler/342229

and see that mbappe played 29 games while league 1 had 34 games, this is because mbappe rested in some games, but he is a player who rarely gets injured and was also largely responsible for making psg win the league 1 many times, with this departure of mbappe, I fear that psg will have difficulties in winning league 1 and it will be difficult for them to find a replacement for mbappe anytime soon, maybe they will never find one, they can hire other good players to fill the vacancy left by mbappe , but you won't find a good player at mbappe's level who can contribute like mbappe did

Actually joining PSG is not as bad as we imagine, indeed Ligue 1 is not as attractive as the Premier League, but I don't think Alvarez career will fade when he joins PSG. Financially, PSG will have no difficulty paying for Alvarez release clause from City, and PSG is also very capable of paying him a high salary.

PSG is actually not alone in hunting for Alvarez signature, where Chelsea and ATM are also very interested in the player from Argentina. Alvarez needs a team that can provide regular playing time, because at City Alvarez is always the second choice after Halaand. It seems that Alvarez is more likely to join Chelsea than PSG or ATM.

If Alvarez chooses PSG, it is clear he will be the main choice without significant competition and Enrique needs a replacement for Mbappe, while at Chelsea Alvarez will compete with Jackson and Nkunku to ensure the main place. Apart from that, if he joins PSG, Alvarez can still win trophies every season, and still play in the Champions League every season, in this case Chelsea cannot do that.

This concern is quite reasonable because after all, even if you want to deny that Mbappe is the most influential player for PSG, it is clearly impossible considering that Mbappe is the backbone of PSG in recent seasons so that when he now leaves there will definitely be a slight gap even though it does not lead to performance and achievement in Ligue 1 but the impact will be felt in the productivity of goals owned because in the last few seasons Mbappe is a player who has always been the top contributor to goals for PSG.

Julian Alvarez is currently quite good, especially until now his performance has actually been wasted by City because of the intense competition for Alvarez's position so that this can be lured with a large offer so that he moves. But besides that there is also the name Kvaratskhelia who is currently sticking out when Mbappe leaves PSG this season.
What is clear is that these two players are still playing very well and are very worthy of being taken into account so that indeed this can be a good opportunity for PSG to change the way they approach players so that what has been done to PSG by giving more benefits to one of the players does not happen again in the future.

Playing in leagues as this that literally get most players career no longer staying long enough In the spot light is what I have always spoken about because there are some leagues a bright and promising young player gets to play in after which he's career will gradually fade off and will not be in the spot light any more because such league isn't ment to really being bright and brilliant young players to Lim light.

Mbappe was able to still be in the lime light in PSG due to the record he has been able to make for himself while he played for his country side at the world cup where he was then recognized as the youngest player at the world cup that year, after the world cup much attention was focused on him so it made him still stay in the Lim light even with the fact that he was playing in PSG and his frequent appearance at the champions league too also gave him a reason to still get the kind of attention that got him still staying valuable this long enough, most other PSG players don't get the kind of attention he gets.

Even victor osimhen wanting to go to pSG has never been a good idea for me because I believe it's not a league that will promote his growth well enough, PSG isn't a team that will help you career vet the kind of attention it needs for a player to really turn out successful enough in his career and that's why even mbappe with all the game he's got, he still didn't stay back but decided to leave for a better team where he will do better in his career.

PSG can offer Julian Alvarez a big salary but the problem is what about his future career? Julian Alvarez is a talented young player playing in one of the most competitive leagues in the world. If Julian Alvarez chooses to move to PSG then he will be able to win the Ligue 1 title but I am afraid his career will decline. Not many people watch Ligue 1 compared to the EPL. This is the same as what happened to Donnarumma, whose career is no longer in the spotlight because he chose to play in the farmers' league.

Reims currently was handled by Samba Diawara as interm manager he was replace Will Still who withdraw from his position as a manager of Reims last season this because Will Still felt he was failed to meet the targets given by Reims owner because Reims only finish at 9th place and out from European zone and indeed most likely Reims will not give the contract for Samba Diawara because his position as a manager is only temporary and now Reims still look for new manager for next season but unfortunately the news about Reims is still lack of information so we still don't know who is the candidates for Reims next manager

And indeed i was found the rumours on instagram that they want to hire Davide Ancelotti but i am not sure this news will be valid or not because there was no further explanation about this and Davide Ancelotti currently as the assistant of his father Carlo Ancelotti and he has done well at Real Madrid because his combination with Carlo Ancelotti can bringing this team to gets Champion League trophy and i believe someday Davide Ancelotti can being an good manager who can surpassing his father career and if Reims is really can hire him i think that would be very fantastic and i am sure Reims will performing much better under him

Not really sure whether Manchester City will let Julian Alvarez go with a big offer from PSG and is this just a rumor?
Julian Alvarez is still a bit young, while Manchester City prefers players who have very good talent and are still very young and have advantages in various places as you said.
PSG is currently looking for players who have higher talent after Mbappe left because PSG is worried that when Mbappe leaves him his performance will definitely decline so PSG is trying to bring in Julian Alvarez even though I think this will be very impossible.
Coming back to Manchester City, if they are tempted by the big offer from PSG and won't have a problem with Julian Alvarez leaving, that could happen but the only question is whether Julian Alvarez wants to risk his career with PSG who will forever be the rulers of League 1 without being able to win a title better.