No, it is not.
France is a multi sport country, so people won't rave about football like in the other countries. Yet, it is the number one sport.
Rugby is more of a thing in the south. Interestingly, there is a big historical rugby club called Stade Français whose stadium sits next to Parc des Princes.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Sta...KHQ8ICfgQ9QEwBXoECAQQCA#imgrc=eDn51HZEG_PtWM:
Handball is also well liked in France.
The thing is people don't have that feeling of appartenance some fans have in other countries. Bayern and Dortmund are always full and their fans buy a lot of goods related to the club. It gives the club good incomes too.
In France, you have great loyal fans but also a huge part of spectators. Most clubs aren't at full capacity any other game that is not against PSG.
Also, football followers from France likes to bandwaggon whatever team that is cool in CL. Those will only really follow a french club if it is actually successful. They have so few personnality that they sometimes use the same "farmer league" argument they heard from anglo saxon forums to shame their own league. I find that weird. It is like they have no self respect. You can appreciate your league for what it is. Especially when those same people won't call leagues ranked lower than french league as "farmers". Kind of echo chamber fallacies.
Cant stand PSG fans or that plastic club founded in the 70s. I only respect Paris FC fand
Well, this is not really the problem i'm pointing out.
If they don't watch PSG games, they shouldn't self assured declare Mbappé is better than Neymar.
I mean, i won't say Guedes is better than Parejo when i watch exactly 0 game of Valencia.
Also, you are mostly foreigner following Barcelona here but i'm French watching french football and supporting my french club. So usually, unless i go like here on foreign forum, people around me actually know the in and out. So, yeah, French people do watch French football even outside Paris and we are happy to have players of Neymar's quality. It would be stranger for us French to like all our good players leave and not like when a good foreign player comes. As a matter of fact, PSG is the only team that play at a full capacity stadium when playing away. So, those purchase were in fact beneficial for the economics of the league and the clubs.
Better use the Neymar metric since it is what has sidelined him from 3 months last year.
Doubt it will be a year recovery but still he is out for CL anyway.
We are fucked, as always at this period of the year.
He was clearly not fit for World Cup. When he came back from Russia and started the season, he was also terrible. He didn't have that quickness of the feet, that acceleration that is so crucial to his (dribbling) game.Suits him well that his career has been on a downward spiral on every front ever since the idiotic snake left us dry. I for once enjoy his dismiss and sincerely hope that he will do a "Ronaldinho" or "Brazil classic" and decline within the next 1-2 seasons as he is slowly approaching 30 and irrelevancy.
I used to like him as a player but that ended after his freakshow during the summer of 2017. That can never be forgotten from my part. Not only that, I feel that he has declined as a player in the farmer's league. Ball hogging has reached a whole new level and the number of senseless dribbles. He was extremely poor during the World Cup as well.
I am not wishing him injury but I won't lament him being injured or feel pity for him. He is in a place in his career that is entirely his own doing. You wanted to screw this club over and the fanbase that almost always took your side despite numerous controversial behaviors and now fate has screwed you over. Poetic justice.
Strasbourg player Anthony Gonçalves on Neymar: "He is a great player. But if you play like that, then don't complain if you take some knocks. We aren't here so he has fun at our expense. We aren't here to make him look good. If Neymar wants to have fun, we are responding with the weapons we have."