If Joselu has no quality, then why did Real Madrid sign him? In fact, Joselu is also 33 years old, which basically Joselu is not worthy of playing at Real Madrid. But strangely, if Joselu has no quality and is not worthy of playing at Real Madrid because of his old age, why and why Real Madrid actually brought Joselu. If it's just to fill a void, I think Real Madrid don't need to sign Joselu and leave the position empty and can rely on other young players in the Real Madrid squad. Real Madrid's signing of Joselu is definitely a very strange signing.
If Joselu can be a striker like Morientes for Real Madrid, it is good for him and for them. They don't actually need a super star player but any player who can help them scoring goals and important goals even as a substitution, it's good for the club. Real Madrid is like a biggest club in Joselu career as he is already 33 years old and does not have many seasons to play. If he succeeds in Real Madrid, he will be able to retire with happiness. If he fails, no regret as he already took a chance to play for a very big club globally. Real Madrid are only trying with a loan and they have yet bought Joselu. There is a different meaning between the lack of quality and Joselu's quality, which is still below the striker standard that Real Madrid had before. No one knows for sure why Real Madrid signed 33-year-old Joselu, even though they could be looking for someone younger than him.
They want to have Joselu before the summer transfer market becomes hotter and it is harder to find a striker. They consider Joselu as their plan B if they won't be able to buy Mbappe from PSG in this summer. It could be that this is a short-term option that Ancelotti is trying to take advantage of when he is unable to bring in Mbappe or Kane in the current transfer market or at least Joselu can try to fill the void left by Benzema.
If we pay attention to the previous transfer market, it was so easy for Real Madrid to bring in the players they wanted and in the current transfer market there were a few obstacles for them. For example, strikers they need like Mbappe and Kane, but so far no agreement has been reached between the two parties.
No news that Real Madrid aim at Harry Kane who is in very final negotiation steps to move from Tottenham to Bayern Munich. Mbappe future in this summer is unknown and very complicated that makes Real Madrid feel unsure about their chance to complete the transfer in this summer. Clubs like Real Madrid always need to have best strikers and this need is bigger after Benzema moved to Saudi Professional League. |
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If nothing is personally serious, report and moderator handle are enough to moderate any thread.
Self-moderation is more like individually moderate a thread with your personal view that can be just personal and does not need to be correct. I don't think self moderation by multiple people will be good because there will be differences in their view, post interpretation so that those co-moderators in a self moderated thread will have conflicts in their view and it won't cause an happy ending in their co-moderation.
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Sadio Mane has made a fantastic move, and you can see the smile on his face that says it all. Congratulations to Sadio Mane for signing with a new club where he'll get regular playing time. It's a perfect time for him to get back his form and confidence. I have believes that as he shares the field with Cristiano. Here's hoping very successful season for Al-Nassr.
Sadio Mane is one of biggest star players in Premier League before he moved to Bundesliga and Bayern Munich in the last season. He has been competing directly with Mohamed Salah for an award as a best African player in many years and recent years, he won against Mohamed Salah. Signing with Mane means the Saudi Professional League will have another very successful player from Europe, one of biggest players recent years. It will help to increase the reputation and attractiveness for the league and it's amazing to see how the league has been growing very speedy. Within 8 months, since January 2023, the league has attracted dozen of star players from Europe including super star players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema and Sadio Mane. Mane appearance with Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga did not go smoothly since he was brought in from Liverpool for a transfer price of 35 million euros. Bayern Munich, who felt Mane had failed to meet the club's expectations, decided to release Mane to Al Nassr for a transfer fee of around 30 million euros. Mane presence will make Al Nassr attack line even sharper because Ronaldo and Anderson Talisca were already there.
Transfer prices for Mane from Liverpool to Bayern Munich, then Bayern Munich to Al Nassr are not expensive. It will be a very beneficial transfer for Al Nassr if Mane plays well for them. He is a professional player and he will not have problems with his life in Saudi Arabia as his religion matches the local religion. It will help Mane more easily focusing on football and contributing for Al Nassr. After successfully achieving several individual awards and trophies presented to the club he defended at a high level, Mane can now focus on adding to his wealth at the age of 31. Big salary which reaches 40 million euros per year after signing a three-year contract he can continue social activities to advance his hometown. The money that Mane earned at Al Nassr could be used for the welfare of the people in his hometown by building important infrastructure for the benefit of the people in his village.
Nothing is wrong if he tries to work and gain as much money as possible before his retirement. Player career span is very short and Mane knows that so with great chance from Al Nassr, it's wisely to accept it and fill his pocket. Playing for them within 2 seasons and receive salary which is nearly 8 to 10 previous seasons in Europe, that is unbelievable and can not reject. |
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I agree that Bitcoin mining industry is green and environmental friendly enough, more than many industries and many national energy consumption. I disagree if you say Bitcoin mining is a potential ally to fight against Climate change. It is not true as Bitcoin mining does not use 100% renewable energy so it causes green house gases that contribute to climate change and global warming. The Bitcoin Mining industry consumes very small energy compares to other industries, nations and the whole world so to fight against Climate change, it must be done with many massive initiatives globally. Bitcoin mining industry is only one small contributor to the fight. Bitcoin Mining Council Q4 2022 report and Its briefing video with more information. Climate impacts of Bitcoin mining in the United States from MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research. |
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I saw some video bad finishing by Rasmus Hojlund while with Atalanta. Actually as a striker 32 times played and 9 goals seems like a not very good statistic.
His bad statistics together with the expensive cost paid by Manchester United make this transfer is funny and likely stupid for Manchester United. They look to be panic buying again and accepted the expensive price which is overpaid in my opinion. But it looks like Ten Hag has another view. Perhaps his young age is enough to make Ten Hag confident that he can change the bad views of football observers.
He is young and he can improve his finishing skills but if you buy a player with expensive price, the player should be already good enough. I feel painful for Manchester United as with such statistics, they can use Martial with not big difference between two players. Paying very high price and hoping that the player will improve himself is ridiculous. Many people also hope that Rasmus Hojlund can be Haaland's competitor and be the solution to the attacker's problems.
Is it an unrealistic hope from Manchester United, Ten Hag and their fans? Very big differences between two players even before Haaland joining Manchester City and breaking records in Premier League. Haaland was already very goal productive in Salzburg and Dortmund, not like Hojlund. At the moment Ten Hag has several options so Rashford probably won't be exhausted and injured a lot.
They need a good striker to replace Rashford when needed or to help Rashford getting chances to play as a winger at swings where he is most dangerous. |
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I just searched my broker and I don't see it, so I couldn't buy it, at least for the moment. Maybe it will be added later. Well, anything that normalises bitcoin for me is welcome, and this does it, although it is a derivative product that moves away from the original idea, but if we are going to reach mass adoption it will be through small steps that normalise bitcoin on a day-to-day basis, like this one.
According to the news, it will be available for trading in late of this year. It's a plan and we will never know it will exist in late of this year or will be delayed till 2024. I am keen on a next year because it will bring better effects in a bull run than in a bearish year like 2023. Delay can be their plan or can be because of technical difficulty and problems from their developments, security for their exchanges. The SEC does not have any influence over European financial matters, because they are governed by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) In any way, it does not matter... because it was approved and it is live! The thing is ETF's are just another Fiat tool for the old schooled investors and centralized to boot.  SEC can not approve or reject Bitcoin Spot EFT applications in European countries but SEC is from the USA that is a big nation with big economy. So any news from SEC regulation will have enough big effects on cryptocurrency market. Even we don't want ETF for Bitcoin. Time will come or already started, they can file ETF for Bitcoin. This is also what happened in Gold before.
For me, ETF is not good for Bitcoin because the essence of owning Bitcoin will be gone, but these people really want it.
For me, ETF will help Bitcoin to introduce to more people like spreading the word about Bitcoin to the majority, and will help people will hold Bitcoin for investment (not holding actual Bitcoin for people).
If other markets have ETFs, Futures and Spot, Bitcoin must have the same to infiltrate more into investor communities. It's responsibility of investors who decide to not buy bitcoin directly but invest their money into Bitcoin ETFs. If anything bad happens with Spot ETFs they invest money in, it's their responsibility and they have to accept any bad results in future. People or entities are able to invest in Bitcoin Spot ETFs would be rich ones so I don't think I should feel regret for them because with very bigger capital, they would do more research than me about Bitcoin and they would have better risk management than me. |
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My expectations for Chelsea have started to increase again after seeing the 4 pre-season matches that have been carried out by this club. It seems that Mauricio Pochettino as the new coach is really a breath of fresh air for the club. Take a look at Chelsea's performance in the 4 pre-season matches. Chelsea won 3 matches and 1 draw against Newcastle. I actually raised my thumb as a sign of my appreciation for the Chelsea coach, Mauricio Pochettino. As Blues fans, Chelsea's performance in the pre-season match really brought hope back to us. But of course everything is still uncertain. Because the real show is still later when the season starts.
They have good players and they only need them to be healthy, not injured to play well and they also need a good coach who can work smoothly without conflicts with players to maximize player performance. So far from four pre-season friendly matches, Pochettino has been doing great job to use his players well and united as a team. Good results harvested from four friendly matches give their fans some hope for a new season. It is too early to say how high they will end in a next season but very possibly to have better results and position than the last serious disappointed season. Erling Haaland is the top favorite again to become the highest goal scorer next season in the EPL, his chances are higher because he is a very prolific striker and he is complemented by a brilliant club like Manchester City which is the best team in England and Europe. Harry Kane scored a lot of goals last season and should have been the highest goal scorer if not for Haaland, if he stays in Spurs, i expect him to score many goals as he always does, but not more than Erling Haaland.
Erling Haaland is a magnificent striker and he broke the all time record of Premier League with his first season in a league. What a talented and very goal-productive striker! The next season will be important to re-assess Haaland quality and his ability to adapt to more challenges from defenders in Premier League. Other clubs, coaches and defenders, midfielders actually spent the last 12 months to make analyses about Haaland. Maybe they already found something and figured out tactics to reduce the danger of Haaland in a next season. |
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Yes as the title says, first Bitcoin ETF got approved for europeans
The title is not clear and it is confusing. You must have a title like "First Bitcoin Spot ETF got approved in Europe". It is a first Bitcoin Spot ETF in history, to emphasize its meaning for Bitcoin community. It is not a first Bitcoin ETF in general because many Bitcoin Futures ETFs were approved in the past. Spot and Futures ETFs are very different types and the USA. already approved some Bitcoin Futures ETFs, they only have yet approved any Bitcoin Spot ETF. 6 Best Bitcoin ETFs Of August 2023ETF (ticker) AUM
ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF (BITO) $889 million
ProShares Short Bitcoin ETF (BITI) $100 million
VanEck Bitcoin Strategy ETF (XBTF) $39 million
Valkyrie Bitcoin Strategy ETF (BTF) $27 million
Simplify Bitcoin Strategy PLUS Inc ETF (MAXI) $21 million
Global X Blockchain & Bitcoin Strategy ETF (BITS) $11 million
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Barcelona might need a quite long time to bring back their old days in the Champions League. Because I don't feel like it is only related to Xavi's strategies now. Barcelona are rebuilding with very young players mostly. This team will need some more time to be able to reach the level at which they can fight harder against the biggest favourites.
Hence I won't be expecting them to have a magical change this season as well. Maybe this time they would manage to complete the group stage successfully. But I don't think they still have a strong mentality to deal with big teams in later stages. This tournament is nothing like a domestic league.
Barcelona can have improvement in a new season by going through the group stage but at knock-out phase, they will face with stronger team and with more experienced squad. It will become big issue for Barcelona with their young players and the young coach like Xavi. They need more experience in Champions League to play well and win it but everything needs a start and a new season will help them to gain more experience. The last two seasons have been a nightmare for big teams like Barcelona and they probably don't want that to happen again in the Champions League next season. As a coach Xavi is fully responsible for the performance of the team he has built and as long as they can still prove their capacity then they will probably be much better later.
It is not about what they want or don't want, it is about their ability to play well and achieve good results. Barcelona have been playing worse in Champions League after losing Messi. But previous seasons, when they had Messi, all responsibilities were blamed on Messi unfairly. Now they have to pay the cost and accept the fact that their squad is not actually good and competitive, with or without Messi. |
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Supply and demand, Bitcoi ln adoption, trading volume will explain the value of Bitcoin and its price on cryptocurrency market.
If Bitcoin continues its increasing adoption, demand on Bitcoin will be bigger while supply won't increase. We must consider a fact that supply will be less than 21M bitcoins because many people lost their bitcoins and there will be more such people, more lost bitcoins in future.
Bigger demand, higher trading volume, higher price over time. I mean I am looking at fundamentals to explain it.
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All that remains in this case is to hope that the price will rise again. Bitcoin is now at a good level, but we cannot be sure that the bear market is already over, corrections are possible, but holders have gone through such stages many times, the most important thing at such moments is not to rush to sell, exclude sales at a loss and wait for the bull market. The hold is not a quick process, only those who are patient will be able to profit.
The bear market has yet been over but fortunately we are in very last months of the bear market. There possibluly is some crashes to test bottom and kill weak hands but I assume the bottom was touched and no lower bottom than $16,000. Corrections, bear market always give us chances to take but mostly we reject those opportunities because when we are in the market in such periods, we react similarly to the crowd, be fearful and panic. Instead of having strong hands to hold tightly or accumulate more bitcoins with discount price, we either panic sell or be fearful and don't accumulate. |
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Roma under Jose Mourinho coaching had a pretty good impact on their progress, be it an increase in their strength or performance in Serie A. Last season, Roma almost managed to close the season in the top 4. But the last few matches at the end of last season Roma lost a lot of points in a match that was relatively easy for them, which made Roma ranking shifted by another team. But Roma are still a strong team if we see jose mourinho is still with them because mourinho needed time to bring the scudetto trophy for Roma.
They are improving but Mourinho wants to have bigger budget for transfers and Roma failed to give him. They are not a rich club and still in their plans to construct a new stadium. Roma now is like Arsenal years ago but they fortunately have Mourinho to keep up their good performances. In this transfer window Roma management made several changes in the depth of their squad in order to compete more strongly in next season's competition. Indeed, Jose Mourinho main target is the top 4 places because they want to experience the Champions League competition. To be honest Roma have that chance next season if they can play consistently every game.
I see they mostly sign with free players and players joined them in this summer are like tier 2 players. They are not star players like Dybala but Roma and Mourinho must build up their squad with those players and grow them up because with limited budget, they can not touch star players especially when transfer market is very chaos nowadays. |
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You don't need to provide all things, introduce jobs, chances to your family members. They must find it by themselves and you should focus on your job, income, independency, financial freedom.
If they need help and ask you, you can help them when you can do that.
If you proactively help them, they will not appreciate your help but will rely on you more. It is not what you want because you are unable to take care of them forever. It is very big burden on your shoulders and your life will be damaged if you are not financial freedom but want to help many people.
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Ten Hag has succeeded in making Manchester United a new competitor for Manchester City in fighting for the Premier League championship. The squad formed by Ten Hag is almost perfect, he still needs a striker who can make a good contribution to Manchester United front line. Kane is a typical striker who is very suitable for Manchester United's front line, he can complete the deficiencies that are still incomplete in the Manchester United squad.
They did not good enough to compete with Manchester City and they struggled to end the last season in top four. Competing with Manchester City is over hope from their fans and if you are not their fans, you will not see how they could compete with Manchester City. Arsenal competed with Manchester City but Manchester United did not in the lasts season. The preparations made by Ten Hag have improved the quality of Manchester United, this season they will return to compete in the Champions League after being absent for several seasons. A busy schedule means that Ten Hag must be able to organize a strategy well, he needs to build a squad that can compete in the Premier League and Champions League.
You can hope that Ten Hag will improve Manchester United after this summer transfer but it's just hope now. A new goalkeeper and a new striker are not enough to complete their squad. They need another good winger to replace Sancho who failed to satisfy expectation from Manchester United and Ten Hag. Yes, I agree with that, regardless of the big offer from Liverpool, but now we also have to think realistically that Mbappe is one of the best players in the world, of course he will really take care of his career to be able to continue to improve while Liverpool is currently a team that is in a slump and even they will not play in the UCL next season, it is really very unlikely for Mbappe to want to play at Liverpool in my opinion.
Mbappe will not move to Liverpool because he knows in Liverpool, they already have Mohamed Salah and Mbappe will not fall into situation to fight for a biggest star player in Anfield like he had to do in PSG. Liverpool did not show intention to buy Mbappe but only want to borrow him from PSG. So why do he need to move to Liverpool when he can receive more money from Al Ahli. |
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When we're talking about investment decision, it back to everyone preference.
How much you bought Bitcoin before? let's say you bought it when the price was $20K, so if you sell it now you still make 0.5x profit from your initial investment amount.
People in cryptocurrency market are extremely greed while they should know 50% profit is a very big one. They must look at annual interest rate in developed countries like the USA. to know 50% is a damn bit interest rate. What's the other investments you're talking about? if you want to convert it to shitcoins
They hope to get like x10, x20 profit and they do see that they no longer get it with Bitcoin. They can not stop to be greed and must find alternatives in altcoin market. Are altcoins good and safe to invest? They are shitcoins and use all capital they have to invest in altcoins is one of most stupid investment decisions. I'd say it's far better to hold your Bitcoin. But if you want to convert it to gold, real estate or business, well I can't resist your intention because it might fit for you.
DCA with Bitcoin and hold it. At least it is safer than buying, DCA altcoins and hold altcoins. |
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In the current crypto landscape, we're witnessing an influx of AI-powered projects.
Before AI-powered projects, we had blockchain-powered projects and you are unable to know about future but you can know about the past because everything are recorded. Many blockchain-powered projects are scam and already dead. If you see a pattern, many AI-powered projects will be scam and die too because they don't have own data centers to collect data and analyze data. They are like tokens which operate on a blockchain of a big project like Ethereum. If Ethereum die or stop support those tokens, those token projects will be dead. AI-powered projects which don't have their own data centers, will be affected a lot by policies of giant corporations like Microsoft for data. We have to think of usability of those AI-powered projects too. The later they launched, a more likely they are just copy cats. the big question remains: Will these AI implementations truly deliver on their promises or will they become obsolete in the future, dismissed as mere trash?
Not all of them will survive and succeed but many of them will fail and die. |
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The reason why you didn't know it or didn't like doing DCA was probably because you didn't have enough knowledge and enough sources to get the required information from, doing DCA is much better than buying with everything you have at once price point, just as you said, it becomes way too boring to just keep watching the market if it dips from the position where you've bought because you don't have any money left to keep buying every dip.
DCA requires many things like a long time for buying, patience, stable income to buy with your DCA plan. I am sure it is harder than buying immediately with all capital you have. DCA will not be done if you can not manage to hold your capital and wait for time to accumulate Bitcoin or if your income source has problems and you can not get fix it after a while. Without patience, you can not DCA successfully and you will not be able to hold your bitcoins too. So those newbies and beginners who are just starting up should get this information before it's too late for them, the final decision is theirs for sure, but they should at least understand everything first and then they are free to decide for themselves whether they want to DCA or buy all at once.
They can buy all at once, it is fine if they plan to hold. In a bear market, buy all at once is not bad if they plan to hold till next bull run or next two halvings, two more bull runs. They will not worry about buying at too high price because two next halvings sound enough to be higher than their entries and profit will be more certain. |
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I don't plan on withdrawing any profits for a long time at least until 2024 but just wondering if there is a best/ cheapest way of doing so when the time comes?
Choose a blockchain with lowest transaction fee, cheapest withdrawal fee because exchanges don't care about what are happening in Bitcoin mempools or altcoin networks if no security risk on their exchange fund. They charge expensive withdrawal fee even transaction fee on network is cheap. With altcoin blockchains, they are less secured, more easily to be compromised so you will have to move (withdraw) your fund gradually. Avoid to withdraw all fund in one transaction to minimize risk and value of loss when something is wrong from you or from the altcoin blockchain. Reminder: Do not keep your money in online accounts |
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It's true that El Clasico is always worth waiting for and watching, even though this is only a pre-season tour match. Madrid versus Barcelona match will be exciting and fierce, each fan still hopes to win the bet with their favorite club. So far in the pre-season period, Madrid has had a positive trend winning all their matches. For Barcelona the 5-3 defeat to Arsenal yesterday made their pre-season tour a little disappointed. But this is just a pre-season event, because it is impossible for each club to maximize all the potential for a match like this.
Two clubs have different results in their latest friendly matches. While Real Madrid won against Manchester United, Barcelona lost again Arsenal. They will meet in a Super El Classico friendly match which will be hot. Firstly they never want to lose against the traditional competitor and second, they don't want to get another bad result as it will make this summer pre-season matches like their terrible nightmare, especially Barcelona. My prediction is that Madrid will come out victorious for this pre-season match against Barcelona, a score of 2-1 for Madrid victory is maybe.
It is hard to say about friendly match result as it will depend on how serious each club spends for that match. Like Xavi complained that Arsenal played a friendly match like the big one in Champions League. |
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You forgot the first rule, you shouldn't believe what politicians say. They say all kinds of lies.
Politicians promise a lot and they sell a lot of hopes. At the end, they break lot of their promises and fail to complete their plans. Hope rarely becomes true from pololician promises. For all we know he may not even know how to spell Bitcoin let alone having bought anything. After all he is a multi millionaire who doesn't really care about "profit" to buy bitcoin, such people also are already living "above the system" so they don't need the privacy and sovereignty that decentralized money gives them. In other words bitcoin doesn't have any benefit for them which means there is a good chance that he is simply lying to try and get some votes.
They only need votes and love to gain attention from others. They want to have feeling to be important people and they know that no one will be able to send them into prisons because they don't complete promises in their propaganda. Laws support politicians and they exploit it to trap their supporters for personal pride, votes ... Bitcoin need more friendly regulations to have better adoption but one politican can not do anything big to change a game. Especially RF Kenedy Jr. is not a competitive candidate. |
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