Even if friendlies are not be taken seriously, it's still a determiner to checking how well a team has developed. This is not the first El clasico between the two and it's always interesting to watch them.
There is definitely no doubt that even if Real Madrid lost to Barca, they put up a good fight. New signing, Raphina opened the score sheet for Barca and to be honest, they would have scored more if the opportunity had presented itself.
Maybe, this season can see Xavi and his men claiming the first position.
I even see that the abilities of the two teams (Real Madrid and Barcelona) are now on par again so it is very possible if for example Barcelona can be in first place next season and I will not be so surprised because in Barcelona there are already some good players who can relied on by Xavi in the next season. And I am sure that the duel between the two will be even more exciting next season in La Liga. In yesterday pre-season or el classico match, it seemed that barcelona looked quite solid and could be said to have performed better than before, the presence of Rapinha and lewandowski has increased the intensity of barcelona's attacks to be better and varied at this time, I think if in the future barcelona is able to create chemistry between players old and new of course barcelona can be a better title challenger than madrid, but in this case we also can't doubt the capacity of madrid as a team that has a champions mentality and we don't know how much strength madrid next season even though pre-season didn't go well for them at the moment. |
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Bob Arum has been talking publicly about lowering pay-per-view prices. Last week, he suggested lowering it to $20 to $25 dollars. With that very low price, I don't think people will look for illegal streams anymore. Even myself, I would rather pay that amount of money for a Crawford-Spence fight. But I will stream illegally or not waste my time at all on cherry-pick PPV fights like what Tank Davis has been doing unless I can see very good matchups in the undercards that are also rare these days. Ryan Garcia for example should be a fight night fighter or in the under-cards of championship fights.
Yes, I guess it will be cheap that some of us might go and willing to pay that number, watch at the comfort of our house, invite friends to have a couple of drinks and watch the fight. But $79.99 is too much specially in this conditions, we are in a recession and people are adamant about paying that amount just to watch even the most anticipated one. I think doing a joint venture with friends to enjoy boxing shows legally can be a solution for those of us who want to enjoy boxing matches, but if the PPV is set too high of course we have to look for other alternatives to be able to watch it, for some people it might cost $80 to watch a game is not something that is too calculated but for those of us who have limited finances of course will prefer a cheaper alternative to watch even if it has to use illegal channels, paying around $80 is equivalent to spending money on my kitchen needs about 1 week  . |
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Borussia Dortmund are missing out on the opportunity to bring in this player now,
Why would Borussia Dortmund miss out an opportunity to sign Luis Suárez. He's already old and from what we have observed and noticed in the past is that Dortmund are known from making the based out of raw talent and not signing already established football stars. Just like it was with Lewandowski, Aubameyang and Haaland, I am more than certain a new talent is about to be born in Dortmund. Dortmund is a team that is synonymous with star selling clubs, from the past until now many star players which has been created by dortmund and in the end when a suitable price offer came, so Dortmund would not think twice about release these players, if we look at the ex names of the players most of the ones that have been sold by dortmund are indeed great players and that is why it is difficult for dortmund to stop the dominance of Munich at this time because indeed they think more about business than trophies, I agree with you if a team like dortmund would certainly not spend money to buy old players like suarez because instead it will be bad business later because maybe Suarez will only burden the club finances. |
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I still believe in Inter, Milan, Juventus will have a great chance of winning the championship next season. Although I didn't hear they were actively making transfers. But they have even players for their main and reserve players.
I'm not sure about AC Milan for next season. Juventus transfer decisions this season is better. They have a chance to get the title. Inter maybe still have a chance to race wuth juventus. IMO, Milan trophy last season is just a lucky, but next season, it wouldn't happen again. Napoli also maybe out from title race next season. if AS Roma players can follow Mourinho strategy, I think 3-4nd place can be achieved. Intermilan and Juventus will probably be two teams chasing each other in the race for the Scudetto next season, because so far I have seen that both teams are indeed quite active in strengthening their squad for next season, unlike Milan, which actually looks inactive in looking for new players and it seems that their current transfer policy is heavily affected by the impact of the transfer of club ownership, relying on the current squad it is very likely that for Milan it will be difficult to maintain the Scudetto and I think Milan journey in the Champions League next season will also not be too far away. |
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But in my view the return of Messi is not about Messi's performance in matches, but only to complete the squad and hopefully can provide motivation and input to the young Barcelona squad itself. After all, before I heard about Xavi's statement that Messi should retire at Barcelona which means, Messi's return is not entirely to play for the full 90 minutes. We can see how the senior players in a club, they will not play for the full 90 minutes but to fill the situation and conditions when needed.
The close relationship between Messi and Barcelona so far has made it possible for Barcelona to ask Messi to return to Camp Nou easily if his contract at PSG has expired, but I agree with you, because if Messi returns later, Barcelona will no longer expect too much from Messi performance because of his age factor, besides that it is most likely that messi back to camp nou is just an attraction for other players to join barcelona, because after all there are many young star players who will interested to play in the same club with the world's best players, and most likely to become the reason barcelona wants messi back is because of financial factors, because we know messi has an attraction for barcelona fans and of course the club will get a big income from selling messi jersey later. |
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According to some news Kasper Schmeichel is about to leave Leicester soon to sign for Nice. Leicester are looking for a replacement before selling him. It feels interesting to see because he has been playing for Leicester since the 11/12 season. After so many years he is leaving now. I think that he has been the most important part of this team for all these years. It must be sad for Leicester now to lose him. Maybe he is 35 years old but this is not a very old age for a solid goalkeeper I believe.
The news of Kasper Schmeichel move to Nice has indeed sounded quite strong at this time and even @FabrizioRomano has also confirmed that Kasper Schmeichel is only one step away from playing in the French League, actually Schmeichel still has one year remaining on his contract with Leicester City but so far both parties have not been able to finding an agreement to extend the contract, Schmeichel was one of the reasons for the success of leicester city to become EPL champions in 2016 and I hope then leicester should be able to consider him as a goalkeeper for next season, even though he is not young anymore, but he is a really great goalkeeper and have speed and fast reflex enough to catch the ball, if Schmeichel leaves later I think it will be difficult for Leicester to find a replacement goalkeeper as good as him. |
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Diego Costa appearance with Atletico Mineiro throughout the 2021 season was not very impressive, he was only able to score 5 goals from 19 appearances so I think it is difficult for him to be able to get a big European club for now, maybe going to Arab or Turkish clubs is very realistic for him at the moment, for his career development I think it has been very difficult especially now that he is 33 years old.
33 years old is not the end of a footballing career, Costa is a player full of experience so far and he has had impressive performances when he was a player at Atletico Madrid and Chelsea, Costa current status is without a club and reportedly there are several clubs from Arabia, Turkey, Spain and England are indeed interested in signing him, but of these clubs so far only Rayo Vallecano is serious about getting Costa and even now Rayo Vallecano has submitted a proposal to Diego Costa agent, although Costa is still one of the most dangerous strikers and honest I really miss all the controversies that have arisen due to the high temper that Diego Costa has had all this time. |
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The history of VARFootball’s first real brush with technology began at the 2014 World Cup, when goalline-technology was implemented into some of Europe’s biggest leagues. It came four years after the controversy over Frank Lampard's strike for England against Germany being missed by the officials: the goal was not given despite it clearly crossing the line. Frank Lampard's disallowed World Cup goal was a pivotal moment in the future of technology in footballGero Breloer/AP2010 VAR was used in a major tournament for the first time in 2017 at the FIFA Confederations Cup. In the same year, the Bundesliga and Serie A became the first of the world's major leagues to take the plunge with La Liga and Ligue 1 following suit a year later. The Premier League bowed down to the inevitable and implemented VAR in 2019. FOOTBALL NOW is a new show that brings to light some of the global game's biggest issues, challenges, and debates. VAR. Like it or loathe it, it appears to be here to stay. But has it actually made football better or has it added another unnecessary layer of complication to the beautiful game? COMPLETE Source HERE In this case, of course, technology has advantages and disadvantages including VAR technology which is currently applicable in football, as we know if VAR has been able to detect every time an offside occurs which the referee cannot see clearly and of course the use of VAR will at least minimize referee mistakes in making decisions, besides that with VAR, football becomes fairer and no club feels aggrieved by the referee decision, but still VAR also eliminates the excitement in football and often the referee stops the match when a team is on a counterattack only to check for possible violations so that the intensity of the game decreases. |
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Honestly I don't expect much from Borussia Dortmund if they still behave like this (only making money from selling players). Even if there is a statement from them that they want achievement, I will laugh at that. What they need to do now is to improve the team first and not to be too greedy with profits.
Actually they have no intention of selling their star players, but any player whose name has been on the radar of big European teams will find it difficult to refuse requests and players will do anything to get out of the club, but the club certainly doesn't want to lose players for free, and they will hear all incoming offers. Every season dortmund continues to create star players but none of these players last long in dortmund, maybe dortmund has no intention of selling these players but actually dortmund has full control to sell or not these players, I don't think if dortmund will reject every offer that comes in to its players if it really benefits them from a financial point of view and in fact dortmund does not try to keep the player at all costs if indeed they have no intention of selling him at all, as happened to haalaand, I think haalaand has a contract until 2024 with dortmund and if dortmund don't want to sell it of course manchester city can't do anything at all but the fact is when manchester city offers a lot of money doesn't dortmund accept it right away? |
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There is definitely a difference when it comes to playing for club and country. Not that they are unprofessional but if they are at the end of their careers surely they are more willing to do more for their country. Moreover, this is likely to be the last World Cup for several star players, one of which is Messi.
Apart from all that, we will watch the game of the players who are now old. It's very sad.
I have noticed this pattern. During the younger years, players tend to give more importance to their club side. But during the later years, they give more preference to national duty. Messi for his part have never been a part of the world cup winning team and that is why he want Argentina to lift the trophy this time. The same can be said about Ronaldo as well. And this is going to be the last chance for both these players. No matter how many competitions they win for their club side, none of that can match the world cup win. I don't agree with you, because I think footballers will do everything in their power to play both for the club and for the national team, the reason many players are playing well in the league is not because of the salary they get from the club, but many of them continue to perform well in order can to join the national team, maybe the club does provide all the needs needed by the players but the pride and patriotism to play for the country cannot be measured by money and I think if there are players who are able to contribute greatly to bringing their country to world cup champions then it will be become the greatest pride in his football career later better than the achievement of the trophy he got while playing at the club. |
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I don't see it being a difficult decision to make, look at the odds
england = @1.86
Sweden = @4.00
look at the last 5 games of both teams:
england won the last 5 games scoring 20 goals and only conceded 1 goal. while sweden won 3 games and drew 1 and scored 11 goals and conceded 3 goals, this shows that england has more attacking power and good defense, and adding this odd, then choosing england is a good option
English women's football has evolved and grown enormously. So they will certainly be able to win this game and reach the final. But of course Sweden won't make it easy, so it could be a very interesting game to watch. After watching the match against Spain yesterday in the quarter-finals, I'm believe if England will be able to qualify for the final later, the development of European women football has now grown quite rapidly and maybe even the quality of women football in Europe, especially England, is almost on par with men football today. UEFA women semifinal will certainly be interesting for us to watch because the semifinal match will be an opportunity for England to improve their meeting record with Sweden so far, in the match, Sweden is indeed the favorite but seeing England unyielding attitude against Spain in the quarter-finals yesterday, of course I will support England to the final. |
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Manchester United must immediately make an offer for De Jong if they want to sign him, because Chelsea are also interested in De Jong, especially since Chelsea have just lost some of the targets they were after.
Only if de jong is undisposed to cut his salary in Barcelona, If happens he will be anchored to MU. Chelsea's prestige is no longer good after changing ownership, I don't know why, they are often cornered by another club in getting players on the market. even if made a good offer, a player like Raphinha chooses the club that bids lower than Chelsea. maybe this is a bad year for Chelsea, but they still do not worry because have got a talented player like sterling Right now de jong future is still in a state of uncertainty due to the lack of understanding between barcelona and de jong, but I think the only way for de jong is to leave barcelona and accept the invitation of manchester or chelsea to playing in the premier league , focusing on the coach factor of course de jong might prefer to join manchester than chelsea at this time, I see if chelsea so far after Abramovich ownership ended it seemed that it no longer had the attraction for star players to join and it was proven after chelsea lost some of their target players due to being cornered by another team that even offers a lower salary than chelsea at this time. |
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Bad financial situation did not stop Barcelona move to look for star players in the transfer market, after getting Franck Kessie, Andreas Christensen, Raphinha and Robert Lewandowski, now Barcelona is just waiting for time and one step away to inaugurate JULES KOUNDE as its newest player, Chelsea are also eyeing kounde to strengthen the defense agains must be willing to lose and be overtaken by barcelona in terms of recruiting new players . It's extraordinary the efforts of Barcelona's movement in the current transfer market. Because the problem of the crisis has not stopped Barcelona from moving in the transfer market so there have been some good players signed by Barcelona and that has made me so impressed with Barcelona for now. And if JULES KOUNDE can be successfully obtained by Barcelona again in the transfer market, then Barcelona will be a title challenger next season with a very strong line of players. Although in difficult circumstances, but barcelona was able to realize a formation that was indeed quite terrible by bringing in lewandowski, rapinha and several other experienced players, with the presence of joules kounde it seems that barcelona defense problems have been resolved and I think barcelona will again be challengers for the title next season with madrid, the addition of several star players this season will make it easier for Xavi to get his first trophy as a coach at Barcelona later, but still Xavi must be able to build chemistry between players to make Barcelona more solid next season. My prediction for starting XL Barcelona next season with joules kounde: Formation : 4-3-3
Lewandowski
Ansu Fati Raphinha
Pedro Kessie Busquets
Eric Garcia Kounde Christensen Araujo
Marc-Andre ter Stegen
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I think this rumor is related to Xavi's desire to bring Messi back to Camp Nou, Messi is a living legend for Barcelona, the bond between Messi and Xavi is very strong. Xavi's wishes were conveyed to club president Joan Larpota.
Regarding this, I think it is not only financial problems that are an obstacle for Barcelona, but it will be difficult to bring Messi to Camp Nou.
messi and barcelona relationship is not very good after the departure of messi last year, i am very interested in the continued development of this rumour.
If indeed this will happen. Messi, Lewandowski, Raphinha and Auba. Sounds like the avenger club but don't they think about the salary? Sounds cliché but we still know that their main problem is still rooted in salary which could throw them upside down. Indeed, in this case, it would be great if they could still be realistic and not push too hard. Messi is back? If that could happen of course barcelona would be the perfect club but I think it will be difficult for Xavi to arrange 3 great strikers in their front line later, because admitting it or not for sure these three players have the ego to be special or want to stay in the barcelona front line, I think the salary issue will indeed be a bit of a problem because Barcelona financial condition is unstable, but of course before Barcelona and the player sign a contract, there will be a mutual agreement regarding the amount of salary that will be received. |
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Bad financial situation did not stop Barcelona move to look for star players in the transfer market, after getting Franck Kessie, Andreas Christensen, Raphinha and Robert Lewandowski, now Barcelona is just waiting for time and one step away to inaugurate JULES KOUNDE as its newest player, Chelsea are also eyeing kounde to strengthen the defense agains must be willing to lose and be overtaken by barcelona in terms of recruiting new players . |
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Am I the only one who cannot get his head around this transfer? In my opinion, Barcelona brought in a player who will perform well and for a long time at the club, it's Raphinha. But I really don't understand how Barcelona is managing to get this money and I also don't understand how they are able to manage their finances going forward. And why does it feel like Barcelona is not worried about their finances at all?
Already they signed Raphinha, Robert Lewandowski, Franck Kessié, Andreas Christensen. And I really hope that they don't make any big transfers like this soon. Now they should concentrate on selling the players that are not very critical to the squad right now.
At first I was quite surprised also because Barca could afford some players who had quite expensive prices. But what I know is that Barca have been doing financial structuring, by selling the broadcasting rights for longer. In addition, they actually still have player salary debts. For example, regarding De Jong's salary. At the beginning of the difficulty they offered a pay cut that was ready to be paid in 2023. And it looks like it's this issue that makes negotiations with Man United difficult because they have to pay for barca's claustrophobic. Barcelona is now starting to bring in a lot of quality players even though their are still in financial problems but they are still an attraction for great players, not only you, all of us here are quite surprised by the situation of Barcelona which continues to bring in star players with the condition of the club still being wrapped up in a lot of trouble. debt, even now it is reported that they will be one step away from getting kounde from sevilla as their fifth new player, speaking of the transfers de jong saga, I think there will still be drama for a long time because between de jong and barcelona have different views on the issue his salary and career current, if de jong wants to take a salary cut of more than 40% then Barcelona will not sell de jong, but if de jong continues to want his current salary then Barcelona will have to let de jong go to make room for the new players. |
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Jose Mourinho's achievements with AS Roma show that the I Giallorossi have improved in terms of achievement. This is also what makes I Giallorossi believed to be able to surprise the 2022-2023 competition. Jose Mourinho has done a really great job last season. I Giallorossi have also added to their strength by bringing in new players. Finally, Paulo Dybala joined on a free transfer after previously playing at Juventus. The US will really be a real threat in the race for the Scudetto.
It is undeniable that mourinho has changed Roma for the better this season, his prowess in formulating strategies is one of the reasons for Roma being able to winner the confederations league title for the first time, for next season of course mourinho will try to continue to build the Roma squad to be stronger and maybe they will come back to surprise us all in european league, but for the scudetto title I have a little doubt that Roma will be able to get it next season, because teams like Inter Milan and Juventus have more chances than Roma, indeed they now have a dybala but you don't forget if the line attack and also the depth of the squad Intermilan and Juventus looks more dangerous than Roma right now. |
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Bringing a talent with neymar standard might be a lured one for cristiano ronaldo to stay , but the question is ... which player that has an equal to neymar ability? Haaland moved to city already , mbappe signed a new deal ... it seems that not much left available.
Bellingham might be the next rising star but the last time they signed a player from dortmund with rising star status ... it's a flop. Antony, he was a winger at Ajax and I think he would be good to be a new signing for Manchester United. Ten Hag is his former coach and I think it will be good for Manchester United's efforts to improve form this season, but it seems Antony is not allowed to leave Ajax. There are some good players that Manchester United might approach, but their slow pace has led a number of clubs to raise the prices of their star players as in the case of Antony. This summer transfer did not go well for manchester united, manchester united had lost some of their target players so I think if manchester united at this time had to think about many options to bring in new players, besides Ronaldo uncertain situation should be able to make manchester united more actively engaged in tranfers market, especially to get anthony from Ajax, actually Ajax has said they will release Anthony if there is a club that wants to pay high but it seems that manchester united made an offer that was too low and made ajax change his mind not to sell anthony now, Ten Hag really understands the character that is owned by anthony and that why if manchester united dared to pay the price asked by Ajax, I think then the duo of anthony and Ronaldo would be very dangerous later. |
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Arsenal must be really high motivated for the new season.
What does this says for Chelsea that they are not ready for the premier league.
Gabriel Jesus has shown fine form in the friendly game's. Scored two goals today.
Honestly speaking, Chelsea losing the game in that margine of 4:0 is what I'll describe as something in our favour. Let the club management understand that the club still need a seasoned striker in addition to Sterling, cause Sterling can't do it alone. Chelsea need to get it's house together before the EPL kicks off weeks from now, esle it would be a surprise to me that Chelsea would be struggling in the table just to qualify for Europa after this season. Chelsea journey in the current pre-season match is quite bad, after previously chelsea had to lose to Charlotte, today instead chelsea were massacred by arsenal with a score of 4-0, the defeat in the pre-season match was not bad enough but that the match should be a reference for Tuchel to improve his squad right now, in that match a lot of opportunities were wasted and this shows if something goes wrong on chelsea's front line, I think tuchel should be able to find another pure striker at this time to be a target man in front of the opponent's goal and sterling doesn't seem like it will be able to carry that the burden alone. |
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One would think Bayern Munich would grieve a little after letting Lewandoski leave and move to Barcelona. He would surely be missed at the club after winning so many games and titles with the club.
I’m really eager to watch the friendly game later today between Bayern Munich and Manchester city and to see how Bayern Munich would fare without Lewandoski on the team.
No doubt, Bayern Munich is a top tier team and would most likely still come out on top at the Bundesliga. I think the friendly game later would be exciting to watch
Lewandowski has always given everything to Bayern Munich and I think even though he has now moved to Barcelona but he deserves to be a legend of Bayern Munich in the future, losing Lewandowski is indeed mourned by Bayern Munich fans because he is one of the important players and also has a big contribution so far in every victory and title that has been won by Munich, but despite it all, the coming and going of players in football clubs is a normal thing so even though it is quite unfortunate but I think Bayern Munich fans will still allow and wish the best for Lewandowski is currently in new club, Bayern Munich is now full of hopes for Sadio Mane and high expectations will certainly be a heavy burden to bear by Mane, but I believe if Mane will be able to replace Lewandowski role and continue to maintain Bayern Munich dominance in the Bundesliga in the future. |
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