As of writing, PSG are seventeen points clear at the top of Ligue 1. The team behind them isn't Monaco, or Lyon, or Nantes...or even Marseille. Yep, it is none other than the powerful and invincible Angers. They are the team tasked with challenging Paris Saint Germain for the title.
Some wonder why I don't report more on Ligue 1, and why I don't give it more of a look-in. The reason why I do this isn't because the league is crap with rubbish players. There are some really good players, most notably, Ben Arfa. It's just that PSG have totally ended any sort of competition. It is literally scientifically impossible for any other team apart from them to win the league or the cup. They are so much better than everyone else that it's quite shameful. But does anyone care?
It's a formality that one team will win, and the powers-that-be have allowed them to spend ridiculous amounts of money in order to build this super team. No hinges, no restrictions and the next time someone mentions that joke of an organization called the FFFP or whatever they call themselves, I will scream like a squealing peacock.
As for the players, this can't be good for them. Especially the younger ones. As amazing as Veratti is, and I still see him as one of the best central-midfielders in the world, I wonder whether he would look as good if he was having to ply his trade back home in Italy. But then though, his individual performance against Chelsea when they were a man down got the entire world on notice, and was proof that he could do it against a quality team (not this season though) whilst under duress.
Long term though, for players like him, Pastore and Lucas; their development won't be as good as someone like Pogba. In Serie A, especially this season, Pogba has been put to the test and you've seen how it's getting the best out of him by really trying to dominate difficult matches. The same cannot be said for PSG in theirs.
When you have the bulk of possession in every game, and you're already so far ahead in the league this early, you don't get tested. That is where you learn most about yourself as a player; when you have to really grind through a difficult match and find a way of getting that victory. PSG in Ligue 1 don't have to do that. It's been a stroll for them and nobody seems to care how one-sided the league has become. Their only real victory is the Champions League. Without winning that trophy, these successes won't mean anything because the other clubs just can't even begin to compete with the kind of talent that they have.
But my cries seem futile as the age of big businessmen buying football clubs to rule over a league is in it's growth stage. So it's going to get worse before it gets better.
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