La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2023/24

[Darkoth89]

Very difficult times are coming for Spanish clubs and Barcelona is currently in the most difficult situation.

I think Barcelona still have the most realistic option at the moment if they really need money to finish the season and that is a reduction in the salaries of the player if they can't sell off the player. This option is at least helpful enough to save on club expenses for high paying player. During the pandemic, all European team lost a lot of revenue and the most prominent one was match day revenue. Player salaries need to be reduced and in my opinion this is an option worth considering.

But for that option, the players have to agree on the salary-cut. It's not that easy. The first round of negotiations brought no success and I can understand all the players that don't wanna give up on a huge junk of money just like that.

And simply sell of the players ... That's easier said than done. Other clubs know about the situation Barcelona is facing at the moment and they are also affected by the covid crisis. Barca won't be able to generate these high transfer sums they are hoping for. And when they sell all their star player ... who's gonna form their team then to be competitive in La Liga and UCL?

[kassex]

Ramos is ready to leave Real Madrid. PSG, Manchester City and Juventus are ready to offer him a lucrative contract. Ramos wants to sign a two-year contract, but Real Madrid offers a contract according to the "1 + 1" system.

[emrecemsan]

It looks like this season will be very tough for Barcelona in the league. They are still not playing very good as a team. Messi was nearly leaving and they hardly prevented him from it. If Barcelona don't win the league this season (which seems very hard now), I think they won't be able to keep him in the team.

[kawetsriyanto]

In fact, that position makes Ramos even better at attacking or defending even though Ramos often gives penalty advantages to opposing teams.

How can you state he is better in defending if he gives penatly to opposites? I've watched many times that Ramos make a fool mistake on penalty area. As a central defender, he must realize it and knows how to defend in a safe way. The only reason why Ramos can be a central defender is no one better than him at that position. Actually Mardid can solve the problem if they are serious to buy top central defenders, not a young defender with a lack of experience.

[hd49728]

How can you state he is better in defending if he gives penatly to opposites? I've watched many times that Ramos make a fool mistake on penalty area. As a central defender, he must realize it and knows how to defend in a safe way. The only reason why Ramos can be a central defender is no one better than him at that position. Actually Mardid can solve the problem if they are serious to buy top central defenders, not a young defender with a lack of experience.

Ramos is the player of fool mistakes. He is a complicated player who tries to set up traps for his opponent players but sometimes he can not control his actions on the field and is trapped by opponent players. His emotion affects his playing actions on field and he sometimes plays very careless like Pogba.

Do you remember the trap he set up for Mo Salah in Champions League final? It caused serious injuries for Mo and eliminated him from the match. Mo was almost missed the World Cup and his fortunate comeback in World Cup is not good for him and Egypt. Mo did not have his good form in the World Cup.

[masulum]

It looks like this season will be very tough for Barcelona in the league. They are still not playing very good as a team. Messi was nearly leaving and they hardly prevented him from it. If Barcelona don't win the league this season (which seems very hard now), I think they won't be able to keep him in the team.

Koeman have a lot of home work to bring Barcelona on the right track again, of course messi is the most important players for Barca, but Koeman also need another good defender.

I read about a plan of Koeman to sell 4 players that rarely to play, Alena, Umtiti, Firpo and Braithwaite. all of this players maybe will leave this winter transfer if possible. One player mentioned to be in, Eric Garcia (Man. City). Last summer transfer, barcelona giving offer 10m euro , but rejected by City. Maybe barca will try to increased their offer on this winter. If Garcia still not extend his contract with City, he will become free transfer players on the next summer transfer window (2021).

[asus09]

It looks like this season will be very tough for Barcelona in the league. They are still not playing very good as a team. Messi was nearly leaving and they hardly prevented him from it. If Barcelona don't win the league this season (which seems very hard now), I think they won't be able to keep him in the team.

Koeman have a lot of home work to bring Barcelona on the right track again, of course messi is the most important players for Barca, but Koeman also need another good defender.

I read about a plan of Koeman to sell 4 players that rarely to play, Alena, Umtiti, Firpo and Braithwaite. all of this players maybe will leave this winter transfer if possible. One player mentioned to be in, Eric Garcia (Man. City). Last summer transfer, barcelona giving offer 10m euro , but rejected by City. Maybe barca will try to increased their offer on this winter. If Garcia still not extend his contract with City, he will become free transfer players on the next summer transfer window (2021).

I think Barcelona most interested to bring back Neymar than get new defender player after missing Ansu Fati few months later, looking with Barcelona defender right now is not problem with Gerard Pique, Clément Lenglet, Sergino Dest and jordi alba in the left back position, but looking with financial condition of Barcelona very terrible because have update news from Marca Barcelona have reduce for player salary more than 50% to keep healthy of Barcelona financial. Ronald Koeman have on the wrong position because he not all player he want like Maphies Depay after getting with financial problem giving by Barcelona to Lyon.

[bounceback]

In fact, that position makes Ramos even better at attacking or defending even though Ramos often gives penalty advantages to opposing teams.

How can you state he is better in defending if he gives penatly to opposites? I've watched many times that Ramos make a fool mistake on penalty area. As a central defender, he must realize it and knows how to defend in a safe way. The only reason why Ramos can be a central defender is no one better than him at that position. Actually Mardid can solve the problem if they are serious to buy top central defenders, not a young defender with a lack of experience.

You are wrong, even though Ramos appeared so aggressive he rarely gave the advantage, let alone a penalty for the opposing team. Even Madrid is more benefited by the presence of Sergio Ramos because he is a player who is good at aerial dueling besides Varane and also Benzema. This gives Real Madrid an advantage with set pieces and corners as Ramos is a specialist scorer with a header. Look with how many goal score by Ramos for Real Madrid right now and he is the most scorer defender in la liga and other league right now, just one disadvantage by Ramos when get for attacking he will slowly for back on his area as defender.

[NotATether]

How can you state he is better in defending if he gives penatly to opposites? I've watched many times that Ramos make a fool mistake on penalty area. As a central defender, he must realize it and knows how to defend in a safe way. The only reason why Ramos can be a central defender is no one better than him at that position. Actually Mardid can solve the problem if they are serious to buy top central defenders, not a young defender with a lack of experience.

Ramos is the player of fool mistakes. He is a complicated player who tries to set up traps for his opponent players but sometimes he can not control his actions on the field and is trapped by opponent players. His emotion affects his playing actions on field and he sometimes plays very careless like Pogba.

Do you remember the trap he set up for Mo Salah in Champions League final? It caused serious injuries for Mo and eliminated him from the match. Mo was almost missed the World Cup and his fortunate comeback in World Cup is not good for him and Egypt. Mo did not have his good form in the World Cup.

I can name a few other players who make reckless fouls, like Pepe, the most infamous fouler that comes to my mind. Guy used to dive intentionally while he played for Real Madrid and even headbutted someone at the 2014 World Cup while he was playing for Portugal.

Luis Suarez also used to dive and actually bit people three times. The bans he got after that, especially that last one, can cripple any club that relies on him as a striker.

[emmybd]

Barcelona, Atletico Madrid both of the team are very strong and dedicated. Barcelona sat on top of the pile. But in this season, Atletico Madrid was superb. At this moment Atletico Madrid has the  better defense. Stefan Savic and Kieran Trippier are the top two defensive players of Atletico Madrid. In Barcelona the two top defenders are Gerard Pique and Jordi Alba. But based on the statistics Atletico Madrid has currently the best defense. According to the statistics Barcelona has the better midfielder than Atletico Madrid. Barcelona has scored in this season so far 15 goals and 40 shots on goal. Atletico Madrid scored 17 and 36 shots on goal. The two best players of Barcelona are Anssumane Fati who scored 4 goals and Antoine Griezmann who scored 2 goals. On the other hand, the two best players of Atletico Madrid are Luis Suarez with 5 goals and Joao Felix Felix with 5 goals. So, we can say that Atletico Madrid has the better offensive players than Barcelona.
Barcelone can still win, you can't rule it out. But in this season, Atletico Madrid was fabulous.

[LTU_btc]

Luis Suarez got positive Covid-19 test during international break and most likely he will miss game against Barcelona. It's huge loss for Atletico. Well, it make Barcelona task easier, but personally I would want to see them in full squad and it would be very interesting to see Suarez playing against us. I think he would be extra motivated.

[kawetsriyanto]

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What? I am wrong? 
Sorry, mate. Do you really understand what I mean above? Please read again carefully, get the point of my comment.
I focused to critize the defense behaviour of Sergio Ramos, I am not talking bout his achievement in scoring and attacking style. If you really watched various mathes of Real Madrid, you should understand what I mean. Especially El Classico, it is the scarry match to see Ramos performance, he is a red-card collector in EL Classico.

FYI, I am a Madrid fan, I know very well how Sergio Ramos played. I know he is a captain now and he has a big contribution for a great performnace of Real Madrid at the lasy few years. However, we cannot deny his fool behaviour in many important matches.

[hd49728]

I can name a few other players who make reckless fouls, like Pepe, the most infamous fouler that comes to my mind. Guy used to dive intentionally while he played for Real Madrid and even headbutted someone at the 2014 World Cup while he was playing for Portugal.

Luis Suarez also used to dive and actually bit people three times. The bans he got after that, especially that last one, can cripple any club that relies on him as a striker.

Pepe is a mad defender. I still remembered what Pepe crazy shot on the head and body of his opponent. He was sent off but it is unbelievable and unexplainable foul. Crazy moment. It is more crazy that the headbutt of Zizou to Matterazzi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKt4IBxD5oo

[daarul50]

Luis Suarez got positive Covid-19 test during international break and most likely he will miss game against Barcelona. It's huge loss for Atletico. Well, it make Barcelona task easier, but personally I would want to see them in full squad and it would be very interesting to see Suarez playing against us. I think he would be extra motivated.

Surprisingly the odds for atletico madrid hasnt dropped even with suarez will missing the match.
Bookies did makes barcelona not favorited to win this clash.
As with super defensive strategy , atletico will only use a counter attack as usual and probably hold it draw.
I believe there will be no winner too ,  a draw is more likely the fairest result for both.

[snipie]

Luis Suarez got positive Covid-19 test during international break and most likely he will miss game against Barcelona. It's huge loss for Atletico. Well, it make Barcelona task easier, but personally I would want to see them in full squad and it would be very interesting to see Suarez playing against us. I think he would be extra motivated.

Damn it, I was hoping to see Suarez playing vs Barcelona and beating the shit outta Koeman's team with many goals so they regret the humiliating way he was kicked out of Barca

[Slow death]

Luis Suarez got positive Covid-19 test during international break and most likely he will miss game against Barcelona. It's huge loss for Atletico. Well, it make Barcelona task easier, but personally I would want to see them in full squad and it would be very interesting to see Suarez playing against us. I think he would be extra motivated.

Damn it, I was hoping to see Suarez playing vs Barcelona and beating the shit outta Koeman's team with many goals so they regret the humiliating way he was kicked out of Barca

even if barcelona win. will have only 14 points. the biggest problem will be if the damn Real Sociedad wins the next game against Cadiz and they have 23 points and Real Madrid lose, they will be further away from Real Sociedad and that cannot happen, I hope that Real Madrid will recover from the shame of having lost and conceded 4 goals and that sergio ramos has overcome the 2 penalties he failed in the uefa nations league game.

Talking more about barcelona, this will be a test game to see if they are slowly recovering and getting in shape to fight to win the Spanish league

[coderben]

In my opinion, champions of this season will be Real Madrid. I know that they are not like old Real but I believe that they will recover themselves from the situation they are in and fight for the championship. 

[snipie]

even if barcelona win. will have only 14 points. the biggest problem will be if the damn Real Sociedad wins the next game against Cadiz and they have 23 points and Real Madrid lose, they will be further away from Real Sociedad and that cannot happen, I hope that Real Madrid will recover from the shame of having lost and conceded 4 goals and that sergio ramos has overcome the 2 penalties he failed in the uefa nations league game.

Talking more about barcelona, this will be a test game to see if they are slowly recovering and getting in shape to fight to win the Spanish league

I am afraid the games are getting more and more hazardous... Players are playing matches almost biweekly, number of injuries is getting bigger, players missing games due to covid is rising... Crap..
Sociedad is doing good and its game vs Cadiz seems the easiest comparing Villareal vs Real Madrid or ATM vs Barca.. We will see what will happen  

[kassex]

In my opinion, champions of this season will be Real Madrid. I know that they are not like old Real but I believe that they will recover themselves from the situation they are in and fight for the championship. 

I doubt Real Madrid's ability to become the LaLiga champion this season. I think it will be either Atletico Madrid or Barcelona. Real Madrid have few strong players who could show the game at long distance. This will affect the most difficult moment of the season.

[Iranus]

Luis Suarez got positive Covid-19 test during international break and most likely he will miss game against Barcelona. It's huge loss for Atletico. Well, it make Barcelona task easier, but personally I would want to see them in full squad and it would be very interesting to see Suarez playing against us. I think he would be extra motivated.

It's confirmed that Luis Suarez won’t play against Barcelona on next Saturday after testing positive for COVID-19 for 2nd time. Too bad and great loss as well since i'm really wanted to see him against his previous club. Wish quick recovery.

This is very bad news for Atletico Madrid. The match is very important for them. They are now in a good position at the point table. In any way they will not want to lose the match against Barcelona. Without Suarez, this is really very difficult to win a big team like Barcelona.