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Is French football in bad health or is it as good as health as its ever been? On one hand, Paris Saint-Germain are so far ahead in the league that they will probably wrap it up in the coming weeks and with Dmitry Rybolovlev’s expensive divorce all but ending his interest in Monaco, no one has any real chance of challenging them anymore. On the other, France has never been a particularly strong footballing nation – their national team has been quite successful, but its clubs have just one European Cup between them due to Marseille’s win in 1993, although even that was sullied by match-fixing. They have obviously lagged behind Spain, England, Italy and Germany – and still do – but they have also been historically weaker than the Dutch and Portuguese leagues. Would you expect to see Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Angel di Maria or Marco Verratti turning out in the Eredivisie or Primeira Liga now they are stars? Whatever PSG’s relative success means for French football, it doesn’t do anything for Le Classique. Marcelo Bielsa seemed the perfect fit for a team that couldn’t hope to match the riches of PSG on their terms. The less flexible theorist managers […]
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