French Ligue 1 2016/ 2017

Of course Ballotelli scores twice and Nice beat Marseille today. I can see him having a really good year and getting a transfer back to a bigger club where he'll probably choke again.
 
Midas Mulligan said:
Hey, someone started a France league thread.

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I'm sure you'll be right in the end though their actually off to a flat start. I'll find it very amusing if they take a step backward under Unai Emery. The level of whining about Laurent Blanc while he was winning the league every year seemed very excessive to me.
 
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Davo15 said:
Of course Ballotelli scores twice and Nice beat Marseille today. I can see him having a really good year and getting a transfer back to a bigger club where he'll probably choke again.
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Nice has a very young squad now that Ben Arfa is at PSG. Balo and Plea will probably do very well together up top. I was worried about their midfield after losing Mendy to Leicester, but whoscored named the 20 year old Cyprien motm over Balo, and Seri is like a carbon copy of Mendy anyways. Come to think of it, it's like NGolo Kante cloned himself twice, stuck his clones in Nice, then told Ranieri to grab one of them on his way out.

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Corsican fans can be a little nutty. There are some priors from both Bastia an Ajaccio. Meanwhile it's not the only crowd trouble Lyon were involved with this week. There was some aggro when they played Besiktas in the Europa midweek. Don't think either was much Lyon's fault. I attended Marseille VS Fernerbache at the Velodrome a few years ago and there was a fair amount of bother (only match I've ever been to where there was) evidence suggests the Turks don't travel well.
 
Davo15 said:
Wow as a long time Ligue One follower I remember strasbourg didn't realize they'd had severe financial problems and enforced relegation. A little like Rangers? Or Parma? Not that they were ever that good.
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Well, not like Parma because Parma's phoenix club is run by the old fans. It looks like in the case of Strasbourg they arranged a voluntary relegation, so more like Rangers in that sense.

For the record, for anyone who read that link in the last couple of days or reads it after I post this, the story on that webpage was originally about how there were no fewer than six clubs on the final day of the season who could've won the title. After Strasbourg won the league, they editted the page to make that the main story. Still, Strasbourg getting back to Ligue 1 with four promotions in five seasons is still quite the story.
 
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