La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2023/24

[Cryptmuster]

Dembele's leaving Barcelona mustn't be like the saddest thing for them. Of course he is a really talented player. However he has always had serious issues with injuries since he joined Barcelona. Taking the previous season into account he missed a lot of matches and couldn't show the expected level of performance. However Xavi was still wishing to continue to have him in his team as he likes him. Now he is about to sign for PSG and I wonder how unhappy Xavi is with this situation.

Unhappy or not Barcelona can still do a good work without him as well. Besides they should be able to find a good replacement for him who isn't injury-prone if possible.

Dembele wanted to leave last off-season, and besides, PSG is a more financially reliable club. I think that Dembele would have liked to stay in Barcelona, but with the condition that he would receive a large salary, Barcelona refused him, so he decided to go to PSG where he could get what he wanted to get. Barcelona are still struggling financially and have been unable to meet Dembele's demands.

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[Swordsoffreedom]

Dembele's leaving Barcelona mustn't be like the saddest thing for them. Of course he is a really talented player. However he has always had serious issues with injuries since he joined Barcelona. Taking the previous season into account he missed a lot of matches and couldn't show the expected level of performance. However Xavi was still wishing to continue to have him in his team as he likes him. Now he is about to sign for PSG and I wonder how unhappy Xavi is with this situation.

Unhappy or not Barcelona can still do a good work without him as well. Besides they should be able to find a good replacement for him who isn't injury-prone if possible.

Dembele wanted to leave last off-season, and besides, PSG is a more financially reliable club. I think that Dembele would have liked to stay in Barcelona, but with the condition that he would receive a large salary, Barcelona refused him, so he decided to go to PSG where he could get what he wanted to get. Barcelona are still struggling financially and have been unable to meet Dembele's demands.

Barcelona expected more from Dembele. But Dembele failed to live up to Barcelona's expectations. The team did not perform very well against Barcelona. Dembele has been playing with Barcelona for 6 seasons. In 6 seasons he played only 127 matches in La Liga. And scoring only 24. And so Barcelona are unwilling to increase Dembele's wages to keep him with the squad. If Dembele does not ask for an increase in wages, Barcelona will probably keep Dembele in the squad.

However, Barcelona could make a smart amount of money by selling Dembele to PSG. Barcelona spent 135 million to sign Dembele. But they don't get better performance than Dembele. Dembele was a loss project for Barcelona. However, it is not yet clear how much money PSG are willing to spend on Dembele.

[hyudien]

it does not matter if maybe Arda Guler has to miss a few matches in the summer and Real Madrid management really has to rest this young player so that he really recovers from his injury. Its really regretful when we all as Real Madrid fans want to see Arda Guler performance but have to experience this serious problem but for me its not a big problem because there is still a lot of time in the summer match so Arda still has a chance to recover and look good in the match later.

Some games at the start of the season are very important for any player when he arrives at a new club, but from the start, Madrid wanted him so inevitably, Madrid were ready with all Arda Guller conditions. This risk shouldn't be a problem anymore, it's just that some fans must really regret this condition and have to wait longer to be able to see Arda Guller first appearance.

Dembele's leaving Barcelona mustn't be like the saddest thing for them. Of course he is a really talented player. However he has always had serious issues with injuries since he joined Barcelona. Taking the previous season into account he missed a lot of matches and couldn't show the expected level of performance. However Xavi was still wishing to continue to have him in his team as he likes him. Now he is about to sign for PSG and I wonder how unhappy Xavi is with this situation.

Unhappy or not Barcelona can still do a good work without him as well. Besides they should be able to find a good replacement for him who isn't injury-prone if possible.

Having Dembele go to PSG is the right decision, even though it has to be said that it will leave sadness, but in my opinion, it will not be too big of a problem. Xavi remains professional and can still rotate several players to replace his position. Especially now that Barcelona is at the peak of ideal performance with a qualified squad, so even without Dembele we won't lose stability. PSG is aware of Dembele's injury problem and will anticipate this, here I am quite curious because Dembele will be used as a substitute for Mbappe for a while, considering that Dembele's skills when matched with the position Mbappe left are not very suitable.

[xzone]

I really don’t understand how Barcelona can actually go for Cancello. I had heard the news before. But the only thing I was thinking when I heard about this was, what might Barcelona be selling this time to get him! I remember Barcelona selling TV rights only a few months ago to get new players. I think if Barcelona can sell a player for good money, they should be saving a little. But at the same time, there comes a question of them being able to successfully defend the title as well. They are the La Liga champions after all. So they cannot adjust behave cheaply and not spend anything. But they should spend if they can afford to spend.

I think what they need to do right now is to look for young and talented players and buy them. Barcelona has been doing this very well in the past. Thanks to this, they were able to remain as one of the best teams in the world.
Their financial situation is a little different, sometimes it is said that they have no money left, and sometimes they talk about solving this problem. They can make good use of the money they have right now and if they get young talented players, they can both continue to be league champions and earn money

[W Jr.]

Arda Guler is out for 2 months due to meniscus damage. He is really unlucky that he has got injured right after completing a dream transfer for himself. He is going to miss quite many matches and he will need some time to have a good level of match fitness after that as well. Of course he wasn't going to be in the starting eleven right away. But he is going to miss the chance to show his skills in pre-season to increase his chance to play in official matches as often as possible.

Firstly I saw the news like a specialist at Real Madrid said that it would take him 5 months to return. Thankfully it isn't that serious now.

5 months would be a huge problem for a football player of his age. He is only 18 years old and has a bright future. He was working with Real Madrid to realize his dreams. Everything went bad for him when he got injured along with his intense training schedule. Fortunately, he is lucky and is part of a team with one of the best medical teams in the world. I think it might get old soon.

There are some things that are quite interesting to see the news in a headline saying that with this knee injury Arda Guller who was predicted to be the next Messi instead turned into the next Hazard.

This is clearly disturbing even though he has good potential but injuries can greatly hamper especially knee injuries like this sometimes need a long recovery and recurrent injuries that always come.
Hopefully his performance does not decline too drastically although it will definitely take time but if this is in Madrid then when in the end after the injury he did not return to appear then it was finished for Arda Guller.

Arda is very young and I think he will survive this injury. However, such a severe injury could pose a threat to his future. Considering that Arda has great potential for Real Madrid, I am sure they will work hard to improve him. Arda Güler is the future of Real Madrid.

[Cryptmuster]

Barcelona expected more from Dembele. But Dembele failed to live up to Barcelona's expectations. The team did not perform very well against Barcelona. Dembele has been playing with Barcelona for 6 seasons. In 6 seasons he played only 127 matches in La Liga. And scoring only 24. And so Barcelona are unwilling to increase Dembele's wages to keep him with the squad. If Dembele does not ask for an increase in wages, Barcelona will probably keep Dembele in the squad.
However, Barcelona could make a smart amount of money by selling Dembele to PSG. Barcelona spent 135 million to sign Dembele. But they don't get better performance than Dembele. Dembele was a loss project for Barcelona. However, it is not yet clear how much money PSG are willing to spend on Dembele.

According to what the Lequipe journalists write, the transfer amount will be 50 million, and Dembele will receive a salary increase at PSG. And if nothing changes, then Dembele may be officially announced as a PSG player tomorrow, August 7th. Even if Dembele did not live up to Barcelona's expectations, they would still like to keep him in the team, but due to financial instability, they cannot do this. By the way, for the same reason, Messi did not back to Barcelona...

[Velvet78]

I agree about Dembele. He hasn't been able to satisfy the expectations and I think it is a good thing that PSG are signing him by activating his release clause. I don't even know why Xavi was still satisfied with his performance. While he isn't able to play even in the most part of the season what is it you see anyway?

Now it is time for PSG to deal with Dembele's being injury-prone. Neymar and Dembele have the same characteristics on this topic so they had better hope not to face serious problems about it this season.

[hahay]

Barcelona expected more from Dembele. But Dembele failed to live up to Barcelona's expectations. The team did not perform very well against Barcelona. Dembele has been playing with Barcelona for 6 seasons. In 6 seasons he played only 127 matches in La Liga. And scoring only 24. And so Barcelona are unwilling to increase Dembele's wages to keep him with the squad. If Dembele does not ask for an increase in wages, Barcelona will probably keep Dembele in the squad.
However, Barcelona could make a smart amount of money by selling Dembele to PSG. Barcelona spent 135 million to sign Dembele. But they don't get better performance than Dembele. Dembele was a loss project for Barcelona. However, it is not yet clear how much money PSG are willing to spend on Dembele.

According to what the Lequipe journalists write, the transfer amount will be 50 million, and Dembele will receive a salary increase at PSG. And if nothing changes, then Dembele may be officially announced as a PSG player tomorrow, August 7th. Even if Dembele did not live up to Barcelona's expectations, they would still like to keep him in the team, but due to financial instability, they cannot do this. By the way, for the same reason, Messi did not back to Barcelona...

Anyway, Dembele will still be fine if he leaves Barcelona, or maybe Dembele can develop even better in another club because maybe playing at Barcelona is maybe Dembele get more high pressure. Because Barcelona condition is also not completely good so yes, it would be better for players with big fees, maybe it would be better for some of them to be sold. At least, to restore Barcelona finances as well and over time they will at least be able to get what they want if they succeed from time to time.

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Arda is very young and I think he will survive this injury. However, such a severe injury could pose a threat to his future. Considering that Arda has great potential for Real Madrid, I am sure they will work hard to improve him. Arda Güler is the future of Real Madrid.

Arda will be out for the next 2 months after a knee injury hindered his adventures at the start of next season with Real Madrid. I don't think he will suffer the same fate as the Hazard at Real Madrid due to frequent injuries which can prevent him from making a big contribution to Real Madrid. In addition, Arda is still young enough that his career will be better in the coming seasons if he doesn't get injured again in the next season.

With a long enough contract, it determines the big hopes Real Madrid will have for Arda Guler and besides that we will look forward to a healing process that he goes through before he is completely fit to return to the Real Madrid squad.

[Pulsar77]

Atletico Madrid are entering their last season with Simeone at least for now. It has been a journey of 12 years with him so far and they have won quite many titles with him in the past as well. It is like Simeone has had his whole career in Europe at Atletico Madrid if we don't count the short time period of being Catania's manager.

However it might really be coming to an end now. Because he can't meet the expectations in the recent times. Atletico Madrid's performance in the Champions League was really horrible last season. But especially the La Liga performance is the important point here. They couldn't become a part of the title race in the recent a couple of years. This squad is solid enough to keep consistency. Simeone will be expected to improve that the most.

[hd49728]

According to what the Lequipe journalists write, the transfer amount will be 50 million, and Dembele will receive a salary increase at PSG.

Salary increase is key for Dembele's decision but maybe he also wants to play at his homeland too. I am keen on salary increase as his main reason to leave Barcelona.

Anyway, Dembele will still be fine if he leaves Barcelona, or maybe Dembele can develop even better in another club because maybe playing at Barcelona is maybe Dembele get more high pressure. Because Barcelona condition is also not completely good so yes, it would be better for players with big fees, maybe it would be better for some of them to be sold. At least, to restore Barcelona finances as well and over time they will at least be able to get what they want if they succeed from time to time.

Dembele had some bad seasons in Barcelona and he only improved in the last two seasons with Xavi. Now when his value is better and he got a good offer from PSG, he decided to leave. I don't call his decision is bad because I see Barcelona can not ask for loyalty from Dembele. He is not their home-grown player so loyalty is something they can not have with Dembele. As a player, it's fine if Dembele is attractive by better salary as his career is not too long just like other players.

[Swordsoffreedom]

Barcelona expected more from Dembele. But Dembele failed to live up to Barcelona's expectations. The team did not perform very well against Barcelona. Dembele has been playing with Barcelona for 6 seasons. In 6 seasons he played only 127 matches in La Liga. And scoring only 24. And so Barcelona are unwilling to increase Dembele's wages to keep him with the squad. If Dembele does not ask for an increase in wages, Barcelona will probably keep Dembele in the squad.
However, Barcelona could make a smart amount of money by selling Dembele to PSG. Barcelona spent 135 million to sign Dembele. But they don't get better performance than Dembele. Dembele was a loss project for Barcelona. However, it is not yet clear how much money PSG are willing to spend on Dembele.

According to what the Lequipe journalists write, the transfer amount will be 50 million, and Dembele will receive a salary increase at PSG. And if nothing changes, then Dembele may be officially announced as a PSG player tomorrow, August 7th. Even if Dembele did not live up to Barcelona's expectations, they would still like to keep him in the team, but due to financial instability, they cannot do this. By the way, for the same reason, Messi did not back to Barcelona...

Even if he doesn't play well with Barcelona, Dembele has the potential to perform well in Ligue 1. PSG coach Luis Enrique is quite experienced. And the important thing is that he is completely new to the PSG team. He will work with this team anew. At the same time, Luis Enrique will probably bring several more changes to the team. Because of this it will be a bit easier for Dembele to adapt to psg's players. Moreover, Ligue 1 teams are slightly weaker than La Liga teams. This is why it will be easy for dembele to perform well. We may soon see Dembele in a PSG jersey. However, this agreement is repeatedly delayed.

[Blitzboy]

Tchouameni is rumoured with some teams this summer but I don't expect him to go anywhere already now. Real Madrid think of him as a part of their future and we can understand this from his contract as well. Besides he played in most of the games in the La Liga in the previous season. He isn't an unnecessary player for the team now.

While Real Madrid are trying to make their midfield younger and credible they wouldn't give up on any of their young talents at the moment.

Aurélien Tchouameni is an experienced player who knows how to capitalize on his opponents' tackle circumstances with calculated defensive game pieces. Tchouameni is a significant player for the club, which is a key project under Carlo Ancelotti. The Frenchman has no ambitions to leave the Santiago Bernabeu this season, unless Los Blancos activate his sell-out clause. He's important for the club at the present time, and he has an opportunity to be a part of the club's future; the same can be said for Eduardo Camavinga, who is giving everything he has for the team.

Tchouameni is crucial to the team. His potential is well-known, especially his ability to deploy calculated defensive game pieces to exploit his opponents' tackles. You know, these terms describe his importance. Due to recent speculations and gossip, something awful happened to him. Since he can't compete with other club players, he may not start and may be considering his options. Some clubs can start talking to him, but he wants to stay with Real Madrid unless they activate his sell-out clause. This could be complex and hard to understand.

[Distraction]

There is no striker transfer yet for Barcelona. I know they have Lewandowski already but I mean a backup player for him. If they want to play bigger this season they need to strengthen some positions first. Increasing the number of players for a position is always an important precaution.

There is no guarantee for Lewandowski like he will be able to play in every single match in a season. He can get injury or suspended. You know Lewandowski hasn't been shown a red card for years but he put an end to it after joining Barcelona. Things can get harder about scoring goals in his absence if they don't have a natural striker in the substitutes.

[Fakhrulenclix]

There is no striker transfer yet for Barcelona. I know they have Lewandowski already but I mean a backup player for him. If they want to play bigger this season they need to strengthen some positions first. Increasing the number of players for a position is always an important precaution.

There is no guarantee for Lewandowski like he will be able to play in every single match in a season. He can get injury or suspended. You know Lewandowski hasn't been shown a red card for years but he put an end to it after joining Barcelona. Things can get harder about scoring goals in his absence if they don't have a natural striker in the substitutes.

Barcelona has several young strikers such as Ansu Fati and Ferran Torres, indeed they cannot promise to be competitive but I think that is enough to cover Lewandowski who is definitely a mainstay of Barcelona on the front lines.
However, with Dembele leaving for PSG, the strength of Barcelona's current front line has diminished, I think Barcelona must bring in new players in the transfer market this summer to replace the position left by Dembele, moreover Barcelona have fresh funds due to Dembele's transfer to PSG.

[bering]

Atletico Madrid are entering their last season with Simeone at least for now. It has been a journey of 12 years with him so far and they have won quite many titles with him in the past as well. It is like Simeone has had his whole career in Europe at Atletico Madrid if we don't count the short time period of being Catania's manager.

However it might really be coming to an end now. Because he can't meet the expectations in the recent times. Atletico Madrid's performance in the Champions League was really horrible last season. But especially the La Liga performance is the important point here. They couldn't become a part of the title race in the recent a couple of years. This squad is solid enough to keep consistency. Simeone will be expected to improve that the most.

12 years isn't short journey for Simeone that he has successfully to bringing Atletico Madrid to being an strong team in Laliga and for sure he did that without spending huge money to build the team because we all know Atletico Madrid isn't rich team however last time Simeone was extended his contract at 2021 and next season indeed could be his last year in this team because Simeone contract will be expired on June 2024 and last season Atletico Madrid didn't give him high target that they only targetting him champion league zone which mean if Simeone can able to acvieve that target then Atletico Madrid will give him contract extension and indeed until now there was no negotiation between him and Atletico Madrid about new contract but some people believe his position will be save and he will gets new contract soon

[flyingcarpet]

Atletico Madrid are entering their last season with Simeone at least for now. It has been a journey of 12 years with him so far and they have won quite many titles with him in the past as well. It is like Simeone has had his whole career in Europe at Atletico Madrid if we don't count the short time period of being Catania's manager.

However it might really be coming to an end now. Because he can't meet the expectations in the recent times. Atletico Madrid's performance in the Champions League was really horrible last season. But especially the La Liga performance is the important point here. They couldn't become a part of the title race in the recent a couple of years. This squad is solid enough to keep consistency. Simeone will be expected to improve that the most.

12 years isn't short journey for Simeone that he has successfully to bringing Atletico Madrid to being an strong team in Laliga and for sure he did that without spending huge money to build the team because we all know Atletico Madrid isn't rich team however last time Simeone was extended his contract at 2021 and next season indeed could be his last year in this team because Simeone contract will be expired on June 2024 and last season Atletico Madrid didn't give him high target that they only targetting him champion league zone which mean if Simeone can able to acvieve that target then Atletico Madrid will give him contract extension and indeed until now there was no negotiation between him and Atletico Madrid about new contract but some people believe his position will be save and he will gets new contract soon

If they had transferred enough quality players to Simeone, they could have made the team champion again. Or he could have always finished high in the league. It's a bit about the fact that financial opportunities are not equal in every club. I think Simeone is a very successful coach. Besides, it is not easy to serve a club for so many years. They had their last contract in 2021. If the management is going to renew the contract that will expire next year, they should also allow the team to make a successful transfer during the transfer season.

If a football club management wants success, it has to make financial sacrifices. Yes, I admit that other teams have a lot of financial strength, but Atletico Madrid has shown before that they can compete with these teams.

[Minecache]

Atletico Madrid are entering their last season with Simeone at least for now. It has been a journey of 12 years with him so far and they have won quite many titles with him in the past as well. It is like Simeone has had his whole career in Europe at Atletico Madrid if we don't count the short time period of being Catania's manager.

However it might really be coming to an end now. Because he can't meet the expectations in the recent times. Atletico Madrid's performance in the Champions League was really horrible last season. But especially the La Liga performance is the important point here. They couldn't become a part of the title race in the recent a couple of years. This squad is solid enough to keep consistency. Simeone will be expected to improve that the most.

12 years isn't short journey for Simeone that he has successfully to bringing Atletico Madrid to being an strong team in Laliga and for sure he did that without spending huge money to build the team because we all know Atletico Madrid isn't rich team however last time Simeone was extended his contract at 2021 and next season indeed could be his last year in this team because Simeone contract will be expired on June 2024 and last season Atletico Madrid didn't give him high target that they only targetting him champion league zone which mean if Simeone can able to acvieve that target then Atletico Madrid will give him contract extension and indeed until now there was no negotiation between him and Atletico Madrid about new contract but some people believe his position will be save and he will gets new contract soon

If they had transferred enough quality players to Simeone, they could have made the team champion again. Or he could have always finished high in the league. It's a bit about the fact that financial opportunities are not equal in every club. I think Simeone is a very successful coach. Besides, it is not easy to serve a club for so many years. They had their last contract in 2021. If the management is going to renew the contract that will expire next year, they should also allow the team to make a successful transfer during the transfer season.

If a football club management wants success, it has to make financial sacrifices. Yes, I admit that other teams have a lot of financial strength, but Atletico Madrid has shown before that they can compete with these teams.

I think his tactics were just unable to keep up with the modern times. Atletico Madrid is basically stuck in a standstill right now. They are just not improving. Of course 100% of the blame does not go to the coach. but in this case, the coach does have to take a lot of responsibility for this type of performance.

And I absolutely agree that the squad is not very bad. They can still do a very decent job. But without proper tactics, they are not going to be able to compete against the best of the best which is exactly what is happening right now with Atletico Madrid. I think a change of authority is going to bring necessary changes in the club which is eventually going to be positive. But Atletico Madrid better not downgrade like Chelsea did.

[puloweh555]

There are some things that are quite interesting to see the news in a headline saying that with this knee injury Arda Guller who was predicted to be the next Messi instead turned into the next Hazard.

Of course, this is not a good thing for the Real Madrid squad at the start of this season considering that the Laliga competition is about to start. It's true that as you say on various social media, Arda Guler has become the butt of jokes because of his injury problems. Not a few have compared him to Eden Hazard, who is a player who has not developed at Real Madrid due to constant injuries. Not even a few of them changed Arda Guler's nickname to be like Oziel to be like Eden Hazard.

This is clearly disturbing even though he has good potential but injuries can greatly hamper especially knee injuries like this sometimes need a long recovery and recurrent injuries that always come.
Hopefully his performance does not decline too drastically although it will definitely take time but if this is in Madrid then when in the end after the injury he did not return to appear then it was finished for Arda Guller.

At first I expected Arda Guler to play in a right wing position like Bale or Asensio because he is left footed 'after Real Madrid signed Mbappe or a pure centre-forward. After that, Real Madrid is just looking for an additional right-back position, Cancelo or Rice James, because Alaba can play in his original left-back position like at Bayern Munich, not Mendy or Camavinga who play in that position, and center. The -back positions are Rudiger and Militao. That way Real Madrid will be the strongest team this season, and of course the Champions League will remain the main target.

[MarjorieZimmermanGinger]

I agree about Dembele. He hasn't been able to satisfy the expectations and I think it is a good thing that PSG are signing him by activating his release clause. I don't even know why Xavi was still satisfied with his performance. While he isn't able to play even in the most part of the season what is it you see anyway?

Now it is time for PSG to deal with Dembele's being injury-prone. Neymar and Dembele have the same characteristics on this topic so they had better hope not to face serious problems about it this season.

Must be acknowledged in the previous three seasons Dembele experienced a decline in performance and last season he was only able to contribute as many as eight goals from a total of 35 matches he was on. But Xavi is still sure and still provides an opportunity for him to improve performance, if he does not leave PSG and survive in Barcelona at least until his contract ended.

But Dembele made the decision to move to PSG and maybe he had another view for his future rather than having to survive in Barcelona. Often injury is a problem that must be faced by coach and Luis Enrique he must try a different approach in the Dembele game scheme to avoid injury.