Well, he has already signed a new deal with Napoli. And currently has a release clause of 143 million if I am not wrong., in dollars that is. I do not think for this much money, anyone is going to actually trigger the release clause. And I believe he shouldn't have extended the contract as well. Now it is going to be trouble for him. Right now Napoli is on the 7th position of the table. And they are actually going down the table. I really think it was a bad decision taken by the player.

With what Xabi is being able to do with Leverkusen, that made the whole Bundesliga very exciting which it wasn't for the past few years. It was Bayern Munich dominating each time and winning it like 10 times in a row.

Finally feels good to see as a general football fan, some competitions. What Xabi Alonso has done is unimaginable with his squad. They are 25 games unbeaten right now which is an all time record for Bundesliga. I remember Arsenal once won the Premier League undefeated. I wonder if they can achieve the same. But either way, the competition is getting intense. Xabi and his team are 1 point ahead of Bayern Munich. I feel like the champions of Bundesliga will be decided on February in their match between Bayern Munich and Leverkusen. If some team gets a huge advantage in that match, I don't think they will let it go. But for now, they need to be careful about not dropping points.

Indonesia is already leading this series by 2-1. Philippines did really well to win in that last match. But I wonder if they will actually be able to continue that good performance. At least it is definitely going to be hard. Honestly, I am expecting Indonesia to win in the next match. But at the same time, Philippines will have to win this match if they want to stay alive in this series. So probably we might expect some surprise from them. But I am not so sure if it is worth taking a risk. I would say the safe prediction is going to be Indonesia.

Honestly, I am not going to say that it was a bad performance from New Zealand. Because if you saw Bangladesh bowling, you would have noticed that even a part-time bowler like Soumya Sarkar was swinging the ball like Mitchell Starc. And even the leg spinner did really well. Bangladesh was bowling like they have the best bowling lineup in the whole world. I don't think any team could have done a lot in this situation. Of course, if this was against India or Australia, probably they could have put more on the board. But still, I don't think New Zealand had actually done a lot wrong in this match. In the second innings, New Zealand did not get as much purchase from the track as Bangladesh did. And that was a little surprising to me, to be honest.

Alonso is doing things really well. Leverkusen is still at the top of the table end of course the main target is the Bundesliga title this season. I do not think they are worried about anything else. Because it is definitely going to be a record-breaking title win if they can actually do that. We have to remember that since the last 11 years, Bayern Munich has been winning the Bundesliga title consistently. And if this season they can actually beat them and win the title, which I think people didn't expect at all it is going to be really incredible.

Even though I love the reunion, I don't think Luis Suarez will be able to achieve much with Inter Miami. They are becoming old and their performances are deteriorating. Even though they are in MLS, It will be much harder for them to achieve that amount of goal contributions like the ones they achieved when they were with Neymar in Barcelona.

I would love to see Victor Osimhen in the premier league and perform. But I wouldn't want him to join Chelsea or Manchester United. For the past year and this year, all the players who have joined these 2 clubs haven't been able to do much and their performances have been downgraded. For example Onana, Mudryk, Enzo Fernandez, and many more. You can say Onana probably needs time to adjust but Mudryk, Enzo, they got a good amount of time with Chelsea squad and they haven’t been able to do anything pretty much.

Donny Van Dee Beek was a young prospect about whom I was excited to see him grow as a player but he is just lost in Manchester United. He once achieved a top 30 spot in the Ballon d’Or, and now he is not anywhere near that.

The match is currently in big favor of the Indian women’s team. The best outcome for the Australian Women's team would be a draw. Deepti Sharma is currently unbeaten 70 runs and could be scoring the first hundred of the match tomorrow. Pooja Vastrakar is also looking good with 30 runs. India could even score 500 runs at this point. The only one who is performing in Australia’s squad is Ashleigh Gardner who got 4 wickets.

I thought Australia as a test team would be better than India but current scores in the game are surprising me.

We cannot really say that Barcelona are far better than Napoli.  They are struggling in the league and are dropping points here and there. They just struggled Yesterday against Almeria, which is the last team in the La Liga.

Barcelona's current form is not that great. Napoli's current form is also not that great either.  It is true that Barcelona has an edge, but Napoli are not going to give them win that easily. Barcelona's defense line and forwards really need some work.  Napoli suffered a big defeat against Frosinone as well.  Last season Barcelona beat Napoli  and Napoli would be hungry to get that revenge. It is anyone's game. And as I have said,  this is the Champions League and this brings the best out of everyone. So you cannot really say that Barcelona are going to get that win very easily.

I think I can say that Joel Embiid actually single-handedly was able to win them the match.  Of course, he had support from another player, Maxey.  However dropping 51 points in a single match is definitely something to appreciate.  Well, it is pretty sure that if he actually did struggle,  his team would have lost. But of course the opposite happened. He was able to score and his team was able to win without any problem, to be honest. The team definitely got the win because of him.

They are not actually 5 points ahead, they are 1 point ahead of Bayern Munich thinking practically. Bayern Munich has played 1 match less.

What Leverkusen did is very hard to achieve for any team in the world. Leverkusen got the consistency to take this whole thing. Bayern Munich's loss against Frankfurt put them on the back foot. If they hadn't lost that match, Bayern would have been ahead now. I think this trophy will be decided by the match between Bayern and Leverkusen. Whoever gets the W in that match, will get ahead. No team would be dropping points. It is going to be very interesting what happens next in the Bundesliga. The Bundesliga is very exciting after a lot of years. Bayern got themselves a good opponent.

The match Between Barcelona and Napoli is going to be 50-50. Both Barcelona and Napoli have been looking inconsistent in their performances. Barcelona will be in the 4th position if Atletico Madrid wins their next game and Napoli is in the 5th position.

But it's the Champions League and it brings the best out of every team. I would say Barcelona will have an edge in this match as they are a club with history and their fans will push them for victory. Key players from both teams need to perform. I would say this is the only pair up in the UCL which will be a 50-50 in round of 16. This is going to be very exciting on both legs.

India is a big country with a big population filled with talent. It takes someone to be a very good cricketer to even play a match for the Indian national team. And nobody can be given too many opportunities in the Indian squad.

Tilak Varma and Sanju Samson have been given quite a lot of opportunities. There is no doubt that both of them are talented but none of them can afford to make more mistakes at this point. Because other talented players will come and take their place. In the recent u-19 Asia Cup, although India wasn't able to win it, we saw some talented batters there as well.

I think since the IPL auction has started, no other franchising will get any hype. Although there are some good matches being played as you mentioned.

The partnership between Zack Crawley and Aaron Hardie has been a treat to watch. Both of them together chased the target of 173 like it was nothing. Jason Behrendorff delivered with the bowl as well and became the man of the match due to that amazing spell. Perth Scorchers has been on winning and they are looking like they might win the BBL. In their earlier match, they also destroyed Melbourne Stars. They managed to all out them in 101 runs and chased it very comfortably.

Even if the loss was a mistake, it was a good mistake. They get to correct their mistakes and come back. Although Bayern Munich would have been at the top of the table if they hadn't lost this match, they get to solve their mistakes.

They have a UCL knockout matches coming up so these mistakes would make them stronger. Bundesliga's competition also got more interesting due to this loss from a neutral point of view. But they need to avoid these big losses as these are humiliating for their fans.

I think there were some players who were overpriced and some players who were underpriced. RCB just Alzarri Joseph for 11.5 Crore while they let Hazlewood go away for lower that price. Players like Travis Head were bought at a bargain price in my opinion.

What surprised me was players Steve Smith, Josh Hazlewood, Adil Rashid, Phil Salt, and Tabriz Shamsi went unsold. Meanwhile, some teams bought players overpriced, and these players went unsold.  Some players who I thought would go unsold were bought as well. Mustafizur Rahman is an example.

Actually, I think that the bad beating that he got against Justin Gaethje, actually made him fear for his body. Now he is not as fearless as he was before. It suddenly looks like he's starting to worry about himself. Which is definitely not bad. But when you are going up against the best, you need that fearlessness in yourself. What I am trying to say is that the meeting had a lot of effect on his mental. So he probably might not have actually recovered from that totally. And at the same time, he is also getting pretty old. Age is inevitable.

Pakistan needs to find bowlers for each format and prepare them for only specific formats. This way their mentality and the game sense doesn’t change. Shaheen has been struggling lately to take wickets from new balls. In the World Cup although he got a good amount of wickets no one recognized his performance.

Naseem Shah's absence is a big issue here. Haris Rauf is also going out of form. He conceded heavy runs in the World Cup. They need to get back their form. Aamer Jamal is an interesting bowler and if Pakistan can nurture him properly he can become a very good bowler. The pressure will be reduced among the bowlers.

Pakistan also needs to find good spin specialist bowlers. Shadab Khan's recent performance has been very bad and the few matches he performed came from his bat. Nawaz can't perform under pressure and he is not that good of a bowler either.

I am really looking forward to this match. The Bangladesh Women's team are performing exceptionally well right now. Last month one of their players won the Player of the Month and then they beat South Africa by a huge margin, they also tied the T20 series against them. A new team is on the rising.

South Africa's recent performance has been questionable. They lost to Pakistan 3-0 and tied against New Zealand recently. Although they are a very strong team.

The weather has me concerned as you have said that there might be rain. Rains like these stop the series from having a winner.

Yes, India's bowling has let everyone down. Avesh Khan and Arshdeep Singh who had 4 wickets and 5 wickets respectively last match couldn't do much with the ball this match. Kuldeep Singh who had been very economical in the last match also couldn't stop the scoring or get multiple wickets.

But we have to give the credit where it's due. Tony de Zorzi has scored a brilliant century. Their Opening partnership led them to their comfortable victory. It is a huge improvement for their team if we look at their previous match where they were all out for only 116 runs. Last match not many of their players could score double digits but in this match their batting was good.

India's batting also disappointed everyone. 211 runs is not enough to defend. I think they got overconfident and that's what cost them this match. They need to take a lesson from it.

Liverpool fans are furious about this. They had this amount of shot taken and they could not convert any one of them to a goal. Liverpool would have been at the top of the Premier League if they had scored. Every point are necessary in this fight and this draw might come back haunting them by the end of the season.


West Ham got the 3 points they deserved. Lucas Paqueta has been the key player for West Ham in my opinion, he got the team a hat trick of assists which is a brilliant achievement.