La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2023/24

[alpamar99]

The problem for the moment is the transfer of Kane and Madrid is actually still only centered on rumors and there is still no further development on this matter.
Tottenham seems like they will continue to keep Kane's price high enough because for now they seem to be preparing to lose him and of course a big profit should be made from this transfer even though this is not a big problem for Madrid but it seems that there is still no further movement on this matter .

What further development do you need? I'm sure Real Madrid management is trying their best to negotiate with Tottenham now. They surely won't tell the progress because there are many other teams interested to sign Harry Kane, too. Real Madrid will announce the progress when they already get the agreement from both Tottenham management and Harry Kane.

Of course, Tottenham will try to sell Harry Kane at the highest price because they probably use the money to buy a new striker as the replacement. But I think Real Madrid won't have a serious problem as long as the price deserves for the striker. Real Madrid won't pay the price if it is too expensive and nonsense.

Therefore they have to try further than this because indeed they have to realize that when they want something then they have to try more things.
Discussion about Kane is still floating up to now even though there is a lot of speculation now but of course we also know that this is now still in uncertainty.
If Kane is the best for them then it's not wrong for them to do the same as when they paid for Jude.

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[Slow death]

Next season maybe Barcelona will play better in La Liga as well as the Champions League.

when we look at la liga we can easily see that real madrid is not doing very well and with the departure of benzema real madrid became weaker than it already was, so with real madrid very weak and with atlético madrid that in most seasons they just play to stay at the top and they don't fight to become champions so this all creates good conditions for barcelona to become champions once again because they won't have an opponent next season, real madrid will need a striker from level of benzema and honestly in my opinion real madrid will not be able to find a player of the level of benzema so soon

barcelona has a good defense and a good attack and its players are already used to each other which stabilizes the team a lot, so the biggest test will be in the champions league, barcela will need to play a lot if they want to have any chance in the champions league Europeans and honestly I don't see this current barcelona with the capacity to win the champions league, that's because in their attack it's still not a great attack, but the barcelona coach still has a lot of time to prepare the team, I don't know if they're going to do a lot hires

So, what else will Don Carlo do to make his squad more competitive. well, let's just wait because he still has a lot to do in terms of bringing in some new arrivals.

I don't see who real madrid could hire to replace benzema, in my opinion real madrid did bad planning, they should have hired good strikers before benzema left the team, but even with many negative signs evident when benzema didn't play for real madrid I didn't think about signing other good strikers, unfortunately now it's too late, next season real madrid won't be well

[rendravolt]

Lewandowski plays one of the special roles in the Barcelona team. He joined the Barcelona team and helped the team achieve great things in an impossible way. Next season this player will help the Barcelona team tremendously to do something great in the Champions League.

In the last two seasons, Barcelona has always failed in the Champions League including last season and I also don't see more great things done by Lewandowski even though Barcelona managed to get the La Liga trophy this season because their eternal rival is not so consistent in La Liga this past season, so the things that Lewandowski did to Barcelona in this past season were normal and natural, not an impossible thing for him. And next season it looks like it will be much more difficult for Lewandowski to get much better achievements than this season.

Barcelona's team is playing very well this season. But after Messi left the team and Koeman coached the team, Barcelona's performance was completely unstable. Barcelona was a team that was almost overwhelmed. Barcelona also had to face a lot of problems to win against weaker teams. After Xavi became the coach of the team, the overall position of Barcelona started to improve. And this season Barcelona was aiming for the La Liga title. And they managed to win it. Next season maybe Barcelona will play better in La Liga as well as the Champions League.

The transition of moving players or coaches is very natural for a club and what Barcelona is experiencing is one of the processes to be better in the future. Had fallen many times, but since Xavi's era as Barcelona coach began, we can see the turning point for this Catalan club by winning La Liga this season and they deserved it. About the champions league I think there will still be some stages they go through and the importance of consistency for a team is to be able to achieve that target and that's what a team really needs.

[Wiwo]

Lewandowski plays one of the special roles in the Barcelona team. He joined the Barcelona team and helped the team achieve great things in an impossible way. Next season this player will help the Barcelona team tremendously to do something great in the Champions League.

In the last two seasons, Barcelona has always failed in the Champions League including last season and I also don't see more great things done by Lewandowski even though Barcelona managed to get the La Liga trophy this season because their eternal rival is not so consistent in La Liga this past season, so the things that Lewandowski did to Barcelona in this past season were normal and natural, not an impossible thing for him. And next season it looks like it will be much more difficult for Lewandowski to get much better achievements than this season.

Barcelona's team is playing very well this season. But after Messi left the team and Koeman coached the team, Barcelona's performance was completely unstable. Barcelona was a team that was almost overwhelmed. Barcelona also had to face a lot of problems to win against weaker teams. After Xavi became the coach of the team, the overall position of Barcelona started to improve. And this season Barcelona was aiming for the La Liga title. And they managed to win it. Next season maybe Barcelona will play better in La Liga as well as the Champions League.

Buy above all, Barcelona is still doing well in this season and in the La liga, Barcelona is the only club that pushed real Madrid so hard that the lost the balance and which affected their championship performance and we can see how poor their recent performance has been, but then since Barcelona seems to have performed in better than this in the previous season, it quite alright to say that the club indeed need some form of reform to balance that field management and players connection.

[Docnaster]

I think, as long as Xavi is still the coach of Barcelona, then it looks like Barcelona doesn't have a big chance to win the Champions League trophy. After all, in the last two seasons, in the end, Barcelona could not qualify for the last 16 in the Champions League, and Barcelona then only played in the Europa League, but Barcelona still failed. So yes, I personally feel that Xavi cannot make better developments, but if only to dominate La Liga, then Xavi still has good ability to keep Barcelona good only in La Liga.

Barcelona's success in winning the La Liga title this season has made Xavi Hernandez's position still safe as a coach, after Barcelona failed in the Champions League group stage and were eliminated in the Europa League playoffs. No doubt with Barcelona has very poor performance in Champion League last two season, not qualify in group stage after difficult winning against Inter and Bayern made Barcelona failed to 16th round and bad achievement for the first participants have failed with group stage.

Next season I don't sure with Barcelona can't compete in Champion League, has good capital as La Liga winner not guarantee Barcelona have chance for qualifying at group stage exactly when drawing have bigger teams face.

Xavi Hernandez has shown how good of a manager that he is and that despite the fact that he's not had so many experience as a manager in Europe, he can still manage a club the the Spanish La Liga title.
If Xavi can achieve all these with the current squad at Barcelona,  I think he has the managerial capacity to do well in the UEFA Champions League as well if Barcelona can successfully sign few more quality players.

[Wiwo]

Barcelona are trying hard to sign Lionel Messi. Meanwhile, the Barcelona authorities have had great discussions with Lionel Messi's father. Let's see what kind of hope we get in the next news.

Wait a minute I want to get something straight here, is Lionel messy father his manager because I don't see any reason why Barcelona should beg the Father of their star potential signee for him to consider the offers, there is no doubt that the father may influence the messy decision but then if Barcelona as a club make Lionel messy a good offer I don't see any reason why their need to beg the father to intervein in the matter.

[Masplanc]

Barcelona's team is playing very well this season. But after Messi left the team and Koeman coached the team, Barcelona's performance was completely unstable. Barcelona was a team that was almost overwhelmed. Barcelona also had to face a lot of problems to win against weaker teams. After Xavi became the coach of the team, the overall position of Barcelona started to improve. And this season Barcelona was aiming for the La Liga title. And they managed to win it. Next season maybe Barcelona will play better in La Liga as well as the Champions League.

Xavi with Barcelona this season, the team performed well in laliga. Next season is another chance for Barcelona to go for more trophies, for Barcelona to find laliga not very hard they can also make a good difference in the next season.  

[Rabi3]

Lewandowski plays one of the special roles in the Barcelona team. He joined the Barcelona team and helped the team achieve great things in an impossible way. Next season this player will help the Barcelona team tremendously to do something great in the Champions League.

In the last two seasons, Barcelona has always failed in the Champions League including last season and I also don't see more great things done by Lewandowski even though Barcelona managed to get the La Liga trophy this season because their eternal rival is not so consistent in La Liga this past season, so the things that Lewandowski did to Barcelona in this past season were normal and natural, not an impossible thing for him. And next season it looks like it will be much more difficult for Lewandowski to get much better achievements than this season.

Barcelona's team is playing very well this season. But after Messi left the team and Koeman coached the team, Barcelona's performance was completely unstable. Barcelona was a team that was almost overwhelmed. Barcelona also had to face a lot of problems to win against weaker teams. After Xavi became the coach of the team, the overall position of Barcelona started to improve. And this season Barcelona was aiming for the La Liga title. And they managed to win it. Next season maybe Barcelona will play better in La Liga as well as the Champions League.

The transition of moving players or coaches is very natural for a club and what Barcelona is experiencing is one of the processes to be better in the future. Had fallen many times, but since Xavi's era as Barcelona coach began, we can see the turning point for this Catalan club by winning La Liga this season and they deserved it. About the champions league I think there will still be some stages they go through and the importance of consistency for a team is to be able to achieve that target and that's what a team really needs.

so far, we can see Barcelona competing and even winning La Liga again next year, but the talk about the Champions League is still far in my opinion, they have a long way to go to be able to compete with teams like Bayern Munich, PSG, Man City..etc Lewandovski is not the best they can get as a forward, he doesn't seem to fit that well with their style, he is kinda on and off in their matches, they need more to win something big like the Champions League.

[Spacewalker]

Barcelona are trying hard to sign Lionel Messi. Meanwhile, the Barcelona authorities have had great discussions with Lionel Messi's father. Let's see what kind of hope we get in the next news.

Wait a minute I want to get something straight here, is Lionel messy father his manager because I don't see any reason why Barcelona should beg the Father of their star potential signee for him to consider the offers, there is no doubt that the father may influence the messy decision but then if Barcelona as a club make Lionel messy a good offer I don't see any reason why their need to beg the father to intervein in the matter.

Well, actually, Messi's father is also his agent at the same time, so who better than to ask him to consider the issue. Another question is that everything seems to have already been decided in favor of Inter Miami and there should be no changes here, at least in the next six months. But in the middle of the season, when Barcelona will sort out its financial problems, then you can already try to negotiate a player's lease with Barcelona, but it is unlikely right now.

[Wiwo]

Well, actually, Messi's father is also his agent at the same time, so who better than to ask him to consider the issue. Another question is that everything seems to have already been decided in favor of Inter Miami and there should be no changes here, at least in the next six months. But in the middle of the season, when Barcelona will sort out its financial problems, then you can already try to negotiate a player's lease with Barcelona, but it is unlikely right now.

Oh that is great to know, I have not actually being following up with details as regards to players transfers but since Lionel messy was mentioned so it trigger my ambition to know more about messy managements and so good to know that his father is his agent, that place the father in a decision-making position a d for Bercelona to have contacted the man is ok even though the may not get the player this time.

[borovichok]

Wait a minute I want to get something straight here, is Lionel messy father his manager because I don't see any reason why Barcelona should beg the Father of their star potential signee for him to consider the offers, there is no doubt that the father may influence the messy decision but then if Barcelona as a club make Lionel messy a good offer I don't see any reason why their need to beg the father to intervein in the matter.

Club transfer news is tingling my ear, and I have noticed specific transfers that appeared to be erroneous. Countless seemingly improbable transfer movements have entered the market. Of course, Leo's father is Jorge Messi, who is also his long-term agent in the football world. His father wants the best contract for him; he is only sensible enough to accept the bid from Inter Miami because he is looking out for his son's best interests. Leo Messi was intent on returning to Camp Nou, but given the current state of affairs, everything is on hold due to FFP laws, and holding a GOAT as a free agent for so long will elicit reactions from the football media.

[mamesso]

I think, as long as Xavi is still the coach of Barcelona, then it looks like Barcelona doesn't have a big chance to win the Champions League trophy. After all, in the last two seasons, in the end, Barcelona could not qualify for the last 16 in the Champions League, and Barcelona then only played in the Europa League, but Barcelona still failed. So yes, I personally feel that Xavi cannot make better developments, but if only to dominate La Liga, then Xavi still has good ability to keep Barcelona good only in La Liga.

Barcelona's success in winning the La Liga title this season has made Xavi Hernandez's position still safe as a coach, after Barcelona failed in the Champions League group stage and were eliminated in the Europa League playoffs. No doubt with Barcelona has very poor performance in Champion League last two season, not qualify in group stage after difficult winning against Inter and Bayern made Barcelona failed to 16th round and bad achievement for the first participants have failed with group stage.

Next season I don't sure with Barcelona can't compete in Champion League, has good capital as La Liga winner not guarantee Barcelona have chance for qualifying at group stage exactly when drawing have bigger teams face.

Xavi had to go through process after process in his success in presenting two titles for Barcelona. He is equipped with a squad that has been in a slump since he first came to Barcelona as a coach. Xavi was slowly able to form the Barcelona squad into a solid team even though the club was having financial difficulties, even though they managed to win La Liga, Barcelona were still unable to compete in the Champions League.

Next season will be a new challenge for Xavi, he will be tested in the Champions League as the most prestigious competition on the European continent. The current squad has been proven capable of giving trophies to Barcelona, but Xavi needs to bring in a few more players so that his team can provide competition in the Champions League.

[keyscore44]

I think, as long as Xavi is still the coach of Barcelona, then it looks like Barcelona doesn't have a big chance to win the Champions League trophy. After all, in the last two seasons, in the end, Barcelona could not qualify for the last 16 in the Champions League, and Barcelona then only played in the Europa League, but Barcelona still failed. So yes, I personally feel that Xavi cannot make better developments, but if only to dominate La Liga, then Xavi still has good ability to keep Barcelona good only in La Liga.

Barcelona's success in winning the La Liga title this season has made Xavi Hernandez's position still safe as a coach, after Barcelona failed in the Champions League group stage and were eliminated in the Europa League playoffs. No doubt with Barcelona has very poor performance in Champion League last two season, not qualify in group stage after difficult winning against Inter and Bayern made Barcelona failed to 16th round and bad achievement for the first participants have failed with group stage.

Next season I don't sure with Barcelona can't compete in Champion League, has good capital as La Liga winner not guarantee Barcelona have chance for qualifying at group stage exactly when drawing have bigger teams face.

Xavi had to go through process after process in his success in presenting two titles for Barcelona. He is equipped with a squad that has been in a slump since he first came to Barcelona as a coach. Xavi was slowly able to form the Barcelona squad into a solid team even though the club was having financial difficulties, even though they managed to win La Liga, Barcelona were still unable to compete in the Champions League.

Next season will be a new challenge for Xavi, he will be tested in the Champions League as the most prestigious competition on the European continent. The current squad has been proven capable of giving trophies to Barcelona, but Xavi needs to bring in a few more players so that his team can provide competition in the Champions League.

No one could have imagined that the Barcelona team would make such a great comeback. The only reason for the Barcelona team to come back is because of Xavi taking charge of the team. Now that the La Liga title is secured, Xavi will be looking to build on the rest of next season.

[len01]

Lewandowski plays one of the special roles in the Barcelona team. He joined the Barcelona team and helped the team achieve great things in an impossible way. Next season this player will help the Barcelona team tremendously to do something great in the Champions League.

In the last two seasons, Barcelona has always failed in the Champions League including last season and I also don't see more great things done by Lewandowski even though Barcelona managed to get the La Liga trophy this season because their eternal rival is not so consistent in La Liga this past season, so the things that Lewandowski did to Barcelona in this past season were normal and natural, not an impossible thing for him. And next season it looks like it will be much more difficult for Lewandowski to get much better achievements than this season.

Barcelona's team is playing very well this season. But after Messi left the team and Koeman coached the team, Barcelona's performance was completely unstable. Barcelona was a team that was almost overwhelmed. Barcelona also had to face a lot of problems to win against weaker teams. After Xavi became the coach of the team, the overall position of Barcelona started to improve. And this season Barcelona was aiming for the La Liga title. And they managed to win it. Next season maybe Barcelona will play better in La Liga as well as the Champions League.

Buy above all, Barcelona is still doing well in this season and in the La liga, Barcelona is the only club that pushed real Madrid so hard that the lost the balance and which affected their championship performance and we can see how poor their recent performance has been, but then since Barcelona seems to have performed in better than this in the previous season, it quite alright to say that the club indeed need some form of reform to balance that field management and players connection.

even though Messi left Barcelona, Barcelona still has a strong performance and is able to dominate the La Liga standings this season, even though it is a little unstable, but they can still perform well without top players and do not give Real Madrid a chance to win that position.
but actually, if you look at Real Madrid's performance with Barcelona, it is superior to Madrid, it's just that yesterday's music, Real Madrid had to focus on the match in the UCL so that it wasn't too strong in the main league which affected the points that had to be earned.
and for me it doesn't matter that Real Madrid failed last season but I'm sure that in the new season Madrid will be able to appear stronger and win the champions league championship.

[shogun47]

I think, as long as Xavi is still the coach of Barcelona, then it looks like Barcelona doesn't have a big chance to win the Champions League trophy. After all, in the last two seasons, in the end, Barcelona could not qualify for the last 16 in the Champions League, and Barcelona then only played in the Europa League, but Barcelona still failed. So yes, I personally feel that Xavi cannot make better developments, but if only to dominate La Liga, then Xavi still has good ability to keep Barcelona good only in La Liga.

Barcelona's success in winning the La Liga title this season has made Xavi Hernandez's position still safe as a coach, after Barcelona failed in the Champions League group stage and were eliminated in the Europa League playoffs. No doubt with Barcelona has very poor performance in Champion League last two season, not qualify in group stage after difficult winning against Inter and Bayern made Barcelona failed to 16th round and bad achievement for the first participants have failed with group stage.

Next season I don't sure with Barcelona can't compete in Champion League, has good capital as La Liga winner not guarantee Barcelona have chance for qualifying at group stage exactly when drawing have bigger teams face.

Xavi had to go through process after process in his success in presenting two titles for Barcelona. He is equipped with a squad that has been in a slump since he first came to Barcelona as a coach. Xavi was slowly able to form the Barcelona squad into a solid team even though the club was having financial difficulties, even though they managed to win La Liga, Barcelona were still unable to compete in the Champions League.

Next season will be a new challenge for Xavi, he will be tested in the Champions League as the most prestigious competition on the European continent. The current squad has been proven capable of giving trophies to Barcelona, but Xavi needs to bring in a few more players so that his team can provide competition in the Champions League.

I have never fully understood the extent to which Barcelona was on the brink of collapse or not. The news have written that tomorrow is literally doomsday for them and then they kept going anyway. I don't know how much Xavi himself even knows or whether he is just told that he can buy this player and can't buy that player. Whether Barcelona is now safe or not, nobody seems to really know.

But it is true that he got on board when the squad was really down and the perspective wasn't great either. He had to go from there and consolidation has been done quite a bit for now. Real Madrid will do a lot to get back to their usual level and then we'll see how the next season goes. It will probably be a tighter race than what we have seen this last season.

[bering]

There is a big need of change in this team. I hoped to see it starting with Simeone's getting sacked this summer but it doesn't seem like it will happen. I guess that he will stay until the end of his contract - June 30, 2024.

Simeone is one of the longest manager in Laliga and Since he was arrived to Atletico Madrid Simeone was successfully to make this team never absense to playing at champion league in the last 10 years and under him too Atletico Madrid can able to broke the domination of Real Madrid and Barcelona with gets 2 Laliga title so at Atletico he has plenty of achievement and the good thing is Simeone did that without spend plenty of money to build the team

But indeed his pilosophy which is some of people doesn't too like is because he has defensive style pattern and for some people too this pattern is not very entertaining because people are more likely want to see Atletico Madrid playing more attacking and i am not Atletico Madrid fans but i think Simeone should be staying at this team much longer because so far only Atletico Madrid who can able to compete with Real Madrid and Barcelona and regarding his contract i think Atletico Madrid owner will giving contract extension to him immediately

[Leviathan.007]

Lewandowski plays one of the special roles in the Barcelona team. He joined the Barcelona team and helped the team achieve great things in an impossible way. Next season this player will help the Barcelona team tremendously to do something great in the Champions League.

In the last two seasons, Barcelona has always failed in the Champions League including last season and I also don't see more great things done by Lewandowski even though Barcelona managed to get the La Liga trophy this season because their eternal rival is not so consistent in La Liga this past season, so the things that Lewandowski did to Barcelona in this past season were normal and natural, not an impossible thing for him. And next season it looks like it will be much more difficult for Lewandowski to get much better achievements than this season.

Barcelona's team is playing very well this season. But after Messi left the team and Koeman coached the team, Barcelona's performance was completely unstable. Barcelona was a team that was almost overwhelmed. Barcelona also had to face a lot of problems to win against weaker teams. After Xavi became the coach of the team, the overall position of Barcelona started to improve. And this season Barcelona was aiming for the La Liga title. And they managed to win it. Next season maybe Barcelona will play better in La Liga as well as the Champions League.

Buy above all, Barcelona is still doing well in this season and in the La liga, Barcelona is the only club that pushed real Madrid so hard that the lost the balance and which affected their championship performance and we can see how poor their recent performance has been, but then since Barcelona seems to have performed in better than this in the previous season, it quite alright to say that the club indeed need some form of reform to balance that field management and players connection.

Barcelona won this league and this can be a great achievement for Xavi and his players especially when we know Xavi won the season while didn't have a good financial situation compared to Real Madrid. Barcelona also failed to hire Messi, I think Barcelona will have problems for the next season because they don't have enough good players and they need to hire many players at least they need to hire a forward to have a young alternative for Lewandowski.

[MoonOfLife]

Lewandowski plays one of the special roles in the Barcelona team. He joined the Barcelona team and helped the team achieve great things in an impossible way. Next season this player will help the Barcelona team tremendously to do something great in the Champions League.

In the last two seasons, Barcelona has always failed in the Champions League including last season and I also don't see more great things done by Lewandowski even though Barcelona managed to get the La Liga trophy this season because their eternal rival is not so consistent in La Liga this past season, so the things that Lewandowski did to Barcelona in this past season were normal and natural, not an impossible thing for him. And next season it looks like it will be much more difficult for Lewandowski to get much better achievements than this season.

Barcelona's team is playing very well this season. But after Messi left the team and Koeman coached the team, Barcelona's performance was completely unstable. Barcelona was a team that was almost overwhelmed. Barcelona also had to face a lot of problems to win against weaker teams. After Xavi became the coach of the team, the overall position of Barcelona started to improve. And this season Barcelona was aiming for the La Liga title. And they managed to win it. Next season maybe Barcelona will play better in La Liga as well as the Champions League.

The transition of moving players or coaches is very natural for a club and what Barcelona is experiencing is one of the processes to be better in the future. Had fallen many times, but since Xavi's era as Barcelona coach began, we can see the turning point for this Catalan club by winning La Liga this season and they deserved it. About the champions league I think there will still be some stages they go through and the importance of consistency for a team is to be able to achieve that target and that's what a team really needs.

After Xavi became Barcelona's coach, he tried to strengthen the bond between the players. The understanding between the players is very good now. This is the reason why Barcelona has been able to perform consistently well in La Liga in the last season. But next season is challenging for Xavi. Because Barcelona will play for the title of Champions League and La Liga. Barcelona's match strategy is quite good. And so it is expected that the Barcelona team will be able to maintain continuity in the next season as well.

[Masplanc]

Barcelona won this league and this can be a great achievement for Xavi and his players especially when we know Xavi won the season while didn't have a good financial situation compared to Real Madrid. Barcelona also failed to hire Messi, I think Barcelona will have problems for the next season because they don't have enough good players and they need to hire many players at least they need to hire a forward to have a young alternative for Lewandowski.

Barcelona needs more players , if they fails to hire more players they will have serious challenge in their games. Barcelona not having sufficient players this season, it was not easy for them to concentrate in other competitions that is why they had to put all their focus on laliga which was not even easy for them.

[ilovealtcoins]

Barcelona won this league and this can be a great achievement for Xavi and his players especially when we know Xavi won the season while didn't have a good financial situation compared to Real Madrid. Barcelona also failed to hire Messi, I think Barcelona will have problems for the next season because they don't have enough good players and they need to hire many players at least they need to hire a forward to have a young alternative for Lewandowski.

Barcelona needs more players , if they fails to hire more players they will have serious challenge in their games. Barcelona not having sufficient players this season, it was not easy for them to concentrate in other competitions that is why they had to put all their focus on laliga which was not even easy for them.

There is no doubt that Barcelona have a lot of talented players in their squad. But most of the players in the squad are inexperienced. In attack, there are talented players like Fati, Torres, and Raphinha. Midfield consists of Gavi and PEdri. While each is a great player, they are not experienced enough. And so if Barcelona wants to play well in the Champions League next season, they need to add experienced players to their squad. And if Barcelona's goal is only to win the La Liga title, keeping this squad unchanged will not be a problem for Barcelona.