I understand that most of us participate in numerous pools that could make the amount rather cumbersome at a go, while some other would be pool selective and it's easier for them join those few pools, but in the end it would make sense to have something to worth fighting for through course of the duration of the league, so any amount decided for the entry fee would be fine and make sense in correlation to the participant numbers.

According to multiple credible and verifiable sources, The deal has between completed between both clubs, but Victor Roque will not be joining Barcelona until 2024, next year, however, it is still very unclear whether or not the player would join Barcelona in next January window, buy the end of the upcoming season (That's next summer).

The main reason behind Barcelona being unable to sanction the deal out rightly is due related FFP rules and protocols, so my very opinion on Barcelona spending as much as 74m on a player who is not going to be joining the immediately or have an immediate positive effect on the team, is another act of desperation, and that's how we found ourselves here in the first place some years ago with the Dembele and Countiho and Greizmann too iirc. The 74m is what could be used to bring in at east two players, to provide proper squad depth to areas such as the left back position, and midfield which was left by Jordi Alba and Sergio Busquets, without proper and decent replacement for these players, Barcelona might actually struggle a lot for all season long.

sources:

1. https://www.goal.com/en-ng/news/barcelona-chelsea-man-utd-psg-sign-vitor-roque-athletico-paranaense/blt95d9fc8a10c74859
2. https://twitter.com/fabrizioromano/status/1678858978648809472
3. https://dailypost.ng/2023/07/12/transfer-he-cant-be-compared-to-ronaldo-barcelona-confirm-deal-for-striker/

Svitolina really doesn't play like someone who had just had a baby around 10 months ago, she's mastered her craft since she returned, and she's done a really good job to deserve a place in semi final at Wimbledon, has she's to face a number of tough opponents too, so her semi final game being a match against Vondrousova made really she's probably destined to get to the final this because, she's got the fairest opponent for that regardless of would be outcome of the final 4 players in the remaining 2 quarter final fixtures. She's earned it having knocked out Swiatek in what could have been 2-0 in for her, I guess the third  3 round showed that her winning the match no fluke, and I've been keeping tabs on her since match against Venus Williams in the first round.

a.  SPFC
b.  2-0
c.  Under
d.  No 
e. '19

14. Holly Holm
13. Junyong Park
12. Walt Harris
11. Chelsea Chandler
10. Bassil Hafez
9. Nazim Sadykhov
8. Francisco Prado
7. Melsik Baghdasaryan
6. Viktoriya Dudakova
5. Melquizael Costa
4. Evan Elder
3. Azat Maksum
2. Alexander Munoz
1. Ailin Perez


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Haaland as far as I can tell has already found a home under Guardiola's system at Manchester City and has won every possible trophy under just one season with the team, and he's broken unbelieve number of records, meanwhile Guardiola rotation policy also helped him stayed fit for majority of the season, I really don't see why he would want to leave now, except if Guardiola is also leaving the club, then that could bring doubt about how well he would fit into the next managers plan.

As for a potential move to Real Madrid that could have been well on the cards before Haaland had joined Man City and had not prepared to bank on Mbappe from PSG, it would have been a handful for Real Madrid to afford both players and remained within the FFP rules and regulations having already splashed a huge fee on Tchouameni, another major factor as to why Haaland didn't consider a move to Real Madrid would most definitely have been attributed to Benzema being at his prime, and looked like Real Madrid aren't just going to drop him for Haaland then.

Can we players that are free the this cup round also feel the form, Just increase our thinking, prediction, insight and choice making skills, because as an athlete even when you're not playing you need keep training in order to stay and ready to when called upon or required to play 

And I believe last season, we had two cup rounds per week for the first few weeks, what changed ? or is it just a decision for this reason to have a singe cup tie per round?

Thank you,

I don't mind taking that 1 point here honestly, the swing in the momentum of me and mitchr4 fixtures is quite funny, it's goes in my favour after one game and it's all his after the next so finding a common ground against such a tough opponent is satisfying enough for me, to be fair.

However, how the hell did Slissy and casperBGD both had 8 points in such a round like this ? insider information ?

After such a huge scare from Iga Swiatek, she's in the drivers seat of this match now, but I'll need to know the answers to the No. 10 question before having my hopes up, does anyone ?

Swiatek after going down a set and face 3 match points holds serves with a 4-2 lead, and this should it for her, but it's going a very huge come back for and also reiterate why she's the current world no. 1 in the WTA.

That's such a bad news for the fans especially due to irregularities and greed of a few board members, from having your hope of the CL and then it was about settling for Europa League, down to the Conference league which by their standard already is an insult to the club's heritage, just to discover that you'll not even be having any European appearance at all this season.

And according to the story on the link, they could still face further sanctions if they qualify for next season's Uefa Champions and Uefa have not deemed this punishment to satisfactory to its deciding team.

Onana situation will be completely different from that of Mendy at Chelsea, should his transfer to Man United be completed, because Mendy never flopped at Chelsea, it was due to a change in a coach and the coach preferred a goalkeeper that could play out from the back, and Mendy couldn't despite being the better goalkeeper in terms of saves, reflexes and goalkeeper awareness. Meanwhile Kepa could serve those coaches purpose, hence the reason for them keeping as the number 1 choice.
Onana on the other hand will be coming in as the number 1 choice for Ten Haag even if De Gea as stayed back, Onana will remain at the top of his form for years to come, and fits perfectly into Ten Haag's so I really don't foresee any potential problem here, except the Glazers decides to go astray again by sacking Ten Haag too soon, which seem quite unlikely as things currently stands.

I really need Swiatek to win this match and and I also need the question 10 to go my way in order settle for, that would be the second consecutive week from being in a quite advantageous position to either settling for a draw or hoping for it.

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All the ATP Wimbledon men singles fixtures for today have been very interesting so far, I hope Hurkacz and Djokovic will deliver the same kind of atmosphere and not just go one sided from the onset, like that of Dimitrov's upset versus Tiafoe that was brought over from yesterday over rain disturbance, and it was rather surprising for Tiafoe to not have had more than 3 games in 3-0 defeat, amassing just 7 games from all 3 sets against the 24th seeded player for tournament.

The hype before the draft and the expectation are the two things the could put him under a lot of pressure for the season, I however don't expect him to fold under the pressure, He only looks fragile because of his height but he's got some weight actually at 95kg, for his stature at age 19, he's still got a whole career of ahead him so, I'm sure he's going to be a good force for the Spurs roster, and once the regular season start, there will be a different approach to how the coach will adjust his duties so as to suit the team needs generally, Wembanyama just need to keep a cool head, not force plays and be a team player first.

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My dark horse for this season would be the Houston Rockets, I think they're looking like the real deal for a team filled with young stars, the addition of Dillion Brooks and Fred VanVleet will surely bring a new chemistry to the franchise, and the likes of Kevin Porter Jr, Jalen Green, Jabari Smith, Alperun and Eason had a good season despite Houston finishing as the 2nd worse team in the league.

You're the only person, or the at least first person that would think Tottenham should let Harry Kane and replace him with Lukaku, because I don't think there is any team right now in the world that would pick Lukaku over Harry Kane for any reason whatsoever, Harry Kane is a better striker than Lukaku and that's obvious for anyone to see, he has better finishing touches, more clinical and a better team player too.
Harry Kane for Lukaku would be an outright downgrade for Tottenham and I don't think that's even up for debate at all. Harry Kane is never the reason Tottenham have been trophy less, instead Tottenham is the reason why Harry Kane has been trophy less.

I occasionally bet on outright odds, but that would in case of not so long events like the NBA Playoffs Series, Finals, World Cup and Euro, Copa America or any other ~1 month competition, Not leagues winner which last 8 months or thereabout and I strongly agree with Igebotz here that "The Juice isn't worth the squeeze" except for those whale fanatics that are putting in hundred thousands or millions of dollars on such odds, but it's still not worth it imo opinion having to wait for as long as 8 months for a bet you could eventually lose.

75% - 100% profit on any investment in 8 months is a very profitable business, but gambling isn't a business so why wait 8 months for odds that goes by almost every hour in different sports on a daily basis.

That was some drama to end a 6 minutes added time, if you ask me two great saves from Trafford after the initial penalty being saved, but I'll rather blame the guy with the third attempt and roofed the wide over the net with no one putting any pressure on him. An equalizer would have meant extra time for sure and that could be a whole different game from there, given that Spain had as many attack and 9 corners to England's nil, The momentum could have shifted drastically in Spain's favour, had the game gone to extra time.



England already have more than enough qualities in their existing senior team squad, and these young stars could be of some huge importance just like the likes of Kolo Muani, Tchouameni and Marcus Thuram became for France, but then it's all about the biggest question does England have the right national team coach that would trust them enough ? and not stick with the likes of Henderson and co?

I totally agree with you that Team Liquid can defeat the Tundra Esports, but we shouldn't forget that it was Tundra that sent them down to lower bracket in the first place without losing a map.

I'm also hoping Team Liquid would that perfect my decision then and I dreamer bigger for who wins in the final.

Too bad for you, especially with Jarry winning that 2nd set, there was no feasible way for the Under 14.5 too play out, and Jarry is currently on the his way to probably draw the game at 2 set apiece, your rune bet is the only one left that could playout.


Quite identical to the Djokovic game, Alcaraz is also being kept on his toes, and it's not getting any easier for Alcaraz as the game progresses. Alcaraz would imo just end still being too much to handle for Jarry and would win the game eventually.

I really don't know man, but the odd isn't worth it in my candid opinion, because Leeds, Leicester, and Southampton are not in the league, and these are the teams you can expect to fight for a spot in the top 10 positions and without them, I believe increases their chances of finishing top 10, I might understand that they've made some sales that could affect their performance, but average point to finish top 10 in the EPL over these years is what you need to consider, how many wins would be needed of Brighton to reach that threshold.


I can still say Boehly is likely laying the wrong foundation for Poch to fail, Kante, Kovacic and Jorginho are players that should be very valuable to the I understand the need to cut their salary budget, a situation Boehly himself put them in by purchase almost every available in the market. Look at Real Madrid purchasing very expensive midfielders but still kept Modric and Kroos for a years more, so that the new young prospect also learn a lot from them, I still think Poch can make his own decision and not just have a replica tenure with that he had with PSG.

I'm not putting the Chelsea's failure during Lampard's tenure on the management, but the board needs to take some responsibility for hiring him the first place too, he was never qualified enough to coach Chelsea, at least not yet, what happened to David Moyes after his brilliant tenure at Everton he became an awful coach at Man Utd, and then his spell at was it Real Sociedad ? wasn't any different, but he's been not so terrible being back at West Ham, and you can say that the expectation are incomparable to what was expected of him at Real Sociedad or Man United.

Even with Guardiola dominance at the premier league after 7 seasons in the league, he struggled in the first season too, finishing at the 3rd position and he's never finished out 2nd position since then, and no one pictured such a dominance from him, but here we are, it was easier for Guardiola to stand such pressure because of his experience as manager at all level of the sport as a manager haven managed two of the best teams in Europe.


I guess we can both agree he doesn't have a title winning mentality, and I don't that's what Chelsea is looking but we'll see, I guess. There is not going to be too much pressure on him, but if he's playing for the just the league and just the league cups, it'll will an utter failure to not make the top 4, wouldn't you think ? and that might be the every pressure he's going to face would stem from.


Bring it on! I can't wait...