I'd agree with Chelsea being the favorites but only slightly, However, they'd need to beat City at their long term consistency to win the league, a slightly over average performance all season wouldn't do it, they have to be on their toes all season long, and Liverpool would also be keeping a really close tab as well, It's really going to be a competitive league this season, I'd say... I really don't see Man Utd in the picture when the season started, and I'm afraid the addition of Ronaldo doesn't change my perspective, yet.

Technically Barca loaned him out, but logically they sold Griezmann, there's a compulsory clause added for Atletico to buy him next season, which I guess was done so that Atletico Madrid can have further opportunities to buy additional players and remain within FFP, in order words Barcelona sold Griezmann but are not going to get paid next season, something they had to agree so as to rid of his wages as well.

Luuk De Jong seem like a better choice imo, he's more of centre forward than Griezmann is, while the later is relatively not useful on the flank either, but since that can help reduce the situation of things at the club, then it is what it is.

The previous president (Josep Bartomeu) really made a huge mess of the club, honestly. Perharps Barcelona are trying to get whatever they can off Griezmann, since he was not able to live up to expectations, but given the situation of the club this season, I don't think that's by any means a smart, even if the club is not making Atletico stronger the sale, they're surely making themselves a weaker team.

I hope the deal falls through by all means, and Saul to Chelsea is already a completed deal.

Barcelona will undoubtedly struggle this season in the champions league, but I don't think it will be tough enough for them to exit the champions league early, like in the group stages.

PSG would make a really great team in UCL, I'd say they're more stronger now, collectively... I'd even tip them to win the CL this season  

It's been quite a busy day, haven't it ? I wonder what these teams making bids now have been doing all summer, stalking ?!

One of the deals I never saw coming was Saul to Chelsea, that literally came out of nowhere, as I felt Chelsea are a complete team with multiple options in every part of the pitch and are ready for the new season... As for Barcelona I wonder they are doing, letting Griezmann go would be such a joke, they've already let go of two players without replacement, Dembele is never fit, Ansu Fati can't be relied upon given he's just returned from a long term injury, signing Olmo would be an outright waste of unavailable funds tbh... I'll rather just make do with this team, savage as much as possible from the season first then come prepare better ahead of January or next Summer window.

With the move Mbappe failing to work out, Real Madrid have decided to strengthen other position of the field, They have completed the signing of Eduardo Camavinga as per Fabrizio Romano's story, the deal is worth Over 31M, that's a really great signing imo, Valverde and Camavinga looks like future of Real's midfield post Kroos-Modric era


Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/CTNxq-aow1g/

I knew the deal was probably not going to happen, I just don't assume he will sign or not sign a new contract and leave for free next summer, all I know is he'll likely not PSG for free..


Barcelona are literally in deeper shit than the media knows about, they are looking sanction a sale of Ilaix Moriba to RB Leipzig as well... Barcelona can't even keep hold of their youngest stars, Moriba was actually impressive last season and let him leave for just 16M is really absurd, imo.

I also dropped by 11 places to number 14th on the leaderboard, I knew it was going to be an awful week.

I hate when the week result are filled with draws, and we had 5 draws this week, some were not so expected imo.. Congratulations to Hilarious for the winning the round, he often thrives with those draw picks.

I really don't know what's more surprising over the weekend Atalanta and Sassuolo the usual heavy scoring/conceding teams both playing a goalless draw in their respective fixtures or Juventus dropping further points, all in all it was still not so a terrible week as I'm still second position overall.

Now we have to go 10 days without club football 

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Oh Well, Villarreal have just taken the lead yet again and this time Luis Suarez is no longer on the pitch for Atletico Madrid, with just 13 minutes plus stoppage time left to play for.

After playing literally nothing for almost an hours Villarreal have taken the lead against Atletico Madrid with was their very first attempt and shot of the game. Crazy!

EDIT: Oh well, that didn't take long for Atletico Madrid to respond, with a goal from Luis Suarez.

And on he comes! Lionel Messi finally making is debut for PSG, it still pretty much feels like a dream though, but we've all gotta move on  

It's probably an already settled game, with PSG ahead by two goals, but I'll seeing out the rest of the game two catch a glimpse of Messi's debut performance.

EDIT: It's game over, there wasn't too much to see but I'm sure there is much more to look forward in the upcoming fixtures.

Another hard fought victory for struggling Barcelona in the end, the win keeps them on the same number of points with 4 other teams after 3 matches...


It's not going to be an easy game for either team, Atletico Madrid seem the favorites on the books, but Villarreal might pull an upset, even though they're yet to score after two games, they also haven't conceded any goal too.

I agree it's likely going to be a boring game and one short of goals, perhaps nil-nil draw (that'd Villarreal's third in a row), or a lone goal victory for either side.

Cool cash! Congratulations..

I'm still rooting for Juventus to go all the way though, they've had similar runs like this during the 6-7 years monopoly.. It's going to be tougher this season thought as they lack a little of stars players in their top form like they used to.

I had 4.5 points in the first 2 fixtures for this week, and just 1 point from the 4 fixtures after that 😮

That's some nice rewards, more so coming from a freebet.


I've never had it worse before, I got Liverpool to win too...

I've only accrued 2.5 points from 7 games played already, I'm down to 41 position for the week  

It's still all square and 5 minutes to go, Mendy with some really impressive saves to keep Chelsea in the game...

It must be said that the red card literally change the game, Chelsea were the better side before the red card and are forced to sit back in the 2nd half, It could have been a whole lot different even if the penalty was awarded and James didn't get sent off, but rules are rules, I suppose.

As usual for Arsenal, great 5 minutes of football, then 85 minutes of being annihilated...\

It was a one sided affair from start to finish, Xhaka never just seize to amaze me, what needles and horrible tackle, lucky for Cancelo to have escaped to full effect of the tackle, It was a deserved red card!

We've the tricky 3PM fixtures up next, these are usually the first set of hurdles the week potential winners needs to jump first, Brighton or Everton

Quite an impressive way to start the game week for me, I had one exact score and one close prediction (I could have had both exact though)  I just couldn't have foresee Valencia scoring 3 goals, but still 8 games to play for.

Mallorca really held their ground after taking the early lead.

No one saw this coming, the deal was literally hijacked with relative ease and it didn't even take a minute for all terms to reached and everything to be finalised, It really was easy for Man Utd to make contact due to the past relationship and what the deal would have meant for the fans and Ronaldo himself...

It's a big win for the club already, the club stocks was said to have soared by more 8% since the announcement 🥳

It's really crazy and funny how this deal has unfolded all within the last 24 hours.

It's almost certain now that Ronaldo would be making a return to the old trafford to join Manchester United, that'd be a major boost to club's imo, but with City being shut out yet again after losing out on Harry Kane, is there a possibility of them still making a big signing before the transfer window closes.