News: General 2011-2012 Ligue 1 Discussion

Youssef El-Arabi leaving Caen for Al-Hilal in Saud Arabia (for rumored about 7 million). I guess it's good for Caen if they were willing to pay more than Stoke, Genoa and Valencia but a bit disappointing in terms of El-Arabi's ambitions.

Well since he's Arab, I dont think its weird he wants to play in an Arab country. I dont have much problem with that move because if a player turns down EPL, La Liga or Serie A, I love it since Im a Ligue 1 fan.

Giuly and Trezeguet are both training with Monaco. I'd like to know if they have any intentions of signing there. I doubt it but who knows.

help and save monaco that would be cool

He's saying he wants to return to France and he mentioned all the big club but I do not think anyone in L1 will sign him and he will be forced to go abroad or play for ASM.

i would sign Trezgoal psg is getting rid of peggy and erding

PSG, OL, OM, Bordeaux have all said they arent interested in him. Nice is not saying no. I dont know who else could be involved.

Lille [4 - 5] Marseille
9' [1 - 0] F. Balmont
58' [2 - 0] E. Hazard
71' [2 - 1] A. Ayew
72' [3 - 1] M. Sow
85' [3 - 2] J. Morel
87' [3 - 3] L. Remy
90' [3 - 4] A. Ayew (pen.)
90' [4 - 4] M. Basa
90' [4 - 5] A. Ayew (pen.)

Now that's how you open up a season, crowned champion on the first day- to be crowned champion on last day. ALLEZ L'OM!

Trophee Champions should have been played in Romania

Neither of them wants to play in Ligue 2. They arent as old as Wiltord is yet.

I dont like making predictions but if you ask me right now I'm gonna say OM win the title, Lyon finish 2nd and PSG 3rd. I think those 3 are far ahead of everyone else. I except Lille to drop off because of losing players and replacing them with ones who arent as good. PSG will drop a lot of points early because they have to intergrate too many new players and by the time their lineup gets settled those lost points will cost them the title. Lyon havent really lost much but if they sell guys like Bastos, Cissokho, Pjanic, before the transfer window closes then I would knock them down a few spots. As of now they lost one guy who is on the decline anyway plus all the talented young players they have they should be ok for top 3 spot. Im a little worried about OM because Gignac is injury prone and Morel is a huge drop off from Taiwo and he has no cover and Im skeptical about Amalifitano replacing Lucho as playmaker but they have a solid squad and the best coach in the league and their wingers and defensive mids are very solid. I really wish DD would move Fanni or Azpi to the other side rather than have them both fight for a starting job and have one of them on the bench. I like Toulouse, Lille, Rennes, and St. Etienne to contend for Europa League spots.
I also want Evian, Ajaccio, and Auxerre relegated.

The 3 teams that come up every year never all got back down at once. So Evian, Ajaccio, Dijon, 1 or 2 is gonna be saved. Ajaccio is a good safe bet to stay because of their goalie.

Wow, easy Guignol! My dad and his family are from Morzine... some of them live in Thonon les bains....

Look how different he used to look. Doesnt look like the same guy.

People are picking Lille ahead of Lyon and I dont see it. Gervinho was like the best player in the whole league and Payet, really ??? Rami is a starter for Le Bleus and Basa was exilied in Russia. Pedretti is 30 and on the downside. Bonnart is over 30 and played for a team that got relegated. No good backup fowards behind Sow who wont be as good without Gervinho. DeMelo isnt great. They need Chu Yung Park or Erding.

Lots of zapping between the games.

PSG looked like the old PSG, Sakho seemed completly distracted and made mistake after mistake, Matudi-Chantome in the middle was just awful. AK will be fired before Christmas.

Marseille's defense is just as awful as it ever was.

For some reason watched a lot of AJA - Toulouse. Ajaccio played like a low budget version of Stoke with much smaller players and without a rory delap and a big strong central striker which means you can't hope to score much and it's hard to out muscle a team that is physically stronger than you such as Toulouse . They were a bit unlucky to be down 0-1 at half though as Toulouse basically converted their only chance and Ajaccio did create a lot of corners but in the 2nd quality gap in the players just came through for TFC. Will be a long season in Corse-sud I reckon.

Of course AK wont last the season. Qataris want a big name foreign manager. Nene and Gamerio looked good though. Pastore is really needed you could tell from watching. Bisevac wasnt bad either. Jallet and Tiene still arent good enough and theres still not much depth behind Nene and Menez. If you upgrade from Hoarau then you do it. Lorient looked good though for a team that lost some key players.

Supposedly Lucho had a good game. Too bad hes desperate to get out of here.

Dijon - Rennes 1:5 , have to say Rennes looks really strong, 12 goals in three matches almost all from the midfield. The Dortmund of bretagne, would say they are a striker away from a serious challenge to the top 3 but if Pitroïpa, Boukari and Montaño continues to play like this they mght not need one.

I'm very happy of PSG beginning of season Somebody thinks that if he will spend a lot of money and will buy a few hottest names that his team immediately starts to win Fortunately, money doesn't play