La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2023/24

[arimamib]

People start to believe in Barcelona more about this season indeed. Not only Xavi's current system but also his transfer moves so far have been very effective in this. They are going to be under pressure because of this as well but I trust them about handling this pressure very well. Xavi is a Barcelona legend and he knows what the supporters expect from them well. Real Madrid had better get prepared strongly for this season because they have a very serious competitor in the title race.

Trust is growing again after Barcelona made big transfers this season, despite being in a lot of debt, Barcelona were able to bring in top European players. Before the new season officially started, Barcelona had improved all lines with top class players. Barcelona's attack speed will be sharper this season, the arrival of Raphinha will increase Barcelona's pounding power on the right wing, Xavi also has quality players on the left, Ansu Fati and Ferran Torres. Both of them are quite agile, especially Ansu Fati who is proven sharp in scoring goals.
Real Madrid will have a balanced opponent or even Barcelona can exceed Real Madrid's strength this season. Ancelotti must prepare his team to face the new power of his eternal rival team.

[terrorJR]

The drama is bad for Barcelona and De Jong. Barcelona again self destroy their reputation. If I am a star player and is wanted by many clubs, I will put Barcelona at bottom of my priority. It is bad for De Jong because he will not be ready for a new season. Less effective trainings, bad mood will combine and affect De Jong in early weeks of a coming season.

De Jong should be able to rethink his decision. Look at the potential that Barcelona currently has. Maybe, for now, it's not worth it, but if the changes are getting better day by day, reflecting on Lewandowski, who has gone to Barcelona, it's not necessarily about salary, but to feel how the atmosphere of the real El Clasico game is.

I wouldn't have high hopes for De Jong because it doesn't seem like it will have much effect on him considering he is now finding it very difficult to make the right decisions.
Now he looks like he will only end up in Barcelona and this seems to have become a certainty even though in fact he has suffered a lot, especially in terms of finances.

[Boristhecat]

The drama is bad for Barcelona and De Jong. Barcelona again self destroy their reputation. If I am a star player and is wanted by many clubs, I will put Barcelona at bottom of my priority. It is bad for De Jong because he will not be ready for a new season. Less effective trainings, bad mood will combine and affect De Jong in early weeks of a coming season.

On the one hand, I can understand Barcelona - they were on the verge of bankruptcy and had to take drastic measures in order to change the situation. But why did they make all these star signings before they settled all the deals with those players who already have active contracts? Did they expect the players to do whatever Barcelona told them to? But it's too fantastic. And now, as I understand it, Barcelona has problems with registering newcomers because of the financial fair play?

[mia_houston]

Barcelona has turned off their summer transfer. New players cannot be registered by Barcelona. Barcelona's calculations were rejected by La Liga, who believe they are 150 million off their own valuation. There must be a clearing out of things. When you have so many players under contract, how can you buy players? As a result, Barcelona might find themselves in a difficult position, where they are forced to either take a pay cut or look for new clubs.

This summer barcelona have recruited 5 players to strengthen their team and obviously this is more than enough for barcelona to face the competition in La Liga this season, currently the main focus of barcelona is not bringing in players again but they are looking for ways to be free from the binding financial fair, additionally 5 new players automatically make Barcelona have to release some players and also the option of cutting salaries that will be possible for some senior Barcelona players, although previously Barcelona had cut the salaries of players during the pandemic but now they are forced to return to that the policy in order to register a number of players new players to the La Liga authorities, but the problem is that currently some of Barcelona senior players are refusing pay cuts and also don't have any clubs interested in buying them, so let's see how Barcelona will deal with that problem before La Liga starts.

[KTChampions]

There is an easy way: bankruptcy. If you cannot fulfill your financial obligations, then bankruptcy is the most honest way out. The second way out is to break the contract with De Jong - but then Barcelona will be obliged to pay him a lot of money for terminating the contract. The third way out is to continue to pay him a salary (plus pay all the money they already owe him).
I don't see any problems at all. But the greedy Barcelona wants to spend the most on new players while doing so with old players' money. It's gross and stupid.

Barcelona should be able to pay de Jong. After all, they spent almost €150m in this transfer market. If they can afford that type of money they should also be able to afford to pay one player. What I understand is that if they are so broke, then they should not have bought players this season. Because they've already spent a lot of money on players, they should not be thinking about selling an important class right now. Because I really don’t see them selling de Jong and the outcome actually being favorable at all.

Even if Barcelona don't have the money to pay De Jong, they have a way out - this is the first point of those that I have listed. But we all understand that Barcelona have money, just a brazen management trying to cash in on the players. I don't understand how, after everything that has happened to Barcelona lately, people are so tolerant towards it. Personally, it begins to annoy me more than City and PSG 

[izsara]

You are too confident to say with confidence they will win this season.
Although indeed they are now in good prospects and in terms of their performance is quite good but that is not a guarantee to become champions, especially when you see Madrid's readiness.
They may be able to become champions because the chance is still quite big too but on the other hand when they say they are sure they won then don't forget Madrid there which in this case as champions last season are still optimistic to back to back.

Although Barcelona managed to bring in many quality players and managed to show a satisfactory performance in friendly matches. But I agree
with you that it does not guarantee Barcelona can win the La Liga trophy. Moreover, Real Madrid, which is reinforced by Benzema, still has a big
enough chance to also win the La Liga trophy next season. It is still difficult to predict who will actually win the La Liga trophy for the 2022/2023
season, what is certain is that the winner is between Barcelona or Real Madrid. It's too early to predict that Barcelona will be the winner of
the La Liga trophy, we must first see the performance of Real Madrid and Barcelona in the first few La Liga matches first. What is certain is that
the competition to win the La Liga trophy next season will be much more exciting than the previous season. Only teams that are able to play
consistently deserve to be winners. We'll see who between Real Madrid and Barcelona can play consistently until the end of the season.

Claiming them to be champions before the league even started just because there were so many reshuffles there with big players is pretty funny.
For candidates, maybe because this will increase their rivalry and be competitive in the league.
Currently Madrid are still the holders of the throne and they are confident enough in their squad that there is no reason to claim the title before the start of the match.
We might be able to do that in the Bundesliga or Ligue 1 but for La Liga it's different.

[hahay]

Barcelona seems to have lost patience to their players Martin Braithwaite and Samuel Umtiti this because they want these players leave but they were refused the offers from other clubs especially Braithwaite that after only spend his time to recovered his injured and cannot play as Xavi expectation then Xavi has decide not putting his name into Barcelona squad next season and to force these players to leave Barcelona reported will removed their Jersey number

It's a bad situation for Barcelona and I just regret that when they get fresh funds they just keep buying players, the bad impact continues to this day. They buy players but sacrifice existing players such as making players' salaries cut and also selling off other players, if they say about wanting the related player to leave then can it be said as coercion. Because even the related player was completely left out of the squad and the comments from Dani Alves after his contract expired are proven and true. Barcelona really cannot appreciate players who have contributed to the team, at least as a big team Barcelona is currently in a chaotic situation and condition even though they have a squad with good quality that actually makes the situation worse.

[Oluwa-btc]

Barcelona currently has the La Liga title as thier main aim for the season.  Don't be surprised when you see them win the trophy, Xavi Hernandez came to Barcelona not too late but did you see how he utilized those players to be very cooperative and coordinated.
With the new signings, Barcelona stand a chance to win the league.

I know Real Madrid did bring in improved player's for the new session of the La Liga campaign. I don't expect Barcelona to slack yes Real Madrid performance was great with Benzema and Vini making big contribution in their la Liga victory.

[herurist]

Even if Barcelona don't have the money to pay De Jong, they have a way out - this is the first point of those that I have listed. But we all understand that Barcelona have money, just a brazen management trying to cash in on the players. I don't understand how, after everything that has happened to Barcelona lately, people are so tolerant towards it. Personally, it begins to annoy me more than City and PSG 

In fact they only care about the purchases they continue to make but say that they are in crisis and have to cut the salaries of most players and even have to be in arrears.
Suffice to agree with what you said now it seems like a lot of people are so tolerant of him that they keep doing whatever they want by saying they can't afford enough to pay salaries but can afford enough to spend a lot of money on some great players.

[Rigon]

Even if Barcelona don't have the money to pay De Jong, they have a way out - this is the first point of those that I have listed. But we all understand that Barcelona have money, just a brazen management trying to cash in on the players. I don't understand how, after everything that has happened to Barcelona lately, people are so tolerant towards it. Personally, it begins to annoy me more than City and PSG 

In fact they only care about the purchases they continue to make but say that they are in crisis and have to cut the salaries of most players and even have to be in arrears.
Suffice to agree with what you said now it seems like a lot of people are so tolerant of him that they keep doing whatever they want by saying they can't afford enough to pay salaries but can afford enough to spend a lot of money on some great players.

A few days ago, Barcelona announced that their club was in financial crisis. They sold Messi to PSG, showing financial crisis. However, after Messi left Barcelona, ​​Barcelona is giving new surprises one after another. They already have two of the best players in the world in their team. I think Barcelona made such a play to get Messi away from Barcelona

[LUCKMCFLY]

Barcelona are still in the pursuit for more players as they continue to struggle with financial issues.They have seen most of the players they wanted to sign turn them down because of the financial crisis at the club at the moment,therefore,they have decided to sell some of the players to make funds available so as to be able to get the type of players they want.A player in the calibre of Lewandowski and Raphinha. It is yet to be seen whether they will be able to afford them or not.

I think, Barcelona president is still looking for a way to get a huge amount of money to bring in new talented players in this season that will help the team to grow higher. I believe, they will definitely get the type of players they want in this season because many potential players are willing to join the team, if Barcelona managements can be able to afford the money. If Barcelona managements can be able to afford the money to get talented strikers and midfielders it will be difficult for any team to defeat Barcelona in next season because all those young talented strikers and midfielders have something good to offer that will bring victory at the end of the tournament.

I really don't understand the idea of bringing in new players at this moment because I believe they don't have a good amount of bank balance to pull off those types of transfers. I believe that Barcelona will be better off not making those big transfers and trying to save up the money for the future. Now I understand that everyone is really excited right now because they have a new coach who has been able to achieve good results in a short amount of time. It does feel like if he is given some money to work with, Barcelona will be able to show better performance. They bought Lewandowski, they bought Raphinha, but my question is what if it does not work out and Barcelona just ends up losing more money?

soccer is a business, and like any business it is necessary to invest in the quality of the product to make a profit, with that team from the past even if it was with xavi, barcelona would only be fighting to be in the first 4 places or worse it could be fighting not to be relegated. for them to be able to get out of the financial crisis they needed to invest in good players to win la league and league of champions, only then they will be able to have more money and the team will be as good as in the past. they had no choice, at least those who have common sense and understand business know that this was the only good move

Yes, I agree with you that football has great business models, however I am surprised to see that Barcelona managed to hire great players and that they are not bad, they are good and now they have Lewa, with Xavi I think They could do a good job, although I think they still can't be at a level like Real Madrid, because the advantage that Real Madrid has is that all its players understand each other perfectly on the pitch and Barcelona have to incorporate very well to Lewa, according to some everyone is surprised by Lewa's physique, which pays a lot in training.

Even if Barcelona don't have the money to pay De Jong, they have a way out - this is the first point of those that I have listed. But we all understand that Barcelona have money, just a brazen management trying to cash in on the players. I don't understand how, after everything that has happened to Barcelona lately, people are so tolerant towards it. Personally, it begins to annoy me more than City and PSG 

In fact they only care about the purchases they continue to make but say that they are in crisis and have to cut the salaries of most players and even have to be in arrears.
Suffice to agree with what you said now it seems like a lot of people are so tolerant of him that they keep doing whatever they want by saying they can't afford enough to pay salaries but can afford enough to spend a lot of money on some great players.

A few days ago, Barcelona announced that their club was in financial crisis. They sold Messi to PSG, showing financial crisis. However, after Messi left Barcelona, ​​Barcelona is giving new surprises one after another. They already have two of the best players in the world in their team. I think Barcelona made such a play to get Messi away from Barcelona

Yes, in fact, I don't know how they have done it, but Barcelona have done unimaginable things, with little money they have a great team, however it could be that despite all this what they have used the most to attract players is their great fame, and I think that the fame that they have worked for many years is what the players want to be part of, it is something like being part of the history of a great team, honestly I am not a fan of Barcelona, but I am happy, above all to see good football classics, between them and Real Madrid, like when Dinho was there and several influential players, even Xavi himself.

[Slow death]

Barcelona currently has the La Liga title as thier main aim for the season.  Don't be surprised when you see them win the trophy, Xavi Hernandez came to Barcelona not too late but did you see how he utilized those players to be very cooperative and coordinated.
With the new signings, Barcelona stand a chance to win the league.

I know Real Madrid did bring in improved player's for the new session of the La Liga campaign. I don't expect Barcelona to slack yes Real Madrid performance was great with Benzema and Vini making big contribution in their la Liga victory.

Real madrid's biggest problem is that they depend a lot on benzema, as a real madrid fan I'm worried about that, because we don't have another great player to score many goals when benzema can't play. it is enough to observe that in the games in which benzema does not play, we lose the game. Last season barcelona were weak, but if it was that old barcelona we wouldn't win the league. with the current reinforcements of barcelona and as real madrid continues to depend only on benzema then the chances of barcelona winning la league are much higher than real madrid, unfortunately. not getting Mbappe or haaland was not good, I highly doubt that this season we will be as lucky as last season

Even if Barcelona don't have the money to pay De Jong, they have a way out - this is the first point of those that I have listed. But we all understand that Barcelona have money, just a brazen management trying to cash in on the players. I don't understand how, after everything that has happened to Barcelona lately, people are so tolerant towards it. Personally, it begins to annoy me more than City and PSG  

In fact they only care about the purchases they continue to make but say that they are in crisis and have to cut the salaries of most players and even have to be in arrears.
Suffice to agree with what you said now it seems like a lot of people are so tolerant of him that they keep doing whatever they want by saying they can't afford enough to pay salaries but can afford enough to spend a lot of money on some great players.

A few days ago, Barcelona announced that their club was in financial crisis. They sold Messi to PSG, showing financial crisis. However, after Messi left Barcelona, ​​Barcelona is giving new surprises one after another. They already have two of the best players in the world in their team. I think Barcelona made such a play to get Messi away from Barcelona

for Barcelona to win La Liga they needed to have good players, they would not have any chance of winning La Liga with those players from last season, it was visible that in each game Barcelona could not score goals, they wereted a lot of opportunities. Barcelona's management is looking to the future. if they kept the same players they could all seasons be fighting to stay in the 4th or 5th position or they could even be fighting not to be relegated, so what would they gain like that? what player would want to stay at barcelona knowing that barcelona would be fighting not to be relegated? supporters would be unhappy, no one wants to see the team they love to play to stay in the league, people want to see the team win the league

[Falconer]

Even though the barcelona team they have is still not complete, their strength is still very strong and it is not easy to beat the barcelona strength that has been trained to be able to play professionally even though the existing team is still lacking. when the coach has such a trait, it will give the feel of a good spirit and can provide a very positive atmosphere for the teams that will compete.

Since Xavi's arrival, I think everything has changed at Barcelona. I'm a Real Madrid fan but I realize that based on the performances they've had. Barcelona appeared slick even though it was only reinforced by loan players until finally ending last season in second place in the standings.

Their dressing room has gotten much better over time since Xavi took charge of the team, so that atmosphere will boost the spirit of the players to do their best on the pitch. So far I understand why many players are happy to join Barcelona even though it is not good financially. Their resurrection hope is one of the most plausible reasons in my opinion, so it will be of interest to anyone they are interested in.

[Zackgeno96]

Even though the barcelona team they have is still not complete, their strength is still very strong and it is not easy to beat the barcelona strength that has been trained to be able to play professionally even though the existing team is still lacking. when the coach has such a trait, it will give the feel of a good spirit and can provide a very positive atmosphere for the teams that will compete.

Since Xavi's arrival, I think everything has changed at Barcelona. I'm a Real Madrid fan but I realize that based on the performances they've had. Barcelona appeared slick even though it was only reinforced by loan players until finally ending last season in second place in the standings.

Their dressing room has gotten much better over time since Xavi took charge of the team, so that atmosphere will boost the spirit of the players to do their best on the pitch. So far I understand why many players are happy to join Barcelona even though it is not good financially. Their resurrection hope is one of the most plausible reasons in my opinion, so it will be of interest to anyone they are interested in.

In any case, Xavi has conveyed his vision and way of playing football well to the club. Koeman was "heavily" overrated  He thought he could arrange everything because he once scored the winning goal in a CL final. Xavi has much more insight and that has now become apparent. I don't know if there has been less pressure on the team since Messi left. They seem to play more freely and especially the match against Real Madrid in Bernabeau was of great beauty. They must especially ensure that they keep up with Madrid in the beginning, a bad start to the season is almost the end of the championship.

[Falconer]

In any case, Xavi has conveyed his vision and way of playing football well to the club. Koeman was "heavily" overrated  He thought he could arrange everything because he once scored the winning goal in a CL final. Xavi has much more insight and that has now become apparent. I don't know if there has been less pressure on the team since Messi left. They seem to play more freely and especially the match against Real Madrid in Bernabeau was of great beauty. They must especially ensure that they keep up with Madrid in the beginning, a bad start to the season is almost the end of the championship.

We'll see if Barcelona are really capable of becoming Real Madrid's toughest competitors from the start, but I don't expect it.
Real Madrid with all their might will try to do their best for this season so that the title can be secured at the end of the season. Madrid is a strong candidate, while in the last few seasons Barcelona have been the challengers, so I don't really think about the possibility of them being able to compete this season.

Without Messi they will never be the same, but Real Madrid without Ronaldo still managed to clinch two titles last season with the Champions League and Laliga safe in the club's cupboard. Then what Barcelona can do this season is hope for every fan.

[sana54210]

Atletico Madrid can have a more difficult job ahead this season because both Real Madrid and Barcelona have strengthened their squads in the transfer window so far. This doesn't guarantee anything of course but it is really hard to keep up with them for Atletico Madrid as long as they don't improve their last season performance. They were able to compete with Barcelona last season but Barcelona were newly recovering from a bad condition then. This time the scenario can be way different.

Yes you can say that. Because last season Atletico Madrid and Barcelona stumbled several times and had to slowly get up. But the difference is that Barcelona can bounce back faster than Atletico Madrid. Especially now that they have overhauled the squad to be even better. I saw Atlético Madrid one step behind Barcelona's moves.

We do not know if teams won't have a bad period this year neither. Maybe it will be ATM that will have a bad period and they will not finish third or better, or maybe it will be Real Madrid or Barcelona that will have a bad period and that will give ATM a chance to finish better. This means that they are going to do as good as they could hope to do, every team goes out there to win every game but every team knows that most likely situation is that they will lose at least one game, probably more.

This means that ATM will have to realize they are not one of the teams at the bottom, they are fighting for a title, and that should give them a boost of confidence enough to not make mistakes before anyone else does.

[BITCOIN4X]

It's a bad situation for Barcelona and I just regret that when they get fresh funds they just keep buying players, the bad impact continues to this day. They buy players but sacrifice existing players such as making players' salaries cut and also selling off other players, if they say about wanting the related player to leave then can it be said as coercion. Because even the related player was completely left out of the squad and the comments from Dani Alves after his contract expired are proven and true. Barcelona really cannot appreciate players who have contributed to the team, at least as a big team Barcelona is currently in a chaotic situation and condition even though they have a squad with good quality that actually makes the situation worse.

I still don't think the real situation is what a lot of online media portrays. Barcelona are struggling to recover from their slumping team so they have weighed any risks they might think of including selling some of their players. But I don't agree that if they really force their players to leave without a deal, it has to be professional and every player has to understand what the club is trying to achieve.

The situation may still be different from what was reported because so far Barcelona are really trying to get up to challenge other teams for the title. Management should talk to every player and his agent so they know about the interests of the club, not just sitting around without a role in a team that only receives salaries without playing minutes. Of course the club will not be willing to pay his high salary without a commensurate contribution, it's a loss to keep him.

[Furious 7]

Actually this is still a good thing because it will be very fierce in terms of competition if this can happen, especially in this case Barcelona are risking their life and death this season.
I would not be surprised if this season La Liga will be competitive again after last season it was very difficult for other clubs to catch Madrid in points.

The Laliga president has pushed Barcelona to make big purchases after Messi and Ronaldo left Laliga. He probably knew that Laliga wouldn't attract much interest without the intense rivalry between Madrid and Barcelona, ​​so now it looks like his wish has come true.

Barcelona spend a lot of money just to overhaul its players. They seem more ready to challenge for the title this season after the arrival of 5 new players. But of course there is no guarantee for them because it takes effort and consistency throughout the season to achieve it.

This may be the reason they are left alone when they go beyond the limits of their salary management but continue to buy players in large numbers.
In theory, things like this can indeed be said to be true because indeed when Barcelona cannot compete with Madrid then indeed this will not take many fans because competition cannot be done in the League.
But on the other hand, this actually causes problems, I think, look now how their financial condition is always said to be chaotic and the salary arrears are getting bigger.

[Alanaz]

They can actually pay there but when in this case we have to distinguish which ones can't pay and which ones don't want to pay because indeed if you look at the financial condition with some fairly large purchases, I think the debt of tens of millions is nothing.
But they are so holding back on it because they really don't want to pay now and pass this on to anyone who wants to buy De Jong.

By looking at the purchases of players that Barcelona made in the year the costs were very large, Barcelona should indeed be able to pay off the debt
to De Jong, but it seems that Barcelona has no intention of paying off the debt to De Jong. Barcelona wants to pass the debt on to the teams that will
buy De Jong, so far Man United are the most serious about getting De Jong. Initially Man United did not want to be involved in Barcelona's debt problem
to De Jong, but because De Jong doesn't want to move if Barcelona haven't paid off the debt. Finally, it is reported that Man United will be prepared to
give De Jong a big salary and also ready to pay off Barcelona's debt to De Jong.

This step was taken by Man United to be able to get De Jong as soon as possible, the problem is that De Jong has a desire to play in the Champions League,
maybe this is another obstacle for De Jong's move to Man United. The situation is getting more complicated, when rumors emerged that Chelsea were
trying to hijack De Jong's transfer to Man United. If it is true that Chelsea want De Jong, Chelsea should have a better chance of getting De Jong,
because Chelsea play in the Champions League. It is increasingly interesting to follow De Jong's future developments, we'll soon see what it's like in the end.

This is what is happening now and indeed this is something that is quite funny for them because it does charge salaries to new clubs before they even experience De Jong's performance.
Personally, if I were in a club that wanted De Jong I would think twice about doing that because it would be stupid.
The high price alone has become one of the good things, they even ask for more by charging salaries.

[kawetsriyanto]

Real madrid's biggest problem is that they depend a lot on benzema, as a real madrid fan I'm worried about that, because we don't have another great player to score many goals when benzema can't play. it is enough to observe that in the games in which benzema does not play, we lose the game.

As long as Benzema can play and has no problem with his fitness, it is no problem to rely on him. But I agree that Benzema won't be always in a good situation, he should have a chance to get an injury in the whole season. Once Benzema is out or can't play, Real Madrid has no good substitution for center-forward. Yep, it was proven in previous matches, a lack of goals when Benzema was absent. Real Madrid must try with all their effort to sign a new top CF in the remaining of the transfer window. If they can't, they will have a problem facing the season.

for Barcelona to win La Liga they needed to have good players, they would not have any chance of winning La Liga with those players from last season, it was visible that in each game Barcelona could not score goals, they wereted a lot of opportunities.

Barcelona current squad looks quite convincing, there are a lot of good players. They only need to play effectively and play with good cooperation. Having many good players will get nothing if they can't play as a solid team. Considering the previous El Clasico, they still wasted too many chances to score. They must fix this problem to play effectively.