Don't you think it's a strange situation when the result of such a seemingly powerful and strong club with big ambitions like Real Madrid depends on the presence or vice versa of the absence of a single player? Moreover, Benzema himself is a fairly old player, who, with all due respect to Karim, is not Ronaldo and Messi in their best years and is also prone to injuries recently. And the match for the Spanish Cup was lost to the club that occupies the ninth place in the championship. The leader of the Spanish championship, who leads by a good margin, lost to the ninth La Liga club. By the way, Real Madrid has not been able to get to the Copa del Rey finals since 2014 and this inglorious series continued this year.

Firstly, I don't think there is any significant chance that Pogba will stay at Manchester United and probably it's even better, because it seems that the management of Manchester United is already tired of this suspended situation. The latest rumors connect him with Real Madrid, Paris Saint-Germain, Juventus, but not with the continuation of his career at Manchester United. There were certain chances that with the arrival of Rangnik as head coach, it would be possible to resolve the situation in favor of extending the player's contract with the MU, but unfortunately nothing seemed to work out. By the way, Pochettino is quite charismatic for the level of the current Manchester United squad, where only Cristiano Ronaldo can be called a superstar.

In this match, it is generally difficult to give preference to any club. And Manchester United and especially Atletico Madrid do not justify the hopes that experts and ordinary fans had placed on the clubs before the season. For me personally, both clubs are about equal in strength at this point in time and it is difficult for me to give any advantage to any club, but still, given Diego Simeone's rich and quite successful experience of matches in the Champions League playoffs compared to Ralph Rangnik, I will still give some advantage to Simeone's team. However, much more food for thought and calculations will appear after the first match between these rivals.

Well, I would not so directly call Roma the main disappointment of the season. In principle, no one expected Roma to fight for the Scudetto this season, just a wonderful start gave rise to some hopes for a high result. And then, during the season, a cold shower and a decrease in the team's results followed. Also, certain hopes were pinned on Mourinho, as a top-level specialist who knows how to squeeze the most out of the existing squad, but so far the feelings on this issue are ambivalent. We do not know what arrangements were made when Mourinho was invited to the club, but some dissatisfaction with Jose's players slips through at times publicly, which does not contribute to building strong intra-team relationships.

The whole question is whether the financial claims of Lewandowski and the financial capabilities of Bayern Munich will be able to converge. I think Robert is quite ready to morally change the club, because rumors about it have been going around for several years, but this does not mean that it will happen necessarily, because no matter what anyone says, but Lewandowski has perfectly settled in Bayern Munich both in terms of the game and in psychological terms of the microclimate of the team. I don't have a definite answer to this question, because Lewandowski has not so many years of his football career left and therefore the player may want to earn more at last at another club.

In its current position, Newcastle does not need super transfers, because for the task of maintaining representation in the Premier League, they do not need extra-class games. It should also be borne in mind that the club has a certain spending ceiling in the current transfer window according to the requirements of financial fair play, so it is better for the club to buy several strong players than to spend all the money on a conditional one Mbappe. Newcastle is now a step away from the abyss and first you need to move away from this abyss by building a strong combat-ready team, but then it will be possible to improve this team to solve higher tasks.

Forget the dreams of Zidane at Manchester United already! By the way, I am not at all sure that even Zidane and Zidane will cope with the current state of affairs. It is precisely Pochettino's style of team management that suits Manchester United, because in this Manchester United is like Tottenham, not Paris Saint-Germain. If Zidane for me is a master who knows how to turn a disparate group of stars with their mutually exclusive ambitions into a single team that will make the result itself, then Pochettino was famous for his ability to put a team game from the available players. Also, unfortunately, Pochettino is not an indisputable authority for the stars of Paris Saint-Germain, which Zidane could become.

In football, there is no such official concept as deserving and everything should be decided exclusively on the football field and a place in the standings. Whoever takes a place higher in the standings at the end of the season will take a place in the next season of the Champions League, the third is not given Undoubtedly, Arsenal is having a pretty good season, especially considering how bad the start of this season was, but it is still difficult to call him the undisputed favorite in the battle for a place in the Champions League. It is also difficult to call Tottenham or Manchester United favorites, and much of this depends on the club preferences of the person expressing his opinion.

Arsenal had a chance to get rid of Aubameyang in this transfer window and send the player on loan and get at least some money for it, but the whole question was that the club also demanded that the wages in the lease were also not paid by Arsenal. I am not sure that Aubameyang has a bad relationship with the club's management, but rather it is about a bad relationship with coach Mikel Arteta. As for the financial details of the termination of the contract, too, not everything is clear, because according to the Times, the club paid the player almost 7 million pounds to break the contract. But if it happened, then it means there is some benefit for the club as well.

In principle, it was clear for a long time that Pochettino would leave the club, another question was unclear when it would happen. I have great respect for Pochettino's professional qualities as a coach and consider him a specialist of the highest class, but I still say with full confidence that Paris Saint-Germain is not a club of his format and he will be much better able to implement it at another club. Still, managing this gathering of superstars that gathered in Paris Saint-Germain is a certain art and I think Zidane will do it better. By the way, I wouldn't be surprised at all if, despite all this, Pochettino managed to win the Champions League this season as a farewell

Whether Mbappe made the right choice, we will find out only after some time. However, despite the fact that everyone already supposedly knows Mbappe's entourage, they deny the very fact of making a decision, and therefore they will have to be content with speculation for now. I think more or less clarity will be officially introduced after the Champions League matches PSG and Real Madrid. By the way, the very presence in a club like Real Madrid does not mean the automatic conquest of all titles, let's remember how for more than ten years, or rather 12 years, the club could not win its tenth title in the European Champions Cup/Champions League.

It all depends on Levandowski's financial requests for a new contract. This was one of the reasons why representatives of Bayern Munich contacted representatives of Haaland about the transfer. The club has always been famous for its ability to count money and if they think that Lewandowski wants too much financially, they will prefer to look for a replacement. On the other hand, it is this ability to count money that can prevent Bayern Munich from signing Haaland, because it is not a fact that the club will enter into auction auctions with such clubs as Manchester City or Paris Saint-Germain, and this is what most likely awaits us next summer.

Once again, Milan needs a victory more and I think Milan will put more effort into the upcoming match. Moreover, this is a derby, and in such matches, those opponents who are lower in the standings and show worse results often win. It is in such matches that such clubs, spurred on by their irreconcilable fans, give out their maximum, at least in order to justify themselves a little to their fans for their failures. Moreover, in case of success, Milan will approach Inter at a distance of only one point, however, do not forget about the match in reserve at Inter. Moreover, let's not forget about the phenomenal Inter series of wins and no losses, and as we remember, such series tend to end sometime.

Oh yes, Paris Saint-Germain put to shame all the experts and ordinary fans who predicted him to win the match with Nice and finished his way in the French Cup at the 1/8 finals stage It is quite unexpected that the current cup winner completed his journey at such an early stage, especially playing at his home stadium. On the other hand, it is quite natural that this winner was Nice, which takes second place in the championship standings and is the closest pursuer, albeit with a gap of 10 points. The cup system is quite unfair when the first and second teams of the championship already meet at this stage. On the other hand, with such a composition, Paris Saint-Germain must solve the problem of winning against any French team, especially without bringing the fate of the match to a penalty shootout.

Despite the presence of such players, it still did not prevent them from experiencing huge problems at the previous stage of the Copa del Rey and with the greatest difficulty to win against Elche, which lacks big stars this season. Therefore, I would not be in a hurry to give an absolute advantage in this match to Real Madrid, especially since Athletic Bilbao is a more serious opponent than Elche. Therefore, I would not consider the absence of Atletico Madrid and Barcelona in the quarterfinals to be a very important factor, because it opens up new opportunities for the other remaining clubs and I am sure that these clubs will fight with blood for this opportunity to win the cup.

Still, let's hope for the best and that Djokovic will be able to solve his problems with vaccination and still perform at Roland Garros. On the other hand, despite winning Roland Garros last year, I don't think Novak is still the main favorite of the tournament, because it's still a bit not his type of court coverage. If everything goes well with Rafa's health, that he should be the favorite of the current tournament, let's also not forget about Tsitsipas, who reached the semifinals of the Australian Open and missed a victory over Djokovic last year, leading with a two-set advantage. We will also look at Djokovic's further line of conduct and the line of conduct of the organizers of the French Open, because the Austrian authorities have made an important precedent and the French authorities will have to reckon with this precedent in any case.

In the current reality, if a player has not renewed his contract six months before the end, then this with a probability of more than 90 percent or more indicates that the player will no longer do this and will leave the club as a free agent. Because of a similar case in Bayern Munich, it seems that they recently decided to conduct contract affairs with players in a new way and solve them at least two years before the completion of the contract. In any case, Manchester United would do well to find a replacement for Pogba, because at times there is a strong feeling that the player no longer feels like a member of the team and imagines himself in another club.

The risk always remains, especially considering the physical exertion experienced by professional athletes, but it seems that there are no other serious cases of football players with a similar implanted cardioverter-defibrillator. In any case, the English Premier League is a status competition and if they are allowed to play with such a device here, then there are serious grounds for a medical plan for this. If a football player has continued his professional career, then he knows and feels that there is enough health for this. Although, of course, I myself am somewhat wary of this, remembering what dramatic events took place at the European Championship.

In any case, just the fact that the match will be held at the home stadium already gives Paris Saint-Germain some advantage. Also, let's not forget about the two-match format of the teams' confrontation, and if Real Madrid is quite satisfied with a draw in this match, then I think PSG will try to play for victory in any case. In any case, everything will be decided on the football field and the fact that Real Madrid will be quite satisfied with a draw does not mean that the club will play for a draw, because this is not quite in the nature of the team and the composition is strong enough. Therefore, we are waiting for a hard match with some caution from both clubs, because everything will probably be decided already in Madrid.

Nadal generally had a fantastic tournament and won an incredibly intriguing final, despite the fact that few people expected him to get into the final of the Australian Open at all. Nadal probably did not expect such an outcome of the tournament himself, because as Nadal himself said after the match that he himself did not know a month and a half ago whether he would be able to return to the tour and play tennis. Nadal also said that a month and a half ago he would have said that it is possible that this is the last Australian open, but now he has enough energy to continue. Rafael showed his matchless character and was able to return to the match after two lost sets, which he had not been able to do since 2007. Rafa's uncle and coach Tony Nadal said on this occasion that he lost a little faith when Rafa lost the second set. Now I have no doubt that Nadal will arrange the same stubborn battle for Roland Garros. Medvedev would like to wish not to despair and continue to increase his level and new Grand Slam titles will definitely come.