La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2023/24

[Iroh]

Haha are you saying that Mbappe is nearing retirement because of his age? If I may ask you, at what age is it standard in your world to retire? Mbappe is 24 now! I doubt that he is dealing with retirement already or that Manchester City thinks age is a problem in the case of Mbappe.

But they may know more than everybody else. Perhaps their did reach out and see whether a transfer could become possible or not and if Mbappe's people said that it is either Real Madrid or some absurd offer from Saudi Arabia, then there might be no point for them to prepare an official offer.

It’s laughable thinking Mbappe is nearing retirement age. He’s still young with lots more to give. Retirement is probably the last thing on his mind. Manchester City may not have plans for him to have him in their squad or they did reach out and could not afford to have him. Definitely nothing to do with his age.

I think it has always been Real Madrid on his mind but now, another mouth watering offer from the Saudis is on the table. Would the offer take his mind off a future deal playing for Real Madrid?

[Ndabagi01]

This was just a friendly game which doesn't show the real performance of any Real Madrid players yet. I can still agree that Bellingham wasn't bad of course. He had a decent performance. I believe that he won't have serious level of problems with adaptation. He is already a young star and Real Madrid has been like a dream team for him to play for.

Bellingham's performance wasn't horrible, and given that he was just getting to know the team and bond well during the preseason, he'll be fine when the league returns. His desire to play for Real Madrid has finally come true, and that alone will give him more hope and confidence to perform well for his dream team.

I think that we will mostly see him in the central midfield. There are Modric and Kroos there of course but I think Ancelotti will start to give their young stars more chances from now on. Modric - Kroos duo are already likely to leave the team after this season. Bellingham can be a permanent member of the starting eleven in a short time hopefully.

I had no idea Kroos and Modric would still be playing for Real Madrid next season. Given their age, I never anticipated they'd be playing competitive football until now. However, their presence today will still provide value to the next young players, like as Bellingham, who will be taking over their position entirely shortly. Bellingham has a lot of potential, and I'm confident that he'll do well in handling Real Madrid's midfield.

[posi]

I think, Barcelona will soon loose their peace to sign in more potential players that will help them to maintain that first position in the la Liga league competition next season, so that their coach will experience another honor from the fans again. If Barcelona coach can release money to bring Kylian Mbappe in this summer, I think, Real Madrid or other strong teams will not challenge Barcelona next season because their defensive and midfield is very strong for their strikers to achieve many goals in this season. Since Karim Benzema has left Real Madrid to another team and kylian Mbappe manager is not willing to release him to Real Madrid, show that Real Madrid will still face the Same challenges they experienced last season.

I would not dream that Kylian Mbappe would become a Barcelona player when Barcelona are not in good financial condition. Barcelona can defend their title next season regardless of whether they are not as good as other teams in terms of transfer activity, but I believe Barcelona still has the quality that can be expected.

Xavi can adapt the right strategy to the depth of the squad he has, but of course he will have to work hard to defend the title with the few players he has. Barcelona proved that last season, but I won't guarantee Barcelona can do the same next season.

There is no way, in reality, Barcelona will be able to bring Mbappé into the squad. The harsh reality lies in Barcelona's precarious financial situation, rendering such a possibility utterly implausible. And we all know that Mbappé is asking for a very huge money from any club that he is going to go to. Barcelona certainly cannot afford that type of money. If Barcelona could afford to give that type of money to a single player, I am sure they wouldn’t have needed to sell the TV rights to bring in new players previously. So no I don’t think that is happening. If Mbappé is actually going to any club, it is going to be Real Madrid.

[Tony116]

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Jude Bellingham seems to have become more suited to the Real Madrid game. When following his first debut in Real Madrid against AC Milan, Jude Bellingham was able to give a good game. he is in the position of attacking midfielder in a 4-1-2-1-2 formation. Although no goals have been created from Jude Bellingham's feet, most are satisfied to see Bellingham's action for more than an hour on the field. Now the ball is in Ancelotti's hands as coach, regarding Bellingham's permanent position. Because the 20-year-old player is fluent in attack and also helps in defense. Regarding that position, Ancelotti sees Bellingham as suitable to play as number 10, aka attacking midfielder behind the attacking duo.

Right from the very first day I saw the transfer news saying that Jude Bellingham would be moving to Realmadrid, i had known that he'll be a very fantastic player for them, also adapt well to the league and make their midfielder area more stronger, and he's proved himself in the pre-season match against Ac Milan, by showing that he'll be able to control the midfield in the absence of Modric and kroos, Bellingham is a very young and talented, he's very promising as well and would help them challenge for and regain the title this season, moving to Realmadrid would be very beneficial to career as a young lad because he stand a chance of not only winning the champions league but competing for the Ballon D'or title in future.
 His ability to adapt to their style  of play very fast would make it very easy to move into the starting 11 and pairing him with the ĺikes of Modric, Kroos or Camavinga would cause a treat to the opposition in midfielder area, one other area I feel Madrid needs to look into is position of the striker cause I'm not still convinced with Joselu, I don't even think he'll be a treat in that position for the opposition teams, also I feel Madrid are the top contenders for their league this season and might probably win a trophy or two.

I believe if a player can actually stay away from injuries, he will be able to adapt to Real Madrid without too many problems. Injuries are about the only reason in my opinion for which players sometimes cannot adapt to Real Madrid. We saw Gareth Bale and Eden Hazard face injury problems, and that’s why they were not able to Become the legendary players that they were supposed to be at the end of their careers. This is a weird situation where I cannot blame the player and also cannot blame the authority as well.

Real Madrid is a great club. I believe it does not matter if it is Jude Bellingham or Joselu if a player can actually stay healthy and fit for play, he’s not going to face too many problems adapting and also performing well for Real Madrid. But if a player is often injured he’s not going to have a good time in Real Madrid.

[klidex]

Real Madrid seems to be the most obvious club for him, but I would have also liked if Manchester City tried to sign him and he could become a left wing attacker there. Together with Haaland they would be a crazy offensive duo, but I guess that is not going to happen. Although I wonder whether there have ever been any approaches by Manchester Cit to check out whether they would have a chance or whether they don't even need to try. They would be able to do it in terms of the finances, but it would almost be too good to be true if that were to happen.

Manchester City are not chasing Mbappe, maybe because they already know that Mbappe's age is nearing retirement and the contract he is offering is very expensive. If Manchester City tries to buy Mbappe, it will take quite a long time to return the investment.Manchester City are more inclined to look for players who are still young and have very good skills on the field, so Manchester City will target that player.

Haha are you saying that Mbappe is nearing retirement because of his age? If I may ask you, at what age is it standard in your world to retire? Mbappe is 24 now! I doubt that he is dealing with retirement already or that Manchester City thinks age is a problem in the case of Mbappe.

But they may know more than everybody else. Perhaps their did reach out and see whether a transfer could become possible or not and if Mbappe's people said that it is either Real Madrid or some absurd offer from Saudi Arabia, then there might be no point for them to prepare an official offer.

Hahaha it seems like he's still sleeping saying that Kylian will retire soon even though he's still very young. He's so funny.
Even though there is another problem that Real Madrid must face because there is a very fantastic offer from the Saudi Arabian club and surprisingly this make Real Madrid a little less enthusiastic about getting Mbappe next season because player like Kylian Mbappe are definitely also thinking about not only a career but also a very large salary.
But I am sure Mbappe will turn down the offer because he still want to continue his career in Europe until he's at least 30 year old.
So the hope is that Real Madrid still has a little chance of getting the strongest player like Mbappe and hope that this really happen.

[HajiBagi]

This was just a friendly game which doesn't show the real performance of any Real Madrid players yet. I can still agree that Bellingham wasn't bad of course. He had a decent performance. I believe that he won't have serious level of problems with adaptation. He is already a young star and Real Madrid has been like a dream team for him to play for.

I think that we will mostly see him in the central midfield. There are Modric and Kroos there of course but I think Ancelotti will start to give their young stars more chances from now on. Modric - Kroos duo are already likely to leave the team after this season. Bellingham can be a permanent member of the starting eleven in a short time hopefully.

Bellingham plays that position, so it would be ideal if Ancelotti used him right away because that is where he plays, and even in the preseason matches against Real Madrid and AC Milan, his performance was really good. I also think he can still do more. You're true, in my opinion, that Modric and Kroos will be leaving the team at the end of the current campaign. Bellingham, I believe, will take their place. In addition, Bellingham is a young player, and a young player with talent in his position will always work hard to perform even better. Real Madrid is a team Bellingham deserves, so I believe now is the right time for him to put on a show so that everyone on the team and the public can see that he wasn't sent there to play.

Real Madrid's preseason games also lead me to believe that the team's makeup is still normal and that its play is getting better. If the mbappe rumour I'm hearing about the team's potential signing is accurate, I think real Madrid will continue to advance and win over more supporters.

[Blitzboy]

I think, Barcelona will soon loose their peace to sign in more potential players that will help them to maintain that first position in the la Liga league competition next season, so that their coach will experience another honor from the fans again. If Barcelona coach can release money to bring Kylian Mbappe in this summer, I think, Real Madrid or other strong teams will not challenge Barcelona next season because their defensive and midfield is very strong for their strikers to achieve many goals in this season. Since Karim Benzema has left Real Madrid to another team and kylian Mbappe manager is not willing to release him to Real Madrid, show that Real Madrid will still face the Same challenges they experienced last season.

Kylian Mbappe's move to Barcelona would be brilliant if finances were right. Barcelona's finances prevent this. Let's not despair: they're still Barcelona, right? Xavi navigated the team through several hurdles last season. Even without major transfers, they can defend their title with the appropriate strategy.

Real Madrid is difficult without Benzema. It will be intriguing to observe how Ancelotti compensates for this loss. Coaching and management are vital in these times. Barcelona has potential, ambition, and a strong squad despite financial challenges.

[Minor Miner]

I think, Barcelona will soon loose their peace to sign in more potential players that will help them to maintain that first position in the la Liga league competition next season, so that their coach will experience another honor from the fans again. If Barcelona coach can release money to bring Kylian Mbappe in this summer, I think, Real Madrid or other strong teams will not challenge Barcelona next season because their defensive and midfield is very strong for their strikers to achieve many goals in this season. Since Karim Benzema has left Real Madrid to another team and kylian Mbappe manager is not willing to release him to Real Madrid, show that Real Madrid will still face the Same challenges they experienced last season.

Kylian Mbappe's move to Barcelona would be brilliant if finances were right. Barcelona's finances prevent this. Let's not despair: they're still Barcelona, right? Xavi navigated the team through several hurdles last season. Even without major transfers, they can defend their title with the appropriate strategy.

Real Madrid is difficult without Benzema. It will be intriguing to observe how Ancelotti compensates for this loss. Coaching and management are vital in these times. Barcelona has potential, ambition, and a strong squad despite financial challenges.

I would not say that Kylian Mbappe is likely to play for Barcelona. Because Real Madrid has been trying to sign Kylian Mbappe for the last few seasons. And the most likely prospect this season is to bring Kylian Mbappe to Real Madrid. And more importantly, the Real Madrid club is now much more financially sound than Barcelona. And so Real Madrid management can spend more money than Barcelona for Kylian Mbappe.

Kylian Mbappe has said in the past that he is interested in playing for Madrid. Now I don't think he will go to Real Madrid's enemy club Barcelona. Moreover, as Xavi and the match tactics applied at Barcelona, this strategy does not match Kylian Mbappe's style of play. I really don't think Kylian Mbappe will play very well in Barcelona.

[Leviathan.007]

Real Madrid's performance was truly impressive. It seems like that the new transfer was going well. Joselu needs more time to adapt with the play style owner by real madrid. Ac milan's keeper was really bad. This guy shall be replaced with a better keeper.
Even though that was a friendly match but i wanna say if the first goal from valverde was pure goalkeeper's mistake from acmilan. I was watching how bellingham and joselu contributed nothing to the club.

valverde is a gem owner by madrid. The club shall not try to sell him. Acmilan was also performing so well during the match against real madrid caused by it was able being equal with real madrid.

There must be a lot of evaluations for bellingham and joselu. Bellingham is over rated midfielder.

Young players like Bellingham who came to Real Madrid just a few days ago need much more time to have better performance because the playing style we saw from him in Dortmund was good enough to give him more time in Real Madrid but I think Federico Valverde had an amazing performance in Real Madrid, he scored two goals.

[Leviathan.007]

Real Madrid's performance was truly impressive. It seems like that the new transfer was going well. Joselu needs more time to adapt with the play style owner by real madrid. Ac milan's keeper was really bad. This guy shall be replaced with a better keeper.
Even though that was a friendly match but i wanna say if the first goal from valverde was pure goalkeeper's mistake from acmilan. I was watching how bellingham and joselu contributed nothing to the club.

valverde is a gem owner by madrid. The club shall not try to sell him. Acmilan was also performing so well during the match against real madrid caused by it was able being equal with real madrid.

There must be a lot of evaluations for bellingham and joselu. Bellingham is over rated midfielder.

Young players like Bellingham who came to Real Madrid just a few days ago need much more time to have better performance because the playing style we saw from him in Dortmund was good enough to give him more time in Real Madrid but I think Federico Valverde had an amazing performance in Real Madrid, he scored two goals.

[kawetsriyanto]

Kylian Mbappe's move to Barcelona would be brilliant if finances were right. Barcelona's finances prevent this. Let's not despair: they're still Barcelona, right? Xavi navigated the team through several hurdles last season. Even without major transfers, they can defend their title with the appropriate strategy.

Yep, Barcelona has the problem with their financial. It seems impossible for them to sign Mbappe. They have no money to pay Mbappe's transfer fees and his salary. Only the top club has huge money that can sign Mbappe, Real Madrid is one of the top clubs that are very serious to sign him. I never hear other top clubs in Europe that really want to sign Mbappe, including Barcelona.

Real Madrid is difficult without Benzema. It will be intriguing to observe how Ancelotti compensates for this loss. Coaching and management are vital in these times. Barcelona has potential, ambition, and a strong squad despite financial challenges.

What loss do you mean? 
Even if Benzema leaves, it doesn't mean Real Madrid will get loss forever.
If Real Madrid can sign a new striker that has the same level with Benzema, Real Madrid can be strong again. We mustn't doubt the coaching ability and management skills of Ancelotti, it is already proven enough. What Real Madrid needs is a strong striker only, it is the main problem for now.

I think Real Madrid and Barcelona have the same opportunity and ambition. They only have the difference in the squad stability. Barcelona looks to have a more stable squad right now.

[Spacewalker]

Kylian Mbappe's move to Barcelona would be brilliant if finances were right. Barcelona's finances prevent this. Let's not despair: they're still Barcelona, right? Xavi navigated the team through several hurdles last season. Even without major transfers, they can defend their title with the appropriate strategy.
Real Madrid is difficult without Benzema. It will be intriguing to observe how Ancelotti compensates for this loss. Coaching and management are vital in these times. Barcelona has potential, ambition, and a strong squad despite financial challenges.

Barcelona has some problems to declare the already officially presented Gundogan to its squad, so there can be no question of any transfer of Mbappe to the club. Moreover, after his words and certain events in La Liga, everyone associates the player only with Real Madrid. It's more just journalists' fantasies on the topic, and who else would Mbappe be useful to. Moreover, it seems that the Barcelona leadership does not want to contact Mbappe, because they are afraid that he will negatively affect the microclimate in the team. I'm afraid that Real Madrid would not get Gareth Bale number two, who has money in the first place, not the game of football.

[Velvet78]

I see that Real Madrid have given nearly all the players a chance to play in the game against Milan. But I didn't see Arda Guler entering the game as well. I wish Ancelotti gave him a chance too. This is a friendly in the end. It is the best chance to see all your players on the pitch. Arda is one of their new transfers so he should have also been in the game.

Hopefully we can see him in their next game. Because he is praised quite much and he has really nice skills too. If he gets chances already now and shows a satisfying performance it would have a positive affect on his playing time during the season too.

As far as I know, Arda Güler has a slight injury. I was also curious about his performance in the match and was surprised to see that he did not play. That's what they said in the news, because they didn't want to risk Arda, he didn't play in this match.
In fact, it is very important for him to take part in matches with such good teams, so he will gain experience

Yeah I also found out about his injury later. It is quite unlucky for him while he had an important opportunity to impress Ancelotti. I hope this slight injury will be gone until their next fixture. As far as I have heard Ancelotti is thinking of using him on the right wing mostly. Rodrygo's main position is right winger you know but he plays as a striker as well.

Maybe Arda can find some good chances to play on the wing and he had better make use of his chances effectively. Otherwise the competition is really fierce among the players there.

[Docnaster]

I see that Real Madrid have given nearly all the players a chance to play in the game against Milan. But I didn't see Arda Guler entering the game as well. I wish Ancelotti gave him a chance too. This is a friendly in the end. It is the best chance to see all your players on the pitch. Arda is one of their new transfers so he should have also been in the game.

Hopefully we can see him in their next game. Because he is praised quite much and he has really nice skills too. If he gets chances already now and shows a satisfying performance it would have a positive affect on his playing time during the season too.

As far as I know, Arda Güler has a slight injury. I was also curious about his performance in the match and was surprised to see that he did not play. That's what they said in the news, because they didn't want to risk Arda, he didn't play in this match.
In fact, it is very important for him to take part in matches with such good teams, so he will gain experience

Yeah I also found out about his injury later. It is quite unlucky for him while he had an important opportunity to impress Ancelotti. I hope this slight injury will be gone until their next fixture. As far as I have heard Ancelotti is thinking of using him on the right wing mostly. Rodrygo's main position is right winger you know but he plays as a striker as well.

Maybe Arda can find some good chances to play on the wing and he had better make use of his chances effectively. Otherwise the competition is really fierce among the players there.

From the the day he was signed to Real Madrid up to this very moment, I've never have any doubt about Arda Guler growing to become one the of the greatest midfielders of all time in the future.
Real Madrid's possess arguably the best midfield heroes in Europe in the person of Luka Modric and Toni Kroos who will help in nurturing the young lad in to becoming a great midfielder. He's currently injured which is nothing serious and would definitely have his time when he's fully back to playing again

[TopT3ns]

This was just a friendly game which doesn't show the real performance of any Real Madrid players yet. I can still agree that Bellingham wasn't bad of course. He had a decent performance. I believe that he won't have serious level of problems with adaptation. He is already a young star and Real Madrid has been like a dream team for him to play for.

I think that we will mostly see him in the central midfield. There are Modric and Kroos there of course but I think Ancelotti will start to give their young stars more chances from now on. Modric - Kroos duo are already likely to leave the team after this season. Bellingham can be a permanent member of the starting eleven in a short time hopefully.

In accordance with what you said, with this friendly match, the enemy can know expertise and maybe find weaknesses in one club, but many of their teams are already aware of that and don't play seriously, so this friendly match is more likely to be like training.With this friendly match, the Real Madrid coach will definitely consider a good strategy and use it for next season's matches.

[makishart]

Kylian Mbappe's move to Barcelona would be brilliant if finances were right. Barcelona's finances prevent this. Let's not despair: they're still Barcelona, right? Xavi navigated the team through several hurdles last season. Even without major transfers, they can defend their title with the appropriate strategy.

This story may possible to happen only if mbappe will able to leave from there with free agent. As long as the club is not let mbappe to leave with free agent and it's just a dream to see him join in barcelona. Mbappe has been also rumored reached pre agreement with real madrid about moving there once he will able to leave from the club with free agent. There's no need to take mbappe. It will be only making the club even closer to the FFP. It's impossible to happen. Talking about mbappe and barcelona have same meant talk about a dream that will never happen.

Real Madrid is difficult without Benzema. It will be intriguing to observe how Ancelotti compensates for this loss. Coaching and management are vital in these times. Barcelona has potential, ambition, and a strong squad despite financial challenges.

I saw that. Joselu's impact was not so big to the real madrid. This shall become the main concern by ancelotti. I think that the ambition from barcelona doesn't impacted real madrid.
No reason to say that if real madrid will be disrupted by barcelona. Ancelotti has so many option for striker that can still be bought.

[AndySt]

This story may possible to happen only if mbappe will able to leave from there with free agent. As long as the club is not let mbappe to leave with free agent and it's just a dream to see him join in barcelona. Mbappe has been also rumored reached pre agreement with real madrid about moving there once he will able to leave from the club with free agent. There's no need to take mbappe. It will be only making the club even closer to the FFP. It's impossible to happen. Talking about mbappe and barcelona have same meant talk about a dream that will never happen.

Given the appetites of the Mbappe family, even leaving Paris Saint-Germain as a free agent would not have helped Barcelona much, because then there are demands for the payment of 100 million to Mbappe himself as a signing bonus and also a salary of 50-60 million euros, which Real Madrid already seems to have agreed to. Barcelona, with its financial problems, Mbappe's salary alone is unaffordable in the current conditions. Moreover, even now Barcelona seems to need to sell several players in order to sign new players.

[borovichok]

 Xavi Hernandez is delighted with his current squad, which is always ready to maximize their on-field performance. IIkay Gundogan, Barcelona's summer addition, is excited to play alongside his new teammates in preseason games. The bluagrana would have played Juventus, but given that everything that caused the tie against the elderly lady to be postponed was due to the intervention of a nasty virus among the players, perhaps it's only a matter of time before it's resolved. The bluagrana have good reasons to compete for top competitions in the coming season, they have what it takes.

[ancafe]

There are at least three things that are the key to success in adapting players to their new club. Learning the language, understanding the coach's tactics, and building partnerships with other players are very important internal factors. League culture like the EPL which is known to be very competitive will really need high focus, if you can't meet expectations then the place is on the bench.

With pre-season tours and friendly matches it can be a good place to improve these three things, i think because they can help the adaptation process go faster. It's true that the pressure and concentration in friendly matches are not comparable to official matches, at least that can help a little.

Each league must have a very different style and culture, so preparation is needed for new players to adapt, language will make it difficult for players to receive direction from changing strategies on the field instructed by the coach, because maybe when they play the initial strategy does not match and must be replaced and building partnerships with players must also be adapted to the language used by most people on the team.

The pre-season is an illustration of the quality of the game that needs to be improved and from there an idea is born to cover weaknesses in which positions. The pressure in the pre-season trial matches is indeed very different from the matches that will be lived in the actual competition, for that reason pre-season needs to be carried out for improvement before heading to the official league.

[rendravolt]

Kylian Mbappe's move to Barcelona would be brilliant if finances were right. Barcelona's finances prevent this. Let's not despair: they're still Barcelona, right? Xavi navigated the team through several hurdles last season. Even without major transfers, they can defend their title with the appropriate strategy.

Real Madrid is difficult without Benzema. It will be intriguing to observe how Ancelotti compensates for this loss. Coaching and management are vital in these times. Barcelona has potential, ambition, and a strong squad despite financial challenges.

Even though barcelona has the right finances, I think Kylian Mbappe will still choose Real Madrid as his new club. We know that rumors of the Mbappe transfer saga have made several top European teams compete for this player and I have read that there are Manchester United, Chelsea, Spurs, Inter, and including Barcelona. I think even if at this time barcelona wants to bid for Mbappe isn't that an exaggeration? considering they can only get players on a free agent this summer.

On the other hand, it is Real Madrid who is not included in the Mbappe offer rumors and it seems that this is Real Madrid's strategy by not wanting to start an offer in the near future. Meanwhile, on the PSG side, they hope with certainty that Real Madrid will immediately start bidding for their player.