A news I just read, the United States will also host the 2025 Club World Cup with the new format, similar to the 32-team world cup.

This greatly reinforces the idea that the United States is investing heavily in soccer
Now the schedule will look like this:
2024 Copa America
2025 Club World Cup
2026 World Cup

In my opinion, all this experience that they will acquire with the two championships, has everything to become a World Cup VERY well organized and with as few problems as possible.
The United States should also evolve a lot the level of their soccer in general, both in MLS and the national team itself. It seems that FIFA itself wants it too, because if soccer is more popular over there, they can make a lot of money, it's probably the best place right now to take opportunities.
It will be very interesting to follow

For those who want to know more and confirm the news, you can see it here: https://www.reuters.com/sports/soccer/united-states-host-expanded-club-world-cup-2025-fifa-2023-06-23/

Newcastle United can make big changes because their owner has strong enough financial strength so it's not too surprising that their target player is the best player that can be projected in the long term. Tonali is the first of the more popular names they will likely manage to sign in this transfer market. If we go into Tonali transfer, of course this was based on a bigger salary offer so that Tonali accepted their offer, as we know Tonali received twice the salary he received at ac milan. For Ac Milan they have again lost a player who is quite important in the depth of their squad, I admit they will experience many problems in the balance of the team next season if the new technical director cannot find the right replacement for this position. For Ac Milan, this is most likely a financial problem for them which makes them want to release their main players to other teams because we know the team's finances in Serie A have not been very good in recent seasons.

If we look at Gundogan's playing style, it's quite similar to Iniesta's time at Barcelona and maybe that's what made Xavi really admire him. Gundogan's composure when passing or dribbling is very similar to Iniesta's and even when finishing in front of goal he always looks calm. It looks like Xavi can't wait to give direction to Gundogan as an attacking midfielder and with this you can say that the Barcelona squad has pretty good depth starting next season.

In Chelsea, Azpilicueta will be sorely missed. As the team's captain, he gave Chelsea everything he had. His outstanding 12-year Chelsea defender career left a lasting impression on the defense. Azpilicueta made the decision to leave Chelsea for a Seria A club, and I believe he has good reasons for doing so given that the majority of the former teammates he joined Chelsea with have already left the club (99% have left, and the final 1% are departing during this transfer window).
I'm wishing Azpi the best in his football remaining career in Seria A because soon he'll be retiring from football

I remembered this thread now that I'm reviewing some results of the friendlies

From the 15th of June until the 20th there were the official FIFA dates and with it several friendlies
I will list here the unlikely and difficult to predict results. It is a great example to illustrate the context of being difficult to bet on these matches

Costa Rica 0 x 1 Guatemala
Poland 1 x 0 Germany
South Korea 1 x 1 El Salvador
Germany 0 x 2 Colombia
Brazil 2 x 4 Senegal

Emphasis on the last two results that surprised me a lot, in "normal" situations Brazil and Germany would not lose
South Korea draw with El Salvador also, because Korea has a very good team and played very well in the world cup
Poland also beat Germany, despite Poland having a reasonable team, in a championship it would be very difficult for Germany to lose
Costa Rica also has a better team than Guatemala, including Costa Rica has participated in the World Cup

I see Luis Enrique and Zidane are both near to PSG and they still didn't officially say anything about their new coach.
Zidane is a successful coach and he had a good performance in Real Madrid when he was working there but he didn't work in other teams I think Enrique on the other hand because of the tactic he usually uses can't be a good option for PSG.
Also, doesn't really matter if Enrique wants to work with Neymar or not because the Neymar we see recently in PSG is far from what we saw in Barcelona.

I think Chelsea will try hard to improve next season because if they fail to do so it will surprise us quite a bit because they have quite a good depth of team for next season. Indeed, Chelsea absence in the champions league next season is really a pity, but that's what happened. I think the Chelsea management will continue to make every effort to bring more efficient changes into their progress next season.

So we will skip this discussion about Chelsea as they are not on the list of teams that will compete in the champions league next season. We are more interested in seeing Manchester United next season because they have progressed very well under the coach of Erik ten Hag after they managed to qualify for the Champions League again this season, of course it is an extraordinary thing that has been done by Erik Ten Hag.

De Gea is still a very good goal keeper. Most of the mistakes De Gea made were due to defensive error. The pattern of football Ten Hag wants is to play from Behind and De Gea has been adapting slowly to that king of football.
Onana might be good with the ball and his distribution might be better but De Gea is ultimately a better shot stopper than Onana.

It would be good buiness for Man United to sign Onana. It would be very good for a team like United to have two solid goalkeepers at their disposal. There is going to be a very strong competition between them. 

Gundogan was a very important Ayer for Manchester City this just concluded season both in the English league and every other competition that they played. The treble win for him with Manchester City is the peak for him at the club and a move for a fresh challenge is good at this stage in his career. In Barcelona, he will be reunited with Lewandowski who rumours claim to have played a role in his move to Barcelona, Lewandoski and Gundogan have a good relationship and have played together before in Dortmund, this new arrival for him in Barcelona improves their midfield and with good interaction on the field between Lewandoski and Gundogan, Lewandoski may have an increased goal record.

Ilkay Gundogan really seems to be leaving Manchester City this season. Man City has actually tried to defend the captain. But it seems Ilkay Gundogan wants to get a new challenge in another league. And Gundogan's goal is now clearer, namely to Laliga and more precisely based on the news I read that Gundogan seems to have agreed to leave Man City and will join Barcelona. And Gundogan seems to have met Xavi (Barcelona coach) first. And have made a deal. I think Barcelona were very lucky because they got Ilkay Gundogan. Barcelona already has many great players and with the addition of Gundogan, Barcelona will be even stronger. I hope Man City can find a replacement for Gundogan with other great players. And currently Man City itself is also hunting for many great players. and I believe Man City can always get another great player.

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I had my bet on Betis to finish top 3 in LaLiga and I was close but this year Valencia should be the next big team that will climb in top 4 if they won't do stupid mistakes like last 2 years when they trade offensive style for defensive style and nothing good came out of it as their locker room is stacked with offensive player with big potential.

That's right, few season before Berlusconi era ended, AC Milan has experienced financial problem already, several transfers of ownership have not been able to help improve AC Milan's finances to date. The failure to sell important players in the last few seasons has increasingly made AC Milan have minimal income from player sales. Currently, Milan may only be able to buy players at low prices, or try to bring in players on loan. Milan need to sell players the club doesn't really need. The best solutions for know is to start leveraging talent from the Primavera. This is an important time to improve AC Milan's finances again.

Perez already confirmed it and that statements were coming from him directly.



It means if madrid already ended its transfer for this season. There's nothing that makes me feel doubt about him. Afaik, perez is always consistent with his words. Joselu is enough to replace benzema next season. His performance was amazing last season even though his team (espanyol) already relegated. There's no need to sign a new player anymore. Madrid has been doing all the things needed by the club to sign some important players.

Real madrid will keep use the same squad as like season. The only problem to find best replacement for benzema and real madrid got it from espanyol.

I think it should be another coach. The first name that comes to mind for me is Jose Mourinho. He had success even with limited opportunities in Rome and won the conference league cup, while losing in the final at the UEL this season. I am sure that he will have successful matches in Paris SG. I hope they convince him and we can follow him as coach at the beginning of Paris SG.