I don't think he'll last too long there. I don't know what kind of coach they need. They'll have top stars, but because of FFP they're also going to have to rely on their home grown system for role players/depth
He could probably win quite a bit. Buy a bunch of late 20s players. Sell off youth to fund them. Play defend first football with world class defenders and world class forwards. That's actually a good recipe to win a champions league. Problem will be that he'll kill any momentum in the developmental program, and his players will hate him by end of year 2, and he'll struggle to find world class defenders/attackers. This would also be terrible news for Weah. He'd have no use for him.
I hope Tuchel is embarrassed. He bought Choupo-Moting, who has been shit, and froze Tim out. Choupo-Moting has scored 3 goals in over 1000 minutes, and stopped a goal from being scored on the line.
They had 5 players on the bench. The substitute goalscorer was making his first-team debut as a 20-year-old. Probably could have used the depth.
Under question from the suits, more like. He was brought in to replace Unai Emery because Emery couldn't get them to CL semi-finals, which is the minimum requirement for a club that's had so much money poured into it. They failed again this season, but at least Emery's teams didn't choke this embarassingly when clinching Ligue 1.
PSG will never win champions league because the team is dulled by playing the series of exhibition games known as Ligue 1.
Even if PSG has a team just as good as the top 4 left in the CL, they will never be able to match the sharpness and competitiveness of those teams that feel competitive pressure week to week. There’s too big of a competitive gap between PSG and the rest of Ligue 1.
Meh. Bayern managed to win the Champions when they completely dominated the BuLi, so being in a league that offers no real test is no excuse. Unlike PSG, Bayern has had seasons where they only lost one or two games after they had already grabbed the title.
The difference is that the relative gap between PSG and the rest of Ligue 1 is much larger than the dominant Bayer team and the Bundesliga.
Not at all. Last season PSG ended with 3 defeats, 93/+79. The last time Bayern won the Champions, 12/13, they ended the season with 1 defeat, 91/+80. It's very similar.
PSV has, funnily enough, fewer defeats than Ajax this season, in the Ered. And they're tied in points. Ajax has never dominated the Ered the way PSG or Club Hollywood dominate their leagues.
The point differential may be similar but that doesn't automatically equate to the competitiveness of the league as a whole is the same. I think nearly everyone recognizes that the Bundesliga as a whole has been stronger than Ligue Un as a whole. It looks more like PSG has slacked off. For example, when Bayern won the CL they still had BVB to contend with. They in fact played them in the CL final. No non-PSG French team is remotely as good as BVB was.
Yes in the past, but of late Bundesliga teams look nearly as sorry as French teams in European competition, beyond the two giants. At this point it's indisputable that Bayern is the one keeping the BuLi in third place after the EPL & La Liga.
Germany is actually in fourth, but there is still a huge gap between Germany and fifth-place France in the UEFA coefficients. In fact, France is closer to Russia's level than Germany's according to the UEFA rankings. 1 Spain 102.855 2 England 82.034 3 Italy 74.725 4 Germany 71.213 5 France 58.498 6 Russia 50.549
PSG need the likes of Lille, Lyon, Marseille to offer worthy competition. To push them. Unfortunately, they do not consistently achieve this. One can say that Dortmund does provide this for Munich. And now Leipzig to a lesser degree. Just like in Scotland. Relegating Rangers was the worst thing to happen to the league.
Third this year. Fourth overall. The big gap between Ligue 1 and the BuLI is because Bayern does much better than PSG --and PSG has been "big" only recently.