It really is pretty weird to me what is going on at FC Chelsea at the moment. I still remember a few weeks ago the officials of FC Chelsea made a statement that they have no plans whatsoever to fire their coach Graham Potter and instead they are planning to replace several of their players with new ones. As far as i know this is a pretty unique approach because obviously it is way easier to replace one coach than to replace 5 or even 10 players with new ones. I still think the best thing would have been if FC Chelsea would have kept Thomas Tuchel as their coach. For me he is one of the best coaches in the world and he has proven that several times now.
It will be interesting to see, which players Chelsea wants to sell now or in the Summer. Players like Havertz could be very interesting for other big clubs.

Well in comparison to traditional financial assets, like gold, stock markets or investment fonds, an investment into Bitcoin is still very very risky because price movements of 10% up or down are happening pretty regularly with Bitcoin. Within the crypto space though i think it is a safe thing to say, that Bitcoin is the safest and most stable crypto project out there to invest in. This means that during a bull market Bitcoin usually is not pumping that hard in comparison to most altcoins, but this also means that it is losing way less in value than Altcoins during a bear market. Bitcoin is now down to like 35% of it's ATH while many altcoin projects are still down 99% or even more.
So altcoins have still moonshot potential but of course also a way way higher risk.

Somehow it seems like clubs have way more patience with their coaches if those have been very successful and popular players before that have retired as a player not that long ago. I mean the whole situation with Frank Lampard at Everton is pretty similar to the one with Ole Gunna Solskjaer at Manchester United two years ago. Back then Manchester United also had a very very long series of unsuccessful games but still the officials of ManU did hold on to Solksjaer a few months longer. The only reason for that, in my opinion, is the fact that Solskjaer is simply one of the biggest fan favorites of the club. Not every great players will also be a great coach.

Well as far as i know, Messi did not really had to leave Barcelona at all. It was just the case, that Barcelona could not afford to pay Messi his extremely high salary. They have paid him around 550 M€ for a 5 year contract, that are 110 M€ per year, which is probably 5 times more than other world class players are earning. That was the reason why Barcelona has such extremely high debts now and is still in danger of going bankrupt.
Messi could have stayed back then but of course for a salary that would have only been a fraction of the old one. So it was not like he was forced to leave or something. He just wanted to continue to earn ridiculously high amounts of money and he could do that PSG.

Sadly my portfolio mainly consists of small cap projects, which i have bought back in 2020 and 2021. Back then during the last bull market i was heavily in the profit zone with those profits with a portfolio value that was like a x100 from my initial investment. Of course i did not sell anything back then because obviously i was hoping that the price would get even higher and secondly i did not want to sell those tokens before i held them 1 year. If you hold the tokens for more than one year then you don't have to pay taxes on the profits in my country.
Of course now my portfolio value is down at least 95% or so because small cap coins always lose way harder during a bear market then the big ones.

Yeah the bad start of Bayern Munich into the second half of the season was definitely surprising to many. There never is a guarantee to win 3 points in a match even if you are Bayern Munich, but i still think that they are the big favorite in the upcoming match against Frankfurt. Also i have to say, that i am pretty impressed by the performance of Vfl Wolfsburg so far. They won their first two matches and that with 11-0 goals, which is an remarkable achievement. It seems like the players have finally understood what their coach Niko Kovac is asking from them and if you are successful then the confidence in yourself is automatically growing too.

For me Aptos is a whale coin. If i remember correctly, then the team behind Aptos has raised more than 400 Million $ from the big VC's. One of them was Alameda (FTX), that is also the reason why the Aptos coin lost a lot of value when the events around FTX unfolded a few weeks ago. Now that everything is recovering again projects that have lost harder than the average before just gain more than the average.
In addition to that though i also think that whales are manipulating the Aptos price. I read somewhere that the first big token unlock of the VC's is happening in a few months or so and that is why they are pumping the price now. As a small investor i would not touch Aptos until all the seed and private sale tokens are unlocked.

The start of Dortmund so far after the winter break completely reminds of their start into the season back in the summer. Back then they also showed pretty poor performances but somehow managed to win all of their first few games. This somehow tricked people into thinking that Dortmund might be a real contender this year to Bayern Munich in the fight for the Bundesliga title.
Today Dortmund was extremely lucky again. They scored their winning goal while being 3 minutes into the extra time already and the goal even happened after a corner kick. Looking at the game and also at the statistics it was a very even game and a draw would have definitely been the most fair result.

Hmm i think it is a pretty bad decision to invest money into crypto because you have lost your job. I mean obviously in the crypto market is definitely possible to make a very big profit and for some of the investors it even are life changing profits, but it is also true, that the chances for such a profit are pretty slim and that the chances of a total loss of your investment are definitely higher than a x100 on your investment. So to put all your money on crypto is a very very risky decision in my opinion and definitely not to recommend. The first and most important reason for an investment into cryptos is and always will be. Only invest money, that you can afford to lose.

The start of the second half of the season was definitely disappointing so far for Bayern Munich. I mean the 1-1 draw against RB Leipzig was ok in my opinion because they were playing at Leipzig and they are also a very strong team so that draw did not come completely out of nowhere for me. The result yesterday against Cologne was definitely a big disappointment for Bayern supporters though. In the first half Bayern showed a very poor performance in my opinion. Of course Cologne was pretty lucky to get such an early goal out of a corner kick but after that Bayern was not really able to create a lot of good chances.

Well i am pretty sure, that we will see at least one other crypto project that will give crazy high profits to it's early investors. A profit of x1000 is definitely life changing and even if you invested "only" 100$ it would bring you 100k$ profit. For me there is not doubt that we will see such projects in the future too. The big problem is, that even if we see a few of those projects in the next 5 year or so we will also see thousands of new projects, that are just useless meme-coins that are dead again in a few weeks or scams or whatever. So the chances to choose the right project is pretty slim in my opinion, if you are not an insider.

I think that at the moment RB Leipzig is really strong. They seem to be in a really good shape and they also have a lot of confidence after their good performance against Bayern Munich where they were at least at the same level as Bayern if not even better. Today they are again playing very well and they were up 4-0 in the first half already. At the moment it stands 4-1 but obviously Leipzig is not going full throttle anymore as the game is already won. If Leipzig is able to keep on the momentum, then they could really be a big contender for Bayern Munich for the Bundesliga title. Nkunku will also be back in a few weeks.

In my personal opinion i think that we have definitely experienced a metaverse bubble already back in 2020 and 2021. Back then projects like Bloktopia and others gave early investors huge profits of x100 or even more. Just take a look at where the price of Bloktopia is at the moment. It went down from close to 0,14$ to now 0,0026$ and that is just one example of a metaverse project, that was massively bloated back then. Metaverse is definitely not dead, but the first big bubble about it is already gone in my opinion.
I think web3 is a different topic though, because i think a truly decentralized internet with blockchain functionality involved could really be a big game changer in the space, but i also have to admit that i don't really know how this will work.

I think it is a little to easy and to superficial to just compare their rank in their native leagues in order to find out who is the favorite in their champions league match. For example, i personally think that FC Chelsea is definitely the favorite in their match against Borussia Dortmund even though Chelsea is only on rank 10 in the premier league while Borussia Dortmund is on rank 6 in the Bundesliga.
Even though Chelsea is having a pretty rough time at the moment, i still think that they have good chances to win here because Dortmund is also not playing not very well. They have won their last game with 4-3 but they received 3 goals from a below average Bundesliga team.

In my personal opinion, you should look for an other project to invest in. In the end Shiba Inu is just another stupid meme-coin that is not really serving any purpose. Shiba Inu was created 2 years ago or so when Elon Musk started to make tweets about Dogecoin. That is the only purpose of Shiba Inu. I mean it is a fact, that Shiba Inu made a lot of very early investors very reach, because it literally made them a x1000 or so on their initial investment, but since then it slowly but surely loses relevance. I just dislike Meme-coins because they are obviously just a try of the "teams" behind it to make some quick and easy money without any effort. I think that meme-coins are hurting the crypto market as a whole.

I think that it is still very much possible for Bayern Leverkusen to reach a rank in this season that will qualify for an european competition. Obviously 7 points are quite a lot but if Bayer Leverkusen is really able to start a streak of winning games then 7 points are only 2 wins and one draw away. Also just because Borussia Dortmund is at rank 6 at the moment does not really mean they are the target of Bayern Leverkusen. I would guess that it is way more likely that Union Berlin and/or SC Freiburg could lose quite a few matches in the second half of the season so maybe Bayern Leverkusen can overtake at least one of those teams.

Sadly i don't own any Binance myself but i think most of us will agree that Binance is the biggest exchange with the most influence in the crypto space. For some people Binance even has to much influence already and i agree with that. I think it is never good if a single company becomes to powerful in a certain area. Also i think it is already pretty late to invest into Binance. For 5 years or so, you could buy BNB for 1 Dollar or so, so i always have a pretty hard time to buy it now for 300$.
I also think, like many others in this thread, that kucoin is also a very big and also reliable exchange and it only has less than 1/50th of the market cap of Binance.

It really was a great bundesliga weekend after that extremely long winter break this year. Sadly i could only watch the match on friday between RB Leipzig and Bayern Munich so i missed out on those many many goals that happened on Saturday and also this Sunday. I am not really sure, if there was ever a Bundesliga matchday before with so many goals.
The results of Köln vs Werder Bremen and Wolfsburg vs Freiburg definitely were the biggest surprises for me. I expected that the Wolfsburg vs. Freiburg woudl be a very close game and that Freiburg would have a slight advantage there but in the end they lost 0-6 lol. Same with Köln. Sometimes everything works out for one team and nothing for the other.

I am interested in cryptos since the end of 2017 or so, which are more than 5 years now and during that time i have seen so many weird events where i just don't know why it happened because there is no obvious reason for it. For example, i was part of a signature campaign a few years back and at one time those tokens had a really significant value, but then the price went down heavily over the course of at least 3 years. Then i sold one day because i wanted to invest in other projects with a brighter future and then 2 weeks after that the price of that token made a x6 or so again with one day, even though it was completely dead for at least 3 years with trading volumes below 1000$ per day. So i waited 3 years and then i sold 2 weeks to early lul. Sometimes dead coins get a pump without an obvious reason.

I also think that Real Madrid is definitely not among the big favorites to win the Champions league this season. Other teams like Manchester City, Paris saint germain or Bayern Munich just seem to be way stronger. I also think that this not really mean that much though. Just remember what happened in the last season. Back then Real was in a wad worse shape than they are in this year and still they have managed to win the CL back then. There was a lot of luck involved, but still.