Ligue 1 -2009-2010

It's a good thing for French football that these three teams have qualified again for C.L, both Bordeaux and Marseille need more experience. Lyon will surely strengthen up this summer while Bordeaux and Marseille are likely to keep all their best players for once, so things are looking good.

well done bordeaux

Marseille

Sacking Season in France has truly started.

Manager waltz starts again! Why on earth was Rudi Garcia sacked?

theflyingfrenchman wrote:Manager waltz starts again! Why on earth was Rudi Garcia sacked?

What bunch of clowns the people who run Lille,apparently he failed to get UCL place.

Marseille will have their new staduim in 2014. 70000 seats and mostly covered for once because of the mistral.



Looks like a spaceship. Aliens will land on Earth thinking it's one of them.

Main transfers so far:

Bordeaux:

Arrivals:

-Gourcuff (Ac Milan) 13.50M e
- Carrasso (Goal Keeper of Toulouse) 8M
- Plasil Jaroslav (Osasuna)

Departures::

-Obertan (Man utd)
- Diawara (Marseille)

Marseille:

The four clubs have kept their best players, except for Lyon who lost Benzema. Marseille with their new recruits look like obvious contenders. We still have lost of cash to spend (Gignac, Cissokho, Bastos)

Arrivals::

- Gonzalo Lucho (Porto) 18m
- Diawara (Bordeaux) 6.5m
- Cisse Edouard (Besiktas) free transfer
- M'Bia (Rennes) not done yet but on the way

Departures::

-Cisse (Panathinaikos) 8m
-Cana (Hamburg)
- Ziani (Wolfsburg)

Lyon

Arrivals:

Lopez (Porto) 24m
Clber Anderson (back from loan Cruzeiro)

Departures:

Benzema (Madrid) 35m
Keita (Galatasarai) 8m
Juninho (Al Gharafa Doha) free transfer

P.S.G

Arrivals:

Coupet (Atletico) 0.8m
Erding Merlut (Tukish, Sochaux) 8m

Departures:

Landreau (Lille), 1.6m
Mavinga (Liverpool)

We jsut bought Gomis from St Etienne for 15m, too expensive but a good player who regularly scores 10+ goal a season and who's young (23). He scored a goal every 2 games for all his games he played for France (4g) or in Europe ( so he could do well.

How many strikers do Lyon need? Lisandro, Guiza, and now Gomis!

kas wrote:How many strikers do Lyon need? Lisandro, Guiza, and now Gomis!

Is having three strikers at a club all that unreasonable

Yes, 3 is probably needed, but buying all 3 in the same summer, for big money, esp. when all would expect to be starters! And what about that Bastos guy, isn't he an attacking player too?

I thought I just read that Fener aren't selling Guiza after all?

Oh, then it would make sense to buy Gomis.

Laste year we never replaced Fred and that's buy we were sht offensively because we only had Benzema. I still hope we get Guiza because he said he wanted to leave Fenerb... Bastos is an offensive midfield player a bit like Juninho, capable of scoring over 10 goals. With Puel in charge, we are likely to play 4-4-2-1, a quite defensive approach so maybe buying another striker is not necessary for them. But it would be good for rotation if you get another quality finisher because after Lopez there is Gomis and after a young 18 years (Tafer) and a goat (Piquione).

How strating XXI is likely to be like that:

Lloris-Reveillere-Boumsong-Cris- Cissokho- Toulalan-Makoun- Ederson- Kallstrom-Bastos- Lisandro

Bench: Pjanic, Grosso, Bodmer, Tafer, Gomis, Clerc, Mensah, Govou, Piquione.

We should win the ligue with a bench like that. Only Marseille will be v dangerous.

Have to say, been very impressed with the transfers of the top three sides in Ligue 1. Brought in a lot of quality without losing too much, only Benzema is the only notable departure.

Will be a good three horse race imo.

Yes, there will. I hope. The big 4 (with P.S.G) managed for once to keep their best players and at the same reinforce their teams by buying some good players so it's looking good for them.

All these years was the opposite, with young players or the best three players leaving for better leagues. Gourcuff, Bastos, Niang, Sessegon who were the 4 best players last year all stayed in France and only Benzema left for us but we bought 3 good players.

I just wishe we could sack Puel he is not good enough.

Heinze just signed for Marseille. I am confident he can do well, because the ligue1 is less competitive and pressurize than the Liga. All the players D.D wanted he now has, he has doubled all the areas and has now two competitive teams.

I don't know if the death of Louis Deyfrus has to do with that, but the club this year changed its policy towards big spending.

After all these years without trophies Marseille seems to be back at the highest level.

Alive and Kicking wrote:Yes, there will. I hope. The big 4 (with P.S.G) managed for once to keep their best players and at the same reinforce their teams by buying some good players so it's looking good for them.

All these years was the opposite, with young players or the best three players leaving for better leagues. Gourcuff, Bastos, Niang, Sessegon who were the 4 best players last year all stayed in France and only Benzema left for us but we bought 3 good players.

I just wishe we could sack Puel he is not good enough.

Heinze just signed for Marseille. I am confident he can do well, because the ligue1 is less competitive and pressurize than the Liga. All the players D.D wanted he now has, he has doubled all the areas and has now two competitive teams.

I don't know if the death of Louis Deyfrus has to do with that, but the club this year changed its policy towards big spending.

After all these years without trophies Marseille seems to be back at the highest level.

I am surprised Lyon haven't tried to break their transfer record for Eden Hazard(what a player)

EM La Liga wrote:

Alive and Kicking wrote:Yes, there will. I hope. The big 4 (with P.S.G) managed for once to keep their best players and at the same reinforce their teams by buying some good players so it's looking good for them.

All these years was the opposite, with young players or the best three players leaving for better leagues. Gourcuff, Bastos, Niang, Sessegon who were the 4 best players last year all stayed in France and only Benzema left for us but we bought 3 good players.

I just wishe we could sack Puel he is not good enough.

Heinze just signed for Marseille. I am confident he can do well, because the ligue1 is less competitive and pressurize than the Liga. All the players D.D wanted he now has, he has doubled all the areas and has now two competitive teams.

I don't know if the death of Louis Deyfrus has to do with that, but the club this year changed its policy towards big spending.

After all these years without trophies Marseille seems to be back at the highest level.

I am surprised Lyon haven't tried to break their transfer record for Eden Hazard(what a player)

I think next year all the biggest clubs will be after him. Barcelona made an enquiry already. This guy is a genuis for his age. He own't stay long in France.

First Day of ligue1, no real big matchups:

21:00 Auxerre - Sochaux
21:00 Grenoble - Marseille
21:00 Le Mans - Lyon
21:00 Monaco - Toulouse
21:00 Montpellier - Paris Saint-Germain
21:00 Rennes - Boulogne-sur-Mer
21:00 Saint-Etienne - Nice
21:00 Valenciennes - Nancy

should be victories for Marseille, P.S.G and Lyon, Bordeaux will play tomorrow.

Lyon and PSG could only draw so it's Marseille with the early lead as they won quite comfortably, 2-0.

Looks like Marseille have built quite a good squad...so many names that are recognisable: Niang, Lucho, Cheyrou, Taiwo, Mandanda, Ben Arfa, Brandao, Valbuena, Bakary Kone, Morientes, Heinze, Diawara, etc.

How come Lucho didn't play yesterday - injured? Or not match fit yet?

Lucho is injured for 4-6 weeks I think. Yes, Marseille have indeed a good team, certainly the best on in the ligue. With Lucho in the team they will have more option and will be better offensively. Watched both Lyon and Marseille games and the latter was much better in terms of intensity. Marseille reallu impressed me. We were not terrible at all, we can only improve.

I think the most exciting part about Marseille and Bordeaux's improvement is that they can really become tough teams in the CL as well. Makes a break from just Lyon all the time.

Bordeaux [4 - 1] Lens
15' [1 - 0] Wendel
41' [1 - 1] I. Jemaa
53' [2 - 1] Y. Gourcuff
90' [3 - 1] M. Chamakh
90' [4 - 1] Y. Gourcuff

First goal from Wendel was excellent

How would Ligue 1 fans rate Flavio Roma?

He was a good keeper a few years ago, but now he's 35. So it's a good thing for him to go to Milan and I am sure he will be a good sub when ever you need him. He might be shy at first because he'll be used to play in front 5000 people at Monaco, 50 000 will be a lot for him. I remember a few years ago he had some contacts with big Italian teams but nothing happened. He was at his top in 2003-2005 when Monaco did well in Europe. Last year he only played four games because there's a new keeper at Monaco who's young & quite good.

Alive and Kicking wrote:He was a good keeper a few years ago, but now he's 35. So it's a good thing for him to go to Milan and I am sure he will be a good sub when ever you need him. He might be shy at first because he'll be used to play in front 5000 people at Monaco, 50 000 will be a lot for him. I remember a few years ago he had some contacts with big Italian teams but nothing happened. He was at his top in 2003-2005 when Monaco did well in Europe. Last year he only played four games because there's a new keeper at Monaco who's young & quite good.

Thanks.

Marseille 1-0 Lille

Brandao

Hatem Ben Arfa with the assist

Results from day 3:

- Lille 1 - 1 Toulouse
- Bordeaux 4 - 0 Nice
- Grenoble 1 - 2 Lens
- Rennes 1 - 1 Marseille
- Auxerre 0 - 3 Lyon
- Le Mans 2 - 1 Nancy
- Monaco 2 - 0 Lorient
- Montpellier 2 - 0 Sochaux
- Saint-Etienne0 - 1 Boulogne-sur-Mer
- Valenciennes 2 - 3 Paris Saint-Germain

Standings:

1 Bordeaux 9 points +8
2 Lyon 7 +4
3 P.S.G 7 +3
4 Marseille 7 + 3
5 Nancy 6
6 Lens 6
7 Monaco 6
8 Boulogne 6
9 Rennes 5
10 Montpellier 5


Top Scorers:

1. 4 goals: Gourcuff (Bordeaux)
2. 3: Chamakh (Bordeaux)
3. 2 goals: Niang (Marseille)
-------------Gameiro (Lorient)
------------- Guily (P.S.G)
------------- Erding (P.S.G)
------------- Nene (Monaco)
------------- Ljuboja (Grenoble)
------------- Leroy (Rennes)

Assists:

1. 3 Assists: Leroy
2. 2 assists: Gourcuff
-------------- Gouffran (Bordeaux)
-------------- Delgado (Lyon)

Bordeaux already top of the charts. Laurent Blanc has done a great job so far. Still holding the record of the most wins in a row (15 or 16) since last season when they won their last 111-12 games. Amazing.