Topic: French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1) - page 247. (Read 195369 times)

Some how on the contrary I don't believe that PSG had a problem of the players been able to understand their selves on the pitch, I believe that the players were even understanding but didn't have a very good rhythm on the pitch rather, they most times are unable to deliver because they had a good dependence on a particular player so it reduced their ability to grow and doing better than they have been doing before now, I believe now that they don't have a particular player to depend on, chances are that they will strive to collectively get the job done just as they should at once.

I want to believe that PSG has got the best squad in their league even I'm the absence of mbappe because I know that apart from the striker in which they will be lacking currently, they still have a good defense Lin, a good midfield and even their attack isn't in bad shape so they can capitalize on that to seeing how well they will be able to make up for the striker until a good replacement arrives, just like Madrid that went a season without a pure striker and was still able to deliver even at the champions league level, I believe that PSG too can especially in their domestic league.

Manchester City has put full trust in Pep Guardiola, and is supporting him with the maximum budget to build squad depth, which is not only capable of dominating the Premier League, but also capable of winning the European Champions League. Maybe this is where the difference lies with PSG, who like to change coaches when they fail to meet expectations in a short time, indicating that management is the one who controls the team, the manager or head coach must adapt to management wishes. This is not wrong, because each club has its own approach, and fans certainly hope for the best for their club. PSG after Mbappe departure is still the dominant force in Ligue 1, there is no doubt about that. There is a possibility that PSG will again build a star studded squad, as they have done by bringing together Messi-Neymar-Mbappe and several other top European players in they squad.

I would say that the difference in finances made France as big as it is right now, but they never really had any big interest towards football as a country, not in their culture all that much.

A ton of racist people complain about the fact that France national team is all black, and claim they are not "French", with the way world politics right now, I understand the complaint because we have tens of millions of immigrants all over the world these days, but most of those players were born and raised in France all their life, most of them even had their father born in France, because France has been a multi-cultural nation for a long time.

The trouble is that, cultures of other nations they combined have football as their favourite spending time, but French people rarely do. This causes Ligue 1 to have a lot of money because it is a rich nation, and a lot of talent, but not enough interest shown like other bigger leagues.

Exactly, the point is that PSG is not a weak club even if Mbappe leaves, they will still be solid and strong in the French League. This is if we talk about PSG's dominance in the French League. Because, Luis Enrique is also not a random coach, he is quite experienced and he really understands how to rebuild and also strengthen the squads even without any big players. And PSG also has a lot of money, now they are not only focusing on developing the performance of PSG's original players, they are also looking for some of the world's top players who can further strengthen PSG on various fronts.

Well, the real problem is here, in the UCL match, not the French league. Because in the Champions League, the competition is very tight. There are lots of top clubs who are much stronger than Mbappe who compete in the Champion League. Therefore, without Mbappe, PSG will definitely experience a bit of difficulty, especially on the front lines. However, we still don't know Luis Enrique's fix plan to strengthen and prepare his entire squad at this time. Let's just try to see how PSG develops in the future.

The problem with the PSG team wasn't about the poor management of the team because the management brought in good number of players to help solidify the strength of the team but they failed because at some point the players wasn't having a good relationship with each other on the field.
The Manchester City team is a typical example of a team that made good use of their money to get what they want because they got a good manager who got quality players that has helped the team to win the trophies they wanted, I think the problem that PSG has for not winning the UCL with the presence of Messi, Mbappe, Naymer and Ramos was bringing the stars when they were not in their best form.

You are right that there is no guarantee that PSG will win the Ligue 1 title. Without Mbappe, this team will undoubtedly be a bit weaker than last season. Mbappe was PSG's most important player and main striker. So the impact of Mbappe not being in the squad will certainly be seen to some extent.

But Luis Enrique is an experienced coach. At the same time, PSG have no shortage of money. Management does not skimp on spending money. Luis Enrique will have enough funds to add the players of his choice to the squad. Luis Enrique will certainly be able to find a worthy replacement for mbappe. So personally I don't think it will be difficult for PSG to win the Ligue 1 title.

Ligue 1 seems difficult become more competitive in the future behind difference financial condition between PSG and other Ligue 1 teams participants, recently PSG always dominance for winning domestic league trophy every season with good financial and easily sign any qualities players every season than other Ligue 1 team. I don't think any manager in Ligue 1 has miracle did the same by Bayern Leverkusen in Bundesliga after success breaking out Bayern Munich dominance more than eleven season, PSG performance in this season not really quit well and losses many points at the early season.

But the top fourth standings teams in Ligue 1 get inconsistency performance loss many points from unpredictable teams, I think if only loss points facing PSG but with other team left can secure three points seems has opportunity to stop PSG dominance in Ligue 1.

Everyone is aware that PSG has been dumping cash about like confetti. Indeed, it has drawn notice to them and somewhat boosted Ligue 1. But the large trophy hasnt been theirs, has it?

They need to be more intelligence. Not only getting the biggest stars, but creating an actual squad. Observe Man City; their combination of young players and superstars makes them champions. PSG ought to have that.

Lets see what this Luis Enrique guy can do. He's had a solid history. Even the greatest coach, though, requires the ideal combination of players. Allow him time and encouragement, and perhaps PSG is more than simply a collection of flashy names.

I agree with you that the PSG management was very impatient with the coaches. But I won't say that the decision to sack Thomas Tuchel and Pochettino was wrong. These two coaches are quite experienced. But they don't have the ability to handle a lot of star players. Tuchel was the coach of Bayern Munich for a while. Tuchel was not successful with Munich either. So PSG management's decision to sack Tuchel, Galtier and Pochettino was correct. They should have appointed an experienced coach earlier.

Luis Enrique is the new coach of PSG. If the PSG management gives Luis Enrique full freedom to shape the squad, PSG could see a strong squad in the next few years. A team like Manchester City has been built by Guardiola as the best club in the Premier League. So Luis Enrique will be successful if he gets enough opportunities.

It is because of poor management and lack of taste for good coach that is PSG problem. If not they can use their money to buy any players or coach that they want in other for them to be successful in UCL. If you look at Manchester city, after the Arab brother bought the club money was pumped in and currently the club is very strong.

Same can be done in PSG. Look at Real Madrid, they got money and all the world class players are with them, they even took that which PSG could not manage in order for them to win UCL which is Mbappe.

What's the reason? is it because Kylian Mbappe is a superstar player? I don't agree with this opinion, Ligue 1 already has its own people's interest, and before Mbappe went to PSG, people were still watching this league, remember that the main magnet in Ligue 1 is PSG, not Kylian Mbappe. However, because nowadays sport is no longer just sport but sportstainment, I think there's a little truth in the fact that Kylian Mbappe has his own base, which makes whatever he does, the decisions he makes become the highlight and entertainment.

It's quite strange with what you said when you say that PSG should focus on the current ligue 1 trophy instead of the champions league, try to pay attention to ligue 1, don't they win the ligue every season unless there is a team that is able to break their dominance in ligue 1 so far and that happens almost once every 10 seasons,  currently PSG has a star squad and has quality that is far from other teams in the ligue 1, but for some reason you doubt they can't win Ligue 1 trophy even without Mbappe?
During this time Mbappe has developed rapidly into a star at PSG and even when he was still playing in Monaco before Mbappe was not star player in Ligue 1, at that time without Mbappe in the squad, PSG was able to dominate Ligue 1, then why can't PSG do it now without Mbappe?

Mbappe has indeed had a great influence on PSG attacking line so far, but that does not mean that without Mbappe, PSG will lose its dominance in ligue 1 next season, currently what PSG expects is the Champions League trophy and without star players it is of course difficult for PSG to be able to compete in the Champions League next season, that's why currently PSG is more inclined to strengthen its squad every season just can for get the Champions League trophy for the first time in the club history.

League One will become competitive only when other clubs have access to the kind of funds PSG has. Other clubs are not buoyant enough to buy quality players like PSG. However, we cannot rule out that a club might be lucky to have the right coach and some committed players who can give PSG a good chase for the League trophy. An example is what happened in the Bundesliga last season when Xabi Alonso used a set of unknown players and made history. Bayern Munich had better players and training staff but Bayer Leverkusen was fortunate to win the title last season.    


PSG is just impatient with coaches. They were so obsessed with winning the Champions League that they saw other titles as worthless. Almost all the coaches they have sacked from Thomas Tuchel to Mauricio Pochettino performed well but they were sacked just because of their inability to win the UCL. But it looks like they have become mature and patient since they have not sacked Luis Enrique after failing to achieve the club's long-term dream.    

Even without Mbappe next season, PSG will still dominate Ligue 1 because they have enough financial support to get the best players in their main squad, Luis Enrique will of course recruit players who can replace Mbappe at PSG for next season, Ligue 1 seems to be continuing Dominated by PSG, unless they really go bankrupt and have financial problems, this team will definitely lose balance, several players in the current main squad can still be relied on to bring this team to champions again in Ligue 1.

Luis Enrique of course also wants to achieve the desired target, namely winning the UCL trophy, of course it is a tough task to do but he must be confident by recruiting several new productive players who can fill the void and replace Mbappe's position to be able to bring PSG to at least reach the UCL final. next season, as we know PSG always fails to reach the important round in the UCL, that's why they have to learn a lot to be able to recruit lots of very productive young players in order to achieve their desired goals, this is Enrique's challenge to bring PSG to the important round in the UCL later. .

They should focus to strengthen their team to win Ligue 1 instead of Champions League, there's no guarantee they will win Ligue 1 especially without Mbappe, I'm sure they will struggle and we will see a competition in Ligue 1. PSG to win Champions League is just a dream that impossible to achieve.

If PSG didn't win Ligue 1, we all know what the cause is.

Efforts to recruit star players who spend large amounts of money are not only carried out for the purpose of winning prestigious titles or winning titles in several competitions, but this is all done by PSG to increase the popularity of League 1 so that it is known by most football fans and the traffic of League 1 will also increase to very large.
But I support what you say, which is that you should bring in 1 or 2 professional players and the rest recruit young players who have the opportunity to be developed into great players in the future and also provide big profits every season.
Like popular teams from other leagues, they always prioritize the quality of players to be able to get satisfactory results in every appearance and not just think about big name star players.

Yep, we can take the example of teams from other leagues such as Man City, which at that time was successful in winning the UCL title because retaining their coach for longer gave the coach the opportunity to prove that the coach could provide success.
And PSG should be motivated by Man City strategy of not firing Enrique and giving him a chance in the next few seasons and I'm sure Enrique can give it all if PSG is able to retain the coach without having to fire him.

The PSG management tried hard to strengthen the squad and win the Champions League title. The best players in the world were added to the squad for huge sums of money by the PSG management. But their biggest mistake was that they did not hire an experienced coach. The squad had many star players. Star players are very difficult to handle. This is not possible without an experienced coach. I think this was the biggest mistake of PSG management.

But last season PSG management appointed an experienced coach like Luis Enrique. Now if the PSG management gives Luis Enrique full freedom and big funds then maybe Luis Enrique will be able to strengthen the PSG team.

Money can buy happiness as long as it is implemented correctly and unfortunately PSG cannot do that. They have spent quite a bit of money to sign players but they still cannot achieve positive results outside of France. They will still be kings in Ligue One but for the Champions League they will never be able to get it as long as they take the wrong steps in their development.

I think a change of coach will not change anything and the need for a proportional management attitude in processing the players is very necessary for maximum results. Because so far I haven't seen any real changes and PSG seems to have to sort out their internal problems first before talking about their next opportunities.

The reason was because Nasser Al-Khelaifi was dissatisfied with Pochetti because he failed to bring PSG to Champions League glory, which caused Nasser Al-Khelaifi to terminate his contract with several coaches because he was very motivated by the Champions. Nasser Al-Khelaifi has also spent quite a lot of money to buy players who won the Champions League title so of course he will not be satisfied with just winning the League and Copa.

That is 100% exactly the problem. Chelsea had tons of money and I remember when Mourinho was in his prime and they won several titles within three years. Money has to meet quality decisions, otherwise it is as you said: throwing coaches at problems.

I remember when Tuchel was hired and had issues with Leonardo from day one. Correct me if I am wrong, but I think there was tons of trouble because Tuchel wasn't allowed to sign players that he thought would be perfect.

I know that the sporting director is often responsible for signing players, but does anyone here think that Pep Guardiola, Klopp or Ancelotti would be ok if they didn't have a say in which players to sign? Never. All the scouting and stuff, yes somebody else has to do it. But these top coaches know 100% what the missing piece of their puzzle is. And they all have in common that they know how to spot young talents and when to give them a chance, both in less and in very important games.

But to be fair, we all can see how difficult it is to win the Champions League and how close these games end and how they got decided. Guardiola only won the CL once with Manchester City and they got tons of money and an amazing coach. Often times the difference between winner and loser is so marginally small.