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Xavi has now implemented quite strict rules for barcelona players.
10 xavi rules for barcelona players:
1. Players must arrive 90 minutes before practice.
2. The coaching staff must come 120 minutes or two hours early.
3. Players and staff are required to eat together at Ciutat Esportiva.
4. Fines are imposed on players, both minor and serious violations.
5. Penalties for payment of fines apply in multiples.
6. Not allowed to go home after 12 pm 48 hours before the match.
7. Starter position will be based entirely on performance in training.
8. Doing sports activities other than football.
9. During the current season, it is forbidden to do risky activities (extreme sports).
10. Players must always carry the good name of Barcelona on and off the pitch.
Source :ESPN Deportes
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@EdenHazard I want to say I don't think that Bundesliga is the most competitive league in Europe. I think the English Premier League has taken that spot. Because a League is nothing without competition and Bayern Munich does not seem to have March of competition right now. But in EPL almost all the teams really good. They got good players innermost all the teams. And there is a reason why the English Premier League attracts more audiences.
I totally agree with you, so far the Premier League has been the most competitive competition compared to the Bundesliga and Ligue 1, which every season is only dominated by one and two clubs, in premier league every season there are always surprises happend, like the case right now, an unseeded team can appear at the top and vice versa, while the Bundesliga, before the season starts we can guess if Bayern Munich and Dortmund are likely to compete for the title get the Bundesliga champions in end season. |
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Considering the news source, it is said that Manchester City are willing to sell Raheem Sterling for around £45m. It is equal to around €52.6m now which is far below his market value now. His market value is €90m. If this claim turns out to be true, then I'm pretty sure that there will be quite a few big clubs on the line to have him for this much cheap price. Sterling is still 26 years old and he can contribute to the team that he goes a lot for many years. https://metro.co.uk/2021/11/11/manchester-city-set-asking-price-for-barcelona-target-raheem-sterling-15583313/I'm still wondering what has happened between Raheem Sterling and Pep Guardiola, some seasons ago Sterling had the best season if his career scoring the highest goals in he's career. News reaching me Xavi Hernandez wants him at Barcelona. I hope he leaves because it seems he fallen out of hand with Pep Guardiola. Sterling is a good player and also very agile in defence, but to be honest I get annoyed and angry when he holds the ball at his feet for too long and he is often very stingy in passing the ball to other players inside free position, I think so far there is no problem between sterling and guardiola, but indeed sterling in my opinion is not suitable for guardiola's fast style of play in manchester city. |
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As for the Lazio - Juventus game, I also think that it is going to be really difficult for both of the teams. This is another competitive game for each of them as it is one of the biggest games for them. Juventus are in a worse condition than Lazio now. Maybe there is only a 3-point difference between them but Lazio's performance is much higher these days. They have scored 9 more goals than Juventus so far. They are much more capable of scoring compared to Juventus. And as it is a home game for Lazio, I feel closer to them to win this one. But the option which is both teams to score seems safer to bet on.
Lazio has a higher share than Juventus, in my opinion at this point we must try to focus on Lazio as well, in addition to scoring! I think 1-1 is also possible, it seems simple but it is a difficult prediction The match between lazio and juventus is matchday 13 of the italian league, and of course we will see a number of big matches after the international break ends, I don't know why you predict the result of the match will end 1-1, but i think it is juventus who will be able to win the match later, because I think now Juventus are starting to rise in the league and of course they will focus on winning the match to get back on a positive path, especially now their burden in the champions league has been slightly reduced because they managed to lock up 1 ticket for the next round . |
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The pressure on PSG is surreal. I mean imagine a team that would be considered "bad" if they win the league within 3-5 points. I do not remember any team to be expected something like that before. I mean them winning the league is not even enough, they also need to dominate the league as well. That is something surreal and I really hope that they really do it because that pressure may actually cause them to cripple and Mbappe to leave and maybe few other players as well. That is not something that I would love to watch, it is cool to have a team that is this big and this much expected as well.
This doesn't mean that they will achieve it or not, even if they fail I rather have this type of team that stay together even if they fail then a team that will do better after they go all to different ways.
PSG and Ligue 1 is the most surreal league in the big European leagues, in my opinion as a bystander watching the news but not the games. And it was also surreal in English league all those years ago when Abramovich came into the scene and bought Chelsea and they won the league right after that. Newcastle would be surreal if they didn't have any other super rich clubs coming. And in French ligue with just 1 super rich club (monaco used to be but a small fish now compared to PSG), of course expectations are surreal. Many football clubs have changed drastically after the arrival of new rich owners, just imagine how PSG was once a club that was not able to compete but now they have been very dominant in the French ligue, I agree with what you said, now the achievement of a club is very dependent on the financial strength of the club, although there are small clubs that can champions but it is very rare happen so far, in my opinion now newcastle which was acquired by the prince of saudi arabia would certainly have the potential to turn into a very rich club and maybe even surpass the wealth owned by PSG right now. |
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The game that I'm looking forward to watching is definitely Liverpool - Arsenal in Anfield. We know already how great Liverpool have been in this season so far. Their performance in their attacking side especially is just magnificent. Mohamed Salah is having a very productive season and his contribution is quite big to his team. I consider him the best performing player now. On the other hand, Arsenal's huge rise in the league table is just amazing. I can't wait to see their performance in a big game like this too. But I think that they don't have much chance against Liverpool in this one. Considering Liverpool's conceding 5 goals in their last 2 PL games, my first choice is both teams to score for betting. And the second one is Liverpool's win here.
The match between arsenal and liverpool will be an opportunity for arsenal to be able to catch up on points from chelsea and enter the top three of the english league standings, but as we know if liverpool is not a team that is easily faced by arsenal, as you said, now Liverpool performance is quite consistent and they are very strong on all fronts, there is both a solid defense and a fairly sharp attack, I think it looks like arsenal's unbeaten record in 10 matches will be stopped by liverpool at the anfield stadium later. |
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I personally highly doubt that later Xavi will be able to bring about a complete change to the Barcelona squad, I agree that his capacity as a player so far has been quite extraordinary in Barcelona, but as a coach, to be honest, I still highly doubt it, even though he managed to bring Al Sadd to victory in the Qatar League but we know that the Qatar League and La Liga have quite a big difference.
Do you think winning in Qatar league is so easy? Leading Al Sadd to dominate Qatar league is a great achievement, bro. Not all top coaches can do it although the league isn't as famous as La Liga or Premier League. I think we must appreciate it, Xavi can show us that he has a capacity to be a great coach. Moreover, he was a great player in Barcelona, even he is a legend player. Why don't we try to trust him? It is indeed very difficult to dominate a football league, but of course you also realize that the competitive atmosphere of the two leagues is certainly very different, now we see from both Xavi and Koeman, Koeman who is an experienced coach alone is not able to lift Barcelona performance, let alone Xavi who can It's said to be new in terms of coaching, you can see how Ole who was previously the coach of the Molde (Norway) club was able to make Molde win the Norwegian league, but what happened when he coached Manchester at this time, isn't he the former manchester United players too? Xavi made al sadd dominate in the qatar league, I agree with you, but can he now make barcelona bounce back? I do not think he can...! |
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Ever since the Bitcoin all-time high price of 64k in April 2021 before it drops below 30k before recovering gradually and today another landscape was achieved with Bitcoin now selling for $60,234 this price indicates another exciting bull season before the end of the year 2021.
Since the bitcoin price managed to break the new ATH record it reached a few days ago, the upward trend in the price will continue in the rest of 2021. Even after the bitcoin ATH break a few days ago, many analysts predict the bitcoin price towards $100k early next year. Therefore, if you are a long-term investor, don't worry when the Bitcoin price drops slightly, take this opportunity to buy. Bitcoin price increase is now welcome for those who dare to buy when the bitcoin price was around $45-$50k at that time, many thought that bitcoin would experience a lower price decline due to sentiment from the chinese government, but in fact now bitcoin has been able to break again the new ATH, I think with strong fundamentals, we don't need to doubt the price of bitcoin because so far bitcoin is very suitable for long-term investment as @asrinur said. |
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Because the bitcoin community continues to increase, the demand for bitcoin will continue to be high,
could it be the demand for bitcoin continues to increase that's why the bitcoin community keeps growing as well. the stock of bitcoin remains and for mining it is increasingly difficult due to many factors, this makes the price of bitcoin more expensive and I'm sure one day the price of 1 btc can reach $ 1 million and price fluctuations will not high as it is now, maybe the bitcoin price will go up or down not more than 0.1%.
The main reason are the institutional investments, they drive adoption to the market and their decision to invest in bitcoin also signals the ordinary investors to put their money on bitcoin as they trust these institutions who trust their money on the future of bitcoin. Strong fundamentals, limited stock and prices that continue to experience speculation are one of the reasons bitcoin continues to grow today, I agree with what @sanitough said, which is now institutionally starting to look at bitcoin as a promising investment alternative instead of having to save their money in the bank, and the increasing number of institutions investing in bitcoin of course this will strengthen bitcoin by itself and we must not forget that now countries are starting to adopt bitcoin as one of the steps to follow the direction of progress in the economy and finance. |
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This is all I can say, in the beginning, what was the price of Bitcoin? $0.01? $0.1 and then it grows to $1.00 and people are saying it's going to die so many early bagholders sold their stash.
Moving forward now, how many regrets of selling their Bitcoin that time? we have seen it countless times in twitter and social media accounts saying this and that?
Now with the current price, what would you think be the price in the next 10 years or 20 years or more? Just think about it, Bitcoin has a lot of surprises for us.
Although it often experiences negative sentiments, the bitcoin price slowly but surely continues to experience a significant increase from year to year, even though it takes a long time but I am very sure if we will see the bitcoin price even more than $500K later, now we just need to be patient and continue to hold our bitcoin for a long time and waiting to right time for later we release it at the highest price. |
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Currently there are many coins that have a higher price than gold. however, it happened because of abundant demand, and limited stock. In addition, there are some coins that are even backed up by the gold itself. personally, i believe that sooner or later, there will be very many coins that have a much higher price, even with 1 coin you can get gold a few grams, or even kilograms
Gold and crypto can be said to be the two most promising types of assets at this time and now many cryptos are using the price of gold as a reference for the price in the market, just like usdt which uses usd as a benchmark, I think besides bitcoin there are some coins that are now even higher the price of gold today, but what is clear now is that crypto is starting to threaten gold because it has more attractiveness in terms of investing, cryptocurrencies, especially bitcoin, have been widely accepted in practical terms and adopted by various world entities. |
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The two former world champions will be fighting again in December, I think this fight will be more worth the wait than the show between Jack Paul and Tommy Fury which will also happen in December  . In my opinion both boxers are the best boxers so far in the lightweight, and of course the fight will be a fierce fight even if the fight is non-title, so far both boxers have a pretty good record, Commey so far recorded a total of 33 fights with 30 wins and three defeats and Lomachenko has 15 wins with two defeats from a total of 17 matches he has played |
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I think in this case sky vegas has done quite a big mistake by forcing their users who have quit gambling to go back to doing free online spins on sky vegas, i don't know if the email was intentionally sent to these people manually or indeed this is automatically through a server so that all email ever recorded on the server will receive it?
But what is certain with this incident, sky vegas get a lot of lawsuits and even many petitions asking for the EFL competition to immediately terminate their sponsorship deal with Sky Bet.
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~snip Frankly, these two men are both mediocre in terms of boxing. We cannot expect much from both of them actually if we are to consider them as real boxing fighters. As boxers they have not proven anything at all. Of course we can see that both of them have perfect boxing records, untarnished, undefeated. But look at their past matches. They are all nothing but entertainment shows. They're not real boxers. Tommy Fury is no better than Jake Paul in his status as a boxer. They both belong to the same level of mediocrity. Seems to me that you're right, but I think that there must be some level gap between the two that helps in distinguishing which one is least mediocre. I guess we'll just have to watch it and see if there's some fun to this fight. It pains me to watch two kids duke it out which is the same thing as this match. To see an entertainment of course the match is worth watching, but to see a real boxing fight it seems we will not find this match, even though jack paul has so far managed to beat several opponents in the ring but none of his opponents are from the world of boxing, while tommy Fury, I don't think he has anything to be proud of in the boxing world except for his big brother name, Tyson Fury. |
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Joel Glazer, as the owner of the team, has the right to determine his own style of club management. I don't think he is happy with the current results of the clubs and also probably wants changes in the results.
We cannot intervene in Joel Glazer's decision. He has the right to keep Ole as the coach even if Man United gets bad results now. Sure, he is not happy to see it, but I think he can understand Ole. I am sure Joel Glazer trying to trust Ole by giving him more chances. But he must have a target, he will fire Ole if he seems Ole cannot fulfill his target. Joel Glazer decision is an absolute decision so far at Manchester United, but as a club that has a large enough fan base around the world, Joel Glazer should also consider the wishes of fans who want a change of coach so far, it's been 3 seasons Ole got the opportunity at Manchester United and there is nothing that their fans can be proud of, I think with their current squad of course the management has high expectations for Ole to win the Premier League, but the reality is that now Ole has failed to fulfill it, I don't know what kind of target what you mean, but I think if another big team went through the same thing as manchester united now, I believe Ole will now be sacked and replaced by another coach. |
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So many positive articles about Gerrard signing with Villa as head coach but unfortunately I think the team will suffer another defeat at the hands of Brighton. Best of luck to him trying to revive AV but I'm looking forward to negative stories in the next few weeks hehe.
Gerrard arrival to Aston Villa certainly won't have an instant impact on Aston Villa's performance changes, Gerrard will definitely need time to change Aston Villa strategy and game plan, so I think in two or three games we will still see the same Aston Villa. |
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^^ Well yeah it would have been great if he would have accepted it with some little more time with Rangers but well he has now accepted the job and is officially the new manager of Aston Villa. Guess he desparately wanted to get back to England and take over some tier 1 English team.
Let's see how he manages Aston Villa now.
Aston Villa signed steven gerrard on a three and a half year contract until June 2025 and of course it will be an amazing experience for us to see the liverpool legend again in the premier league, so far he continues to be rumored to be the newcastle coach but in the end aston villa who managed to bring him back to the premier league, steve gerrard's journey with the ranger is certainly very extraordinary in my opinion because they were able to destroy the domination of celtic so far in the scottish league, but even so the english league is not an easy league and of course it will require hard work and a lot of time for steven gerrard to improve the performance of aston villa today. This is one of the most shocking news for me to date. I did hear that Gerrard was interested in Aston Villa but didn't think that this rumor was really happening and Gerrard accepted this. this will certainly be a hot spotlight for a while considering gerrard is considered a liverpool legend and of course the fans from liverpool will be very angry about this. I'm actually not too focused on Astonvilla but for now I will follow its development because it will be very exciting I think. I personally also didn't think that steven gerrard would eventually become aston villa coach, I thought before that gerrard would become newcastle coach, but in fact he prefers to coach aston villa, I think steven gerrard will have a pretty tough job this season, because he is required to be able to restore Aston Villa performance after experiencing five consecutive defeats in the league and of course it will also be interesting to see the response from Liverpool fans when Aston Villa will face Liverpool in the 16th week, I think this season we will see two team legends who became coaches and will fight against the team he played for during his time as a football player, namely Patrick Viera vs Arsenal and Steven Gerrard vs Liverpool. |
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Maybe Freiburg are having a solid season too but it seems like Dortmund are the only team that can hold Bayern Munich back from winning the title again this season. Because they have the second best lineup quality among the rest of the teams in the Bundesliga. Of course, the lineup is not everything all the time. But to dethrone a dominator like Bayern Munich, you need to have a solid lineup. Even it might not be enough for succeeding in this. Defeat against bayern munchen is certainly very painful, especially now that the difference between the two teams is starting to be quite far and it will be impossible to stop bayern munchen dominance in the bundesliga this season, actually I personally really hope that freiburg is able to at least hold a draw with bayern munchen in that match, but indeed on In fact, Bayern Munich is a very difficult club to beat.  I also think that Dortmund can be the team that have the best chance to stop Bayern Munich's overpowering their competitors this season. Because after a long time, we finally are seeing a more consistent Dortmund. Of course, the result they got last week was not very satisfactory for them as the point difference with Bayern has increased to 4 now. But Dortmund played a really tough game away against Leipzig and Haaland's absence was felt by his team. Right now dortmund is the team closest to the difference in points with bayern munchen, but considering their often inconsistent performances of course it will be very difficult for dortmund to stop bayer munchen, even though now dortmund still have a chance of champions, because there are 23 matches left to play in the bundesliga, but losing Haaland for a long time will certainly make it difficult for Dortmund to win in the remaining the matches, because we know that so far Dortmund are very dependent on Haaland in their front line. |
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Leicester should change coaches, Rodgers hasn't been able to get the team into the top 3/4 for 3 years. We are dancing around the same thing, the last two seasons we have finished in 5th place, time to be in the top 3. What's more, they can't even play well in the Europa League, unfortunately... And if you look at it, there are no transfers that would be very useful...
Do you think changing coaches would make leicester city better today? I don't think so, because I think Brendan Rogers has done a good job so far, the proof is that last season they were able to appear quite solid in the league despite failing to break into the big four, I saw after losing Wesley Fofana in last pre-season, now the Leicester defense is no longer strong And I think the loss of photana has had a huge effect on Leicester this season. Even if leicester city has to change coaches, then who do you think is the right candidate to replace brendan? |
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It was another comfortable week for PSG as they consolidated their position by defeating Bordeaux by 3-2 away. And most of their closest opponents lost points last week. I mean Marseille and Nice of course. Both of them surprised me by getting very poor results. By the way, Lens are still doing great and they are at the 2nd place after winning against Troyes by 4-1. They are the most remarkable team of this season I think. Maybe they won't be able to get very close to PSG because of their huge performance. But they still can end the season at the 2nd place which could be beyond their expectations for this season.
PSG is a very great club, they are also able to bring in Messi, but as far as I can see Messi is not happy at PSG, and Messi is not treated well at PSG, now Messi's close relatives have returned to Barcelona to become a coach, my question is maybe will messi go back to barcelona, and help their colleagues there.. I don't think Messi is not happy with PSG. I think he is not happy in France. I have seen in a number of PSG matches, as long as they play away matches, the opponents' supporters do not get along well with Messi. They scolded, threw bottles. These behaviour are very unexpected. I don't think Messi will return to Barcelona. Now Barcelona is not able to carry Messi's wages. All fans of the opposing team of PSG of course will not like messi being in the match and I think it's not only happening in France, but in almost every football competition that exists, the rivalry that occurs between the two teams will certainly trigger the fans to hate their opponent mainstay player, just like ronaldo when he was with madrid of course he was very hated by barcelona fans but he was very loved by madrid players and fans at that time, while messi's condition now, I think it's true as said by @ropyu1978 and we can see it seems like messi has been getting less support from other players at PSG and that's what makes it very difficult for messi to score goals so far, besides that the relationship between messi and ramos, Wijnaldum and Icardi not getting better |
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