Ligue 1 awards - Benzema : Player of the year

LIGUE 1
- Best player : Karim Benzema (Lyon)
- Best young : Hatem Ben Arfa (Lyon)
- Best Goalkeeper : Steve Mandanda (Marseille)
- Best coach : Laurent Blanc (Bordeaux)
- Best goal : Mathieu Valbuena (Marseille) against Caen (23e journée)
- Best XI : Mandanda (Marseille) - Bonnart (Marseille), Puygrenier (Nancy), Hilton (Lens), Taiwo (Marseille) - Toulalan (Lyon), Cheyrou (Marseille), Valbuena (Marseille), Wendel (Bordeaux) - Niang (Marseille), Benzema (Lyon)

Laurent Blanc making a reputation for himself it seems

Will Toulalan be in the first XI for Les Bleus this summer at the Euros?

Will Wendel be staying with Bordeaux?

I remember Arnaud telling me that Taiwo was overated.

It is little surprise to me that Niang and Valbuena are also in the team, they have been awesome every time I have watched them this year.

Valbuena's rise in football is a storytale stuff.

Mattheus wrote:Laurent Blanc making a reputation for himself it seems

Will Toulalan be in the first XI for Les Bleus this summer at the Euros?

He should be. Currently better than both Maka & Viera IMO.

Do you agree with the choices Napoléon?

Calidad wrote:

Mattheus wrote:Laurent Blanc making a reputation for himself it seems

Will Toulalan be in the first XI for Les Bleus this summer at the Euros?

He should be. Currently better than both Maka & Viera IMO.

Do you agree with the choices Napoléon?

Yes he deserved to be in the first XI. But Maka and Vieira have experience and they still perform well.

About the best XI of Ligue, I disagree with Taiwo. He had an awful first half season. But there are no many good left back in France (Evra, Abidal and Clichy left).
I disagree with Cheyrou (not Bruno the "new zidane" but his young brother Benoit). I would have pick Alonso (Bordeaux) instead of him.
Cavenaghi could have been picked, but there are already 2 forwards.

Napoléon wrote:

Calidad wrote:

Mattheus wrote:Laurent Blanc making a reputation for himself it seems

Will Toulalan be in the first XI for Les Bleus this summer at the Euros?

He should be. Currently better than both Maka & Viera IMO.

Do you agree with the choices Napoléon?

Yes he deserved to be in the first XI. But Maka and Vieira have experience and they still perform well.

About the best XI of Ligue, I disagree with Taiwo. He had an awful first half season. But there are no many good left back in France (Evra, Abidal and Clichy left).
I disagree with Cheyrou (not Bruno the "new zidane" but his young brother Benoit). I would have pick Alonso (Bordeaux) instead of him.
Cavenaghi could have been picked, but there are already 2 forwards.

Maybe, but I'd like to see Toulalan player. I think he's a class act. Will bring some youth and energy into the centre of MF. Not as if he is a teenager either.

Odd that Ben Arfa won YPOTY but didn't make the League XI. What has happened to the likes of Nasri and Menez this year?

How good is this Makoun character some clubs seem to be linked with?