La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2023/24

[Fara Chan]

If an elite club wants him, he will definitely go, not because of his high loyalty to Xavi, but because he wants a better career and of course a better and bigger salary and contract. As a professional player, like any other worker, his energy and skills want to be appreciated, namely with a large salary

Apart from wanting to be appreciated with a large salary, a player who already has experience also really wants to be in the hands of a great coach so that his talents can be channeled very well in the team that houses him. For now, I think it would not be wrong for a player from Barcelona to move to another team if his salary and contract are clear, because currently Barcelona itself is not in a good condition. So considering going to another team is quite a wise choice for a player like De Jong.

[borovichok]

With Xavi resignation at the end of this season, of course several players will follow Xavi steps to leave for other teams. One of them is De Jong, where he is increasingly frustrated with the level of salary cuts carried out by Barcelona. De Jong, who is 26 years old, of course has greater hopes of getting a bigger salary. With the quality he has, of course De Jong will receive many offers from elite European clubs at the end of this season.

Barcelona not inform this season, we watch them play as if they're average team. Xavi Hernandez has decided to leave Barcelona at the end of the season; it is only a matter of time before the manager departs. Joan Laporta, the team's president, will guarantee that he maintains the club's coordination because if he does not, a lot of things will go wrong for them. By the way, not only will the head coach leave, but other key players will take big leaps and exit the club this season, including Frankie De Jong, a creative confident midfielder who has played important roles for the team.

[Leviathan.007]

In the last game of Real Madrid, they played against Leipzig. When they started the game without players like Antonio Rüdiger and Jude Bellingham against Leipzig, they were thinking Real Madrid was going to have problems in this match. But they used Brahim Díaz and thanks to the good performance from Brahim Díaz they won the game. Still, he was injured during the game and this made the fans worried about having another injured player on the team, but after the end of the match he said they didn't know how hard he was injured but Díaz said he feels well and that's nothing serious.

[JeffBrad12]

Barcelona have very valuable players indeed but they wouldn't and shouldn't sell some specific players thinking about their future. Players like Gavi, Pedri should always be kept in the squad for example. This kind of players are Barcelona's future now. Barcelona's most recent contract with them must be already showing that they don't intend to part ways with them anytime.

Wait a little bit my friend. Barcelona has intention to sell de jong and probably some players to raise the money. The club will always be stuck at the same place if barcelona will not have money to operating the club. Totenham and chelsea or even MU have been having interest to recruit him to be their new player.
The decision totally depends on de jong itself. Barcelona is not intending to keep him much longer in the club caused by barcelona needs to raised some money to buy the new players and pay its debt too. You can't always think if you must keep the player forever.
Bareclona was not a good club in the football business. this is likely the main reason barcelona to sell some players soon. I think de jong will leave from there at the end of season after the summer transfer market will be opened again.

This team might just make use of some improvements in the defense line. Because they have been horrible this season as they have conceded too many goals compared to the previous season. A team like Barcelona deserve the best players for every position.

How can you improve it if your team has no money to buy the new player? barcelona didn't have good defenders and the club is also getting financial problem that was impacting the club a lot. You can keep call it deserves best players for every position but the fact that if barcelona has said to open with any offers that will come from other club.
This is the truth about barcelona if this club is slolwy but surely goes to be bankrupt. The inability to pay the debt has been trapping barcelona into the never ending problem. This club must be leaving from this situation asap.

[tusandii]

In the last game of Real Madrid, they played against Leipzig. When they started the game without players like Antonio Rüdiger and Jude Bellingham against Leipzig, they were thinking Real Madrid was going to have problems in this match. But they used Brahim Díaz and thanks to the good performance from Brahim Díaz they won the game. Still, he was injured during the game and this made the fans worried about having another injured player on the team, but after the end of the match he said they didn't know how hard he was injured but Díaz said he feels well and that's nothing serious.

We all will never forget that Ancelotti has perfect troops even though some players are injured but will not cause problems for Ancelotti to manage Real Madrid players and proven as you say even without Bellingham there are still many reserve players who have almost the same performance so they don't Wonder if Brahim Diaz can appear with a very great performance.
For injuries that are natural, of course it is not a serious injury so it is still safe to contribute and all supporters do not want this to happen but are difficult to avoid because in the Chmapion League all clubs will compete to mobilize all their strengths to win so that there will be many players who might Experiencing a minor injury not only to Real Madrid players.

The next match will fight Rayo but Real Madrid will host.
How are your predictions?

[wakier]

With Xavi resignation at the end of this season, of course several players will follow Xavi steps to leave for other teams. One of them is De Jong, where he is increasingly frustrated with the level of salary cuts carried out by Barcelona. De Jong, who is 26 years old, of course has greater hopes of getting a bigger salary. With the quality he has, of course De Jong will receive many offers from elite European clubs at the end of this season.

Barcelona not inform this season, we watch them play as if they're average team. Xavi Hernandez has decided to leave Barcelona at the end of the season; it is only a matter of time before the manager departs. Joan Laporta, the team's president, will guarantee that he maintains the club's coordination because if he does not, a lot of things will go wrong for them. By the way, not only will the head coach leave, but other key players will take big leaps and exit the club this season, including Frankie De Jong, a creative confident midfielder who has played important roles for the team.

Xavi's departure will definitely make the Barcelona players feel sad because Xavi has been the one who has seemed sincere in coaching Barcelona in financial instability, but Xavi has continued to build Barcelona's performance well and was able to win 1 big La Liga trophy, even though this trophy is a common trophy for Barcelona because it's not a UCL trophy but it's not easy for a coach to build a team as big as Barcelona with money conditions like that and that's why the Barcelona players are worried that Xavi's departure will have a big impact on the team so they are also thinking about following Xavi footsteps in leaving Barcelona.

[JariKriting]

Exactly Girona are just focusing on Laliga only, because they don't have any competition playing expect the league, and they will continue to perform well in the league, but he can affect Real Madrid because they are in the Champions League and still playing laliga, Girona can get an advantage and top the league table if some of Madrid players are injured in the Champions League, but in my opinion, I don't think Girona can win the laliga anymore since they lost against Real M Girona will finish second in the league, giving them the potential to qualify for the Champions League next season and compete among the big clubs.

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It might be too early to say that Girona will finish as the 2nd in the laliga.
There are 14 games left before the end of this season, and from Girona fixtures - I guess they might not able to get 3 points from some these games:
Bilbao vs Girona
Atletico Madrid vs Girona
Girona vs Barca
Las Palmas vs Girona
Valencia vs Girona

from the above teams of opponents who are heavy and are competitors to fight for the top 4 standings at the end of the standings are when girona against bilbao, athletico madrid and barcelona in addition to their strong teams also compete for the top 4 standings. las palmas is easy to beat because the team is weak.

[Hirose UK]

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We all will never forget that Ancelotti has perfect troops even though some players are injured but will not cause problems for Ancelotti to manage Real Madrid players and proven as you say even without Bellingham there are still many reserve players who have almost the same performance so they don't Wonder if Brahim Diaz can appear with a very great performance.
For injuries that are natural, of course it is not a serious injury so it is still safe to contribute and all supporters do not want this to happen but are difficult to avoid because in the Chmapion League all clubs will compete to mobilize all their strengths to win so that there will be many players who might Experiencing a minor injury not only to Real Madrid players.

The next match will fight Rayo but Real Madrid will host.
How are your predictions?

Overall, almost all of Ancelotti players are great players and they can be called truly perfect squad, this cannot be separated from Ancelotti performance as coach and of course Ancelotti himself can always handle every problem well, including when there is player crisis.
I did an analysis and indeed only Real Madrid can remain consistent with full performance when experiencing player crisis, most of the teams out there when in conditions like this experience various pressures which cause decline in the quality of play or performance in each match.
It is not surprising that Real Madrid remains one of the best team in La Liga and they are still the strongest team who never seem to experience problems or make fatal mistakes that cause them to decline drastically.
In the UCL match, Real Madrid managed to win 1 - 0 over Leipzig and in the second leg, which is home match for Real Madrid, they will definitely win again with bigger score, this is our hope.

Rayo is clearly not difficult opponent for Real Madrid and I sure Rayo will suffer quite embarrassing defeat, at least 3 - 0 or 3 - 1 win is very worthy for Real Madrid.

[Oluwa-btc]

It might be too early to say that Girona will finish as the 2nd in the laliga.
There are 14 games left before the end of this season, and from Girona fixtures - I guess they might not able to get 3 points from some these games:
Bilbao vs Girona
Atletico Madrid vs Girona
Girona vs Barca
Las Palmas vs Girona
Valencia vs Girona

Asides Atletico Bilbao, Girona dealt with all of these clubs above on your list and there's a chance of it reoccurring if they're back in a good mental shape after the lose to Real Madrid.

Atletico Madrid lost, Barcelona had one embarrassing game that day which they'll not forget speedily. Las Palmas and same with Valencia. It'll be a draw prediction against Atletico Bilbao this weekend for them. They'll do all the can to win the game against them but my best shot and look at it still ends to be all squared!

Another bet of the weekend should be between Valencia and Sevilla. It'll off course be the third consecutive wins for Sevilla. Fingers crossed but that's my pick.

[Sebas.tian]

In the last game of Real Madrid, they played against Leipzig. When they started the game without players like Antonio Rüdiger and Jude Bellingham against Leipzig, they were thinking Real Madrid was going to have problems in this match. But they used Brahim Díaz and thanks to the good performance from Brahim Díaz they won the game. Still, he was injured during the game and this made the fans worried about having another injured player on the team, but after the end of the match he said they didn't know how hard he was injured but Díaz said he feels well and that's nothing serious.

I knew the match will end up for the favour of Real Madrid, despite their opponent was doing things that was causing Real Madrid players not to get the opportunity to have access to their goalpost but it was a surprised victory for Real Madrid to achieved the victory, because they didn't use all their talented players in that match. What Real Madrid did in their last match to defeated Girona 4-0 in the la Liga league competition, gave me the confident that they will still win their match in the champion league competition which they did to defeated their opponent 1-0 to achieved the points. I believe, their manager will give them a good treatment so that they can recover quickly from their injuries, because Real Madrid need to win their next match again.

[zaim7413]

If an elite club wants him, he will definitely go, not because of his high loyalty to Xavi, but because he wants a better career and of course a better and bigger salary and contract. As a professional player, like any other worker, his energy and skills want to be appreciated, namely with a large salary

Chelsea and Manchester United are ready to spend a lot of money to get him, Manchester City may also be interested in De Jong services. After Barcelona responded positively to De Jong's departure after the season ended, FDJ became a bone of contention for several top European clubs. Barcelona would only accept FDJ departure if there was an offer of no less than 100 million Euros. Chelsea doesn't mind Barcelona asking price, they are ready to empty their pockets to bring in De Jong. Maybe it's time for him to leave, there are still many other clubs that appreciate his energy and skills with a higher salary.

[klidex]

The situation there is a little different: Barcelona wants him to extend his contract with the club until 2029 with a reduction in salary. Naturally, he is not interested in this, so the club can try to get rid of him. He currently has a contract until 2026 and is one of the highest paid players at the club. In the previous season, when Barcelona put pressure on him, he showed that he had balls of iron and did not agree to a salary reduction. I think Barcelona need to come to terms with the fact that they need to fulfill the terms of the contract that they themselves signed. They can't do anything to him - even if they put him on the bench, they will be obliged to pay him his salary.

With Xavi resignation at the end of this season, of course several players will follow Xavi steps to leave for other teams. One of them is De Jong, where he is increasingly frustrated with the level of salary cuts carried out by Barcelona. De Jong, who is 26 years old, of course has greater hopes of getting a bigger salary. With the quality he has, of course De Jong will receive many offers from elite European clubs at the end of this season.

His loyalty to Barcelona will be tested again during the summer transfer window because De Jong is reportedly being looked at by big Premier League teams Manchester United and Chelsea. I think if De Jong leaves then the next team will be Manchester United because he has a good relationship with Erik Ten Hag.

It's actually quite sad to see a big club like Barcelona experiencing difficulties like this from a financial perspective, which is the main reason why Barcelona is increasingly experiencing setbacks, apart from financial difficulties, management and fans have too high expectations of Barcelona for Xavi Hernandez until finally Xavi gives up because he feels unable to handle the pressure which is too big and if Barcelona continues to lose then everyone will blame Xavi so Xavi decided to leave, after all at Barcelona the salary was not that big so going to another club maybe Xavi would get a salary that was in line with his abilities.

With Xavi's departure, other players like De Jong also want to follow Xavi because he also seems to be unable to stand the current condition of Bacelona. And I think the reason he left was because at Barcelona he didn't get a salary commensurate with his abilities and he wanted to go to a club that didn't there are financial problems, whether Manchester United or Chelsea, both clubs are quite good financially, but I recommend Manchester United more than Chelsea.

[Strongkored]

In the last game of Real Madrid, they played against Leipzig. When they started the game without players like Antonio Rüdiger and Jude Bellingham against Leipzig, they were thinking Real Madrid was going to have problems in this match. But they used Brahim Díaz and thanks to the good performance from Brahim Díaz they won the game. Still, he was injured during the game and this made the fans worried about having another injured player on the team, but after the end of the match he said they didn't know how hard he was injured but Díaz said he feels well and that's nothing serious.

It was not an extraordinary thing for Real Madrid when they managed to beat Leipzig because after all the strengths of the two teams differed quite significantly and without the presence of several key players that did not mean that it would make Real Madrid a weak team and easy to beat because there was one more factor that made Real Madrid remaining strong in this match is due to their coach Carlo Ancelotti, whose experience in this competition is very good and that allows him to determine the right strategy, especially since the team they are facing is an ordinary team in the Champions League, and maybe it would be different if the opponent they were facing was Inter Milan or other favorite teams who also have quite good statistics in the Champions League.
With this victory, Real Madrid's steps in the second leg can be said to be easy, they are unlikely to slip up at home, unless in the second match they only play with 10 or 9 players because of the red card, but on paper Real Madrid getting to the quarter-finals is a very big opportunity.

Real Madrid are certainly very happy at the moment because they managed to go through two important matches this week, beating Girona so they were stronger at the top of the standings in Laliga and beating Leipzig which made it easier for them to reach the quarter-finals in the UCL.

[bering]

In the last game of Real Madrid, they played against Leipzig. When they started the game without players like Antonio Rüdiger and Jude Bellingham against Leipzig, they were thinking Real Madrid was going to have problems in this match. But they used Brahim Díaz and thanks to the good performance from Brahim Díaz they won the game. Still, he was injured during the game and this made the fans worried about having another injured player on the team, but after the end of the match he said they didn't know how hard he was injured but Díaz said he feels well and that's nothing serious.

Real Madrid has several times to playing without Bellingham but they still can win without him and indeed Real Madrid was lucky because they have Brahim Diaz because when Bellingham was absense Ancelotti usually was playing him as attacking midfielder and so far this strategy is worked well because everytime he was played Brahim Diaz can able to performing well and during this season he was scores important goals for Real Madrid and the latest is he can help this team to gets important winning from Leipzig however do not forget too besides playing as attacking midfielder Brahim Diaz also can be played as striker and he has done it several times duet with Rodrygo in the Real Madrid front lines

But indeed this is bad news for Brahim Diaz because after the match against Leipzig this player was got injured so this is big lost for Real Madrid especially Bellingham still has uncertain condition too and this weekend Real Madrid will fight against Rayo and Ancelotti still waiting the conditions of these players and hopefully they will be available in this match because Real Madrid have to keep winning to managing their position on league standings and i know Rayo is weak team but if Brahim Diaz and Bellingham absense then it could be big lost for them

[OcTradism]

In the last game of Real Madrid, they played against Leipzig. When they started the game without players like Antonio Rüdiger and Jude Bellingham against Leipzig, they were thinking Real Madrid was going to have problems in this match. But they used Brahim Díaz and thanks to the good performance from Brahim Díaz they won the game. Still, he was injured during the game and this made the fans worried about having another injured player on the team, but after the end of the match he said they didn't know how hard he was injured but Díaz said he feels well and that's nothing serious.

Brahim Diaz does not have a smooth career and he was sent to some clubs in loan transfers. When he has times to play in Real Madrid, he is only a substitution and his career is like Marcos Asensio who already was sold to PSG.

Brahim scores some important and beautiful goals for Real Madrid and it's waste of player resource if Real Madrid let him go to another club through another loan transfer in the next summer. In rest of season, Brahim Diaz will try to play as best as possible to be called for his national team and Real Madrid can get benefit from his ambition and contribution.

Real Madrid has several times to playing without Bellingham but they still can win without him and indeed Real Madrid was lucky because they have Brahim Diaz because when Bellingham was absense Ancelotti usually was playing him as attacking midfielder and so far this strategy is worked well because everytime he was played Brahim Diaz can able to performing well and during this season he was scores important goals for Real Madrid

This season looks to be strange for not only Real Madrid but also La Liga. Jude Bellingham is leading the league best scorer table and no other words to say "Strange", when a midfielder or attacking player can hold this position very long time against many strikers in the league.

Brahim Diaz does not play as a direct replacement for Jude Bellingham and I am sure without Jude, their coach actually changes tactics to use Brahim Diaz in the squad.

[Bobrox]

Real Madrid has several times to playing without Bellingham but they still can win without him and indeed Real Madrid was lucky because they have Brahim Diaz because when Bellingham was absense Ancelotti usually was playing him as attacking midfielder and so far this strategy is worked well because everytime he was played Brahim Diaz can able to performing well and during this season he was scores important goals for Real Madrid and the latest is he can help this team to gets important winning from Leipzig however do not forget too besides playing as attacking midfielder Brahim Diaz also can be played as striker and he has done it several times duet with Rodrygo in the Real Madrid front lines

Last match in Champion League, Real Madrid won against RB Leipzig without Jude Bellingham and his position replacing well by Brahim Diaz, Carlo Ancelotti not get much problem when main players injury because he has many option make rotation and moving his players from their real position. So far Brahim Diaz have played 19 matches in La Liga with 4 goals contribution and made one assist and I think not really bad performed exactly less chance get as regular position.

Upcoming match in La Liga, Real Madrid will face Rayo Vallecano and still not confirming will Brahim Diaz fit or not because he has leaves last match against RB Leipzig after getting injury, will be more problem for Madrid have got many their players injury list for this season and absent more than two until four weeks later.

[Velvet78]

In my opinion. Barcelona's current downturn is not the players' fault, but rather Xavi's fault for not being able to coach a team as big as Barcelona. Xavi is none other than the Spanish version of Lampard, Gerrard and Rooney. Good players but bad managers. Completely beyond his depth and capabilities.

Even though they have Pedri, Frenkie, Lewa, the best strikers, Araujo and Kounde the best defenders, and Mats the best goalkeeper. And now Xavi blames the players and keeps saying injuries and teenagers. All the players I mentioned above are the best. Just look now at Real Madrid without the main goalkeeper and all the CB players. It doesn't even have a main striker. Playing several games without a single CB, they had several injuries and two months without Vini, Cama, Carvajal and others, now Jude is injured, but Real Madrid can get through it because they have a genius coach. So, Barcelona can bounce back next season after Xavi steps down from Barcelona and Barcelona brings in a new coach.

Xavi was able to do a good job in the previous season but he couldn't in this one.    Trying new methods is a good thing so maybe their next manager can have a much better run with Barcelona.

But they will need to pick their manager really carefully. Rijkaard has been one of the rumoured names recently. I remember his times with Barcelona as a manager before. He had a really successful time period. However it was a really long time ago. I'm curious about what he would do now if he is brought to the manager seat. But thinking about his history with the team I think he could be more successful than Xavi.

[rendravolt]

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Upcoming match in La Liga, Real Madrid will face Rayo Vallecano and still not confirming will Brahim Diaz fit or not because he has leaves last match against RB Leipzig after getting injury, will be more problem for Madrid have got many their players injury list for this season and absent more than two until four weeks later.

Brahim Diaz's epic performance had to be paid for by pain when he left the field and what I read is that Real Madrid will still carry out medical tests to determine whether the injury is serious or not. It was a shame that with such an extraordinary performance Brahim Diaz had to repeatedly receive very rough fouls from the Leipzig players and as far as I remember he was in pain when he managed to dribble past several Leipzig players before he raised his hands and stopped dribbling the ball.

Against Vallecano this week actually won't make Real Madrid feel threatened, but still, with positive moments like this and also with the motivation to continue to widen the gap from Girona, they have to win no matter what. On the other hand, if Brahim Diaz really suffers an injury and has to be absent for several weeks like Jude Bellingham, Ancelotti will have no other option by giving Arda Guler the opportunity to play as a starter. I know this is quite risky, especially since Arda Guler rarely gets playing minutes but he is the only one who has the same position as AMF like Brahim Diaz or Jude Bellingham.

[KTChampions]

The situation there is a little different: Barcelona wants him to extend his contract with the club until 2029 with a reduction in salary. Naturally, he is not interested in this, so the club can try to get rid of him. He currently has a contract until 2026 and is one of the highest paid players at the club. In the previous season, when Barcelona put pressure on him, he showed that he had balls of iron and did not agree to a salary reduction. I think Barcelona need to come to terms with the fact that they need to fulfill the terms of the contract that they themselves signed. They can't do anything to him - even if they put him on the bench, they will be obliged to pay him his salary.

There is not a good situation in Barcelona between De Jong and the team and it seems they don't really want to spend a huge amount of money to keep this player in the team and De Jong feels they don't respect him enough in Barcelona, that's why he decided to leave the team but now Barcelona said they only let De Jong leave the team if they get a good offer for this player. Barcelona said they would only let him leave for if they got more than 100 million euros offer.

Barcelona can want whatever they want, no one cares. De Jong has a valid contract, as mentioned earlier, his girlfriend is very happy with life in Barcelona and is against moving to England (at least she is not enthusiastic about such a change of scenery). Therefore, it is Barcelona (and the other club that will try to get De Jong) which must persuade him and offer favorable terms for his transfer to another club.

[Inwestour]

Xavi was able to do a good job in the previous season but he couldn't in this one.    Trying new methods is a good thing so maybe their next manager can have a much better run with Barcelona.

But they will need to pick their manager really carefully. Rijkaard has been one of the rumoured names recently. I remember his times with Barcelona as a manager before. He had a really successful time period. However it was a really long time ago. I'm curious about what he would do now if he is brought to the manager seat. But thinking about his history with the team I think he could be more successful than Xavi.

The new coach will rebuild the team in a new way, there will be new strategies, it is likely that new players will come, maybe someone will leave the team. It's a pity that players like Lewandowski and Gundogan left their previous clubs, probably in the desire to achieve the same high results in Barcelona, but now the team is going through difficult times and this may last for some time. A good coach is very important for the team’s high results, they should not experiment, they need to choose only among the best.