Hey what a week!!! And what a game that Liverpool one was, holy did not expect all those goals.

Conrgrats to the everyone, this was a somewhat rough week.

Yep, you need at least 1 team correct to get a point from Q7. You have a big advantage, but would be unfair to get a point there if you totally fail the question.
That way it would count as 0 correct for both, and we'd mark it as draw.

the Croatian league is not too big so the development of the players will also be very slow, if players who graduate from their academy move and try to get more money from outside clubs that I think is a natural and humane thing.

yesterday's match, rijeka managed to win 2-0 over istra 1961, jankovic is the man of the match. In a few hours we will see the match between Varazdin vs Sibenik, looking at the history of the two teams it seems that the quality of the two is balanced but the chances for Varazdin to win are greater.

I am surprised at Blackburn coming this far together with Grimsby as they are not performing that great in their leagues despite being in relatively good positions there.Looks like Manchester City and Brighton have the easiest games from the list here and I think they will qualify further,then after these games the easiest is Manchester United vs Fulham which I predict a Manchester United qualification as in their recent form they are playing really well.The only game that I find it difficult to predict is Sheffield vs Blackburn as this can be anyone game.

Zanimljive kripto novosti:

Ako ovo nije dokaz praktičnosti i korisnosti kripto valuta, onda ne znam što jest 
Ukrajina je do sada skupila oko 70m milijuna dolara u kripto donacijama, što su iskoristili za vojnu opremu i humanitarnu pomoć.
Ovo je utjecalo i na usvajanje kripta u Ukrajini i oni su sada postali treći u svijetu po kripto usvajanju, iza Vijetnama i Filipina.
https://crobitcoin.com/ukrajina-od-pocetka-ruske-invazije-prikupila-70-milijuna-dolara-u-kripto-donacijama/

''Ako se regulacija kriptovaluta bude odvijala sporo, postoji mogućnost da kriptovalute postanu veći rizik za potrošače i potencijalno za financijsku stabilnost. U tom slučaju, opcija zabrane kriptovaluta ne bi se smjela isključiti, izjavila je direktorica MMF-a, Kristalina Georgieva''

Uz MMF, također i Odbor za financijsku stabilnost (FSB) i Banka za međunarodna poravnanja (BIS) traže jaču regulaciju digitalne imovine. Smatraju da je to važno za izgradnju povjerenja.
Također, Kristalina Georgieva govori da postoji ''velika zabuna'' oko digitalnog novca i da je cilj MMF-a da napravi razliku između digitalnih valuta koje će izdavati središnje banke i javno izdane kripto imovine i stablecoina. Dakle, idemo prema državnom digitalnom novcu i big brotheru koji će imati potpuni uvid u sve naše transakcije i stanje imovine 
Po njezinom mišljenju, kripto imovina bez podloge (države) je spekulativno ulaganje visokog rizika, a nije novac i kripto imovina ne može biti zakonsko sredstvo plaćanja jer nema ''definiciju'' novca. 
Dakle, još stroža regulacija kripta nam dolazi.
https://crobitcoin.com/mmf-zeli-vidjeti-vecu-regulaciju-kriptovaluta/

I don't think that failing to qualify for the last World Cup says anything about their chances for the upcoming Uefa Euro 2024. There are a couple of examples where one tournament was a disaster even during the qualification and then the tournament afterwards the team performed very well. I would have to look it up but I remember that those situations have happened before.

The Nations League is a bad predictor for the future performance. The Nations League is often used to test players, usually nobody takes it as serious as the World Cup and the Euro and I agree with that. The Nations League is often boring to watch.

Kako?
Mislim zanima me jer ako kolega stvarno treba popuniti joppd obrazac, a gospođa na šalteru je usmeno rekla da ne treba kako će on poreznoj dokazati da mu je gospođa na šalteru rekla da ne treba (ukoliko ga iz porezne pitaju gjde je joppd obrazac)?
Pretpostavljam da neće dobit nikakav ovjereni papir na kojemu piše da ne treba popuniti joppd pa zato pitam...

Vijest zvuči dobro na prvu, ali kad skuzis da te kriterije zadovoljava samo mali dio korisnika te da će isplatiti sveukupno samo 11 milijuna dolara dok duguju preko 4 milijarde, vijest više ne zvuči tako dobro i optimistično nego više kao nekakav PR.



Radili su svakakve riskantne stvari sa tuđim novcima (jer su vjerojatno samo moglo doći do visokog APYa) tako da im se to na kraju obilo on glavu. A neki tvrde i da su bili obična ponzi shema, a znamo da takve stvarima mogu završiti samo na jedan način. Dobar Twitter thread gdje je dosta toga objasnjeno https://twitter.com/jonwu_/status/1536476104986267648

After all completed matches we now have FA Cup Quarter Finals pairs scheduled for March 18.
It was amazing success for Grimsby to get so far in FA Cup, but I said before that Southampton is more concerned about survival in Premeir League.
Well done Sheffield for fantastic win against Tottenham, they deserve to get back in Premier League next season, and I love to see so many Championship clubs in FA Cup quarter finals.

Brighton vs Grimsby
Manchester City vs Burnley
Manchester Utd vs Fulham
Sheffield Utd vs Blackburn

Celsius je omogucio povlacenje sredstava prvoj grupi korisnika, uglavnom onim korisnicima koji nisu koristili Earn, vec Custody racun, i imali do $7575 na racunu

prema daljim planovima, ostali korisnici koji imaju manje imovine kod Celsius-a mogu ocekivati do 70% sredstava, dok ce korisnici koji imaju vecu imovinu dobiti udeo u novo-formiranoj kompaniji koja ce se izmedju ostalog baviti rudarenjem Bitcoin-a
videcemo kako ce to dalje ici, ali cini se da je omogucavanje povlacenje za deo korisnika dobar znak

France is always seen as the favorite team on paper.  They were the team that made it to the final from the last world cup from the European continent.  Even if they are unlucky against Argentina, at least after seeing their efforts, my favorite for the European championship would be France.  Italy is also a strong European team.  We have to remember what they did in the last European championship.

Dakle, ja bio u poreznoj glede mog joppd obrasca i žena tamo mi kaže da ne trebam ništa ispunjavati, pošto se radi o kripto valutama i prošlo je više od dvije godine od stjecanja, pa ne moram ništa platiti. A danas su mi odgovorili na mail i tamo kažu da bih trebao ga ispuniti i predati. A za grešku kaže "Molimo da u razdoblje navedete  12 mjesec, obrazac će tada proći kontrole."
Izgleda da oni još ni sami ne znaju kako s kripto valutama, a mi bi trebali sve sami rješavati.

There is no doubt that both the Asian countries of Japan and South Korea are continuously striving to build their national teams, and both of them are striving to make their teams more organized than their Asian counterparts. As far as I know, of all the Asian teams they have played in the world cups, South Korea is the only one they have ever managed to play in a semi-final in 2002. I guess they would have been able to play better in the last world cup, and I'm eager to see what will happen in 2026.

I am thinking Djoković hit his stride now and he will do his thing and take another title without properly breaking a sweat. Seen it so many times in the past I can't imagine different outcome.

While we are on tennis topic, Alacaraz got injured during the final last week and had to miss this week tournament because of it. Same injury that ruled him out of Australian Open. Now best thing for him is to just let it heal properly before returning.

It's probably impossible to make perfect voting system simply because people always will be biased. And it doesn't matter who are they - players, managers, journalists or just regular fans. And when it we have people from more than 200 asociations voting, it's popularity and personal preferences contest. And when we have players or managers from countries like Gibraltar, Maldives or Guam (with all respect) who aren't professionals and football is just hobby for them, probably they're not much different from fans like your or me.
I think now it's impossible that defender would win this award, like Fabio Cannavaro did in 2006.

Modric has been exceptional, but probably his midfield position does not favour him like it would with the strikers. These days, it's just mostly about Goals and assists and the media goes Crazy

I miss the old days when goalkeepers and defenders would also be close contenders

Haaland is still young, he's destined for greatness regardless of his country. He just has to keep breaking records.

Yes, I mean to be fair the followings these guys like Messi and Ronaldo have are the consequences of their achievements. Hadn't they been these godlike played, they wouldn't have had those followings in the first place. But at some point down the road these followings snowball into further success when it comes to votings. Hardcore Messi fans will vote for Messi even when they know he hasn't quite made the cut. But I still think that distributing the voting weight among different groups of interest is still the best way to go about those prices. We all know what can happen if you have a tiny jury of maybe 20 people or so. The talks would be about bribery or even political influence all day long. Imagine you are French and part of the jury, you could probably not show up in public anymore when you voted for Messi instead of Mbappe.

On the other hand, the Hajduk juniors achieved a fantastic result and qualified for the quarterfinals of the Junior Champions League after defeating the big favorite of the competition, Manchester City.
This is proof that the Hajduk junior team is doing a great job and that they have a lot of young and very talented players, but the question is how many of these players will ever play for the Hajduk senior team?
Most likely, the club's management will sell the best juniors for small money to the first bidder, in order to cover the club's financial debts.
Hajduk simply does not have enough patience, a plan and a long-term vision for the development of the club.
Osijek and Rijeka are also in a big crisis, so Dinamo currently has no serious competition in the Croatian league.

There are many things on TV that look great and better than they actually are, but in fact, there are many poor people in Qatar who can receive some assistance from the government instead of building this stadium for the world cup because the Qatari government has no resources for the world cup. In 2026, I guess American's situation will be much better and they will not spend such a large amount of money on building stadiums when they have so many people who are in need.