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Carlo Ancelotti has agreed to a contract extension as Real Madrid coach until 2026 and with this, Carlo Ancelotti's future fate is clear and he will remain at Santiago Bernabeu for the next 2 seasons. It seems that Real Madrid fans have to be more patient if they want Xabi Alonso as the new coach and they have to accept that Carlo Ancelotti will continue with Real Madrid for quite a long time. Florentino Perez still believes in Carlo Ancelotti's performance as a coach and therefore he gave him this contract so that he can continue to manage the squad of young players at Real Madrid.

On the other hand, with this news, Real Madrid players definitely have to be more patient because we know that Carlo Ancelotti's coaching style is quite eccentric and often results in players being placed in inappropriate positions. But that is one of his strengths as an experienced trainer and there is no doubt about his success. Carlo Ancelotti still has the responsibility to deliver the La Liga or Champions League title this season and it would be an extraordinary thing if he succeeded in presenting it to Los Blancos.

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It can be understood that Roma is the favorite because they have a more competitive league than Feyenoord. The Mourinho and Lukaku factor could also be a good bargaining chip for Roma, but it is not impossible that Roma will be eliminated in the play off round, we have to leave room for surprises open. On the other hand, Mourinho contract will end at the end of the season, as well as Lukaku loan period from Chelsea, this is the momentum to leave a beautiful impression before parting ways at the end of the season.

I think the match between Roma and Feyenoord is an even match, despite the assumptions above. However, head to head, Roma is still ahead with 3 wins, 1 loss and one draw in 5 meetings. Apart from that, it is true that we need to wait a moment and look again at the strength of the two clubs ahead of their meeting in February.

Difficult for Darmstadt as promotion team in  Bundesliga for first season in highest level competition, 16 matches with 2 won, 4 draw and 10 losses is poor achievement make dropped to relegation position standings. Face difficult for three matches later against Dortmund, Frankfurt and Union Berlin seems difficult for Darmstadt get three points and keep away their points from regelation zone. Not only three strong teams for upcoming match, Darmstadt will face Bayern Leverkusen and likely its not easy for them how to out from relegation zone and keep existing their level on Bundesliga competition.

In the UCL the first round will be in Napoli, so losing it is probably realistic. But the best thing is at least they don't lose by more than 1 goal. I also still feel confident that Barcelona could have drawn in the first round. So they have points for the 2nd game at Camp Nou. Besides, the game is still February. There is still a transfer break that can be taken advantage of. For Napoli and Barcelona I guess Barcelona will win and continue the round of 8 big teams.

Milan - Rennes could also be a nice matchup by the way. Milan are technically the favourite side of the matchup to advance to next round. However Rennes have had a really good Europa League phase so far. They lost only to Villarreal in the group but in both matches at the same time. However the losses weren't by a big score difference either.

Milan are shown as the 3rd biggest favourite team to win the Europa League championship. But they can be quite inconsistent just like they were in the Champions League.

Rennes can be a really dangerous opponent for them in case of such situation. I would expect Milan to win home by a small margin but who knows what would happen in France.   

I think candidates and favorites are the same thing and maybe there is no difference, so when you say Barcelona are only candidates and not favorites, I think there is something strange. After all, when a team becomes a candidate then yes, at the same time the team also becomes a favorite so yes, candidate and favorite are something that cannot be separated I guess.

Also, Barcelona's decline in performance this season is a fact and not just a hoax so yes, I think Barcelona is not a candidate, and also not a favorite. Because after all, at least we can also consider that last season when Barcelona managed to win the La Liga title but yes, in reality Barcelona still failed in the Champions League and also in the Europa League.

So yes, considering that and this season Barcelona has experienced a decline in performance compared to last season, even though Barcelona has qualified for the last 16 of the Champions League this time. But yes, still, Barcelona doesn't have a good chance of going further, and that is the reality. However, if to beat Napoli, of course Barcelona can still do it and have a good chance of getting to the quarter-finals but it won't be any more than that.

It may be a little unlikely that Kimmich would be willing to join Liverpool because what he is looking for is also available at Bayern Munich.
Liverpool may be able to win the Premier League this season, but can they give Kimmich confidence that they will win the Champions League next season?
If not, maybe there is no difference between him staying at Bayern Munich or moving to Liverpool, because when it comes to the domestic league title, Bayern Munich can give him that.

Endure at Bayern Munich will provide an opportunity for Kimmich to become a mainstay player because there he is an important player.
But if he moves then the main thing he has to do is compete with other players to be the main player at all times and the Premier League is quite competitive and he could lose his place in the first team if he fails to play optimally.

I have to agree with this all but now as we are heading for the professionalism in this game and franchise specially these Arabs are investing look like moral or dignity could be stayed in only books and no one will care about this all because money is going to change things, and surely we are going to this way with no one can stop this all as we all know checking how SPL is changing the way in soccer even they are currently able to bring old players but still their money is creating changes, and they are doing this all, so things like these will happen in cricket as well.

ICC is just a puppet organization which is having no worth and weak boards will also not able to survive just few strong enough boards will be survived and able to compete with this, all others have to be gone down and stay in dark age if ICC not able to bring any solid policy for this all.

PSG are really in quite comfortable position now in the league standings. They are 5 points safe from Nice now. Everything is fine for PSG for so many weeks as well. It has been a long while since they last lost a game here. Luis Enrique should make sure it stays this way for a longer time period as well. No matter what this league is really easy for PSG on paper.

Maybe they started the season inconsistently but now they are impressive in the league. I can't say the same for their Champions League performance but anyway. Winning the Ligue 1 title is always their priority. Because even if they don't manage to win that then something is really wrong with them.  

I would say this season's title battle is only between Leverkusen and Bayern Munich. I don't think Stuttgart, Leipzig and Dortmund teams are fit to win the title.
The performance of the Dortmund team has been very erratic this season. Dortmund are now 15 points behind Leverkusen at the top of the table. It seems impossible to me for Dortmund to close this 15 point gap. Because the performance of Leverkusen is very consistent, on the other hand, the performance of Dortmund's players is erratic.
The Stuttgart team was in good form. But in the last four matches, they lost 5 points and fell far behind. The team would have been able to continue competing for the title if they could have achieved these 5 points.

Barcelona is not doing very great this period and I did not expect anything more from this since the previous season they were signs already and the club is not consistent again and they even struggle to keep up now and Xavi is becoming clueless and Barcelona and Atlántico Madrid have the same point and gradually girona and real Madrid are already going very far with 45 points, it already clear that Barcelona won’t win any trophies, maybe that is why they are not putting in much effort since they know there is nothing for them, and last year was a good year for them at least they were able to win the la liga but nothing for them this season and the same thing that Manchester city is experiencing they might also not get any trophy, all they can do now is too keep playing till the season ends and everybody will rest because there is nothing more to do this season again, the trophy is already for girona or real  Madrid.

Actually any young players are bad except if they able to show they're good e.g. Jude, Lamine Yamal, Gavi.

The reason why Real Madrid is interested with Jobe is, they think Jobe will become like Jude in the next few years. It may doesn't looks make sense to keep Jobe just for Jude, but we can't know about the contract, maybe Jude request to Real Madrid for doing that in the future.

The funny thing why Real Madrid need to keep Hazard for 4 years when he was flopped in Real Madrid.

It is already half way through the season and Inter Milan is still very consistently in first place and with a much better number of goals scored than Juventus. I see Juventus having a little difficulty in scoring goals but they have a good enough defense so they can win game after game. And related to your statement which said that usually Inter will be inconsistent in the middle of the season, we can look forward to that and see whether they are able to appear consistent or not. Moreover, Lautaro Martinez's injury will certainly have a huge impact on Inter's performance in the next match.

Another win by Lyon, wow! Especially that win over Monaco was really surprising to me as their opponent wasn't playing with 10 players either. Now they have made their winning streak three games thanks to another win over Nantes home. Lyon played really impressively from the beginning to the end honestly. They were really effective with their goal attempts so they deserved it.

These consecutive wins have helped them get out of the relegation zone so far. But to maintain this they need to continue to work hard just like this. But while they are on fire I expect the players to perform really motivatedly to move on solidly.

As far as I know Guirassy's release clause right now is 17.5 million euros which means he is like a free transfer for rich teams.    I didn't know first that he had a release clause on his contract. Therefore I thought Stuttgart would demand a lot more money than his current market value. But the situation is really different than that.

Stuttgart have nothing to do about this situation either. They can only try to extend his contract but I wouldn't expect Guirassy to be okay with that at all. Because he must also be aware that there would be some top teams going after him in January.

If Pakistan team cannot beat Victoria 11 then very hard for this team to beat Australian real team who are in very good practice. Pakistan bowling is not good am, cannot have a different varieties to take wickets. Fielding management and bowling strategy also play role in taking wickets and It is bad captaincy from Pakistani skipper. If we compare current team with Victoria then it is obvious that Pakistan performance is much weaker and need to be improved for tomorrow match  to level the series.

Basically Barcelona still has a chance to win against Napoli in the last 16 but ya, even though Barcelona has a chance to win but I personally cannot consider the results they got in the group phase . Because anyway, I think the opponents Barcelona faced in the group phase were also easy because ya, at least Barcelona still has better quality than Shakhtar and Porto as you mentioned.