Let's not focus so much on the financial limitation of Barcelona at this point but we should discuss how the club could work with what they have on the ground right now to make a good impact. But the management of the club have also done a lot of mid-calculations in the last transfer market by spending huge amount of money on small players.
I think that we can't leave from financial limitation. It's caused by so many rumours about barcelona will try to buy some new players. Barcelona has been planned to sell some. The current squad is not strong enough even it can't compete with intermilan in UCL which has proven if the barcelona's squad is only capable to win the la liga. Im not sure barcelona will able to win europa league. It's caused by in la liga consistency to win any game is a key unlike when you are playing in a competition that will kick you once you will be loosing against another team. There are so many critics for xavi caused by xavi has been giving barcelona the worst record. That's why barcelona can't spend lots of money again during the next transfer season. |
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I wonder if Milan are bringing back their old times in the Champions League. But I'm not very hopeful about that. It is still an achievement for them to make it to last 16 round. Because they couldn't do even that last season. They are just not very lucky to have a draw against Tottenham now.
Tottenham haven't been very different than Milan in the group stage in fact. But Tottenham still seem ahead of them when it comes to the game plans and lineups. There is a Conte effect for Tottenham as well. I think they will eliminate Milan.
Tottenham is undoubtedly a good team, we can call Tottenham a club full of merit. The club has the best players. Hopefully the team will be stronger after the World Cup, and then we will see a great fight with other clubs. I didn't wanna call that as a team with the best player. So far totenham got nothing. I never won champion league nor premier league, that proves that the quality of players owned by totenham didn't look good at all compared with another big clubs. Milan has better players compared with totenham and it's slowly climbing up again in serie a. Im sure that ac milan will be more preferable in the match against totenham. We do know that how bad the history of totenham. This club is having only a few trophies that can't even be considered as good trophies. |
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Germany doesn't want to go home early and draw against Spain will give Germany a chance to qualify for 2nd place if only he wins against Costa Rica and Spain beats Japan, this group will be a tense match, of course it will determine who passes and goes home
The only chance for german to be qualified for the next round and german can only hope for spain to beat japan like what already done by costa rica. Japan is a good team but as long as spain can know which weakness from japan and i think that spain can win the match easily without any doubt. The last match will become a key for german. Spain was also still trying to be the winner in the group. The draw result against german was making spain at the first position in the group. Let's see what would be the result between spain against japan. Im sure that spain will able to beat japan with good scores like costa rica. |
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I'm not sure Barca will spend enough money on players in the winter transfer market. if it's even possible to get the defender they need. it must also be balanced with the sale of players who are not included in Xavi's plans in the remaining half of the season. However, Barca's financial condition has not recovered, and still has debts with players whose salaries are paid in installments.
or with another choice, Barca and Xavi must rotate their strategy to survive with the current condition of the players. if that happens, I doubt Barca's ambition will be to return to the La Liga trophy.
But rumors are currently developing, Barcelona has targeted several players in this winter transfer window. Xavi openly wanted a magical boy from Brazil, namely Endrick, to be brought to Camp Nou. Barcelona through their coach, Xavi, confirmed that there had been talks with Endrick's representatives to discuss the transfer of the Brazilian wonderkid. Some players already targeted but i remember if barcelona would prefer to take free transfer player due to the its financial condition that didn't let barcelona to buy new player that was still under contract caused by it must pays lots of money. There are some rumours about barcelona's transfer if Barcelona don't have the financial means to spend in the upcoming transfer market, Xavi will not say so in an interview with ESPN. but it looks like Barcelona will sell some of its players including one of them De Jong, because only De Jong has a transfer value that is quite expensive. apart from that, De Jong is still a target for Man United and now Jurgen Klopp intends to sign him in the upcoming transfer window. if Barcelona doesn't sell some of its players, I'm not sure Barca will be involved in the transfer market next winter to bring newcomers to Camp nou.
Selling players were a must for barcelona to avoid the financial fair play. The only problem is whether barcelona has enough money to buy players or not. It's a common to see that if barcelona will always buy new player with expensive price and then selling its player with very cheap price. The financial clever of barcelona has been reaching its maximum usage and it can't be used anymore. that's pretty interesting to see where barcelona will get money to buy the new players. |
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The first half of the Japan vs Costa Rica match has ended and the score is still a 0-0. It seems that the two teams still haven't found a gap from their respective opponents. seen throughout the match Japan and Costa rica took turns attacking and defending. a bit boring. I hope in the second half there will be more aggressive play.
Both seem to be equal at this moment but japan is a bit dominating the match compared with costa rica. Yellow card was coming for costa rica and that gives japan a free kick but kamado was not able to execute the free kick into the goal. It seems like that costa rica was using defensive- counter attack strategy against japan as it was only waiting for the japan to make blunder and always cutting the passing from japan's player. It's hard to predict which team that will make the goal first in this match but only 20 minutes remaining with additional time. That will become a big bet for japan and costa rica at this moment. |
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Could Liverpool perhaps still play a significant role in the battle for the championship? I can't imagine them continuing to play so poorly. Van Dijk's form is not what it used to be either. But the departure of Mane may have been somewhat underestimated by Liverpool, who has really played a big part in Liverpool's successes in recent years. Salah misses his buddy in the front, and now things don't seem to be going well. They are also still active in the CL, but they can also go out against Madrid.
Liverpool's ranking position in the standings in this league is sixth and to win the title in this League Liverpool need 15 points which are likely to be difficult for Liverpool to get, even though there is still a possibility to get that many points but Liverpool's efforts must win which was impossible as their opponents in their later matches were very difficult to beat. The problem is so many teams aware about their weakness and they will try to fix it during the next transfer season. That will be very hard for liverpool to be able to get 15 points easily. The competition will become even stricter at the end of season caused by so many team are massively upgrading their team through buying some good players that have been performing so well. Some big clubs in EPL already targeted some good players from another league. That will make the competition for liverpool become even harder even to reach the top 4 at the end of season caused by almost all of big teams were aiming for top 4 to be able to participate in the UCL next season. |
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Nantes is not an equal opponent for Juventus, Allegri's squad will definitely win this match easily. But I would like to remind Juventus not to let their opponents down this time, if they don't want something bad to happen to them at the end of the game. This is their chance to easily play in the next round. Because when compared to other teams like Manchester United and Barcelona who have to beat each other in this round, Juventus have a very comfortable situation. Especially with the return of several players who have just recovered from injury, this is good news for their squad.
After the World Cup is over, they are very likely to appear with the full squad and no longer have to reason that many of their players are injured.
Indeed, some of their matches in the Champions League this season have been very bad, but when you look at the current conditions with several players recovering and Juventus' performance in the last 6 matches in Serie A always winning, their chance is still very big now. Nantes is one of the clubs that was unexpected in my opinion but when compared to Juventus at this time it is clear that there will be big hopes for Juventus in this Playoff. Nantes is a low tier team. I see that if juventus can beat it easily. I will always take juventus in the match against nantes. Seeing a top club from serie a to face a low tier team like nantes makes me believe if juventus can win with so many scores against nantes. I don't wanna underrated nantes but the truth has been saying the fact if nantes was nothing compared with juventus in term of statistic of something else. Nantes will be stopped by juventus in the europa league and juventus will able to pass nantes without any problem. |
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Memphis Depay has arrived to Barcelona when Koeman era at that time Koeman has impress to his performance and decide to get him with free transfer status so basically Depay isn't the player who buyed by Xavi and when first time Xavi train Barcelona on 2021 indeed Depay is Xavi main player for forward option this because Barcelona had lack of forward players who can scoring goals but this season everything was changed especially after the arrival of Lewandowski that Xavi has decide to trust Lewandowski than Depay so basically Memphis Depay is the victim of changed manager and obviously he will be for sale this winter
Depay contract at barcelona will expire in the summer window of 2023 so barcelona can take advantage of this winter window opportunity to release Depay instead of keeping him for the second half of the season. I saw some news about Depay status at Barcelona, which in fact will be released in January with a lower price clause, considering that Barcelona brought in Depay with free transfers in the previous season. The player will also be more interested in moving to another team considering that he has been marginalized at Barcelona after Xavi chose Lewandowski for the front line. Depay quality as an attacker is very good, it's just that he lacks playing hours which makes it difficult for Depay to find his best form this season. There is currently some speculation about him being sold cheaply by Barcelona in this transfer. Indeed, this is quite reasonable, especially when considering their current condition, which is having difficulty maintaining their expense and income margins, so it is clear that Depay will be issued to provide leeway for their budget, especially in player salaries. Currently, the price of 5 million has been set for anyone who wants Depay's services. Depay doesn't fit to Barcelona style if I should say Barcelona are even ready to get his current contract terminated He should have leftyif he had agreement with Juventus but he never did. Rumors are now link with United Better for him to leave barcelona. I didn't know why he wanna stay at barcelona once barcelona didn't even need him. The problem is when his contract got terminated by barcelona and then he will be going out with free transfer. There are some teams like MU was ready to sign him. United has been rumoured to be interested with him since last transfer season but the problem is on the depay itself caused by he has not yet decided to leave from the barcelona although he was not even being chosen as main choice by xavi. |
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However, Bayern Munich has dropped points in several matches. However, Bayern Munich is the strongest when compared to the teams in the Bundesliga. Bundesliga teams are quite weak compared to Bayern Munich. Union Berlin had quite the season. But now they are 7 points behind Munich. There is no doubt that Bayern Munich will win the Bundesliga title this season just like the previous seasons. But I am looking forward to seeing how Munich performs against PSG in the upcoming Champions League match.
Bayren Munich in the previous matches often lost and now they have managed to get their first position again in the Bundesliga and the hope is that they can maintain their first position until the end of this League because to do that is something very difficult to do, Bayren Munich against PSG that will happen next year maybe they will have new strength and be better prepared to fight PSG. Because the player transfer market has opened and I'm sure Bayern Munich will not miss this opportunity to get a player that is very much needed at Bayren Munich. Bayern will be making lots of preparation against PSG. Bayern has been trying to sign some players that will make the team even stronger than before, i have heard that some names that already listed by bayern to be signed and one from these players were also coming from its competitor borrusia dortmund. It seems like that if bayern was also consider PSG as a strong team. that's why bayern tries to make so many preparation. The next transfer season will be very interesting to see who will be coming to the bayern. I hope that if bayern can kick PSG out from the UCL. PSG is billions team but bayern has a chance to make it out from the UCL. i take bayern as it has proven so many times if bayern were always leading rather than PSG |
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It is normal to see the other teams struggling because they don't have a qualified squad just as Bayern Munich. There is a significant quality difference and we have been seeing its reflection for more than ten years in the league. Dortmund are the closest strong team to them but they are also not able to put up a good fight against Bayern Munich. The competitors for bayern have no the same quality to win the trophy. Bayern was dominating the league. It was also buying good player from another team to make sure if another team will not able to play in the best performance. that's why the domination by bayern will always continue may but even for the next season too. This is mainly due to Dortmund's priorities of course. They are already making an amazing profit by selling talented youngsters. It must be satisfying for them for now.
Dortmund was always focusing with money. The price from winning the bundeliga was not so big. Dortmund can get bigger than it if it would be able selling some key players with very big price and what's different with winning the prize from become a winner in the bundesliga? The dortmund just need to did another research to get a potential player to be developed and then dortmund can sell it again with very big price to the another big club from another league. |
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In the match between Liverpool and Real Madrid, Real Madrid is undoubtedly the favorite. Liverpool's team is not weak. They have a strong squad. But their performance is erratic. Squad players are not performing well. In this situation, it is almost impossible for them to win against a strong opponent like Real Madrid. Madrid is an experienced team. At the same time coach Ancelotti is very clever.
If you look at the conditions between the two teams this season, it is clear that Real Madrid will be very favored when Liverpool meet Real Madrid in the Champions League this season. But I don't think that Real Madrid can win the Champions League easily with Liverpool even though Liverpool's performance this season in the Premier League hasn't looked so good and the opposite has been seen with Real Madrid in La Liga. But that cannot always be used as a specific benchmark for the Champions League, because both of them will try hard to perform better in the Champions League. I do believe real madrid can take UCL for this season. Liverpool was good but consider it has bad performance in EPL and that makes me sure if liverpool can be beaten by real madrid easily. Real madrid was just struggling with its performance in la liga but it has become the winner of group in the champion league which has proven how capable real madrid to bear liverpool in the UCL. I have been picking real madrid to be my most favourite to win the champion league. Let's see what's gonna happen in the february but it's still very far from now. Anything can happen during the transfer season. Real madrid has been aimed to get some new players from the market. It will make the squad become even stronger with so many superstars @makishart while Real Madrid is definitely the favourites, but if Benzema doesn’t recover in time then suddenly the odds maybe boosted for Liverpool hence keep an eye on his injury status. Furthermore Liverpool will have extra motivation because they will know that finishing in top 4 is difficult in premier league, hence the only way to secure champions league football for next season is to win this competition hence I expect this match to be very competitive. Benzema has become the key player by real madrid. What you were saying was true but real madrid was not only about benzema. there are lots of player need to be considered as well. Benzema was playing as a key player in real madrid to win so many trophies but this time real madrid is also having a very good team. It can also win even without benzema yet it's not clear whether benzema will able to perform when real madrid will be against liverpool or not. He was missing world cup and i hope he will not miss the chance to face liverpool in the champion league. |
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The England vs USA match was hard-fought. However, in the first half, neither team could put the ball in the net. As a result, the footballers of both teams went to the break with a lot of disappointment. England controlled the ball in the first half. But in the beginning, England had to deal with the immediate attack of the United States. England had some great shots in the final moments of the break, but the USA goalkeeper blocked them. The United States took seven shots in the first half, while England took six.
The match between england and USA was boring. There are no many shots on target happened from both. England has only 3 shots on target while USA with 1 shot on target. The defense line of US is pretty solid in that match caused by even when it was loosing ball possession and england can do nothing to make a goal to win the match. The both were equal. that's why the match already ended with draw as the result. I have expected more from england but it's not the same like england in the first round. |
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Germany's move was very difficult to qualify for the round of 16, after suffering a humiliating defeat to Japan. Germany must win their remaining two matches to have any chance of qualifying. Two wins would take it to six points, which could ensure top spot depending on other results. But can Germany overcome Spain? Spain has proven its mettle against Costa Rica.
Beating Spain is not easy for Germany because the Spanish squad in the world cup this time is very strong with several star players in it and not only that. As you have said and seen by many people, Spain has proven itself by winning a lot against Costa Rica in their first match in this world cup. So obviously Germany will have a slightly tougher game than they had with Japan because Spain is a team that is always included in the list of candidates for winning the World Cup. Spain has so many professional players that came from the various team as well as german but the problem is the first round has proven if german has a very poor performance against japan. I think that chance for german to win against spain is pretty small. I have taken spain on that match. Im sure that spain will make german goes to the home. Spain has a very big chance to win the world cup. It was equal with brazil. Let's see how german can win against spain in the next match tomorrow. That will be pretty interesting to see that happens. |
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I'm sure Manchester United will be regretting their decision not to go ahead with the signing of Cody Gakpo in the summer and seeing how impressive he has been in the world cup this will make top teams come running after the player and even if Manchester United were to rekindle their interest in Gakpo they will have to compete against many top teams for his signature which wouldn't be if they prioritized this transfer deal in the summer.
Manchester united will not get him easily. There are some big clubs that already prepared to sign him as well just like AC milan and barcelona. MU needs to paid lots of money again to sign him. PSV has been increasing the transfer value of cody gakpo. I think that MU will have paid what already offered by PSV to get him. Another club was also very serious to sign him. it seems like that the biggest competitor for MU to get him was AC milan. I heard that bayern was also wanna signing him to play for bayern. That will be a very difficult competition for MU to get him. Im not sure cody will go to the MU |
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In the match between Liverpool and Real Madrid, Real Madrid is undoubtedly the favorite. Liverpool's team is not weak. They have a strong squad. But their performance is erratic. Squad players are not performing well. In this situation, it is almost impossible for them to win against a strong opponent like Real Madrid. Madrid is an experienced team. At the same time coach Ancelotti is very clever.
If you look at the conditions between the two teams this season, it is clear that Real Madrid will be very favored when Liverpool meet Real Madrid in the Champions League this season. But I don't think that Real Madrid can win the Champions League easily with Liverpool even though Liverpool's performance this season in the Premier League hasn't looked so good and the opposite has been seen with Real Madrid in La Liga. But that cannot always be used as a specific benchmark for the Champions League, because both of them will try hard to perform better in the Champions League. I do believe real madrid can take UCL for this season. Liverpool was good but consider it has bad performance in EPL and that makes me sure if liverpool can be beaten by real madrid easily. Real madrid was just struggling with its performance in la liga but it has become the winner of group in the champion league which has proven how capable real madrid to bear liverpool in the UCL. I have been picking real madrid to be my most favourite to win the champion league. Let's see what's gonna happen in the february but it's still very far from now. Anything can happen during the transfer season. Real madrid has been aimed to get some new players from the market. It will make the squad become even stronger with so many superstars |
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I will pick brazil and spain. I consider about the good result that being achieved by both but it seems like that if spain was even stronger compared with brazil in this case. I would like to see both will be facing in the final of world cup in qatar, that will be very interesting to watch the match between the strongest team in the world cup at the final. I hope that spain and brazil will able to go to the final and try to destroy one to the each other to become the championship of world cup 2022.
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Yes, Manchester City and PSG will return to the attention of many people this season. These two wealthy teams are very ambitious to be able to win the Champions League title for the first time for them. But in my opinion, Manchester City is more likely to realize his dream. And I certainly really hope that Manchester City and PSG will be ideal Finalists.
Manchester City and PSG have spent a lot of money and have managed to form a stable and strong team this season. Galtier and Guardiola are doing quite well. They have strengthened their team. I guess PSG can qualify for the final if PSG can win the next match against Bayern. On the other hand, if Haaland of Manchester City continues to perform consistently well, then they are capable of winning against any team. The most difficult thing to win against bayern. Messi has worst history with bayern. messi was always losing in almost all of matches against bayern as bayern known so well about how to prevent messi from getting the ball. City and PSG have spent lots of money since a few years ago but these team are not able to winning the champion league till now which proves money is not a key to win the champion league at this moment. It must be a good team work that will be helping the team a lot to win the trophy. Even chelsea able to did it for two times. |
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I'll be glad if Ten Tag can get him to the squad Cody Gakpo is very talented, and he will fit in to Ten hag team, now Ronaldo is no more. Cody will have to partner with Rashford and Sancho up front if man utd will be able to get him next season. Cody Gakpo is doing well with the Netherland team at the world cup. He's kind of player I want in Manchester United next season. I wish it happens
Cody Gakpo has reportedly attracted interest from several Premier League clubs including Liverpool, Arsenal and West Ham, but Manchester United are reportedly in the forefront of signing him in the January transfer window. Cody Gakpo is plotted to replace Chistiano Ronaldo, who has been confirmed to leave Old Trafford. he is a talented young player, he is a wing striker, but he can also be rotated as a center forward. if Manchester is looking for a replacement for Ronaldo, it seems that he fits very well with the coaching style under Ten Hag. however, it seems that bringing Cody to Old Trafford is likely to encounter a few obstacles, which are quite tough negotiations. the reason is, Arteta is also targeting Cody to be brought to the Emirates Stadium in this winter transfer window. It's better for cody to join in the arsenal rather than united. The situation in united is very unstable at this moment consider the team will be selling by glazer and the interview by ronaldo has been giving a very bad image for united. Ronaldo was also being terminated caused by it was speaking about what he was feeling in united. That's a very hard choice for cody but im sure that liverpool or arsenal may have better prospect for him rather than united. There have been many players who stuck after they were moving to the united. I hope that cody will try to take the best choice for him. I think that if that would be so good to see him goes to the EPL with the team like liverpool that is still facing huge problem to be consistent in EPL. |
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The red card for the Welsh goalkeeper was like a nightmare for them, having to take one player out to replace the goalkeeper really left them with a gap and congratulations to Iran not thinking they can play with such a tight defence that it made Wales so difficult to defend through it and Bale could not do much. The goalkeeper must not make it. that may change the situation and wales may able to win the match easily. The problem is only one mistake and that will be affecting the focus by whole of players in the team. Bale itself can't do so much caused by its team can do nothing. If the goal keeper was not making such mistake and im sure that if the game will be draw but that's very sad to see a red card was coming. Qatar vs Senegal, judging from the formation Qatar will be more defensive and maybe they will only rely on counter-attacks, but I never liked defensive football because it should be attacking to score goals not defending, but Senegal are still the favorites here if Senegal loses or draws the chances are very slim to pass the group stage.
Qatar was always using the counter attack against another team. Senegal may play full offensive while qater can only waiting for the golden chance to make goal. 1 goal already made by senegal and qatar can do nothing in this match. senegal may add more goal against qater and im sure about this. Qater can only rely with luck in this match. |
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Some good game being shown by Brazil and Portugal.
Argentina gave world cup surprise and so does Saudia Arabia. I think that is the only match Saudis win maybe they wont be able to win any match because next teams will take the team saudi very serious.
Brazil and portugal were strong team and im not feeling doubt if both can win easily in the first round. The next match that will be faced by saudi arabia will be very interesting match against polandia. Polandia was getting draw against meksiko. The big surprise may come again very soon. I personally thin if saudi arabia may get a tough game against polandia. Meksiko and polandia are equal but it seems like that real performance from saudi arabia will be tested when it will be facing polandia and meksiko. Argentina needs to win against meksiko to make sure if it will have a chance to go to the next stage. If argentina will be loosing again and it may not have a chance to go to the next stage. |
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