Verratti is said to have reached an agreement with Qatari team Al Arabi. They have been after him for a long time and finally managed to agree terms. Verratti could have continued in Europe as well actually. Because I think he was still a quality midfielder and not too old yet either. But he is leaving Europe soon as it seems.
Maybe there were offers from Europe as well but I don't think they managed to match Al Arabi's offer. It is really hard to do so considering how much money Arabian teams have spent on players so far. Anyway PSG must be happy to sell him in time as they weren't thinking of giving him a place in the team anymore.
Verratti will move to Qatar since PSG is no longer wanting him. Otherwise Qatari teams are known to recruit old players or the ones that dropped in performance and no longer competitive in European leagues. I doubt Qatar and the other gulf countries will try to compete Saudi Arabia teams in picking top players from European teams, at least until they analyse the profit generated there. |
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3 games will be held tomorrow in 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification - CONMEBOL matches:
Bolivia vs Argentina
Ecuador vs Uruguay
Venezuela vs Paraguay
Argentina is better than Bolivia and they should win this game away. Paraguay is better than Venezuela and they shouldn't have any problem also.
For the match between Ecuador and Paraguay, I find both of them quite equivalent with a slight advantage for Paraguay maybe.
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Ramos is 37 years old now, of course his performance is no longer what it was when he was young, although at least their defense is a little better, Sevilla is still lacking in their front line and their attack power is less capable, so Ramos' arrival does not mean that he can improve the situation of Sevilla, which is performing very badly. early this season, but it seems we need to see things in stages.
I'm sure that Sevilla is in the process of getting better, they have to be able to recover from the slump of consecutive defeats that they got in the last few matches which weren't very good, at least in the next match Sevilla can get good results and not lose points, against Las Palmas they should be able to pick up points to secure their position and achieved victory at the start of this season.
Sevilla performance are worrying even though they didn't lose any of their last five matches against Las Palmas whether it was friendlies or back then in La Liga. Ramos arrival might help fixing some defensive issues and maybe he could help scoring few goals with header but they definitely to fix the attack line so they can advance properly in La Liga! |
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The only victory achieved by Werder Bremen so far was by beating Mainz with a landslide score of 4-0 without reply. However, when facing strong teams like Freiburg and Bayern Munich, it was clear they couldn't do anything other than suffer defeat. I think if you look at the track record so far for Werder Bremen it is not too bad or vice versa because basically this team is only at the bottom of the table every season.
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Werder Bremen is playing in the other half of the table most of the time if not in 2.Bundesliga. The team consistency is weak, they have good moments but most of the time it is whether a draw or loss. Their next game vs Heindenheim shouldn't be hard theoretically but odds are quite close with slight advantage for Heindenheim. Their last match was in 2.Bundesliga and Heindenheim won it. |
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France continues to send players to the Turkish league.After the transfer of Arber Zeneli from Reims to Adana Demirspor, we saw the transfer of Flavien Tait from Rennes to Smasunspor and finally Batista Mendy from Angers to Trabzon.It is important that such players come to the Turkish league from an experienced league.
Of course trabzonspor paid 4.5 million euros for Mendy.I think this is actually due to the age of the player.we can say that he is a younger and experienced player.Zeneli and Tait I think were transferred for free.
It is normal to see top players moving to the upper leagues and players with reduced performance trying to find a lower team inside the league itself or move to a lower league. The ranking of teams and leagues are based on scores and FIFA one. |
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Victor Osimhen hattrick is my highlights of the game
A solid performance from the talisman striker Victor Osimhen who equal Rashid Yekini record of scoring 2 hatricks for the Super Eagles; and also one of the fastest to reach 20 goals for the super eagles team, with 20 goals in 26! Napoli owner will be very proud (remember he mentioned that 250M is too cheap for Victor Osimhen). With the Nations cup coming soon; a triumph for Nigeria could spell an african best award for Victor Osimhen. Theres more to come from this super eagles team. Yeah even though Sao Tomé-et-Principe is a weak team but Nigeria did pretty well there knocking them with 6 goals to 0 with Victor Osimhen scoring half of them  It would be nice seeing Nigeria getting back its performance and why not winning the Cup here and participation again in World Cup in USA, Canada and Mexico. Only 3 games left in this competition, Guinea-Bissau will remain second whatever the result of its match is. Cameroon - Burundi match is very important since both teams have the same number of points and the ranking in that group will change depending from the result. Morocco game is only important to know if they could get three points to be the first in Group K. I think even a draw is enough to finish first. |
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The situation of Italy is not great but.
Even if they end in 3rd position they will have one more opportunity of playoff thanks to their position achieved with the Nation's League.
Italy played 3 matches and collected 4 points. The draw vs North Macedonia wasn't justified at the opposite of the defeat vs England. Comparing to Ukraine which collected 7 points after playing 4 matches, Italy still could catch them and even pass them since they will face each other in the next round. For the matches played today, I see normal results except for Poland defeat by 2 goals vs Albania  |
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KDB has been committing to play in manchester city till the club will let him leave. I will never ever believe if de bruyne will accept saudi's offer. He is happy playing in manchester city. City is his home. We can expect KDB to go there once his age will be more than 35 years old.
If kdb was looking for the right place to retire from playing football and saudi club will become the right answer for him.
Lewandowski can do U turn once barcelona will not need him again. Lewandowskis contract will be last till 25/26. He will be trying to consider saudi's offer once he will have finished his european career.
I don't think saudi will still have an interest in recruiting him as a new player.
Either of players are still feeling happy to play in la liga and EPL.
There is many players that refused Saudi Arabia teams offers this summer including these names, Lukaku and others. For Kevin De Bruyne, he preferred to continue with Manchester City since he is stable there mainly and he isn't that old. For Lewandowski he is also stable in Barcelona, doing good and I expect him to leave the club next summer once Barcelona finds the perfect substitute for him whether it is Lamal, Félix or another player. |
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3 goals and 1 assist in 3 matches from Kane... This is really a wonderful start for him to his Bayern Munich career. Truthfully I wasn't expecting him to score goals this comfortable in his first games. But as far as I have watched him so far it looks like he has a good relationship with his teammates.
It is good to see this situation despite Kane's not speaking German. I guess there isn't any communication issues as they can speak English as a common language.
It looks like Kane has found a teammate to make a duo as well - Sane. Just as he was with Son he can be the same with Sane here. I feel that after watching this duo in the matches so far.
It is too early to judge about Kane performance with Bayern Munich since many players require a lot of time to adapt but as you mentioned he is doing pretty well as a start. The three games that Bayern Munich had so far are quite medium, I mean Werder Bremen and Augsburg aren't hard opponents and M'Gladbach are fluctuating a lot between a game and another. The next match between Bayern and Bayer Leverkusen will be a challenging one and every player has to prove himself there. This match will allow one of these teams to be the first in the ranking alone. I expect Bayern Munich to win by the way. Now there is another game coming in Champions League this time vs Manchester United where Kane could prove himself. |
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I don't know if I could say that today's matches results are funny or sad! Since they all finished with a draw! Ukraine 1 - 1 England. Ok Ukraine isn't a bad team and they are quite challenging but England was surprised with an early goal and they cannot secure more than a draw.. They are lucky Ukraine didn't have serious opportunities otherwise they would be in trouble. North Macedonia 1 - 1 Italy. This time is worse since North Macedonia isn't good at all and lost with 7 goals vs England in their previous match! Switzerland was the other disappointment for tonight, they couldn't keep their advantage until the end of the game and they received the equalizer goal at the very end of the match.. The other two games played are already random  |
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Morocco had a horrible earthquake with more than a thousand people who died that's why their match vs Liberia home was postponed! I hope they could rescue the rest.
In the other matches played today, I see only weak results, Senegal 1 - 1 Rwanda since Senegal already qualified. Ivory Coast finished the second in their group..
Nigeria will play tomorrow and should win vs the last team in their group and finish first.
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Meanwhile, it is still very possible that PSG will get the Ligue1 trophy this season, although I hope that another team will be able to get it this season.
PSG win the title most of the time because barely no team could stop losing easy games when PSG waste many points. We are 4 rounds from the start of the season, PSG already lost 4 points while Lens and Lyon are sitting in the last places, Nice and Rennes around the middle of the table, Marseille got 2 draws like PSG and Monaco already got a draw vs Nantes.. |
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I'm very surprised about how difficult game Belgium had against Azerbaijan. Yeah, they won, but damn, they struggled a lot.
Ukraine - England, it's difficult to see upset here. Over 2.5 goals looks like good bet, but I'm risking here with BTTS. Estonia - Sweden, another game with heavy favorite. Going with over 2.5 goals @1.80, though from h2h results of these team, they usually ended with under. North Macedonia - Italy, same bet with over 2.5 goals. Switzerland odds against Kosovo looks attractive, but I'll skip this game, don't really trust in Switzerland.
Azerbaijan 0 - 1 Belgium was a poor victory from the Belgian side. Azerbaijan isn't a good team, yet Belgium couldn't score more than 1 goal. They were ranked first according to FIFA? I cannot recognise nor trust them. I find Switzerland pretty much similar to Belgium. I mean both teams dropped significantly but I think they will win vs Kosovo. Italy, England and Sweden are favourite while Andorra - Belarus is quite random tho. |
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It's nice to have a thread like this to discuss another matches/competitions If anyone is interested I created a thread about South American qualifiers to 2026 World Cup: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5465893.msg62805054#msg62805054But no one has posted so far...  Here on the forum I've noticed that not many people are interested in South American soccer, people like and know more about European soccer, and even talk more about Arab soccer  Yeah yesterday I was about to create a topic about Conmebol qualifiers then I said no need to do that since if there is a lot of discussion, people would created it years ago in this section. It is true most members in Bitcointalk are interested in major European leagues and competitions with a glance in Saudi Pro League and African national teams games. American and Asian competitions are rarely discussed here, that's why it would be better to make a unique topic about all of them until we see that they deserve their own thread
Brazil punished Bolivia with 5 goals to 1, good performance from Rodrygo and Neymar who both scored 2 goals. Uruguay 3 - 1 Chile, I expected more from Chile, at least a draw.. Next round will take place in 3 days with Bolivia - Argentina and Peru - Brazil mainly. |
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In this thread you can share your predictions and your discussion about international competitions that don't already have dedicated topics like UEFA EURO or AFRICA FOOTBALL DISCUSSION. This topic can include national football teams or even clubs playing in official international competitions or friendlies.
Right now we have 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification - CONMEBOL matches that started yesterday with Paraguay 0 - 0 Peru, Colombia 1 - 0 Venezuela and Argentina 1 - 0 Ecuador. Two matches left for this round between Uruguay - Chile and Brazil - Bolivia.
Just to make things more clear in case of multiple competitions running at the same time, it is preferable to put [Competition name] in the beginning of the post. It is just optional. |
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I think Portugal is better than Slovakia even without Cristiano Ronaldo.
Slovakia are playing really well without fear and have even been able to create some goal scoring opportunities. They are defending well against a very good Portugal team with many talented players like Ronaldo, Fernandez, Rafeal from AC Milan, Cancelo, Dalot, Bernando Silva, but still no way for them to get their game really going to create any chance. The only chance they have had in this game was from a mistake by the Slovakia defense. If Slovakia win this game, they really deserve it. They have played well with the ball and when not with the ball. They are a hardworking team. Slovakia was much better then Portugal in the first half and its a shame that they didnt score a goal and after a couple of misses Bruno Fernandes with a beautiful goal punished them and i think Portugal has opened them even more and can score two more goals to finish this match. Slovakia are trying their best but Portugal isn't an easy team. The score is still 1 - 0 for Portugal and they have to score another goal at least to avoid any late surprise. In the other matches, Scotland and Croatia are leading with 3 and 4 goals to 0 which make them playing comfortably. Bosnia and Luxembourg are leading with 1 goal difference which isn't reassuring. I see Turkey 1 goal behind Armenia and Spain punished badly Georgia with 7 goals! |
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The reason why Harry Maguire hasn't been laid off from the Manchester United team yet is that his contract with them will be over by 2025 not this year or next year. Letting go of him before that time, requires Manchester United to pay him off because of that. However, Maguire is demanding for 15million euro pay off from Manchester United, if they want to let go of him. And Manchester is refusing to do that. They prefer to sign him out to a club than losing completely. That's why you see at times Ten Hag will play Maguire in some of their matches to see if any other club apart from West Ham will find interest in him. Not that Ten Hag trusts him, he also wants Maguire to leave the club as soon as possible. And there is nothing else he can do, either wait till the time Maguire's contract with Manchester United ends or get a club for him to sign as their defense player.
Harry Maguire was close to join West Ham but he refused although Manchester United wanting him to leave the club. I don't know why he didn't go on loan to West Ham for example with a possibility of purchase or if that was ever discussed? Anyway Manchester United stuck with him right now and he is accepting to stay although he was stripped from being captain and almost not playing with the team.. |
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For the first time in African football history, a country has produced male and female Balon D'or nominees in the same year and that I think is a big achievement for Nigeria and also a very commendable feat that's been achieved by the most populous black nation.
Victor Osimhen and Asisat Oshoala deserves their nominations after an impressive season with their respective European clubs. That been said, I don't think any of them stands a chance to win the prestigious prize when it'll be announced on 30 October at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris.
It is good to hear that news even though I doubt there will be an African player winning Balon d'Or this season. For the case of Osimhen, he is good and everything but Nigerian team didn't achieve big things and the player himself wasn't consistent all the time. We will know who is the winner and whether Nigeria woll get something. |
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After the number of teams joining Euro 2024 has gone up to 24 it has become very difficult for big teams to say goodbye to the tournament in the qualifiers. I'm expecting Portugal to increase their points to 15 by getting a comfortable win against Slovakia today. I'm wondering especially C.Ronaldo's performance. I couldn't watch him there after he went to the Saudi Arabia league. I have just seen the videos of a few goals he scored. I have really missed to watch him in Europe again.
Cristiano Ronaldo is fine in Saudi Arabia, after all he is playing with top players in the team vs world class players in the league. Some disappointment sometimes but he mostly score goals. I think Portugal is better than Slovakia even without Cristiano Ronaldo. Croatia, Turkey, Bosnia, Scotland and Spain should win their games that will be played today. For Luxembourg - Iceland, I don't have a clue since both teams aren't that good and everything could happen in it. |
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These coups were only condemned by African organizations and had some sanctions but they did not have any sanctions in terms of soccer
And they shouldn't have. It is so random to punish a whole nation for so something that might agree or disagree with.. Football should just saw away from politics. on the 9th of this month my country will play against benin, in this game my country needs to win to be able to qualify for the can, looking at what the corrupt government of my country has done to the national team I would say that my country's team I will lose in this game, in the last 40 years it has been a disappointment..
Mozambique need only a draw to pick the second place just behind Senegal which is way better than the other teams in its group. Good luck and hopefully yoir nation qualify 
I followed the first half of Tunisia 3 - 0 Botswana. Tunisian team missed opportunities in the first half and Botswana failed to score a single goal. Later, in the second half, Botswana players are owned by Tunisians |
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