I still remember the times when Lyon was one the best teams in French League 1 and they were always on the top side of the table and they won the title in the end but now this Lyon we see is far from the good form we saw from them before and they are usually about to get relegated in the end the season instead of wiingthe title.
Maybe there is a problem inthe managment system of Lyon because even using new coach nad hier more palyers didn't help this regardless ofthe money they have spent for their team so far.
Now we are mainly talking about domination of PSG in Ligue 1 but some years before PSG starting their domination in this league, it was domination era of Lyon.
Let's see history of Ligue 1 and the league champions to see domination of both Lyon and PSG. Lyon win 7 Ligue 1 titles from 2001 to 2008 and PSG win 10 titles from 2012 to 2024, both of them have impressive domination. It's 17 years since a last season Lyon won Ligue 1 title and they're not ready to lift it again in this season.
Ligue 1 historyLyon
2001–02, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08
PSG
1985–86, 1993–94, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24
There is no doubt that nowadays, teams with greater financial power are able to achieve good results when compared to teams with less financial power. Years ago, player prices were not as high as they are today and even teams that did not have great financial power were able to have very famous players. But nowadays everything has changed. Teams with less financial power have to settle for players with less ability and at the end of the day, teams with greater financial power win the leagues. We only need to see that this has been happening in La Liga (only Real Madrid or Barcelona have beaten them), the Premier League (Manchester City have been dominating the league for years) and in Ligue 1 (PSG). This scenario will not change.
But at least for now:
We are seeing that the League is competitive, it is not yet possible to say which team will be champion, I hope we see this scenario until the last round of the league. I know that this is something very difficult to happen.