La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2023/24

[nara1892]

I don't think it's an easy matter for every player to adapt. Barcelona have brought in a lot of new players this season so they also need time, then player injuries are a separate problem for Xavi, making it all difficult. So far Xavi has been able to do a good job, although there are some shortcomings that also need to be fixed again.

He was prepared from the start because it is impossible for him to bring in so many players without prior preparation but indeed to say Adaptation is true because the level of adaptation for one player is clearly different and affects his playing on the pitch but on the other hand actually at the moment Xavi does not have the time. what you say in my opinion because it is certain that with the arrival of a lot of players there and of course with this high price, the target for the club's financial management must also increase so Xavi needs trophies as compensation he spends a lot of money and when he fails then we know what what will happen next season.

[mv1986]

Benzema played one outstanding season, but when you think about it pretty much everyone knew that the won't be able to repeat such a season. On top of that as you mentioned, he is injured way too often. You can be the best player in the world, but when you are not healthy you are also no help to your team.

Sure, he can't repeat the same thing in the previous season because he gets injured. If he can stay healthy and has no problem with his fitness, I am sure he can repeat his best performance like the previous season. The main problem of Benzema is his age, he is already 34 years old. At the age nearly 35 years old, players are usually more susceptible to injury.

I believe that Madrid will sign one striker in the upcoming summer and I think it is going to be a big name.

Real Madrid always targets big names, they only want a top striker. If you hear the rumors, all their targets are popular strikers such as Kylian Mbappé, Victor Osimhen, and Lautaro Martínez. But the problem is the chance to sign them, I think it will be a bit difficult to sign them as they are the main players in their clubs.

That's correct and I can imagine that even a top club like Real Madrid has a whole lot of trouble to sign the best of the best as there are more and more large investors joining the soccer world (or the sports world in general). Real Madrid is not a poor club, but they are by no means a sheikh club either. We may see soccer keep changing more and more over the coming years. Newcastle is the next one, PSG, City, and other clubs are also backed by billionaires. I just recalled that Neymar left Barcelona for PSG for 250 million or something like that and everybody wondered why he would leave Barcelona for a club in France. These clubs have been pushing the boundaries. Qatar also purchased several right from Fc Barcelona. Never say never, who knows, but maybe a in a couple of years from now Barcelona also fully belongs to Qatar. They are pushing the salary boundaries and then normal clubs can't keep up with it.

[TelolettOm]

Memphis Depay doesn't suit well into Barcelona and them style of football, it's not that Xavi Hernandez doesn't want to use him but the fact that he doesn't fit in well is observable.

I think Depay fits with Barcelona game style, he only doesn't get enough time to play under Xavi's management. In the previous season, he rarely played because Xavi prefers to choose Aubameyang. While this season, he spent much time on the bench because Xavi prefers to use Lewandowski. So, the problem is about the time to play, not about the characteristics of Barcelona game style.

Currently Erik Ten Hag is making Gakpo his number 1 option when the same season opens.
Both Memphis Depay and Manchester United seem to be having a few little discussion with that player agent's as Barcelona also will be ready to let go of the Barcelona contract.

Gakpo is a good option, he is still 23 years old and very talented.
He will be suitable to play together with Antony, Sancho, or with Rashford.
With these young attackers, Man United also will have a great future.

About Depay, I think he is ideally a second option/alternative player, if Man United fails to sign Gakpo.

[AndySt]

That's correct and I can imagine that even a top club like Real Madrid has a whole lot of trouble to sign the best of the best as there are more and more large investors joining the soccer world (or the sports world in general). Real Madrid is not a poor club, but they are by no means a sheikh club either. We may see soccer keep changing more and more over the coming years. Newcastle is the next one, PSG, City, and other clubs are also backed by billionaires. I just recalled that Neymar left Barcelona for PSG for 250 million or something like that and everybody wondered why he would leave Barcelona for a club in France. These clubs have been pushing the boundaries. Qatar also purchased several right from Fc Barcelona. Never say never, who knows, but maybe a in a couple of years from now Barcelona also fully belongs to Qatar. They are pushing the salary boundaries and then normal clubs can't keep up with it.

In principle, there is nothing wrong when there are more players in the arena who can claim titles. Another question is that there should be quite a lot of such clubs so that there would not be such a thing when one or two giants like Barcelona or Real Madrid could arrange the transfer of any player they liked to their squad. Therefore, Real Madrid fans can be outraged as much as they like about the fact that Killian Mbappe did not move to their favorite club and stayed in France as part of Paris Saint-Germain to try to win the Champions League for his native country. There is nothing wrong when the elite club of Champions League winners is replenished with new members. Another question is that we also need to do what so that as many clubs as possible can afford elite players and qualify for the most prestigious titles.

[snipie]

Memphis Depay doesn't suit well into Barcelona and them style of football, it's not that Xavi Hernandez doesn't want to use him but the fact that he doesn't fit in well is observable.

I think Depay fits with Barcelona game style, he only doesn't get enough time to play under Xavi's management. In the previous season, he rarely played because Xavi prefers to choose Aubameyang. While this season, he spent much time on the bench because Xavi prefers to use Lewandowski. So, the problem is about the time to play, not about the characteristics of Barcelona game style.

If he was better than them or more suitable for the strategy used by Xavi, he would play more time. Having other options even in the benches is important thing for a team. In Netherlands game vs Ecuador, he wasn't that useful and some people criticised him and the coach for the change done there.

[hd49728]

If he was better than them or more suitable for the strategy used by Xavi, he would play more time. Having other options even in the benches is important thing for a team. In Netherlands game vs Ecuador, he wasn't that useful and some people criticised him and the coach for the change done there.

He is not a favorite player of Xavi and things change when coach and tactic changed.  Before Xavi, Dembele was an useless player in Barcelona but now he is a very important for Xavi and Barcelona. It also helps Dembele to have a good position in France team too.

Memphis Depay is a good attacking player but he does not match with Barcelona tactic. They don't actualy need attacking players who can not adapt to their tiki taka. He will have to find another club in either January or in the next summer.

[SatoPrincess]

Depay contract with Barcelona has entered its final year, Barcelona tried to release Depay in last summer's transfer but ended up staying because there was no agreement with another club. Barcelona have put Depay on the Sell list in the January transfer window to avoid Depay leaving on a free transfer.
It is better for Depay to leave than to stay at Barcelona, it is very difficult for him to get minutes to play at Barcelona because Xavi believes more in other players such as Lewandowski, Dembele, Raphinha, Ansu Fati and Ferran Torres. Galatasaray really want to bring Depay from Camp Nou, Depay must make the best decision for his future.

I don't think Depay is priority by Xavi Hernandez keep extended his contract after arriving Xavi as Barcelona manager,  Depay found difficulty to be main squad. I think with Depay contract in Barcelona until in the summer of 2023 he has chance early leaving on January window transfer. Depending with Barcelona want to make Depay become free agent and keep extended him until contract over or take opportunity for selling Depay on next window transfer.

Loss compete with Ansu Fati, Dembele, Raphinha and Ferran Torres I don't think good ideas for Depay keep extended his contract with Barcelona, maybe if manager change have other opportunity for him get back in main squad for Barcelona.

This season Xavi only playing him twice on Laliga so i think this indicated Depay isn't main priority for Barcelona so it's certain Barcelona will not giving him contract extention especially there are surplus on forward lines in Barcelona so they had a plan to sell Depay this winter even Barcelona provide cheap price for him 5 million euro and they hopes after Depay price tag published some of clubs will interested to him and it doesn't take long that after this news reported he is into Manchester United and Chelsea watchlist and this January these team probably will attempt to bids to get him and for Depay it's time to him to choose new clubs especially if he want to get minutes to play

I still cannot figure out what plans Xavi had for Memphis when he signed him because obviously he has no plan stated for Memphis judging from the number of games he has played for Barcelona this season under Xavi. Obviously with the current situation with Memphis I don't see any reason Barcelona will want to offer him a contract extension meaning he might be put up for sale at any moment.

[shawon01]

Barcelona have the potential to do well in La Liga. Because they have a great XI. The young players of the team are performing brilliantly, they always play responsibly for the good of the team. And since they lost in the Champions League, not doing well in La Liga will reflect badly on their team.

For a while it's worth saying that Barcelona has done a very good job in La Liga and also has the potential to continue in the second half of the season. But because remembering that there are still many matches that must be played by Barcelona in the second half of this season, Barcelona must be able to work hard again so as not to be overtaken by its closest opponent, namely Real Madrid, because in the second half of this season there are still more things that can happen in every game. match and Real Madrid itself also has the potential to get rid of Barcelona.

We know Barcelona is a very strong team but we all know that the quality of their players is very bad. I think if Barcelona can perform well in every match then Barcelona will go far.  I think Barcelona can play well if they want to.

[mamesso]

We know Barcelona is a very strong team but we all know that the quality of their players is very bad. I think if Barcelona can perform well in every match then Barcelona will go far.  I think Barcelona can play well if they want to.

If you say the quality of Barcelona game is very bad in the Champions League, I completely agree with you. However, Barcelona is able to display different qualities in La Liga, take a look at the La Liga standings table, who is sitting in first position. Barcelona is trying to improve their quality in all competitions that are still being followed. Failure in the Champions League taught Xavi a valuable lesson, he will try to give his best for Barcelona in every match to maintain his position at the top of the standings.
Barcelona are in good shape in La Liga, while in the Europa League they have to beat another strong team (Manchester United) to go further.

[X-ray]

Barcelona have the potential to do well in La Liga. Because they have a great XI. The young players of the team are performing brilliantly, they always play responsibly for the good of the team. And since they lost in the Champions League, not doing well in La Liga will reflect badly on their team.

For a while it's worth saying that Barcelona has done a very good job in La Liga and also has the potential to continue in the second half of the season. But because remembering that there are still many matches that must be played by Barcelona in the second half of this season, Barcelona must be able to work hard again so as not to be overtaken by its closest opponent, namely Real Madrid, because in the second half of this season there are still more things that can happen in every game. match and Real Madrid itself also has the potential to get rid of Barcelona.

We know Barcelona is a very strong team but we all know that the quality of their players is very bad. I think if Barcelona can perform well in every match then Barcelona will go far.  I think Barcelona can play well if they want to.

If the quality from players are bad and then the team itself was also has bad quality. How can you can a team as a strong team while it has a very bad quality? that sounds non sense thing for me personally. Barcelona was still leading the la liga. That proves that if the current squad owned by barcelona was good enough but it's not as good as another team like real madrid. Barcelona doesn't have money to buy more players and what barcelona can do just try to sell players and then exchange it for another player.
Barcelona may good in la liga but it will not have same performance in the europa league. Im sure about this.

[Oluwa-btc]

We know Barcelona is a very strong team but we all know that the quality of their players is very bad. I think if Barcelona can perform well in every match then Barcelona will go far.  I think Barcelona can play well if they want to.

If you say the quality of Barcelona game is very bad in the Champions League, I completely agree with you. However, Barcelona is able to display different qualities in La Liga, take a look at the La Liga standings table, who is sitting in first position. Barcelona is trying to improve their quality in all competitions that are still being followed. Failure in the Champions League taught Xavi a valuable lesson, he will try to give his best for Barcelona in every match to maintain his position at the top of the standings.
Barcelona are in good shape in La Liga, while in the Europa League they have to beat another strong team (Manchester United) to go further.

No doubts they have been bad in Champions League but a bit better much more better in  La Liga Competition. They have shown better zeal ever since they lost the second game to Bayern Munich. At times it's good to fail so you have to learn the hard way.
Xavi Hernandez is a great mind and Coach, the most favorable Coach who seem like to be a long term one after Pep Guardiola.

I think they're still far better than Manchester United, but how well they come back from the World Cup is what I will look at, with much of them player's at Spanish National Team, they'll have a good chemistry on the pitch and bringing that also to Barcelona will be awesome.

[bering]

Depay contract with Barcelona has entered its final year, Barcelona tried to release Depay in last summer's transfer but ended up staying because there was no agreement with another club. Barcelona have put Depay on the Sell list in the January transfer window to avoid Depay leaving on a free transfer.
It is better for Depay to leave than to stay at Barcelona, it is very difficult for him to get minutes to play at Barcelona because Xavi believes more in other players such as Lewandowski, Dembele, Raphinha, Ansu Fati and Ferran Torres. Galatasaray really want to bring Depay from Camp Nou, Depay must make the best decision for his future.

I don't think Depay is priority by Xavi Hernandez keep extended his contract after arriving Xavi as Barcelona manager,  Depay found difficulty to be main squad. I think with Depay contract in Barcelona until in the summer of 2023 he has chance early leaving on January window transfer. Depending with Barcelona want to make Depay become free agent and keep extended him until contract over or take opportunity for selling Depay on next window transfer.

Loss compete with Ansu Fati, Dembele, Raphinha and Ferran Torres I don't think good ideas for Depay keep extended his contract with Barcelona, maybe if manager change have other opportunity for him get back in main squad for Barcelona.

This season Xavi only playing him twice on Laliga so i think this indicated Depay isn't main priority for Barcelona so it's certain Barcelona will not giving him contract extention especially there are surplus on forward lines in Barcelona so they had a plan to sell Depay this winter even Barcelona provide cheap price for him 5 million euro and they hopes after Depay price tag published some of clubs will interested to him and it doesn't take long that after this news reported he is into Manchester United and Chelsea watchlist and this January these team probably will attempt to bids to get him and for Depay it's time to him to choose new clubs especially if he want to get minutes to play

I still cannot figure out what plans Xavi had for Memphis when he signed him because obviously he has no plan stated for Memphis judging from the number of games he has played for Barcelona this season under Xavi. Obviously with the current situation with Memphis I don't see any reason Barcelona will want to offer him a contract extension meaning he might be put up for sale at any moment.

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

[Bobrox]

I still cannot figure out what plans Xavi had for Memphis when he signed him because obviously he has no plan stated for Memphis judging from the number of games he has played for Barcelona this season under Xavi. Obviously with the current situation with Memphis I don't see any reason Barcelona will want to offer him a contract extension meaning he might be put up for sale at any moment.

I don't think with Barcelona want extended Memphis Depay after his contract over on next season, still left few months later before contract over and I think Barcelona have planning find with new team interested for signing Depay in January window transfer. Better for Depay leaving Barcelona as soon possible without have guarantee can get more minutes playing, Xavi not interested yet with Depay and usually used Ansu Fati or Dembele on left or right forward side than Depay.

Current situation in Barcelona I think make Depan unhappy and actually find new team with more minutes guarantee playing is the best way for Depay than waiting until his contract over with Barcelona at the end this season but can't get regular position.

[Google+]

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.

[Jody.Drummer]

I still cannot figure out what plans Xavi had for Memphis when he signed him because obviously he has no plan stated for Memphis judging from the number of games he has played for Barcelona this season under Xavi. Obviously with the current situation with Memphis I don't see any reason Barcelona will want to offer him a contract extension meaning he might be put up for sale at any moment.

I don't think with Barcelona want extended Memphis Depay after his contract over on next season, still left few months later before contract over and I think Barcelona have planning find with new team interested for signing Depay in January window transfer. Better for Depay leaving Barcelona as soon possible without have guarantee can get more minutes playing, Xavi not interested yet with Depay and usually used Ansu Fati or Dembele on left or right forward side than Depay.

Current situation in Barcelona I think make Depan unhappy and actually find new team with more minutes guarantee playing is the best way for Depay than waiting until his contract over with Barcelona at the end this season but can't get regular position.

Even if you look at Depay's current condition, it seems that he will be sold, not only will he not be maintained by Barcelona officials.
Currently it is rumored that he will be let go and will even be sold cheaply for only 5 million to reduce the player's budget from Barcelona.
This is clearly a cheap price, especially since Depay will still be at Camp Nou at least until 2023. But it can be said that this is also a possible step, at the moment Barcelona is still having a little financial difficulties, especially player salaries. In addition, Depay's performance will not develop much because he is unable to compete in attack, so it is better to let him leave.

[arimamib]

I still cannot figure out what plans Xavi had for Memphis when he signed him because obviously he has no plan stated for Memphis judging from the number of games he has played for Barcelona this season under Xavi. Obviously with the current situation with Memphis I don't see any reason Barcelona will want to offer him a contract extension meaning he might be put up for sale at any moment.

In my view as a football connoisseur, Barcelona took advantage of the opportunity when they brought in Depay, Depay's status as a free transfer player made Barcelona interested in recruiting him, especially when Barcelona was experiencing a financial crisis. There are no plans whatsoever that Barcelona has drawn up for Depay, Barcelona are well aware that Depay quality will never be able to penetrate the main squad, for that reason Barcelona did not sign Depay in the long term.

[KTChampions]

If you say the quality of Barcelona game is very bad in the Champions League, I completely agree with you. However, Barcelona is able to display different qualities in La Liga, take a look at the La Liga standings table, who is sitting in first position. Barcelona is trying to improve their quality in all competitions that are still being followed. Failure in the Champions League taught Xavi a valuable lesson, he will try to give his best for Barcelona in every match to maintain his position at the top of the standings.
Barcelona are in good shape in La Liga, while in the Europa League they have to beat another strong team (Manchester United) to go further.

You say that as if Xavi did not initially understand that the group for Barcelona is difficult and he did not initially try his best. Barcelona were in the same shape in the Champions League and in La Liga, just the level of the opponents was fundamentally different. The next serious match against which one can judge the strength of Barcelona is the game against Atlético on January 8th.

[tulusikhlas]

I still cannot figure out what plans Xavi had for Memphis when he signed him because obviously he has no plan stated for Memphis judging from the number of games he has played for Barcelona this season under Xavi. Obviously with the current situation with Memphis I don't see any reason Barcelona will want to offer him a contract extension meaning he might be put up for sale at any moment.

In my view as a football connoisseur, Barcelona took advantage of the opportunity when they brought in Depay, Depay's status as a free transfer player made Barcelona interested in recruiting him, especially when Barcelona was experiencing a financial crisis. There are no plans whatsoever that Barcelona has drawn up for Depay, Barcelona are well aware that Depay quality will never be able to penetrate the main squad, for that reason Barcelona did not sign Depay in the long term.

It would be better if Xavi Hernandez released him from the squad. The reason is, I don't see good development from him to penetrate the main squad. Initially, many doubted that Mamphis could compete with other Barcelona players. If financial reasons are the reason Xavi is keeping him then I think it is better to make a profit by selling him. The depth of the current Barcelona squad cannot be said to be good, so they have to make changes on the bench.

[OcTradism]

I still cannot figure out what plans Xavi had for Memphis when he signed him because obviously he has no plan stated for Memphis judging from the number of games he has played for Barcelona this season under Xavi.

Xavi is not a coach made a decision to hire Memphis Depay. It's Ronald Koeman when he wanted to Netherlandize Barcelona with Dutch players like De Jong, Depay and even paid attention on some other Dutch players like De Ligt, Gravenberch and Wijnaldum.

Why does Ronald Koeman want to sign so many Dutch players?

In my view as a football connoisseur, Barcelona took advantage of the opportunity when they brought in Depay, Depay's status as a free transfer player made Barcelona interested in recruiting him, especially when Barcelona was experiencing a financial crisis.

Back in that summer, Depay is a free agent but more than that, Depay had a very good performance in Lyon so that it convinced Barcelona to hire him. Around that time, Barcelona was in a crisis and Depay is like a gift for them. Moreover, in early months there, Depay actually was one of their important attacking players, not like a position he has now.

There are no plans whatsoever that Barcelona has drawn up for Depay, Barcelona are well aware that Depay quality will never be able to penetrate the main squad, for that reason Barcelona did not sign Depay in the long term.

Yes, Xavi and Barcelona no longer want to use Depay and it is a good time for him to move. He is still young enough to find another good club.

[CageMabok]

We know Barcelona is a very strong team but we all know that the quality of their players is very bad. I think if Barcelona can perform well in every match then Barcelona will go far.  I think Barcelona can play well if they want to.

So far, Barcelona players have not wanted to play well in every game they have played in the first half of this season?
The more correct thing to say would be "if they could" not "if they want". Because in general all of them (players) Barcelona clearly want to play well in all matches including the matches that are still remaining this season, both in the European League and in La Liga.