steven gerad's track record of training primiere league clubs is very bad. when training aston villa the results obtained by gerrad were very bad and ended in dismissal. similarly, nigelsman also ended up being fired when training bayern munchen. the best choice from what you wrote in the list above is xabi alonso. leverkusen's performance in training alonso was extraordinary.

Yes, Manchester United's decline continues because they cannot perform optimally in every match. Manchester United only won 1 win in the last 5 matches and have lost a lot of points, namely 10 points, so it is normal if their position does not improve and if their performance does not immediately if it is corrected, it is not impossible that the ranking will fall further because the clubs below Manchester United have started to catch up and only have a small difference in points so it is possible that these clubs can overtake Manchester United.

I think the management will immediately fire Erik Ten Hag because this coach cannot be expected to advance the Manchester United club because this season Manchester United is really in poor performance, Jose Mourinho could be an option to replace Erik Ten Hag because of this coach still unemployed after being fired by Roma.

Nigeria vs Cameroon
 There is a lot of action sure to go down in this game but if you look at the two of them, it will be so difficult to predict the game as the two sides both had less than satisfactory performance during the group stages even though Nigeria won two of their games, we all know it was by a slim margin and I'm sure they will struggle in this game. Cameroon came into this tournament looking so unprepared and if not for a late goal by defender Christopher Wooh, they would have been knocked out in group stage by Gambia.
 Many believe that if Andre Onana is behind the sticks for Cameroon, they would concede a lot of goals but I strongly doubt that, being as they failed to score a bucket of goals against Guinea Bissau in their last game, settling for just one goal and the way I see it, if they manage to get one goal today it will be a big struggle to keep that goal and even get another one. I'm just keeping my fingers crossed for the game.
 

since having financial problems; Barcelona lost its glory days and had almost very little chance of qualifying for the semi-finals because the players they had were not ready enough to face other big teams and in terms of reserve players; Barcelona does not have quality reserve players while several injured players can worsen Barcelona condition.
facing Napoli in the round of 16 may not be too tough, but the problem is that Napoli, even though they have problems, this team still has slightly superior performance compared to Barcelona, which is currently really down in the UCL and in La Liga.

and regarding Man City, I slightly disagree with your opinion, although it will not be possible to win consecutive UCL titles. The return of key players provides a big opportunity for Man City, but the only doubt is that KDB has returned with the same performance as before the injury and whether Haaland will return with good performance as before?
If Haaland is back and can still perform as before, it is possible that Real Madrid will have problems because they have to face the strength of Man City.

Klopp wants to bring Liverpool to win lots of titles because that can be proof that Liverpool is team that can win various awards in every competition.
This is not about whether competition is important or not but how valuable title can be achieved.
By getting various titles it will also bring Klopp name as coach who will have more experience.
We know that coach experience is very important because when he is fired or his contract expires he will still be considered great coach and of course can make other team interested and use his services, Klopp will continue to use Liverpool in his best squad.
Moreover, Salah who is mainstay player, is defending his country and Klopp also has to use all his intelligence in having squad that is truly perfect and can perform at full strength.
Not single coach is willing to leave one competition just for other interests.
In this European League Liverpool have become favorites and Klopp in this competition also really has hopes of being able to continue fighting until he reaches the final.

This season is surely very different from previous seasons. In the previous seasons, Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund are 2 top teams in Bundesliga which compete for the title. But this season, the race for the title is between Bayern Munich and Bayer Leverkusen. It becomes more interesting that Bayer Leverkusen is leading Bundesliga standings and they are still unbeaten so far. Xabi Alonso did something impressive for Bayer Leverkusen, he makes this average team to be a very strong team. Even an experienced coach like Thomas Tuchel still got a defeat when he is managing Bayern Munich this season. But Xabi Alonso never got a single defeat, he continues to get points in every match. Now, the point gap between Bayer Leverkusen and Bayern Munich is 4 points. Bayern Munich was defeated by Werder Bremen in matchday 18. It seems Bayern Munich attackers decreasing a bit their performance in the last 2 matches in Bundesliga. This only makes it more difficult to catch Bayer Leverkusen in the 1st place.

Yes I think this season is mostly done for Ajax Amsterdam as they are also eliminated from the KNVB Cup and even if I weren't to assert that miracles are not impossible, I think it is impossible for Ajax Amsterdam to catch up with PSV. But I think that PSV themselves are quite shocked after they gave away their first points in the Eredivisie and right after that game got eliminated from the KNVB Cup themselves. This is certainly bad for any plans they had.

I don't know what Ajax Amsterdam is aiming for, but the biggest of all possible goals would be to catch up with Feyenoord. Ajax has one more game to play against them in the Eredivisie and apart from that can only hope for Feyenoord to drop points.

Interesting thing is, sometimes teams who are not that great at their own league, could end up with a win at UCL so that should be something that may make some sense. I get that it would not be easy, most teams that win the UCL are usually good at their own league as well, but it doesn't have to be like that. Remember the year Tuchel won the UCL with Chelsea?

It was just a few years ago, wasn't that long time ago, and they beat City, do you really think that City played bad? They were clear winners of the league most years, and yet they didn't get the UCL that season, Chelsea did. So that means if Barcelona is playing bad this season at the league, which I think they are not that bad at all, they do not look like champions, but they are decent, but even in that situation it doesn't mean they can't win UCL, they still have a chance.

Liverpool is currently competing in four title races with they are going to face Chelsea in EFL cup final and then have The FA Cup UEFA Europa Cup and Premier League which is impressive from the Jürgen Klopp and his players because as things were going no one were expecting they could be at the top level in this season, but they have done and now achieving with most chances they will try their best for having all trophies or 3 could be also best for them here in UEFA Europa Cup they are doing impressive and now having challenging opponents ahead, but their moral is high, and their team depth is also working good so we can expect they could be going to end this season as one of the best in recent years.

Today I read Jürgen Klopp surprises all Liverpool fans and management with his decision about leaving this club at the end of this season, so now things are more important with his farewell could be best with these trophies which are they going to take at the end.

Lyon vs Rennes

 The loses from Le Havre makes Lyon have to ended their winning streak and after break today they will attempt to beat Rennes and return to the winning ways but Rennes also in the good shape because they were unbeatable in the last 5 matches in all competitions and the latest is Rennes can able to eliminate Marseille at France Cup and in Ligue 1 Rennes has successfully to beat strong team Nice so Rennes recent performance is much better compared to them.

For squad update Enzo Le Fee will be doubtful to play but Benjamin Bourigeaud will be available today and this player was showing impressive performance in the last 2 matches with Rennes because he can scored 1 goal and make 1 assist and for Lyon Duje Caleta-Car will not be available in the squad because he got suspension and as usual Lyon still rely on Alexandre Lacazette for their front lines and according to the head to head statistics i can see both teams can beat each other but Lyon was successfully to improve their records from Rennes because they can win from Rennes 2 times streak and today too i think Lyon still able to resumes their good records from Rennes moreover as a host Lyon have more motivation to win and the odds for Lyon is @2.48

Let's be realistic, previously this league was not very well known before Ronaldo joined. I mean, the Saudi Pro League competition is not really cared about by the wider community of football fans. in fact, the Saudi Pro League is less popular than the Qatar League. but now, the impact of change is occurring in this competition. we don't need to go far to speak to the wider community of football fans, we ourselves are involved in this thread discussing the Saudi Pro League competition even though most of it focuses on the teams that bring in the top European league players. the Saudis are well aware that they don't have much to offer in this competition apart from money and fantastic salaries. that's why, their main target is to bring in top players aged over 30+. apart from having big names, bringing them into this competition can boost football in Saudi Arabia. and it has been proven that the Saudi Pro League has always been a hot topic of conversation, especially when several clubs want to bring in big-name players.

But Saudi is really patient, their goal is not only to bring in top European players and have fantastic salaries. however, there is another plan behind everything they do in the project which is supervised by the kingdom and the sports minister. apart from improving football in this competition, the government and PIF have big plans and projects behind all of this. we can read the mission and mission of the PIF company. so don't be surprised if the players come to this competition for no other reason than money, and that is part of the project plan initiated by Saudi. as for young players, like Mbappe, who has big star names. it was very clear that their goal was not just money. but various titles in prestigious competitions. plus, a mission to achieve the best player award. Talking about Casemiro, for example, this Man United player is interested in getting a high salary and is willing to compete in this league. It won't take long if there will be a team interested in using his services.

From what I saw, Benfica was playing with its best players and still lost in this game, although the game ended in a draw and needed penalties, I still see that if Benfica had been strong they would have managed to win in the 90 minutes. game, but Benfica couldn't win, Benfica didn't manage to score many goals in that game, they were very bad in that game and Estoril deserved that victory. Now just because Estoril were lucky to beat Benfica, it doesn't mean they have become strong, I see Braga with a good chance of becoming champions. Braga managed to beat Sporting in the 90 minutes

Braga managed to stop the cycle of many goals that Sport had been having in the last few games, which was expected, I say this because in Sport's last game, although they managed to win and scored 5 goals, they still managed to concede 2 goals, and this showed great fragility for Sporting's defense and in yesterday's game Braga just needed to remain very strong in defense and manage to score at least 1 goal to win the game, and that's what Braga did. With this victory, Braga reached the final. In my opinion, this defeat for Sporting and Benfica must have hurt a lot for these two teams because at least when a team in a season ends with a trophy and doesn't win the title, it helps when it comes to receiving criticism from fans and the club's management.

If Benfica or Sporting had reached the final and one of them won and became champion, then even if they didn't manage to win the league they would show some trophy to the fans. But nothing is lost for Sporting and Benfica this season. Both teams can still win:

1 - the Portuguese league
2 - Portuguese cup
3 - european league

There are 3 competitions that Sporting and Benfica can win and end the season with a trophy

I cannot say the defeat of yesterday was a disappointment because that is not La Liga and Girona cannot perform well in all their competitions. Remember that a team performing very well in La Liga isn't necessary or compulsory; they should do the same thing in another competition, and that is why many people feel disappointed that Girona lost yesterday, but honestly, for me, I didn’t expect high expectations from them in that match because that is not La Liga, so you all put much expectation on them, and many people think that since they are already in a better position in La Liga, that is how it will go for them anywhere they go, which is not possible.

Know that there will be other clubs that are going to take over the first position in another place, so therefore, Mallorca defeating Girona is not surprising to me, and again, even if Girona are doing well, sometimes the game may not be by their side, so the luck was not for them in that match, and that’s why Mallorca beat them. Although we know that Mallorca are not in good form, But sometimes a team you underestimate performs well in a match we didn’t expect and even a club we didn’t expect, so I think that is what with Girona.

FA Cup match

There are 4 matches currently underway, but two of them are particularly interesting. The Chelsea vs Aston Villa and Tottenham vs Manchester City matches are the two matches I mean, and these are really interesting to watch.

There have been no goals in these two matches even though Manchester City took a 1-goal lead from Oscar Bobb before the referee disallowed the goal for offside. Manchester City really dominated this match and they built a good attack, but unfortunately no goals were scored for almost half the first half. Pep Guardiola chose to reserve Jeremy Doko and De Bruyne for this match, but if his plans don't go well then both of them might get minutes.

But in this case it comes back to Osimhen in the end because he has to decide correctly about the future he has to think about because one wrong decision could ruin his career.
Currently seeing from what is happening for rumors we only see Chelsea who are ready with Osimhen's offer but it does not rule out the possibility that for the summer transfer there will be additional clubs who want to propose Osimhen from Napoli.

But if it is only Chelsea and Osimhen goes to the EPL honestly it makes me doubt what he will do later in the EPL.
Not to make it seem as if Serie A is low but in the last few seasons we can see that Serie A players who come to the EPL most of them actually have to end up failing.
Pogba, Lukaku and the latest of course Onana who is quite worth saying failed for now so I doubt if Osimhen set a choice for Chelsea later.

This match is an equally important match for both of them so they will try their best to win. Juventus will wait for the results of Inter Milan's match in week 21 and Juventus is really looking forward to Inter Milan's defeat in this match because Juventus is in an unsafe position because Inter Milan can take over that position if they win the match or draw, but I think Inter Milan can definitely win it otherwise it's possible that the match will be a draw as you said because Inter Milan is playing away so it's quite tough.

Yes, Fiorentina gets a big advantage because they play at home, but Inter Milan also plays quite well even though they are playing away, so Inter Milan still has a chance to win if Fiorentina is careless and doesn't succeed in taking advantage of their home opportunities. The competition between Juventus and Inter is still quite interesting because of the difference both are still too small so both clubs still have a chance to fight for the league title.

These are exactly my thoughts, but why did Ceferin suddenly make this attack towards the City? How to explain this? If we talk formally, then the City can sue him for damage to its business reputation and all that. Therefore, these events encourage me and allow me to dream a little about how City will be punished and this will break the actual history of the Premier League (Solskjaer’s gold with United! Ahahahaha!). Theoretically, if all the other clubs in the league feel cheated (and they have every reason to believe so), then they can punish City, regardless of how City managed to evade punishment from UEFA.

Actually Bundesliga more competitive than Eredivisie or Ligue 1 but since eleven years not any team can't destroy Bayern Munich dominance become the domestic league winner. For this season have difference thing with Bundesliga because Bayern Leverkusen success have consistent performance and manage top standings position behind 4 points left. Indeed not favorable as the Bundesliga winner, Bayern Leverkusen success become the only one teams unbeaten until 18 matches and there are not much problem for Xabi Alonso not better squad than Bayern Leverkusen have spent much money in the last window transfer.

Not large points difference between Bayern Munich and Leverkusen still can't predict who will be closer become the winner, have waiting for several matches later and looking the result for both team who will losses many points.

Liverpool was just replacing mo with another player which was good enough like jota and it was only doing a rotation to fillup salah's position. This is the main problem that has been solved by klopp as liverpool's coach. Im not really caring with it caused by liverpool will have a weak team as its next opponent. Liverpool and leverkusen are still holding the biggest chance to get the europa league trophy this season. Things will be going very different once salah will enter to the game again. Salah will be back again next month and im not seeing liverpool is in a big problem caused by that.

The current performance of liverpool is really convincing me even without salah. Just hope jota can deliver it even better in upcoming match. He will always be playing as right winger till salah will be fully recovered from his injury.
Klopp has been taking a very important lesson when the club lost against a weak team in the french league in the group stage. He was not even trying to randomly picking the player from the bench.

The quality of secondary squad owned by liverpool are the worst. Klopp is just replacing salah with another good player. Thing will be so different if he was replacing salah with someone who performed so badly from the bench.
If you were watching toulouse and you did see how bad the secondary squad of liverpool.

I believe that PSG has more Champions League experience than Real Sociedad since they qualify for the competition every year because they are the best in League 1. Real Sociedad are performing well and will give psg a tough time, but I believe psg will defeat them and qualify to the next stage of the competition because they have many key players in the club that can make them win the game, but when talking about winning trophies, you can't include psg in the list because they failed when playing with big clubs because even if they join psg with Bayern Munich or Manchester City now, You will know they will defeat them because they lack players capable of competing with Bayern Munich or Manchester City, let alone Real Madrid.

PSG had strong players the previous two seasons when they faced Madrid but were unable to defeat Madrid and win the Champions League, and now that they do not have such players how can they win the Champions League They need to add another crucial player to the team. They are more focused on Mbappe, and he cannot do everything which is why I want him to leave the club so that they can devise another strategy for the team. If Mbappe does not win the Champions League, I believe he will want to leave the club since he is still a young player and has to win the Champions League before deciding to stay in the league and pursue more money.