2 Champions League trophies! Luis Enrique is also staying for at least another year as it seems. I don't think any of their important players are considering their options now. They are still top favourites to win the same tournament next year too.
but where did you hear this news it seems absurd to me that players from different clubs can train together, i don't think this is conceivable. I understand everything but i don't think they can do it on a contractual level, the thing changes if they are players of the same national team then they can certainly decide to play together. |
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Playing defensively is actually also important because it concerns the resilience of the back area so that it is not easy to concede goals, but relying on defensive play is not enough, they also need to balance their attack so they can create goals to beat the opponent, hopefully next season Arteta will make Arsenal stronger and they also need to improve the front line area because from what I see Arsenal front line is not very productive. arsenal decided not to play as well as they did throughout their career, that style that distinguished this team and which also led them to win the premier league championship, which we know is one of the toughest ever, in that final a bit of fear definitely took over. |
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I don't think the South Africa players were prepared for that level of hostile support, and it must have had a massive demoralizing effect on them. Ultimately, these factors may have prevented them from performing at their absolute best in the match. In fact, i don't agree with these teams who decide to play defense especially at the start of such a prestigious tournament, the World Cup is not exactly the right place to play in this way, you can only do it if you can afford it, its clear that the level was very low and for now we don't see any good matches. |
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Mexico had the advantage of playing in front of their home crowd so the motivation provided by their fans made the players reluctant to accept defeat in their first match. Furthermore they were significantly behind South Africa in the standings. In my opinion it was quite natural for the hosts to win the match with a comfortable 2-0 score giving their fans who filled the stadium their first victory. Mexico played a little better, i must say that the level of these two teams is really low, but South Africa was worse, even having some chances, they were unable to manage the pressure of this competition, but it must be said that the level is very low and that it wasn't very pleasant, but the USA surprised me with an excellent match. |
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Mbappe will definitely not leave, including because of ego - coming to Real and winning nothing would be too bad a line on his resume. As for Vinnie, the situation is more complicated: his contract expires in a year, and negotiations for a new one have stalled because he wants terms that are close to exceptional (like Mbappé's). But Real Madrid is the most expensive and profitable club in the world because it doesn't waste money, but rather acts rationally.
I don't think that mbappe will leave, all things considered, its not the team's problem, or rather he has a lot of ego and his character is very particular, but i don't think its the main problem, this implies that instead i think there will be a lot of replacements with the other players who aren't giving much at the moment. |
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This decision is quite tough but whatever has happened is good because this time many teams have not performed well. Apart from the top 5, there are many teams who have played quite badly and considering this, it is quite good and appropriate to take such a decision and it will give the teams a chance to show new strength and good performance. Milan will also try very hard in this because they will also fall behind by quite a bit this time. Of course, because this time it was not very difficult for the teams that have reached the top to win the match because the lower teams did not pay attention to their own negligence. Now the situation will be quite good and the teams will also take themselves seriously and try to play well.
the Serie A teams perfectly reflect the problems that exist at a national level, in fact Italy did not qualify for the World Cup also for this reason, there are no longer competitive teams in Italy and this is the demonstration of why these players when they go to play do not do well and stay at home. |
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But I think Arsenal, not PSG, wanted to take the penalty shootout. Because PSG attacked a lot in the last 30 minutes of the match, but Arsenal continued to play defensively like they did before, and that's why the match ended up going to a penalty shootout. So this match was lost because of Arsenal's mistake, if Arsenal had tried to score goals through attacking play, they would have scored 1 goal, and then they would have had a much better chance of winning the match, but they played the match without attacking in their own way, and where they might have thought that they would do something good in the penalty shootout, but instead they missed 2 penalties and lost the match, so I think Arsenal lost the match because of their mistake of not changing their style of play.
I, however, believe it is the opposite, i don't understand why Arsenal would have wanted to take penalties, in fact there was a problem with the management of the match, this is a priority thing, not wanting to go to penalties is important for a team that is not very used to taking them, which is why i think it was all a strategy from Paris Saint-Germain. |
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Even though arsenal had a poor ball possession compared to psg we cannot deny the fact that arsenal gave them a tough time and it wasn't easy for them to win. You are right, arsenal was already exhausted before facing psg and also psg couldn't really perform well due to the same reason as well. In my opinion I think psg got lucky.
Arsenal didn't dominate the match like they always did, and they played very carefully but they weren't able to truly dominate the opposing team, Paris Saint-Germain understood this immediately and in fact they weren't surprised and at the first opportunity they turned the situation around, i hope that Arsenal have understood from their mistakes and then next year they do better. |
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Saudi Pro League transfers are scarce right now and there are a lot of rumours about players coming in or out.
Most talks are concentrating about the future of Salah and his future team. Many speculate that he will remain in Europe and Turkey as an option so he can stay in European competitions. Fenerbahce is trying to seduce him to join them. I don't know if he is trying to join another team in England, Spain or France because I suppose many teams will welcome him but salary counts also. Otherwise in Saudi Arabia, there is Al-Ettihad that is waiting his approval.
Where do you think Salah will end up?
I don't think these are competitive tournaments, they are certainly highly paid and that is the most important thing for some players, who don't see Turkey as a competitive environment but a place where they pay them a lot of money and this is what they do, they move there for the money and hope to play again. |
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What you're saying is true. If Bayern don't buy new players this season it won't be a problem. The players in their current squad are needed by other teams meaning their quality is as good as players who often start in the lineup or those who often sit on the bench. However every team has weaknesses.
Moreover their performance so far has been quite good in domestic and other competitions but they need to know that they have always failed to win the UCL. This indicates that there are areas they need to improve to navigate next season and improve even more. They need to think about how they can go further in the UCL next season. In domestic competitions they can certainly easily win the league but how? The way they also have to be tougher in the UCL competition next season is by looking at the players who appeared in the World Cup so that their weak points can be covered by the presence of players they buy after the World Cup.
Bayern doesn't need to buy other players, they're fine as they are, i honestly don't see many weak points and i must say that they're not even that bad, i must say that to win the Champions League they have to focus a lot on a coach who knows how to manage a European environment, that's the only difficult thing. |
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A quick update on BRDb scores and the userscript There is now a section for notifications.  On the profile page, you?ll find the ?Notifications? tab, which currently shows the Merits you send or receive and the new posts you write; later on, I?ll try to include quotes as well  On the leaderboard page, you?ll find the Live Feed button, which will show you what?s been happening on the forum recently  In the userscript, you can view notifications by clicking on your score and then on the bell icon  This way, you?ll be able to see notifications directly whilst browsing the forum. You?ll need to update the userscript, which can be found on the first page of this thread This work is going better and better, i have to say that i really like it a lot, obviously there will be a lot of work behind it, but the most positive thing is the impact it has on the whole forum, fun but also very functional, i like this and i think i will start using it too, time permitting. |
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This is shit for God sake the referee is not coming into USA as a Somalian but as an envoy of FIFA and thus represents FIFA in the world cup. This a man that has worked all his life to merit this. This is football and politics should be kept aside cause I do not get all the drama the USA is making about this world cup when they are not the only host to it.
Did the USA government not know that officials and countries all around the world will be gracing the tournament before they agreed on co-hosting? Why bring their damn politics into a sport that is made to unite the world.
I do not see unity in the world cup in anyway, cause with all these controversial actions by Trump and with FIFA keeping quiet it is enough for the rest countries to show solidarity by boycotting this event that Trump is making ridicule of by bringing their county's politics into it.
yes in fact this is a truly shameful thing, every time they always find a way to make me hate this sport that i loved so much more and more, it is not possible that a person appointed by FIFA is treated in this way, in no other body is it possible that there is this type of treatment, the world cup is becoming a farce. |
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Barry2d I will completely agree with you, that scoring of arsenal which is meant to give more confident is a lost of confidence before them reason been that within 5 minutes of the game they where able to make a goal with their opponent which would have been more advantageous considering the magnitude and weight of the match they are playing to put greater effort and more tactical means if scoring another or possibly fence their eighteen but could not saying they are 'afraid' I won't doubt such , what they need do at this point is to be more courageous because many condition of what they have face will come as opportunity but if they apply this first principle they used with PSG they may likely not smell the cup soon they should learn a lesson never given up and relenting in situations of scoring one goal as well reducing the effort as see in the last match is pathetic but no remedy as lack of courage become their barrier on that very match.
Arsenal should have done much more, but it would simply have been enough to play as they always do and go and do the work they did to get there, but this work wasn't enough, i also think its about always working very well on yourself, and this work must start with the individual players, helping each other is what matters most. |
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Honestly Xavi Alonso is a hardworking coach in all over he always try his possible best to make sure any teams his manage at that doing well by achieving their goals, and every team that he left where missing him now especially the Bayern Leverkusen they really miss him too much; because he make their performances be so
Incredible last year ago which they were able to remain unbeaten.
But look at their performances this season their performance want very poor when Xavi Alonso is not more in the team again, even the team that not supposed beat them find them very easy to defeated Leverkusen have to improve more of their performances next season if they don?t want to go trophy less next coming season again.
For me he is a coach who certainly knows his stuff and i must say that by continuing to do so he can bring home a lot of positive results, i am convinced that he can easily do it, the season will begin immediately after the World Cup, because the preparation that will involve the teams will be done immediately and i think that from there we could see whether he will be able to manage the team or not. |
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You got a point here, thanks for arguing smartly.
Do me a favour and answer: do you think they would be much better if they had a different coach? Klopp, Guardiola, what do you think?
I still think that, if you look at it player by player, Real Madrid is not the best team. Do you disagree?
Personally i believe that for the style of play that Real Madrid has, it needs to go much better with those coaches Klopp, Guardiola, in my opinion they can do very well compared to many others but they are highly expensive and then if they don't succeed it will make a mess on an economic level and that type of club doesn't like that. |
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all the managers were eliminated apart from a few, this is definitely a hard-fought decision, which carries forward a common thought of all the Milan fans and this is the right thing to do, these teams need to be re-founded with young Italians fighting for the shirt and Juventus must do the same if they want to win again.
The current managerial staff of Juventus, which have been stable, has never brought the club even closer to the Scudetto. Having good coach has really helped to boost the team's confidence to be more competitive next season. It'll be the ideal combination of finding new players to fill in their needs, and neutralising their longstanding opponents. its true, a speech that doesn't make sense, i understand that these are jobs that don't really bring peace of mind to the teams but its a project that must start now, now is the only time to get it started, i understand the perplexity of the big clubs but this is definitely what everyone wants to do and Milan must start doing it too. |
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Lyon didn?t have a good performance throughout last season, they didn?t perform bad, but they didn?t play up to expectations this season because they didn?t invest in their team as expected, and Lens that is of low class than them in the league 1 history have shocked everyone this season by making it to the Champions League next season. This is a good for football fans because we can see some teams coming up to challenge PSG for the title because I believe they can do better next season and I am hoping to see some teams do the same next season in order to make the league competitive.
I can?t say that Lyon will surely qualify through playoffs, but they have champions league experience already, so I will expect them to qualify to the group phase of the Champions League.
I would have imagined that Lens had also won the championship, so an incredible result that still surprised everyone, i can't wait to see them play in the Champions League, a team so full of hope lights up the football light inside me, this is very important for everyone. |
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I agree with on that, but I think only Milan could replicate their performance of last season. Milan spends heavily season by season, but are still suffering due to poor squad stability, and inability to offload under performing players to gain more profit. I think their boardroom signings and their manager lacks communication. The boadroom often sign players that don't match the manager's tactical system. They must sort out all these issues, before they can be recognized as title contenders for next season.
I think with the players Juventus are looking to sign in this transfer window, I expect them to compete for the Serie A trophy next season. I certainly think that if they can sign the right players, they will play better next season. They already have a good manager, so no issue concerning their managerial aspect.
all the managers were eliminated apart from a few, this is definitely a hard-fought decision, which carries forward a common thought of all the Milan fans and this is the right thing to do, these teams need to be re-founded with young Italians fighting for the shirt and Juventus must do the same if they want to win again. |
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Yes, Arsenal were very close but they couldn't keep the lead, they made one mistake in defense and that was enough for PSG players to use their great quality and equalize.
After that it was a one-way street for PSG.
I agree that next season PSG will be the biggest favorite to win the Champions League again and have a chance to catch up with Real and repeat their success in winning 3 Champions Leagues in a row.
I think Bayern will be their main competitor again.
Arsenal lost control and the mental level of the match, they did everything to try to bring the match to a physical level, on the other hand Paris Saint-Germain kept the match cold and led to a penalty shootout, this was a good thing but also a lot of luck, but it was all part of a plan in my opinion which then definitely paid off. |
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In my view If Arsenal had played Champions League final the way they did at the start of the season, they would have beaten PSG. Probably domestic matches and the pressure of conceding the title to Manchester City at the end wore them down, so their potential to win Champions League was not realized, although they came very close.
I have this feeling too, Arsenal played very well, but they allowed themselves to be dominated a little too much, it must be said that the teams came from two very tiring paths, they faced very difficult matches and this led them to the final exhausted, this was really, in my opinion, Arsenal's problem. |
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