French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1)

[Weawant]

Marseille seems to have given up on convincing Arsenal, because they want 35m euros for Eddie Nketiah and that makes Marseille cancel their intention to buy him. I think Marseille's offer is deadlocked and also very appropriate for a player who has not been so good since last season. But here Arsenal does look very greedy and even they are blind if Eddie Nketiah has rarely contributed so far.

With this Marseille must look for other striker options and it would be much more beneficial to spend that much money on a more promising striker with comparable statistics. I know that De Zerbi is a smart coach and it seems that it won't be long before his advice can help Marseille determine the next player to be brought in.



Source: https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/arsenal-transfer-news-eddie-nketiah-33389207

Nketiah has been a very key and vital player for Arsenal in the days he was in his prime and now he looks like one in his decline phase and that is a challenge to Arsenal and a reason thy wouldn't mind putting him out on sale. Marseille has been making signings in the market in recent times and wanting to add this to their squad shouldn't be a bad target because I believe he may do better in Marseille than he has done all this while in Arsenal but the challenge here is Marseille may not be seeing him to be valid at the price he's been placed at and so they want to price down and probably may sell him off when he gets better, more like a business pattern. Which isn't going to really be a bad one but then age may not be on his side, hopefully the deal pulls through because soon the transfer windows may close.

[Blitzboy]

While I agree that PSG doesn't normally aim ligue one because they know that they can get that, and mostly aim UCL and they are looking to get that, I can say that it's clear we are going to end up with them not getting it this year, so they may consider this year as development season maybe? If they keep on rushing to get some players, they will spend way too much money way too quickly and that could lead to making mistakes, but if they take a few more seasons to adjust, then they could make sure that they have all the right players in the team for a chance to get UCL as well.

I feel like in a few seasons Peps contract will end, and he has talked about leaving City before, maybe they could try to get him since he would be a great manager for them.

Paris Saint Germaine already have a fantastic squad that can compete in the biggest competitions and that's why I totally concur with your opinion. Rushing to sign players in other to further boost the team's quality, depth and strength doesn't translate to having a great campaign come next season so like you rightly said, I think it'll be be a good idea to allow the club manager to build the team with the available players at the club. I strongly believe that Paris Saint Germaine under Luis Enrique will succeed because of his wealth of football knowledge so if I'm to advise the club management, I'll suggest they allow the Spanish manager do things his own ways.

Mbappé joining Real Madrid is quite significant. Folks, they are the best squad on Earth. Surely not a question. Real Madrid is the place the little lad wants a Champions League trophy from. Its exactly the match. Recall, this is the team that has won the thing more times than any other. They are a legacy not only a team.

Indeed, Manchester City is excellent. Pep is a fantastic coach; he is hardly a miracle worker though. And they are on still another level with Mbappé on Real Madrid. Though both are good, one is obviously better. So mark me: Real Madrid will rule this season. Everyone other is catching up; they are the team to surpass.

[Slow death]

Olympique Marseille are having some very good changes, for example in these friendly matches they have had good results, in the first friendly match they lost against Nimes, in a match in which they conceded 2 goals and did not manage to score any goals, but in the second friendly match they won, they scored 3 goals and did not concede any goals. In the third friendly match they won again, they managed to score 3 goals and did not concede any goals. And yesterday they had another friendly match in which they managed to draw, it was a match in which they scored 2 goals and conceded 2 goals. This is a good preparation for the new season

But Olympique Marseille is also strengthening its squad, they managed to sign the following players:

Bamo Meïté (Central Defender)

Derek Cornelius (Central Defender)

Ismaël Koné (Central Midfielder)

Mason Greenwood (Right Winger)

And now I read this news that says that Olympique Marseille signed Youssoufa Moukoko



Youssoufa Moukoko is a Dortmund player and will go to Olympique Marseille on loan but with an option to buy, as mentioned by Fabrizio Romano

EXCLUSIVE: Youssoufa Moukoko has decided to join Olympique Marseille!

Despite bids from more than 5 clubs around Europe, Moukoko wants OM project; personal terms agreed.

Negotiations underway between OM and BVB on loan deal with buy option clause.

source: https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1819684810626842967

Maybe this season that will start this month we will see a more competitive league where teams strive to win the league and it is not just PSG dominating the entire league from the first games to the last game. Last season we saw Nice being on top in the first games, but when it got closer to the half of the season Nice fell a lot and PSG started to dominate the league until the last game and became champion before the league ended, I hope it will be different this season.

[Velvet78]

But Olympique Marseille is also strengthening its squad, they managed to sign the following players:

Bamo Meïté (Central Defender)

Derek Cornelius (Central Defender)

Ismaël Koné (Central Midfielder)

Mason Greenwood (Right Winger)

And now I read this news that says that Olympique Marseille signed Youssoufa Moukoko

Marseille has a really nice route when it comes to transfers. Mason Greenwood is the biggest signing among them in my opinion. He is a great talent. I thought Manchester United would rather even keep him. Marseille is lucky to sign him.    Moukoko would also be a good signing. As far as I know, he couldn't find the chances he wanted exactly at Dortmund.

Marseille is taking good steps forward after completing the previous season at the 8th position. It was a nightmare-like season for them really... Maybe these steps would help them have a good start to the new season.

[Palakka]

Marseille seems to have given up on convincing Arsenal, because they want 35m euros for Eddie Nketiah and that makes Marseille cancel their intention to buy him. I think Marseille's offer is deadlocked and also very appropriate for a player who has not been so good since last season. But here Arsenal does look very greedy and even they are blind if Eddie Nketiah has rarely contributed so far.

With this Marseille must look for other striker options and it would be much more beneficial to spend that much money on a more promising striker with comparable statistics. I know that De Zerbi is a smart coach and it seems that it won't be long before his advice can help Marseille determine the next player to be brought in.



Source: https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/arsenal-transfer-news-eddie-nketiah-33389207

Nketiah has been a very key and vital player for Arsenal in the days he was in his prime and now he looks like one in his decline phase and that is a challenge to Arsenal and a reason thy wouldn't mind putting him out on sale. Marseille has been making signings in the market in recent times and wanting to add this to their squad shouldn't be a bad target because I believe he may do better in Marseille than he has done all this while in Arsenal but the challenge here is Marseille may not be seeing him to be valid at the price he's been placed at and so they want to price down and probably may sell him off when he gets better, more like a business pattern. Which isn't going to really be a bad one but then age may not be on his side, hopefully the deal pulls through because soon the transfer windows may close.

Marseille have lost Aubameyang as their main striker at the moment, so they are eyeing Nketiah as the main target to replace him next season, So far Marseille have brought in several new players to face the Ligue 1 competition next season, Marseille who has also lost Ismaila Sarr, but their not been able to bring in a striker that they can really rely on in the next seasons, their first offer has rejected by Arsenal because it was considered too low compared to the price that Arsenal are currently selling, previously I thought that after this rejection, Marseille would come up with a new offer to recruit Niketiah, but it seems that now they are actually trying to recruit Moukoko as an alternative, Moukoko might not be the last striker they will recruit because currently Marseille no longer have a capable striker in their front line.

we can see whether Nketiah is important or not from his match history and performance last season. In my opinion, Marseille just needs to give the right amount to recruit Nketiah, because in any case Nketiah is not a player that Arsenal will retain next season because he is not able to meet the  expectations from Arteta last season, I think Arsenal are just waiting for the right time or if they succeed in recruiting a new striker before releasing nketiah  to other teams.

Niketiah Statistics in the Last 5 Seasons with Arsenal:

[GiftedMAN]

I don't think the chances of PSG team winning the Champions League competition depends on the failure of Manchester City and Real Madrid to perform well in the competition, Real Madrid was just lucky to win the Champions League competition last season due to the inability of Dortmund to take their chances to score goals they would have been winners or the champions league last season if when they had very poor performance in their domestic league.

PSG has currently recruited young players in the team it may not happen the way we expect it but since the winning of the team is not going to be tied on a particular player I think they have good chances of doing greater things than we could ever imagine, they have got to bring their ideas together to work as an army to ensure they achieve greater things together especially lifting the champions league soonest.

Real Madrid can be champions because they are lucky? is that not wrong? because in terms of the opponents they face, they also meet many strong teams, one of which is the defending champion Manchester City which they managed to beat. So I personally do not agree if I have to say that Real Madrid was just lucky last season. Talking about Paris Saint Germain, they can be champions without relying on other teams, as long as they can show impressive and consistent performances. The problem is that until now when they are in the Champions League they can't do anything and even when they still have 3 star players at once in the team they also can't do much to bring Paris Saint Germain to be champions in the Champions League.

Real Madrid faced many strong opponents before getting to the finals no doubt but during the finals against Dortmund last season, Dortmund created so many chances they would have resulted to more than 3 goals in the first half but they couldn't make good use of their chances to score that is why I talked about the winning of Real Madrid coming by luck.

PSG will need to take every advantage they have to defeat top teams if they ever want to get to the champions league finals or winning the Champions League but if the young players that are recruited in the PSG team are well experienced in the champions league competition they will have a good opportunity to be in the champions league finals within the next two seasons.

[Frankolala]

While I agree that PSG doesn't normally aim ligue one because they know that they can get that, and mostly aim UCL and they are looking to get that, I can say that it's clear we are going to end up with them not getting it this year, so they may consider this year as development season maybe? If they keep on rushing to get some players, they will spend way too much money way too quickly and that could lead to making mistakes, but if they take a few more seasons to adjust, then they could make sure that they have all the right players in the team for a chance to get UCL as well.

I feel like in a few seasons Peps contract will end, and he has talked about leaving City before, maybe they could try to get him since he would be a great manager for them.

Paris Saint Germaine already have a fantastic squad that can compete in the biggest competitions and that's why I totally concur with your opinion. Rushing to sign players in other to further boost the team's quality, depth and strength doesn't translate to having a great campaign come next season so like you rightly said, I think it'll be be a good idea to allow the club manager to build the team with the available players at the club. I strongly believe that Paris Saint Germaine under Luis Enrique will succeed because of his wealth of football knowledge so if I'm to advise the club management, I'll suggest they allow the Spanish manager do things his own ways.

Mbappé joining Real Madrid is quite significant. Folks, they are the best squad on Earth. Surely not a question. Real Madrid is the place the little lad wants a Champions League trophy from. Its exactly the match. Recall, this is the team that has won the thing more times than any other. They are a legacy not only a team.

Indeed, Manchester City is excellent. Pep is a fantastic coach; he is hardly a miracle worker though. And they are on still another level with Mbappé on Real Madrid. Though both are good, one is obviously better. So mark me: Real Madrid will rule this season. Everyone other is catching up; they are the team to surpass.

Mbaooe is good world class player and no doubt about that, his presence in Real Madrid will give more confidence to the team and will also scare other teams just as it was when Mbappe was in PSG.

I don't think that PSG will be able to have a replacement like Mbappe in next season and it will be funny to watch Mbappe playing against his former club if Real Madrid dhiukd clash with PSG in UCL next season. City gat everything they need to win their matches but sometimes it does not go down the way we think it would be.

[rahmad2nd]

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Marseille has a really nice route when it comes to transfers. Mason Greenwood is the biggest signing among them in my opinion. He is a great talent. I thought Manchester United would rather even keep him. Marseille is lucky to sign him.    Moukoko would also be a good signing. As far as I know, he couldn't find the chances he wanted exactly at Dortmund.

Marseille is taking good steps forward after completing the previous season at the 8th position. It was a nightmare-like season for them really... Maybe these steps would help them have a good start to the new season.

Marseille is quite active in the summer transfer window, they have brought in several newcomers to strengthen their team under De Zerbi. After changing coaches several times, it seems that De Zerbi has good prospects to overcome Marseille's declining performance. As we know, this team experienced a decline in performance after Igor Tudor left Marseille. The presence of Greenwood and several newcomers in the Marseille camp, at least has the potential to improve Marseille's performance. Moreover, there are still several names associated with Marseille in this summer's transfer window. Moukoko expressed his interest in joining Marseille, maybe the club offered more playing minutes to attract him to Ligue 1. Moreover, he did not have many opportunities with Dortmund in the Bundesliga, plus Dortmund has recruited a new striker. I do not doubt Moukoko's talent, that he might be able to develop further if given more opportunities. However, is Marseille only enough with Moukoko, the problem is that we do not yet know the performance of this young striker if he joins Marseille. Ideally, De Zerbi would have another established striker for his front line. Perhaps, then Marseille can return to being a strong team in Ligue 1.