Topic: French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1) - page 245. (Read 195369 times)

Monaco used to be Paris Saint Germaine's biggest and strongest rival in the French league but in recent seasons, they've not been able to live up to expectations of fans of the French league. I think the reason behind their inconsistency is the fact that the club management aren't spending a lot again in signing world class players like they used to do before now. I'll be extremely happy to see them bounce back to winning ways again and competing for the biggest trophies both in domestic and European competitions. They finished as the first runners-up to Paris Saint Germaine in the French standings last season which means that Monaco will be playing European football come next season.
Now that they're going to be playing in the UEFA Champions League competition and also be competing for the French league title come next season, I think it's necessary for the club management to sign players that'll help them improve significantly in their performance. I'll be happy to see Monaco competing for the biggest trophies come next season

These squads qualified for Ligue 1. Give 'em credit for that. Auxerre, Metz, Le Havre – they've got heart, but Ligue 1 is the big leagues.  The talent gap is wider. The intensity of the pressure is higher. Although last season they showed promise, that was Ligue 2. Metz and Le Havre must prove themselves all over once more.

PSG's money doesnt exist in these teams. They cannot simply buy their path to the top. They gotta be smarter. Better coaching. Better tactics. Perhaps discover a diamond in the raw form among players. Its a tough road ahead. They gotta adapt, and they gotta adapt fast. Should they not, well, you know what happens - its back to Ligue 2.

Monaco will be very busy next season because they will playing at Champion League and finally after 5 years absense they will playing at this competition again and looking forward to see their performance next season whether Monaco can managed their consistency or not because unlike previous season which they only playing at Ligue 1 and next season Monaco have to playing with several different competitions which is not easy for them

About their performance in Ligue 1 i thought Monaco can being an strong contender for PSG for race title because at the beginning of season Monaco performing well they even can occupy first place several times but unfortunately consistency is still their main problem because Monaco has been slipped and lost several times which makes them only able to occupy runner up place at the end of this season and for transfer players i have to says the news about them is still lack because i couldn't find any information who is their target player for this summer but first of all Monaco should be give Wissam Ben Yedder contract extension because he is Monaco top scorer this season so he deserved to gets new contract and besides that i think Monaco should be buy new attacking players because front lines is one of their weaknesses of this season

Xavi Simons' contract runs until 2027, so at the moment we are talking about extending the rent. He spent last season with Leipzig and now he would like to extend his rent again. Bayern would also like to have this player at the team, but if he spent a year in Leipzig, then it is clear that he made friends there and would like to continue working in Leipzig, although if we evaluate this from a development perspective, he should consider Bayern, but it is not clear whether he will be able to get enough playing time in this team.

Monaco is a team that can be said to be a team that can compete in Ligue 1, but again consistency is their main problem, where they cannot maintain their performance every season, so they often find it difficult to compete, especially competing with Paris Saint Germain . Even though I see that they are very capable of competing closely, as long as they can have consistent performances. I think this is the job of coaches in Ligue 1, where they have to be able to make their team play consistently every season.
Monaco is a clear example, this season they are in second place in the final standings, but if we go to the previous season, we will see they are in 6th place in the final standings. This is proof that most of the teams in Ligue 1 cannot maintain their consistency well so they have difficulty competing. We can only see Paris Saint Germain as a fairly consistent team, although that really doesn't need to be said.

PSG and RB Leipzig are potential for haunting talents. Xavi Simons is 21 years and still young, he's in possession of stellar stats in both country and club level football. He's a key player for Netherlands and have played a major role under Netherlands headcoach, Ronald Koeman. Perhapes Xavi Simons have made his intention clear, he's not talking about any possible moves either leaving or extending his contract, everything concerning his decision will be made after the Euros because he doesn't want to be distracted from performing good job.

Simons has made himself develop at RB Leipzig and he is in the spotlight of many clubs to bring him from PSG because Simons has not yet found a place at PSG, with many clubs interested in him, one of which is Munich which is very ambitious to bring him in. This is a good thing for him because he can develop with a team that has good performance and also the Bundesliga is better than the French League and with this he can decide to leave PSG and work with a team that really wants his performance.

It seems like we have different opinions but it's very interesting to discuss and I understand why you say it's not about winning but also the sensation of tension when you see the club you play for having to compete strongly to get a winning result too, right?
Meanwhile, for me, for example, in League 1, having a player like Mbappe, of course many people bet on PSG because the match will be easier to predict because Mbappe is one of the best scorers in League 1 and I'm sure you also remember how PSG performed without Mbappe at that time which made disappointed, many people bet on PSG but actually lost.
From my statement, there will definitely be a huge decline in the number of viewers in League 1, which will decrease after all Mbappe fans will also follow him to LaLiga and the PSG owner's efforts will continue to try to maintain League 1 to remain an attractive league.

Maybe everything will be different if Enrique manages to maintain PSG's performance even though he is not with Mbappe and Enrique can give an extraordinary performance. I am sure that League 1 will again become an interesting league and is often a place to bet.

The task that Enrique must complete is currently looking for professional players to strengthen PSG's performance and ignoring all criticism, remaining focused and believing that everything will be fine.

Other team in Ligue 1 can have sufficient funds if they can find investors who are willing to provide large amounts of money, several team are already owned by Saudi billionaires and those Ligue 1 team can offer to own them.
Yes, it cannot be denied that PSG has huge finances and can bring in several great players with large expenditures of money, this makes PSG team capable of dominating the league.
But at least for now the conditions are little different, I sure Ligue 1 will have better competition in the next season and we can see how each team tries to surpass PSG which is not in the same condition as before.

So that must be the motivation for all Ligue 1 teams to be able to develop team with all the players they have, there must be sense of enthusiasm in making it happen because solid team will be difficult to beat.
But everything also lies in the performance of the coach, if the coaches of several team are able to work well then it is possible that Ligue 1 will have surprises like last season Bundesliga.

Since when is it a problem to have a lot of money? Manchester City has a lot of money, too. And by the way as far as I know the on average best paid players in Europe are those from Real Madrid. Was a year or so ago when I saw the statistics, so can't exactly tell whether it is the same today, but guys like Kroos earned 20 million at least as a standard. They can afford crazy transfers as well. Mbappe was an exception at PSG and he did it correctly, he just milked the cow as much as he could and PSG made him an almost billionaire.

But too much money isn't a problem. Bad management and bad coaches are a problem. PSG has had bad management forever now and they have had coaches that were an A- rather than an A+. Galtier, who is Galtier? Liverpool wins the Champions League with Klopp, City wins it with Guardiola, Real Madrid wins it with Zidane and Ancelotti. Who the heck is Galtier?

Enrique had an incredible timing at Barcelona. Attacking line was Neymar, Suarez and Messi in their prime. Iniesta, Busquets, Alba, Mascherano etc. I guess there is no need to go on.

The problem with PSG is that they have a little too much money right now. And they are literally someone who wants to achieve anything with money. We know that is not possible all the time. You can get everything top of the level. But you cannot buy experience with money. You also cannot buy the chemistry between the players that you should have with money. Yes, it was very unfair to Christophe Galtier what they did. They should have given Galtier more time. But as you all know, a rich club who has a lot of money is not getting good enough results and was just trying to make changes to bring in better results. Sadly they do not understand that it does not work like that.

Anyway, Luis Enrique is definitely a very good coach. he has had huge success with Barcelona previously towards the 2016/2017 time period. So if Enrique is given enough time and if he is also given enough money, I think he will be able to bring in good results.

The strength of PSG isn't totally dependent on mbappe and getting rid of mbappe isn't what PSG sees as priority at this time, all along mbappe has been if great importance to PSG so getting rid of him just like that isn't something I think they will be planning on doing, his exit from the team was mostly a self decided action and not one that was influenced in any way by PSG, As a matter of fact ,PSG would still have loved to have mbappe back in the team and wanted him extending his contract but I think he wasn't agreeing to it and so they have to let him go to his choice destination as at the end of the season and Madrid has been his choice where in he is now except for the rumors of confirmation needed and all that.

Putting together a team that will be able to get the kind of results PSG desire is very possible but the challenge has always been in them been patient enough to allowing it eventually happen, they are more bent on just getting a team that will be able to get them to win the champions league at once because they know that with the Ligue 1 they don't really have much to stress about, but then if they can monster the patience to build a team that can grwo gradually to the point of been able to win the champions league in the future then the dream will become a reality and not just wantu the dream to manifest at once when they are yet to have a team with such capacity.

Auxerre and Angers both teams was playing in Ligue 1 before but on season 2022/2023 they have been relegated to Ligue 2 after at that time Angers finish at 20th place and Auxerre in the 17th place but after being degradation they did a lot of improvement which makes them can return to Ligue 1 again within a year even Auxerre can became an the champion on Ligue 2 and for St Etienne they have done well but their process to return to Ligue 1 is more hard compared to Auxerre and Angers this because St Etienne have to through an play off stages against several teams to gets the last ticket of promotion team and in the final match dramatically they can won from Metz which they deserved to return to Ligue 1

Regarding their chances to survive in Ligue 1 i think it's hard to predicted because we still don't know whether they will be able to performing well or not but one thing for sure these teams have to bought new players to strengthen their squad but unfortunately they probably only able to bought mediocre players because correct me if i am wrong this because they status in Ligue 1 is only small teams with limited budget of money so they may only be able to buy non famous players at a cheap price

When we are talking about how PSG could still be great, we do not need to look at how good PSG is or not, we also need to look at other teams. I mean assume that PSG isn't that good anymore, which other team in the league could be better than them? Monaco? I do not think so. I think it is quite clear that we are seeing something changing with other teams at that league but not fast enough and they are not that rich at all, which is the issue.

So, while I agree that PSG will drop in quality a bit, I still think that no other team in the league got any better, so that means other teams will not be good enough to pass PSG at all, in order for PSG to fail to win, we do not need PSG to be bad only, we need some other team to be great.

That is a big management target that he has not been able to realize so that special thinking is needed so that he can realize his dream of winning the Champions League trophy. The void left by Mbappe must have a solution so that next season they remain strong when playing in the Champions League. For the Ligue 1 issue, I don't think it is a problem because losing Mbappe will not affect them to continue to dominate.

PSG must also change their mindset about recruiting ready-made players and they must build team strength from much younger players. So that the strength can be much more solid and understand each other because previously we have seen how when three star players were there and the hope of getting the Champions League trophy could not be realized.

I think PSG should evaluate Xavi Simons. I didn't understand why he wasn't included in the team. I think the Dutchman would be a player who could explode in PSG. I'm sure he can score a lot of goals in League 1. He had a not bad season in the Bundesliga, but I think PSG's plans are different. I thought you might be involved in Enrique's plans.

I love the fact that you admitted that Paris Saint Germaine would win the French league even in the absence of Kylian Mbappe. Many other people who's expressed their opinions about Paris Saint Germaine's future on this thread are always suggesting that since Kylian Mbappe have left the French champions, the club is very likely to lose their grip of dominance in the French league. Now to your opinion that Paris Saint Germaine's quest to win the UEFA Champions League title have become a more difficult task now that Mbappe is out, I partially agree with you because of the impact of the French on the Paris Saint Germaine team over the years however, I also think that Paris Saint Germaine under Luis Enrique have a chance of building a team that'll be better than any team we've seen in the club in recent years.
I think Paris Saint Germaine's main issue why they've not won the UEFA Champions League title over the years isn't because they lack quality players to do that but because they've always banked on their star players to help them win games and trophies with their individual brilliance Instead of building a team that plays team football. Luis Enrique I strongly believe have the tactical and technical ability to build a Paris Saint Germaine team that'll be almost impossible to stop in the nearest future so it's possible they can win the UEFA Champions League without the presence of Kylian Mbappe in the team.

It's time to prove that PSG can play well without Mbappe next season, Enrique of course has to work hard to prove it all to PSG management that he can make PSG a strong team without Mbappe next season, statistically I am still confident in the strength of Their current main squad is still PSG will continue to dominate Ligue 1 next season but their target should not be the Ligue 1 trophy because they have to pursue a higher level, for example the UCL because they will play again in the UCL next season.

Enrique also has to find a replacement for Mbappe because it is important to get new, more productive players next season, because the competition is quite tight in European competitions such as the UCL because many great players have moved to new teams and of course there is team competition which might make things difficult for PSG. I think this is Enrique's toughest challenge to erase that stigma and PSG must remain a strong team without Mbappe and they must be able to prove it later, at least reaching the important round in the UCL next season, the semi-finals or the UCL final in order to have progress every season.

Without Mbappe, PSG would not be as strong, and they should get rid of him. They could probably win Ligue 1 that in their sleep. But Champions League is what they should aim for. Enrique understands how to put together a group. But he needs players who can step up and make things happen. Even though working together is important, you still need experts who can do the job. Can PSG find that balance? Can they put together a team that works well together and has brilliant individuals? I am not going to lie, I am not sure. But I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.

Congratulations to the new clubs but they are well aware that they will be competing with some of the best clubs. The fundamental problem these newly promoted clubs usually have is funding to get enough quality players. When players are injured or face suspension, the lack of quality players will begin to affect the performance of the club. Reaching the top ten position will be a great achievement and exceeding it will be an extraordinary one. But in some cases, these clubs usually go back to relegation.

The main focus of the club now is to sign a replacement for the departed Kylian Mbappé. They might not get a single replacement, maybe they should gamble with two or three strikers and see the one that can wear his shoes. Maybe Luis Enrique is waiting for the UEFA European Football Championship to come to an end before they would intensively search for suitable strikers. This is because many players will determine their future after the competition since they are committed to current games. The club might just be lucky to get a player who can grow with the club to become a world-class striker. We have seen coaches building average players to greater heights.