Even though it is quite true that we are not going to see this changing, we should realize that we are not going to get that much change on the UCL part. Premier league would be terrible because less teams would mean there would be less chances of smaller teams doing better, more teams means even smaller teams could beat other smaller teams, and have a go at the midtable teams, and if they do alright, they turn out to be like Nottingham forrest did this season. That would be gone.

But UCL is different, you make nearly 30 million euro from just being in the group there, and most teams in Europe that are low level, do not make that much money from their ticket sales, tv rights or even jersey sales. So being in the group, is still a lot of money, even if they end up losing all the games. Consistently being there means more to them than win a single game.

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I agree that firing Motta was the right decision, I just don't know about the timing. This is too close to end of the season and they are at a sensitive part of the season, if we can do this then we could have a great period with Juventus finally doing awesome and then finishing higher.

But this is too late into the season and Tudor do not have that much time left, so I do not think it would be easy, he will have hard time fixing what the team is doing right now. Firing Motta was a late move, and maybe they shouldn't have done it for now, sure sack him right away as soon as the season ends, but doing it right now seems like a mistake to me, a risky move that may not give much fruit in the end neither.

H2H never tells the whole story. When you look at H2H, you will see last year, and if you look even more games, you can see the year before that, in 2023 and all that. So that doesn't talk about how the teams are today, and doesn't make sense.

Atletico Madrid is by far the better team and they should be getting the win easily, anything other than an easy win, is a mistake and they shouldn't be really doing anything that prevents this. I get that betting exists because there is always a chance that they can't always win their games, and we have seen them lose before recently so that means the possibility is definitely out there. But we do not bet on the off-chance, or maybe some people do but I don't do that normally.

Most places on oddmakers do. Galatasaray managed to not fail and keep winning and that allowed them to keep the point gap going. For that one game, when they got a draw, there were some questions like if they can continue to be good or will they have trouble.

But seeing how Fenerbahce also got a tie, and the point gap is back up again, this close to end of the season, it would be very silly to expect Fenerbahce to have many chances like this, they should have used it and they failed, so I do not expect them to have something big here, it feels like they lost their chance already. Galatasaray could still lose points, but not only I do not expect them to lose that much, but I also do not expect Fenerbahce to win all games.

While I do agree on how United sucks so far and Amorim couldn't figure out a way to fix the team, it would be unfair to suggest David Moyes is a better manager. Switch places and put Amorim at Everton and put Moyes at United, and the results wouldn't be too far off, it would still be similar, because Everton doesn't have something fundamentally wrong with them, they are just a smaller club and this is what they can do, not like they are a team that normally spend enough to win the title but playing bad now.

United IS a team like that, we are talking about a team that spends as much as almost any team, and yet still suck. There is something wrong there, which no manager fixed, and until whatever that is broken is fixed, no manager will be helpful.

It is smart to conclude that Bayern Munich is the best team in the league at the moment, we can definitely see that as a possibility. However, they are not that much better, sure they are better but by a hair, and that means they need to be careful.

The league is still not over, and even one loss would bring the whole league and title chase to a single game. Which, nobody can guarantee won't happen, Bayern will 99.99% win the league, but they are not winning it by a large margin. Considering the economic gap between them, I would say the gap of points should be providing some proof of that, but it is not showing any sign of big difference like the finances suggests. This is why we need to grow and get a lot better.

It is miles better than deepseek, not just a bit. What people who are not in AI doesn't realize is that deepseek took the opensource part of chatgpt back when it was opensource, had the code, and worked on top of it, so they have managed to cut the costs by a large amount thanks to chatgpt itself.

But what you can see from results, by simply asking the same question to both of them, you will see how it is different. Chatgpt has 4.5 as their latest ow, and comparing to what deepseek has, the difference is huge, and that is not what chatgpt even has as latest within the company, they have 5, just not to public yet. Deepseek can't keep spending this little amount, and ever imagine catching the level of Chatgpt ever, they need to increase their funding.

The short story; the new ownership that took over the team, paid a good sum of money to make them promote to Serie A, and spent even more to keep them at Serie A, but they are looking for a way to just keep spending a certain amount and not much more. Which means, they can't spend enough to win a title, that is not going to happen, they are not some 100+ million a year rich oil whatever that we have seen with PSG or City, so this is a limited amount.

Fabregas managed to make some transfers to spend that money for players that could look decent. It's looking like COMO will be a decent part of Serie A for the upcoming period, and while they will continue to lose games, they will win enough to stay and that is all they care, as long as they are far away from relegation, they are happy.

That is true, if they could somehow manage to win the Europa league title then Amorim will have a lot more time and he will be considered great. However, Mourinho won this and yet he still was fired because more than anything else, the league title matters, and how it is going at the moment matters. Look at ETH, he was a terrible manager, but he has a third place, an EFL cup and a fa cup under his belt, even though he won all of those, he is still considered a terrible manager.

Because the time he got sacked, United wasn't even in top 10. Which means, even if you win something, in this case Amorim with Europa league, if next season they are still not even in top ten, he will be fired too. He has to do better next season.

The hype that is required to make a token early is not something that is guaranteed. There are plenty of stuff that got some hype and then ended up just losing the hype and losing everything. I have seen many results where people invested early and then lost bunch of money. If you do not want to lose money that way, then early investment requires a ton of research and a lot of courage and risk taking. If you are right, then you are going to end up making a lot of profit and you will think this is a great idea.

But, if you are wrong then you are going to lose money with the same exact strategy, in which case you will think you made a mistake and do not want to do it again. This is quite important part of the strategy, being right.

I doubt that would be real, Barcelona period of Messi is already done and he is not coming back, for no amount of money. It is not about money, it is not about paying him a lot or paying him very little, it is about how he doesn't have any trust left in the management, that is why he left and that is why he won't comeback ever again. It is like saying Ronaldo could go back to United, we all know that won't happen ever again.

New stadium or not, Messi is happy at MLS at the moment, he isn't even doing much, he is way over talented for that league, and just having fun, making bunch of money, and relaxing. He is basically actively retired, sure he still goes out and plays, but it is more like just Sunday football with friends for him at this point compared to some competition.

Como is doing fine at the moment, better than expected at least, but that doesn't mean we are seeing Cesc Fabregas at a "bigger" club that quickly. Just because he had one semi-decent team doesn't mean that he is going to be at a big level already. He had one season at this level, so he needs a bit more experience before he leaves for a better team.

What happened to Vincent Kompany changed everyone's perspective, everyone saw him manage one bad English team to relegation and move to Bayern Munich, so now whenever a new manager does decent with a bad team, they assume a big club will get that manager. What happened to Vincent Kompany was not normal, in normal cases we do not end up with these kind of moves.

Some people will consider them good, and they always look at historical results, h2h and other stuff. But in reality, we have seen them be terrible at premier league and everyone is just waiting to see when their terrible premier league results will show itself at Europa league as well.

While some of the teams they faced are simpler teams than premier league teams, and I agree that premier league is one of the most competitive leagues in the world, that doesn't mean they will keep on facing easier teams. They will face some big teams, and considering United sucked at the league for the whole year, if they face some good team, they may end up losing points and that is very important for everyone to remember how they are terrible.

It is not just about Soviet Russia, all the poor people in the world who have something to provide, ended up in bigger and better nations. Plus, resources do matter, and military do matter as well, political stability also matters a lot. Even when presidents were assassinated, law still got uphold in USA or most of Europe, whereas in Africa, or Asia, and specially in Latin America, there were chaos ever few decades, that made them even poorer.

No matter what you do, no matter what a politician can do, some poor African town with barely one source of clean water, can't get the improvement, even a thousand years ago Europe was better, it is just geolocation that makes it so hard, it is not just personal improvement alone.

People say white people in south Africa build a great life for themselves whereas blacks didn't, so it must be race or culture, but they forget, white could take the resources and send it to Europe and get rich, blacks can't, those type of differences caused USD and EU to end up being valuable, because the nations are powerful.

Nobody in the world is against selling players to raise funds for more transfers. They would be against selling certain players, because you may sell 10 and nobody would care but you sell one important player and suddenly it's a big deal.

For example, if they decide to sell Saka like people assume, then people would be mad, because Saka is a great player and if they can make 100+ million on him, which would be insane amount to say no to, it would still piss fans off, and they may not be able to recover form that unless they spend their money on better players.

I have no clue who they are going to sell to raise funds, and I have no clue who will replace, but we have to wait and see the results before we judge. If they win the title next year, then it was a good decision, if they are second again, it was unimportant decision (not bad not good), if they are worse than second place, it was a bad decision.

We can't really say anything shocking would happen though? Can we? Look at the league situation, plus Liverpool is out of everything else, so they only have the league games which means they are going to rest, Arsenal still has some games left outside of the league.

There is no way that a very well rested Liverpool would lose that many points whereas Arsenal would end up with all wins, so we can easily say that Liverpool will win the league. Sure it looks like we are not going to see that becoming a mathematical reality for a while longer, we need it to become mathematically possible first. However, just because math doesn't say it is done, doesn't make it any more competitive, we could see how the league is already done.

The whole messi, neymar, mbappe period of PSG was actually a good and decent one. But the funny thing is, they lost all three of them and now they are looking a lot stronger, beating the leader of group stages to come here against Villa, and most likely expectation that they will also beat Villa as well.

We are saying they are going to face Real Madrid in semi finals, but we still do not know if Real Madrid will manage to beat Arsenal. Of course whenever Real Madrid plays someone, we always assume that they have a chance to win, and this could be like we assume and Madrid could beat Arsenal, but there is no guarantees in football. The matchup could very well be Arsenal vs Villa too, who knows? But most likely it would be Madrid vs PSG.

There was a period where he didn't do amazingly, which made people question him for maybe one month at most. Afterwards, he just started scoring like candy, every single game. Most recently he had a hattrick, and didn't even used the penalty, if he did, he would have four goals in the same game.

So, all the big teams are seeing how great he is playing at the moment and just imagine him at their striker position at their club and willing to pay 75 million to make that a reality. We should also realize how inflation impacted football world too, 75 million would have been an insane number back in the day, but these days we see multiple 75+ million deals every summer. This should not be impossible for some big club to get him, very cheap for them.

It is true that a newcomer is rarely seen as golden boot, normally not many players have their rookie season in a league and end up being the top scorer. But this is Osimhen we are talking about, dude is valued at 75 million, that is his release clause and he will be sold for 75 million eventually, this summer.

The general "a player won't be top scorer on their first year at this league" thing is not for players who worth more than most teams in the league, he is worth more than 50%+ of the clubs, and I mean entire clubs. So it wasn't really a shock to anyone who watched him play before, if he failed to score this much, it would have been problem for other players in Galatasaray to not be able to feed him well, but they did and he scored a bunch.