Setien was never the right choice, he had a good period at Betis but he is just not famous or respected enough for this Barcelona team to listen to him.
I think they would make another mistake with Xavi - they took Guardiola from their ranks and now they think it will work every time. Villanova and Enrique did not really work out, Xavi is coaching in Qatar. If he was any good, he'd have gotten a better job.
Barcelona needs a proper manager, an established name. They have been trying with unproven managers for way too long.
I don't agree that Villanova and Enrique didn't really work out. I just remind that under Villanova Barca collected 100 points in La Liga and won it by 15 points. Unfortunately, his health problems didn't let him to contine his work. And Enrique repeated what Guardiola did - won every possible trophy in one year. What else you can require from manager. But in general I agree, I would like to see something more solid than Valverde, Setien or Tata Martino. |
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I don't exaggerate merit. Offcourse, it's fun to get merit, I'm not saying that I don't need it. But I don't think about, when I post I don't think, wheter I will get merits for this post or no. But yeah, when I got my first merits, it was quite big deal, despite that my rank was big already. I was happy that someone found something useful in my posts. My main goals here isn't money or merits. I'm here to read, discuss, learn something new and also share my knowledge. And for newbies it's nothing shameful to ask questions, even if they may look stupid. Most of us were in their boats in our early days here  . |
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^ Guys, you're really curious and asking many questions. Maybe @TheQuinn can give address of their office? Just kidding  . But I always been curious to know how many people are working behind Freebitco.in. I can't believe that there is just you two, considering that Freebitco.in have 38 millions users. Even for answering support tickets, there should be at least one full time position. BTW, It's nice story how guy, who just wanted to bee helpful got full time job through Bitcointalk. |
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Anyone watching or betting on the two matches tonight? I have Sevilla to win and Levante - Sociedad BTTS in a 3 fold, the latter could be a good match, Levante have been pretty solid after the restart.
Thanks for sharing bets . I have won both Sevilla - Eibar was quite boring game, but what a a end there was. Sevilla goalkeeper Vaclik got injury and they were out of subs. So, Ocampos replaced him. And one 101 minute of game he saved shot made by Eibar goalkeeper Dmitrovic. And moment later Sevilla defender kicked ball almost from goal line. After this Sevilla win, I think we already know all 4 teams which will play in Champions league. |
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Best way to combat phishing websites is reporting them to google https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/Almost everyone in the world runs google chrome, or uses google. Their response is super fast as well. Abuse report emails take too long to respond, or often go straight into trash. No it's not. It least my experience is completely different. Reporting to Google isn't very effective, sometimes they don't react to reports at all. I remember that some phishing websites like Bitcointalk.to were reported by forum members so many times, but they never removed it. While from my experience, hosting providers reacts quite fast and they soon shutdown phishing website. |
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It really was an awesome race yesterday to watch on Tv.A lot of fun and race happenings that defined how the race would end.I do not agree with the majority that indicate the fault from Hamilton side in the incident between Hamilton and Albon.Albon could have gone just a bit outside the track just like everybody does in similar situations.
I watched this incident few more times and I'm still not sure, was it right decision to punish Hamilton. It was more like just racing accident. But maybe Hamilton intentionally didn't left enough space for Albon to push him out of track. Probably if Hamilton wouldn't be punished for this, there would be too much noise that he is favored by FIA. |
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We really played solid yesterday. Barca were able to score even more, but Villarreal goalkeeper made some great saves. Unfortunately, Barca probably started to play good football too late when there is no chance to reach Real. I agree with @slaman29 about Setien. You guys probably saw his face expression when Griezmann scored early goal . Though, I don't think that Setien is main person to blame, but seems that he have no future in Barcelona. |
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Wow, what a race to begin season. Totally deserved win of Bottas. Vettel is spinning again. Podium for Leclerc is amazing achievement because Ferrari today looked more like mediacore team. And Norris, what a way to get on podium with fastest lap n last lap, which let him to overtake Hamilton. And Red Bull ended with 0 points at their home GP. Already can't wait for next race.
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After today game, I already accept fact that Real won La Liga. It's very difficult to say it for me, hardcore Barca fan, but unfortunately it's true. Real have 4 game remaining - against Alaves, Granada, Villarreal and Leganes. It's hard to expect that they will lose twce against these opponents. And I have to admit that they probably more deserved title, they were more stable and less vulnerable than we, especially on away games...
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Well, we rarely can see Ferrari driver don't get to Q3 in normal conditions without any technical issues. I didn't had big expectations about Ferrari, but didn't expected that they will be so bad. Mercedes is racing in their own league again and now it seems that only Verstappen can make challenge for them.
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So, nobody don't have faith in Arsenal anymore? Just one player in our pool backed their win against Wolves. Arsenal is so bad this season, but it's still a bit strange because their opponents isn't City or Liverpool today. Score is 0:0 in the end of first half. If nothing will change in next few round, it means that both North London teams will be without UEFA competitions next season.
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Good quiz, thanks for making it. But I'm not going to share my result - it's too bad to show in public . I thought that I know Bitcointalk history better :/. I really don't know date of satoshi last post or when first Bitcointalk advertising auction was started. Well, dates wasn't easy thing for me during history classes in school times. And I didn't knew who designed Trust system and who hacked Bitcointalk first time. So, your quiz helped me to learn something new. |
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Why should some sports changes their rules if they want restart during this pandemic? To which sports are you referring to?
I can only hope that these new tennisrules don't become the new standard... You can call me traditional but for me tennis shouldn't change anything.
Watching the sports without the audience still feels weird, and I sometimes don't enjoy watching it.
Sports shouldn't change their rules because of pandemy. But some adjustments may be needed to reduce risks of injuries, like we see in football 5 substitutions and cooling breaks. I agree that there is no need to fix things which aren't broken and original tennis rules is good. While this tournament is just exhibition and attempt to try something new. I watched few matches and for me these new rules were a bit complicated. But it may good for people who don't havie patience to watch 3 hours length matches because in Ultimate Tennis games is very short. |
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Very useful tool, thanks for sharing it. I seen many similar websites comparing odds on fiat sportsbooks, but I haven't seen resource where lines on crypto sportsbooks compared. Usually I don't jump between many sportsbooks to make a bet, but when difference is big, why not to try maximize possible profit. But as I understand, they don't offer comparison for live games, because I can't find games that is currently in play. Such thing would great.
And I see just few football leagues on their website and few other kind of sports, for example there is no basketball. But maybe it's because there is not much competitions in play because of pandemy and they are listing just major football leagues.
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I thought about lending my BTC here on Bitcointalk. But I'm afraid to be scammed and forgot about such idea.
I mean with proper collateral deals it seems rather safe, no? Yes, but as @Taskford explained, proper collateral doesn't remove all risks. As imagine that most of lenders have experience when they got scammed and loan was defaulted. And if you look at Lending section, you'll see that there is not so many peoppe offering proper collateral. |
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Cobra is mysterious and Theymos is not?  How about satoshi? Well, yeah, theymos is mysterious too, but at least we know his stance and that he is pro-Bitcoin, while there is more questions about Cobra. just because someone has a different opinion than you, it is not a reason to not-trust them even if that opinion were wrong. conversely having the same opinion as you doesn't make someone trustworthy (wolf in sheep clothing). [/quote] You're right. But when owner of Bitcoin.org website makes pro BCH tweets, it gives some doubts about that personality The thing though, is that it isn't. It doesn't matter whether Cobra or theymos has ownership, you can never write off the possibility that it becomes compromised. I get that it can suck to have no "official" Bitcoin resource, but that's probably for the best -- look at @Bitcoin on twitter and how much drama that used to cause (well it still does but on the opposite camp now lol).
And since it seems like you're lobbying for theymos, it may be relevant to show his insight on a similar matter:
Very good point! Words "official" and "Bitcoin" probably shouldn't be used in same sentence. There is no thing like official Bitcoin website, forum, wallet or Twitter account. Such things is just impossible when we talk about decentralized currency. The problem is that people consider these resources as official websites and they 100% trust in information that they found there. And I wouldn't call it as lobbying. I just used theymos as example, who would be more suitable to run Bitcoin.org in my opinion in hypotetical situation |
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Damn, I can't believe that after such long wait season finally will begin in few days. How much time we been waiting? Let me count... 7 months... And it will be strange season especially because thst we know that some drivers will leave their current teams after this season. I'm almost sure that Ferrari will favor Leclerc against Vettel most of time and probably it will be tough season for Seb. .....reminds me very much of M. Schumacher, where the same agreement was made and up until today we don't really know how he is doing and it can be assumed, that he until now didn't recover very much, but is stable on a low level. Lets hope the best for Zanardi.
I thought same and it's worrying thing. Now we just have to hope that he will recover... |
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Sigh. We dominated, had so many shots, possession etc but Atletico reminded Barca of what they did against Liverpool and it worked too. 1 own goal and 1 penalty, Messi won't want to remember this 700th goal landmark at all, all that for 1 point.
Title is Real Madrid's to lose now.
Yeah, actually we didn't played bad yesterday, but it wasn't enough. I still have questions about second Atletico penalty and I can't understand why they didn't even made VAR review. Now everything is in Madrid hands. 2 next games against Getafe and Athletic will be crucial for them. If they will win both, there will be no doubts who will win league.
I am not entirely sure whats wrong with Barcelona, but they are not doing great not only right now but also not doing great for the future as well with weird transfers as well. I think they are not going to be proper team for a while. Every one of their players that matters became over 33 this year with most of the good ones over 30, and we are talking about getting another 30 year old and they are not even contending for championship this year anymore with how they are playing and getting bad results.
Anyone thinks this season was the officially start of the end for their messi era of awesomeness and they are going to have a big trouble for next certain amount of years and not going to be great anymore (by barcelona standarts, definitely top 3 in la liga) and will find their new system and players after certain years? Or will they just be like Madrid after Ronaldo and just continue to dominate?
Messi is still good and if there will be injuries, he still can play in top level for few years. But the problem is that Barca simply have no strategy for upcoming few years and our transfer policy shows it. You have good point about age of our key players, they are getting old and our board is failing to find replacement for them. It feels that our team is turning into joke like MU or Milan. Now I'm just waiting until president election next year and I hope that new board will move club in right direction. And I just remind that Real struggled a lot during first season after Ronaldo departure. Same will happen after Messi era in Barcelona. It's impossible that teams after loss of best players in this century will remain in same level. |
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Penalty? WTF? How it's possible to give such penalty? Where is VAR? It's just ridiculous!
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