Topic: French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1) - page 698. (Read 189804 times)

Although psg did not earn much money from the transfer of Lionel Messi and Verratti, PSG earned a lot of money from the transfer of Neymar. PSG can easily buy a quality player from Europe for the amount of money PSG received as Neymar's transfer fee. PSG will not receive any transfer fee for the transfer of Mbappe, despite receiving transfer fees from those who left the club this season. Mbappe only wants to leave the club as a free agent member, Mbappe without the club as a free agent member means a big loss for PSG because PSG is not able to earn any money from the transfer of Mbappe where there is a lot of money to be made from the transfer of a player like Mbappe. PSG does not want Mbappe to leave, but if Mbappe leaves, then PSG will have to make a new plan and organize the team.

If the management of the club fails to get the right replacement for the sacked Laurent Blanc, the club might be relegated. Lyon is an elite club and it will be a big blow to the fans to suffer such a devastating situation. The internet is filled with news that Laurent Blanc will be replaced by the Italian tactician Gennaro Gattuso. It seems the deal has been finalized and he might even be present when Lyon meets Le Havre on Sunday.


In terms of the wage bill, PSG has reduced the money they spend on players. Neymar and Messi were two of the highest earners after Mbappe. The departure of the Brazilian and the Argentine is a big financial relief to the club. Viewing this situation from another perspective,  the club will also be losing money due to the departure of these important players. Some sponsorship and endorsement deals that give some amount of revenue to the club will also stop coming. Hence, the departure of these players has both positive and negative financial implications.

Paris Saint-Germain president, Nasser Al-Khelaifi handling the club in his possible best way he should. PSG striving hard to compete with full strength in UEFA Champions League and also the same time making Kylian Mbappe extend his contract with the Parisians which have been an impossible tasks for them. PSG is an elite club that's capable of signing big names this season but they learnt their mistakes after these past decades. This present time, they go for competitive players and absolutely no big name, releasing the ones they had this summer and generating quite a fortune to use in utilizing the club levels.

In the end, PSG was smart enough to take advantage of the busy situation so that they made more money when selling some of these players. Maybe Neymar is the only one who has fantastic value at a cost of 90 million euros and of course even though PSG have also updated the depth of their squad this season at least they don't need to spend a lot of money anymore. PSG has definitely learned from experience and doesn't want to be too wasteful in spending on players, especially now that the PSG squad doesn't have many star players and only has a few left.

The club needs to find someone who is having the capability of coaching the club. That reminds me with xabi's case. Lyon needs to find someone who was capable enough to give great motivation like xabi alonso. The Lyon job will be difficult to fill because the club is at the bottom of the rankings.. I think that is also become the main problem faced by lyon. The new coach will have a burden to bring back lyon to the midtable again which is very hard to be achieved with a club that has no motivation to do that.
Let's see who is gonna be the name to fill the vacant spot as lyon's coach.

According to some news they want to make some changes to improve themself and one change for them can be changing their coach while we have only a few weeks in this season. I think Lyon had to even act faster and get their coach fired before they lose more time because I know a team like Lyon can have many other better coaches than Laurent Blanc.

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/sports/olympique-lyon-sack-head-coach-laurent-blanc-over-team-s-poor-performance/2989643

Mbappe contract with PSG will end next season and Mbappe has clarified that he will not renew his contract extension with PSG. However, if Mbappe changes his mind this season he could renew his contract with PSG and all the clarifications he makes only give false hope to other teams in next season's transfer window. But if Mbappe really doesn't sign a new contract with PSG then Mbappe will be the target of many big European teams in next season's transfer window. So far, only Real Madrid has been talking about their plans to recruit Mbappe next season. But I think that if Real Madrid will have strong competition to get Mbappe next season, it could be that the team comes from the Premier League.

Regarding the money spent so far, we know PSG for the money they usually spend on their palyer and they usually buy superstar players in each season but this time they made a good amount of money selling the players they had.
PSG spent 300m in this summer for players but they also earned 100m. On the other hand selling players like Messi, Verratti, and Neymar was a good step for them to earn more money.

It is still quite a tough decision so early this season, but will that really bring the positive change that they were now hoping for? Discussing the coach quickly is how it goes when the team doesn't perform well, but I wonder whether the squad is strong enough for the season to really reach their goals. I would have not expected them to do that well and I don't see them to be able to compete for the top either.

But when they decided to take action, I guess it was better to do it immediately like they have done now. We will see how it goes for them, but this season probably ended badly for them before it even had begun.

There's always room for improvement, teams will continue to push for a more appropriate level. No time to misused chances because with the slightest mistakes, a team can missed out on the title race. Olympique Lyonnias have taken drastic decisions in sacking Laurent Blanc due to their present standings on the league table this season. The board made the right decision in parting ways with the coach because I usually do not see any promising future with him, making the club decline in performance and having slim probability of winning a spot in Ligue One next season.

Is the top 10 the target for Lyon? Lyon is a team that always aims for the top places in League 1. So we can say that they are far from their goals. I don't know what kind of technical understanding the new Coach will have, but I think he should have the technical knowledge that will take Lyon to the top. At the end of the day, Lyon should be able to win.

Olympique Lyonnais management is clearly not happy with Laurent Blanc's performance at the start of this season. In his four matches, he and his team were unable to win even a single victory. They were only able to score 3 goals in four matches, and worse, they conceded 10 goals in their 4 matches. Of course, something is not going well with what Laurent Blanc is doing this season. Previously, this news was just a rumor, but in the end the decision was taken by Lyon management. Based on Romano's tweet, he reported Olympique Lyonnais president John Textor will decide on a new head coach soon after the decision to fire Laurent Blanc was made Monday.

Gennaro Gattuso had positive conversations with OL but more candidates will soon speak to Texor - then it's time for the final decision. Honestly, I doubt that Gattuso will be able to lift this team back into a team that is respected enough in this competition.  Texor must look for a coach with more potential, if they want their team to be able to compete at least in the middle of Ligue 1 or if they are able to aim to enter the top four of the Ligue 1 standings. However, it is not easy to find and get a coach who is experienced and has a good track record. but at least, Lyon must immediately find a replacement coach as soon as possible.

I have mixed feelings about this decision by the board. A part of me says that this is the right call considering Laurent Blanc's not being able to make much improvement since the previous season. You know they couldn't qualify for any European competition due to their bad placement. This season started horrible for them as well.

The other part of me questions this decision about if it was too early to sack him. But I guess they did the right thing because Lyon's statistics so far have been really poor. A team like Lyon deserve to be managed much better than this. They should be competitive for top 6 to achieve something this season.

Lyon started the season badly. Of course, the biggest responsibility for this belonged to Blanc. Everyone was waiting for such an ending. Lyon collected only 1 point in 4 matches, and they conceded 10 goals in these 4 matches. This is an unacceptable number. Lyon officials have to find a good coach quickly.

It's true that many people doubt the quality of Gennaro Gattuso tactics, especially when he is required to bring Lyon up from the relegation zone like they are now. Few coaches have the courage to take a job at a club in decline, a big name gamble and his coaching record will be a question mark if it doesn't work out. I think it would be better for Lyon management to appoint an interim coach until the end of the season, rather than receiving continuous rejection.

However, there is news that Gattuso is getting closer to becoming the new coach, discussions regarding contract details are currently in the discussion stage. Maybe Gattuso will have better luck in Ligue 1, after being sacked by Valencia in La Liga.

If Mbappe had decided to sign with PSG, he would have extended his contract with PSG a long time ago. He did not extend his contract with PSG because he did not want to stay at PSG anymore. PSG will have nothing to do should Mbappe leave the club as a free agent member from PSG in the next transfer season. If Mbappe would have extended the contract with PSG this season, PSG would have interfered with Mbappe, since PSG could not extend the contract with Mbappe in the end, Mbappe will definitely change the club next season.

The most rumors about Mbappe's club change are about Real Madrid. Many see the possibility of Mbappe signing with Real Madrid. If Mbappe's deal with Real Madrid goes through I think it will be the best transfer of the transfer window.

It was very bad, in short, Lyon management acted as if they didn't give Laurent Blanc a chance to improve his strategy which would be able to revive the club performance, but in fact, Laurent Blanc had been given the opportunity from the start of the season, but after four failed matches, Lyon's management was impatient to see that poor performance and preferred to fire him and look for a candidate to replace coach Laurent Blanc.
Currently, there are many rumors saying that the candidate is Gennaro Gattuso who will replace the old coach but there is some debate about this, most of them say that in the end Lyon will need to adapt again to improve performance with the new coach, it is very clear that Gennaro Gattuso does not have much experience so it's a little hard to believe that if Lyon were replaced by this coach, whether Lyon would experience an improvement in performance.
But fans of this club can only believe and believe that the bad times will go away with Gennaro Gattuso.

One point from four games is a very poor result from Lyon but I would have liked the management to give him more time. Lyon finished seventh last season which made them not qualify for any of the European championships and the Ligue 1 season is still young.  Lyon can still improve and fight for a place in Europe for next season. But the the club management has the final decision.  The main challenge now will be to get the best replacement for Laurent Blanc. I read that that the former Brighton and Chelsea manager Graham Potter was contacted to replace the Frenchman but he turned down the deal. The club is now heavily link to the former Napoli, Milan, and Valencia manager Gennaro Gattuso. Except the John Textor has other plans for Gattuso, I don't think the Italian is better than Blanc.

Although it is still early in the season but still, if Lyon does not have a big effort to be able to recover quickly. Then Lyon will also be very slow to improve its position in the Ligue 1 standings throughout this season. But even so indeed, that Lyon has good management and thus, then at least if Lyon manages to stay away from the relegation zone is also basically good. So yes, instead of targeting to finish in the Champion League zone and or in the Europa League zone, then I think it would be better for Lyon to be able to improve their quality first.

There is a possibility of something like that on the long run. I am not saying that it will happen or anything like that but it is going to end up happening eventually. Mbappe might be doing all of this just for more money and that means that at the end of the season they are going to sit down to have a talk and maybe they will end up with a result that would be a bit better for him.

I can't say if it will be perfectly fine for him or not but I can say that it is going to end up being a bit easy for him to get a lot of money. PSG will not want to make him leave, they will want to keep him, and they will offer a ton of money for him as well, which will result with Mbappe basically strong arming PSG into paying a lot.