They have so much money, they can pay every player in the world and they can pay all the salaries as well. Mbappe wouldn't be a problem either, but the problem with very good players and stars is that they have little interest in playing for Newcastle United. Of course, PSG and City also started this way.
If they can make it to the Champions League, I see no reason why world-class players will not sign for them, because their new owners are ready to compete in the Premier League, and they have been trying to bring in world-class players. Perhaps the richest club in the Premier League right now is Newcastle. But we still don't know how much the Newcastle club owner is willing to spend to strengthen his squad. It is possible that Newcastle's goal is to win the title. And they definitely need talented and star players if they want to win the title. The way Newcastle have been performing this season, it is easy to see that this is a very promising team. They will be playing for both the Champions League and Premier League titles next season. And so now if Newcastle wants to sign a star player, they will probably accept Newcastle's offer. |
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Bet on India when the odds were close to 4 and almost won it, but the Indian bowlers and KL Rahul messed up with the last wicket. Such high odds in this match seriously surprised me. When Bangladesh lost their 7th wicket the odds for Bangladesh winnings was 14 and i never thought in the wildest imagination that Bangladesh would win from that position. 51 runs partnership for the 10th wicket and winning the game was incredible. I never imagined that Bangladesh would win this match after the ninth wicket fell for 136 runs. Despite the low target, the Indian bowlers were performing very well. Every bowler bowled well enough. And they were able to take the wicket of Bangladesh very quickly. But the Indian team is caught by Mehdi Miraj's extraordinary responsible batting. I would say they are very unlucky. Bangladesh, on the other hand, won thanks to the performance of their two all-rounders, Shakib and Miraj. The performance of Bangladesh's batsmen is still very bad. Shanto has been underperforming for a long time, yet is consistently given opportunities. |
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Manchester City got some unexpected results and this caused them to get away from Arsenal even more. But I still don't think this will change anything about Manchester City. It is true that their main goal is to win the Champions League title this season. Because they still haven't achieved even for once and this is one of the biggest opportunities for them with a squad like this.
But I don't think that their concentration on the Premier League will be affected negatively in the long-term. I think the title run between Arsenal and Manchester City will go on until the end which would make us happy about watching an exciting season. Hopefully Arsenal can win the title to see some different teams doing it.
Manchester City unexpectedly lost 2-1 against Brentford in the last match. And losing this match increased their points gap with Arsenal to 5. But it is not possible to predict which team will win the title now. There is still a long journey ahead. The teams played only 14 matches. Each team will still play 24 more matches. And it is very difficult to perform well in 24 consecutive matches and maintain consistency. After the World Cup, the team that is able to consistently perform well will win the title. So I'd say Arsenal and Manchester City still have a 50-50 chance of winning the title. |
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As expected netherland team managed to qualify for the next round, despite the 3 1 score the game was close USA team played really good if it wasn't for their defensive mistakes they let netherland players free on the box and that coast them two goals in the first half, netherland team will likely face argentina next that would be a great game.
I agree with your comment about the mistakes in the defense of the USA football team. Especially, the players playing on the left wing of the USA football team were very ineffective today. The Netherlands made many attacks from this region and scored their goals from this region. Dumfries stood out in the game with 2 assists and 1 goal, but we must say that the USA football players gave him this opportunity. On the other hand, the Netherlands will probably face Argentina after this win. Argentina are most people's favorite teams. The Netherlands are not covered enough by the mainstream media, but they wink at winning the cup with the football they play. It's too early to tell because Argentina haven't played yet, but in the next round we can watch a game set in an early final mood. If the Netherlands continues this good football, they can destroy the dreams of many by eliminating Argentina. I wouldn't say USA's performance was bad today. The only weakness in their performance is their poor defense. The USA played completely attacking today. And this was their main mistake. In the knockout rounds, performing in such important matches and against strong opponents requires a good strategy. The performance of the players in these matches plays an even more important role than their match strategy. USA's match strategy was not good. At the same time, they gave more importance to attack rather than keeping the defense strong. And taking advantage of the USA's weak defense, the Netherlands players easily scored two goals in the first half. And the Netherlands easily won this match. |
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There are no significant changes to the starting eleven that Argentina fielded in the last 16 against Australia in the next few minutes later with the squad as Argentina beat Poland in the last game of the group stage. There was only one change in the line-up as Angel di Maria was not used in the early minutes and his position was replaced by Papu Gómez. Julian Alvarez regained confidence as a center forward in this match after previously being played in the early minutes against Poland and make Lutaro Martines have settle in the bench.
One important thing is that Lionel Messi managed to break the record as the Argentine player with the most appearances at the World Cup, surpassing Diego Maradona's record. Lionel Messi is back in the main role and he currently has 23 appearances for Argentina compared to Marodana who has 21 appearances. Here full starting eleven Argentina vs Australia https://twitter.com/Argentina/status/1599106189693837313/photo/1Argentina kept their squad almost unchanged from the last match. However, Gomez will play today instead of Di Maria in the starting XI. And I'd say it's a good decision. If Di Maria is brought on after half-time, Argentina's attack will gain momentum. Di Maria is a fantastic player. He can play well under pressure. This is quite optimistic about Argentina's performance today. Australia is not a strong team. Argentina should not have too much trouble winning this match. But even then they have to perform carefully. Let's not forget that they lost in the first match against a weak team like Saudi Arabia. Defenders must perform carefully. |
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BCCI has to realize that the women’s IPL is not going to generate as much money as the men’s IPL is doing right now. Because honestly, the women’s IPL is barely popular. Even the NBA which I believe is the most popular sport all around the world right now is not getting enough revenue generated when it comes to the WNBA. So this is honestly a big risk for quite a low reward.
I believe everyone in BCCI, stakeholders, including fans are aware of this reality. Yeah WNBA is kinda subsidized by NBA in general so that would be a challenge in WIPL too and the goal should be self sufficiency in the longer run, even if it faces some roadblocks for a year or two. The current economic situation in the world does not seem to be very favorable at the moment. Therefore there are some problems that are going to be faced by the women's IPL. Hence, this might be one of the things that will be able to persuade BCCI to stop hosting women's IPL matches. However, that is only a worst-case scenario. There is also the possibility of another situation occurring. In other words, they will be able to generate a substantial amount of revenue from the women's IPL and continue to operate the WIPL for a longer period of time. |
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Every player is not going to be able to perform every day. And Pakistan has to understand that really well. If they are expecting Babar Azam, Rizwan, and Shaheen Shah Afridi to perform on a regular basis, they will have some problems. Because they might have one or two off days. Those days, there should have been other players who could take their place and do well for Pakistan. But right now I do not see any players like that. There are players who can come in clutch against weaker opponents like Afghanistan or Bangladesh. But not against those more formidable opponents like Australia, England, or India.
Here, we have to check ground realities as well for Pakistan cricket which is never been ideal as they are completely failure to have good and strong domestic setup which is important for having good and positive results in all levels with their pitches and grounds are also not giving them good facilities which increase players confidence, and they are able to perform good in all environments these all things needs professional approach which is not in current system even Ramiz Raja is doing good things but still it's long way to go for them because of political influence they are not able to have required results. Right now we have good things happening at the top of India with now they are able to challenge teams like England and Australia which having the strongest system, but Pakistan is completely failure in this with in today match first day of game how things going this is clearly giving all details to every one who is related to cricket. It will take Pakistan a lot of time to reach the level that India is at right now. Because the Pakistan Cricket Board is going through a lot of problems. And Pakistan is a country that is also not in the best of shape right now. We have been discussing the political problems that Pakistan is going through. I think Pakistan will have to fix domestic cricket first. If the domestic setup does not get fixed, the players that are getting produced right now will also start decreasing. If the domestic setup is good, you will at least have a good supply of young cricketers, no matter what happens on the cricket board. And another advantage that India has over Pakistan is that the IPL which allows a lot of young cricketers to show their talent. |
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Germany had to leave after defeating Costa Rica. The fear came true. The Germans were eliminated from the group stage in two consecutive World Cups. Despite a 4-2 win over Costa Rica, Germany failed to qualify for the group stage. Germany's fate was largely out of its own hands. Despite defeating Costa Rica, they would have been eliminated if Japan beat Spain in the group's other match. And so it happened. Japan has advanced to the last sixteen after becoming group champions from Group 'E'. And Spain became the runner-up.
Germany failed to qualify for the group stage despite a 4-2 win over Costa Rica, ending yesterday's match with which millions of Germany fans have to stop their World Cup journey.
It actually shocks me. Since winning the tournament in 2014, Germany has failed to advance from the group stages twice. It was a deeply disappointing experience for me to watch Germany's performance at this year's FIFA World Cup. Uninspiring was the best way to describe their performance. A quick-fire two-goal performance by Japan gave them a 2-1 victory over Spain to advance to the last 16. Germany beat Costa Rica by 4-2 while Spain could not even draw for Germany. No team is respected at the Qatar World Cup. If you lose, you're out. This is disappointing and shameful for Germany. Compared to Japan and Costa Rica, Germany was definitely the stronger team. But they lost their first match against Japan and fell behind. Still we didn't think they would win against a strong team like Spain. They drew the match. Despite being able to score 4 goals against Costa Rica in the last match, they conceded two goals. All in all their performance was not satisfactory. And because of their poor performance, Germany was eliminated in the group stage. This world cup is full of disappointment as some of the best team are getting defeated by smaller teams. I never expected apart from Germany, Spain also getting defeated by the Japanese. Although Japan played far better than the Spanish but getting defeated so easily was not expected by them. Big teams like Belgium, Denmark and Germany probably didn't expect to lose against the smaller teams. Europe's big teams have disappointed fans. Their performance was not as good as expected. England and Spain performed well in the first match but their performance deteriorated in the subsequent matches. On the other hand, African teams Morocco and Senegal performed well. Morocco qualified for the knockout round as group champions. I think this is their big achievement. |
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I lost bet for this.
Goodbye Belgium, their golden generation was over now. it's perfectly aligned like De bruyne said, that they were sided by old players who slowly move and don't have motivation. In fact, they are meet which team who filling up by the oldest player Modric, but they can't see that fact to be better, Now they are only perfect in their club but can't work together on a team. Maybe their next generation make it better, because a problem team is only coordination, the skill team is not different with another big team.
Why blame the older players? The one who missed the maximum chances is Romelu Lukaku. There is a meme-fest going on in Twitter, tagged #Lukaka (and quite deservingly so). Not saying that Kevin De Bruyne or Eden Hazard were any better, but as a whole the team failed to perform during this world cup. And the biggest joke is that a few months back, Belgium used to be the no.1 team as per the FIFA World Rankings. This also shows the inaccuracies within the ranking system. FIFA needs to work on this. Belgium's main weakness was the poor bonding between their players. Their match strategy was not good. The coach could not perform his duties properly. So the players as well as their coach are responsible for such a bad result of Belgium. At the same time, Lukaku can certainly be blamed for Belgium's poor performance. He missed an easy opportunity. Missing an easy chance in a do-or-die match makes winning the match difficult. One of the reasons for Belgium's performance today was the poor performance of the forward players. |
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There would be only two outcome of the test match being played between Pakistan and England either it will end in a draw or England will win it. At the moment it seems the chance of winning is pretty much high. I think the English team management wants to go on till the end of first session and then they will declare the innings.
I don't think the match will be a draw. England's batsmen's batting is surprising me. Harry Brooks collected 27 runs in one over from Zahid Mahmood. I don't remember ever seeing a Test match. England's team has collected 568 runs in 83 overs. Their batting looks like they don't want to stay at the crease anymore. They want to score quick runs. They will probably declare the innings only if they can collect 600 runs. And if the Pakistani batsmen can't bat tow days in their first innings, then I think England will win this match. |
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I don't think it's right to say we're in a bear market right now. If we were in a bear market, the value of bitcoin would be below $10,000. After the period of decline we have experienced, we are currently in a pause period for a while. As far as I'm concerned, this period will continue in this way for a little longer. From time to time, there will be small-scale rises in the market. But I think that there are at least 1.5 years for the bull market to start exactly.
Bull market in 2024? However, the halving of Bitcoin is closely related to the world economic environment. When the world enters the global economic crisis, I feel that the bull market will be delayed. I don't know about other countries, but the war and the epidemic are not over. I am not optimistic about the future. This winter will be very cold. I agree that the market situation is closely related to the general economic situation of the world, but from here until the halving is very long, we have more than 500 days to get there. And as we are seeing, although the war shows no sign of abating, inflation is starting to fall and the Fed has also announced it will slow down the rate hike, showing that we are gradually getting more stable. There's really no guarantee that the market will uptrend after the halving but let's hope for that, let's hope history repeats itself. |
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The world should not be a place without law. Even we can disagree with a lot of things launched by governments and central banks, we must recognize that they somewhat govern societies and keep things on the right track.
Without laws, without regulations, without governments, the world would be a very chaotic place that is not what I want to live in. I guess most of us don't want to live in a society without law and regulations too.
In my opinion, I agree that "Regulation is a good thing".
Government regulation can look at this issue from different roles. As a government, they hope that the economy will be in order, and they will think that the huge volatility of Bitcoin price is difficult to be used as an asset store, and it is difficult to enter the currency payment channel. But as investors, the volatility of Bitcoin is a tool and channel for them to make money, and they can do some things that they don't want others to know. In the long run, I am not in favor of regulation, because all I want is more freedom, a few decades of life, and I want to be in charge of myself. We all want freedom, everyone wants not to be tracked, but too much freedom is not good, if you live in an environment without laws, the evils of theft, rape, murder...Do you want to live anymore? Not everyone is as pacifist as we are, many are perverts and without laws, they would rule us we would be so much worse. Crypto regulation is similar, regulation is in place to prevent scams, scammers want to take money from runaway investors, not build a developed market. I can't say regulation is good or bad, for me it has both good and bad sides. |
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If we don't see any serious injury for Inter until the end of the World Cup then I will be favouring them for the second spot in the standings. The reason why I think like this is that they have a much more effective offensive performance than Milan and Juventus both. They haven't had any problem with productivity about scoring goals. They are the second most scorer of the league at the moment. Their only problem is with their defense. If they solve at least some part of the issues in this line then they can get ahead of the other two.
Maybe I'm talking like it is impossible for any team to catch up with Napoli later on. It is possible mathematically of course. But it is a very difficult task which is the reality now. The other teams will just hope for Napoli to start and maintain a lasting bad form to close up the gap with it.
I think once Napoli starts losing, they will lose their way. And at that time it will be easier for the other teams to catch up with Napoli. If that happens, it is going to be chaos. Almost any team will be able to win the league title in my opinion. But if that does not happen, and Napoli keeps leading the way, I agree that the closest chance of any team in the second position is going to be Inter. And I think Inter will be able to improve their performance. If they just bring in one or two competent defenders, it is enough to change the game for them totally. The way Napoli is playing right now, it is very difficult to see them losing back-to-back matches. I think they will be able to continue playing well if they just do not make some dumb decisions like selling Osimhen. |
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I will not deny the fact that Pakistan is one of the top teams, capable of defeating the pig-3 in ICC tournaments. But the main issue is with consistency. Even top players such as Babar Azam and Shaheen Shah Afridi are being inconsistent nowadays. And this is one of the reasons why they are failing to win ICC tournaments recently. There is so much talent within Pakistan, but despite all that the full potential is not being reached. One thing the PCB can do is to give the U-23 and A teams more exposure by conducting foreign tours. That will strengthen their player pool.
Every player is not going to be able to perform every day. And Pakistan has to understand that really well. If they are expecting Babar Azam, Rizwan, and Shaheen Shah Afridi to perform on a regular basis, they will have some problems. Because they might have one or two off days. Those days, there should have been other players who could take their place and do well for Pakistan. But right now I do not see any players like that. There are players who can come in clutch against weaker opponents like Afghanistan or Bangladesh. But not against those more formidable opponents like Australia, England, or India. |
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Asia , China already ban bitcoin PoW miners.
China is a great power in Asia, but they are not someone who can command others, other than China, I have not seen any Asian country that bans bitcoin mining, Japan, Korea, or Vietnam...they are all very bitcoin friendly. I just see them giving warning people to be careful when investing in cryptocurrencies but not any complaints about bitcoin mining. US/ Europe/ Canada PoW bans are coming.
Once the US ban bitcoin PoW mining, bitcoin is basically DOA.
The US still does not have a ban on POW, it seems that it is just your wish. The white house has not announced that it will ban POW. Do you have a link? |
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Results from the games in Group C and D:
Australia 1-0 Denmark
Tunisia 1-0 France
Poland 0-2 Argentina
Saudi Arabia 1-2 Mexico
In Group C Argentina and Poland qualify for the next stage. In Group D Tunisia shocked the world by beating France but they and Denmark will not qualify. France and Australia are through to the next stage.
The results of Australia and Tunisia surprised me. Denmark is not a weak team. But their performance in this World Cup is poor. They managed to get only 1 point in 3 matches. They scored only one goal in 3 matches. Very disappointing performance. I thought maybe in the last match they could get a point against Australia. But as usual, they failed. It was unthinkable that Tunisia would win against a renowned and big team like France. France has formed the squad with their second-row players. I thought maybe the match was going to be a draw. But unfortunately, France was defeated. I have won both the Group C matches. I bet on Argentina and Mexico to win. In Argentina vs Poland match, my prediction was Argentina to win 2-0. And it happened. My prediction for Mexico vs KSA match was Mexico won 1-0. Mexico won, but the margin was 2-1 |
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Also, don't look at the game of France, they played will almost second line player, (and Brazil will do the same)
The match was not important for France. Because they had already qualified for the round of 16. And despite losing this match, France are still top of the group. France played with their second-row squad. But I expected a draw from the France team. The players in France's squad were not experienced. But their match strategy remained unchanged. The French players did not perform well in the first half. Mbappe, Griezmann and Rabiot were substituted in the second half but their performances were not satisfactory either. Brazil will use their second-row squad to form their starting XI today. Still, I don't think they will be defeated. They will try to draw the match. However, Switzerland needs to earn points in this match at any cost to qualifying for the round of 16. Switzerland will fail to qualify for the next round if they lose this match. So it will be very difficult for Brazil to win this match. |
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The base price seems to be a bit steep for me. I am not forgetting the fact that two franchises in the IPL recently got sold for ₹7,090 crores and ₹5,625 crores respectively. But here we are talking about women's cricket and at least during the initial phases the franchises may be in red. A better idea would have been to allow the existing IPL franchises to come up with their own women's team, without any license fee. Nowadays, the BCCI is hell bent upon making money from their franchise leagues and WIPL is no different for them in this regard. When Men's IPL started in 2007-08, the base price was around 450 cr INR so after 14 years WIPL base price looks balanced. But i understand why this amount looks big to some if we consider the fan base (obv). Yeah, I agree Ideally, existing franchises should've been given the first right to buy the teams as they are in a better place to subsidize (rev, infra, fan base) their Women's team in comparison to a new buyer but don't know what's BCCI thought process, maybe they are hoping for some inflated bids during an auction. Inflation had a big impact on the increase of money of IPL. And people have to understand that the value of money in 2007-2008 is not the same as in 2022. But at the same time, I am not saying that the price has not increased. The price has certainly increased because as there are going to be more viewers, the awning will also be big and the revenue will also get bigger, and so does the net worth. BCCI has to realize that the women’s IPL is not going to generate as much money as the men’s IPL is doing right now. Because honestly, the women’s IPL is barely popular. Even the NBA which I believe is the most popular sport all around the world right now is not getting enough revenue generated when it comes to the WNBA. So this is honestly a big risk for quite a low reward. |
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Can't believe the drama on the pitch was in the spotlight today between France and Tunisia. Last minute goal disallowed for offside. Congratulations to Tunisia, who fought all out in the crucial minutes by risking everything so that for some reason Mbappe and his friends launched repeated attacks several times. Tunisia deserved to win today because France clearly should have excelled in any case, but if you look at the match statistics, almost everyone didn't expect Tunisia to dominate the match. Maybe France will give Tunisia a breath of fresh air to feel the victory. If so then it would be very natural to see France's performance like this.  Lots of people I know lost bets on this match today. I also bet on France to win. But after seeing France's starting XI I changed my mind. And refrain from betting on this match. And now it seems I did the right thing. Most of the players in France's starting XI were strangers to me. Perhaps the coach did not want to use his main players in this match, he wanted to rest the players. And as a result France's performance was very poor today. The match was very boring. It felt like torture to watch this match for 90 minutes. We saw wrong passes and poor performances from both the teams in the entire match. |
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 We are still curious about where Ronaldo go after the world cup, many rumors he wants to go to USA and play where David Beckham has a club, Inter Miami. As we know, many old players who don't have rising again in Europa go and play in the USA because maybe the public USA still has fanatic fans which make come to the stadium. But, this is a still rumors, we have to wait how serious Beckham to recruit his best friend to Miami. This is the latest possibility after Messi appears to be Inter Miami eyeing Ronaldo as it has been confirmed Messi will not go there. On the other hand, according to The Sun, now Beckham has begun to approach and hold talks with representatives of Ronaldo and stated that Beckham received a positive response from this conversation. But these are still only a handful of rumors out of the many rumors that exist about Ronaldo so that the possibility of seeing this we still have to wait until the world cup is over and player transfers are opened. Will Ronaldo shun European league where he will be having the opportunity of playing champion league for at least one or two seasons to a lesser MLS or Saudi Arabian league? he once stated that he will be willing to return to Sporting Lisbon his first club that brought him into limelight before his final retirement and I am very sure he will have remain committed to Man Utd if money was his problem, It's a welcome development that Beckham approached him for a possible transfer to MLS, however I don't think the purported move will sail through though it's a rumour. Meanwhile Messi has made a commitment to stay at PSG with a two years contract . It is still uncertain which club Ronaldo will go to. However, the possibility of Ronaldo staying at Manchester United is very low. Because he is constantly neglected and humiliated by Manchester United management and coaches. I don't think a man with a personality like Ronaldo would put up with this and stay with the United squad just for the money. However, I heard rumors that Bayern Munich is interested in signing Ronaldo. But we don't know if this is true. On the other hand, Inter Miami is quite a rich club. They have the ability to pay Ronaldo high wages. And so if Ronaldo can't join any renowned club and wants huge wages at the same time, then Inter Miami is a good enough option for Ronaldo. |
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