Coach Xavi has agreed to extend his contract with Barcelona until 2026 when the current contract only has 1 year left. Xavi helped Barca win La Liga last season. Xavi and his students also started strongly this season, winning 3 and drawing 1 in La Liga. The fact that he helps Barcelona prepare mentally well when the former star Messi leaves and that he manages the team well despite Barcelona's financial situation is a big plus. Now, I appreciate Barcelona this season. Xavi did very well. There is no reason to prevent the club from extending his contract.
all I can know right now is that Xavi is like family to Barcelona, I mean Xavi has a strong desire to build Barcelona to always improve its performance every season to secure the title in the next few seasons and financial problems and without star players this is just Xavi challenger to have a way to build a team and if they can win the title to stay in La Liga, this is like source of pride for Xavi who has succeeded in bringing Barcelona to top of the standings every season. so it is very natural that Xavi wants to extend his contract for the next few seasons with very clear goal 
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The amount of money Barcelona spent in this transfer window is unbelievable because they just spent 3.4 million euros for the players they bought and this summer they hired players like João Cancelo and İlkay Gündoğan while Barcelona didn't spend anything and just for hiring Oriol Romeu from Girona they spent 3.4m which is amazing while Real Madrid spent 130 million euro.
Barcelona certainly wants to buy more players with good performance if they are financially capable and get permission from the Laliga authorities, unfortunately, Barcelona is a club that is under the supervision of Laliga. All their movements in the transfer market are monitored and must go through permission, Lionel Messi certainly won't go there. MLS, but Barcelona must balance their expenses with the income they receive until they are considered to be in a stable condition.Barcelona was lucky to get İlkay Gündoğan on a free transfer and Joao Cancelo on loan because Cancelo is one of the players Barcelona has been targeting for quite some time to strengthen their defense., and made a profit by selling Ousmane Dembélé to PSG.
If they consistently follow the direction of the authorities we will soon see them buying more players, and actually what Barca is doing at the moment can be said to be a smart move at least still getting players with good enough quality without having to spend big money.
Barcelona are in a financial crisis, thus it is normal that they limit their spending as much as they can, right now you cannot compare Real Madrid and Barcelona in terms of finances, Real Madrid obviously have more money to spend. Barcelona had to get players on loan (Joao Cancelo and Joao Felix) and free transfer (Ilkay Gundogan) this season, and only spent next to nothing to sign Oriol Romeu. Despite all these, i think Barcelona has a strong squad that can at least compete and prolly win the Spanish Laliga again, but they definitely stand no chance in the CL.
The bluagrana keeps having challenges when it comes to transfers and finances. It's terribly watching how Barcelona decline to this stage. Additionally, the board are not helping matters, signing numerous players in every transfer window and no solid results to show for them. Barcelona is favorite to win La Liga this current season but with their previous performances in league games, it all portrayed the statistical match data, proving they will find it really difficult to lay their hands on the crown again this season. Los Blancos are leading in the race with ranking first on the league table after recording streak winnings in league games. 
Coach Xavi has agreed to extend his contract with Barcelona until 2026 when the current contract only has 1 year left. Xavi helped Barca win La Liga last season. Xavi and his students also started strongly this season, winning 3 and drawing 1 in La Liga. The fact that he helps Barcelona prepare mentally well when the former star Messi leaves and that he manages the team well despite Barcelona's financial situation is a big plus. Now, I appreciate Barcelona this season. Xavi did very well. There is no reason to prevent the club from extending his contract.
After reading the post by Despiaro, I laughed out loud. And I was like, is this actually coming from a footballer?
Anyone suggesting that Bruno Fernandes and Marcus rashford should be benched is not planning well for Manchester United. How on earth will any coach bemch Bruno Fernandes for Mount?
And why will you bench at Rashford in Manchester United attack? The story is not clear and I did not believe that whosoever that made that suggestion did it in clear eyes. Either he wants the downfall of Manchester United or he doesn't know about football.
Have you watch Manchester United's matches? I hope you're not only watch the highlight and check the statistic only.Anyone suggesting that Bruno Fernandes and Marcus rashford should be benched is not planning well for Manchester United. How on earth will any coach bemch Bruno Fernandes for Mount?
And why will you bench at Rashford in Manchester United attack? The story is not clear and I did not believe that whosoever that made that suggestion did it in clear eyes. Either he wants the downfall of Manchester United or he doesn't know about football.
Both of Bruno and Rashford are obviously have a great skills, but they're bad in team plays, it's not a matter if they're Messi who can dribbling against many players and have a good shooting skill. But their skills aren't even close to Messi, so their selfishness are bigger than their skills.
Mount's primary position in attacking midfielder and he was very good in Chelsea in this position.
Manchester United only have two choices, either risking to replace both of them with new players in order to achieve more or "stuck in their comfort zone".
The amount of money Barcelona spent in this transfer window is unbelievable because they just spent 3.4 million euros for the players they bought and this summer they hired players like João Cancelo and İlkay Gündoğan while Barcelona didn't spend anything and just for hiring Oriol Romeu from Girona they spent 3.4m which is amazing while Real Madrid spent 130 million euro.
But that's nothing new when we talk about Barcelona... I remember very well that last year it was the same thing and there was the aggravating factor that they were having great financial difficulties... even so, Barcelona was the club that spent the most on signings in the first month of the opening of the transfer window in Europe in 2022. Right from the start, they had hired six reinforcements for the absurd amount of 153 million euros... 58 million in Raphinha, 45 million in Lewandowski and 50 million in Koundé.
So... I won't be surprised if Barcelona continue to make these bad investments now and again in 2024.
The amount of money Barcelona spent in this transfer window is unbelievable because they just spent 3.4 million euros for the players they bought and this summer they hired players like João Cancelo and İlkay Gündoğan while Barcelona didn't spend anything and just for hiring Oriol Romeu from Girona they spent 3.4m which is amazing while Real Madrid spent 130 million euro.
Over the years gone, spending extravagantly was was they do not that alone, getting players who didn't deserve to play for the club for long term. Players like Coutinho, Malcom and Nelson Semedo.
With recent improvement they will do better with management for they have been bad also when it comes to handling the cases of financial worries.
Gundogan, Cancelo and Felix are players I am satisfied to say can fight for the club, Oriol Romeu, he will have to persuade me with his performance to do that!
The amount of money Barcelona spent in this transfer window is unbelievable because they just spent 3.4 million euros for the players they bought and this summer they hired players like João Cancelo and İlkay Gündoğan while Barcelona didn't spend anything and just for hiring Oriol Romeu from Girona they spent 3.4m which is amazing while Real Madrid spent 130 million euro.
Barcelona are in a financial crisis, thus it is normal that they limit their spending as much as they can, right now you cannot compare Real Madrid and Barcelona in terms of finances, Real Madrid obviously have more money to spend. Barcelona had to get players on loan (Joao Cancelo and Joao Felix) and free transfer (Ilkay Gundogan) this season, and only spent next to nothing to sign Oriol Romeu. Despite all these, i think Barcelona has a strong squad that can at least compete and prolly win the Spanish Laliga again, but they definitely stand no chance in the CL. 
The European transfer window has closed. Like EPL, Serie A, La Liga, Bundesliga, Ligue 1 there is no longer a transfer market. But the Saudi Arabian League still seems to be until September 20. This seems to make up the transfer gap. But I don't understand, can the European players still leave? If this can be of course, there is still a lot of hope for players who play in the 5 competitions above.
Source: https://www.goal.com/
Source: https://www.goal.com/
Yes, European club sides or lets call it every team can still sell to the Saudi league clubsides if they want to do so; as the Saudi League market is ongoing; the downside is that anyone in Europe (transfer market is off) who sells their talisman players to the Saudi clubs will be unable to get a replacement until the winter transfer market.
So the question is, will European club sides sell their stars for huge bucks without replacement ?
The amount of money Barcelona spent in this transfer window is unbelievable because they just spent 3.4 million euros for the players they bought and this summer they hired players like João Cancelo and İlkay Gündoğan while Barcelona didn't spend anything and just for hiring Oriol Romeu from Girona they spent 3.4m which is amazing while Real Madrid spent 130 million euro.
How can barcelona spend a lot of money if the club is still in the financial crisis? Even la liga has been banning barcelona by registering the new player last season. Real madrid has been investing in the future through buying bellingham and it's paid off caused by bellingham performs so crazily with madrid.
Barcelona is able spending small amounts of money caused by the club was always targeting free agent player. Gundogan was leaving from manchester city as a free agent. That makes barcelona was able signing him with cheap price without even needed to pay the transfer fee.
I would not be surprised that if barcelona spend small amounts of money caused by its an obligation for the club in spending its money efficiently due to the FFP rules. La liga would not give permission for barcelona to buy a player with expensive price.
Barcelona needs to decrease the club's salary cap as well. Barcelona sold some players too. That's the reason barcelona spent small amounts of money this season.
The amount of money Barcelona spent in this transfer window is unbelievable because they just spent 3.4 million euros for the players they bought and this summer they hired players like João Cancelo and İlkay Gündoğan while Barcelona didn't spend anything and just for hiring Oriol Romeu from Girona they spent 3.4m which is amazing while Real Madrid spent 130 million euro.
As long as the Saudi transfer market is still in,then there is hope for players that are looking forward to leaving their clubs this season.Yes,as despite the fact that Europe's transfer is over,and the Saudi transfer is till on,players can still migrate from this part of the world to that part,but players can't come from that part to this part of the world anymore because transfer window have closed here,and it is still open there.There are lots of players in England that were scouted by Saudi teams,and if the window is till open,there might still be room for them to get a transfer to another league.
Saudi will make another bid for Salah before the end of their transfer season. I do not think it will still be accepted because Liverpool need Salah and know how important he is to their plans this season, especially now that they have just started. The Saudi's see Salah as priority and I believe they will continue to try until maybe the deal becomes successful. If not now, in the future. Henderson who just left Liverpool to Saudi said he did not really leave because of money, but because Liverpool did not want him to stay, I do not believe that BS.https://theathletic.com/4831793/2023/09/05/jordan-henderson-interview-saudi/
Mo Salah and Liverpool will have to come to agreement whether the player will leave or stay but for the bid for Salah I think the next and final one should be before Saudi transfer closure which is before the weekend but I think the amount they are going to offer to Liverpool will determine if they will let the player stay considering what they plan to achieve this season since they were unable to qualify for champions League last season.
Every player who left the European club to Saudi Arabia league didn't leave for money I believe that has been the statement of most players but looking out the amount the league is splashing to attract more big names from big clubs, I think most of the players who have actually left their club to join Saudi Arabian teams especially at younger age left for money including Henderson.
The European transfer window has closed. Like EPL, Serie A, La Liga, Bundesliga, Ligue 1 there is no longer a transfer market. But the Saudi Arabian League still seems to be until September 20. This seems to make up the transfer gap. But I don't understand, can the European players still leave? If this can be of course, there is still a lot of hope for players who play in the 5 competitions above.
Source: https://www.goal.com/
Source: https://www.goal.com/
I'm pretty sure it was ending this weekned no?
About that it seems they sent a bid for Salah for 250m €
For Salah, it will be a fair movement for him (salary) and Al-Ittihad (good player) but definitely a very bad thing for Liverpool since they will lose a main player and they cannot ask anymore someone else to join them. Klopp called this unfair and asked FIFA to align every competition with the european one
This can be done in january which is still very long. The club must have played without salah if he will be leaving from the club soon. FSG is likely selling him to the saudi club.
That offers will not come twice. There's no good offer that has ever came for liverpool other than it. Selling salah is best move for liverpool.
The European transfer window has closed. Like EPL, Serie A, La Liga, Bundesliga, Ligue 1 there is no longer a transfer market. But the Saudi Arabian League still seems to be until September 20. This seems to make up the transfer gap. But I don't understand, can the European players still leave? If this can be of course, there is still a lot of hope for players who play in the 5 competitions above.
Source: https://www.goal.com/
Source: https://www.goal.com/
I'm pretty sure it was ending this weekned no?
About that it seems they sent a bid for Salah for 250m €
For Salah, it will be a fair movement for him (salary) and Al-Ittihad (good player) but definitely a very bad thing for Liverpool since they will lose a main player and they cannot ask anymore someone else to join them. Klopp called this unfair and asked FIFA to align every competition with the european one
I'm sure this is a pretty big money deal. If Liverpool don't see money as their main option, maybe they will reject this offer. But if they see money as their goal this will certainly be a big blow to their progress this season.
The European transfer window has closed. Like EPL, Serie A, La Liga, Bundesliga, Ligue 1 there is no longer a transfer market. But the Saudi Arabian League still seems to be until September 20. This seems to make up the transfer gap. But I don't understand, can the European players still leave? If this can be of course, there is still a lot of hope for players who play in the 5 competitions above.
Source: https://www.goal.com/
Source: https://www.goal.com/
I'm pretty sure it was ending this weekned no?
About that it seems they sent a bid for Salah for 250m €
For Salah, it will be a fair movement for him (salary) and Al-Ittihad (good player) but definitely a very bad thing for Liverpool since they will lose a main player and they cannot ask anymore someone else to join them. Klopp called this unfair and asked FIFA to align every competition with the european one
As long as the Saudi transfer market is still in,then there is hope for players that are looking forward to leaving their clubs this season.Yes,as despite the fact that Europe's transfer is over,and the Saudi transfer is till on,players can still migrate from this part of the world to that part,but players can't come from that part to this part of the world anymore because transfer window have closed here,and it is still open there.There are lots of players in England that were scouted by Saudi teams,and if the window is till open,there might still be room for them to get a transfer to another league.
Saudi will make another bid for Salah before the end of their transfer season. I do not think it will still be accepted because Liverpool need Salah and know how important he is to their plans this season, especially now that they have just started. The Saudi's see Salah as priority and I believe they will continue to try until maybe the deal becomes successful. If not now, in the future. Henderson who just left Liverpool to Saudi said he did not really leave because of money, but because Liverpool did not want him to stay, I do not believe that BS.https://theathletic.com/4831793/2023/09/05/jordan-henderson-interview-saudi/
The European transfer window has closed. Like EPL, Serie A, La Liga, Bundesliga, Ligue 1 there is no longer a transfer market. But the Saudi Arabian League still seems to be until September 20. This seems to make up the transfer gap. But I don't understand, can the European players still leave? If this can be of course, there is still a lot of hope for players who play in the 5 competitions above.
Source: https://www.goal.com/
Source: https://www.goal.com/
Yes, European club sides or lets call it every team can still sell to the Saudi league clubsides if they want to do so; as the Saudi League market is ongoing; the downside is that anyone in Europe (transfer market is off) who sells their talisman players to the Saudi clubs will be unable to get a replacement until the winter transfer market.
So the question is, will European club sides sell their stars for huge bucks without replacement ?
The European transfer window has closed. Like EPL, Serie A, La Liga, Bundesliga, Ligue 1 there is no longer a transfer market. But the Saudi Arabian League still seems to be until September 20. This seems to make up the transfer gap. But I don't understand, can the European players still leave? If this can be of course, there is still a lot of hope for players who play in the 5 competitions above.
Source: https://www.goal.com/
As long as the Saudi transfer market is still in,then there is hope for players that are looking forward to leaving their clubs this season.Yes,as despite the fact that Europe's transfer is over,and the Saudi transfer is till on,players can still migrate from this part of the world to that part,but players can't come from that part to this part of the world anymore because transfer window have closed here,and it is still open there.There are lots of players in England that were scouted by Saudi teams,and if the window is till open,there might still be room for them to get a transfer to another league. Source: https://www.goal.com/
The European transfer window has closed. Like EPL, Serie A, La Liga, Bundesliga, Ligue 1 there is no longer a transfer market. But the Saudi Arabian League still seems to be until September 20. This seems to make up the transfer gap. But I don't understand, can the European players still leave? If this can be of course, there is still a lot of hope for players who play in the 5 competitions above.
Source: https://www.goal.com/
Source: https://www.goal.com/
I'm pretty sure it was ending this weekned no?
About that it seems they sent a bid for Salah for 250m €
September 7 have been said to be the date for the final and deadline transfer for the Saudi League
Liverpool are still considering it, letting Salah leave is like shooting themselves in the foot - feet.
Sancho also has been linked with an exit from Man United, it is either he leaves before the deadline closes or sits fof the remaining months to leave Manchester United permanently.
I was wondering how all these players that sign lately in Saudi professional league especially those coming from Premier League where they are the most supportive league for the LGBTQ+ community, these players and let’s take for example Henderson Jordan who was a big supporter of that community when he was playing for Liverpool before signing to Al-Ettifaq the Saudi Arabia team this country that consider LGBTQ+ illegal and against them totally, which means that players are not allowed to show any support or signs regarding it or even to talk about it.
So how these players agree for such different cultures and ideas or it’s all about money? Wherever they get good money they support their case?
I don’t really understand how rules of supporting such communities work in Saudi Arabia but I’m sure it’s paid in the other leagues where they support and wear those signs and flags.
It’s interesting that these players who were vocal about their opinions on the LGBTQ community while they were playing in Europe have turned silent all of a sudden. They knew the situation before moving to Saudi Arabia, I guess money changes one’s belief. The Arabs are very cultured people and do not want anything or anyone to disrupt their way of life. In my opinion, politics and social issues shouldn’t be mixed with football or any other sport, it just takes away the joy of the game. So how these players agree for such different cultures and ideas or it’s all about money? Wherever they get good money they support their case?
I don’t really understand how rules of supporting such communities work in Saudi Arabia but I’m sure it’s paid in the other leagues where they support and wear those signs and flags.
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