@@testadalord01432 PSG was not yet a power house back in the days it was the very beginning of QSI investment in Paris. Very big performance by MHSC back then tho knowing that they were just promoted.
What's funny is that as of right now PSG are set to dramatically crash out of the Champions League (currently 25th of the 36 teams needing to finish 24th or higher to advance), while the other 3 French teams all look likely to advance. For a team obsessed with the Champions League, the humiliation of being the only French team to crash out in a format where 2/3rds of the teams advance would be absolutely hilarious.
Not to down play your comment is very true but also has happened with Man City and to a lesser extent Chelsea fans, people love to create an us v them mentality which obviously there is but it’s not psg fans or city fans at least the ones born there or who have supported it through family ties or just before the moneys fault
Well before the qataris arrived, there was a war between the main 2 groups: Boulogne (far right) and Auteuil (far left). The previous owners, Colony Capital, banned all ultras after one Boulogne member was killed, in a fight between both groups, before a game vs Marseille, in 2010. These fights were common btw. Mostly away games, you would see ultras fighting each other, mainly for political reasons. Then the qataris came and saw how awful the atmosphere was in the Parc. But only wanted the fans with no criminal record/bans. Boulogne said "everyone or no one", Auteuil 1st said the same thing but then compromised and accepted the rules and formed CUP (Collectif Ultras Paris). The Parc is better than when the QSI arrived but light years away from what was before the 2010 ban.
Best comment here . I saw a few PSG shirts on kids backs in mid 90s during their period of success but since the Arab takeover every kid who isn't a Barca fan is a PSG fan 😂
Yes they do, they literally had mass protests against the league selling a small part of its shares. German fans/ultras are very well aware of 50+1, and it is basically holy to them.
As a former Marseille fan and still follower of French football, I thought the arrival of QSI would be the best thing because it will force its rivals to become better. I couldn't be further from the truth. I'm not saying Marseille could have won a league title but at least, it could have become a better-managed team which battles for podium, win a couple of national cups and competes on an annual basis on UEFA competitions. Instead, it has become an airport where players come and go each season and now, a washing machine for bad reputations. Yes, buying Greenwood was the last straw because it touches with a touching principle. But I digress, you get my point : no stability. It could have been a team FC Sevilla, Valencia (before its downfall), Borussia Dortmund or Arsenal, which are relevant teams. The 2018 TV deal for the 2020-24 period killed the league. Mediapro was seen as unsustainable in Italy but in France, the big bosses thought "it won't happen to us". Therefore, many teams started to spend as if the one billion euros per season deal will be effective. I remember that everyone but the LFP (French professional football league) executives knew the deal will never be respected. We ended the 40-year-old partnership with Canal+ this year because of the greed of LFP. Many fans are still mad about it. Besides, unlike even 10 years ago, Canal+ doesn't need Ligue 1 as much as they did before thanks to the many sporting rights such as the UEFA club competitions, Formula 1, Divisions 1 & 2 of french rugby, Premier League, etc. For Lille, the title is even more miraculous because the previous owner was the genius Gérard Lopez, a crook who still sinking football teams. They managed to escape catastrophe and went on to even win a Ligue 1 title. With the purchase of Paris FC by Louis Vuitton (main) and RedBull (minor), I hope it will finally bring a serious rival. With the money from LVMH and the expertise of RedBull, it will be a great combination.
om is the biggest club in france and i dont think psg had anything to do with its demise... the biggest hit was when their sugar daddy robert luis dreyfus died and suddenly his wag was the decider among all the sharks in marseille... then came bad transfert after bad transfert because of that starting by doria to henrique to ocampos...add to that that the pride of the marseillais got hurt badly since letting michy batshuayi go so quick and have since then always demanded a "grantatakan" (star striker in their dialect) because they think big teams buy star strikers not sell them... that quest is still on and has been as cursed as that of chealsea's quest for a striker lately
@@mehdiharaketi495 I wanted his wag to leave for years. She did have money but didn't want to spend it. Besides, she didn't have the right persons to lead the team and make good decisions. The "grantatakan" 🤣🤣 You have to say it with the Marseillais accent but for me, we don't win with just one good center forward.
To be fair mate, OM have brought in more assholes than just Greenwood. Wahi forced kids to touch themselves at Caen as a youth player, Harit killed someone and got away with it, and I'm sure there's a couple of other terrible people they brought in. They're assembling a team of super villians.
@@mehdiharaketi495 until marseille wins a legitimate champions league without bribing players, PSG's domestic dominance means they are the biggest club in france
Well, PSG may have broken Ligue 1, but making French football stagnant has been great for French rugby. In a weird way they helped make France's Top14 the biggest rugby union league in the world.
Ligue 1 attendance last year was just under 27,000 Top 14 was just over 15,000. Rugby is big in the South of France but nationally it’s still far behind football. Toulouse fc still get a bigger crowd than Toulouse rugby. In 11/12 top 14 had 15,000 whilst ligue 1 was at about 19,000. A good rugby competition would be considered terrible in football.
@@cyan_oxy6734 no , a car brand . Theur cars had model names on top of the brand name . Plymouth was like Ford then you add the model Fiesta Ficus etc
@@lucaslonchampt613 PSG was founded in 1970!!! What history are you talking about?!!!! Most of my family is older than PSG!!! I've literally drove cars that were older than PSG as a club!!!! Your mother is twice the age of PSG! In the meantime clubs like Hamburgs, Benfica, Celtic, Ajax, Aston Villa, Nott. Forest just to name a few were winning European, domestic leagues and cups left, right and center, and existed for 150+ years. The only thing that is going for PSG as a club is the fact, that it has managed to sell it's soul in less than 50 years of existing. PSG will always be a soulless club, and a summary of everything wrong with modern football. And they can take that Winners' cup and put it deep down where the sun does not shine.
@@StephenC-d2m There's over 1 billion Muslims living across the world and on multiple different continents and only 1.5 million live in Qatar, 6.2 million live in the UAE and 31 million live in Saudi Arabia. Grow up
Something similar has happened in the Copa Libertadores and Copa Sudamericana, ever since CONMEBOL switched their formats to a year-long one in 2017, Brazilian teams have become more dominant with each passing year, with one of them winning each Libertadores final since 2019 (three of them being all-Brazilian affairs). It can also be said that having double the berths than the rest of South America also came in handy. They already generated more money than the rest of South America before (winning the Copa do Brasil was worth more than the Copa Libertadores until recently), once they started allowing foreign investment, it has become even worse. Botafogo went from playing in Série B to winning the double in a few years thanks to that.
There's also the fact that Brazil is the size of all the other countries combined, so the league generates way more money from TV rights than any other in South America. Like, how tf do we expect smaller countries to compete with that
I agree with you, but Brazil is undoubtedly the biggest country (1/2 the population of South America), so there is a natural difference there where you expect us Brazilians to win more (yet not always). But I do think that in addition to what you described, it's crucial to remember that until recently (2007-2017), CONMEBOL had created a rule making teams from the same country play each other in the Semi-Finals (which was ridiculously unfair), effectively ruining a lot of chances Brazil had to win the Libertadores at the start of the century. Only recently that stopped, and now Brazilian clubs can end up playing each other in the final WAYYY more (like this year, the semis would HAVE to be Botafogo and Atlético Mineiro. Or 2010, São Paulo had to play inter. 2012, Santos had to play Corinthians in the semis, 2009, 2007. They did that because of 2006 São Paulo- Inter and 2005 Paranaense-Sao Paulo final). So Brazilian clubs WERE being held back from all-brazilian Finals since 2006. That was highly unfair and did help clubs from other countries. Since that rule stopped around the same time as what you described (2017), Brazilian Clubs are on fire. So it's also important to remember that rule existed, and now that it doesn't. So Brazil started dominating more because of that as well (I mean, it was a ridiculously unfair rule). (Flamengo-Palmeiras, Botafogo-Mineiro and Flamengo-Paranaense wouldn't happen in the finals + good Brazilian sides wouldn't make it to the final, which used to happen a lot)
@@mateovazquez127with merit?? Conmebol should introduce a coefficient or a ranking for their leagues, there's no way that Peru deserves the same berths than Colombia or Ecuador
Before 2000 when all the berths were equal only 5 country have won a Libertadores, and Brazil and Argentina alone had won 29 of the 40 seasons of Libertadores, and if we include Uruguay it's already 37, and from 2000 to 2016 Argentina and Brazil have won 12 titles of the 16 possible, it's not something new, it was already a monopoly between the 2 Conmebol giants
@@DiegoF1ores A coefficient similar to the one used by UEFA should be definitely be implemented. An example of the unfairness of the current distribution is that both Colombia and Chile keep having two teams starting from the Round 2, when they have been mostly bad every year. Both Paraguay and Ecuador have been more consistent over the years, with the later even winning some silverware recently (with both IDV and Liga de Quito).
I mean there’s not much else to say is there? Ineos got the single biggest decision wrong in keeping Ten Hag and spending another 200m to back him, then bring in his replacement at the worst possible time when he has a game every 2 days and no time to train or get his system across and he also has no money to buy players that suit his system. Pretty straight forward if you ask me😂😭
The way everyone else does it is the superficial shit “is the manager getting sacked?”, “Rashford is partying”, “Harry had a shit and missed the toilet doing it”. No ones on about that same old crap.
@@archstanton6102they gained plastic fans obviously but people dismiss their rabid Parisian fanbase and say they weren’t well supported pre takeover which isn’t true PSG had huge support outside of Paris pre takeover unlike Chelsea and city Chelsea were known for far right hooliganism and city were irrelevant outside Manchester
@@BOABModels I suspect that PSG opposed the Super League due to their opposition to the ESL's Financial Rules. Alongside seeing an opportunity to increase their influence over UEFA. A gamble that paid off to be fair.
Interestingly, while the tide lifting every other team may not have happened in football, it does seem to have partially happened in handball, where PSG also own a record-spending team. Clubs like HBC Nantes, Montpellier and Toulouse are growing every season, to the point where there are genuine title challenges threatening PSG's status every year now, with HBC Nantes currently top of the table at Christmas. However, this isn't the full extent of the improvement French handball has seen, as if you look at the European competitions, French teams are regularly going deep, which they didn't do as frequently before. HBC Nantes in fact are 2nd in their 8 team group behind only Barcelona, who are European handball's dominant winners, and also coincidentally owned by the local football team.
In the spirit of Ryuzaki Day 12 of asking for an in-depth video on Bodø/Glimt, who just recently became champions for the 4th time in 5 years, and who only got promoted back to Eliteserien as recently as 2017 C'mon Alfie.... you know you want this 😎😎 Happy new year! 🎉
How did psg not contribuate any good moments, it only depends on the clubs, if you dont support a club ofc you wont be seeing "good moments" y'all are acting like every big teams dont have rich leaders, y'all are just talking trash bcz it has no ucl's😂😂😂
Touching on what you said about Paris and Berlin… could you do a video on why the biggest clubs from 4 out of 5 of the big leagues are not from the capital city? (Psg now are to be fair) United in England Milan in Italy Munich in Germany
It's just sad that the French authorities would rather kill Lyon and Bordeaux and take the envelopes rather than tax PSG properly on commercial income and transfer/wage spends. PSG could be taxed at 100% on each, the money be distributed equally to the other clubs to make up the TV deal shortfall and PSG would still be competitive.
thaats not how it works... the state cant take from a private company and give it to another... BOrdeaux was extremely poorly managed YES. But Ligue 1 has no power (as any other league) to gather taxes What always killed Football in France is no club was ever dominant and as such all the best players end up playing for EUropean giants elsewhere.. At least its the first time Paris natives can stay home and enjoy good deals while avoiding to play for clubs thy never supported as kids
The fact the that Canal+ and Be-in sport are owner of PSG while also being the official broadcaster of the league is a serious red flag. Imagine SkySports owning PL club...
1st: canal + sold PSG in the late 90s 2nd: to not make the other clubs unhappy and suspicious, canal + deliberately penalised PSG and run it badly in the end, to keep the league competitive
I find it interesting how will English football seems to cope financially. We have lost Macclesfield, Bury and Aldershot over recent years, and numerous non-league clubs. However, this is vastly different to:- France:- Bordeaux and Bastia. Italy:- Fiorentina, Lecce and Parma Scotland:- Rangers Spain:- Getafe, Burgos, Malaga, Almeria
Xavi Simons was one of the best and most prominent la masia players from the age of 7. He only left for Qatari money at 16, with his Barcelona contract running out.
PSG won the Cup Winners' Cup in 1996 and the Intertoto Cup in 2001. So they had a history of European successes before Qatar arrived (not great maybe, but they don't anymore).
Bold prediction - Messi will not "lift up" MLS just like he didn't lift up Ligue 1 either. MLS had great fans, good attendance and a host of growing National Team stars who are starting to matriculate to the biggest clubs in Europe before he arrived and jacked ticket prices to 10x their former value
French clubs keep getting raided by wealthier clubs all over the world but you’ll never hear this from a prem centric Englishman also what about Portuguese league and Belgian league they produce so much talent that get picked off by wealthier clubs that changed when the prem became a economic powerhouse everyone should know this if they’re paying attention to football the biggest fees this past window was from prem lower table teams like Man Utd😂😂
PSG have unirivalled access to the best area at producing young players but they choose to spend tons of money on foreign young players who don’t know the language and all have massive egos
@@LosCuatroOsitos Other than Zaire Emery, there are no regulars from the academy. But there are so many examples of very good academy players who would improve the first team right now like Maignan, Nkunku, Coman. And other players that grew up in Paris like Mbappe, Mahrez, Kolo Muani and Saliba. The team should have been built up around these players but instead they have been buying overpriced and overhyped players for more than a decade
@nathanb286at the end of the daythe money they’ve spent has brought success. A lot of those players wanted to leave anyway. Sounds like you just don’t like foreign players.
I just did an analysis of league champions in the top European leagues from 2000 to present and since football was invented in 1992. It's incredible how diverse the French football champions were prior to PSG and Lyon before them.
Quick add on: PSG was founded in 1970, never demoted and won a European champions cup. Ronaldinho and many other world champions wore the red and blue before Qatar showed up.
Great video, as always. And while some points are very much valide and even undeniable. I must say that the state of Ligue and its clubs like Lyon and Marseille cannot not only be blamed on PSG. And to say that Ligue 1 without PSG would have been a football "heaven" with a great show, and European competitiveness seems very unlikely if not unrelasitic. How many of the French players who won the 1998 World Cup or went to the 2006 final were playing for a French team at the time? With how business (because football is nowadays a business) is run in France, it seems more likely that Ligue 1 would have ended up being a second-tier league (which some might argue it already is) with no team competing regularly at a European level. Take the example of Lyon, who smashed the league in the 2000 but only attended the Champions League semi-final once. I think that it could also be argued that without PSG, Ligue 1 would have been on the level of hopefully Portuguese football or Belgian (not denigrating any of these two wonderful leagues). Looking forward to see the video on Paris FC!
They got bought out by Agache SCA a subsidiary of LVMH - Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton. Red Bull only acquired a 10% stake so they basically have no control over the club. Ans they've were in the promotion playoffs last year. I don't think this would be an interesting video because there's just not more to say than "This club that's doing pretty well was bought to diversify this billionaires portfolio and now they're probably gonna get some money and try to establish themselves in Ligue 1".
@HCpsycho They didn't got bought by Red Bull, but by Bernard Arnault, richest european, top 5 richest man on the planet. Red Bull has only 15%, but will play a key role with their football expertise/experience.
@@Ntkisrebornthat’s what normal clubs try to do find talented players before they’re stars and buy them cheap and make them into quality players and sell for profit.
Excellent video about the actual shitty state of French Football and the fact that the PSG's domination since 2012 did more harm than good. I'm really worried about the state of the Ligue 1 & Ligue 2 championships because of the issue of the television rights, the negotiations for which were conducted in a very questionable manner by Vincent Labrune with the complicity of the Qatari State and most of the presidents of Ligue 1 clubs. I fear that the crisis will reach its peak this year, with the probable consequence of the bankruptcy of many historic clubs, unless the League and the French Federation of Football finally take concrete measures such as the imposition of a salary cap and betting more on young players and and their continuing education. One thing is certain: Vincent Labrune will not remain at the head of the LFP for long.
I hope 2025 finally brings us a video on FK Arkadag, if a club created by a former dictator who get alot of favourable refereeing decisions and have only lost 1 game in their entire history isn't the perfect subject for a HITC sevens video I don't know what is?
If they wanna play the game in hard mode, they should try turning around the slow-motion train wreck at united. Now that would feel better than speedrunning french football
First graph is revenue for the 2022-23 season, whereas the La Liga specific one shows Madrid and Barcelona's revenue for the 2023-24 season, when Madrid won La Liga & the Champions League, hence the big revenue spike. Apologies, I should have put the season / accounting period on the graph!
For a country that has produced countless top quality players its incredible how poor domestic football has been in France compared to the other major countries of England' Spain' Germany and Italy that have all had multiple European winners since the last time any French club which was over 30 years ago and even that Marseille win in the 1993 champions league was shrouded in controversy with mass fixing allegations and the owner being sent to prison. Is there any reason in particular why Ligue 1 has traditionally lacked the financial power of the EPL' La' Liga' Bundesliga and Seria A when it seemed to have everything going for it' i really don't understand why the French league has always been seen as the poor relation of the big 5 when it should have been able to compete just as well as the others but hasn't for some reason
I'm not completely sure, but in France football is not as dominant as it is in Germany, for example. Although football is by far the biggest, it competes more strongly with sports such as tennis, rugby, cycling, etc. In Germany, football is almost the only „big“ sport.
That's the kind of entitlement English and Spanish fans have in football. They have laundered money for decades with foreign players. The best result can be seen with Brazil, their football, like Portuguese football, has been degraded to a shit show in the past decade due to all of them playing in Europe. There was a time when clubs like Ajax, Benfica dominated football and their national team was a force to reckon with. The French National team is the most dominant football team of the past 20 years ``2 Euro finals, 2 World Cups. Their players make the heydays of Barca & Madrid, and so many English clubs. If France could keep some of its best players, the French league would attract more sponsorship and more money. Players like Henry, Benzema, Zidane, Cantona etc... Potencial, would be playing in PSG, Lyon, Marseille and Monaco. Spain has a policy, the best Spaniards play in Spanish clubs, When they blossom elsewhere, Spanish clubs fight to get them back to Spain "Fabregas, Pique & even Morata were all called back to LA LIGA. So why do French Players not have the right to do the same? Why French players cannot envisioned that ?
Excellent video Alfie. I’ve long been thinking that the crisis so many French clubs fate was in part their fault but didn’t realise it ran this deep. Worst club in world football?
20:04 call me stupid, but why didn’t they insist on a letter of credit or take out insurance on the deal? It’s pretty basic when the money is so vital even more so when dealing with someone new.
Ok next video got to be what on earth is going on at Manchester united net spend higher then PSG and not a single title. One of the worst squad I’ve seen from a big club.
I think Leicester winning the league was more special, than Lille. For Lille to win the league they had to overachieve only compared to one team, but Leicester had to overachieve compared to many teams.
Liverpool, United, City and Chelsea were not good in 2016, and Arsenal and Tottenham are Bottlesaurus Rex. Arsenal handed Leicester 2 league defeats out of 3, but they finished 10 points behind, and Tottenham were destroyed by already-relegated Newcastle in a game that could help them finish above Arsenal, fierce London rivals.
Ligue 1 would be such a fun league to watch if it wasn't for PSG. I still like it and watch it because the games are fun, but the league itself is extremely boring
I don't understand that I have always watches Laliga because the two best teams in the last decades were there I never asked myself oh there are only 2 or 3 teams winning the league. If it was for that premier league would be one of the worst leagues since Guardiola arrived.
Its just crazy how y'all are so hypocrites, literally in laliga its always the same 2 winners real or barca and maybe sometimes atletico, in prem its always city or liverpool. In bundesliga its always bayern, the only competitive league is serie A. In that case dont watch anything of these leagues.
@edinan9 No but its extremely hypocrite to say that for ligue 1 when its the same for any other leagues, i think that you most likely watch one of these 5.
@Skiipis i watch all of them and i don't disagree with you, i only mentioned ligue 1 because it was the subject of the video. The thing is, i'm from Brazil, and we have a "big 12" in our league, so the league is always fun and unpredictable. In most european leagues you'll find at least 2 good teams, but in France (and germany) you literally start most seasons knowing exactly who's going to be the champion. That doesn't affect the quality of the games, these are probably my two favorite leagues to watch, but the race for the title is REALLY boring most seasons.
Finally people are talking about this other leagues should be cautious or it will happen to them, France will soon be 7th ranked if they dont pick things up and stop their clubs from Bankruptcy
my bet - French teams will be good at the next UCL too, unless we get absolutemy stormed over at the transfer windows. The PSG new project since the arrival of Enrique is growing, despite their poor spell this year. Marseille and Monaco are doing very strong too and I don't see them change their coaches. That's for the likely top 3. The followers (Lille and Lyon) are good challengers too if they handle their transfers right, but they absolutely have the structures and well-respected coaches at the moment.
The thing sad with psg is how it attracted a lot of football tourists, when they play against your team you can be sure your own stadium will be filled with people who only watch a few psg matchs a year and that's all
If you go on about Qatar's ha rights abuses , what about the Wests support for genocide , proxy wara and illegal including aupooring " diversity" claiming ISIS in Syria ?
Corpro-sport. Killed it for the rest of us. They should start listing footballers wages in how many schools or hospitals they could have built with the money. Absolutely takin the piss out of ordinary people. I used to love football, now I hope my children find something else to follow.
To put it in a way that a Parisian waiter might be proud of - it's OK, I don't think anybody in Ligue 1 needs to worry too much about becoming a third-rate league...
Psg dominates the league by beeing a decently run club unlike majority of the french clubs beeing ran by circus performers Right now psg doesnt have any big stars team and they are literally 10 points in lead
Without being an expert on French football, to me this video seems to miss the mark and it offers a far too reductionist argument. I don't think PSG dominance or shady dealings with Sarkozy can fairly be blamed for so many clubs going under and struggling financially. The thing about revenue and TV money is obviously fair and relevant, but it also shows that the league and clubs themselves are at fault for going with the Mediapro deal without really knowing what they were doing. Similarly, the likes of Montpellier, Nantes, Sochaux, etc are hardly expected to waste hundreds of millions and to fight for titles, so also saying "PSG just force clubs to spend beyond their means" doesn't seem to be a great argument when most of the bankrupt clubs are nowhere near competing with PSG. Looking at the bigger competition, Lyon have finished second only twice since 2012 and they've been closer to 10th more often than that, so they're hardly keeping up with anything. Marseille, too, had a bunch of ownership drama and shit hires, so a notable element you seemed to mostly glance over is that a lot of these clubs are just not run well and in a sustainable way. Another thing that could be looked at is whether the number of points required to win the title has changed massively or if there are consistent massive gaps between the 1st and 2nd. Sure, there was that one season you mentioned, but is that the norm? In 2006, Lyon won the title by 15 points. The following years the gap between 1st and 2nd was 17, 4, 3, 6, 8, and 3 points in 2012 when Montpellier won it. During PSG's Qatar era, the gap has been 12, 9, 8, 31, 8 (Monaco), 13, 16, 1 (Lille), 15, 1, and 9. Similarly, PSG have quite consistently gotten over 80 points, whereas Lyon did it twice during their sevenpeat. This indicates PSG have indeed pulled far ahead, but the video could've covered this better. Basically, there's an entire micro and middle level missing in the analysis, and parts of the video seem to work backwards from the conclusion.
We had Ronaldinho, Okocha, Rai, Djorkaeff, George Weah, Nico Anelka, Nene, Kombouare, Pauleta, Makelele, Hoarau, David Ginola, Luis Fernandez, Moustapha Dahleb, Dominique Rocheteau all before the Qataris put some respect on a club that has successfully dethroned Lyons dominance in the 2000’s and created a legacy of higher competition and stakes bringing some of the best in the world to French football like Messi Ney Mbappe Ibra Cavani Thiago Silva Verratti Marquinhos David Luiz Hakimi Mendes Neves Vitinha Lucas Moura Lavezzi and many more
You are aware that both can be true? Doesn’t really matter what players they used to have or what they did in the past, right now they have killed all competition in the french game yet can’t compete in europe
What do you mean by "successfully dethroned Lyons dominance in the 2000’s"? They have not been serious title contenders from 2001 to 2008, except for 1 season, and they did not win Ligue 1 before Qatar arrived.
The idea that PSG having vast sums of money funneled into their coffers would somehow *help* Ligue 1's other clubs seems more misguided with every passing day. Ironically, with the catchment area of Paris and their excellent academy setup coupled with a near-total inability to keep hold of their own talent due to their constant chasing of marquee signings (Kingsley Coman is the most prominent example but there are many, many others), I would personally contend that they've actually helped other top European leagues a damn sight more than their own. --- Day 2 of the Restart: There is a country called the East African Federation that does not, at time of writing, exist. It comprises Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. They're all footballing powerhouses, as we know. My premise is: what would a national team for the East African Federation look like? The ground rules are: you can't pick anyone who has played for another men's senior national team outside the eight listed countries. For example, Aaron Wan-Bissaka is eligible, as he's only ever played for England at U-20 and U-21 level, but the likes of Christopher Nkunku, Youri Tielemans, and Romelu Lukaku are off-limits for reasons I should hope are obvious. Ironically, back when I first started proposing this idea, Nkunku was eligible, as he had yet to be picked for the French senior team. The same is also true for Mike Tresor, who lit up the Belgian Pro League and broke the league record for assists in a single season, and who would have been eligible due to his Burundian and Rwandan heritage. He now plays for Burnley, if you're wondering just what this team's dealing with. =]
One crucial thing that you miss about redistribution of TV rights money is that PL top6 get more money from abroad broadcasting and sells of the league to foreign markets so they care less about sharing some % to other midtable PL clubs. It doesnt effect them. So it's not as if PL top6 care so much about competition in PL that they agree to share a bit (it's not 50% anyway) - they just get way more from abroad and from CL. And for Bayern or Madrid and Barcelona sharing TV rights money not on basis of previous performance but on defined % might weaken them against EPL competition that gain billions from abroad deals. That what they fear. They are forced to compete with PL big money clubs. If you dont compete with the best, then what is the point? Insane money flow in PL since 2000s (from Chelsea onwards) created such situation in which other Euro top big clubs had to gain more financial might in order not be left behind. Bayern, Barca, Madrid or Serie A top teams dont get such overseas TV deals that PL top6 get so obviously they would hesitate to share more with other clubs in their league. Situation is complicated and right solution is hard to find. If you agree to share more with other clubs in your league then you probably will have to accept that you wouldnt be able to sign hot player on the market and would lose many top talents to PL clubs and then you would struggle to compete with those PL clubs in CL and slowly you would lose your standing in Europe and become a mere springboard or stepping stone. Of course, your league might become more competitive in a process or may be not and there would be no guarantee that it would attract more viewers from abroad. Serie A is more competitive now because of decline of Juventus but does it attract more viewers and make Serie A most watched? No.
After Mbappe leaving Ligue 1, they're struggling to even find a Broadcasting partner. It's boring when one team dominates while others just sit in the back
Alfie in future, *please* ensure that you distinguish between covid-19, the actual virus/disease, and any _response_ to covid-19. It’s important first as a matter of factual accuracy: microorganisms cannot by themselves cancel football matches or cause catastrophic yet avoidable financial losses. Second, conflating a response with the disease itself implies that response was the only option possible, which is untrue abs prevents the decision-maker being held accountable for the negative consequences of their actions or decision. Pretending to be ‘forced’ into doing something bad or wrong or unpopular is a classic NLP technique used by shady political characters, and you sir are well above such things :) #offmychest
Too easy to go on PSG, Alfie. PSG can't be blamed for the Mediapro fiasco. You also can't blame PSG if most of French club owners are incompetent who spend money they don't have.
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PSG’s sheer financial dominance only makes Monaco and Lille’s wins in 2017 and 2021 even more impressive
Justice for Montpellier (considering they did it as well)
@@testadalord01432 PSG was not yet a power house back in the days it was the very beginning of QSI investment in Paris. Very big performance by MHSC back then tho knowing that they were just promoted.
And rc lens almost winning it a few seasons ago
It’s 2025, so Marseille will make an amazing comeback for the Title 😂😂😂
Mental how Bayern end up winning more titles in a more competitive league
An intro without Adu getting panned? You must still be in the Christmas spirit Alfie!
And now witthout further Adu, whose 9 game stint at Monaco had litte effect on French football, let's look at how PSG has ruined French football
When both Adu and Watmore arent mentioned we riot
@@lionel6076:00 Watmore reference
@lionel607 and luke shaw occasionally
What's funny is that as of right now PSG are set to dramatically crash out of the Champions League (currently 25th of the 36 teams needing to finish 24th or higher to advance), while the other 3 French teams all look likely to advance. For a team obsessed with the Champions League, the humiliation of being the only French team to crash out in a format where 2/3rds of the teams advance would be absolutely hilarious.
Don't worry they play Manchester City in the next game, an easy win.
They just have to beat ManShitty
Maybe because PSG are restructuring their squad ? Gosh I can’t stand how ppl always want to trash the club no matter what.
they had a tough schedule and they’re rebuilding their team
@@Maza75 lots of teams restructuring their squads. But yes their poor form in December is due to their poor planning in May.
its also sad to see how psg's VERY legit and dedicated fanbase/ultras had their reputation tainted by the most insufferable plastic fans
blame the qataris, not the microwaved fans. that's where it ultimately comes from, as alfie took 40 minutes talking about
Not to down play your comment is very true but also has happened with Man City and to a lesser extent Chelsea fans, people love to create an us v them mentality which obviously there is but it’s not psg fans or city fans at least the ones born there or who have supported it through family ties or just before the moneys fault
Well before the qataris arrived, there was a war between the main 2 groups: Boulogne (far right) and Auteuil (far left). The previous owners, Colony Capital, banned all ultras after one Boulogne member was killed, in a fight between both groups, before a game vs Marseille, in 2010.
These fights were common btw. Mostly away games, you would see ultras fighting each other, mainly for political reasons.
Then the qataris came and saw how awful the atmosphere was in the Parc. But only wanted the fans with no criminal record/bans. Boulogne said "everyone or no one", Auteuil 1st said the same thing but then compromised and accepted the rules and formed CUP (Collectif Ultras Paris).
The Parc is better than when the QSI arrived but light years away from what was before the 2010 ban.
Best comment here . I saw a few PSG shirts on kids backs in mid 90s during their period of success but since the Arab takeover every kid who isn't a Barca fan is a PSG fan 😂
@@jamesdrummond7684it's like the chicken or the egg , who appeared first in football sheep fans or Muslim oil investors
The Germans don't have an idea how lucky they are to have the 50+1 rule
They are smart, not lucky
And yet Red Bull Leipzeig and Bayer Leverkusen exist.
@@stefankatsarov5806 just two exceptions
@@bassmindopekukjata whatever, but these foreign investors often leave clubs in a deeper rut
Yes they do, they literally had mass protests against the league selling a small part of its shares. German fans/ultras are very well aware of 50+1, and it is basically holy to them.
As a former Marseille fan and still follower of French football, I thought the arrival of QSI would be the best thing because it will force its rivals to become better.
I couldn't be further from the truth. I'm not saying Marseille could have won a league title but at least, it could have become a better-managed team which battles for podium, win a couple of national cups and competes on an annual basis on UEFA competitions. Instead, it has become an airport where players come and go each season and now, a washing machine for bad reputations. Yes, buying Greenwood was the last straw because it touches with a touching principle. But I digress, you get my point : no stability. It could have been a team FC Sevilla, Valencia (before its downfall), Borussia Dortmund or Arsenal, which are relevant teams.
The 2018 TV deal for the 2020-24 period killed the league. Mediapro was seen as unsustainable in Italy but in France, the big bosses thought "it won't happen to us". Therefore, many teams started to spend as if the one billion euros per season deal will be effective. I remember that everyone but the LFP (French professional football league) executives knew the deal will never be respected. We ended the 40-year-old partnership with Canal+ this year because of the greed of LFP. Many fans are still mad about it. Besides, unlike even 10 years ago, Canal+ doesn't need Ligue 1 as much as they did before thanks to the many sporting rights such as the UEFA club competitions, Formula 1, Divisions 1 & 2 of french rugby, Premier League, etc.
For Lille, the title is even more miraculous because the previous owner was the genius Gérard Lopez, a crook who still sinking football teams. They managed to escape catastrophe and went on to even win a Ligue 1 title.
With the purchase of Paris FC by Louis Vuitton (main) and RedBull (minor), I hope it will finally bring a serious rival. With the money from LVMH and the expertise of RedBull, it will be a great combination.
om is the biggest club in france and i dont think psg had anything to do with its demise... the biggest hit was when their sugar daddy robert luis dreyfus died and suddenly his wag was the decider among all the sharks in marseille... then came bad transfert after bad transfert because of that starting by doria to henrique to ocampos...add to that that the pride of the marseillais got hurt badly since letting michy batshuayi go so quick and have since then always demanded a "grantatakan" (star striker in their dialect) because they think big teams buy star strikers not sell them...
that quest is still on and has been as cursed as that of chealsea's quest for a striker lately
@@mehdiharaketi495 I wanted his wag to leave for years. She did have money but didn't want to spend it. Besides, she didn't have the right persons to lead the team and make good decisions.
The "grantatakan" 🤣🤣 You have to say it with the Marseillais accent but for me, we don't win with just one good center forward.
To be fair mate, OM have brought in more assholes than just Greenwood. Wahi forced kids to touch themselves at Caen as a youth player, Harit killed someone and got away with it, and I'm sure there's a couple of other terrible people they brought in. They're assembling a team of super villians.
@@mehdiharaketi495 until marseille wins a legitimate champions league without bribing players, PSG's domestic dominance means they are the biggest club in france
Well, PSG may have broken Ligue 1, but making French football stagnant has been great for French rugby. In a weird way they helped make France's Top14 the biggest rugby union league in the world.
Ligue 1 attendance last year was just under 27,000
Top 14 was just over 15,000.
Rugby is big in the South of France but nationally it’s still far behind football.
Toulouse fc still get a bigger crowd than Toulouse rugby.
In 11/12 top 14 had 15,000 whilst ligue 1 was at about 19,000.
A good rugby competition would be considered terrible in football.
Rugby is a dying sport
Football is the most popular and most watched sport in France, and football will forever be the no.1 sport in France
@@SenuraKumara-ii5rqrugby is still the #1 sport in the south of France
@@samelmudir Football is the most popular sport in all of France
I predict that Plymouth will be the next “What on earth” video
Rooney. Rooney on earth.
What does a car brand have to do with PSG and soccer?
@@Domidomi85 There's a car named Plymouth?
@@cyan_oxy6734 no , a car brand . Theur cars had model names on top of the brand name . Plymouth was like Ford then you add the model Fiesta Ficus etc
@@cyan_oxy6734Plymouth Superbird , it's a legendary car and even has been copied in the GTA games
Not forgetting a 0-0 draw against Derry City in the 2005-06 UEFA Cup!
I will mention that PSG prior to being bought by Qatar won the last European trophy in the history of French Football, the 1996 Cup Winners' Cup
Yeah but it’s irrelevant vs Marseille’s champions league 🤷🏻♂️
@Acephale1312 I'm just saying, it's not like PSG had no history prior to being bought
Muslims... that's all I'll say
@@lucaslonchampt613 PSG was founded in 1970!!! What history are you talking about?!!!! Most of my family is older than PSG!!! I've literally drove cars that were older than PSG as a club!!!! Your mother is twice the age of PSG! In the meantime clubs like Hamburgs, Benfica, Celtic, Ajax, Aston Villa, Nott. Forest just to name a few were winning European, domestic leagues and cups left, right and center, and existed for 150+ years. The only thing that is going for PSG as a club is the fact, that it has managed to sell it's soul in less than 50 years of existing. PSG will always be a soulless club, and a summary of everything wrong with modern football. And they can take that Winners' cup and put it deep down where the sun does not shine.
@@Acephale1312Cheated UCL
PSG is the summary of everything wrong with modern football.
Muslims. That's all I'll say.
Man Utd: Hold my beer.
Then mo salah is whats wrong with football @@StephenC-d2m
@@gusLPH I didn't say that.
@@StephenC-d2m There's over 1 billion Muslims living across the world and on multiple different continents and only 1.5 million live in Qatar, 6.2 million live in the UAE and 31 million live in Saudi Arabia. Grow up
Something similar has happened in the Copa Libertadores and Copa Sudamericana, ever since CONMEBOL switched their formats to a year-long one in 2017, Brazilian teams have become more dominant with each passing year, with one of them winning each Libertadores final since 2019 (three of them being all-Brazilian affairs). It can also be said that having double the berths than the rest of South America also came in handy.
They already generated more money than the rest of South America before (winning the Copa do Brasil was worth more than the Copa Libertadores until recently), once they started allowing foreign investment, it has become even worse. Botafogo went from playing in Série B to winning the double in a few years thanks to that.
There's also the fact that Brazil is the size of all the other countries combined, so the league generates way more money from TV rights than any other in South America. Like, how tf do we expect smaller countries to compete with that
I agree with you, but Brazil is undoubtedly the biggest country (1/2 the population of South America), so there is a natural difference there where you expect us Brazilians to win more (yet not always).
But I do think that in addition to what you described, it's crucial to remember that until recently (2007-2017), CONMEBOL had created a rule making teams from the same country play each other in the Semi-Finals (which was ridiculously unfair), effectively ruining a lot of chances Brazil had to win the Libertadores at the start of the century.
Only recently that stopped, and now Brazilian clubs can end up playing each other in the final WAYYY more (like this year, the semis would HAVE to be Botafogo and Atlético Mineiro. Or 2010, São Paulo had to play inter. 2012, Santos had to play Corinthians in the semis, 2009, 2007. They did that because of 2006 São Paulo- Inter and 2005 Paranaense-Sao Paulo final). So Brazilian clubs WERE being held back from all-brazilian Finals since 2006.
That was highly unfair and did help clubs from other countries. Since that rule stopped around the same time as what you described (2017), Brazilian Clubs are on fire. So it's also important to remember that rule existed, and now that it doesn't. So Brazil started dominating more because of that as well (I mean, it was a ridiculously unfair rule).
(Flamengo-Palmeiras, Botafogo-Mineiro and Flamengo-Paranaense wouldn't happen in the finals + good Brazilian sides wouldn't make it to the final, which used to happen a lot)
@@mateovazquez127with merit?? Conmebol should introduce a coefficient or a ranking for their leagues, there's no way that Peru deserves the same berths than Colombia or Ecuador
Before 2000 when all the berths were equal only 5 country have won a Libertadores, and Brazil and Argentina alone had won 29 of the 40 seasons of Libertadores, and if we include Uruguay it's already 37, and from 2000 to 2016 Argentina and Brazil have won 12 titles of the 16 possible, it's not something new, it was already a monopoly between the 2 Conmebol giants
@@DiegoF1ores A coefficient similar to the one used by UEFA should be definitely be implemented. An example of the unfairness of the current distribution is that both Colombia and Chile keep having two teams starting from the Round 2, when they have been mostly bad every year. Both Paraguay and Ecuador have been more consistent over the years, with the later even winning some silverware recently (with both IDV and Liga de Quito).
After Rooney's sacking I think the next video should be about ex Sir Alex Ferguson players who have gone into coaching
Ranking them from worst to best
Steve Bruce time to shine
Surely it will be ranked from bad to worst 👀
@@fazz95 I think Carrick and Steve Bruce have been alright 😂😂
Hughes wasn't too bad either
They are all worst
This is how I found out Rooney was sacked from the Plymouth job
Alfie, I think a real deep dive into Utd as a club, both on and off the pitch is needed. 30 mins won’t even scratch the shit show we have become...
It'll also let him talk about the Saudi takeover and how PSR has affected United compared to Man City and Chelsea before them
I mean there’s not much else to say is there? Ineos got the single biggest decision wrong in keeping Ten Hag and spending another 200m to back him, then bring in his replacement at the worst possible time when he has a game every 2 days and no time to train or get his system across and he also has no money to buy players that suit his system. Pretty straight forward if you ask me😂😭
I can't wait for the Netflix series in five years where everybody involved airs their dirty laundry
EVERY football media outlet in the UK is doing this EVERY WEEK. Sometimes more than once. Please spare us any more of this rubbish.
The way everyone else does it is the superficial shit “is the manager getting sacked?”, “Rashford is partying”, “Harry had a shit and missed the toilet doing it”. No ones on about that same old crap.
It should have been titled either 'How PSG made Rugby great again' or 'How PSG made French people put more respect to Alain Prost'
Rugby is a dying sport in France
What does PSG have to do with Alain Prost
@@SenuraKumara-ii5rq
please, write it down five more times...
@@SenuraKumara-ii5rqclearly not French lmao
@@brianodriscoll2725 Football is the most popular and most watched sport in France, and football will forever be the no.1 sport in France
It’s hilarious how people mock psg for their plastic fans when psg were literally known for their ultras and strong fanbase in Paris pre take over lol
Both things can be correct and exist.
@@archstanton6102they gained plastic fans obviously but people dismiss their rabid Parisian fanbase and say they weren’t well supported pre takeover which isn’t true
PSG had huge support outside of Paris pre takeover unlike Chelsea and city
Chelsea were known for far right hooliganism and city were irrelevant outside Manchester
@@brianodriscoll2725Thanks for the reminder, mate.
@@brianodriscoll2725city were irrelevant IN Manchester too😂
We really need stronger spending limits on ALL teams. Not that it will ever happen.
Something a dumbass socialist would say.
I can imagine that support for a European Super league might be higher in France than the rest of Europe - that way PSG could be removed from Ligue 1!
Ironically, PSG's refusal to join the Super League was one of the reasons why that project died in the first place.
@@MrSmith1984oh wow, I hadn't realised that. I guess they know they'd have a harder time winning it.
It makes sense I suppose. Why join the ESL when you get champions league football every season @@BOABModels
@@BOABModels The super league isnt about wining but about making money.
@@BOABModels
I suspect that PSG opposed the Super League due to their opposition to the ESL's Financial Rules. Alongside seeing an opportunity to increase their influence over UEFA.
A gamble that paid off to be fair.
Interestingly, while the tide lifting every other team may not have happened in football, it does seem to have partially happened in handball, where PSG also own a record-spending team. Clubs like HBC Nantes, Montpellier and Toulouse are growing every season, to the point where there are genuine title challenges threatening PSG's status every year now, with HBC Nantes currently top of the table at Christmas. However, this isn't the full extent of the improvement French handball has seen, as if you look at the European competitions, French teams are regularly going deep, which they didn't do as frequently before. HBC Nantes in fact are 2nd in their 8 team group behind only Barcelona, who are European handball's dominant winners, and also coincidentally owned by the local football team.
In the spirit of Ryuzaki
Day 12 of asking for an in-depth video on Bodø/Glimt, who just recently became champions for the 4th time in 5 years, and who only got promoted back to Eliteserien as recently as 2017
C'mon Alfie.... you know you want this 😎😎
Happy new year! 🎉
I'll back you on this all the way!
awesome job as usual!! looking forward to the Paris FC video 🤩 maybe even with a mention of the other parisian clubs (Racing, Red Star,...)?
If football is a body, PSG is appendix, didn’t contribute any good moments for football but make things even worse
How did psg not contribuate any good moments, it only depends on the clubs, if you dont support a club ofc you wont be seeing "good moments" y'all are acting like every big teams dont have rich leaders, y'all are just talking trash bcz it has no ucl's😂😂😂
Touching on what you said about Paris and Berlin… could you do a video on why the biggest clubs from 4 out of 5 of the big leagues are not from the capital city? (Psg now are to be fair)
United in England
Milan in Italy
Munich in Germany
It's just sad that the French authorities would rather kill Lyon and Bordeaux and take the envelopes rather than tax PSG properly on commercial income and transfer/wage spends.
PSG could be taxed at 100% on each, the money be distributed equally to the other clubs to make up the TV deal shortfall and PSG would still be competitive.
thaats not how it works... the state cant take from a private company and give it to another... BOrdeaux was extremely poorly managed YES. But Ligue 1 has no power (as any other league) to gather taxes
What always killed Football in France is no club was ever dominant and as such all the best players end up playing for EUropean giants elsewhere..
At least its the first time Paris natives can stay home and enjoy good deals while avoiding to play for clubs thy never supported as kids
As a french fan of psg living of paris
Your video is 10/10
Thx you
Celtic could surpass the 31 point margin this season arguably
Happy New Year, Alfie! Thanks for all you do.
The fact the that Canal+ and Be-in sport are owner of PSG while also being the official broadcaster of the league is a serious red flag. Imagine SkySports owning PL club...
Almost happened in the 90s, stinks of league corruption tbh
Canal+ sold psg almost 20 years ago, to QSI
Canal Plus does not own PSG, at least do some quick research before making dumb comments!
1st: canal + sold PSG in the late 90s
2nd: to not make the other clubs unhappy and suspicious, canal + deliberately penalised PSG and run it badly in the end, to keep the league competitive
@kaderdia_pr17 20 years ago is not today mate. Ligue 1 was completely different then compared to today.
Happy New Year Alfie :)
I find it interesting how will English football seems to cope financially. We have lost Macclesfield, Bury and Aldershot over recent years, and numerous non-league clubs. However, this is vastly different to:-
France:- Bordeaux and Bastia.
Italy:- Fiorentina, Lecce and Parma
Scotland:- Rangers
Spain:- Getafe, Burgos, Malaga, Almeria
Lecce never went into bankruptcy in its entire history
Xavi Simons was one of the best and most prominent la masia players from the age of 7. He only left for Qatari money at 16, with his Barcelona contract running out.
PSG won the Cup Winners' Cup in 1996 and the Intertoto Cup in 2001. So they had a history of European successes before Qatar arrived (not great maybe, but they don't anymore).
Day 1 of asking alfie to upload his vids as podcasts on streaming platforms
This is some of your best work. 👏
Bold prediction - Messi will not "lift up" MLS just like he didn't lift up Ligue 1 either. MLS had great fans, good attendance and a host of growing National Team stars who are starting to matriculate to the biggest clubs in Europe before he arrived and jacked ticket prices to 10x their former value
French clubs keep getting raided by wealthier clubs all over the world but you’ll never hear this from a prem centric Englishman also what about Portuguese league and Belgian league they produce so much talent that get picked off by wealthier clubs that changed when the prem became a economic powerhouse everyone should know this if they’re paying attention to football the biggest fees this past window was from prem lower table teams like Man Utd😂😂
He talks about the Portuguese league regularly?
PSG have unirivalled access to the best area at producing young players but they choose to spend tons of money on foreign young players who don’t know the language and all have massive egos
Look at the academy and who we have produced you will be amazed
@@LosCuatroOsitos Other than Zaire Emery, there are no regulars from the academy. But there are so many examples of very good academy players who would improve the first team right now like Maignan, Nkunku, Coman. And other players that grew up in Paris like Mbappe, Mahrez, Kolo Muani and Saliba. The team should have been built up around these players but instead they have been buying overpriced and overhyped players for more than a decade
@nathanb286 PSG's transfer philosophy is changing for the better, they have gotten rid of most of the big egos and are focusing on young players more
@nathanb286at the end of the daythe money they’ve spent has brought success. A lot of those players wanted to leave anyway.
Sounds like you just don’t like foreign players.
I just did an analysis of league champions in the top European leagues from 2000 to present and since football was invented in 1992. It's incredible how diverse the French football champions were prior to PSG and Lyon before them.
Quick add on: PSG was founded in 1970, never demoted and won a European champions cup. Ronaldinho and many other world champions wore the red and blue before Qatar showed up.
Watching hitc sevens before bed is my favourite part of the day
Great video, as always. And while some points are very much valide and even undeniable. I must say that the state of Ligue and its clubs like Lyon and Marseille cannot not only be blamed on PSG. And to say that Ligue 1 without PSG would have been a football "heaven" with a great show, and European competitiveness seems very unlikely if not unrelasitic. How many of the French players who won the 1998 World Cup or went to the 2006 final were playing for a French team at the time? With how business (because football is nowadays a business) is run in France, it seems more likely that Ligue 1 would have ended up being a second-tier league (which some might argue it already is) with no team competing regularly at a European level. Take the example of Lyon, who smashed the league in the 2000 but only attended the Champions League semi-final once. I think that it could also be argued that without PSG, Ligue 1 would have been on the level of hopefully Portuguese football or Belgian (not denigrating any of these two wonderful leagues).
Looking forward to see the video on Paris FC!
What on earth is going on at Paris FC video? They got bought by red bull and challenging for promotion
They got bought out by Agache SCA a subsidiary of LVMH - Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton. Red Bull only acquired a 10% stake so they basically have no control over the club. Ans they've were in the promotion playoffs last year. I don't think this would be an interesting video because there's just not more to say than "This club that's doing pretty well was bought to diversify this billionaires portfolio and now they're probably gonna get some money and try to establish themselves in Ligue 1".
@HCpsycho
They didn't got bought by Red Bull, but by Bernard Arnault, richest european, top 5 richest man on the planet. Red Bull has only 15%, but will play a key role with their football expertise/experience.
@ thanks for correcting me
Happy New Year Alfie !
Happy new year Alfie!
21:35 “everything that has followed has been sh………eer chaos”
Happy New Year, Alfie.
Multi club ownership of teams within UEFA seems, to me at least, like a massive conflict of interest.
People forget ronaldinho played for tgem long before qatar money
But this was also before he reached his prime considering they bought him from Gremio for just 5 million euros at the time
@@Ntkisrebornthat’s what normal clubs try to do find talented players before they’re stars and buy them cheap and make them into quality players and sell for profit.
@@sirsurnamethefirstofhisnam7986 I know that, I'm just stating that Ronaldinho got bought for cheap
Smashing video Alfie. Can you do a video for ‘top 7 most controversial moments in premier league history’
Will that be subtitled the 7 worst Michael Oliver penalty decisions in PL history?
Please do a video on the best senior managers with the least senior managerial experience!
(Zidane,Pep,Still)
Excellent video about the actual shitty state of French Football and the fact that the PSG's domination since 2012 did more harm than good. I'm really worried about the state of the Ligue 1 & Ligue 2 championships because of the issue of the television rights, the negotiations for which were conducted in a very questionable manner by Vincent Labrune with the complicity of the Qatari State and most of the presidents of Ligue 1 clubs.
I fear that the crisis will reach its peak this year, with the probable consequence of the bankruptcy of many historic clubs, unless the League and the French Federation of Football finally take concrete measures such as the imposition of a salary cap and betting more on young players and and their continuing education. One thing is certain: Vincent Labrune will not remain at the head of the LFP for long.
Happy new year Alfie
video idea: 7 most complete footballers (players who were good defensively, in build up and in attack) in the history of the top 5 leagues.
I hope 2025 finally brings us a video on FK Arkadag, if a club created by a former dictator who get alot of favourable refereeing decisions and have only lost 1 game in their entire history isn't the perfect subject for a HITC sevens video I don't know what is?
If they wanna play the game in hard mode, they should try turning around the slow-motion train wreck at united.
Now that would feel better than speedrunning french football
The biggest top flight league win point gap is actually from north Macedonia by Shkendija by 35 points. PSG second tho - Insane
The numbers on the graphs are inconsistent. RM's revenue is nearly identical on the first graph but much higher on the La Liga graph
First graph is revenue for the 2022-23 season, whereas the La Liga specific one shows Madrid and Barcelona's revenue for the 2023-24 season, when Madrid won La Liga & the Champions League, hence the big revenue spike. Apologies, I should have put the season / accounting period on the graph!
For a country that has produced countless top quality players its incredible how poor domestic football has been in France compared to the other major countries of England' Spain' Germany and Italy that have all had multiple European winners since the last time any French club which was over 30 years ago and even that Marseille win in the 1993 champions league was shrouded in controversy with mass fixing allegations and the owner being sent to prison. Is there any reason in particular why Ligue 1 has traditionally lacked the financial power of the EPL' La' Liga' Bundesliga and Seria A when it seemed to have everything going for it' i really don't understand why the French league has always been seen as the poor relation of the big 5 when it should have been able to compete just as well as the others but hasn't for some reason
I'm not completely sure, but in France football is not as dominant as it is in Germany, for example. Although football is by far the biggest, it competes more strongly with sports such as tennis, rugby, cycling, etc. In Germany, football is almost the only „big“ sport.
English and Spanish clubs constantly raid the lower French clubs for their young talent.
@@michaelmaccrazyisn’t it german clubs who do that the most?
@@michaelmaccrazy i do in FM.
That's the kind of entitlement English and Spanish fans have in football. They have laundered money for decades with foreign players. The best result can be seen with Brazil, their football, like Portuguese football, has been degraded to a shit show in the past decade due to all of them playing in Europe.
There was a time when clubs like Ajax, Benfica dominated football and their national team was a force to reckon with. The French National team is the most dominant football team of the past 20 years ``2 Euro finals, 2 World Cups. Their players make the heydays of Barca & Madrid, and so many English clubs.
If France could keep some of its best players, the French league would attract more sponsorship and more money. Players like Henry, Benzema, Zidane, Cantona etc... Potencial, would be playing in PSG, Lyon, Marseille and Monaco. Spain has a policy, the best Spaniards play in Spanish clubs, When they blossom elsewhere, Spanish clubs fight to get them back to Spain "Fabregas, Pique & even Morata were all called back to LA LIGA.
So why do French Players not have the right to do the same? Why French players cannot envisioned that ?
Excellent video Alfie. I’ve long been thinking that the crisis so many French clubs fate was in part their fault but didn’t realise it ran this deep. Worst club in world football?
Can you please make a video on Ghana's downfall 🙏🏽 especially now that they're out of the AFCON(Day 27)
Easy, their football federation sucks and the dual national players who could make Ghana great don’t want to play for Ghana.
@heyah1447 true
36:34 Bernard Arnault was the richest guy in the world a couple of years ago. What happened?
He's like 3rd now, nothing changed
His shares are less valuable because of LVMH's poor performances in China this year. It comes and go.
20:04 call me stupid, but why didn’t they insist on a letter of credit or take out insurance on the deal? It’s pretty basic when the money is so vital even more so when dealing with someone new.
Just let Mauricio Pochettino be the PSG manager for ten years and he will win 5 Ligue 1 titles maximum.
Day 8 of asking for a video of the 7 greatest non-league players of all time.
Let go already. It was fine the first time with the other bloke but not anymore
Ok next video got to be what on earth is going on at Manchester united net spend higher then PSG and not a single title. One of the worst squad I’ve seen from a big club.
So true 😂😂😂
They're actually the Fa-Cup holders
I think Leicester winning the league was more special, than Lille. For Lille to win the league they had to overachieve only compared to one team, but Leicester had to overachieve compared to many teams.
Nonesense, both had to compete against 19 other teams
Liverpool, United, City and Chelsea were not good in 2016, and Arsenal and Tottenham are Bottlesaurus Rex. Arsenal handed Leicester 2 league defeats out of 3, but they finished 10 points behind, and Tottenham were destroyed by already-relegated Newcastle in a game that could help them finish above Arsenal, fierce London rivals.
Ligue 1 would be such a fun league to watch if it wasn't for PSG. I still like it and watch it because the games are fun, but the league itself is extremely boring
I don't understand that I have always watches Laliga because the two best teams in the last decades were there I never asked myself oh there are only 2 or 3 teams winning the league. If it was for that premier league would be one of the worst leagues since Guardiola arrived.
Its just crazy how y'all are so hypocrites, literally in laliga its always the same 2 winners real or barca and maybe sometimes atletico, in prem its always city or liverpool. In bundesliga its always bayern, the only competitive league is serie A. In that case dont watch anything of these leagues.
@@Skiipis i never said anything about any of the leagues you just mentioned, you are jumping to conclusions by yourself 😂
@edinan9 No but its extremely hypocrite to say that for ligue 1 when its the same for any other leagues, i think that you most likely watch one of these 5.
@Skiipis i watch all of them and i don't disagree with you, i only mentioned ligue 1 because it was the subject of the video. The thing is, i'm from Brazil, and we have a "big 12" in our league, so the league is always fun and unpredictable. In most european leagues you'll find at least 2 good teams, but in France (and germany) you literally start most seasons knowing exactly who's going to be the champion. That doesn't affect the quality of the games, these are probably my two favorite leagues to watch, but the race for the title is REALLY boring most seasons.
Finally people are talking about this
other leagues should be cautious or it will happen to them, France will soon be 7th ranked if they dont pick things up and stop their clubs from Bankruptcy
Probably but it's not happening this year, France got a lot of EUFA points this season, more than Netherland and Portugal who are 6th and 7th.
@ Brest and Lille arent strong teams they will fall off
You should bet on it I bet you’ll lose
7th yet we may have 5 teams going to the next rounds of ucl and UEL 😂 eredivisie and Liga Portugal are way behind us
my bet - French teams will be good at the next UCL too, unless we get absolutemy stormed over at the transfer windows. The PSG new project since the arrival of Enrique is growing, despite their poor spell this year. Marseille and Monaco are doing very strong too and I don't see them change their coaches. That's for the likely top 3. The followers (Lille and Lyon) are good challengers too if they handle their transfers right, but they absolutely have the structures and well-respected coaches at the moment.
Have a bloody brilliant 2025 as well, mate!
The thing sad with psg is how it attracted a lot of football tourists, when they play against your team you can be sure your own stadium will be filled with people who only watch a few psg matchs a year and that's all
When you make that French football video don’t forget to add a section about Paris FC please
They have a literal store, in the Century City mall in LA, hats off to them, they know how to market.
Can you make a what is going on in Valencia video please 🥺 🙏
If you go on about Qatar's ha rights abuses , what about the Wests support for genocide , proxy wara and illegal including aupooring " diversity" claiming ISIS in Syria ?
Corpro-sport. Killed it for the rest of us. They should start listing footballers wages in how many schools or hospitals they could have built with the money. Absolutely takin the piss out of ordinary people. I used to love football, now I hope my children find something else to follow.
That Watmore pic must be the 2nd most used graphic in HITC Sevens video behind... Freddy Adu. Weird.
Not really weird. It's just a repeated joke/ transmission format, the repetition of which is it's own inside joke for long-term fans of the channel.
Currently there's 2 Ligue 1 club in top 8 in UCL, what do you mean french football is broken ?
And PSG were on risk of getting eliminated in the Champions League instead. So yeah, French Football isn't literally broken.
He is a fake brits biased that is yapping alot of fake stories.
To put it in a way that a Parisian waiter might be proud of - it's OK, I don't think anybody in Ligue 1 needs to worry too much about becoming a third-rate league...
Did Ollie say PSG have a limited fanbase or a limitation to possible future fans. Again how are they top 3 in club earnings.
Psg dominates the league by beeing a decently run club unlike majority of the french clubs beeing ran by circus performers
Right now psg doesnt have any big stars team and they are literally 10 points in lead
i cannot wait for the Paris FC video now!
Without being an expert on French football, to me this video seems to miss the mark and it offers a far too reductionist argument. I don't think PSG dominance or shady dealings with Sarkozy can fairly be blamed for so many clubs going under and struggling financially. The thing about revenue and TV money is obviously fair and relevant, but it also shows that the league and clubs themselves are at fault for going with the Mediapro deal without really knowing what they were doing. Similarly, the likes of Montpellier, Nantes, Sochaux, etc are hardly expected to waste hundreds of millions and to fight for titles, so also saying "PSG just force clubs to spend beyond their means" doesn't seem to be a great argument when most of the bankrupt clubs are nowhere near competing with PSG.
Looking at the bigger competition, Lyon have finished second only twice since 2012 and they've been closer to 10th more often than that, so they're hardly keeping up with anything. Marseille, too, had a bunch of ownership drama and shit hires, so a notable element you seemed to mostly glance over is that a lot of these clubs are just not run well and in a sustainable way.
Another thing that could be looked at is whether the number of points required to win the title has changed massively or if there are consistent massive gaps between the 1st and 2nd. Sure, there was that one season you mentioned, but is that the norm? In 2006, Lyon won the title by 15 points. The following years the gap between 1st and 2nd was 17, 4, 3, 6, 8, and 3 points in 2012 when Montpellier won it. During PSG's Qatar era, the gap has been 12, 9, 8, 31, 8 (Monaco), 13, 16, 1 (Lille), 15, 1, and 9. Similarly, PSG have quite consistently gotten over 80 points, whereas Lyon did it twice during their sevenpeat. This indicates PSG have indeed pulled far ahead, but the video could've covered this better.
Basically, there's an entire micro and middle level missing in the analysis, and parts of the video seem to work backwards from the conclusion.
Thanks
Watch the club specific videos for that.
The amount of comments in 20 min is insane
Qatar didn't buy PSG, they did buy some French in power
We had Ronaldinho, Okocha, Rai, Djorkaeff, George Weah, Nico Anelka, Nene, Kombouare, Pauleta, Makelele, Hoarau, David Ginola, Luis Fernandez, Moustapha Dahleb, Dominique Rocheteau all before the Qataris put some respect on a club that has successfully dethroned Lyons dominance in the 2000’s and created a legacy of higher competition and stakes bringing some of the best in the world to French football like Messi Ney Mbappe Ibra Cavani Thiago Silva Verratti Marquinhos David Luiz Hakimi Mendes Neves Vitinha Lucas Moura Lavezzi and many more
You are aware that both can be true? Doesn’t really matter what players they used to have or what they did in the past, right now they have killed all competition in the french game yet can’t compete in europe
What do you mean by "successfully dethroned Lyons dominance in the 2000’s"? They have not been serious title contenders from 2001 to 2008, except for 1 season, and they did not win Ligue 1 before Qatar arrived.
The idea that PSG having vast sums of money funneled into their coffers would somehow *help* Ligue 1's other clubs seems more misguided with every passing day. Ironically, with the catchment area of Paris and their excellent academy setup coupled with a near-total inability to keep hold of their own talent due to their constant chasing of marquee signings (Kingsley Coman is the most prominent example but there are many, many others), I would personally contend that they've actually helped other top European leagues a damn sight more than their own.
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Day 2 of the Restart: There is a country called the East African Federation that does not, at time of writing, exist. It comprises Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. They're all footballing powerhouses, as we know. My premise is: what would a national team for the East African Federation look like? The ground rules are: you can't pick anyone who has played for another men's senior national team outside the eight listed countries. For example, Aaron Wan-Bissaka is eligible, as he's only ever played for England at U-20 and U-21 level, but the likes of Christopher Nkunku, Youri Tielemans, and Romelu Lukaku are off-limits for reasons I should hope are obvious. Ironically, back when I first started proposing this idea, Nkunku was eligible, as he had yet to be picked for the French senior team. The same is also true for Mike Tresor, who lit up the Belgian Pro League and broke the league record for assists in a single season, and who would have been eligible due to his Burundian and Rwandan heritage. He now plays for Burnley, if you're wondering just what this team's dealing with. =]
So bad bussiness decisions, or simply bad bussiness, all around. It feels like it's becoming a trend all around the world.
One crucial thing that you miss about redistribution of TV rights money is that PL top6 get more money from abroad broadcasting and sells of the league to foreign markets so they care less about sharing some % to other midtable PL clubs. It doesnt effect them. So it's not as if PL top6 care so much about competition in PL that they agree to share a bit (it's not 50% anyway) - they just get way more from abroad and from CL. And for Bayern or Madrid and Barcelona sharing TV rights money not on basis of previous performance but on defined % might weaken them against EPL competition that gain billions from abroad deals. That what they fear. They are forced to compete with PL big money clubs. If you dont compete with the best, then what is the point? Insane money flow in PL since 2000s (from Chelsea onwards) created such situation in which other Euro top big clubs had to gain more financial might in order not be left behind. Bayern, Barca, Madrid or Serie A top teams dont get such overseas TV deals that PL top6 get so obviously they would hesitate to share more with other clubs in their league. Situation is complicated and right solution is hard to find. If you agree to share more with other clubs in your league then you probably will have to accept that you wouldnt be able to sign hot player on the market and would lose many top talents to PL clubs and then you would struggle to compete with those PL clubs in CL and slowly you would lose your standing in Europe and become a mere springboard or stepping stone. Of course, your league might become more competitive in a process or may be not and there would be no guarantee that it would attract more viewers from abroad. Serie A is more competitive now because of decline of Juventus but does it attract more viewers and make Serie A most watched? No.
the people demand you write another book alfie
The numbers just blow your mind...
You should do a video about the Swedish league and how we are such an exception
After Mbappe leaving Ligue 1, they're struggling to even find a Broadcasting partner. It's boring when one team dominates while others just sit in the back
Next video, we need to talk about Nottingham Forest
Can we please have a video about Maltese Football ⚽ Thank you & Happy New Year
Bloody Hamrun Spartans fans 🙄
@lougiacobbi725 not at all. Just a Maltese who would like to hear Alfi talking about part of my heritage.
@@Joe-MT I got it, I just picked out a team I knew as a joke as if I knew their fans were horrible or something.
@@lougiacobbi725 haha 😂
Alfie in future, *please* ensure that you distinguish between covid-19, the actual virus/disease, and any _response_ to covid-19. It’s important first as a matter of factual accuracy: microorganisms cannot by themselves cancel football matches or cause catastrophic yet avoidable financial losses. Second, conflating a response with the disease itself implies that response was the only option possible, which is untrue abs prevents the decision-maker being held accountable for the negative consequences of their actions or decision. Pretending to be ‘forced’ into doing something bad or wrong or unpopular is a classic NLP technique used by shady political characters, and you sir are well above such things :) #offmychest
Too easy to go on PSG, Alfie. PSG can't be blamed for the Mediapro fiasco. You also can't blame PSG if most of French club owners are incompetent who spend money they don't have.
That’s Exactly what’s missing from his analysis
I'm not an expert on corsican language, but I'm pretty confident Ajaccio is supposed to be pronounced italian.
Non. Ça reste une région française. Ça se prononce avec un accent au pire.
@@Lostouille ouiaasss 🤌🏽
What’s going on at Charlton alfie
They arent as bad as Celtic in Scotland.
They beat Celtic 7-0 last time they played I think
I heard that the other paris team is ridiculously rich with Bernard arnult and red bull.