Regression, decay, decline. Whatever the chosen term, the conclusion is the same: Ligue 1 goes wrong. Monopolized by a media-PSG obese objectives, the French league is yet pending.
Upset by the arrival of foreign investors, the French football became as feared, at two speeds. On one side, Paris Saint-Germain and AS Monaco, engaged in a European quest, worn by almost limitless ways. On the other, the rest of the France football. Lyon Lens, via Bordeaux, problems abound. No, it rather means that are missing from the Ligue 1. While the Premier League takes more weight every year, fueled by TV rights, French clubs lower their heads, recruit at low cost.
Transfers Christophe Jallet or Lindsay Rose are examples of widening gaps. Lyon, formerly chipait the best elements of the Ligue 1 challengers must now do with the crumbs from PSG and recover promises relegated clubs. The former Lorient side was, in the words of Hubert Fournier, "priority" Olympique Lyonnais. A sad reality that contrasts with dreams maintained by the Rhône Valley in the 2000s, hopes of victory in the Champions League which now seem so distant.
Third place, covered by the OM, Lyon and Lille, is now the first of a second championship: the 18 teams that can not compete with the capital and the Principality. And once obtained, the final step of the podium is far from a guarantee of Champions League. We have to win a preliminary round and a dam before joining the real C1, the 32. If Mastiffs were able to pass the Grasshoppers, they could then inherit from Arsenal, FC Porto and Naples, huge obstacles the road to Europe.
Last season, PSG won the Ligue 1 without so get involved. The Parisian period ended an April evening at Stamford Bridge, and the remaining championship matches were played with a lack of desire widespread among Parisians, by acclamation or motivation. French first division was crowned five different formations between 2008 and 2012. A unique period that is hard to imagine repeating itself.
French clubs in the sentence, the great of the past, however, are largely responsible for their own downfall. Lyon and Marseille have overpaid players and offered huge salaries for years. The Girondins, they have still not digested the title in 2009, weighed down by foolish contracts awarded following the triumph under Laurent Blanc. And all find themselves unable to recruit with ambition. Players such as Rémy Cabella Grzegorz Krychowiak or are forced into exile to take the next step. How, anyway, exist when Newcaste is willing to pay almost € 8 million for Emmanuel Rivière? The inflation of transfer fees clubs left the hexagon behind, looking for pennies in their pockets.
Ligue 1 follows the same trajectory as the Liga. Two giants, and the rest of the country behind. Except that France does not have the same pool of players that Spain, the training is far less effective. De facto, the general level of the championship is much lower. Conversely, the second-Iberian clubs vampirisent the Europa League, which rewards their intelligence in recruiting and boldness of their coaches.
Budgets always tend to atrophy in Ligue 1, but the horizons of thinking finally seem to widen. Able to recycle means players and coaches rarely transcendent, France she would finally this openness advocated by the English via the phrase "think outside the box"? Claudio Ranieri is a good technician, but he was not an innovative choice from AS Monaco. The appointment of Leonardo Jardim, author of a major project to Sporting Lisbon, is much more intriguing. Just like that, in Lyon, Hubert Fournier, a coach who has ever brought Reims earlier he should be able to.
But if there is a novelty in Ligue 1, which should symbolize the end of an unhealthy chauvinism and backward, it is the arrival of Marcelo Bielsa, a crazy game, a workaholic. Stakhanov a coach that surprised France because he looked all matches Om last season, thirteen times each focusing on a different player every viewing. Tactician importantly, the principles adopted by the new generation (Guardiola, Sampaoli, Pochettino).
Private financial resources, Ligue 1 should definitely bet on the game, the technicians, because it is they who make through the feet of their players. Bielsa left a mark wherever he went. Hopefully this time, it is not limited to Marseille but extends to all the French championship.
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