I think the teams that will easily qualify for the 2022 Qatar World Cup are Brazil, Argentina, France, Italy, Germany, Portugal, England and I think the 2022 Qatar World Cup. However, there is no doubt that Brazil and Argentina will easily qualify.
I don't understand what you are talking about and whether you are really following football or at least up-to-date lately or not.. Italy has nothing to do with Qatar World Cup 2022! The other mentioned teams are qualified. The last sentence isn't clear too. You mean Brazil and Argentina will move to finals? I doubt they will pass both to the final game but I think one of them will play the last game |
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Next season should be about goals, Manchester city are introducing Erling Halland and Liverpool are lining up at the front with Nunez and mind your we still have strikers like Kane, hopefully Manchester United and Chelsea may add an extra fire power in their front line, so mostly likely right now the English Premier League would largely be between Manchester city and Liverpool yet again.
Arsenal are trying to build a solid team as it seems from their movement and if they succeed, they will be able to compete both City and Liverpool. For ManU, the mission is quite hard and the answer is simple : management. If you fix it, you can annoy everyone on top.. |
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Frenkie De Jong is a midfielder, Lewandowski is a striker whom I don't think they need right now (they have way so many forwards at the moment). Bar็a's biggest problem lies in the defense, and mark my word. They will suffer again defensively next season if they don't make any changes. Regardless of the player name, anyone who has a high salary and who isn't very useful for the team, it would be better to replace him, whether with someone playing in the same position or in another one. Since Barcelona seems not interested in keeping him then just sell him and reinforce your defenses effectively! Bringing Lewandowski will create more goals but if you keep receiving easy goals then you cannot guarantee the title or to advance in CL.. |
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Top ranking for men in Fifa, Nigeria is no where found in the top 20 teams.
Senegal took them position, and they stand as the best African team in the world.
Representing a national team is good, but how facilitated are they ? I will choose to focus on club performance any way
Senegal first (rank 18) then Maroc second (rank 22) then Tunisia third in Africa (rank 30 in the world).. Nigeria is 4th (rank 31) but it wasn't the only that dropped but also Egypt took a hit although they have Salah among other good players. This ranking is based on points but there is many countries before Nigeria that I believe they could win it in face to face games. Anyway, for the African teams that qualified for the World Cup, we will see how far they will be there. |
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I have the idea that the level of the Italian teams has secretly gone down a bit if you compare it with other European top competitions. You used to have AC Milan and Juventus who always had a chance to go far in the Champions League. AC Milan will now go to the Champions League, but the group stage will presumably be the final station. Juventus has something to do to restore its reputation. Last year they lost so many points before the winter break that they did not even have a 1% chance of becoming champions anymore. in theory maybe, but AC Milan and Inter were a long way off for the winter. However, a logical explanation for Juventus' failure has not yet been identified.
Serie A dropped a lot many years ago, La Liga dropped lately and EPL became the most attractive one by far due to the quality of teams, players and the games themselves. Getting back Serie A to what it used to be will will require a lot of investment and dedication. They have to build or find a new generation of players with top qualities that will make the Italian teams competitive.. trying to catch top experienced players will be hard due to the lack of funding and the competition from the other rich teams. |
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Ibrahimovic wont stop until his legs gives out. Its really something too see someone so dedicated to football and doing his job great still at his age. This injury is really hard and i think he wont recover for anytime soon at all. Plus with his age we cannot expect him to be at the same level
AFAIK Ibrahimovic got operated on his knee recently and he will not be able to play for the next 8 months or maybe less and with the World Cup cut and the time for training and getting back to his form, I assume he won't come back before 2023 and he won't be useful for the team again this season and with his age, I am wondering when he will stop? Just asking, not judging him when to do it. |
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https://www.transfermarkt.com/barcelona-submit-bid-for-lewandowski-ronaldo-lined-up-to-replace-him-at-bayern-munich-/view/news/406635There is fresh news about the possible Lewandowski transfer to Barcelona. It is said in the source that Barcelona have made their official offer for him and it is worth 40 million euros. The transfer fee is 35 million euros and there is a bonus worth 5 million euros too. I think that it is a quite favourable offer for Bayern Munich now. But they still seem decisive about not selling him until his contract expires next summer. This is making things really difficult for Lewandowski as he wants to leave now. If they block his way then this might reflect on his performance badly too. 40m is quite good number for Lewandowski and Bayern should take that opportunity. First he is relatively older, they will keep him for 1 year then he will walk away free, it isn't profitable to keep a player who doesn't want to play in your team and as you mentioned this will affect his performance. Besides, Bayern has to find an alternative for him or find a new strategy with Mane arrival. |
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Overview of teams and their Inestment or income for 2023 (this ranking is not final):
1 Benfica Lissabon - Paid: 28.30 million / Income: 97.00 million
2 Red Bull Salzburg - Paid: 6.00 million / Income: 76.44 million
3 Borussia Dortmund - Paid: 55.00 million / Revenues: 61.50 million
4 Sporting Lissabon - Paid: 28.00 million / Income: 42.80 million
5 FC Liverpool - Paid: 85.79 million / Revenue: 41.00 million
Liverpool d้ficit came from one player, Nunez, and Mane departure reduced it. Dortmund came positive thanks to Haaland release. The other teams profited good from that without counting free transfers. |
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I like seeing odds before the season to get an overall overview about how people and bookies are feeling about teams.
Best odds are for City obviously 8/13 then Liverpool 2/1 then Spurs 14/1 then Chelsea 18/1 then ManU 33/1 then Arsenal 40/1 then the others more than 100/1.
What's quite interesting is the big gap between first two and Spurs, the fact that Spurs under Conte picked Chelsea spot and how bad ManU looks.
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The La Liga calendar has been announced and both Real Madrid and Barcelona have quite easy games in the first round scheduled mid August. In fact I find almost all games in this first round to have a clear favourite.
El classico will be played in October 16 and March 19.
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@el kaka22 @snipie
As requested, poll.
Thanks. I don't see many members interacting yet, I think they are afraid from the self moderated topic  but eventually they will join later once we get closer. Man City: 3.770
Liverpool: 5.540
PSG: 6.540
Bayern Munich: 8.060
Chelsea: 13.100
Real Madrid: 11.680
Barcelona: 16.130
Juventus: 26.200 Cut the rest since I doubt they could advance to the finals unless there will be a very lucky draw for them. I find it funny to see Real Madrid odds like that although they are the champions of this version! BTW is this odds correct? I have only a problem about Real place in this list, I prefer to put them after City and before Bayern with close odds between these clubs. |
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well consider that with this rich year for Real Madrid, many players have gained value therefore they are gambling for a chance to get a higher salary normal for this to happen after a year like this if the team pays more, they stay .. and so it should This year he will not find easily a suitable salary in the biggest club since many of them already purchased players or planning to. Not sure if ManU will be interested for him? But next year with free transfer he will get better offers for sure. |
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The lowest price since ATH is around $ 17k and I hope not to drop even lower, if the market continues to drop certainly makes many people panic and will make prices continue to fall, but many are waiting for a low price moment because they plan to buy, in my opinion this is an idea Good is buying when low prices.
The bitcoin price gaining between $2-3k these last days boosted the confidence a little for many users to regret not buying in the dip. For now the price is hovering around $20.5k +/- 0.5. Hopefully it will rise again to +$30k by July. |
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When it comes to the Lewandowski situation, it is still quite ambiguous. Recent news say that he is still determined to leave Bayern Munich. I have heard about another thing also that Bayern Munich sporting director Hasan Salihamidzic is going to talk to Lewandowski face-to-face to try to convince him to stay here. It doesn't seem like he can be successful about convincing him now. Bayern Munich will just hope for him not to reach an agreement with any other team in the summer. But there are quite many teams trying to sign him currently. https://sport.sky.de/fussball/artikel/fc-bayern-transfers-lewandowski-treffen-auf-mallorca-salihamidzic-kaempft-weiter/12637532/34942Even Kahn said that Lewandowski is under contract and he has still 1 year to play with Bayern. The problem with Lewa is his ambition to play with Barcelona and only Barca. He refused to talk with Chelsea and PSG which could offer more money to attract Bayern. Now Barcelona offering a good price isn't that obvious until they reduce their players / salaries.. |
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I believe Bayern Munich made a great move by signing Liverpool winger Mane. Because Mane has performed very well for Liverpool so far. Liverpool didn't want to sell him as long as another team make the offer that they would be okay to accept. Bayern Munich's initial offer was quite low but they didn't give up on this signing and reached an agreement finally. Bayern Munich have only Leroy Sane as left winger now so it was important for Bayern Munich to finish this deal successfully. If he doesn't have any adaptation problem he can take Sane's place in the starting eleven.
If I am not mistaken, Mane salary in Bayern will be x2.5 what he earned from Liverpool. He has now 3 years contract with Bayern, he isn't the top paid players there but he seems happy, hopefully he will not turn to be like Lukaku in Chelsea and Liverpool won from his transfer comparing to what they paid to get him from Southampton. |
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I will add these information here to simplify things  Europa League qualifiers : 4, 11, 18, 25 August 2022
Group stage : 8, 15 September 2022 + 6, 13, 27 October 2022 + 3 November 2022
Knockout stage : 16, 23 February
Round of 16 : 9, 16 March 2023
Quarter-finals: 13, 20 April 2023
Semi-finals: 11, 18 May 2023
Final: 31 May 2023
Europa League draws :
Third qualifying round: 18 July 2022
Play-off round: 2 August 2022
Group stage: 26 August 2022
Knockout round play-off: 7 November 2022
Round of 16: 24 February 2023
Quarter-finals & Semi-finals: 17 March 2023
As I suggested in CL thread, It would be nice to implement a poll where we can suggest a winner from which league then in mid season or round of 16 we modify the poll to include clubs. Here it is more complicated to vote directly in clubs since teams from CL will join EL once they lose there. |
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@buwaytress, best thing to do with self moderated topic to limit repetitive posts. I would like to see a poll for Champions League winner for 2022/23 season. I know it is harder to do with EL and ECL but here is easier and it can be updated every period if necessary. The poll can look like :
- the winner will be a club from : EPL, La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga, Ligue 1...
Or
- the winner will be : Real Madrid, City, Barcelona, Liverpool, Bayern, PSG, Chelsea, Juve...
Edit: First one to vote and I picked City. I think they could do it this time with Guardiola and Haaland!
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Inter Milan wants Lukaku and Lukaku wants them, why the delay ?
Can Chelsea just let loose of him, I don't even see him as a player Tuchel likes. I will not fall for this if I was at Italy already.
The problem is that inter milan not agreed yet about the loan fee . Chelsea ask for 10 million euro plus add-ons and inter have not responded it yet. Once the loan offer agreed .. lukaku will be sent back to inter where he really wanted there , a bit irony to see this but yeah that's a life of football , you can't predict things. Tuchel looks play dirty on lukaku for no reason .. i think he doesn't like lukaku attitude. Why bother then getting him for x10 the asked loan? It is like having much money to throw for nothing. Lukaku this season wasn't in top of his performance and didn't add a lot for Chelsea. He was a key player back then in Inter which would be better to get him for that price. They might want to see Chelsea lowering the fee since they don't really need him with Tuchel on management.. |
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There are excellent transfer news in the world football market; Haaland, Mane, Matic, Pogba, Nunez, Bissouma, Tchouameni and others... They're all great and sensational football player transfers, but one of them really catches my attention.
Yes, there is some interesting transfers and we are just in the beginning of this summer transfer period. I still want to see how CR7 and Lewandowski future club will be! They will move or stay and whether there will be a late period transfer surprises, from Messi for example. |
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I am certain that Turkey is in the B league. All teams are weaker than Turkey in the group they are currently in. Turkey did not even concede a goal in the 4 games they played. Therefore, it will easily go to the B league. Turkey's target is seen as the A League. I see a young, high-quality Turkey who is a candidate for the A league in a year or two. In Europe there is top teams, medium and weak ones. The difference between these groups is quite large. It is like moving from skills 8-9/10 to 5/10 to 1-2/10 without having in-between skills. Turkey is 5/10, not good, not bad. The small teams we are talking about are simply in the low tier.. |
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