La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2023/24

[kro55]

I heard that his original position was left back. Alaba most often plays at left-back, but he can also play as a central midfielder (box-to-box midfielder, or defensive midfielder), and central defender. I think this is why Anceloti bought Alaba. With his ability to play in many different positions, Alaba can be an alternative to the shortage of players in this sector.
Regarding Ramos, he has his own character, Alaba has too. But to keep Alaba's defense is also good, he will keep getting better because he is still young. Over time he will grow as a great player.

He is already a great player in his current position and he just needs more experience at Real Madrid to become one of the greatest defenders of all time. Alaba is not young anymore because he is now 29 years old. He was an experienced player during his time at Bayern Munich and now he has to give his best for Real Madrid and his contract expires in 2026. Alaba has a primary position at centre-back, but Real Madrid can also use his service as a left back and central midfielder if needed.

Alaba came to Real Madrid as a replacement for Ramos and Varane. Of course, the expectations of Real fans will be much higher to him. He is experienced enough as a defender. Although he is not as great as Ramos, I hope he performs well at Real Madrid and does not disappoint us.

[kassex]

Unfortunately, Alaba is the only one that Real Madrid bought. Despite the financial difficulties, the rivals have seriously increased. Even Barcelona, ​​despite the debts, was able to attract good players. I think that next season, Madrid will fight to get into the Champions League.

[dbc23]

Signing a deal with real Madrid will give David Alaba the opportunity to fit into Sergio Ramos position. He is already a big player even when his contract has expired at Bayern Munich he still had an offer for another big team I guess he is set to lift some trophies this season

[Luzin]

He is already a great player in his current position and he just needs more experience at Real Madrid to become one of the greatest defenders of all time. Alaba is not young anymore because he is now 29 years old.

At this age, players are often at their best in terms of attitude, skill and mentality. I said he was still young because he could still play long. I think it's very profitable for Madrid. Ramos' departure must be forgotten, the madrid management have done that and are ready for a new gamble for Alaba.

Signing a deal with real Madrid will give David Alaba the opportunity to fit into Sergio Ramos position.

Yes I think after Ramos and Varane leave he will be a centre-back. I think Alaba will partner with Militao at centre-back and have Carvajal and Mendy on left  and right

[hd49728]

Unfortunately, Alaba is the only one that Real Madrid bought. Despite the financial difficulties, the rivals have seriously increased. Even Barcelona, ​​despite the debts, was able to attract good players. I think that next season, Madrid will fight to get into the Champions League.

Real Madrid did not buy Alaba. They get him in a free transfer from Bayern Munich as far as I know.
David Alaba reportedly received a 17.7 million euro signing bonus by Real Madrid after joining the LaLiga Santander club on a free transfer from Bayern Munich.

Yes I think after Ramos and Varane leave he will be a centre-back. I think Alaba will partner with Militao at centre-back and have Carvajal and Mendy on left  and right

Militao is not a good central defender and Real Madrid need to find another one to replace Varane. Militao can play as substitution but he is not good enough to play as one of two main central defenders.

Carvajal and Mendy are good for two wings but Carvajal is not young and Real Madrid need to have plan to replace him in next few seasons as well. Marcelo is a good substitution for them, especially if Real Madrid need to attack more.

[kro55]

Signing a deal with real Madrid will give David Alaba the opportunity to fit into Sergio Ramos position. He is already a big player even when his contract has expired at Bayern Munich he still had an offer for another big team I guess he is set to lift some trophies this season

Can you use your poster punctuation marks properly? Having a hard time figuring out the meaning of your post. Did you mean Alaba will win the trophy this season? I don't think so. Real Madrid is not a strong team to win the trophy now. Barcelona and Atletico Madrid are more stable than Real Madrid.

[DU18]

Signing a deal with real Madrid will give David Alaba the opportunity to fit into Sergio Ramos position. He is already a big player even when his contract has expired at Bayern Munich he still had an offer for another big team I guess he is set to lift some trophies this season

Can you use your poster punctuation marks properly? Having a hard time figuring out the meaning of your post. Did you mean Alaba will win the trophy this season? I don't think so. Real Madrid is not a strong team to win the trophy now. Barcelona and Atletico Madrid are more stable than Real Madrid.

Nowadays, it is very difficult to predict which team will win La Liga, because almost all teams have the same opportunities such as Barcelona, ​​Madrid, Atletico Madrid, Bilbao and even Valencia and also Sevilla have the opportunity to win La Liga and this is different from La Liga several  last year where the competition to become champion belonged only to Barcelona and Madrid and it happened for almost years, I think non-seeded teams should be able to take advantage of the situation that is hitting big teams in next season la liga competition and we know some big teams like Barcelona and Madrid currently involved a lot of problems like debt and financial problem thus forcing the team to skimp on the transfer market.

[jostorres]

Unfortunately, Alaba is the only one that Real Madrid bought. Despite the financial difficulties, the rivals have seriously increased. Even Barcelona, ​​despite the debts, was able to attract good players. I think that next season, Madrid will fight to get into the Champions League.

Are we really sure? I mean according to transfermarkt basically says it is 154 million euro for Barcelona players total (the new ones) compared to 195 million for Real Madrid. Which means that Real got players worth 40 million euro worth more than Barcelona and that means a lot of money, I honestly think that it is not even that close if you ask me, most players looks like they are just overvalued because they went to Barcelona, Emerson Royal was bought for 9 million but looks 25 million just to give one example.

The only difference is Real spent zero money on player buying right now, they are basically not spending on transfer fee and that is the difference between Real and all the other big clubs. I know that losing Varane and Ramos at the same year made people consider what they will do next season on defense but Alaba and Militao doesn't get enough credit for some reason, that is a seriously good defense.

[DIA7]

Suddenly the renewalfor Messi with Barcelona became almost impossible after it was confirmed according to Marca in particular.
And Officially in Social media Barcelona announces the departure of Messi  Rumors have talked about several reasons, but we do not know the correct and sure of them yet.
Frankly I am stunned by the news.
His next destination will be the question.
He is now free to sign with any team Manchester City and PSG will be the top teams will tey to lure him.
I'm not sure that PSG have enough budget for his salary and it's possible that they do not contact him for the reason of focusing on keeping Mbappe. That leave Man City the current sole contender to sign him.

[snipie]

Suddenly the renewalfor Messi with Barcelona became almost impossible after it was confirmed according to Marca in particular.
And Officially in Social media Barcelona announces the departure of Messi  Rumors have talked about several reasons, but we do not know the correct and sure of them yet.
Frankly I am stunned by the news.
His next destination will be the question.
He is now free to sign with any team Manchester City and PSG will be the top teams will tey to lure him.
I'm not sure that PSG have enough budget for his salary and it's possible that they do not contact him for the reason of focusing on keeping Mbappe. That leave Man City the current sole contender to sign him.

I just read that too, from what I understood Barcelona wants Messi to stay and he also wants to stay there but signing the deal is impossible to do due to the financial fair play? We already talked about that and said that Barca needs to get ride of many players and Griezmann preferably too in order to sign Messi! and what about Aguero and the rest? They will sacrifice Messi and sign the others?? It is weird, losing a legend for free

[BIT-BENDER]

After almost de-friending my pal after he told me about Messi departure, because of thought it was an expensive rumour.  I just saw the heart breaking news about Messi departure from Barcelona on official Barcelona Instagram page, although still real, I think is a bunch of un-reasonable reason to do away with Messi, after the two parties -Barcelona and Messi- has agreed to keep up the relationship, no Financial restrictions should cut-off Messi from his signing, Messi is not bigger than Barcelona but, I think their are other players Barcelona should have looked at to balance up the spanish La liga structure.

[EdenHazard]

Suddenly the renewalfor Messi with Barcelona became almost impossible after it was confirmed according to Marca in particular.
And Officially in Social media Barcelona announces the departure of Messi  Rumors have talked about several reasons, but we do not know the correct and sure of them yet.
Frankly I am stunned by the news.
His next destination will be the question.
He is now free to sign with any team Manchester City and PSG will be the top teams will tey to lure him.
I'm not sure that PSG have enough budget for his salary and it's possible that they do not contact him for the reason of focusing on keeping Mbappe. That leave Man City the current sole contender to sign him.

Yeah suddenly the contract say :

beef replaced with cheap bread
shoe replaced with cheap sandals
wine replaced with a bottle of water

reasonable enough to pull oit of the contract and moving on.
Welcome to chelsea,  Lionel.

Marina Granovskaia show your magic, come on!
Messi's contract extension been run so slow since few months ago, im not really surprised with this hot newd, quite predictable.
messi going to premier league!

[DIA7]

I just read that too, from what I understood Barcelona wants Messi to stay and he also wants to stay there but signing the deal is impossible to do due to the financial fair play? We already talked about that and said that Barca needs to get ride of many players and Griezmann preferably too in order to sign Messi! and what about Aguero and the rest? They will sacrifice Messi and sign the others?? It is weird, losing a legend for free

Some say it's not over yet for Barcelona as LaLiga is on their way down losing one more pillars would not serve them well that's why some observers believe that this announcement from Barcelona may constitute a major deception for the Spanish League.
They believe that the departure of the best player in the world from the Spanish League due to the restrictions imposed by the Spanish League may push the League to go easy on the rules of Financial Fair Play to allow him to stay. If this is the case, it is a bold step, especially since Javier Tebas, the president of the association, has repeatedly criticized the financial situation of the club, and stressed a lot about Barcelona's need to reduce salaries by large percentages to keep Messi.

[Ratash]

After almost de-friending my pal after he told me about Messi departure, because of thought it was an expensive rumour.  I just saw the heart breaking news about Messi departure from Barcelona on official Barcelona Instagram page, although still real, I think is a bunch of un-reasonable reason to do away with Messi, after the two parties -Barcelona and Messi- has agreed to keep up the relationship, no Financial restrictions should cut-off Messi from his signing, Messi is not bigger than Barcelona but, I think their are other players Barcelona should have looked at to balance up the spanish La liga structure.

Yes it was unfortunate to see a the relationship between messi and barcelona broken because of a financial problem it seems they have problems with laliga federation and as you said they shouldve tried harder to keep him at barcelona because they need him the most and with the current squad it will be harder for them to compete in laliga i wonder is it over for them and real madrid after last year performance and without messi.

[DU18]

After almost de-friending my pal after he told me about Messi departure, because of thought it was an expensive rumour.  I just saw the heart breaking news about Messi departure from Barcelona on official Barcelona Instagram page, although still real, I think is a bunch of un-reasonable reason to do away with Messi, after the two parties -Barcelona and Messi- has agreed to keep up the relationship, no Financial restrictions should cut-off Messi from his signing, Messi is not bigger than Barcelona but, I think their are other players Barcelona should have looked at to balance up the spanish La liga structure.

Yes it was unfortunate to see a the relationship between messi and barcelona broken because of a financial problem it seems they have problems with laliga federation and as you said they shouldve tried harder to keep him at barcelona because they need him the most and with the current squad it will be harder for them to compete in laliga i wonder is it over for them and real madrid after last year performance and without messi.

I was also surprised to read the latest news about messi's departure from barcelona, ​​even though some time ago many media had reported that messi had agreed to extend his contract at barcelona even though on the condition of a pay cut but today all barcelona fans were shocked by the departure of their idol star so far and It seems that the current financial and structural constraints have completely destroyed Barcelona.
We should look forward to where messi will continue his career and of course with the current messi leaving will make the summer transfer market will be hotter...!

[Slow death]

now that barcelona doesn't have Messi i imagine that barcelona performance will be an average performance and that barcelona results will be average. does barcelona without messi have any chance of winning La Liga? in my honest opinion, this season's barcelona without Messi has no chance of winning the La Liga, as a real madrid fan I'm happy with this news because with it we'll face a weakened opponent, I'm already beginning to hope that real madrid can be champion of the la liga

[Lordhermes]

Even if I was hoping to see Messi playing at a different club from now on, I was surprised by this news also. Because there have been many speculations that he would accept a 50% pay cut and sign a new deal with Barcelona again. But it's the opposite we are seeing now. I hope that Messi makes his decision well and goes to a club which would be really the right place to win titles.

This news is really surprising to me as well.It was rumoured he wants to leave Barcelona to another club earlier in the transfer window,but after a while we never saw that coming through,still very shocking we are hearing this now.If he moves to a team like Mancity,it will really be good for him.

[AndySt]

I just read that too, from what I understood Barcelona wants Messi to stay and he also wants to stay there but signing the deal is impossible to do due to the financial fair play? We already talked about that and said that Barca needs to get ride of many players and Griezmann preferably too in order to sign Messi! and what about Aguero and the rest? They will sacrifice Messi and sign the others?? It is weird, losing a legend for free

Some say it's not over yet for Barcelona as LaLiga is on their way down losing one more pillars would not serve them well that's why some observers believe that this announcement from Barcelona may constitute a major deception for the Spanish League.
They believe that the departure of the best player in the world from the Spanish League due to the restrictions imposed by the Spanish League may push the League to go easy on the rules of Financial Fair Play to allow him to stay. If this is the case, it is a bold step, especially since Javier Tebas, the president of the association, has repeatedly criticized the financial situation of the club, and stressed a lot about Barcelona's need to reduce salaries by large percentages to keep Messi.

I'm not sure that such an attempt at blackmail can help signing a contract. Barcelona is also to blame itself and failed to implement all the measures that could have allowed the club to comply with financial fair play, and when the club instead offered Messi to further reduce his financial ambitions, despite the previous agreement to cut wages by half, then the player himself could not stand it. Also, the big mistake of Barcelona is that the club delayed too long with the solution of this issue and did not begin to take action in advance and therefore was forced to solve its problems in a very short time, without taking into account the opinion of the players themselves, who will not be happy to lose significantly in salary or even change the club.

[hd49728]

now that barcelona doesn't have Messi i imagine that barcelona performance will be an average performance and that barcelona results will be average. does barcelona without messi have any chance of winning La Liga? in my honest opinion, this season's barcelona without Messi has no chance of winning the La Liga, as a real madrid fan I'm happy with this news because with it we'll face a weakened opponent, I'm already beginning to hope that real madrid can be champion of the la liga

Pedri and Ansu Fati will be their hope for the new era, without Messi. Without him, they will have more freedom to play on field and might grow up faster. Pedri in the Euro shows that he can play at highest level against top players.

I did not imagine this story because after all new contracts with Kun, Depay, I guess Messi will stay in the club. Leaving the club because of salary and can not cut it more. I don't know. Barcelona did not say what is the salary they can be able to pay for Messi but still meet the requirement of La Liga.

I was also surprised to read the latest news about messi's departure from barcelona, ​​even though some time ago many media had reported that messi had agreed to extend his contract at barcelona even though on the condition of a pay cut but today all barcelona fans were shocked by the departure of their idol star so far and It seems that the current financial and structural constraints have completely destroyed Barcelona.
We should look forward to where messi will continue his career and of course with the current messi leaving will make the summer transfer market will be hotter...!

Messi agreed to cut his salary in order to stay in Barcelona but they failed to keep him there. The pandemic effects and their own financial problems don't allow them chance to sign a new contract with Messi.

We can not say anything about the decision of Messi. He has right to leave, after more than 20 years in Barcelona but he can do better if he really want to stay and want to end his career in Barcelona. Anyway, it is a story between Messi and Barcelona and finally it already ended. I will be shocked if Messi changes his decision again after all (burofax drama and this time).

[hahay]

Even if I was hoping to see Messi playing at a different club from now on, I was surprised by this news also. Because there have been many speculations that he would accept a 50% pay cut and sign a new deal with Barcelona again. But it's the opposite we are seeing now. I hope that Messi makes his decision well and goes to a club which would be really the right place to win titles.

This news is really surprising to me as well.It was rumoured he wants to leave Barcelona to another club earlier in the transfer window,but after a while we never saw that coming through,still very shocking we are hearing this now.If he moves to a team like Mancity,it will really be good for him.

Well, if it is confirmed that Messi will move, then of course the big clubs in Europe will be willing to change their main squad to bring Messi, right? How not, Messi is still very charming on the field so this struggle will probably happen between City and PSG who still have issues bringing Ronaldo to PSG and Kane to City, if Messi is willing to move then these two teams could turn a corner to get Messi, of course. will leave Barcelona. It will be interesting and I will just wait for further news, and wonder which team Messi will choose in the future because I am sure some other big clubs like Juventus, Chelsea etc will be interested in getting Messi.