French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1)

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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.

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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.

Seeing Marseille efforts to overhaul the squad and change managers, they have the potential to finish in the European zone next season, and it is possible that Marseille can become a tough competitor for PSG at the top of the standings. The presence of De Zerbi as a new manager has increased expectations, it seems that Marseille is really ambitious to win their 10th Ligue 1 trophy in the future, this is clearly seen from their movements in the transfer market. Last season Marseille finished in 8th place, and failed to get a ticket to any European competition. Thus, they should be able to achieve their targets more easily next season, because they only focus on domestic competitions. We are aware of PSG dominance in Ligue 1, but who knows Marseille could be like Leverkusen in the Bundesliga. In my opinion, Ligue 1 is quite boring if PSG continues to be champions.

[Farma]

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.

Of course they have to have a revival for their team with last season which was less than satisfactory, of course they have to bring in some new players to their team so that they can be better in the coming season, currently Marseille has locked in some players and of course the big name recruited is Greenwood because this player has a good left and right foot so he can maximize both feet to score goals in any aspect, this Man United academy player has a good game and of course this will be their most successful recruitment.

But the rest with their recruitment this season I want to see how far Marseille can compete, my main hope is that they can win the French League 1 title next season because they also have good experience there and with the arrival of some additional new players I hope they have to bring Marseille better than the previous season.

[klidex]

If PSG can sign Nico Williams to their club then I believe PSG will benefit financially from this player in the future. Nico Williams is a talented player and he has enough pace as well as good finishing so if he can be trained well at a good club he can fulfill his duties better. Whenever this player's speed and attack increase, other clubs will want to buy him from PSG with a big financial offer, but PSG will benefit financially. If this player wants to come to PSG then I think PSG should not miss this opportunity and sign this player as soon as possible. If PSG don't want to buy Nico Williams, there are a lot of better quality clubs where offers will surely come for the player.

Are you sure about what you said? In theory it should be like that, but have you forgotten when Paris Saint Germain had Mbappe and lost him? How much money did they make from Mbappe's departure?
The same thing might happen to them if they managed to get Nico Williams, they would as usual delay the transfer until their player is a free transfer. The president of Paris Saint Germain did say he didn't feel a loss from Mbappe's departure, but we as someone who sees this will definitely say the same thing. Because they could have earned a lot of money if they hadn't forced themselves to keep this player last season.
Honestly, I personally feel skeptical about what Paris Saint Germain often does in terms of spending money on a player.

Maybe it will be a little different PSG will learn from their previous mistake where their mistake was setting Mbappe's price too high so that no club dared to recruit this player even though at that time Real Madrid wanted him to replace Karim Benzema if PSG accepted Real Madrid's offer maybe at that time PSG would not have suffered a loss like now where they did not get a penny from the departure of this star player and Real Madrid also benefited greatly from getting the player they were after without having to dig deep into their pockets, and for Nico Williams if he is willing to come here I think PSG will not be careless anymore if his contract is almost up and the player does not want to extend his contract they will set the price according to his quality without seeking excessive profit.

[Inwestour]

Seeing Marseille efforts to overhaul the squad and change managers, they have the potential to finish in the European zone next season, and it is possible that Marseille can become a tough competitor for PSG at the top of the standings. The presence of De Zerbi as a new manager has increased expectations, it seems that Marseille is really ambitious to win their 10th Ligue 1 trophy in the future, this is clearly seen from their movements in the transfer market. Last season Marseille finished in 8th place, and failed to get a ticket to any European competition. Thus, they should be able to achieve their targets more easily next season, because they only focus on domestic competitions. We are aware of PSG dominance in Ligue 1, but who knows Marseille could be like Leverkusen in the Bundesliga. In my opinion, Ligue 1 is quite boring if PSG continues to be champions.

Do you seriously think that appointing De Zerbi as Marseille coach will allow them to compete with PSG? I think it is impossible, PSG with Enrique will only get stronger, and De Zerbi is not such a good coach, at least his recent results look too mediocre to expect him to make Marseille champions. In Ligue 1 everything will remain unchanged and PSG dominance will be undisputed, maybe Monaco will try to lag behind PSG not too far, but I am not so sure about that either, as for Marseille, they simply have no chance with or without De Zerbi.

[BlackBoss_]

Do you seriously think that appointing De Zerbi as Marseille coach will allow them to compete with PSG? I think it is impossible, PSG with Enrique will only get stronger, and De Zerbi is not such a good coach, at least his recent results look too mediocre to expect him to make Marseille champions. In Ligue 1 everything will remain unchanged and PSG dominance will be undisputed, maybe Monaco will try to lag behind PSG not too far, but I am not so sure about that either, as for Marseille, they simply have no chance with or without De Zerbi.

Marseille are far less quality than PSG with players they have and only a coach is not enough to make their squad becomes stronger a lot to be competitive enough and be able to beat PSG.

PSG will have a transitional season without Mbappe after many years but with all star players they have, their strength is good enough to win Ligue 1 again. This is challenge but also opportunity for PSG to build up a new squad, without Mbappe, and taking this chance to get rid of too much dependence on a single star player. A new era is coming for PSG but will the succeed in Ligue 1 and continue their domination or this new era means chance for other clubs in France to challenge and beat PSG in next seasons. I am keen on a first scenario, a continuous domination of PSG in Ligue 1 because they are simply rich and can improve their squad easily.

[Weawant]

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.

One of the team that's is gradually making moves to pose a threat at PSG in the new season is olympique Marseille, all the years PSG has have a good dominance in their league, they have been able to maintain this stance sometimes from the beginning of the season till the end of the season and interestingly, this season they had got a key player been sold away has made other believe they have got a chance at an attempt to probably get challenging heads on with PSG and the number of signing Marseille ahs done so far is a good indication they're very conscious about strengthening their squad to the point they are going to make something really good of the season.

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Maybe it will be a little different PSG will learn from their previous mistake where their mistake was setting Mbappe's price too high so that no club dared to recruit this player even though at that time Real Madrid wanted him to replace Karim Benzema if PSG accepted Real Madrid's offer maybe at that time PSG would not have suffered a loss like now where they did not get a penny from the departure of this star player and Real Madrid also benefited greatly from getting the player they were after without having to dig deep into their pockets, and for Nico Williams if he is willing to come here I think PSG will not be careless anymore if his contract is almost up and the player does not want to extend his contract they will set the price according to his quality without seeking excessive profit.

That was a mistake that was quite painful for PSG in the past so PSG must be able to really learn from it when they want to make any decision in terms of buying players and also in releasing players targeted by other teams. Nico Williams is a very suitable player to be targeted by PSG at this time with a fairly reasonable price considering that Nico Williams is a young player and could be able to replace players who have left PSG at the end of last season. In addition, PSG who are trying hard to be able to perform optimally in the UCL competition next season must also get new techniques from their own coach so that PSG is not only a candidate for the Ligue 1 champion, but can also go further in the UCL competition later.

[rendravolt]

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

I think it is a good decision taken by Marseille to cancel their desire to bring in Eddie Nketiah because they cannot fulfill Arsenal's wishes in terms of price. They must also have a limit on how much money they can spend on players and it must be based on their appearance and their overall abilities. The reason is if Marseille forces herself to fulfill the wishes of Arsenal, it is at risk for them because Eddie Netiah also does not have very good performance for Arsenal last season. Marseille can look for other players who can match the price they want because time is still there for them to do it all.
I do not know exactly what the financial condition they have, but clearly they will not have the same financial situation as the team that is the ruler of Ligue 1. So they also have to consider carefully with the money they can spend.

Well, regarding the latest developments in this news, it is said that Marseille has moved on from Eddie Nketiah and now they are closer to signing Youssoufa Moukoko from Dortmund. I think it is the right decision and the club management has moved quickly to immediately get a new striker before the season starts. Now it is up to Marseille to convince Dortmund to let Youssoufa Moukoko go.

If we look at his statistics last season, it was actually not too bad with only 5 goals in 20 matches and I think considering that Youssoufa Moukoko was not the main option for the previous coach, this can be maximized again with coach De Zerbi if he later joins Marseille. We know that Dortmund is a business club and Marseille's previous offer of 27m euros will certainly be accepted easily without any additional negotiations.



Source: https://twitter.com/LaMinuteOM_/status/1819699462744269303

[rahmad2nd]

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Seeing Marseille efforts to overhaul the squad and change managers, they have the potential to finish in the European zone next season, and it is possible that Marseille can become a tough competitor for PSG at the top of the standings. The presence of De Zerbi as a new manager has increased expectations, it seems that Marseille is really ambitious to win their 10th Ligue 1 trophy in the future, this is clearly seen from their movements in the transfer market. Last season Marseille finished in 8th place, and failed to get a ticket to any European competition. Thus, they should be able to achieve their targets more easily next season, because they only focus on domestic competitions. We are aware of PSG dominance in Ligue 1, but who knows Marseille could be like Leverkusen in the Bundesliga. In my opinion, Ligue 1 is quite boring if PSG continues to be champions.

I have no idea if Marseille is able to finish at the top of the standings in the near future, considering the strength of the team and having slumped last season. However, if we try to speculate whether Marseille is able to finish in the top four of the Liqui 1 standings, yes they have a chance to do so theoretically. As we all know, currently Marseille under De Zerbi is active in the summer transfer window. Also, there are several newcomers who will play with Marseille and have the potential to make Marseille more competitive. Talking about how much chance they have to compete with PSG, I think it's quite difficult to speculate considering that we haven't seen for sure the performance of De Zerbi's squad. Moreover, PSG has a much stronger team depth than its competitors in this competition. However, at least with Marseille being active in the summer transfer window, it opens up opportunities for Marseille to return to being a team that enters the top four of Lique 1.

[Docnaster]

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

Eddie Nketiah without doubt is a good striker that can win you matches any day that luck shines on him but considering his performance for Arsenal in the last two seasons, we can't say he's the type of striker that should cost 35m Euros. For Arsenal to request for such amount before they can allow Nketiah leave, I think they're ready to let him go because I doubt there'll be any European club that's ready to pay such amount for a striker that behind Gabriel Jesus and Kai Havertz in Arsenal's pecking order. I love the fact that Marseille have decided to give up on the pursuit of the striker because of the amount of money they're being demanded to pay. There are other sharp strikers in Europe that I think will do better than Nketiah and still cost less than 25m Euros so they should scout and go for them.

[mammusu]

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Seeing Marseille efforts to overhaul the squad and change managers, they have the potential to finish in the European zone next season, and it is possible that Marseille can become a tough competitor for PSG at the top of the standings. The presence of De Zerbi as a new manager has increased expectations, it seems that Marseille is really ambitious to win their 10th Ligue 1 trophy in the future, this is clearly seen from their movements in the transfer market. Last season Marseille finished in 8th place, and failed to get a ticket to any European competition. Thus, they should be able to achieve their targets more easily next season, because they only focus on domestic competitions. We are aware of PSG dominance in Ligue 1, but who knows Marseille could be like Leverkusen in the Bundesliga. In my opinion, Ligue 1 is quite boring if PSG continues to be champions.

I have no idea if Marseille is able to finish at the top of the standings in the near future, considering the strength of the team and having slumped last season. However, if we try to speculate whether Marseille is able to finish in the top four of the Liqui 1 standings, yes they have a chance to do so theoretically. As we all know, currently Marseille under De Zerbi is active in the summer transfer window. Also, there are several newcomers who will play with Marseille and have the potential to make Marseille more competitive. Talking about how much chance they have to compete with PSG, I think it's quite difficult to speculate considering that we haven't seen for sure the performance of De Zerbi's squad. Moreover, PSG has a much stronger team depth than its competitors in this competition. However, at least with Marseille being active in the summer transfer window, it opens up opportunities for Marseille to return to being a team that enters the top four of Lique 1.

The opportunity to compete and break PSG dominance in winning the championship trophy may be very unlikely to happen, but to be able to end the season in the Champions League or European zone, of course they have the same opportunity as other teams in Ligue 1 at the moment, indeed Marseille has recruited several new players to face the tight competition next season, but we also cannot deny that currently Marseille is not stronger than other teams and have also improved the quality of their squad, apart from that the arrival of several new players to Marseille now will not necessarily improve the quality of the game them next season, because this season they have also lost several important players who were the mainstay of last season, so we can say that the quality and strength of the squad that Marseille has is no better than last season even though they now have de zerbi as coach, the fans hope Next season, of course, they hope that Marseille will be able to end the season better than last season considering De Zerbi expertise in building a stronger squad even with limited players so far.

[Jody.Drummer]

Seeing Marseille efforts to overhaul the squad and change managers, they have the potential to finish in the European zone next season, and it is possible that Marseille can become a tough competitor for PSG at the top of the standings. The presence of De Zerbi as a new manager has increased expectations, it seems that Marseille is really ambitious to win their 10th Ligue 1 trophy in the future, this is clearly seen from their movements in the transfer market. Last season Marseille finished in 8th place, and failed to get a ticket to any European competition. Thus, they should be able to achieve their targets more easily next season, because they only focus on domestic competitions. We are aware of PSG dominance in Ligue 1, but who knows Marseille could be like Leverkusen in the Bundesliga. In my opinion, Ligue 1 is quite boring if PSG continues to be champions.

I have no idea if Marseille is able to finish at the top of the standings in the near future, considering the strength of the team and having slumped last season. However, if we try to speculate whether Marseille is able to finish in the top four of the Liqui 1 standings, yes they have a chance to do so theoretically. As we all know, currently Marseille under De Zerbi is active in the summer transfer window. Also, there are several newcomers who will play with Marseille and have the potential to make Marseille more competitive. Talking about how much chance they have to compete with PSG, I think it's quite difficult to speculate considering that we haven't seen for sure the performance of De Zerbi's squad. Moreover, PSG has a much stronger team depth than its competitors in this competition. However, at least with Marseille being active in the summer transfer window, it opens up opportunities for Marseille to return to being a team that enters the top four of Lique 1.

To become champions, it is very difficult, because their main competitor is Paris Saint Germain who has very good strength in Ligue 1, but that doesn't mean they can't do it, they can still do it but it's very difficult. While to be in the top 4 is something easier, I don't mean to say it's easy but when compared to being champions, it's clearly easier.

Last season they finished in 8th place, whereas in the previous 7 seasons they were always able to be at least in the top 5, they could even be in 2nd place, so the decline was very much felt by Marseille. They started to improve themselves to restore their appearance which was not seen last season. They will definitely try hard to get them back to the position they usually achieve and I am also sure they will also have a target to become champions even though realistically they also think it is very difficult for them to achieve.

[SUPERSAIAN]

PSG is one of their most expensive transfers in the 2024/2025 summer transfer season. Benfica's young midfielder Neves was in the 60 million euro transfer. Of course, we will see much higher transfer fees until the transfer season ends. According to my research, the highest payments are currently between 60-65 million euros.

Although there is a 120 million euro exit clause in his contract valid until 2028, Benfica has stated that they will not force this clause in this transfer. PSG is entering a new era with the new season, the legendary squad they had previously established has already been destroyed, Mbappe has also left and they are now trying to build the team on a new system.

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Marseille are far less quality than PSG with players they have and only a coach is not enough to make their squad becomes stronger a lot to be competitive enough and be able to beat PSG.

PSG will have a transitional season without Mbappe after many years but with all star players they have, their strength is good enough to win Ligue 1 again. This is challenge but also opportunity for PSG to build up a new squad, without Mbappe, and taking this chance to get rid of too much dependence on a single star player. A new era is coming for PSG but will the succeed in Ligue 1 and continue their domination or this new era means chance for other clubs in France to challenge and beat PSG in next seasons. I am keen on a first scenario, a continuous domination of PSG in Ligue 1 because they are simply rich and can improve their squad easily.

I mean it's obvious that Marseille is a lot worse than PSG, and Monaco is also not as good as PSG neither. However, when it comes to betting, those two comes in and second and third place, most places have them at equal chances so second place so that means they are pretty good.

But that doesn't mean that we are going to end up with anything that will be too simple for PSG neither, we have seen them lose to Lille before, and this year they do not have Mbappe as well so it could totally change some stuff, we may see something changing. I am not saying that PSG will lose, because they may end up not losing at all, but I am saying that we are going to end up with something that would be possible, the possibility is there.

I sense that PSG may end up facing some issues adjusting to life without Mbappe, and they are not that great at midfield neither, so things going to be a bit troubled for them. Lets see how they are going to do, but I can see that Marseille may have a chance if they play a decent football, I am guessing that PSG will get a lot less points than they did last year, which means that if Marseille improves from their last years performance, or Monaco does, those teams may have a shot.