In August 2020, when Lille OSC spent $35 million to bring Jonathan David across the border from Belgian club Gent (Via Sports Illustrated), no one would have predicted four years later the 24-year-old would be potentially set to leave the Ligue 1 club for free. A move which goes against everything LOSC’s well oiled […]
Posted on July 30th, 2024 by scott
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Paris Saint-Germain have brought in the big one. The Ligue 1 giants have swooped in and brought in superstar Lionel Messi on a free transfer (Source BBC Sport). I say a free transfer but obviously the deal is laden with cash. The two year contract will no doubt include a whopping signing-on fee and The […]
Posted on August 11th, 2021 by scott
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According to Sport, FC Barcelona want to bring Neymar back to the Camp Nou. The report suggests that the Catalan giants could be willing to add Ousmane Dembele into the deal as a makeweight and if I were Paris Saint-Germain I’d be willing to listen to such a deal as long as long as the La […]
Posted on May 31st, 2019 by scott
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Lille OSC have had a terrific season thus far in Ligue 1. They currently sit in second place and have a four point lead over third placed Olympique Lyonnais. Not bad when you consider the fact that Lille finished in seventeenth position last term and just avoided relegation. A big part of the club’s success […]
Posted on February 21st, 2019 by scott
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According to a Sky Sports report (via France Football), Manchester United are the ‘most determined‘ club in Europe currently being linked with Olympique Lyonnais midfielder Tanguy Ndombele. What would Man United be getting if they did indeed purchase the French international? Well they’d be getting a youngster full of potential. At just just twenty-one years of age, […]
Posted on December 11th, 2018 by scott
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Various media outlets, including AS English, are reporting that Neymar and PSG have come to an agreement which will see the Brazilian international leaving the Ligue 1 champions next summer for a fee in the region of €200m, around £2om less than what the French side paid for him in 2017. The Spanish press believe […]
Posted on November 27th, 2018 by scott
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You can’t doubt Edinson Cavani’s goalscoring ability. Since his arrival at PSG in 2013, the Uruguayan has banged in 176 goals in 252 appearances. This term he’s grabbed five Ligue 1 strikes in seven games. He’s the French club’s all-time leading goalscorer. Yet I think it could be the ideal time for PSG to cash […]
Posted on October 31st, 2018 by scott
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PSG have often looked like a Qatari vanity project rather than a well organised football club, in my opinion. That’s not to say that they haven’t enjoyed success, they’ve won five Ligue 1 titles since Qatari Sports Investments (QSI) bought the Parisian club in 2011. Yet eight years on, they’ve still not really become a […]
Posted on September 22nd, 2018 by scott
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With Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane and Roberto Firmino on one side and Kylian Mbappe, Edinson Cavani and Neymar on the other, plenty of people are expecting a high scoring game at Anfield tonight as Liverpool host PSG in the Champions League. Both clubs have talented German bosses that like to oversee exciting, attacking football and […]
Posted on September 18th, 2018 by scott
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Kylian Mbappe became the first teenager since Pele in 1958 to score in a World Cup final. The young superstar striker was one of the top performers as Les Bleus claimed their second ever World Cup triumph! His performances, which saw Kylian find the net four times, helped the youngster to claim the Best Young […]
Posted on July 16th, 2018 by scott
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