La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2023/24

[junmisakiro]

The La Liga calendar has been announced and both Real Madrid and Barcelona have quite easy games in the first round scheduled mid August. In fact I find almost all games in this first round to have a clear favourite.
El classico will be played in October 16 and March 19.

That's great, laliga will be so interesting next season,  I guess many are anticipating to see how real madrid and Barcelona will look like in the next season. Other teams in the laliga league may not be a challenge to Real Madrid and Barcelona,  the competition is between Real Madrid and Barcelona,  Barcelona we try to do their best next season.

I think it's still less interesting, especially when discussing these two teams. There's not much the two clubs have done about each other's formation changes, so I feel I will still see this rival the same as the previous season. Initially I expected Barcelona, because they are in 2nd position and to get past Real Madrid, at least the team needs to change formation in some positions, especially hoping to bring in some names that could potentially help Barcelona.

Last season Barcelona slumped at the start of the season and then they were able to rise up to finish in 2nd place in the final standings. I think that for this season Barcelona will be able to compete closely with Real Madrid to win the title so I have no doubt that La Liga will be competitive and interesting again and especially now Barcelona continues to improve their team in a better direction.
Besides that, there are Sevilla and Atletico Madrid, who even though they haven't signed any important players this season, I'm sure they will be able to put up a very fierce fight for the title.

[Zilon]

I'm a real madrid fan but in my opinion what happened last season that made us win the la liga was that we were very lucky.

To be much stronger than all opponents you call luck? 
Real Madrid had a great season and the fact that other teams was in crisis cannot detract from Real excellent performance and results.

I wonder how can he called himself as a fan of Real Madrid but he thought that the victory by Real Madrid is lucky 
Real Madrid won the victory and championships not only once, it has been many times. Why? because the team really deserves for the trophy. The team has stronger and more solid squad, management, coaches, and also strategy than others. Moreover if we see the statistics. real Madrid performance is always great. 

The points and goal difference is enough to state that Madrid won their league with quality games and good performances there is nothing like luck surrounding their success last season. If Barcelona had started strong maybe they would have competed with Madrid for the title but while they suffered their crisis Madrid were gathering their points. Madrid deserve the both trophies the won

[Sebas.tian]

The La Liga calendar has been announced and both Real Madrid and Barcelona have quite easy games in the first round scheduled mid August. In fact I find almost all games in this first round to have a clear favourite.
El classico will be played in October 16 and March 19.

This is an interesting match I can't wait to watch, because Real Madrid and Barcelona are well prepared for this first round in this tournament. Barcelona will defeat Real Madrid 2-1 in the first leg to prove to their fans that they are well prepared to embrace this season title, but in the second leg the match will be draw 1-1, that is my prediction which will definitely happen. I think, Real Madrid will definitely reduce in performance because some of their players are not too happy about what they are receiving from the team compared to what other players who cannot performed like them are receiving huge amount of money from their team.

[Fesatmas]

The La Liga calendar has been announced and both Real Madrid and Barcelona have quite easy games in the first round scheduled mid August. In fact I find almost all games in this first round to have a clear favourite.
El classico will be played in October 16 and March 19.

This is an interesting match I can't wait to watch, because Real Madrid and Barcelona are well prepared for this first round in this tournament. Barcelona will defeat Real Madrid 2-1 in the first leg to prove to their fans that they are well prepared to embrace this season title, but in the second leg the match will be draw 1-1, that is my prediction which will definitely happen. I think, Real Madrid will definitely reduce in performance because some of their players are not too happy about what they are receiving from the team compared to what other players who cannot performed like them are receiving huge amount of money from their team.

Are you not mistaken in predicting a match where we haven't seen the games of the two teams yet? It's too early to predict the El Classico match. It would be nice to see how the two teams played. Especially now that both teams are still preparing a team framework, which means they are not fully ready in terms of players who will strengthen this team.

[bering]

Good news for Barcelona fans that after several times refuse to extended his contract today Ousmane Dembele has decide to accept the offers from Barcelona although Barcelona hasn't announced this to the public but the two of them have come to a personal agreement and his future finally stayed at Barcelona after linked to several clubs such as PSG and Chelsea however after got injured on 2021 his performance gradually better and under Xavi he almost play regular for each matches so finally Xavi didn't lost him

[zuzie]

The La Liga calendar has been announced and both Real Madrid and Barcelona have quite easy games in the first round scheduled mid August. In fact I find almost all games in this first round to have a clear favourite.
El classico will be played in October 16 and March 19.

That's great, laliga will be so interesting next season,  I guess many are anticipating to see how real madrid and Barcelona will look like in the next season. Other teams in the laliga league may not be a challenge to Real Madrid and Barcelona,  the competition is between Real Madrid and Barcelona,  Barcelona we try to do their best next season.

I think it's still less interesting, especially when discussing these two teams. There's not much the two clubs have done about each other's formation changes, so I feel I will still see this rival the same as the previous season. Initially I expected Barcelona, because they are in 2nd position and to get past Real Madrid, at least the team needs to change formation in some positions, especially hoping to bring in some names that could potentially help Barcelona.

Last season Barcelona slumped at the start of the season and then they were able to rise up to finish in 2nd place in the final standings. I think that for this season Barcelona will be able to compete closely with Real Madrid to win the title so I have no doubt that La Liga will be competitive and interesting again and especially now Barcelona continues to improve their team in a better direction.
Besides that, there are Sevilla and Atletico Madrid, who even though they haven't signed any important players this season, I'm sure they will be able to put up a very fierce fight for the title.

Yes, I admit the success of Barcelona, I'm talking about the rivalry between the two clubs maybe it will continue like last season, because not much has changed in the line-up of the two teams. Something interesting for me to see new faces play for barca and madrid, moreover these new faces are football superstars. But till today I haven't seen it from barcelona and real madrid

[Zlantann]

Good news for Barcelona fans that after several times refuse to extended his contract today Ousmane Dembele has decide to accept the offers from Barcelona although Barcelona hasn't announced this to the public but the two of them have come to a personal agreement and his future finally stayed at Barcelona after linked to several clubs such as PSG and Chelsea however after got injured on 2021 his performance gradually better and under Xavi he almost play regular for each matches so finally Xavi didn't lost him

It is a good news for Barcelona Football Club and its fans but a bad news to Chelsea. He has decided to stay because of the good relationship he has with coach Xavier Hernández Creus. Thomas Tuchel has wanted to sign this prolific French attacker to strengthen his squad to replace Romelu Lukaku's who is moving to Inter Milan on £8million loan deal. The only reason why Ousmane Dembele is staying is because of the love he has for coach Xavi. Chelsea now have to double their effort to secure the services of some of their targets like Raphinha, Richarlison and Nkunku.  

[Alisha-k]

I wonder how can he called himself as a fan of Real Madrid but he thought that the victory by Real Madrid is lucky  
Real Madrid won the victory and championships not only once, it has been many times. Why? because the team really deserves for the trophy. The team has stronger and more solid squad, management, coaches, and also strategy than others. Moreover if we see the statistics. real Madrid performance is always great.  

Compared to other La Liga teams, of course, Real Madrid's performance is much better, so Real Madrid really deserves to win a trophy. So it is
very strange to say that Real Madrid can win the La Liga trophy this season because of luck. Real Madrid's appearance this season can be said
to be quite consistent, even the difference in points between Real Madrid and Barcelona, which is in second place, is quite far. This means that
Real Madrid really deserves to be the winner of the La Liga trophy, especially since Benzema's performance this season has been extraordinary
and consistent. It has helped Real Madrid to win a lot games in La Liga, so for me Real Madrid have played really well this season. Although
I am not a Real Madrid supporter, I admit that Real Madrid is indeed better than other competing teams. Real Madrid not only has a very solid
teamwork,  but Real Madrid also has a winning mentality, so I don't see Real Madrid lucky to win the La Liga trophy this season.

Real Madrid is really strong compared to the other teams in La Liga and they obviously deserved to win the La Liga title. It is not luck, it is just having a better team than every other team in the league. I think you can say that Real Madrid was lucky based on Real Madrid not having enough competition. Real Madrid was the strongest team but even after that, they had some problems in the defensive lineup. Now they have already fixed that as well. So, now I think they will be hardly any competition for them in the next season again.

Personally, the greatness and strength of Real Madrid cannot be overstated. It's not an easy feat to beat good clubs like Sevilla, Barca and Athletico and still retain the first position spot, gapping each with at least ten points if it is not Real.
 Carlo really did a good job of taking them to the finals of the champions league and winning it. At least he still has it in him

[mamesso]

~Snip~

I personally think it is quite hard to manage for Barcelona right now and it will be a lot better if they just stay away from making any type of big transfers right now. That is the only way they will be able to reduce all the debt that they have effectively. But during that time the results are not going to be good for Barcelona. And if they can take that they will be able to make a strong comeback. For now, I think they should not spend too much at all.

When the club financial condition is not supportive, Barcelona is still trying to bring in star players in the transfer market. The most surprising thing is the rumors of Barcelona interest in Bernardo Silva, Barcelona really want to bring Silva even though they are in a financial crisis, because the goal is to make many changes in the squad. Although the price is fantastic which reaches 80 million euros, Bernardo Silva is considered very suitable for Xavi style of play.
 Barcelona is planning to make a massive sale to overhaul its squad. If Barcelona manages to sell some of their players, it is not impossible that they can bring in Bernardo Silva from Manchester City.

[hahay]

Are there no great young players on Barca squad? Why not promote them instead of looking for players to buy?
Sometimes I wonder why these clubs have their young squad or school if they never use the players in the end.

Why do you have to buy?
Because that's the instant way to get great players in football. If a club buys a well-known and great player, there is definitely an added value to the sale of merchandise. You can't just hope in the academy, because it certainly takes time for someone to develop again.

That's true and it's also impossible for a team squad to rely entirely on young players, it won't be effective. there must be a mix of young players and senior players to be able to build a solid team.
now the Barcelona squad is very qualified in my opinion, they have some talented young players as well as senior players, for now they just need to add a few new stars to improve the team's mentality and also to maintain the team's game, this is what Barcelona are currently trying to do, one example is what they are currently doing by trying to bring in the world's best striker Lewandowski.

If that's a consideration and the problem is not only happening to Barcelona, at least all teams will do the same. Because after all, players who develop and grow with the talent they have from the academy will eventually leave the club too because of the much interest from the bigger team. So it's not surprising that every team always buys, sells and lends their players because in football every player can ask him to stay and also leave. In addition, the sports field has now grown into a large business circle, so even though they have many young players from their respective academies, they will still bring in more experienced players.

[MAAManda]

Good news for Barcelona fans that after several times refuse to extended his contract today Ousmane Dembele has decide to accept the offers from Barcelona although Barcelona hasn't announced this to the public but the two of them have come to a personal agreement and his future finally stayed at Barcelona after linked to several clubs such as PSG and Chelsea however after got injured on 2021 his performance gradually better and under Xavi he almost play regular for each matches so finally Xavi didn't lost him

It is unfortunate that Ousmane Dembele extended his contract at a time when 3 big clubs (Bayern Munich, Chelsea and PSG) wanted him to play with them.

I think you are wrong to say that Dembele played regularly at Barcelona, ​​if you look deeper, Dembele was a substitute more often last season. Hopefully the decision he made will not be a regret later.

[BALIK]

Good news for Barcelona fans that after several times refuse to extended his contract today Ousmane Dembele has decide to accept the offers from Barcelona although Barcelona hasn't announced this to the public but the two of them have come to a personal agreement and his future finally stayed at Barcelona after linked to several clubs such as PSG and Chelsea however after got injured on 2021 his performance gradually better and under Xavi he almost play regular for each matches so finally Xavi didn't lost him

It is unfortunate that Ousmane Dembele extended his contract at a time when 3 big clubs (Bayern Munich, Chelsea and PSG) wanted him to play with them.
I think you are wrong to say that Dembele played regularly at Barcelona, ​​if you look deeper, Dembele was a substitute more often last season. Hopefully the decision he made will not be a regret later.

Dembele is not a player of Barcelona's starting XI. As the Barcelona management had expected Dembele to perform, Dembele had failed miserably. Last season he played 21 matches in La Liga and scored just one goal. Taking Dembele to the team for Barcelona management was completely a loss project. As bad as he is performing at the moment, no big team seems to be interested in Dembele.

[JeWay]

Are there no great young players on Barca squad? Why not promote them instead of looking for players to buy?
Sometimes I wonder why these clubs have their young squad or school if they never use the players in the end.

Why do you have to buy?
Because that's the instant way to get great players in football. If a club buys a well-known and great player, there is definitely an added value to the sale of merchandise. You can't just hope in the academy, because it certainly takes time for someone to develop again.

That's true and it's also impossible for a team squad to rely entirely on young players, it won't be effective. there must be a mix of young players and senior players to be able to build a solid team.
now the Barcelona squad is very qualified in my opinion, they have some talented young players as well as senior players, for now they just need to add a few new stars to improve the team's mentality and also to maintain the team's game, this is what Barcelona are currently trying to do, one example is what they are currently doing by trying to bring in the world's best striker Lewandowski.

Looks like you're replying to a pretty old post. but there is nothing wrong but the views may not be good for replying to posts that are 2 years old.

Each team is able to recruit young players from their academy 1 or 2 players to enter the main squad. but some big clubs with sound finances prefer to bring in star players in the summer as PSG, Manchester City and Liverpool did this summer. if barcelona's financial condition is not healthy i think the option to register players from La Masia will be their option.

[Lordhermes]

Good news for Barcelona fans that after several times refuse to extended his contract today Ousmane Dembele has decide to accept the offers from Barcelona although Barcelona hasn't announced this to the public but the two of them have come to a personal agreement and his future finally stayed at Barcelona after linked to several clubs such as PSG and Chelsea however after got injured on 2021 his performance gradually better and under Xavi he almost play regular for each matches so finally Xavi didn't lost him

It is unfortunate that Ousmane Dembele extended his contract at a time when 3 big clubs (Bayern Munich, Chelsea and PSG) wanted him to play with them.

I think you are wrong to say that Dembele played regularly at Barcelona, ​​if you look deeper, Dembele was a substitute more often last season. Hopefully the decision he made will not be a regret later.

I believe Dembele was looking elsewhere already before he signed that contract extension,but what I see here is promises that Their coach Xavi and the board have made to him,that he will be used regularly next season,and I believe this is the only thing that made him have a U-turn about leaving the club.Dembele is a very nice player,that was doing very well at his former club,so he needs more time to rediscover his form,and this is why Xavi begged him to sign new contract too.His staying will not be one that he will regret,I believe that.

[Doell]

Good news for Barcelona fans that after several times refuse to extended his contract today Ousmane Dembele has decide to accept the offers from Barcelona although Barcelona hasn't announced this to the public but the two of them have come to a personal agreement and his future finally stayed at Barcelona after linked to several clubs such as PSG and Chelsea however after got injured on 2021 his performance gradually better and under Xavi he almost play regular for each matches so finally Xavi didn't lost him

It is unfortunate that Ousmane Dembele extended his contract at a time when 3 big clubs (Bayern Munich, Chelsea and PSG) wanted him to play with them.

I think you are wrong to say that Dembele played regularly at Barcelona, ​​if you look deeper, Dembele was a substitute more often last season. Hopefully the decision he made will not be a regret later.

I believe Dembele was looking elsewhere already before he signed that contract extension,but what I see here is promises that Their coach Xavi and the board have made to him,that he will be used regularly next season,and I believe this is the only thing that made him have a U-turn about leaving the club.Dembele is a very nice player,that was doing very well at his former club,so he needs more time to rediscover his form,and this is why Xavi begged him to sign new contract too.His staying will not be one that he will regret,I believe that.

Sounds good if that's the truth, Dembele will finally strengthen Barcelona again for next season. Although there have been many rumors circulating recently that Dembele is ready to leave from Catalonia with 3 offers on the table, but in the end Dembele has remained consistent with Xavi as his coach.

[Velvet78]

https://www.transfermarkt.com/barcelona-submit-bid-for-lewandowski-ronaldo-lined-up-to-replace-him-at-bayern-munich-/view/news/406635

There is fresh news about the possible Lewandowski transfer to Barcelona. It is said in the source that Barcelona have made their official offer for him and it is worth 40 million euros. The transfer fee is 35 million euros and there is a bonus worth 5 million euros too. I think that it is a quite favourable offer for Bayern Munich now. But they still seem decisive about not selling him until his contract expires next summer. This is making things really difficult for Lewandowski as he wants to leave now. If they block his way then this might reflect on his performance badly too.

[mia_houston]

What we are missing is that if they end up with a bad team, just to save some money, and have bad results then they are going to not make enough money and can't pay their debt back. I get that spending a lot of money on expensive players is a bad idea when you have debt, but dropping your revenue that much is also a bad idea, I would prefer to spend 50 million and be in the same debt as not spending it but earn 50 million less revenue because I suck.
Barcelona needs to find that right balance where they are spending just enough, but earning more than that from the wins so that they would be making a profit. Not an easy thing to do, but quite possible.

I personally think it is quite hard to manage for Barcelona right now and it will be a lot better if they just stay away from making any type of big transfers right now. That is the only way they will be able to reduce all the debt that they have effectively. But during that time the results are not going to be good for Barcelona. And if they can take that they will be able to make a strong comeback. For now, I think they should not spend too much at all.

Barcelona current financial condition is like being between 2 steep chasms, on the one hand Barcelona finances will continue to deteriorate when they are required to spend cash to continue to buy expensive players and strengthen their team, but on the other hand when they save money without buying players of course their performance will be a bit down and doubtful for the championship competition, but if I personally agree more if barcelona saves money now and maximizes the existing squad for next season, I agree its possible barcelona will not go far in the champions league in next season, but  if we see their performance in the this season  with the existing squad it looks like they still have a chance to compete in the La Liga championship, it's better for Barcelona to focus on  La Liga competition  at least until their financial  starts to stabilize.

[$crypto$]

https://www.transfermarkt.com/barcelona-submit-bid-for-lewandowski-ronaldo-lined-up-to-replace-him-at-bayern-munich-/view/news/406635

There is fresh news about the possible Lewandowski transfer to Barcelona. It is said in the source that Barcelona have made their official offer for him and it is worth 40 million euros. The transfer fee is 35 million euros and there is a bonus worth 5 million euros too. I think that it is a quite favourable offer for Bayern Munich now. But they still seem decisive about not selling him until his contract expires next summer. This is making things really difficult for Lewandowski as he wants to leave now. If they block his way then this might reflect on his performance badly too.

It's a difficult situation for Lewandowski where he has to stay put under pressure even though in his heart he wants to leave then what can you do if the offer is still rejected, Lewandowski is forced to stay 1 more season at Bayern Munich.
Usually, if something is not granted, it will cause a bad mirror later in his performance but I think Lewandowski will continue to play as well as he can even though he is still being maintained at this time.
He's also not been that bad during this time so looks probably won't be bad.

[Distraction]

Barcelona seem to be interested in Raheem Sterling and Jules Kounde both now. They are already chasing the Lewandowski deal for themselves so I wonder how they are planning to afford all of these three players. Because it doesn't seem very realistic to me that they can sign all of them while they are in a financial condition like this. Lewandowski must be their priority now as we have been hearing about him the most recently. As long as they don't sell a player who is worth a lot of money they shouldn't be able to allocate much fund for many transfers.

[Oneandpure]

Barcelona seem to be interested in Raheem Sterling and Jules Kounde both now. They are already chasing the Lewandowski deal for themselves so I wonder how they are planning to afford all of these three players. Because it doesn't seem very realistic to me that they can sign all of them while they are in a financial condition like this. Lewandowski must be their priority now as we have been hearing about him the most recently. As long as they don't sell a player who is worth a lot of money they shouldn't be able to allocate much fund for many transfers.

How come Barcelona get interested with many player trough still have financial crisis, I think not easy how to get Raheem  Sterling from Manchester City and actually have pay above 50 million euros for getting him. After close rumors with Robert Lewandowski right now Barcelona try to get rumor transfer with Raheem Sterling and looks not easy for Raheem Sterling leaving Manchester City. Barcelona have different financial right now because they faced much debt and need to sell several player for getting fresh money and get Raheem Sterling or Robert Lewandowski. I think between Raheem Sterling most priority with Lewandowski because on left and right winger position Barcelona have many option.