You may also wonder how serious Messi's grief is that he has to leave the club. Last year he had already made the decision to leave the club, and at the last minute it fell through. If you really love your club so much, why would he want to leave last year? I think it's a stage. with Crocodil tears. Next day he was cheering in paris  I also think kinda the same. I believe messi that he is really sad that he could not prolong his contract at barcelona. As far as i know he does not speak french and not even english so i really believe him that he wanted to stay in Spain just for personal and comfort reasons and of course also why he really likes Fc barcelona. If he really wanted to stay at barca at all costs then i am 100% sure that there would have been a way for him to stay there. Barca had to cust salary costs down drastically to meet the new regulations. So if Messi had been willing to give up a large part of his salary, then surely he could have stayed. I'm not saying that he would have had to do that, or that I would have done that, but there would certainly have been a possibility to stay. This word of yours has no meaning. Messi agreed to reduce his salary by 50%. No player will agree to reduce it more. We must remember that he is a professional player. Why would he play without money? Moreover, the entire fault lies with the Barcelona management. They knew the rules. Even then they have picked Aguero and Depay in the squad this season. They could have sold Dembele. They did not. I think the whole incident is arranged by Joan Laporta. |
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I wonder if there is mostly joy or disappointment at Chelsea right now. The Supercup is in, but their star player, Ziyech, has been injured. Such hordes of players are rare, including at Chelsea. However, the arrival of Lukaku will make up for a lot.
If Lukaku comes to Chelsea, the whole team will change a bit. Chelsea is a good team. As a team they are very stable and strong. But their forwards were very weak. But there was a strong midfield. In the Lukaku team their forwards will actually be stronger. Tuchel is an experienced coach. He will be able to make the team more stable. |
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Today will be the last match in the first round of the DFB Pokal. There have not been many surprises so far and most of the clubs in the first Bundesliga have progressed. Although some had problems until shortly before the end. Today, Bremer SV will play their important match against Bayern München. Not to be confused with Werder Bremen.  Even though if you look at the squad that both teams have, Bayern Munich is superior but we can't underestimate Wender Bremen, I still remember when Bayern Munich played Wender in the Bundeliga match in 2020 and when it was Bayern Munich had a very good performance but they were very difficult against Wender Bremen at the Allianz Arena and honestly no one thought that a team as big as Bayern Muchen could be held to a draw by Wender Bremen at that time. I think the match between Bayern Munich vs Wender Bremen will be very exciting, especially if the match is a very important match to win in order to qualify for the next round. Is my English so bad? I wrote that Bremer SV is not to be confused with Werder Bremen. So again. Werder Bremen is not playing against Bayern in the DFB Cup. It is Bremer SV against Bayern München. But I got the day wrong. They are not playing today, but tomorrow. And by the way: Werder Bremen are already eliminated in the first round. They may have just replied to your post. Maybe they didn't keep the news of the game properly. Otherwise, they might be a little busy. Couldn't read post properly. As far as I know the match between Bayern Munich and Bremer SV has been postponed due to corona virus. Did I hear wrong? Do you know any news related to this? |
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I do not think that Kane is leaving anywhere, the only big spender that was interested in him was Chelsea, and now that they are getting Lukaku I do not think that anyone would be willing to pay 100+ million for Kane now, at least not right now, maybe when his price drops with age.
Chelsea really wanted 3 strikers this off-season and 2 of them didn't happen because of money reasons, first it was Haaland and Chelsea offered as much as 150 million, which is insane to think about, but Dortmund wanted 174 million whereas Chelsea had 100+ 50 mil in installments type of thing in mind. Then it was Kane which they didn't really want to spend that much, he is great but a bit older, so that didn't work out neither. Now they are getting Lukaku. If Chelsea is off the market, then who would spend 100+ million on Kane? I do not think that anyone even has that money left.
Actually, Manchester City showed the most specific interest in Kane by making an official offer, but as far as I understand, everything rests on the position of the club owner, who does not want to sell the player. After it became known that Kane is starting training, it seems that the transfer situation no longer looks obvious, I still would not completely deny this transfer. Because the head coach of Tottenham, Nuno Espirito Santo, did not seem to specifically answer the question about Kane's participation in the first round game just against Manchester City and said that all the players who work in the team every day are possible options. Therefore, there are still quite possible options. Kane's move to Mancity is still on.repots came out today that Tottenham are willing to accept 120m from Mancity now, which will see City as the club that has spent much this season in the premier league,following the big money transfer of Jack Grealish from Aston Villa.If a deal for Kane could be striked out,then Mancity will really have a chance of taking the champions league next season. Manchester City are spending a lot of money this season to make their team stronger. Grealish are good enough players, now if they can get Harry Kane in the team then they will undoubtedly be a worthy contender for the upcoming Champions League title. Because, as we saw in the previous season, Manchester City is a fairly stable team. Moreover their coach being Guardiola. He is very experienced. |
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On the first week of the new season, the most enjoyable game was Montpellier - Marseille to me. What a comeback it was from Marseille! When Montpellier made the score 2-0, I thought that they would win the game. But Marseille didn't give up and managed to turn the game around. Payet scored 2 goals and Cengiz Under scored one.
The gameplay of Marseille's players fascinated me. Montpellier was leading 2-0 at the end of the first half. I never thought Marseille would come back so well in the second half. They scored 3 goals in the second half and won the match. Dimitri Payet's goals in the 75th and 80th minutes gave Marseille the lead. At the end they got 3 points. |
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Tomorrow there will be a lot of return matches of the Champions League... The most interesting in my opinion are Monaco - Sparta, Benfica - Spartak, Shakhtar - Genk... I think you can even take a chance and make a multi-bet on the home team victory in all three matches... The only doubt about Monaco, they played too badly recently in the match against Nantes in the home championship...
At Benfica - Spartak, I think Spartak will try to surprise, but Benfica is starting the season well and it certainly won't make it easier. Furthermore, he has an advantage for having scored two goals in the first leg. But now as they don't count the away goals, Benfica has to play well to guarantee the passage to the next tie. Benfica is more stable than the Spartak Moscow team. I don't think Moscow will show any surprises. Benfica won the previous match 2-0. Benfica is already a bit ahead. I don't think Spartak will score more than 2 goals against Benfica. I bet on Benfica's victory today. |
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PSG and City look like clear favorites, and Bayern and Real probably still look better than Chelsea. They did win it last season and did strengthen, but PSG strengthened a lot more and City will probably too (I expect Kane to end up there).
Do you think that with Messi at PSG, will it be this year that they will be able to reach the final? Or will they suffer the same problem as other big clubs, having many stars in the same squad? PSG will have very good players this season but that doesn't mean they will have a very good team, a set of very good individuals does not make a very good team. The PSG coach will have a very difficult task to build a very good and balanced team, and it will take time for him to do so. For me besides PSG and Manchester City, the favorites of this competition still remain Real, Barcelona, Liverpool, Chelsea, Bayern and Juventus and very few details will decide in the end. Money can't buy a result and it's been beautifully seen in recent years with PSG and Manchester City. PSG has a lot of good and talented players. The best defender in the world like Ramos. Neymar, Mbappe and Icardi is very talented. They will be stronger if Messi comes to PSG. Now it is the coach's responsibility to stabilize the team. He will stabilize the team and improve the bonding between the players within the team. If there is no mutual understanding between the players, they will not get good results as a team. |
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Bayern have dominated the Bundesliga for so long. For Dormund to win this season, their squad have to be strong enough to withstand Bayern. Dormund have only won the Bundesliga title 5 times, while Bayern have won the title 30 times. Haaland alone can't make them win the Bundesliga this season, they probably need a strong and cooperative squad.
I have no doubt that Bayern will be the Bundesliga champion again this year, because they simply have no rivals who could compete with them on equal terms. If Borussia does not sell Haaland now, then it can do it in the offseason, that is, there is no such task to keep him. And Bayern is working to strengthen the team and set the most ambitious goals. Bayern Munich reigns in the Bundesliga every season. But I think Dortmund will fight hard for the title with them next season. The Dortmund team may not have sold Haaland for this. Because they want to win a title. Haaland played well but Dortmund's performance was not stable. However, the road to victory for Bayern next season will not be easy. |
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I think this pitch may be helpful to the bowler, because, players from both teams are having trouble to bat well on this pitch. Out of 4 matches, the highest run on this pitch is only 131, collected by Bangladeshi batsmen. It is not a good score on T20 formet. The highest collection of the Australian team is only 121. The last match of the series will be held today. What do you think about this match? Austrelia will got their 2nd win or bangladesh will get 4 ?
Australia should get a win today, else the outcome of the series would look similar to what they got in West Indies last month. Australia made a few mistakes in their team selection. They selected raw pacers like Mitchell Starc, who are not suitable in such conditions. Starc conceded a lot of runs, and that played a part in their defeats. Also, the Australian spinners couldn't adjust with the ground conditions. Their line and length was not suitable for such tracks. The only Australian bowler who impressed me was Josh Hazlewood. Bangladesh managed to get 122-8 In that innings, the hosts had a difficult time forming long partnerships. The Bangladeshi batsman batted poorly again, scoring just 20 runs in the last 5 overs. This is unbelievable. Look forward to Bangladesh being able to defend a small total and winning the series 4-1. Austrelia scored 19 runs in 4 overs and lost 2 wickets. With a target of just 123 runs, if the top-order batsmen played a little better, Australia would have won easily. Still, I am optimistic about Australia winning today's match. Australia will win today and the series will end 3-2. What happened with Australian batsman!!  They lost 6 wickets for 54 runs. Only 11 overs ended. They need more 69 runs off 54 balls. It doesn't look like they will win this match anymore. Mohammad Saifuddin has taken two valuable wickets in one over. Every bowler in Bangladesh has bowled brilliantly today. Edit : one more wicket. This time Sakib Al Hasan got it. Australia- 54/7 |
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The Olympics were way more entertaining than the first test match between India and England which was boring and ended as a draw. England got lucky since India looked like they would easily win.
Rain continues wreaking havoc as usual and it could affect the upcoming matches between them destroying another high profile series. Sad!
Maybe the ICC should start adding a reserve day, in case more than 180 overs of the match gets washed out? Due to the COVID pandemic, a number of bilateral tours are now being played in off-season, and this increases the risk of washouts. Also the global climate change is resulting in increasingly irregular weather across the globe. The broadcasters are losing money, but the cricket boards themselves are not directly affected. At this point, the minimum that the ICC can do is to add a reserve day. I think the ICC should add reserve day. Because if the matches are not broadcast, the broadcasting TV channels are damaged. And these broadcasting TV channels are a major source of income for each board. So the ICC should keep a reserve day in each series even if it thinks of the broadcasters. |
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It is very difficult to see the separation of Messi and Barcelona. Barcelona fans never thought that Barcelona would play without Messi and Messi would play in another team's jersey. Everyone thought that Messi would stay in Barcelona till the end of his career. But now Messi has to leave the club due to the rules of La Liga. Many people said Messi was leaving Barcelona for money. But Messi is not leaving Barcelona for money, he loves this club. And he promised he would come back to Camp Nou again.
We all know that one day Messi will leave Barca and retire somewhere else but no one excepted him to quit this year. The last year he was angry, he wanted to leave at any cost and continued to play although he was very sad. Now while he was happy and wanted to stay in Barca, he was forced to leave. What a weird transfer window we have this year. It is better for Barca to accommodate to play without him in the other hand. They will have hard seasons coming and probably will be less competitive and might win nothing but they have to build their team again. It is possible to see Griezmann playing better also and making the void left by Messi less noticeable. The coming season will be very tough for both Barcelona and Real Madrid. The road to Atletico Madrid winning the title again seems a bit easy. Real Madrid have lost their best two defenders Ramos and Varane. And Barcelona lost their best striker Messi. Although Barcelona have taken Depay and Aguero in the team. Still, I think they will feel good about the lack of Messi in the squad. |
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If Messi decides to move to PSG and PSG does not sell Mbappe, who will play in PSG's main strike next season? Mbappe, Neymar, Messi, Di Maria and Icardi. Everyone is talented. Mbappe-Neymar-Messi If we look at this trio, will Di Maria and Icardi just be substitutes? Looking forward to seeing how Pochettino will form his squad. Because, PSG's squad now has a lot of talented players.
Well having multiple possible combination is a nice advantage for PSG especially when there is many successive games so the players can rest a longer time. So far 4 games played and PSG is the only one having 3 points with Hakimi scoring his first goal with PSG. Right now 4 other games started 15 minutes ago and scores are still 0-0 and Lille match will start later vs Metz I also see it positively, because Neymar got injured a lot. PSG now have experienced players to replace Neymar if he will injured before the crucial match. Hakimi and Icardi scored and Mbappe assisted a goal. PSG played well enough. Although the opposing Troyes are not a strong team. |
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It was so difficult and sad to watch Messi press conference. He confirmed that he wanted to stay, even offered to cut his wage by 50%. But because of La Liga rules, he couldn't stay even if he would play for free. Unbeleavable what Bertomeu did with club.
It's difficult to imagine Barca without Messi, but this club was before Messi and it will be after Messi. But in upcoming seasons we will have to reduce our ambitions a bit.
It is very difficult to see the separation of Messi and Barcelona. Barcelona fans never thought that Barcelona would play without Messi and Messi would play in another team's jersey. Everyone thought that Messi would stay in Barcelona till the end of his career. But now Messi has to leave the club due to the rules of La Liga. Many people said Messi was leaving Barcelona for money. But Messi is not leaving Barcelona for money, he loves this club. And he promised he would come back to Camp Nou again. |
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If Messi decides to move to PSG and PSG does not sell Mbappe, who will play in PSG's main strike next season? Mbappe, Neymar, Messi, Di Maria and Icardi. Everyone is talented. Mbappe-Neymar-Messi If we look at this trio, will Di Maria and Icardi just be substitutes? Looking forward to seeing how Pochettino will form his squad. Because, PSG's squad now has a lot of talented players.
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Agree that Leicester win does not mean anything. City wants the best start possible and they just used the game as a test. I did not recognize many players,,, while Leicester played a full squad.
Hope my new Spurs team can win the first match, I like we have the chance to prove it on Day 1 of EPL in less than a week!
Friendly match is not an important match. Winning or losing this match does not matter. Still, I would say Leichester played well. Manchester City did not attack too much. They considered it a practice match. But hopefully they will do well against Tottenham and will definitely get 3 points in the first match. |
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Has anyone seen the tri-series between Germany, Norway and France? I knew these teams played football, but didn’t know that they also participated in the game of cricket. Germany is 33rd in the rankings, Norway is 38th, but I can't find France in the rankings. The German team is also playing well enough in cricket too, I think they will rise to the top of the rankings very soon.
I couldn't find any website to watch the matches. If you have a link to watch the match, please share. However, I checked the scoreboard of today's match. Norway scored 185 runs in 20 overs. I didn't know their batsmen were so good. Germany scored 102 runs in 17 overs. |
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As the first round of the DFB Cup has started Dortmund won there game against Wiesbaden .
And surprise Haaland scored all 3 Goals in this game and played very well.
Also Malen got his chance and got in , in the second half and got a chance for score a goal also but he missed.
Dortmund have played very well. Erling Haaland in particular had a very good performance. He scored a hat-trick, a goal from the penalty shoot. Dortmund's players have made an impact throughout the match. Wehen's players didn't have much of a chance to attack. |
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It is still raining and if it continue like this it will have an impact on the results.
The fifth day's play is being delayed due to rain. Now I am not expecting to see any result of this match anymore. The match will be a draw. Even if the rain ends, India may get a chance to play 50/60 overs. If India play to win in 50 overs, they will lose wickets very quickly. Indian batsmen should not forget that England's bowlers are very experienced. |
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England scored 211 runs. England lost 4 wickets. Joe Root is unbeaten on 90 runs. And England lead by 116 runs. So far the England team is playing well enough. This match will be a draw if they can play the whole day today. I thought India would be able to stop the England team before 250. But now looking at England's batting, it seems that the match is more likely to be a draw. And England will be able to collect around 300.
England started their second innings too stronger but I doubt for a result out of this match from this point of game. India batting line up seemed too good hence even England may take a lead up to 300 may not be sufficient to push for a result as there would be only day of play is remaining. So, most probably we could expect a dram from this match unless otherwise Anderson, Board and the new pacer show some magic while India batting. I have put my bet for England winning but when rain started playing as a third team, I had made up my mind for a draw. Until October, no matches in England is safer for betting with. Score 231 by losing 5. Joe Root is still in the crease. As long as Joe Root is at the crease I think the England team will play well. If Joe Root is out, it doesn't look like the batsmen will be able to stay at the crease for long. If England can take a lead of more than 200 runs, the result is likely to be a draw. I don't think India will win by collecting more than 200 runs on the fifth day. England's bowling lineup is strong enough. |
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England scored 211 runs. England lost 4 wickets. Joe Root is unbeaten on 90 runs. And England lead by 116 runs. So far the England team is playing well enough. This match will be a draw if they can play the whole day today. I thought India would be able to stop the England team before 250. But now looking at England's batting, it seems that the match is more likely to be a draw. And England will be able to collect around 300.
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