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7 minutes ago, wyn davies said:

with all their superstars , would PSG hack it in the Premier league something tells me no.

One off games yeah they would , but playing against teams up in the frozen north and against championship teams in domestic cup games on clarty pitches perhaps not.

 

I spent 5 months in St-Etienne, 3 months of it was almost non-stop snow. They'd be fine over here. 

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3 minutes ago, Optimistic Nut said:

 

I spent 5 months in St-Etienne, 3 months of it was almost non-stop snow. They'd be fine over here. 

Would I be right in saying their winters are similar to ours in how cold they get but maybe don’t last as long? 

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25 minutes ago, Rafalove said:

Would I be right in saying their winters are similar to ours in how cold they get but maybe don’t last as long? 

 

Depends on where you are but where I was, November to March was bleak. Probably not much different just the warmer weather was warmer. The colder weather was much colder though. 

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26 minutes ago, Optimistic Nut said:

 

Depends on where you are but where I was, November to March was bleak. Probably not much different just the warmer weather was warmer. The colder weather was much colder though. 

 

Couple of places in Spain but isn't Nice one of the few places you can go skiing one day then lie on the beach the next?

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53 minutes ago, wyn davies said:

with all their superstars , would PSG hack it in the Premier league something tells me no.

One off games yeah they would , but playing against teams up in the frozen north and against championship teams in domestic cup games on clarty pitches perhaps not.


They’d be fine. The problems wouldn’t be to do with “the frozen north” or Championship teams - much of their domestic opposition right now is basically Championship teams and you have to go a long way down in the English League before you hit anything clarty. Their wage bill is higher than anyone else for starters, somehow even Man City.

 

The only question is over how they’d fare against serious competition week in and week out. They won the league by 19 points of course, but they only lost two games all season and those came in the last four games when the league was long won and they were presumably resting for the CL. Look at the battles Arsenal were facing every week - it clearly took its toll.

 

It’s the double-edged sword of the Premier League. Tons of money, but the League has done arguably the best job in Europe of sharing it around. The teams have more money that most teams in Europe, but have to fight tooth and nail most weeks just to stay in some kind of contention. You could also factor in the physical demands of the Premier League’s work towards trying to account for timewasting (more minutes on the pitch) or instructing refs to let the game flow.

 

That said, I checked the minutes played this season. No PSG player has played more than Pedro Porro (4130 minutes) but two have played more than 4000 minutes, which surprised me a bit. However, Saliba at Arsenal has racked up nearly 4500 minutes, and Bruno Fernandes nearly 5000. Almost all against teams who are better than his. That’s got to take more toll than putting 6 past Montpellier or Saint Etienne.

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1 hour ago, wyn davies said:

with all their superstars , would PSG hack it in the Premier league something tells me no.

One off games yeah they would , but playing against teams up in the frozen north and against championship teams in domestic cup games on clarty pitches perhaps not.

You barely see a "clarty pitch" in the northern league thesedays nevermind the football league. It's not 1983 anymore 

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12 hours ago, Ikon said:

Get some more technical ability in our team and focus on improving our control in possession and we can become a similar team to PSG.  They play my kind of football, intense, pressing, transitions as well as being able to control games when needed. 
 

I don’t think you can make it to the top without a very very high ceiling of technical ability, especially not consistently. 

 

 

 

 

 

Yeah I really liked how they combined the press with some wonderful ability to retain possession through precision football on the floor. It's not that far of what Eddie is trying to do IMO, but obviously they have a higher calibre of players to work with. It's the diametric opposite of the hoofball Pards used to implement here. 

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21 minutes ago, JT24 said:

English teams would be getting kicked out of Europe right about now, especially with the consistent trouble against away fans. Can’t get my head around the whole rioting when you’ve won.

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The rioting will have little to do with football though unfortunately. A bit of a traditional sport really, especially in the Paris area.

 

Just good that they won so that it wasn't worse.

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31 minutes ago, M4 said:

The rioting will have little to do with football though unfortunately. A bit of a traditional sport really, especially in the Paris area.

 

Just good that they won so that it wasn't worse.

It is down to the football though. The police had prepared for it, and many of the rioters were wearing PSG tops. It was also only limited to Paris, and not elsewhere in France, so it wasn’t even one of the nationwide riots the French are known for.

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36 minutes ago, joeyt said:

PSG fans were very antagonistic when they were at SJP last season too

 

Our lot weren't blameless but does seem to be a lot of pent up anger in France 

They were attacking women with children who just happened to be in town, like proper attacking them.

Our fans got all the flak because there a video of someone throwing their point over a PSG fan after the match.

Everywhere they go they cause bother. There will be one day where they try it on in Instanbul, Greece, or Glasgow and people won’t be so kind in response. They’ll absolutely end up getting shanked, you can see it from a mile off.

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29 minutes ago, Stifler said:

They were attacking women with children who just happened to be in town, like proper attacking them.

Our fans got all the flak because there a video of someone throwing their point over a PSG fan after the match.

Everywhere they go they cause bother. There will be one day where they try it on in Instanbul, Greece, or Glasgow and people won’t be so kind in response. They’ll absolutely end up getting shanked, you can see it from a mile off.

Worst fanbase about. When they lose they burn down every car in the city and when they win it’s even worse and people get killed. Should ban them from Europe for 2-3 seasons

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31 minutes ago, BergenMagpie said:

Worst fanbase about. When they lose they burn down every car in the city and when they win it’s even worse and people get killed. Should ban them from Europe for 2-3 seasons


It’s really hard to have been an English fan throughout the 80s and not get exasperated about this. Every country and every team has its cunts following them, but the double standards are infuriating sometimes. Not least when you see the appalling way English fans (and others) are treated by the authorities on a regular basis including…the CL final Paris in 2022.

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