Ronaldo appeared in Real Madrid for training, not with their squad but he trained with his personal coach. No confirmation that Ronaldo will join Real Madrid for rest of season and his chance is slim. Beyond reasons related to his poor form recent months, a recovery of Benzema is another reason Real Madrid might not need Ronaldo.

In La Liga, dominations of Real Madrid and Barcelona are too big and in the past season, we have Barcelona with best ever time in their club history and Real Madrid that managed to won 5 Champions League within 10 years. Considering it and thinking about strength of Barcelona and Real Madrid, how other clubs can win La Liga.

In the past, there were some under dogs like Valencia, Deportivo La Coruna (anyone still remembered this club), Atletico Madrid a few years ago and I believe in coming two to three years, other clubs might have great chances to beat these giants. Real Madrid must reshuffle their teams with some legendary players will leave or retire. Barcelona still need more time for their young players to improve ability to carry pressure of winning titles.

Mbappe did played bad in quarter and semi final matches without any goal. He lost his advantage for a competition of top scorer in World Cup 2022. It now becomes a very interesting race among four players, 2 from Argentina and 2 from France. Will this race end with all four players have 5 goals at the end?

If Messi, Mbappe won't score any goal and Alvarez, Giroud score one goal in a final match, the competition will be decided by total assists of each player. Messi will win the top scorer in this race if have to use total assists to choose a winner.

After Didier Drogba, Chelsea failed with so many strikers. Shevchenko, Morata, Lukaku are most famous failed strikers in Chelsea. There are other failed strikers who are less famous too. The only successful striker in recent years is Diego Costa but after all he had to leave Chelsea after conflicts there.

Chelsea will have to rebuild a lot, not only in a striker position. Their midfield looks good enough but in defense and striker positions, they must buy some top players to improve their quality and competitiveness.
 
It is not easy to let your most important player to move in January. Napoli will not do this in my opinion because they know Osimhen is about 50% or more of their strength. They will keep the player in Naples and try to win a first title after many years. If the club ends this season with great success, with titles, their players will have soaring price on transfer market.

Then Napoli will be able to sell their players at more expensive prices.

I congratulate France for their win and the coming final match with Argentina. However I disagree and don't consider it is a beautiful win from France.

In the semi-final, France accepted to play a suffer football to minimize risk from Morocco and their two goals are not beauty.

Most of people will be happy if Messi, a greatest football players in last 20 years, can win World Cup 2022.

Morocco came very nearly to goals in the semi final. They have some good shots to equalize the match before a second goal for France. They shown that they can play good attacking football if they want or have to do this.

France will play with Argentina in a final match and their opponent are a good team too. Argentina are like France as they can give up a midfield and play a suffer football too. The final will be a very exciting competition between their players and their coaches too.

Will Argentina with two Leo (Lionel Scaloni and Lionel Messi) win World Cup 2022?

One interesting information is Leo Scaloni used to be a team-mate of Leo Messi in World Cup 2006.

No one knows where is the lowest bottom for Bitcoin.
No one knows when the lowest bottom will be touched.

The next halving and its consequent bull market, will be in 2024 and it has one more year until May 2024. It is too soon to say $15k is a bottom of Bitcoin. Many things can happen in more than 15 months ahead.

Like in 2020, March, Bitcoin crashed to below $4k in surprise of all people who believe $6k is the bottom for Bitcoin before 2020 halving.

Rashford is very good for attacking if a coach knows how to use the player at his favorite position that can help him to perform at his best. His performance in World Cup with England can be a good advice for Ten Hag.

Joao Felix is not a player who is strong with face to face fighting physically and I have feeling that Felix will hesitate to join Premier League. In addition, Felix is not a striker and he is not a player Manchester United need.

They are improving with Ten Hag and it is too soon to say Ten Hag has a successful season as it has yet ended. At least before World Cup, Ten Hag helped Manchester United to have a good position in Premier League. From this, we can expect that in one month break for World Cup, Ten Hag has time to make a solid plan for the club and will initiate it well when Premier League returns.

There are demands to use exchanges and people need exchanges to use like they need central banks to use. So central banks, centralized exchanges and decentralized exchanges will continue to exist and expand their business. For me, it won't be changed and none of them will disappear.

It is just at the moment, it is risky to store money on centralized exchanges. People should more seriously use their self custody wallets before everything about centralized exchanges and consequences from FTX collapse become more clearly.

Even everything is clearer, safer, they still should store most of their cryptocurrency in self custody wallets, not on exchange accounts.

They must and tried to buy Mbappe from PSG but failed because of crazy offer of PSG for Mbappe. By following a transfer with Mbappe too long, they also missed Haaland who moved from Dortmund to Manchester City.

I believe that Real Madrid fully aware about the issue of Benzema and did try to prepare for Benzema's less contribution for their club. However what happened with Benzema since this season beginning is very unexpected. He got so many injuries since September and missed so many matches for Real Madrid and France.

About transfer, I did not find good striker who is able to replace Benzema and has a high level like Mbappe and Haaland. Could you share any world class striker who is young too in your mind, please.

Maybe they hit their limits after two previous knock out matches with Japan and Brazil. When players are tired, they can make mistakes which usually they don't make such. It was hard to believe that Croatia can have another World Cup at semi final but they achieved it already. Their goalkeeper did not have any chance in three goals of Argentina. The second goal of Julian Alvarez is a little bit lucky but it comes from his effort.

The dribble of Messi over Gvardiol is amazing and he even run from middle of the field with very high speed. Messi has good mood after the win against Netherlands and he continued it with Croatia. He will have a second World Cup final with Argentina. Gvardiol did not want to prevent Messi too seriously with physical contacts because he knows Croatia might get another penalty.

The opponent can be Morocco or France and it would be easier for Messi if opponent is Morocco. France will bring more challenge to Argentina in the final match.

Rashford did not improve his skills well many years after his debut. He is a good player but does not belong to a group of best players and has to sharpen his skills more to join that group. His sudden good performance in World Cup 2022 does not guarantee that he will continue it at Manchester United.

Rashford is more dangerous to play at swings or behind a main striker. His style does not match with a striker position and we already have some seasons to assess his performance at that position. He definitely can play at so many positions but a striker position is not a best one for him.

If Ten Hag and Manchester United need a stable goal provider, Rashford is not their choice.

Cristiano (Ronaldo) and Lionel (Messi) are always centers of football world in the last 20 years. Soon we will no longer see these players on field because they are nearly to their retirements.

Why do we not simply enjoy their last appearances on field before their retirements?

There are noises about Cristiano and some are truth, some are lies which all don't make sense at all if we take into consideration his coming retirement. Cristiano situation in this season is similar to Messi situation in the past season but a little bit worse. Messi managed to go through it and came back strongly in this season and in World Cup 2022. Will Cristiano go through it and come back in later of this season or in the next season?

With Cristiano strong mentality and confidence, I believe he will return to world class level and great performance. It is clearly that we can not expect Cristiano to score 40 or 50 goals in next seasons but 20 to 30 goals for one season is in his ability.

It's true. Barcelona will really want to win La Liga in this season especially they have advantage on the table before World Cup start. It is because star players would like to join a club that can win title and at best, win titles in recent seasons. They less likely want to join a club that just ended previous seasons at either runner-up or third or fourth positions in their national league.

Difference between the champions and runner-up positions probably is too big and can not be covered easily just by one or two big transfers.

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Please don't forget in their latest match in World Cup 2018, Argentina got a big defeat at 0 - 3 against Croatia. Caballero made a mistake which gave an opportunity for Ante Rebic to score a first goal. Later Modric and Mandzukic finalized that match with other two goals.

World Cup 2018 is a milestone for Ante Rebic and helped that young striker to move to AC Milan. Unfortunately, after the first two impressive seasons, now Rebic lost his position in AC Milan and failed to convince Dalic to call him for World Cup 2022. Not only the missing of Ante Rebic but also other strikers of Croatia in this World Cup are worse than Mandzukic and Rebic four years ago. Anyway, Croatia still shown their combined strength as an united team so that they won against Brazil.

If Argentina can not make difference than Brazil and Croatia play just well enough, they will be able to beat Argentina and have a second World Cup final in history of the small country. Argentina are more depended on Messi than Brazil depends on Neymar and it is their Achilles for the semi final.

Kerim Calhanoglu, I did not know about the player. Does he have any bond with Hakan Calhanoglu who is playing for Inter Milan?

If they are brothers, it seems the little brother, Kerim has worse potential than Hakan because he is still playing in 2nd Bundesliga. In the past, Thorgan Hazard was worse than Eden Hazard but now the younger Hazard has good position in Dortmund and Belgium national team.

Will Kerim be able to have success like Thorgan?

PSG have many better players than Bayern Munich but in many seasons we saw PSG got troubles when one or two key players missed one match in knock-out phase of Champions League. Moreover they failed too even with their best players and I believe that if PSG have some injured players by World Cup 2022, they will lose a lot of strength when Champions League returns. With burden of failed past seasons, they might be beaten by Bayern Munich.

I know Bayern Munich have their problems but they are stronger than PSG in Champions League and maybe history will have its voice in these matches.

This year is very bad with so many black swan events that make it is an abnormal bearish year. It is even worse than 2018 and 2019 bear market in my opinion because many people lost their money very quickly. It is totally different than 2018 and 2019 bear market when you lost your money very slowly.

I don't care about any month is a worst month or not. My strategy is buying more Bitcoin and Ethereum if a month gives me discount price to DCA. Hodlers wait for red months to DCA. Losers wait for green months to buy and they will sell in red months to hodlers.

France will still be a favorite team to be chosen as a winner in the semi final match with Morocco. Morocco have gone far in World Cup 2022 and it makes gamblers are more fond of this under dog. However, their team are affected by injuries and suspensions. They don't have good substitute players like France so I am sure these injuries and suspensions will affect their general strength seriously.

Morocco have already had a successful World Cup and they will fight with all things they have and the best they can do in semi final match. They have less pressure than France because with France, only a trophy can be considered as a successful World Cup for them.

I believe France will beat Morocco, if not in 90 minutes, it will be in 120 minutes. The semi final match will not go to penalty.

If Bitcoin or crypto donations are used rightly with right purposes as planned initially, all donated cryptocurrency will not be dumped on a single day or within one week. The entity behind the charity will use it gradually since the beginning of donation campaign and long time after campaign ending.

Hence I don't have too much worry about price dumps because of charity, donations. They are different from hackers who will dump hacked coins on market immediately whenever they can. Hackers are different because they need quick money and they also are fearful that their identities, living locations will be discovered by communities and governments.

Both teams are very careful because with defense of Croatia, it is a mountain challenge for Brazil if Croatia score first. For Croatia, they will get trouble and have to change their defensive tactic which they don't want to.


The second half looks more exciting with more dangerous opportunities for Brazil. So far, Croatia still luckily keep their goal safely. The VAR rejects a penalty for Brazil and the shot of Paqueta was safe by Croatia goalkeeper.

The coach of Brazil replaced two wings, Vinicius and Rafinha by Rodrygo and Anthony. Will these new players make moments to change the match for Brazil?