Transfer rumours:

Bayern Munich chief executive Oliver Kahn has described Tottenham and England forward Harry Kane, 28, as "an absolute top striker" and "a dream of the future" after they agreed to sell Robert Lewandowski, 33, to Barcelona. Kane for Lewandowski? This is really surprising news to me. Are there realistic chances for this to happen and does Bayern need Kane after bringing in Mane?
Netherlands international Frenkie de Jong is opposed to joining Manchester United or any English club, but the 25-year-old Barcelona midfielder would consider a move to Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich. This situation with Frenkie de Jong is getting weirder every day. He wants to stay at the club but Barcelona does not want him. Manchester wants him, but he doesn't want to play in England. Now he would like to go to Bayern, but it doesn't seem that Bayern wants him. What will happen to this player in the end?
Cristiano Ronaldo, 37, has dismissed rumours linking him with a loan move back to former club Sporting Lisbon. The Portugal captain posted "Fake" in reply to an Instagram story by Sport TV Portugal showing the Manchester United attacker's car parked at the Sporting stadium. There are more and more strange rumors about Ronaldo, but what will he decide in the end? And will he manage to find a new club this summer?

Source: https://www.bbc.com/sport/62199569

I agree with this.
France and England were not very convincing in the last competition of the League of Nations this year and achieved worse results, but that does not mean anything.
There is still a lot of time until the world football championship in Qatar, and the players will take this competition much more seriously and prepare much better.
Considering the difficult weather conditions and the large number of quality teams, and the fact that the competition will be very hard for all players, the team that is physically and mentally the most prepared will win.
A very exciting and uncertain competition awaits us, and I give a small advantage to France and Brazil for the title.

In this group, the Netherlands is the clear favorite, but Senegal, the finalist of the African Championship, will also be a very difficult opponent and they are probably the main candidates for second place and passing the group.
Ecuador is probably the weakest South American team that qualified for this world championship, and Qatar almost certainly would not have participated in this world championship if they were not the hosts.
I think there is little chance for Qatar to pass the group because they will have to beat one of the group's favorites, the Netherlands or Senegal.
Of course, surprises are always possible, and Qatar can certainly count on mild support from FIFA and football referees.

In fact, it all started when I started a topic for newbie members without merit in the Beginners & Help section of the forum, and offered them to report their quality posts and get the first merit.
Unfortunately, most of the reported posts were of poor quality and I could not give them merit.
After that I started getting unwanted private messages in my inbox from newbie members begging me to give them merits.
Then I just gave up and closed the topic.
Everything had simply gone too far.

Yes, there are a lot of older members who may not have earned their forum rank due to the quality of their posts and their contributions to the forum, but they was lucky to have become members before the merits system started and thanks to that they got a higher forum rank, while new members have to work much harder for higher forum ranks.
Because of this, it could be said that the merit system is not fair to the younger members, who joined this forum much later, but on the other hand, thanks to the merits, we were able to separate the quality members from the spammers on this forum, as you said.
No system is obviously perfect, but it is obvious that merits have benefited this forum.

Dobrodošao sa produženog vikenda FatFork 
Da naš spamovich već nije našao novu kampanju, rekao bih da je Roobet.com idealna kampanja za njega, s obzirom da svi znamo da ne voli spamati po gamblingu već samo po našem lokalu 
Malo mi je čudno što ove 2 kampanje, Stake i Cloudbet tako dugo traže nove članove, i već imaju tako puno prijava.
Da li su im kriteriji baš toliko strogi ili jednostavno više nema dovoljno kvalitetnih postera na forumu?
Čini mi se da smo na našem lokalu već svi u dobrim kampanjama i da na nas ne mogu računati 

Hvala na još jednoj korisnoj informaciji slackovic.
Kad već nitko ovdje više ne prijavljuje kvalitetne postove za merite, barem ona druga svrha ove teme još uvijek funkcionira, kripto najave i obavijesti 
Nažalost nisam trgovao na MagicEden ali za sve vas koji jeste, sretno vam s njihovim airdropom.
Valjda će biti nešto $$$ 
Ima li još netko kakvu zanimljivu kripto najavu ili možda samo prijaviti neki kvalitetni post za merit?

Transfer rumours:

Bayern Munich sporting director Hasan Salihamidzic has again reiterated the German club's stance on Cristiano Ronaldo, 37, by ruling out a move for the Manchester United and Portugal forward. Can we trust him to tell the truth about Ronaldo?  
Manchester City have no intention of selling Portugal midfielder Bernardo Silva to Barcelona this summer, with manager Pep Guardiola still viewing the 27-year-old as an important part of his plans next season. So there will be no agreement between Barcelona and Manchester regarding Silva?
Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag has told the club's hierarchy to continue their attempts to sign 25-year-old Dutch midfielder Frenkie de Jong from Barcelona - even if he has not joined them by the start of their season on 7 August. Interesting situation. The clubs have already agreed on everything, but the player does not want to leave. How will this end in the end?
Barcelona have named De Jong in their squad for a pre-season tour in the United States. Does this mean that Barcelona gave up on his transfer to Manchester?
Juventus are in contact with Atletico Madrid about signing 29-year-old Spain striker Alvaro Morata, who returned to the Spanish club in the summer following the end of a two-year loan spell at the Serie A side. Juve have done a very good job this summer and have strengthened their squad for the new season.

Source: https://www.bbc.com/sport/62192408

This is true not only for tennis but also for all other professional sports on which many people bet.
When big money is at stake, of course there are plenty of opportunities for collusion and fraud.
Tennis is a sport in which realistically only the first 40-50 players on the ranking list can live richly, the next 100-200 players survives and the rest not even that.
Tennis is also a very expensive sport, and of course many lower-ranked tennis players without sponsors cannot afford expensive trips and participation in better-paid tournaments.
If you can't make big money in lower paying tournaments and the costs are high, what's left for you? For some tennis players, the answer is obvious, to try to make money in other, illegal ways and at least somehow monetize their tennis career.

France didn't play well in the last European Championship and in the League of Nations, and it's obvious that they have problems in the relations between the players in the team.
However, in terms of the quality of the players, they have one of the strongest national teams and if the players focus exclusively on their game and the result, they will be one of the main favorites again.
Brazil has not been a world champion for a long time, which is a real surprise, but it is obvious that in the previous world championships, they were not mentally ready to win the world champion title. Who remembers Brazil's semi-final disaster against Germany in 2014?
Argentina is still a one man show and they depend too much on Messi.

Portugal fans could say the same about their national team, that this is Ronaldo's last chance to become a world champion 
Argentina is a good team, but are they really good enough to become world champions?
Still that team is too dependent on one player, Messi and that is not good for them.
Messi achieved his greatest football successes in Barcelona, a top team that had a lot of outstanding football players.
In the national team, Messi doesn't have such good teammates and it is much more difficult for him to play, because everything depends on him and the pressure is much higher.
I give Brazil and France a much better chance for the world championship title because they are much better balanced teams with a lot of quality football players.

This is actually the truth, which is confirmed through all the statistical reports on the activities of this forum, from Rikafip and other members.
In general, the trend is that internet forums are becoming less and less popular, while telegram groups, social networks and similar methods of internet communication are becoming more popular.
This forum follows similar trends and has less and less active members and activities every month.
As much as the signature campaigns affected the quality of this forum due to the large number of low-quality posts, they still helped to keep this forum as active and interesting for new users.

I'm sorry about that, Ratimov is really a very prominent member of this forum and has helped many members in the past.
I guess it has become a burden for him to receive many requests for help with merits, which is understandable.
I used to get spam messages in my inbox from unknown new members begging me for merits and sometimes it really becomes a burden.
Ratimov is indeed a deserving member of this forum and should be thanked for everything he has done.
Filippone, 10 k merits, congratulation, a great achievement 

OP, if you have been on this forum and in the crypto for so long, then you surely have some knowledge and experience that you can share with others and thus contribute to the community.
You can always explore new crypto projects and share information here.
If I understood you correctly, you are unhappy that after several years you still haven't reached the desired forum rank, which I assume you need to be able to participate in better paid signature campaigns.
If I were you, I would first focus on how I can contribute to this forum and help other members, and everything else will come naturally.

Transfer rumours:

Robert Lewandowski will complete his move to Barcelona this weekend, after Bayern Munich verbally accepted an increased offer worth 50m euros (£42.5m) for the Poland striker.
After selling Lewandowski, Bayern will increase their bid to Juventus for the Netherlands defender Matthijs de Ligt, 22, who has already agreed personal terms for a five-year contract.
So, Bayern obviously decided to make good money on Lewandowski and bring in a new football star.
Manchester United are convinced Frenkie de Jong is committed to joining the club despite reports in Spain that the Netherlands midfielder, 25, is desperate to stay at Barcelona. It seems to me that Frenkie de Jong is behaving quite unreasonably. Why stay in a club that doesn't want you and where you won't play and reject a good offer from a club that wants you and where you will definitely play? It is obvious that Ronaldo does not want a rich football retirement just yet and wants to fight for new trophies.
AC Milan are close to announcing a new contract for 40-year-old Sweden forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic.  Zlatan is truly a football and human phenomenon. How much longer can he play at the top level?

Source: https://www.bbc.com/sport/62183762

I totally agree with you on this.
What separated the big three, and initially the big four until Murray dropped out due to numerous injuries, from other tennis players was precisely great mental strength and self-confidence, and a fight to the end.
The very fact that Murray managed to win 3 GS and be an Olympic winner during the time of the big three speaks a lot about his tennis greatness.
Murray unfortunately lost to Bublik, but we all know he won't give up and will come back 

He is a great fighter and never gives up. Many others would have given up tennis long ago in his place.

I watched Russia in the World Cup qualifiers because they were in a group with Croatia.
Realistically, it is a national team of average quality, which managed to win second place in the group and additional qualifications with a lot of luck.
Even if they had been given the opportunity to participate in additional qualifications, I don't think they would have qualified for the world championship.
From what I've seen, Ukraine is a better team than Russia and it's a pity for them that they won't be playing in the World Cup.
As for Brazil, in the last 20 years they always had very good individuals, but they did not have a well-balanced team.
I don't think they were at the required level psychologically either. Do you remember the semi-final against Germany in 2014?

I assume you are referring to Brazil's very poor performance at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil and the disastrous loss to Germany in the semi-finals or the fact that Brazil has not been a world champion for 20 years?
Personally, I see Brazil, along with France, as the main favorite for the title at the world championship in Qatar.
However, at this world championship, there are still plenty of high-quality and strong national teams such as England, Germany, Belgium, Argentina etc. and a very uncertain competition awaits us.
The team that is most ready to withstand a very difficult and strenuous competition will win.

OP, you have been a member of this forum for a very long time, a year or more, and until now you have not been interested in this question.
Why have you become interested in this question now?
It seems that until now you have been active exclusively as a bounty hunter and that you were not interested in participating in some other topics on this forum.
Have you decided to change your career and become more active in other parts of the forum? 
If so, I advise you to focus on the quality of your posts and think about how you can contribute to the community on the forum.
Merit and advancement on the forum will come naturally, based on your work and efforts.

I agree that bitcoin is one of the most stable and secure investment options among cryptocurrencies.
However, there are other very good crypto projects and I see no reason why to limit yourself to bitcoin as the only investment.
Why limit investing to only crypto, after all?
There are also many other interesting investment opportunities such as in the energy sector, electric cars and others.
Every serious investor should diversify their investments in several stable crypto projects, as well as high-dividend stocks, real estate, start-ups and other promising business projects, and have a clear business strategy and exit strategy.