La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2023/24

[snipie]

It is true that Barcelona is in a financial crisis. However, the Barcelona management will do their best to take Lewandowski in the team. If necessary, they will want to take Lewandowski in the team even if he takes a loan. Because Xavi's goal is to win the title next season, they definitely need a striker like Lewandowski. However, Barcelona may not be able to spend too much money now.

Barcelona problem is related to the bad management and the choice of players and their high wages. They need to reconsider the performance of their players and improve the squad. For example, De Jong can make them get Lewandowski +/- let other players leave or be loaned to reduce the charge..
Being clogged with financial issues will make any coach unable to guarantee any title or even a stable performance of the team.

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[mia_houston]

It is true that Barcelona is in a financial crisis. However, the Barcelona management will do their best to take Lewandowski in the team. If necessary, they will want to take Lewandowski in the team even if he takes a loan. Because Xavi's goal is to win the title next season, they definitely need a striker like Lewandowski. However, Barcelona may not be able to spend too much money now.

Barcelona problem is related to the bad management and the choice of players and their high wages. They need to reconsider the performance of their players and improve the squad. For example, De Jong can make them get Lewandowski +/- let other players leave or be loaned to reduce the charge..
Being clogged with financial issues will make any coach unable to guarantee any title or even a stable performance of the team.

Selling de jong in my opinion is not an accurate solution to solving barcelona current problems, maybe the money obtained from selling de jong will be used to buy lewandowski, but in my opinion, in fact Barcelona will not be able to win if they only rely on lewandowski without support other quality players, even if barcelona got lewandowski it would make their attack line dangerous but what about the midfield or defense which actually became fragile when de jong left?
I think Barcelona will only add new problems if they are desperate to sell de Jong and buy Lewandowski at a high price.

[ampere]

Barcelona problem is related to the bad management and the choice of players and their high wages.

Bad management aside, i think the Barcelona entire board are set of unserious peeps. Why do i say so, a club that is indebted and cannot pay wages has no business issuing out huge contracts or paying hefty transfer fees. The contract approach for Lewandoski is proof of everything that is wrong with Barcelona. Total Mismanagement.

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Barcelona problem is related to the bad management and the choice of players and their high wages. They need to reconsider the performance of their players and improve the squad. For example, De Jong can make them get Lewandowski +/- let other players leave or be loaned to reduce the charge..
Being clogged with financial issues will make any coach unable to guarantee any title or even a stable performance of the team.

There are definitely two options that Barcelona must take to improve their finances, maybe the first one I think is from their management side because it is from the directors that this problem arises. they have to be really unambitious in this transfer window if they want to improve their finances by buying players with low fee clauses and selling players with high salary status in their squad. maybe Barcelona should learn from what Maldini and Massara did at AC Milan because they can win the Scudetto even though they are in a financial crisis.

[jakdanyel]

Benzema's wonderful season started to make me think like whether he will be the winner of Ballon d'Or also. I don't think that I'm exaggerating this too because Benzema was definitely one of the most impressive players in the world. In addition to his successes with Real Madrid in one season, his performance about scoring goals and making assists both was incredible. I don't think that either Messi or Ronaldo will manage to win it this time. I would put Benzema to the top and Lewandowski to the second place for Ballon d'Or considering last season.

[CryptoPanda]

Very true. Benzema was in Ronaldo’s shadow in Real Madrid and would have remained hidden if Ronaldo had not left. Karim Benzema was an underrated player in Madrid when Ronaldo was still at the club, everyone was focused on Ronaldo and rest of the players were only supposed to help Ronaldo get the goals. The same was with Messi in Barcelona, after his departure from the club, Barcelona FC struggled to adjust to the game without Messi.

When  Real Madrid still have Cristiano Ronaldo never have chance for Karim Benzema show his potential and always become Ronaldo's shadow, but after several years Ronaldo leaving Real Madrid not worry for Madrid fans because Benzema show as best central forward and always consistent scoring goal and created assist. Exactly true when Real Madrid still have Cristiano Ronaldo all player focused how to give assist and have destination only Cristiano Ronaldo could scored goal. But right now all player on Real Madrid have chance for scoring goals and most active Karim Benzema, Vinicius Jr are player have consistent performance with Madrid.

Therefore, if there are rumors saying that Ronaldo will return to Real Madrid, it will not happen. In addition to Real Madrid now in the process of
regenerating their squad, Real Madrid are also aware that Ronaldo's presence will only be an obstacle for Benzema. Because since Real Madrid was
left by Ronaldo, it's a fact that Karim Benzema's performance continues to improve, and has now become a goal machine for Real Madrid. So for now
Real Madrid doesn't need a new striker, even if they want to sign a new striker, Real Madrid will not sign a striker to compete with Benzema.
But Real Madrid will be looking for a new striker to be prepared as a successor to Benzema, because Benzema's age is not young anymore, maybe he can
only play for two more seasons.

Cristiano Ronaldo is a very influential player, his presence in a team draws all attention to himself so for a team like Real Madrid who are now focused on building a younger team for the future with Karim benzema leading the pack it would not be advisable bringing in Ronaldo because his presence in the team will stall the growth and development of attacking players in the team. Real madrid currently has a stable team already doing so well at the moment and Ronaldo is not needed

[JeromeTash]

Benzema's wonderful season started to make me think like whether he will be the winner of Ballon d'Or also. I don't think that I'm exaggerating this too because Benzema was definitely one of the most impressive players in the world. In addition to his successes with Real Madrid in one season, his performance about scoring goals and making assists both was incredible. I don't think that either Messi or Ronaldo will manage to win it this time. I would put Benzema to the top and Lewandowski to the second place for Ballon d'Or considering last season.

He's going to win it. The UEFA Champion's league has a very big impact on the favorites in top of winning a domestic league. Mane would have a very big chance of winning it if Liverpool had won the Champion's league and Premier League.

[herurist]

Well, if so, then Ronaldo is just a spoiled player who continues to be given assists to score goals by his teammates. Therefore, I've never been too fanatical about idolizing a player because basically, football is about eleven players and not just one. If they only rely on one person, then in my view the great is the other players because they can control their ego, that is a difficult control when in a match.

Regardless of whether it's spoiled or not the fact is that he always gets it and when he doesn't get something like this he will get used to it and make it complicated.
But apart from that, he also has a pretty good figure for a player because he can lead to positive things even though there are some that cause controversy but I think his advantages far outweigh the disadvantages.

[Furious 7]

Ronaldo will not leave the Europe and join MLS if he believes he can play at top level. Moving to MLS means accepting that no chance to win Champions League, no chance to win Ballon d'Or or FIFA the best. Ronaldo does not do this until he loses his capability to compete with Messi. He will try to stay in Europe to win another Ballon d'Or. PSG is good option for Ronaldo as they are strong but still need a good striker who can give them enough goals each season. Ronaldo can score more than 20 goals each season that matches with PSG demand.

That's right, because this doesn't make sense considering that there are still many European clubs who want him if he really wants to leave MU why should he choose MLS which incidentally when playing there even though the league is quite good for MLS but when European players are there they are like players which has been wasted.
Ronaldo can still be competitive now it would be very doubtful how this rumor got bigger.

[kro55]

I know that having Robert Lewandowski on the team is going to help Barcelona a lot to perform better. But is it worth spending more than 40 million on a player who is already 34 years old? I really don’t think so.
I have no doubt that Robert Lewandowski is a great player and if Barcelona did not have such financial problems I would have easily said that Robert Lewandowski is worth every penny. But right now is this transfer going to be worth it for Barcelona?
I would actually love to see Barcelona get better defenders and probably get Luis Suarez instead of Robert Lewandowski. Because that is going to be a cheap transfer.

Worth it because so far Robert Lewandowski has become one of the best players in the Bundesliga. Speaking of numbers, at least it's estimated that Barcelona will get what they paid for.
Barcelona did that, offering to bring Luis Suarez back to Camp Nou from Atletico Madrid but the result was rejected by Luis Suarez. And that's a natural thing in my opinion as a form of disappointment over Suarez's loan agreement to Atletico Madrid some time ago.
Barcelona desperately need a striker to complete it next season, and no other name than Lewandowski is being targeted.

Actually, Barcelona made all the problems and now they are suffering very bad. Luis Suarez was a very good player while playing for Barcelona. I remember it was a very sad departure for Luis Suarez for both the player and also the fans. I think people can say that he was really disappointed. So, the reason why Luis Suarez might not want to go to Barcelona right now is probably that he and Barcelona go way back. If Barcelona actually pays 50 million for Robert Lewandowski I am going to say it is not going to be worth it.

[lalabotax]

It is true that Barcelona is in a financial crisis. However, the Barcelona management will do their best to take Lewandowski in the team. If necessary, they will want to take Lewandowski in the team even if he takes a loan. Because Xavi's goal is to win the title next season, they definitely need a striker like Lewandowski. However, Barcelona may not be able to spend too much money now.

If Barcelona management wants to do their best, they won't force themselves to buy Lewandowski. They have enough strikers, why do they need a new one? Lewandowski isn't a young striker, it isn't a wise decision to waste money by signing an old striker while they are in a financial crisis. In addition, there is no guarantee that Lewandowski can give an instant impact on Barcelona performance. He never played in La Liga, he may take time to adapt to the La Liga atmosphere. Moreover, Barcelona has a different play style than Bayern or Dortmund. It may be a bit difficult to adjust to tiki-taka tactic.

What Barcelona management needs to do is to keep their money. They must be very tight to use money because they are in a crisis.
Taking another loan to buy Lewandowski is a bad idea. They probably just waste money but never win any title.

[terrorJR]

For Lewandowski and Ronaldo maybe still can but I still feel that Messi right now shouldn't be that much of a favourite. His performances can be said to be ordinary in the League and it is very biased if he can return to competing in a top position and a strong candidate.
At the moment I still feel that the strong rival is Lewandowski but maybe for the Ballon d'Or there will be more drama like last season.

What drama happened last season, did I miss something? Was it because Messi was the favorite last season that people can't accept that he doesn't perform optimally and felt Lewandowski deserved more? Or because Jorginho was named one of the favorite players to win the Ballon d'or last season?


Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballon_d'Or

Despite the various public opinions regarding the former Barcelona striker, I still believe he will be one of the strongest candidates to win the Ballon d'or award.

Apart from the scores that were there, there were still some who even felt cheated, right? even Messi's competitors last season openly said that.
But indeed for next season maybe he can but for this season I don't see him as a strong candidate because if you look at anything, whether it's performance, productivity or indeed winning titles for the club, it's clear this season he lost badly, so what makes him strong candidate now.

[Wawa2013]

It is true that Barcelona is in a financial crisis. However, the Barcelona management will do their best to take Lewandowski in the team. If necessary, they will want to take Lewandowski in the team even if he takes a loan. Because Xavi's goal is to win the title next season, they definitely need a striker like Lewandowski. However, Barcelona may not be able to spend too much money now.

Barcelona problem is related to the bad management and the choice of players and their high wages. They need to reconsider the performance of their players and improve the squad. For example, De Jong can make them get Lewandowski +/- let other players leave or be loaned to reduce the charge..
Being clogged with financial issues will make any coach unable to guarantee any title or even a stable performance of the team.

Selling de jong in my opinion is not an accurate solution to solving barcelona current problems, maybe the money obtained from selling de jong will be used to buy lewandowski, but in my opinion, in fact Barcelona will not be able to win if they only rely on lewandowski without support other quality players, even if barcelona got lewandowski it would make their attack line dangerous but what about the midfield or defense which actually became fragile when de jong left?
I think Barcelona will only add new problems if they are desperate to sell de Jong and buy Lewandowski at a high price.

Maybe because Barcelona have got Franck Kessie from AC Milan, so Barcelona don't mind selling Frenkie de Jong to Man United. Moreover,
Frenkie de Jong's salary is quite high and it is quite burdensome for Barcelona, ​​so that is another consideration for Barcelona to sell Frenkie de Jong.
Frenkie de Jong is one of the important players for Barcelona, ​​therefore Barcelona put a high price if Man United want to buy Frenkie de Jong.
And also why the negotiation process went quite long, because Barcelona wanted to sell Frenkie de Jong as high as possible. So I agree with
Barcelona's move, If indeed there is a team that wants to buy Frenkie de Jong at an expensive price and at the same time can help Barcelona's
finances, why should Barcelona refuse.

After all, Frenkie de Jong is not an irreplaceable player, so I don't think it would be a problem to sell De Jong. But I don't agree that Barcelona used
the money from the sale of De Jong to buy Lewandowski at a high price. Because Lewandowski's age is not young anymore, so it's too risky
to buy Lewandowski at an expensive price, and Lewandowski's contract only has 1 year left. So it's best if Bayern ask for a transfer fee that is
too expensive, Barcelona is better off looking for another player to buy and eyeing Lewandowski when his contract expires.

[Rengga Jati]

I ehard about one of the reasons why Lewandowski willing to move to Barcelona is to prove that he is better than Benzema. Let's see it

Yes, it's all over the news, at least in the Spanish news. Apparently this is what his agent said in an interview on Cadena Ser Radio.

That's it, I read it.
And, Wouldn't it be very interesting if this actually happened, if Lewandowski did move to Barcelona? So we can prove whether what he said could happen or not. It will be very interesting, not only the El Classico duel between Real Madrid and Barcelona but also Lewandowski's personal mission to prove himself better than Benzema. It will be very exciting, I am waiting for this. really

[kro55]

I know that having Robert Lewandowski on the team is going to help Barcelona a lot to perform better. But is it worth spending more than 40 million on a player who is already 34 years old? I really don’t think so.

I think the price is still too high for Barcelona or even for anyone interested in him, the main consideration is that he is 34 years old. Even though Lewandowski is a great player, I don't think Bayern Munich should sell him that much just to make a big profit. I just hope Barcelona cancle their interest in Lewandowski and wait until the end of next season because Lewandowsi will be available for free later.
If Barcelona continue to pursue Lewandowski in this summer's market then I'm sure Bayern Munich will not reduce the value of his transfer. Lewandowski is not comparable to Ronaldo and Messi, so his selling price shouldn't be that high at 34 years old.

The problem is Bayern Munich is not going to reduce the price of Robert Lewandowski. They are trying to get as much money as they can for Robert Lewandowski and they know very well that Barcelona is very serious about this transfer. So, even though we all know that Barcelona doesn't have too much money in the bank they are still going to want to pay as much as Bayern Munich wants for Robert Lewandowski.

It's not worth paying 40 million for a player who is already 34 if the player is not Lewandowski. Why? because behind Lewandowski's 40 million price, there are other goals that can give Barcelona profits, in my opinion, such as selling jerseys and other merchandise.

It is impossible for Luis Suarez to return to Barcelona because the basis of Suarez's sale to Atletico Madrid is because he is no longer young and Barcelona needs younger players because of Barca's busy schedule. I think you still remember the reason why Barcelona officials let Luis Suarez off a few years ago.

If Barcelona needs young players why are they spending 50 million on Robert Lewandowski?
At this moment anything is possible in my opinion. I just don't want to see Barcelona spend 50 million for Robert Lewandowski. Even for 40 million, this deal seems to be a bad one for Barcelona in my opinion.

[S A KHAIR]

I think Benzema should be the player above everyone else. he was on fire in the last season. Robert Lewandowski also played well but he has a better team and he also does not face so much petition as Real Madrid does in the La Liga.

Benzema has a very high contribution to Real Madrid, no offense, but Benzema is really the best player right now. His contribution moreover in the very ate play game time also really shows who he is, the champion mentality. However, he is also supported great players all in the squad. We know that football is a unity of players, not only one. That is why Benzema and all squads really have their high contributuion.
I ehard about one of the reasons why Lewandowski willing to move to Barcelona is to prove that he is better than Benzema. Let's see it

Benzema was in peak form last season. And I hope he will be able to carry on with the same form in the next season. I don’t know if Robert Lewandowski wants to prove anything like being better than Benzema but he certainly doesn't wanna stay in Bayern Munich.

I ehard about one of the reasons why Lewandowski willing to move to Barcelona is to prove that he is better than Benzema. Let's see it

Yes, it's all over the news, at least in the Spanish news. Apparently this is what his agent said in an interview on Cadena Ser Radio.
In 1vs1 they do a comparison between the two players and they conclude that: 'Given all statistical values we believe that Robert Lewandowski is the better player at the moment.' This is debatable, but they make a detailed analysis.
We'll also have to see how Lewandowski performs in the next league.

If we just compare the last season between the two players I will say Benzema was the better player. At least he was playing in a league where it was a little bit competitive. In Bayern Munich, I don’t think Robert Lewandowski faces any hard competition at all. So in my opinion Benzema was the better player in the last season and I haven’t even talked about the champions league win.

[skarais]

The problem is Bayern Munich is not going to reduce the price of Robert Lewandowski. They are trying to get as much money as they can for Robert Lewandowski and they know very well that Barcelona is very serious about this transfer. So, even though we all know that Barcelona doesn't have too much money in the bank they are still going to want to pay as much as Bayern Munich wants for Robert Lewandowski.

But now is the time for me to say that Lewandowski is an unlikely target to be included in the Barcelona squad for the 2022-2023 season considering that Barcelona say that the high price for Lewandowski set by Bayern Munich is very unreasonable. He is 33 and 34 years old and it is an unreasonable price as reported by some sports media, but on the other hand Laliga president urged Barcelona to complete this transfer because then Laliga will be more attractive according to him.

At the moment I hope that Barcelona no longer makes Lewandowski their main target in the summer transfer window, I think they should shift their target to more potential players like Raphinha or other players whose age and price is lower than Lewandowski.

[Sebas.tian]

Benzema's wonderful season started to make me think like whether he will be the winner of Ballon d'Or also. I don't think that I'm exaggerating this too because Benzema was definitely one of the most impressive players in the world. In addition to his successes with Real Madrid in one season, his performance about scoring goals and making assists both was incredible. I don't think that either Messi or Ronaldo will manage to win it this time. I would put Benzema to the top and Lewandowski to the second place for Ballon d'Or considering last season.

Based on what Benzema displayed in some matches showed that he is among the best strikers in the whole world. Benzema really helped Real Madrid to performed well, because he used all his strategies to achieved many goals from many competition which Messi and Ronaldo couldn't achieve for their teams. I think, it will be difficult for Messi and Ronaldo to win it this time because Benzema is fully ready to use the same strategies to win it again to alert the world that he remain the world best striker.

[Razmirraz]

I think Barcelona will only add new problems if they are desperate to sell de Jong and buy Lewandowski at a high price.

Barcelona must solve the problem without adding to the problem, Xavi will release Martin Braithwaite and Luuk de Jong because it is not included in his plans, Lewandowski is considered very suitable to fill Barcelona's front line because he is still capable of playing at a high level.
Releasing F De Jong will add new problems for Barcelona, ​​F De Jong's role is very important in midfield, especially the combination of F De Jong with Pedri is very solid. Barcelona don't have to gamble selling F De Jong just to bring in Lewandowski, because they already have Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. Since arriving from Arsenal, Aubameyang has always performed well in every game. Losing F De Jong is very detrimental to Barcelona because it will be difficult to find a midfielder who is commensurate with him.

[terrorJR]

It is true that Barcelona is in a financial crisis. However, the Barcelona management will do their best to take Lewandowski in the team. If necessary, they will want to take Lewandowski in the team even if he takes a loan. Because Xavi's goal is to win the title next season, they definitely need a striker like Lewandowski. However, Barcelona may not be able to spend too much money now.

Barcelona problem is related to the bad management and the choice of players and their high wages. They need to reconsider the performance of their players and improve the squad. For example, De Jong can make them get Lewandowski +/- let other players leave or be loaned to reduce the charge..
Being clogged with financial issues will make any coach unable to guarantee any title or even a stable performance of the team.

This is true, but on the other hand they really can't expect much especially now that they are in a difficult situation so there are definitely some benefits and some risks from the steps they take.
Their financial problems made it clear that the coach had to rack his brains several times and indeed this became a double-edged sword because regardless of anything, the problem was financial, but when it failed, it was still the coach who got abused.