La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2023/24

[Joca97]

Barcelona can be ascertained almost bankrupt even the player transfer system is also quite pathetic where a team as big as Barcelona must pay Ferran Torres 10x installments to Manchester City. However, the regulations from La Liga which prohibit foreigners from owning 100% shares in a club give a bad indication for La Liga team's finances, it is very difficult to find investors with minority share ownership. Because all investors in the world of football they want full rights or 100% share ownership like when Manchester City was acquired by entrepreneurs from Qatar.

I think Barcelona is far from bankrupt - their debt is a little more than their annual budget, but they spend their annual budget in a year, and debt repayment is stretched over time. As for the difficulties with the sale of the club, it is easy to get around them, for example, create a Spanish company that will buy the club, and the shares of the created company will belong to a foreigner. The issue is that the management of Barcelona is not considering selling the club.

Barcelona is in serious problems i think their debt is over 1.4$ Billion currently. The current management is doing everything to make it lower even dropping lots of salaries and lots of players. They are currently focused on their academy and getting players for free. But its not easy to get out of that debt that easy.

[AndySt]

Koeman doesn't have the philosophy of play that Barcelona are hoping for, but Xavi has it although at the moment he's only trying it with a few senior players and a lot of his academy players. Take a look at what he has put into Barcelona's performances and compare it to what Koeman has done for Barcelona in recent seasons.

This is what I like about Xavi so far, he is trying to bring in senior players he has struggled with in order to motivate the young players and also to give their contribution to help Xavi educate the next generation of Barcelona in 5 years. It's not seen at this time but with their potential that is quite prominent, we will definitely see Barcelona will appear with training results that are not in vain. Then what I like about Xavi is his unselfishness in receiving input from senior players that he deliberately installs at Barca's current club. So that Xavi lack of reading the opponent's strategy can be helped by Alves.

Xavi has no choice at the moment. That's why he uses old players. They can hardly bring anything new to the team. In Xavi's place, I have already used more young players to quickly introduce my game tactics and test their abilities. But alas, Xavi must also win to get into the Champions League next year. He cannot buy new players due to financial constraints .

Let's not forget when and under what conditions Koeman was invited to Barcelona and became the head coach of the team. At that time, there was no epidemic of COVID 19 and, accordingly, Barcelona's financial problems worsened because of this. The Dutch specialist came to a club that was quite financially prosperous and his task was to make a generation change in the club quite painlessly and prepare the club for a gradual decrease in the role of Messi on the game and the results of the club.You know what happened next. There were well-known events, there was a change of the club's management, Messi left the club. Unlike Koeman, Xavi already knew exactly where he was going, what difficulties he would face and what tasks needed to be solved.

[coderben]

There is around one week for the Barcelona - Atletico Madrid match in Camp Nou. This is the most popular match among people now of course. Because these teams are having a similar season now. Barcelona are following Atletico Madrid from only one point behind being at the fifth position in the current standings. They both have started getting satisfying results in the recent times. Actually, I wouldn't call them very satisfying as they had difficulties in winning those matches but they still won in the end. And I think that Barcelona wouldn't lose here.

[Lordhermes]

There is around one week for the Barcelona - Atletico Madrid match in Camp Nou. This is the most popular match among people now of course. Because these teams are having a similar season now. Barcelona are following Atletico Madrid from only one point behind being at the fifth position in the current standings. They both have started getting satisfying results in the recent times. Actually, I wouldn't call them very satisfying as they had difficulties in winning those matches but they still won in the end. And I think that Barcelona wouldn't lose here.

For Barcelona,I think Xavi is really doing something great at the club,and the team he is building is one for the future. After watching one of their matches,I concluded that those boys will take Barcelona to that time of Xavi and Iniesta,where they played the Tiki-taka pattern of football.

And for the match against Athletico Madrid,it's a draw match.

[Juggy777]

Next week against Atletico Madrid with all the preparations already quite good. Since there is no match scheduled for almost 1 week they have prepared everything that might have made a lot of changes. Xavi hard work always pays off, even if it's not significant. Over time, Barcelona will surely show their abilities by themselves.

Xavi managed to improve the mentality of Barcelona players to fight despite struggling to win matches. I agree that not everything he wanted worked out this quickly, he needed time and brought Barcelona back to their best.

Maybe if problem from player quality on Barcelona why last month Ronald Koeman have out and replace by Xavi Hernandez? why not management try to give much money for Ronald Koeman get new player.

Ronald Koeman had enough time to try his strategy at Barcelona. He has made many changes and also he has managed to bring a setback to Barcelona where when he was no longer at Barcelona Messi, Suarez, Rakitic, Vidal and several other important players also left.

Koeman doesn't have the philosophy of play that Barcelona are hoping for, but Xavi has it although at the moment he's only trying it with a few senior players and a lot of his academy players. Take a look at what he has put into Barcelona's performances and compare it to what Koeman has done for Barcelona in recent seasons.

Keep touch with the same philosophy I think is not good strategy for Barcelona, tiki taka era have ended and many team know what is the weakness from this strategy, right now Barcelona still adopted with tiki taka game play and always have dominance with ball possession and made many passes every match but did you see how many goal can create by Barcelona so far, they faced difficulty how to make many goal on every match, just win with 1-0 and some time although dominance with ball possession Barcelona failed to create goal, football is not about how dominance with ball possession and how beautiful game playing but the final score is most important how to win.

I believe the next few days are very crucial for Xavi and Barcelona, because if they can loan or sell some player’s and in turn buy 1 - 3 player’s then they’ll be able to play good football again. Lastly is Xavi the right person to lead Barcelona, then the short answer is yes but he requires few more signings, and at least one full season to make an impact in my personal opinion.

[Swordsoffreedom]

There is around one week for the Barcelona - Atletico Madrid match in Camp Nou. This is the most popular match among people now of course. Because these teams are having a similar season now. Barcelona are following Atletico Madrid from only one point behind being at the fifth position in the current standings. They both have started getting satisfying results in the recent times. Actually, I wouldn't call them very satisfying as they had difficulties in winning those matches but they still won in the end. And I think that Barcelona wouldn't lose here.

For Barcelona,I think Xavi is really doing something great at the club,and the team he is building is one for the future. After watching one of their matches,I concluded that those boys will take Barcelona to that time of Xavi and Iniesta,where they played the Tiki-taka pattern of football.

And for the match against Athletico Madrid,it's a draw match.

There is no doubt that Xavi is doing well. Not just Xavi. Newcomer Torres has proved his mettle in the last two matches. But a win against Atletico Madrid requires a good and stable gameplay. If Torres and Depay can play well together and if Barcelona's defense is strong then we can expect such a good result from Barcelona. Opponents Strieker Suarez, Griezmann and Correa are very experienced. If there is any weakness in the defense, Barcelona will have to concede the goal.

[swogerino]

Sevilla are continuing their determined behaviour in the La Liga for the title. They lost two points the last time but thankfully Real Madrid did the same too. I believe that Sevilla are much better than the last season now. They are completely focused on the La Liga title as it seems but they have a big rival ahead of them which is Real Madrid. The current gap is still four points and Sevilla will have to maintain a winning streak to have a chance for the title. But I still feel like Real Madrid will make it this year.

It will be difficult for Sevilla but I was just checking the stats right now and it looks like Sevilla has the best defense of the league with only just 16 goals conceded so far in 22 games,that is less than 1 goal per game if we do an average.They had 2 draws in their last games although against strong opponents like Valencia and Celta Vigo so they missed exactly 4 points which is the difference to the leaders.I am a fan of Real Madrid and I hope they to win the league but I would not be mad if Sevilla wins it as there is quite some time without a La Liga title for Sevilla.

[ILuckyGuyI]

It would have been better to watch the Barcelona - Atletico Madrid game if both of these teams were in the fight for the league title. But the current situation for both of them is the opposite now. However, the recent performances of both of them have been decent actually. They both won last week by a one-goal difference. Atletico Madrid's victory was really like a dream as they turned the game around from 0-2 behind. And here in Camp Nou, my favourite will be Barcelona. Bookmakers are also favouring them and maybe they can win by a one-goal difference.

[TheGreatPython]

If I'm to talk about the big game next week which is Barcelona - Atletico Madrid, I can say that I don't have a clear favourite. The reason is that obviously none of these teams have been impressive this season so far. This makes things difficult for people to be sure of a prediction about this game. Maybe Atletico Madrid are going to play an away game but they can win this game too. These teams both are really inconsistent and we never know how good they will be in Camp Nou. If Atletico Madrid have a defensive game, then we could watch a really boring game.

Few weeks back things were not in favour of Barcelona, but now Xavi is doing very good job, and they have very good form just because of this now they are able to reach at fifth place and if they are able to defeat Atletico Madrid then surely they are going to stay at fourth place which is currently dream of this team and their management due to very bad financial situation they are not able to buy any new players so trying to have few on loan which is also good option, but they achieve some good in recent weeks, and now I am hoping they will be able to reach out at third spot as well because Betis is also losing points with Real Madrid and Sevilla are on level in form and dropping points which is clearly helping Barcelona and their dream for European touch at the end of this season.

[Red Pie]

I can't say that Barcelona played well in their last game. They drew 1-1 with Granada. They lost 3-2 to Athletic Bilbao. They lost 3-2 to Real Madrid. Alaves barely won 1-0 in the game. They played a really good game in the Real Madrid match, I liked it. However, they could not escape defeat. There is also the possibility of losing in the Atlético Madrid match. They didn't give me a very good team image. They will play a hard match against Atlético.

Barcelona is not that bad if you know how quality the players they have had this season. So you have to think of them as a different team from the previous Barcelona if you don't want to be disappointed with the final result they have had this season.

Barcelona are still a big team in Laliga, but they no longer have a good player to become a team icon that other players and coaches count on before a match gets underway. Without Messi, Barcelona struggles to score goals, that's the most obvious thing we've found at Barcelona this season. There are too many problems for Xavi to solve this season, he really needs a lot of time to get Barcelona back to their best. But I hope Barcelona can beat Atletico Madrid next week.

The problem now is that there are so many football fans and fans who always see them at the top and when their performance declines of course this will be highlighted because they played beyond expectations this season.
Barcelona is still Barcelona, which will be one of the big teams in La Liga, but indeed we cannot compare their players with their golden era a few seasons ago, although there will always be comparisons there.

Barcelona is now a famous team with its name.  If you ask about the best teams in the world, it is one of the top 5 teams to be counted.  As such, expectations naturally increase.  Barcelona has fans around the world.  These fans are always in anticipation.  They want to be champions, to win the champions league.  As such, it is thought that the situation Barcelona is in now is very bad.  Especially the fact that its rival, Real Madrid, is in the leading position for a long time and that Barcelona is far behind, causes disappointment for the fans.

[Alanaz]

The problem now is that there are so many football fans and fans who always see them at the top and when their performance declines of course this will be highlighted because they played beyond expectations this season.
Barcelona is still Barcelona, which will be one of the big teams in La Liga, but indeed we cannot compare their players with their golden era a few seasons ago, although there will always be comparisons there.

Barcelona is now a famous team with its name.  If you ask about the best teams in the world, it is one of the top 5 teams to be counted.  As such, expectations naturally increase.  Barcelona has fans around the world.  These fans are always in anticipation.  They want to be champions, to win the champions league.  As such, it is thought that the situation Barcelona is in now is very bad.  Especially the fact that its rival, Real Madrid, is in the leading position for a long time and that Barcelona is far behind, causes disappointment for the fans.

Talking about the fans, I feel some of them are now leaving as a result of their coveted players like messi and griezman leaving the team
for their current level of followers tends to decrease due to this and indeed it is very reasonable because not everyone can become a fan of one club.
they are currently in a transition period and this is quite natural because it is not only Barcelona who are experiencing this but indeed Madrid are the same. Let's look at the 2017/2018 and 2018/2019 seasons.
So I don't think this is brought up too much because all teams will go through a period like this and they inevitably have to go through it

[Luzin]

Barcelona is now a famous team with its name.  If you ask about the best teams in the world, it is one of the top 5 teams to be counted.  As such, expectations naturally increase.  Barcelona has fans around the world.  These fans are always in anticipation.  They want to be champions, to win the champions league.  As such, it is thought that the situation Barcelona is in now is very bad.  Especially the fact that its rival, Real Madrid, is in the leading position for a long time and that Barcelona is far behind, causes disappointment for the fans.

Good fans probably understand the current state of Barcelona. They won't leave, because of the current problems. They were regenerating, it was natural for their achievements to go down. If you look at the other problems of the crisis make them worse. I think the regeneration process takes a long time, if in the EPL you see Man United they don't have money, but their regeneration is not completely successful. Their achievements were also not as good as when Scholes, Flechter, was still playing for Man United.

[tulusikhlas]

Barcelona is now a famous team with its name.  If you ask about the best teams in the world, it is one of the top 5 teams to be counted.  As such, expectations naturally increase.  Barcelona has fans around the world.  These fans are always in anticipation.  They want to be champions, to win the champions league.  As such, it is thought that the situation Barcelona is in now is very bad.  Especially the fact that its rival, Real Madrid, is in the leading position for a long time and that Barcelona is far behind, causes disappointment for the fans.

Good fans probably understand the current state of Barcelona. They won't leave, because of the current problems. They were regenerating, it was natural for their achievements to go down. If you look at the other problems of the crisis make them worse. I think the regeneration process takes a long time, if in the EPL you see Man United they don't have money, but their regeneration is not completely successful. Their achievements were also not as good as when Scholes, Flechter, was still playing for Man United.

I don't think with Barcelona's performance now their fans will leave. Disappointed and dissatisfied that's for sure, no fan will not be disappointed to see their beloved team perform unsatisfactorily. Especially when compared to their rivals who were far ahead of them, it must be painful.
But I'm sure these times will pass Barcelona quickly.

[Slow death]

Barcelona - Atletico

why are they putting barcelona as a favorite?  barcelona has a better chance of drawing in this game, so I do not see barcelona as a favorite in this game in my opinion, looking at barcelona that manages to draw with small teams then game against Atletico will be another draw

[RaltcoinsB]

I guess they will improve a lot in terms of finishing. Things that can happen over time. Meanwhile, they also announced their new transfer. Adama Traore will boost their wing strength. In terms of finishing, Barcelona need a Lewandowski or Haaland. With a good striker, they can get into a very good situation.

they are currently very lacking in productivity and it is evident with 21 games at the moment they can only create 32 goals and that is in contrast to their performances last season.
on the other hand their defenses are also currently fragile and that's a fact of them.
Lewa and Haaland? they will be in a lot of trouble with their finances at the moment and signing this player will only make them more financially crippled

It is true that they need players like Lewandowski and Haaland. I do not know if they will be able to meet their financial conditions. Of course, Barcelona is going through a difficult period. In this process, they will not be able to make such transfers. I wish he was a better player on the offensive line. Suarez, for example, would be great. I believe if they could bring him back he would be in shape again.

[kro55]

Barcelona - Atletico

why are they putting barcelona as a favorite?  barcelona has a better chance of drawing in this game, so I do not see barcelona as a favorite in this game in my opinion, looking at barcelona that manages to draw with small teams then game against Atletico will be another draw

I think the main reason why they are putting Barcelona as the favorite is because Barcelona is doing rather well in recent times and has also been consistent for the last few matches.
But that doesn't mean that Barcelona is going to win against Atletico Madrid.

Realistically I think Barcelona might draw this game but I think Xavi might use his team to go for the win which might actually prove to be a bad decision. But obviously, on point table, Atletico Madrid looks stronger than Barcelona.

[CryptoBuds]

I guess they will improve a lot in terms of finishing. Things that can happen over time. Meanwhile, they also announced their new transfer. Adama Traore will boost their wing strength. In terms of finishing, Barcelona need a Lewandowski or Haaland. With a good striker, they can get into a very good situation.

they are currently very lacking in productivity and it is evident with 21 games at the moment they can only create 32 goals and that is in contrast to their performances last season.
on the other hand their defenses are also currently fragile and that's a fact of them.
Lewa and Haaland? they will be in a lot of trouble with their finances at the moment and signing this player will only make them more financially crippled

It is true that they need players like Lewandowski and Haaland. I do not know if they will be able to meet their financial conditions. Of course, Barcelona is going through a difficult period. In this process, they will not be able to make such transfers. I wish he was a better player on the offensive line. Suarez, for example, would be great. I believe if they could bring him back he would be in shape again.

Now Barcelona does not have the financial capacity to take any experienced star striker in the team. Moreover, if Xavi can make the two youngsters Torres and Fati more experienced, then they will become future stars. Torres and Fati are talented enough. Moreover Xavi wants to build a young dependent Barcelona team. As a result, perhaps Barcelona will not benefit now. But if the players become experienced, Barcelona will be able to return to their destructive form.

[panjul07]

Barcelona - Atletico

why are they putting barcelona as a favorite?  barcelona has a better chance of drawing in this game, so I do not see barcelona as a favorite in this game in my opinion, looking at barcelona that manages to draw with small teams then game against Atletico will be another draw

I would say there is no favorite in this match, both has equal chance to win.
Looking at how their performance in their last several matches, they did not play really well as team that has big name.
I have to agree that a draw will be likely the most possible result in this match but if I have to choose who will win then I'll choose Atletico Madrid to win.

[Fesatmas]

I believe the next few days are very crucial for Xavi and Barcelona, because if they can loan or sell some player’s and in turn buy 1 - 3 player’s then they’ll be able to play good football again. Lastly is Xavi the right person to lead Barcelona, then the short answer is yes but he requires few more signings, and at least one full season to make an impact in my personal opinion.

From the start, there were always many players that Barcelona could target to strengthen their squad, which really needed an additional big boost to move forward. Barcelona's finances are still not recovering and who knows how long they are entangled in minimal finances. Barcelona does not get income that the sponsor is still not enough to pay for up to 3 players at once.
When everyone left Barcelona I was not sure that when Xavi was able to bring Barcelona to the top of the atmosphere, Barcelona's doors would not open for those who left.

[Doell]

Barcelona - Atletico

why are they putting barcelona as a favorite?  barcelona has a better chance of drawing in this game, so I do not see barcelona as a favorite in this game in my opinion, looking at barcelona that manages to draw with small teams then game against Atletico will be another draw

Most likely Barcelona will get points and struggle to sit in the top 4, so Barcelona's victory this time against Atletico is the favourite! but I also hesitate to think about the final result with a draw like you said ,because Atletico will also definitely maintain their position in standings temporary ah still hesitate to bet this time