French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1)

[X-ray]

Today I saw the news that Al-Hilal is offering Messi a contract for two years with a simply unrealistic amount of 1.2 billion euros. I don't know if this can be true, or if it's just fiction from journalists, but the offer looks very tempting, I don't know who could resist this. I know that Messi has always wanted to play in Barcelona, but he has been living in Paris for some time now and has probably been able to adapt to the new conditions. And here in a few years you can get a lot of money, although money is probably not the main thing for Messi...

Only the time can answer that. You can argue that if money was not the main thing for messi but it's also very dumb to reject offer from al hilal.

In my logic, if messi was never interesting to join in al hilal and he could made confirmation since a few months ago if he was not even interesting to go to the SPL but the fact that if messi was not even making any comment related to the al hilal.
Im thinking about if messi is still holding it as other plan once his transfer to the barcelona will not come true. It's pretty much the same like what happend with ronaldo.

Messi has only a few years remaining until he will retire from football.

[hahay]

Well, because Monaco lost by Rennes in yesterday's match, it looks like Monaco no longer has a chance to finish in fourth or fifth place. After all, in the last match Lille will only play against Toyes and Rennes will only play against Brest. Even though Lille and Rennes will play away but still, because Lille and Rennes will play against a mediocre team, of course Lille and Rennes can guarantee victory. So yes, at this moment Monaco lost by Rennes in the competition for European tickets next season, because Rennes managed to beat Monaco in yesterday's match.

[rahmad2nd]

Today I saw the news that Al-Hilal is offering Messi a contract for two years with a simply unrealistic amount of 1.2 billion euros. I don't know if this can be true, or if it's just fiction from journalists, but the offer looks very tempting, I don't know who could resist this. I know that Messi has always wanted to play in Barcelona, but he has been living in Paris for some time now and has probably been able to adapt to the new conditions. And here in a few years you can get a lot of money, although money is probably not the main thing for Messi...

Only the time can answer that. You can argue that if money was not the main thing for messi but it's also very dumb to reject offer from al hilal.

In my logic, if messi was never interesting to join in al hilal and he could made confirmation since a few months ago if he was not even interesting to go to the SPL but the fact that if messi was not even making any comment related to the al hilal.
Im thinking about if messi is still holding it as other plan once his transfer to the barcelona will not come true. It's pretty much the same like what happend with ronaldo.

Messi has only a few years remaining until he will retire from football.

Fabrizio Romano said Lionel Messi wants to make decisions about his future in the coming days. in addition Romano said, Not guarantee that Messi will announce his new club in a few days - but wants to choose his future club as soon as possible. no offer from Barcelona due to FFP, Al Hilal's offer has remained the same since april. but what is certain, Ligue 1 still leaves 1 game remaining. this match, maybe it will be Messi's farewell match with PSG. maybe, after that Messi will convey the club's next goals. However, we don't know where Messi will set his foot. could have gone to Barcelona, ​​or accepted Al Hilal's offer. for sure, there are many possibilities that occur. Let's wait and see which club he goes to. but before all that, Messi's contract is still valid until June 30 2023. The match against Clermont, was his last match. so, let's just enjoy it when PSG and Messi play their last game as well as closing the 2022/23 Ligue 1 season.

[bitgolden]

Messi could be tactically waiting for Mbappe to make decisions whether to stay or leave before he will announce his own decision. Few days ago Mbappe had confirmed that he will be in Paris for the next season, So Messi is the next to make a speech on this. But I don't know why I am seeing Messi going to Saudi. Could it be my personal imagination?
If I have won everything like Messi, there is absolutely no goal I'm chasing again, I will therefore go to Saudi and he will be a god there unlike the troubles that Kylian is giving him in Paris.

Today I saw the news that Al-Hilal is offering Messi a contract for two years with a simply unrealistic amount of 1.2 billion euros. I don't know if this can be true, or if it's just fiction from journalists, but the offer looks very tempting, I don't know who could resist this. I know that Messi has always wanted to play in Barcelona, but he has been living in Paris for some time now and has probably been able to adapt to the new conditions. And here in a few years you can get a lot of money, although money is probably not the main thing for Messi...

I know it looks "unrealistic" but that's basically with a million other incentives as well, that's not the core of the amount. If I am not wrong the offer is for 300 million, then there are silly stuff, like Ronaldo had "join this celebration and get 1 million more" type of stuff, I bet that it's the same type of silly stuff. They are trying to use Ronaldo and Messi in everything they could, not just games as players but basically marketing material and that's what makes them get that much.

I think the core is 300 million, if he plays he gets a bit more, he needs to stay healthy of course but that's the amount of money that is offered and 150 million a year is not really shocking to me, I bet that they need to pay that much to get him anyway, if they offered what other clubs did, he wouldn't go there.

[rendravolt]

In last week's match, Nice conceded 2 goals ahead of Montpellier, but it seems that this did not bother the Nice players to be able to make a comeback in the second half and the results proved that Nice managed to score 3 goals in the second half, as well as making a comeback in away game with a score of 2-3.

Actually I think Nice's chances have been lost since conceding those two goals but it seems they didn't give up and kept trying to carry out attacks to suppress the Montpellier defense. This result is good enough for Nice, at least they will still finish in the middle of the Ligue 1 standings and for Montpellier they will likely finish at the bottom if some of the teams below get a win in this weekend's match.

Nica's hard work in that match paid off for them because in the end they were able to reverse their position in the second half and brought them to win this match. The statistics they recorded were also extraordinary, they were able to record 23 attempts and 15 of them were right on target. Indeed, at first they struggled to score goals in the first half, but entering the second half, they were able to create goal after goal which ultimately made them win the match in Week 37.

Indeed, statistically these two teams are fantastic, especially for Nice they did it dozens of times and in the end they managed to score 3 goals as the closing victory. In that match each of the players also recorded a brace, namely from Montpellier there was Savanier and from Nice there was Laborde. It was an exciting match, but unfortunately I missed a bet on that match and if I bet over 3 goals it would have made quite a bit of money. But no one expected that there would be many goals scored.

[shogun47]

What do you guys think about Christophe Galtier words? He said that he thinks he deserves to stay for another season and that it was so difficult for his team and he is proud of his performance as a coach.I will always have a problem with a coach who wins the Ligue 1 title and nothing else with the PSG team. Winning that title with PSG feels like a must and I wonder what he is referring to when he said that this season was so hard because of al the problems they had. Does he mean because of Neymar's injury? They market value of his team is quite close to a billion and when you take out Neymar it is still over 800 million.

[skarais]

What do you guys think about Christophe Galtier words? He said that he thinks he deserves to stay for another season and that it was so difficult for his team and he is proud of his performance as a coach.I will always have a problem with a coach who wins the Ligue 1 title and nothing else with the PSG team. Winning that title with PSG feels like a must and I wonder what he is referring to when he said that this season was so hard because of al the problems they had. Does he mean because of Neymar's injury? They market value of his team is quite close to a billion and when you take out Neymar it is still over 800 million.

Messi has had good form this season in Ligue 1 with PSG so Christophe Galtier knows exactly how important Messi is in his squad. I think PSG have a clear constraint on the depth of squad they have instead just the market value of the players I mean quality is not worth the value especially in midfield position.

PSG does not have best midfielder like other top European teams such as Barcelona, ​​​​Real Madrid, Manchester City and other top teams. That is the problem, while coaches are also to be attention as Galtier does not appear to be the type of coach one would expect next season. If Messi and Neymar leave, then of course PSG will only be very fragile in attack next season if they don't get a suitable replacement.

[Distraction]

What do you guys think about Christophe Galtier words? He said that he thinks he deserves to stay for another season and that it was so difficult for his team and he is proud of his performance as a coach.I will always have a problem with a coach who wins the Ligue 1 title and nothing else with the PSG team. Winning that title with PSG feels like a must and I wonder what he is referring to when he said that this season was so hard because of al the problems they had. Does he mean because of Neymar's injury? They market value of his team is quite close to a billion and when you take out Neymar it is still over 800 million.

How can he say that he deserves another season there? I mean this isn't a successful season for them unfortunately. They won only the Ligue 1 title and they even had to wait until the last weeks to declare their championship. Winning this title is a piece of cake for PSG you know. The board must be like "Of course you will win that title as it is easy to achieve for us.". 

The Champions League performance was a disaster if you ask me. The main issues surfaced more in the matchup versus Bayern Munich. Despite not having one of their best seasons Bayern Munich still didn't have serious difficulties in eliminating PSG. Therefore you can't praise yourself after making your fans watch this football.

Galtier can't be trusted for another season and he should get sacked immediately to make the right choice this time.

[KTChampions]

Today I saw the news that Al-Hilal is offering Messi a contract for two years with a simply unrealistic amount of 1.2 billion euros. I don't know if this can be true, or if it's just fiction from journalists, but the offer looks very tempting, I don't know who could resist this. I know that Messi has always wanted to play in Barcelona, but he has been living in Paris for some time now and has probably been able to adapt to the new conditions. And here in a few years you can get a lot of money, although money is probably not the main thing for Messi...

It sounds like nonsense and another fiction of a journalist. Today I heard a more serious version - the Saudis are offering Benzema 200 million either in 2 years or in 3. I can easily believe this because Benzema is now also a big brand and the amount of the contract, let's say, is adequate (against the background of the amount of Ronaldo's contract). If this is true, then it seems to me that Benzema should accept this offer.

[izsara]

It's still very good for them but with the attack Strasbourg has I actually hope there is at least one more goal scored even though it is difficult.
But 1 point is clearly very good for them in this match because it is certain that they will survive now, even though seeing from the standings their decline has been felt this season.

Even Strasbourg's 1 point win over Paris SG can be considered a success. We can say that they played better than Paris SG throughout the match. They deserved the win, but they didn't win. Still, it was important for them to get 1 point from such a strong team. They were guaranteed to stay in the league and can now focus on their last week's games.

As i said before that is good but this still can't lead them in a good direction even though they are currently out of the relegation zone and will definitely be in Ligue 1 again next season.
They have to try to get their conditions in the previous few seasons because if conditions like this happen for the next season, it's not certain that they can survive in the end.

[Leviathan.007]

According to what I understood from Galtier's words in his interview he said that he wants to stay for another season in PSG. Galtier is a good coach but not for a team like PSG, a team like PSG needs someone with better experience to manage the superstars they have otherwise there will be more selfish players like Mbappe or Messi and a more negative atmosphere in the team. I think the best they can do is to replace Galtier with another coach for the next season because of the bad results they got.
 

[shogun47]

How can he say that he deserves another season there? I mean this isn't a successful season for them unfortunately. They won only the Ligue 1 title and they even had to wait until the last weeks to declare their championship. Winning this title is a piece of cake for PSG you know. The board must be like "Of course you will win that title as it is easy to achieve for us.". 

The Champions League performance was a disaster if you ask me. The main issues surfaced more in the matchup versus Bayern Munich. Despite not having one of their best seasons Bayern Munich still didn't have serious difficulties in eliminating PSG. Therefore you can't praise yourself after making your fans watch this football.

Galtier can't be trusted for another season and he should get sacked immediately to make the right choice this time.

"Christophe Galtier insists he deserves a second season at Paris Saint-Germain amid exit rumours."

I agree exactly with you. Losing against a Bayern squad that was having problems shouldn't happen how it happened. This doesn't mean PSG should have won, but they played two weak games against Bayern and they have met a couple of times now and yet didn't have a plan. That is Galtier's problem as well. He has to have a game plan.

But who could replace them? The big names out there won't like very much to go to PSG.

[X-ray]

Fabrizio Romano said Lionel Messi wants to make decisions about his future in the coming days. in addition Romano said, Not guarantee that Messi will announce his new club in a few days - but wants to choose his future club as soon as possible. no offer from Barcelona due to FFP, Al Hilal's offer has remained the same since april. but what is certain, Ligue 1 still leaves 1 game remaining. this match, maybe it will be Messi's farewell match with PSG. maybe, after that Messi will convey the club's next goals. However, we don't know where Messi will set his foot. could have gone to Barcelona, ​​or accepted Al Hilal's offer. for sure, there are many possibilities that occur. Let's wait and see which club he goes to. but before all that, Messi's contract is still valid until June 30 2023. The match against Clermont, was his last match. so, let's just enjoy it when PSG and Messi play their last game as well as closing the 2022/23 Ligue 1 season.

I saw that too. Let's see what's gonna be his future but i think that if messi was deciding it too fast. I don't see any offer that came to him from other clubs. It seems like that al hilal will become the club that has biggest chance to get him.
barcelona is not yet trying to bring him back to the club due to the FFP. i don't even think if messi will be playing in the last match with PSG. You should also aware how messi doesn't even care anymore to the PSG since PSG has been locking league 1 trophy.

It's impossible for barcelona to sign messi now since the club has not yet solved the problem with FFP. The fact that if this time. people are always trying to predict what's gonna be the new team for messi.

In my opinion that if messi is still looking for the new club. I don't even know whether messi has private offer from another club or not.

[Leviathan.007]

Only one week left for the French league and in a few days we are going to have the most important games for Auxerre and Nants where both teams are trying hard to remain in the league for the next season.
Auxerre is going to face Lens and this can be a hard game for them because LEns is a team in second place in the table and Lens won all the last given games they had.
While Nants will play against Anger Anger got only 18 points during this season and this game can be easy game Nants to earn the full three points from it.

[rendravolt]

According to what I understood from Galtier's words in his interview he said that he wants to stay for another season in PSG. Galtier is a good coach but not for a team like PSG, a team like PSG needs someone with better experience to manage the superstars they have otherwise there will be more selfish players like Mbappe or Messi and a more negative atmosphere in the team. I think the best they can do is to replace Galtier with another coach for the next season because of the bad results they got.
 

It seems that Galtier is too confident in his abilities and maybe winning the Ligue 1 is a priority for PSG, but for other competitions such as the Champions League, it seems that PSG will still find it difficult to win it if their coach is still Galtier. I think PSG should find a new coach who has more experience to manage their squad in the Ligue 1 and Champions League competitions, otherwise they will just repeat the same season as before.

Apart from all that, especially with the news that Messi and Neymar will leave at the end of the season, PSG will only make things worse, leaving only Mbappe and club management to move faster to overcome this by bringing in new players.

[hahay]

Today I saw the news that Al-Hilal is offering Messi a contract for two years with a simply unrealistic amount of 1.2 billion euros. I don't know if this can be true, or if it's just fiction from journalists, but the offer looks very tempting, I don't know who could resist this. I know that Messi has always wanted to play in Barcelona, but he has been living in Paris for some time now and has probably been able to adapt to the new conditions. And here in a few years you can get a lot of money, although money is probably not the main thing for Messi...

It sounds like nonsense and another fiction of a journalist. Today I heard a more serious version - the Saudis are offering Benzema 200 million either in 2 years or in 3. I can easily believe this because Benzema is now also a big brand and the amount of the contract, let's say, is adequate (against the background of the amount of Ronaldo's contract). If this is true, then it seems to me that Benzema should accept this offer.

I don't know if it's true or just fiction but at least, if Messi leaves PSG and chooses to play for against Ronaldo again then it looks like the competition there will also be more interesting. So, if you also believe Benzema to accept the offer, then I think Messi also can accept the offer. Because after all, I think Messi is also not suitable at PSG and moreover Neymar has also been widely rumored to be leaving for the Premier League.

[piebeyb]

According to what I understood from Galtier's words in his interview he said that he wants to stay for another season in PSG. Galtier is a good coach but not for a team like PSG, a team like PSG needs someone with better experience to manage the superstars they have otherwise there will be more selfish players like Mbappe or Messi and a more negative atmosphere in the team. I think the best they can do is to replace Galtier with another coach for the next season because of the bad results they got.
 

I also think the same that Galtier has failed to bring PSG to the UCL so in my opinion PSG needs to overhaul a lot of players including coaches, if you want to be better next season and also the UCL, if you still maintain it is of course difficult to make PSG develop better this season future whether it's in the domestic league or UCL.

I also don't think what will happen if Galtier stays for one more season next season, I'm not sure PSG will be better in the future if there are no changes early on, I hope PSG can be better in the future at least not only winning Ligue 1 but also the UCL so that could be a great club. 

[shinratensei_]

What do you guys think about Christophe Galtier words? He said that he thinks he deserves to stay for another season and that it was so difficult for his team and he is proud of his performance as a coach.I will always have a problem with a coach who wins the Ligue 1 title and nothing else with the PSG team.

He deserves no more season. Galtier has been wasting so many chances that already given to him and the management is not having patience anymore at this moment. The club already planned to sign the new coach for upcoming season.
His performance with PSG was average. So much money already spent by owner of PSG to sign some big players a few years ago and he gets nothing.
PSG was always failed in UCL. that's it.

Winning that title with PSG feels like a must and I wonder what he is referring to when he said that this season was so hard because of al the problems they had. Does he mean because of Neymar's injury? They market value of his team is quite close to a billion and when you take out Neymar it is still over 800 million.

Why always neymar? The PSG itself had so many problems. Galter didn't even try to fix it.

Galtier is a big joke for PSG. he was only able winning farmer league with a squad that has so many wold class players.

[rahmad2nd]

According to what I understood from Galtier's words in his interview he said that he wants to stay for another season in PSG. Galtier is a good coach but not for a team like PSG, a team like PSG needs someone with better experience to manage the superstars they have otherwise there will be more selfish players like Mbappe or Messi and a more negative atmosphere in the team. I think the best they can do is to replace Galtier with another coach for the next season because of the bad results they got.
 

Yes, some media reports, that Galtier said he deserves a second season at Paris Saint-Germain amidst the rumors going out. As quoted by Goal, Christophe Galtier believes he deserves one more chance to prove his credentials after delivering the Ligue 1 title to Paris Saint-Germain. In fact, we don't know what Galtier's problem is with PSG. IMO, Galtier doesn't have full power in the locker room, plus he doesn't have the capacity to bring in the players he wants. in the end, he didn't have much choice.

From my point of view, Galtier is a coach who has quite a lot of strategies. Unfortunately, he didn't get the formation that became his flagship standard. maybe, something is a problem for him.  or, the available players are not ideal for the system he wants, apart from Trio MNM.
By the way, as reported by Dailymail, currently PSG is considering Luis Enrique to replace Galtier as their new manager. however, if it's management that always chooses the player they want. I think, whoever the coach is, the results will not be much different from other trainers.

[Leviathan.007]

Galtier will have an even worst season if he stays in PSG for the next season because Galtier couldn't have good performance even after hiring superstar players is PSG while in the next season, I think most of the players like Messi and Neymar will leave PSG ro anther teams and without these players, Galtier will even have harder days in PSG which means he needs to start seeking for alternative players for Messi and other players which can't be easy for any team.