French Football is Dying.

It died the moment they named their first tier after McDonald’s 💀

RIP Bordeaux (1881-2024)

It feels very weird that my club, Stade Brestois, is somehow one of the most stable French clubs financially, especially if you discount any club owned by a rich country

Paris Saint-Germain – 12 Titles AS Saint Etienne – 10 titles Olympique de Marseille – 9 Titles AS Monaco – 8 Titles FC Nantes – 8 Titles That's how competitive Ligue 1 used to be, for a League that produces so much Talent it's sad how Clubs are barely surviving.

It all fell appart when the INTERIOR MINISTER (Darmanin) ACTIVELY assisted PSG in avoiding taxes on the neymar transfer…

Ligue 1 Uber eats is hard to take seriously ngl. It’s like if the PL was called Large Fries and Coke only $7.89

FC Schalke is dying and might end up like Bordeaux soon

15 years ago, Bordeaux were French league champions and beat Bayern Munich and Juventus in the Champions League. Look at them now...

there should be a 50+1 rule all over the world, to stop the inflation of pricesof tv rights and level out the clubs.

We roast it being called McDonald’s league but La Liga literally called “ea sports La Liga” McDonald’s still hilarious tho

This is sad knowing, I do hope that someone purchases the image rights for 2 years ahem YouTube ahem and livestream games, have YouTubers be journalists for French football etcetera etcetera, it opens Ligue 1 to being a modern league, it opens business ventures for Ligue 1 to be a streamable service which makes it streamable. Secondly, younger generations will end up watching Ligue 1 because of it being online. It opens a possibility of bigger investors to clubs other than PSG, it opens so many different avenues. Now all this requires is for YouTube to market it well and not half ass it, put all hands in the pot and make every team watchable not just important games.

Tbh it's hard to believe that many of those clubs currently at risk of declaring bankruptcy (Auxerre, Lens Nantes, Reims, Montpellier and Le Havre) were former champions of Ligue 1 at some point of the league's history. Also I noticed that many French football clubs tend to run into financial problems which often led to their demise. Yes, in recent years we saw former Ligue 1 clubs like Sochaux, Gazelec Ajaccio and Evian Thonon Gaillard were either administratively relegated or even folded due to the aforementioned issue.

You should defo look into nîmes olympique if you want to cover another french club. Their current owner went from hero to zero. Basic story is he got them back to L1 then ego got to his head and slowly he started ruining the club, then he started slandering the ultras and banning them from matches and now the club looks like it will fall appart

Still have more history than PSG

Crazy how our French neighbours have been able to keep producing talents despite their clubs are in chaos. Thanks for giving us Laporte and Le Normand. I would fear a France under Zinedine Zidane than under the current Deschamps.

They were never a top flight league. In the modern era of football, the league was basically ‘PSG and the race for the other top 3 spots’ (with one or two exceptions). The likes of Mbappe and Saliba have gone. This will only get worse.

Politics killed French football

Absolutely awful, I love French football and it's devastating for this to be happening to such a massive club as Bordeaux. I don't even care if Ligue 1 ever really becomes a top league, I just want French football to stabilise and prevent more fans and future footballers from losing their hometown clubs

I love Ligue 1, I think the problem is that people think it's a "farmers league" mostly dominated by PSG and that drives attention away and and TV deals away because they think it isn't competitive, but it wasnt always like this. Marseille, Saint-Etienne, Auxerre, Lyon, and many more winners. But ever since a certain club was bought out and started dominating, people dont bat an eye at Ligue 1 anymore. There also isn't much accessibility to watch Ligue 1 matches, most of which are very entertaining

It feels strange tbh. I remember back on FIFA 15, I use to play Bordeaux a lot on there. Idk why cause I am not even French but I did. It’s a shame.