Thank you for sharing this interesting news with us.    As there is going to be a new format to take place in the Champions League by next season I assume the officials wanted to make some changes in the quotas as well.

The Premier League to have 5 teams joining the Champions League? It would make them even more dominant in the tournament. But I feel like it would be better to give the last two additional places to the leagues with few number of teams joining the Champions League group stage or even the leagues with 0 quota for the group stage.

For example it would be really good to see one of the places being given to the Turkish Super League. This league had one spot to join the group stage directly in the past but not anymore.  

Oldukça güzel bir konuya değinmişsiniz. Bu artık bilimsel bir gerçek haline gelmiş durumda. Bir kişinin beynini fazlasıyla aktif olarak çalıştırdığı oyunların o kişiye gerçek hayatta da önemli katkıları oluyor. Strateji türü oyunlarda bence de bu en belirgin olarak görünüyor. Örneğin Europa Universalis diye çok detaylı bir strateji oyunu daha var. Böylesine detaylı bir oyuna çok hakim bir bireyin günlük hayatında karar verme, planlama gibi konularda zayıf olmasını asla beklemem. 

Yes, unfortunately the golden generation is gone now. While they had it in them they should have been successful. But back then there were serious personal problems among the players. It was like there wasn't anyone who didn't have any problem with another player.    I remember De Bruyne - Courtois quarrel lasting for long years and I don't know if they are still the same against each other.

Lukaku is trying his best for the national team recently. But Belgium need to play strong as a team in the main tournament. I don't feel like they will be able to win the Euro title this year as a result.

No surprises in the Hatayspor v Fenerbahçe match... Now this İstanbul derby between Beşiktaş and Galatasaray is going to be really thrilling!

Beşiktaş have an important advantage as it is at home stadium. There are some interesting things going on at Galatasaray recently. There is a Zaha crisis in the team now. He is criticized too much by his unwilling style of play. He is criticized not only by the coach Okan Buruk but also by the players. It is said he doesn't even follow Icardi, Mertens and Kerem Aktürkoğlu on social media.

It isn't expected to see Zaha on the pitch today. I wonder if this situation will affect Galatasaray's performance badly in the match.  

Evet Liverpool için çok zor bir maç oldu. Salah'ın eksikliğinin fazlasıyla hissedildiğini düşünüyorum. Liverpool şut çekme konusunda rahattı belki ama kaleyi bulma konusunda çok kötüydüler. 22 şut 2 isabet gibi bir istatistik vardı.    Nunez takımı resmen ipten aldı denilebilir. Şampiyonluk rekabeti boyunca Liverpool'un böyle maçları kayıpsız geçebilmesi lazım. Salah umarım çabuk döner çünkü bu sezon da Manchester City'nin şampiyonluk kutlamalarını izlemeye hiç niyetim yok.

I hope that it won't be just Red Bull winning all the races this season. But considering the first race results I have big worries about that. 

Verstappen was like the usual. Even against his teammate he was too comfortable on taking the win in Bahrain. I wish Leclerc didn't have front tyre locking issue at the first times of the race.    He could have made the race for podium much more exciting. I don't know how Ferrari managed to give Leclerc a worse car than Sainz's for this race.

The radio wars between Leclerc and Xavi still go on from where it left!   

No, I assume you got it wrong. It is the other way around. Milan are the least favourite among them.    Otherwise it would have been so unnatural.

Because there is no way Milan can be seen stronger than Liverpool or Leverkusen at the moment. Those two teams are the biggest favourites and I won't be surprised if Milan don't even make it to the finale.


Oh, sorry for not adding the source. It was on Oddschecker website: https://www.oddschecker.com/football/europa-league/winner

I sometimes check out this website because one can see the different odds shown on various websites for a market.    It isn't an advertisement of the website by the way. 

Bu arada dizel araçların, elektrikli araçların piyasadaki ağırlığını yıllar içerisinde artırmasıyla birlikte üretimi yasaklanmaya başlanacak ilk tür olacağı söyleniyor. Bunun sebebi de benzinli araçlara kıyasla dizel araçların daha fazla çevreye zarar veriyor olması. En azından bazı Avrupa ülkeleriyle ilgili buna benzer haberler okuduğumu söyleyebilirim. Bu durumda ülkemizdeki dizel araçların satışı da bir noktadan sonra daha hızlı bir şekilde azalabilir. Fakat böyle bir şey bence 5-10 seneden önce gerçekleşmez.

Yarın Etihad Stadyumu'nda bir Manchester derbisi izleyeceğiz.    Manchester City bu maçın çok ezici bir şekilde favorisi olarak görünüyor. Bunda şaşırılacak bir şey de yok tabi ki. Manchester United bu sezon çok ciddi sıkıntılar çekti. Kulübün sahibi değişti ama Erik ten Hag ile yollar henüz ayrılmadı. Geçen hafta Fulham'a içerde yenildiler. Çok fazla oyuncu sakat. Hojlund'un forma giyemeyecek olması işleri daha da zorlaştıracak çünkü takımın son zamanlarda en formda oyuncusuydu. Manchester City rahat bir galibiyet alır bence.

coldzera was really a legend once.    His times at SK Gaming were amazing and he achieved so many championships in only 2 years.



Now he is 29 years old of course and I can expect his reflexes to be like those times. He is still doing his best to contribute though. Legacy is a quite new team. They couldn't rise much in HLTV rankings since the day the team was founded. Average player age is 24 by the way. I think it isn't too much and it is because of having 2 experienced old players such as coldzera and NEKIZ.

I hope they can get higher in rankings in time. I would like to see coldzera still being successful.

I don't know maybe this format is better than that. The Turkish Cup format has changed quite a lot so far I presume. First there was even a group stage system before the elimination stage. This was making the schedule very tight for teams considering the other tournaments they were part of as well. It was a big issue for especially big Super League teams competing in tournaments such as the Champions League and so on.

Now we have much less number of matches being played. It is a simple format. Yes, maybe now Fenerbahçe and Galatasaray don't have a second chance but there is nothing to do. I also think Beşiktaş will win the cup. 

While Verstappen has 1.15 odds it is 8.00 for his closest opponent who is Leclerc.    The gap is just huge even for the start of the season. But any of us surprised with that? I don't think so.  



Perez is given 25.00 odds for the win... Still he is in a really bad condition. He is just not the right driver for the seat anymore and Red Bull boss must be also aware of that. I know I'm prejudiced as the season is starting new. But after seeing this performance in qualifying I just can't see any difference with the previous season.

Red Bull overlook this for now because of Verstappen's single-handedly carrying the team but at some point Perez would be shown the door.  

I rather think it is due to their transfer policy. They are focused on bringing talented young players only these days. The average age of the squad is quite low which is causing experience to be lower at the same time.

Having a really young team is like an additional difficulty as for winning championships. I think that they would make use of having some older players with a leader character in the squad. They had Xhaka as their captain who was fitting this description fully. But he also left and signed for Leverkusen.    Manchester City and Liverpool have this kind of players in their lineup which is giving them more strength in my opinion.

The title winning odds for top 3 favourites are like below:



Milan are also given quite much chance for winning the Europa League title after dropping from the Champions League. Bookies must be evaluating it by considering the squad strength as well. But when it comes to performance I don't trust Milan much to tell the truth.    They aren't very reliable in the Serie A. I can't say they were impressive in the Champions League either.

Would you expect Milan to start playing better here despite not doing it in the Champions League where they could have made more money?

Bugünü 31,31 liradan açmışız. 31 lirayı aştıktan sonra dolar biraz bir ivme kazandı gibi sanki. Seçime hala 1 ay varken seçim öncesinde en az 32 lirayı görmemiz olası gibi duruyor. Seçim öncesinde bile tutma çabaları yetersiz kalıyorsa seçimden sonra çok daha kötü olacak gibi görünüyor. 35 liraya ulaşır diye tahmin yapmışım ama ne kadar sürede ulaşır onu kestirmek zor. 2024 yılının sonunda doların 40 lira olmasını bekleyen uzmanlar var. Bir noktada faiz indirimine başlanırsa Türk Lirası daha hızlı değer kaybetmeye başlar diye düşünüyorum.

Yes, there are only a few weeks left for the promotion semi-finals to start.    By the way I think that the last 3 teams to join the main tournament will be Poland, Ukraine and Greece but let's see.

Unfortunately Ronaldo isn't close to his old times when it comes to skill moves, yes. I watched a video clip of him recently in which he was quite bad at doing one-on-one.    But it is normal of course as he has got very old. He can still play as target forward and finish the attacks with goals with deadly final touches indeed.

England have been unlucky but actually they really have a huge potential with that powerful squad. About Belgium I don't see the same old team. They could have actually won a Euro title with a golden generation.

İyi besleme demişken FA Cup'ta oynanan Luton v Manchester City maçını izleyen var mı? Haaland ve De Bruyne resmen şov yaptılar.    De Bruyne Haaland'a 4 asist yaparken Haaland da maçı 5 golle tamamladı. Böylesine uçuk bir performans sonrası bu ikiliyi sıradaki Premier Lig maçlarında izlemek için sabırsızlanıyorum.    Manchester City'nin şampiyonluğa ulaşıp ulaşmayacağını bence bu ikilinin kalan maçlardaki performansları belirleyecek.

I'm waking up the thread after a long break.  

Ronaldo is 39 years old now and still playing for his national team. It is like he is racing Pepe who is 41 years old and still playing there as well.    Ronaldo's ambitious nature is really impressive even at this old age. He is hungry for bringing another European championship to his country before his retirement. The last and only Euro title achieved by Portugal was in the 2015/2016 season.

But what is your opinion on Portugal's chance to become champions this year?    I feel like teams such as France, England and Spain can cause Portugal a big trouble on this road.

Galatasaray rövanş maçında pek istekli bir futbol ortaya koymadı. Avrupa Ligi'nde gelirler düştüğü için lige daha çok odaklanmış gibi görünüyorlardı. Yoksa ben böyle bir kadronun kolay kolay Sparta Prag'a elenmesini hatta fark yemesini beklemezdim. Prestij için en azından yine de daha iyi bir oyun ortaya koyulmalıydı bence. İleriki turlarda daha güçlü bir takıma elenselerdi o zaman pek sıkıntı olmazdı. Galatasaray'ı eleyen takıma hep zorlu eşleşmeler geliyor. Önce Kopenhag'a Manchester City geldi şimdi de Sparta Prag'a Liverpool. 

Milan couldn't win there and indeed they are inconsistent this season as well. They have a potential to collect more points than the previous season though. But can they?

They will need to collect 18 points in 12 weeks for that. Even if they do that it is doubtful whether they can improve their placement. I hope they can finish in 3rd place at worst. It would be a small progress compared to the previous season at least. Because they were nearly losing even 4th place then if Juventus didn't get a 10-point punishment.   

Milan can be better than this but they might need some new transfers to strengthen the squad more. They were in debt of 250 million euros according to a data from last year. This is also an obstacle to spend a lot of money on a single player of course.