French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1)

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I don't think there is currently a team that can compete with Paris Saint-Germain which is notoriously one of the strongest teams in France and Europe, in France there is currently no team that can come close to the power of Paris Saint-Germain who will continue to win for a long time in Ligue One, this is what i perceive lately.

In France it is very true that no team can come close to PSG but across Europe? there is definitely a team that can challenge them and be a nightmare to them, form the premier league we have Arsenal who gave them a really tough time at the finals and will likely be an issue to them again if the happen to meet for the second time, meanwhile lets us not also forget the likes of Madrid and Barcelona in the La Liga.

PSG is in a vey good form but definitely have tough contenders who will not allow them a win at a second attempt in European competitions.

[Tmoonz]

Displacing PSG from the top would require a strategic approach that requires lots of finances to execute, however I believe it is also possible if the right resources are available, PSG is not invincible as anticipated, they can be dethroned but it would require a club in France that can match PSG in every area, you need a good coach that can motivate the players and make them believe that they can snatch the title from PSG, you also need a team with a blend of experience and ambition, that way it becomes easier to contend with the current French champions.

In addition to the coach factor, it takes a lot of money to invest in buying high-quality players if you want to shift PSG dominance, especially if we are talking about these years, the fact that for these seasons in Enrique hands PSG was transformed into a team that was not only respected in domestic competitions but also European competitions. And can Ligue 1 teams? No, unless there is an oil magnate or other rich investor who buys one of the Ligue 1 clubs to inject large funds, then there is hope for Ligue to become competitive.

Smiles, with the level of dominance from the Paris Saint Germain's team in that french Ligue 1 I don't think any team can just come and take that away from them, note in terms of spending huge in a transfer market I think after Real Madrid it should be Paris Saint Germain, so even if there's an oil magnet or a heavy investor I don't really think that will change a thing, for example just take a look at the Newcastle United team in England, Manny believe because the team has been bought by a very rich Man that he will change the narrative of the team, but so far so good it's still the same Newcastle United we are still seeing, so to overtake Paris Saint Germain is not really gonna be that easy.

[Chilwell]

Smiles, with the level of dominance from the Paris Saint Germain's team in that french Ligue 1 I don't think any team can just come and take that away from them, note in terms of spending huge in a transfer market I think after Real Madrid it should be Paris Saint Germain, so even if there's an oil magnet or a heavy investor I don't really think that will change a thing, for example just take a look at the Newcastle United team in England, Manny believe because the team has been bought by a very rich Man that he will change the narrative of the team, but so far so good it's still the same Newcastle United we are still seeing, so to overtake Paris Saint Germain is not really gonna be that easy.

Is because of Paris Saint-Germain that is dominating the Ligue 1 is the main reason why so many leagues consider them as a farmer's league. I am so much confidence that Paris Saint-Germain will continue to dominate that position because I don't see any team in Ligue 1 that can be able to challenge them with the kind of players they have when it comes to winning trophy. One thing I understand in this Ligue 1 is that most of the investors don't actually participated in transfer window for a very high players and that is why they could not be able to challenge Paris Saint-Germain.

Among all the teams that due qualify for Champions League is only Paris Saint-Germain that is always recognized due to the kind of player they have, the reason why other players cannot perform very well in the Champions League is because most of their players can not compete in the Champions League.

[Slow death]

Paris FC, who performed very well in Ligue 1 last season, finishing 11th with 44 points, are interested in hiring coach Liam Rosenior. I confess I don't understand why they let the previous coach leave, considering the team, which came from the second division, managed to stay in Ligue 1. It's very difficult for second-division teams to survive in Ligue 1 for one, two, or three seasons without being relegated, and Paris FC managed to survive. But now they are looking for another coach who didn't achieve anything great with his previous team. It's difficult to understand how the minds of certain football managers work.

[Accardo]

Among all the teams that due qualify for Champions League is only Paris Saint-Germain that is always recognized due to the kind of player they have, the reason why other players cannot perform very well in the Champions League is because most of their players can not compete in the Champions League.

And the reason PSG performs so well in the champions league is because they play low level clubs in their domestic leagues. Ligue 1 is a plus for PSG, they have monopolized the title, nothing could be done about that, no prominent Ligue 1 team could make it out of such dominance.

[Cossyblack]

In France it is very true that no team can come close to PSG but across Europe? there is definitely a team that can challenge them and be a nightmare to them, form the premier league we have Arsenal who gave them a really tough time at the finals and will likely be an issue to them again if the happen to meet for the second time, meanwhile lets us not also forget the likes of Madrid and Barcelona in the La Liga.

PSG is in a vey good form but definitely have tough contenders who will not allow them a win at a second attempt in European competitions.

Even in France we saw lens challenging psg for the title but they couldn't Keep up with the consistency and Psg overtook them and won the title. If lens could be a strong a contender who trouble psg last season,there are other European teams who are more stronger than lens. PSG dominance is only in France,they can't extend it across Europe because Bayern Munich, Arsenal,real madrid and Barcelona would stop it. These teams are as strong as PSG and even Arsenal could have stopped them in the final if not that they were not confident. In the upcoming champions league, PSG will probably win it for a third time because they are still much in form or they probably won't even reach final  Champions League is unpredictable any of those outcome is possible.

[pewboy]

Yes, of course, the Paris Saint Germain sheikh's aim was clearly to win the Champions League, and he's signed the best players; I think they could now field a team made up entirely of academy players in Ligue 1. There were also reports that the sheikh wanted to compete with his cousin, the owner of Manchester City, to see who could win the most Champions League titles in a decade. It's mad.

clear, but then he understood thanks to the help of current coach Luis Enrique, that spending randomly was not a good strategy
you have to spend creating a team with the various pieces you need, in fact they don't make teams of 11 attackers, right? So far he has been right.

[martinom]

Last season Lens gave them a good challenge though they could not maintain the consistency of winning their games when PSG was being affected by injuries but at least a team rode up to challenge them. Now if there is a good funding in that team and others don't be surprised if you see PSG losing that position some day because last season they weren't in their best form despite winning the league and also the champions League. Without funding and signing of players by other clubs it's impossible for PSG to drop the position in the league.

They weren't very far from the top, in my opinion Lens needs to invest more money to buy some extremely high quality players who will allow them to make the leap in quality
Only if you spend do you get a return, see for example Como, who spent and in a short time went to the Champions League.

[bitgolden]

PSG is not at a level where they are going to miss the league win, there is no scenario where they are going to be bad. I get that league is close at the early days because PSG doesn't get whole of wins all the time back to back. They are not a team that starts with 30 points in 10 first games and all that, but that doesn't mean that we are going to end up with no matter what we do.

I think it is not going to be easy for PSG to have a good start but they will always finish at the top no matter which team does what. They are just far superior.

[puloweh555]

Among all the teams that due qualify for Champions League is only Paris Saint-Germain that is always recognized due to the kind of player they have, the reason why other players cannot perform very well in the Champions League is because most of their players can not compete in the Champions League.

And the reason PSG performs so well in the champions league is because they play low level clubs in their domestic leagues. Ligue 1 is a plus for PSG, they have monopolized the title, nothing could be done about that, no prominent Ligue 1 team could make it out of such dominance.

Looking at the four teams representing Ligue 1 that qualified for next season UCL, only PSG can compete. Lille, Lens, and Lyon seem to have a difficult time competing because their squads are not on par with PSG, as are their financial resources. These clubs often sell good players whenever they have a chance, which is why PSG has always dominated Ligue 1. Unfortunately, this season, Monaco failed to qualify for next season's UCL. Usually, Monaco is a team that frequently competes in the UCL alongside PSG and Monaco often surprises the big teams in the UCL.

What happened in Ligue 1 is similar to what happened in the Bundesliga, as both leagues are dominated by one club PSG and Bayern Munich. Although many consider these two leagues to be the Farmers' League, these two teams are truly strong in the UCL, especially when facing teams from competitive leagues like the EPL and La Liga. PSG and Munich often perform exceptionally well, despite being in the Farmers' League. Perhaps it's true that PSG easier competition in Ligue 1 allows them to focus more on the UCL, allowing them to focus and perform at their best.

[xzone]

Paris FC, who performed very well in Ligue 1 last season, finishing 11th with 44 points, are interested in hiring coach Liam Rosenior. I confess I don't understand why they let the previous coach leave, considering the team, which came from the second division, managed to stay in Ligue 1. It's very difficult for second-division teams to survive in Ligue 1 for one, two, or three seasons without being relegated, and Paris FC managed to survive. But now they are looking for another coach who didn't achieve anything great with his previous team. It's difficult to understand how the minds of certain football managers work.

Finishing 11th last season is an achievement; as you said, it's practically a miracle that a team from a lower league is even still in this league. This team was almost in the top 10, yes, the French league isn't a league with very strong teams, but it's still not easy to be successful.
With a new manager and a few player transfers, they could be even more successful

[jakdanyel]

PSG is not at a level where they are going to miss the league win, there is no scenario where they are going to be bad. I get that league is close at the early days because PSG doesn't get whole of wins all the time back to back. They are not a team that starts with 30 points in 10 first games and all that, but that doesn't mean that we are going to end up with no matter what we do.

I think it is not going to be easy for PSG to have a good start but they will always finish at the top no matter which team does what. They are just far superior.

PSG have been finishing the Ligue 1 with below 80 points every 2 years recently... But this still doesn't affect them negatively as for getting the league championship. 

I think next season will be a much better one. Especially if they keep their key players healthy mostly then this would happen easier. For example Dembele stayed injured for a really long time this season...

[jaberwock]

Even in France we saw lens challenging psg for the title but they couldn't Keep up with the consistency and Psg overtook them and won the title. If lens could be a strong a contender who trouble psg last season,there are other European teams who are more stronger than lens. PSG dominance is only in France,they can't extend it across Europe because Bayern Munich, Arsenal,real madrid and Barcelona would stop it. These teams are as strong as PSG and even Arsenal could have stopped them in the final if not that they were not confident. In the upcoming champions league, PSG will probably win it for a third time because they are still much in form or they probably won't even reach final  Champions League is unpredictable any of those outcome is possible.

I find this a bit ingenuine, because Lens was never really a "threat" to PSG, we saw them play well, but we always knew that PSG would win, there was never a question about it in my mind. PSG had to care of some injuries and rest the players because between doing a treble and then doing club world cup, and starting again, many players needed some rest and that's why they did not started the season as well as hoped for. This team misses top eight at UCL every year and still wins it, hell last year they almost missed it and yet still won the whole thing. So they never start well, we know this.

[Creeper0]

I find this a bit ingenuine, because Lens was never really a "threat" to PSG, we saw them play well, but we always knew that PSG would win, there was never a question about it in my mind. PSG had to care of some injuries and rest the players because between doing a treble and then doing club world cup, and starting again, many players needed some rest and that's why they did not started the season as well as hoped for. This team misses top eight at UCL every year and still wins it, hell last year they almost missed it and yet still won the whole thing. So they never start well, we know this.

Lens were able to compete with PSG for a while last season. But it was predictable that Lens would not be able to match PSG's team strength and depth. In the end, we saw the expected result, PSG used their strength to win the Ligue 1 title at the end of the season and Lens lost their consistency. PSG never start well in the Champions League, but they finish well. That's what is needed to win the title, if the end is not good, the beginning is of no use. PSG likes to keep the last moments in their favor the most. Their main strategy is to save energy and use it at the end of the season.

[disbil]

Good news for PSG fans,

RB Leipzig's young players Yan Diomandé have reach personal agreement with PSG and accepting contract offering for five years later but bad news RB Leipzig not approve offering from any one club yet for his players. Many top team interested for signing him and Liverpool have open bid offer 100 million euro but rejected by RB Leipzig want more fees transfer for Yan Diomandé.

I think really crucial if any players reach personal agreement with new club but their club not open negotiation yet for selling him, I don't think PSG have difficulty for fees transfer but waiting from Leipzig how much fees transfer release for Yan Diomandé?

[Hyphen(-)]

Good news for PSG fans,

RB Leipzig's young players Yan Diomandé have reach personal agreement with PSG and accepting contract offering for five years later but bad news RB Leipzig not approve offering from any one club yet for his players. Many top team interested for signing him and Liverpool have open bid offer 100 million euro but rejected by RB Leipzig want more fees transfer for Yan Diomandé.

I think really crucial if any players reach personal agreement with new club but their club not open negotiation yet for selling him, I don't think PSG have difficulty for fees transfer but waiting from Leipzig how much fees transfer release for Yan Diomandé?

When problem like these is coming up is transfer market, the player's interest is what the agents will use to force the team to sell the player, although negotiations will be there because the team will have to agree on a price before the player will sign for another team; because of these, some teams will keep coming with their interest, and the team will be willing to take the highest bid, but the player will be the one to decide which team he agree to join.

Since the player has agreed personal terms with PSG according to you, they might succeed in signing the player if they can afford paying the money the team is demanding because I noticed that teams are hiking their players price which is not normal because so many teams might not afford to sign players; I think FIFA need to regulate this because football might be affected as only teams with money can sign the best players.

[Humblevirus]

Lens were able to compete with PSG for a while last season. But it was predictable that Lens would not be able to match PSG's team strength and depth. In the end, we saw the expected result, PSG used their strength to win the Ligue 1 title at the end of the season and Lens lost their consistency. PSG never start well in the Champions League, but they finish well. That's what is needed to win the title, if the end is not good, the beginning is of no use. PSG likes to keep the last moments in their favor the most. Their main strategy is to save energy and use it at the end of the season.

The reason why Lens was not able to keep up with their great form was because some of their players were so exhausted, and they did not rotate the squad based on the kind of players the team had. If Lens had tried to sign some players during the January transfer window, they might have been able to keep up the great form they started with.Last season, PSG did not perform so well in Ligue 1, and that gave Lens the opportunity to stay at the top of the table for some time. If Lens had been able to maintain the great form they showed from the beginning of the season, they might have won the league. However, even though Lens did not win any trophy last season, finishing the season in second place was a big achievement.It was not only last season that PSG did not start well in the Champions League; even in the previous two seasons, they did not stared well as well  but to me, that seems to be a strategy from PSG.

[Tmoonz]

Smiles, with the level of dominance from the Paris Saint Germain's team in that french Ligue 1 I don't think any team can just come and take that away from them, note in terms of spending huge in a transfer market I think after Real Madrid it should be Paris Saint Germain, so even if there's an oil magnet or a heavy investor I don't really think that will change a thing, for example just take a look at the Newcastle United team in England, Manny believe because the team has been bought by a very rich Man that he will change the narrative of the team, but so far so good it's still the same Newcastle United we are still seeing, so to overtake Paris Saint Germain is not really gonna be that easy.

Is because of Paris Saint-Germain that is dominating the Ligue 1 is the main reason why so many leagues consider them as a farmer's league. I am so much confidence that Paris Saint-Germain will continue to dominate that position because I don't see any team in Ligue 1 that can be able to challenge them with the kind of players they have when it comes to winning trophy. One thing I understand in this Ligue 1 is that most of the investors don't actually participated in transfer window for a very high players and that is why they could not be able to challenge Paris Saint-Germain.

Among all the teams that due qualify for Champions League is only Paris Saint-Germain that is always recognized due to the kind of player they have, the reason why other players cannot perform very well in the Champions League is because most of their players can not compete in the Champions League.

Speaking of farmers league, it's not just the France Ligue 1 that should be considered to be a farmers league, we have the likes of the Germain Bundesliga in the list, and the Italian Seria A was once in such state, but was reset after Christiano Ronaldo had left the league, that was when the other clubs picked up, because Juventus actually harvested that league for about ten years plus before these other teams step up their game, so talking about farmers league it's not on the French Ligue 1, and again any team can as well change that mindset by stepping up their game and spend more in the market.

[W Jr.]

Smiles, with the level of dominance from the Paris Saint Germain's team in that french Ligue 1 I don't think any team can just come and take that away from them, note in terms of spending huge in a transfer market I think after Real Madrid it should be Paris Saint Germain, so even if there's an oil magnet or a heavy investor I don't really think that will change a thing, for example just take a look at the Newcastle United team in England, Manny believe because the team has been bought by a very rich Man that he will change the narrative of the team, but so far so good it's still the same Newcastle United we are still seeing, so to overtake Paris Saint Germain is not really gonna be that easy.

Is because of Paris Saint-Germain that is dominating the Ligue 1 is the main reason why so many leagues consider them as a farmer's league. I am so much confidence that Paris Saint-Germain will continue to dominate that position because I don't see any team in Ligue 1 that can be able to challenge them with the kind of players they have when it comes to winning trophy. One thing I understand in this Ligue 1 is that most of the investors don't actually participated in transfer window for a very high players and that is why they could not be able to challenge Paris Saint-Germain.

Among all the teams that due qualify for Champions League is only Paris Saint-Germain that is always recognized due to the kind of player they have, the reason why other players cannot perform very well in the Champions League is because most of their players can not compete in the Champions League.

Speaking of farmers league, it's not just the France Ligue 1 that should be considered to be a farmers league, we have the likes of the Germain Bundesliga in the list, and the Italian Seria A was once in such state, but was reset after Christiano Ronaldo had left the league, that was when the other clubs picked up, because Juventus actually harvested that league for about ten years plus before these other teams step up their game, so talking about farmers league it's not on the French Ligue 1, and again any team can as well change that mindset by stepping up their game and spend more in the market.

Right now, Paris Saint-Germain is so strong in France that even if any other strong team were to enter the league, the result wouldn't change. Having won the Champions League for the last two years, Paris Saint-Germain is currently capable of winning any of Europe's top five leagues. Therefore, we need to stop blaming French teams.