Quote from: snipie on Today at 02:07:23 PM

Quote from: shogun47 on February 25, 2025, 08:25:03 PM

When one team has a multiple of the financial resources of any of the competitors, how can you conclude that it is a competitive league? When Messi, Neymar and Mbappe played for the same team, you call it competitive?

Or let us look at it differently. If you call Ligue 1 competitive, which it clearly isn't it, then what do you call the Premier League or La Liga?

PSG is 13 points ahead and has a score difference that suggests on average they win against a -1.5 handicap. Considering the results of many of the last seasons, it is not competitive. That doesn't mean no other team will ever win, but overall Ligue 1 is boring.

Ligue 1 is competitive, and maybe very competitive if we look to the table starting from the second position. The difference between a team and the teams directly above or under it doesn't exceed 3 points so the ranking might shift with every round technically.
Now when it comes to PSG, it is sure that they are very different from the others, mainly financially. It is basically the only team from years that is able to compete and reach advanced stages in UEFA Champions League, without counting the first place in Ligue 1.

Then we are talking about different definitions of competitive. We could take an amateur league as an example and if the first three teams have the same number of points, you would call it highly competitive. PSG is above and beyond and yet you call it competitive. That's how you see Ligue 1, I look at their remarkable history of international titles, which is actually nonexistent for many years now. But you call it competitive, I don't.