La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2024/25

[Juggy777]

Marca, Friday (17/4), RFEF Delegation Commission considered all possible situations related to European competition for next season. RFEF gives priority to teams that are in the Champions League qualification zone when the competition is stopped in Spain.
Mean, Barcelona, Real Madrid, Sevilla, and Real Sociedad will qualify for the highest caste competition between European clubs because they are in the top four. While Atletico Madrid and Getafe must be eliminated and qualify for the Europa League.

ATM must bury their dreams of competing in the Champions League next season if the RFEF proposal is approved..  ATM did not have the chance to catch up in the standings because all the Spanish league matches stopped, hopefully, ATM supporters will not be sad..

@Chrystora123 this news will break the heart of many Athletico Madrid fans, and I personally feel that their presence will be missed in the champions league if this decision is approved. However there’s something to cheer for Atletico Madrid fans too, as this is not the official decision and this decision may not even be approved.

The Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) proposed on Thursday that La Liga's current standings decide which teams qualify for European competitions if the season has to be cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.

La Liga and UEFA have not given their approval to the plan, with both governing bodies insisting they are still focused on finding a way to ensure domestic seasons are completed.

Source:

http://www.rfi.fr/en/wires/20200416-spanish-fa-says-current-top-four-qualify-champions-league-if-season-cancelled

[LTU_btc]

Marca, Friday (17/4), RFEF Delegation Commission considered all possible situations related to European competition for next season. RFEF gives priority to teams that are in the Champions League qualification zone when the competition is stopped in Spain.
Mean, Barcelona, Real Madrid, Sevilla, and Real Sociedad will qualify for the highest caste competition between European clubs because they are in the top four. While Atletico Madrid and Getafe must be eliminated and qualify for the Europa League.

ATM must bury their dreams of competing in the Champions League next season if the RFEF proposal is approved..  ATM did not have the chance to catch up in the standings because all the Spanish league matches stopped, hopefully, ATM supporters will not be sad..

@Chrystora123 this news will break the heart of many Athletico Madrid fans, and I personally feel that their presence will be missed in the champions league if this decision is approved. However there’s something to cheer for Atletico Madrid fans too, as this is not the official decision and this decision may not even be approved.

Well, they still can get spot in UCL, they just need to win Champions league. IIRC, winner of Champions league get spot in next year tournament.
Such scenario would be bad for Getafe too. They would finnish 5th, despite that they have same number of points as Real Sociedad, who are 4th now.
But I think it's just theorical scenario. Ending season in current phase is just worst case scenario, they are just going to resume season when it will be safe to do it.

[Daniel91]

Today I came across a very interesting article on the Croatian online portal. https://www.index.hr/sport/clanak/real-treba-100-milijuna-eura-kako-bi-zavladao-svijetom-modric-je-dio-plana/2175957.aspx
Here is summary:
Real needs €100m to dominate the world.
Real wants to create the best attack in the world in the next 2 years.
First, they'll bring in Erling Haland this summer and for him Real he must pay "only" 75 million euro thanks to a specific clause in the contract.
The next goal is Eduard Camavingu, a miracle child from Rennes.
Next year's main target is Kylian Mbappé, the natural successor to Cristiano Ronaldo.
To bring in two of the best strikers in the world and become untouchable again, Real want to use their three big trumps: the fact that they are the most attractive club in the world, then the fact that the global crisis significantly reduces  the cost of player compensation and also an oversized pool of own players.
Gareth Bale, James Rodriguez, Luka Jovic, Lucas Vazquez, Mariano Diaz and Luka Modric, all these players go on sale to raise 100 million euros to buy other players.
Real will again become the ruler of European football.

[bitgolden]

Let's not overreact with those player names and think that it will make them the European champions once again right off the bat. Even if they somehow manage to get Haaland, Mbappe and Camavingu, that doesn't mean they will be suddenly an amazing team that is unstoppable. Sure that is a good team but that team is not suddenly better than everyone else all of a sudden, it is just a "quarter finals guaranteed" team if they do meet any other super teams and thats it.

I would say in a game between Madrid without bale+modric and others you listed that will be sold, and adding haaland+mbappe+camavingu versus the current Liverpool team, I would say I would still give Liverpool a bigger chance because they have been playing together longer and have a system in place.

[LTU_btc]

Today I came across a very interesting article on the Croatian online portal. https://www.index.hr/sport/clanak/real-treba-100-milijuna-eura-kako-bi-zavladao-svijetom-modric-je-dio-plana/2175957.aspx
Here is summary:
Real needs €100m to dominate the world.
Real wants to create the best attack in the world in the next 2 years.
First, they'll bring in Erling Haland this summer and for him Real he must pay "only" 75 million euro thanks to a specific clause in the contract.
The next goal is Eduard Camavingu, a miracle child from Rennes.
Next year's main target is Kylian Mbappé, the natural successor to Cristiano Ronaldo.
To bring in two of the best strikers in the world and become untouchable again, Real want to use their three big trumps: the fact that they are the most attractive club in the world, then the fact that the global crisis significantly reduces  the cost of player compensation and also an oversized pool of own players.
Gareth Bale, James Rodriguez, Luka Jovic, Lucas Vazquez, Mariano Diaz and Luka Modric, all these players go on sale to raise 100 million euros to buy other players.
Real will again become the ruler of European football.

I don't think it's worth to pay much attention to such articles these days. There is football in action, but media still have to fill their websites somehow and attract readers. I don't think it's possible that Haland would move to Real this year, after being bought by Borussia this winter. I don't follow French league, so I don't know Camavingu, but I believe he is talented. But there is always risk to buy teenagers. Just look at Joao Felix - he was star in Benfica, but he haven't show anything impressive in Atletico.

[skiorf]

the spanish league la liga will soon be back in action... all players will run around the field like ninjas 

Does running with a mask like that do not interfere with the breathing of the players, if indeed it is official?
But it seems like it would be interesting to watch if it really happened.
But as far as I know the announcement or the media has not yet preached the news, have I missed the news?

[logfiles]

the spanish league la liga will soon be back in action... all players will run around the field like ninjas 

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVjOwyUWsAAPVt5?format=jpg

Does running with a mask like that do not interfere with the breathing of the players, if indeed it is official?
But it seems like it would be interesting to watch if it really happened.
But as far as I know the announcement or the media has not yet preached the news, have I missed the news?

Of course, it does interfere big time.
I think that whole mask thing was just a simple joke... I don't it was supposed to be serious or even seriously taken by people.  How i wish this announcement was made on April Fools' Day 

[hd49728]

the spanish league la liga will soon be back in action... all players will run around the field like ninjas 

Does running with a mask like that do not interfere with the breathing of the players, if indeed it is official?
But it seems like it would be interesting to watch if it really happened.
But as far as I know the announcement or the media has not yet preached the news, have I missed the news?

They (players) have to do harder and deeper breath that will have bad impacts on their physical performance. I think it is a joke and it will be very very weird if we see players wearing face masks in real matches. Even if clubs design special face masks for their players, and maybe home and away face masks (like what we have with shirt kits) to make matches more colorful, I still think it is weird. It is a sign of world appocalypse.

If all of them occur, clubs have another tool to promote their brands, through face-masks, and fans will have another option to buy and support their favorite clubs.

[Upgrade00]

Does running with a mask like that do not interfere with the breathing of the players, if indeed it is official?

It surely will, especially if it's a fully protective masks with no breathing holes.
As said above it could probably be intended to be a joke, but if football is to resume early, the technical crew, players in the bench and other non-playing staff my need to put on adequate protection, and customized ones to the teams design could be used

[Naida_BR]

Does running with a mask like that do not interfere with the breathing of the players, if indeed it is official?

It surely will, especially if it's a fully protective masks with no breathing holes.
As said above it could probably be intended to be a joke, but if football is to resume early, the technical crew, players in the bench and other non-playing staff my need to put on adequate protection, and customized ones to the teams design could be used

I wonder if it would be easy for the players to play football with masks.
It would be very hard to breath with them and it might have negative impact to their performance due to the limited air that will be flown to their lungs. It is a good solution for protection to those who are sitting on the bench though.

[$crypto$]

I wonder if it would be easy for the players to play football with masks.

No. it will be difficult for their breathing to play football it really needs a quick breath if wearing a mask it will be hampered and it could be that they are exhausted because of breathing and I think the competition using a mask will be a lot of protest from the parties.

It would be very hard to breath with them and it might have negative impact to their performance due to the limited air that will be flown to their lungs. It is a good solution for protection to those who are sitting on the bench though.

This is still a polemic and I don't think this will happen except on the bench that you say is true, I think the higher-ups are still discussing this when football will start again.

[erep]

No. it will be difficult for their breathing to play football it really needs a quick breath if wearing a mask it will be hampered and it could be that they are exhausted because of breathing and I think the competition using a mask will be a lot of protest from the parties.

Players can't work optimally due to fatigue in breathing, or maybe the solution is to cut the duration of the game shorter, lol. Wearing a mask might be more suitable for E-sport games because it relies on the power of thought and strategy.

[RealMalatesta]

Well, we have talked about this before and decided that the masks are probably not for players but for more like promotional reasons so that teams could make a bit more money. Plus these are not even proper masks, these are more like designer scarf type of things because they are not really all that protective aside from being thick, masks are made from something special which you can use inside of these and then put these on afterwards which may work out to make it look better.

All the above, I see this as cash grab by the teams so that they could make some profits while everyone is at home and leagues are cancelled for now and they are not making any single profit at all, which is why they decided to make something like this. Otherwise players would definitely hard time playing with these for sure.

[Chrystora123]

No. it will be difficult for their breathing to play football it really needs a quick breath if wearing a mask it will be hampered and it could be that they are exhausted because of breathing and I think the competition using a mask will be a lot of protest from the parties.

Players can't work optimally due to fatigue in breathing, or maybe the solution is to cut the duration of the game shorter, lol. Wearing a mask might be more suitable for E-sport games because it relies on the power of thought and strategy.

tired because it's hard to breathe because of wearing a mask, that's for sure what will happen to the players..  using a ventilator or astronaut suit is much better and healthier, even though the burden of their clothes is increasing 

ps: just a joke

[$crypto$]

No. it will be difficult for their breathing to play football it really needs a quick breath if wearing a mask it will be hampered and it could be that they are exhausted because of breathing and I think the competition using a mask will be a lot of protest from the parties.

Players can't work optimally due to fatigue in breathing, or maybe the solution is to cut the duration of the game shorter, lol. Wearing a mask might be more suitable for E-sport games because it relies on the power of thought and strategy.

Lol  there's no way the soccer game will be cut short due to wearing a mask. I don't think that makes sense.

What is clear is still looking for the best solution to start the LaLiga match in the next few months, it is better to wait for the results of the decision of the top brass to do for the LaLiga match.

[AakZaki]

The good news comes from LaLiga, as reported by Goal^[1], LaLiga clubs have received permission to practice and in that practice all players must follow the protocol provided, such as:

• Health test
• Routine inspection
• The place of practice or residence is determined.

The granting of a training permit was one of the results of a meeting between the RFEF (Spanish Football Federation), La Liga, and the Spanish National Sports Council (CSD) which lasted eight hours at the Palacio de Viana.A

La Liga is predicted to run again in June, but CSD does not confirm when the exact date or time the training session resumed.  In addition, a fund of 10 million euros is also prepared to help athletes who need it.

Reference^[1]: https://www.goal.com/en/amp/news/coronavirus-laliga-training-return-agreed-10m-fund-for/1cemj9e3btyi61viuajtb7o3pl?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=amp

[hd49728]

The good news comes from LaLiga, as reported by Goal^[1], LaLiga clubs have received permission to practice and in that practice all players must follow the protocol provided, such as:

• Health test
• Routine inspection
• The place of practice or residence is determined.

Looks like good preventive and screening approach but who will be responsible for costs of such campaigns, clubs are responsible for all their members (staffs, and players)?

The granting of a training permit was one of the results of a meeting between the RFEF (Spanish Football Federation), La Liga, and the Spanish National Sports Council (CSD) which lasted eight hours at the Palacio de Viana.A

La Liga is predicted to run again in June, but CSD does not confirm when the exact date or time the training session resumed.  In addition, a fund of 10 million euros is also prepared to help athletes who need it.

Reference^[1]: https://www.goal.com/en/amp/news/coronavirus-laliga-training-return-agreed-10m-fund-for/1cemj9e3btyi61viuajtb7o3pl?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=amp

Sounds good to have the potential come back of La Liga in June. I don't know all clubs in Spain, or in La Liga in particular, have agreed with the plan to finish the season. Are there some clubs disagree with the plan? In Italy, there are some clubs officially state that they don't agree with the plan to play rest matches and finish the season.

[Daniel91]

Very interesting article in Marca today: https://www.marca.com/en/football/barcelona/2020/04/21/5e9e18cb22601d340c8b456e.html
''Half the Barcelona players face an uncertain future''.
In short, it seems Barcelona will probably have financial difficulties and problems to bring top players in the Club.
Also, a lot players face an uncertain future like Rakitic, Vidal, Semedo, Umtiti and many others.
To many problems for Barcelona now.

[Harkorede]

^

Barcelona as a football club right now is in total shambles, financially, in terms of PR, management and everything else you name it.

They're reportedly on approaching bankruptcy, while in a civil war. I'm still in the support of resolving the current board 

[snipie]

^

Barcelona as a football club right now is in total shambles, financially, in terms of PR, management and everything else you name it.

They're reportedly on approaching bankruptcy, while in a civil war. I'm still in the support of resolving the current board 

Players need to send stimulus check to Barca to save it from bankruptcy
I think this could be an opportunity to revise many things in Barcelona from players to top staff...