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Another stupid decision by Chelsea, they spend 57 Million Euros just for this unknown 17 years old kid played for Palmeiras. He's not perform really good in Palmeiras and he's not joined in Brazil's senior team, he's not Endrick.

We shouldn't forget that Chelsea last year signed Deivid Washington from Santos for 17 Million Euros, but he didn't give any contribution to Chelsea.

Source: https://sports.yahoo.com/chelsea-sign-palmeiras-prodigy-estevao-155400154.html

Carlo Ancelotti always seems to know how to make players adapt quickly. Even Vinicius Jr, who was initially someone who focused on the left wing position. It turns out he can also play like a main striker. And actually, the formation that Ancelotti used to cover the shortcomings of their team, which had not yet found a suitable striker, was to use a 4-3-1-2 formation. With this formation, Ancelotti succeeded in making every wing midfielder and attacking midfielder able to play comfortably even though they were positioned as attacking players. But with the arrival of Mbappe the formation will use more formations like when Benzema was still there. Where Mbappe will be the spearhead and keep Vinicius Jr in his original position and in his usual position, namely the left wing. Even with the arrival of Mbappe, I still feel that all the players will remain comfortable with the positions they will be given.

With the arrival of Mbappe, Joselu had no chance to play for Real Madrid, even if he remained as a substitute. Joselu, who had a below average performance throughout the season, was Real Madrid's savior in the Champions League. Joselu signed for Real Madrid at the age of 34, which is a late age for an average center forward. Joselu is the lowest paid player at Real Madrid, earning 2.5 million euros a year. With perhaps two more seasons left in his career, Joselu's best option would be to leave Real Madrid. Finally, football is a very strange game. Joselu had a really below average performance during the season and his finishing was incredibly bad. maybe he can be played in a mid table team but definitely not at Real Madrid's level.

Unbelievable with Joselu linked before will join Manchester United finally becoming Qatar Stars League (QSL) Al Gharafa, I think Joselu seems want to get more minutes playing by accepting offer from Al Gharafa than accept Manchester United offering will make him not difference position such as with Real Madrid as substitutes players only.
Deal final about transfer fees until payment salary receiving by Joselu will announce soon maybe waiting the Euro 2024 over because Joselu is the part of Spain national team players.

Leaving by Joselu, Real Madrid likely not get much problem because next season signed two central forward Mbapep and Endrick, seems Joselu departure will make Endrick get automatically promote to senior teams difference with Rodrygo and Vinicius Jr have start his career with junior teams firstly before promoting to senior team.

What i liked from Takefusa Kubo is he is the player highly disciplined and hardworking and when he was bought from Yokohama Marinos to Real Madrid many asian people has been thought he will be success in Real Madrid but in fact during his 3 years in the team Kubo never made his debut and spent that time on loan from several different teams but he didn't give up because during loaned Kubo has good progress and on 2022 finally he has decide moved to Sociedad and in this team Kubo has been change became an important player and this makes some of European Clubs were interested want to bought him from Sociedad

Besides Liverpool it says Kubo also will into Manchester United radar but until now there was no further news about this rumour whether Manchester United will bid Kubo or not and indeed Kubo is talented player moreover he is still categorized as young player because Kubo current age is 23 years old and potentially he still can develop his skill but i am quite pesimistic about Japanese players in Liverpool because before him there was some players just like Minamino and the latest Wataru Endo but these players were failed to performing well and only became an substutition players so that's why although Kubo is good player i think he might be will not suitable for Liverpool

one of the media said he would receive a bigger salary than he received at Real Madrid, but of course he would not receive as much as what is offered to European players who play in the Saudi pro league because clubs in the Qatari league do not do the same as clubs in SPL
https://sports.yahoo.com/real-madrid-veteran-sign-three-183200963.html

Maybe because he was not a manager at PSV for long and also because the Eredivise is not as famous as other European leagues so Van Nistelrooy as a coach is not well known to many people, moreover he did not complete his duties at the club because before the 2022-2023 season ended he decided to leave because he felt he did not get enough support at the club.

Real Madrid's brilliant achievements last season cannot be separated from Carlo Ancelotti's expertise in concocting his strategy. Even though there is no pure striker in their starting lineup, that is not an obstacle for Real Madrid to continue playing well and achieving lots of wins. Real Madrid even became the team with the most goals scored last season in La Liga (87 goals).

I think what keeps them productive is that every player feels comfortable with the strategy given by Carlo Ancelotti, and they can quickly adjust to circumstances when there is a transition from 4-3-3 to 4-3-1-2 or vice versa.

Yes, everything is over and there is no more discussion and news regarding Mbappe transfer to the Real Madrid squad and there is no more news regarding Mbappe with PSG, we will see him as Real Madrid player and one of the most important players there.
But Mbappe himself on the other hand also felt it, how to part with the team that had made his name and he decided to look for place that could provide more significant success in the future, I know that for great players just being able to win domestic titles is very dissatisfying.

Regarding the PSG hierarchy, I actually don't know who is stating the truth because we all know that Mbappe is under pressure and he has to carry out contract extension that he shouldn't want, but on the other hand, PSG itself also denies all this.
PSG hierarchy only wanted Mbappe to stay longer and did not want Mbappe to leave for free, but in reality everything has happened and Real Madrid got Mbappe on free transfer, this is the reason why there are still some inaccurate reports.
Mbappe has also stated several things at the press conference and after that PSG also gave several statements about what Mbappe said, but I don't care about all this because the most important thing is that Mbappe is with Real Madrid.

Although Atalanta is interested, Fiorentina is also quite close to signing him, and Zaniolo is ready to finish his move to Fiorentina right away. The player and his agent are now in talks with Fiorentina about 2.5 million euros loan for one season. Fiorentina could then make the deal permanent in the summer of 2025 for about 12 - 13 million euros; Therefore, which is true? I really feel Zaniolo will be joining Fiorentina.

Carlo Ancelotti is a great coach, he is good at rotating and setting strategies, so it is not surprising that Real Madrid was able to win the Champions League title even without a pure striker. He really made a great formation with Vinicius Jr, Jude Bellingham and Rodrygo being players who can be relied on throughout last season.
Carlo Ancelotti seems to have deliberately used Real Madrid players when they didn't have a pure striker. He wanted to try out how Real Madrid would performed if they didn't have a striker like Benzema, but it turned out that he was able to do it and even unexpectedly won the Champions League title.

When you see a team with great abilities, it is always obvious and not to think much about it that they can’t attain some success in that season. Real Madrid is an example of that and it’s very evident that they’ll be the winners of the champions league and La Liga without thinking too much about it. The only team that hold them to a more trial and difficult situation is Manchester City in the champions league and Barcelona in the La Liga. If this two clubs are taking care of, they can be champions in both competitions and also win their league cup (copa del rey) to make it a treble next season.


The club he chooses to go to from Real Madrid was not much of a concern to me, he needed more playing time because even at his age, he has some great potentials in him that he can be reckoned on trying times to make the team win matches. He has done the same at Real Madrid, so his buyers will be expecting nothing but the best from him when he joins them soon. It was good he left Real Madrid because he won’t have enough playing time staying back and will be worse than before. At least he can now earn more and also have plenty of playing time which is every players dream in football.

Joselu's departure from Real Madrid was actually beneficial because it guaranteed playing minutes for the young player, namely Endrick. However, the lack of aerial duels on Real Madrid's front line will make it difficult to score goals from headers. Mbappe is not very reliable in aerial duels. So, Real Madrid only hopes for players like Militao, Rudiger, Tchouameni when a corner kick occurs.

Joselu's departure was the same as previous player Chicharito, who at that time was only on loan for one season. However, Joselu's departure was indeed sadder, especially since he didn't want to leave Real Madrid because he was a Madridista plus La Fabrica, and he also watched the UCL Final live in Paris. His huge contribution throughout the season has been impressive, especially in this season's UCL semi-final when he scored a goal in the last minute. But with what he has done at Real Madrid this season, it would be worth it for him to go to Al-Gharafa in the Qatar League which would pay him a bigger salary than Real Madrid would if he stayed. Thank you, Joselu!

Messi was not the only source of  Barcelona past success rather the last inform players from the likes of Xavi, Iniesta and others while the older ones  were a shadow of themselves. Without Messi Barcelona would still be doing well almost like Real Madrid if they were not facing financial struggles, don't forget Barcelona was still not really doing well in the UEFA Champion League before Messi left.

Aside from Xavi personality, i guessed his pride which made him have issues with some players and I guessed with the board and some fan, i think he did well except outside the domestic leagues competitions where he didn't do well though this season performance in UEFA Champion League was better for them, he was unfortunate from the fact that there were not enough players for him to rest key players who then became injured and they have to suffer from it.

Xavi chooses he wanted to buy though still limited by the club financial struggles but they tried to get the key players he wanted who love the club and wasn't bother about payout rather putting on the Barcelona shirt.

The main reason he didn't really do well last season was because the team players were exhausted after continuously playing throughout the past seasons and also in their national team, Barcelona suffered the ultimate punishment from it this season but if the same occurs this season they may even do worst because even if they try to do well this season, Real Madrid will likely be above them because they're  not sleeping strengthening an already fearsome squad.

Joselu really wanted to remain in Madrid but due to the pressure and arrival of players like Mbappe mean some players in Real Madrid may become invincible and not appear in most of their matches unless those that are strong in the first XI and as for Joselu he's seeing himself that he may not be valuable in the team anymore that's why he decided to move to the Qatar league because he will gain attention over there and get more money and at least he has achieved Champions league glory with Real Madrid and that is the most important thing. I wonder why some players choose to remain in a team where they will not have enough playing time why they can actually join other teams and have more playing time and also enhance their career and make good money so as for Joselu he made the right decision if you ask me.
Even if Carlo Ancelotti decides to keep him as a reserved player, time will come when he will rarely play matches so Madrid should instead look for another replacement.

Don't say Barcelona weren't serious in Laliga, Xavi put all his life with Barcelona and was doing everything for the team to win but what did he get in return, backlash and crazy fans were not satisfied as if other people that manage the club did it on there own. Everything Barcelona has achieved today is from the glory of Messi and that's why since he left the club, it has been difficult for them to lift the Champions League, I'm not sure if they are going to do that soon.

Real Madrid remain Real Madrid, there has not been a lot of modifications of players in Real Madrid except for the departure of Benzema and they were affected for 1 seasons, cooking of midfielders elevated them back to where they are today but Barcelona sold many teams and bought garbages and they expect Xavi to use that to win the Champions League, like who does that? Since they think Xavi is the problem, let's see how far they I go in the next season.

Right from the beginning it was all rumors which weren’t concrete or were not coming from reliable source. Yes Manchester United were need of a striker and to me an experienced striker to help them and also nurture players like Hojlund but certainly Joselu wasn’t that great option if you ask me. Right now Manchester United are focused on the Zirkzee deal from Bologna, although many pundits are rubbishing the deal due to the players age. Zirkzee is 23, just 2 years older than Hojlund so that makes them Bracket. With many thinking united needed a more older player.

In other news Manchester United have agree terms with Rudd Van Nistrooy for him to join the back room staffs of Erik Ten Hag. I think this is very good move by Manchester United at most the attacking players most especially Rasmus Hojlund will be having one of the best strikers to help guide them

How Barcelona be strong like before in the current financial crisis? I think it is almost impossible to see Barcelona as strong as in Messi era with a worse financial situation. Barcelona needs to solve the financial problem firstly if they want to be strong again. It is not easy to be competitive if Barcelona only relies on the players from their academy. They need experienced players to compete with Real Madrid. Singing experienced players require a lot of money, Barcelona can't do it now.

Real Madrid really knows how to build a new regeneration for their squad. They are also very smart to choose a coach. After Zidane left Real Madrid, they hired Ancelotti who is very suitable to be the next coach. Meanwhile Barcelona, they sometimes hired a coach who is not suitable with the playstyle of Barcelona. Honestly, I doubt if a new coach of Barcelona will be suitable for Barcelona players.

It is true that Real Madrid is the best team in the world. They already prove it by winning UCL trophies many times. UCL is the highest football competition. Since Real Madrid is called as the king of UCL, it means Real Madrid is the best team in the world.  



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Atalanta are now interested in Nicolo Zaniolo, who played for Aston Villa on loan last season and failed to live up to expectations. It turned out that Zaniolo is not at Premier League level. Galatasaray were expecting to earn a serious fee for him, but it looks like that won't happen. Zaniolo can continue his career in Serie A. Figures like 20-25 million Euro are just a dream. He has already missed Euro 2024, an important showcase, due to injury. If a 15 million Euro offer comes in, it looks like Galatasaray will let the player go.

Kubo is good if projected to replace Mo. It would be wrong to decide to leave Anfield. Kubo plays with his left foot as his main foot. He also has speed which can cause difficulties for opponents if played in his main position.
Apart from Kubo, Bryan Mbeumo is also a good choice. He is also still 24 years old. Mbeumo has good statistics with Brentford for the 2023/2024 season, both passing and shooting statistics.
I think of the 5 players, Kubo and Mbeumo would be my choices.

The player was going through a lot. I expected the club to actually do something more to help the player in this situation. But the club was actually busy saving its own self image. I cannot say that the club did the wrong thing. But I can definitely say that the player needed help and it would have been great if the club actually helped him. And we have seen a lot of these cases actually come forward. This thing has reached a certain point where I instantly think that the person, the male who has actually been alleged to do the offense has actually done nothing and he is actually the victim.

There is a reason why a lot of clubs should not and do not listen to the fans. Because the fans do not always know what is best for the club. At the same time, people are always going to be divided into two about any certain thing.