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Quote from: terrorJR on December 25, 2022, 11:06:50 AM

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Quote from: Ayers on December 24, 2022, 03:24:58 PM

Yes as Manuel Neuer is injured the secondary goalkeeper Sven Ulreich will for sure get some minutes into his board right now. With Manuel Neuer injured, this is the best time to shine for his club if he wants to be their number-one goalkeeper in the future ahead. But if he fails to do so, Bayern Munich surely will get another goalkeeper in. So far we have been hearing rumors about Croatian goalkeeper Dominik Livaković joining them. However, I think only time will tell whether they will get another goalkeeper in.

bayern is still confusing to get a replacement for neuer once its main keeper was not able to perform due to injury. As far as i know that bayern has been offering some keeper to join with it but there's no confirmation about which keeper that has been accepting bayern's offer. There are some names that still under radar just like yann somer, E martinez and livakovic. The problem is yann somer already clarrified if he won't join with bayern and E martinez has a small chance to leave from A villa
Livakovic has not been giving any confirmation regarding his rumour to be linked with bayern.

All possibilities will still happen here because indeed even at this time the previous transfer has not been opened so in this case I think they still have to keep monitoring because I really think one of them will definitely be able to get especially the bidder is Bayern. Martinez is currently one of the goalkeepers who seems to be prioritized due to his performance in the world cup but I think Livakovic is also quite good.

Nothing is to be expected with Sven Ulreich for the long term, as he is already 34 years old so this season may well be the last season for him to decide to retire. In addition, the Bundesliga will just roll back next year so it is very possible to bring in new players before restarting the league.
It's really interesting what kind of goalkeeper was recruited by Bayern Munich because after all, when a new goalkeeper is recruited later, of course the goalkeeper has a big chance to replace Neuer as the main goalkeeper.

But it's possible that Bayern Munich will just take advantage of their young keepers like Jakob Mayer or Johannes Schenk, and if that happens then it will be great for them.
But it looks like that won't happen, because considering that Bayern Munich is the strongest team in the Bundesliga and will also still be playing in the Champions League, I'm sure Bayern Munich will sign an experienced goalkeeper in the January transfer market.

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Quote from: Ratash on December 25, 2022, 09:43:07 AM

Leipzig team in my opinion is the most threatning at the moment for bayern they have been in a great shape lately with the consecutive wins and they have their next game against bayern if they managed to win, that will make them three point away from the leader and the bundesliga might become interesting.

If you look at RB Leipzig's track record this season, I am quite impressed with their slick performance. So far they have performed pretty well, and have managed to occupy 3rd place in the standings. RB leipzig, has an interesting record with no defeats in 15 matches in all competitions. however, I do not agree that Leipzig is the team that most threatens Bayern Munich's dominance. I think Bayern Munich is still too tough for its opponents in the Bundesliga.

The second half of the Bundesliga season will be rolled out again soon, and Leipzig has a scheduled match against Bayern Munich at the Red Bull Arena, their own headquarters. a difficult match for Leipzig, even though they are playing at home Munich are giants in the Bundesliga. and even without Sadio Mane, Bayern Munich is still a tough team for Leipzig to beat. I'm quite optimistic, Leipzig can finish in 2nd place until the end of this season. however, Marco Rose's troops will not be able to break Bayern Munich's dominance.

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I just found out about Liverpool and Manchester United wanting this player.
But indeed the problem of salary is still a consideration, even though if Dortmund still wants to restrain himself I think this must be resolved quickly. When an offer like this happens for Chelsea I don't think Chelsea will have any objections to meeting Moukoko's salary demands. Apart from that, Chelsea will definitely make guarantees for key players for Moukoko because in any case their current strikers are still having a lot of trouble with goal productivity.

I also understand that Dortmund does not want to let him go. But at the same time, he also does not want to stay.

Actually, it is very good to see that the young player understands he does not have any future in Dortmund. And that is also the reason why it is very understandable why he wants to move. Right now Liverpool and Manchester United are very interested in this player. I think Chelsea has the money needed. So, I do not think Chelsea should have any problems bringing him in. Chelsea also needs players on the team. I don’t know if he will be able to play as the main striker for Chelsea successfully. But Chelsea can surely use a striker like him right now.

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Actually if Dortmund dared to give 8 million for his wages I thought it would have been done last month but when they refused and are still holding on to 6 million then there really was no other option.
He is currently not unwilling but still waiting whether Dortmund will dare to agree to a contract with 8 million as his salary or not.
I think if it is agreed then the possibility of moving is small but when Dortmund still insist on 6 million of course the best option is Chelsea.

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Quote from: shinratensei_ on December 25, 2022, 09:03:17 AM

Quote from: Ayers on December 24, 2022, 03:24:58 PM

Yes as Manuel Neuer is injured the secondary goalkeeper Sven Ulreich will for sure get some minutes into his board right now. With Manuel Neuer injured, this is the best time to shine for his club if he wants to be their number-one goalkeeper in the future ahead. But if he fails to do so, Bayern Munich surely will get another goalkeeper in. So far we have been hearing rumors about Croatian goalkeeper Dominik Livaković joining them. However, I think only time will tell whether they will get another goalkeeper in.

bayern is still confusing to get a replacement for neuer once its main keeper was not able to perform due to injury. As far as i know that bayern has been offering some keeper to join with it but there's no confirmation about which keeper that has been accepting bayern's offer. There are some names that still under radar just like yann somer, E martinez and livakovic. The problem is yann somer already clarrified if he won't join with bayern and E martinez has a small chance to leave from A villa
Livakovic has not been giving any confirmation regarding his rumour to be linked with bayern.

All possibilities will still happen here because indeed even at this time the previous transfer has not been opened so in this case I think they still have to keep monitoring because I really think one of them will definitely be able to get especially the bidder is Bayern. Martinez is currently one of the goalkeepers who seems to be prioritized due to his performance in the world cup but I think Livakovic is also quite good.

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Dortmund will be most likely to sell Bellingham next summer. They just don't want to sell him already now as they need him in the middle of the season. But in the summer they will have quite enough time to sell Bellingham and find another young and talented replacement for him. Dortmund bought Bellingham for 25 million euros but his selling price will be over 100 million euros. It is an enormous profit. Grin

Dortmund and Ajax are like siblings in terms of the business model they adopt. Ajax is just Dortmund's champion version at the same time. Cheesy

Borussia Dortmund is highly rich in business, I so much like them because they are good at discovering young stars at an early age. A lot of them like Ousmane Dembele, Mario Gotze, Christian pulisic Julian Weigi, Hummels, and a lot more were all stars discovered by BVB. But it only marvels to me that they sell out most of those players immediately after they start shooting their stars. Dortmund prefers buying more average players while they sell out the good ones which they trained. Don't be surprised that Dortmund will sell out Bellingham because currently, they haven't renewed his contract.

The Dortmund management knows very well which players can become stars in the future. They do not make mistakes in the selection of players. They recruit the right players, develop them into veterans and then sell them at high prices. They managed to sell Haaland for a huge price. Their next target is Haller. I think they will be able to develop Haller into a star player within the next two seasons. And will make a lot of money through sales.

I still don't think why, with their extraordinary abilities, they don't make maximum use of it to achieve an achievement in the domestic league or even in European competitions. It would be a shame if they were only doing business and not trying to prove themselves as one of the teams producing talented young players. I don't mind when they do business, because indeed one aspect that cannot be separated from football is doing business, but it would be better if they accompanied it with an achievement. I'm sure they will be a more respected team in the Bundesliga and in Europe.

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Quote from: Docnaster on December 25, 2022, 09:26:20 AM

Quote from: Velvet78 on December 24, 2022, 02:22:35 PM

Dortmund will be most likely to sell Bellingham next summer. They just don't want to sell him already now as they need him in the middle of the season. But in the summer they will have quite enough time to sell Bellingham and find another young and talented replacement for him. Dortmund bought Bellingham for 25 million euros but his selling price will be over 100 million euros. It is an enormous profit. Grin

Dortmund and Ajax are like siblings in terms of the business model they adopt. Ajax is just Dortmund's champion version at the same time. Cheesy

Borussia Dortmund is highly rich in business, I so much like them because they are good at discovering young stars at an early age. A lot of them like Ousmane Dembele, Mario Gotze, Christian pulisic Julian Weigi, Hummels, and a lot more were all stars discovered by BVB. But it only marvels to me that they sell out most of those players immediately after they start shooting their stars. Dortmund prefers buying more average players while they sell out the good ones which they trained. Don't be surprised that Dortmund will sell out Bellingham because currently, they haven't renewed his contract.

The Dortmund management knows very well which players can become stars in the future. They do not make mistakes in the selection of players. They recruit the right players, develop them into veterans and then sell them at high prices. They managed to sell Haaland for a huge price. Their next target is Haller. I think they will be able to develop Haller into a star player within the next two seasons. And will make a lot of money through sales.

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Quote from: Ratash on December 25, 2022, 09:43:07 AM

Leipzig team in my opinion is the most threatning at the moment for bayern they have been in a great shape lately with the consecutive wins and they have their next game against bayern if they managed to win, that will make them three point away from the leader and the bundesliga might become interesting.

In fact, the Bundesliga this season is very competitive, because Bayern Munich was also not from the start at the top of the Bundesliga standings. With great efforts that continued to be made, Bayern Munich finally returned to the top of the Bundesliga standings, this also at least has something in common with other teams.
That is, they also started from the bottom to reach the highest position in the La Liga standings, so when you say Leipzig will be very threatening, I personally do not fully agree.

Because anyway, as I said before Bayern Munich also continues to make improvements to their performance this season. In fact, it's not only Leipzig who are back to their best form but also Eintracht Frankfurt. Because even at the beginning of the season Eintracht Frankfurt was very bad, but over time they were able to prove their quality so that in the end they continued to get better.
So yes, regarding the match between Leipzig v Bayern Munich, I personally still believe that Bayern Munich will not lose points in this match. Thus, the result could be that Bayern Munich will still win and maybe because Leipzig is playing at home, then maybe they will also maximize it to get a draw.

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Leipzig team in my opinion is the most threatning at the moment for bayern they have been in a great shape lately with the consecutive wins and they have their next game against bayern if they managed to win, that will make them three point away from the leader and the bundesliga might become interesting.

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Quote from: Velvet78 on December 24, 2022, 02:22:35 PM

Dortmund will be most likely to sell Bellingham next summer. They just don't want to sell him already now as they need him in the middle of the season. But in the summer they will have quite enough time to sell Bellingham and find another young and talented replacement for him. Dortmund bought Bellingham for 25 million euros but his selling price will be over 100 million euros. It is an enormous profit. Grin

Dortmund and Ajax are like siblings in terms of the business model they adopt. Ajax is just Dortmund's champion version at the same time. Cheesy

Borussia Dortmund is highly rich in business, I so much like them because they are good at discovering young stars at an early age. A lot of them like Ousmane Dembele, Mario Gotze, Christian pulisic Julian Weigi, Hummels, and a lot more were all stars discovered by BVB. But it only marvels to me that they sell out most of those players immediately after they start shooting their stars. Dortmund prefers buying more average players while they sell out the good ones which they trained. Don't be surprised that Dortmund will sell out Bellingham because currently, they haven't renewed his contract.

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Quote from: Velvet78 on December 24, 2022, 02:22:35 PM

Dortmund will be most likely to sell Bellingham next summer. They just don't want to sell him already now as they need him in the middle of the season. But in the summer they will have quite enough time to sell Bellingham and find another young and talented replacement for him. Dortmund bought Bellingham for 25 million euros but his selling price will be over 100 million euros. It is an enormous profit. Grin

Dortmund and Ajax are like siblings in terms of the business model they adopt. Ajax are just Dortmund's champion version at the same time. Cheesy

I think Ajax is a completely different case - even if Ajax wanted to keep the players it would be unrealistic as the Dutch title is worth nothing compared to top league titles. Plus Ajax is not seriously claiming to win the Champions League. Dortmund is a different case - their budget and status would be enough to keep the stars, but they prefer to get guaranteed transfer profits instead of chasing "unguaranteed" titles.

The problem with Dortmund is that they are not at all interested in bringing trophies for the club. All they care about is the money that they can bring in by selling the players. And if this continues they are not going to be able to bring in trophies in the future as well. And yes I also agree that they will be selling Jude Bellingham pretty soon. They know very well that they will be able to make good business by selling this player. They do this every time. They are going to raise another player in their place and if he is talented enough they are going to sell him for money again.

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Quote from: Velvet78 on December 24, 2022, 02:22:35 PM

Dortmund will be most likely to sell Bellingham next summer. They just don't want to sell him already now as they need him in the middle of the season. But in the summer they will have quite enough time to sell Bellingham and find another young and talented replacement for him. Dortmund bought Bellingham for 25 million euros but his selling price will be over 100 million euros. It is an enormous profit. Grin

Dortmund and Ajax are like siblings in terms of the business model they adopt. Ajax are just Dortmund's champion version at the same time. Cheesy

I think Ajax is a completely different case - even if Ajax wanted to keep the players it would be unrealistic as the Dutch title is worth nothing compared to top league titles. Plus Ajax is not seriously claiming to win the Champions League. Dortmund is a different case - their budget and status would be enough to keep the stars, but they prefer to get guaranteed transfer profits instead of chasing "unguaranteed" titles.

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Quote from: Ayers on December 24, 2022, 03:24:58 PM

Yes as Manuel Neuer is injured the secondary goalkeeper Sven Ulreich will for sure get some minutes into his board right now. With Manuel Neuer injured, this is the best time to shine for his club if he wants to be their number-one goalkeeper in the future ahead. But if he fails to do so, Bayern Munich surely will get another goalkeeper in. So far we have been hearing rumors about Croatian goalkeeper Dominik Livaković joining them. However, I think only time will tell whether they will get another goalkeeper in.

bayern is still confusing to get a replacement for neuer once its main keeper was not able to perform due to injury. As far as i know that bayern has been offering some keeper to join with it but there's no confirmation about which keeper that has been accepting bayern's offer. There are some names that still under radar just like yann somer, E martinez and livakovic. The problem is yann somer already clarrified if he won't join with bayern and E martinez has a small chance to leave from A villa
Livakovic has not been giving any confirmation regarding his rumour to be linked with bayern.

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Quote from: snipie on December 25, 2022, 07:39:31 AM

Whenever I see Leipzig transfer rumors, I see most of the time players willing to be sold to other teams like Gvardiol and Nkunku. I wonder if Leipzig could remain in the same level if they let such players leave the team. Nkunku for example is their best goal scorer.
Even if Leipzig play with the full team, Bayern remains better unless they have their bad day that we get used to Wink

They will feel regret when they really decline after selling players who have been playing well. Actually player turnover is a normal thing, but if players who leave are their main players, I think it will be the wrong decision for them to make. And things like this are things that are often done by teams that are not the favorites to win. Even though basically it's important because even if they can't become champions, they can apply pressure and finish in the best position at the end of the season.

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It will be a good come back into the football aspect
We are seeing a lot of goals coming from both Sides
Liepzig are also good sides but they never do the unnecessary harm to win big meetings and clubs like this

RB Leipzig will face a very tough match in January next year, because the team they are facing is Bayern Munich who are currently at the top of the standings and in terms of strength, Leipzig is also not quite on par with Bayern Munich so there is a bigger possibility for Bayern Munich to win the game even though the match took place at home to Leipzig. Although Leipzig could have made a surprise by defeating Bayern Munich in that match.

Whenever I see Leipzig transfer rumors, I see most of the time players willing to be sold to other teams like Gvardiol and Nkunku. I wonder if Leipzig could remain in the same level if they let such players leave the team. Nkunku for example is their best goal scorer.
Even if Leipzig play with the full team, Bayern remains better unless they have their bad day that we get used to Wink

Yeah as most european competition paused in holiday.. the bundesliga match started in about 3 weeks from now ... leipzig vs bayern is the first match at 20 january indeed and as gravidol has been in a lot of interest to move .. he could leaving the club before playing against bayern munich.

Leipzig still have a deadly striker in werner , nkunku transfer to chelsea has been confirmed but he will remain at leipzig till the end of the season.

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Bayern has a good strategy by buying the most important player from another club. That will make the opponent need to change their formation as one of best player has gone to the competitor's club. Bayern has a very good squad too that was supporting club to perform so well and dominating the league for so many years. Bayern munich can do the best about that. bayern has been aiming some important players from dortmund too. This will make dortmund has no chance to win against bayern.
bayern is always experimenting with the new players that came to the club.

dortmund is a team that always produces players with potential, buys cheap then sells at fantastic prices, that's what dortmund always does so far, while bayern always buys players they think have great potential and makes their team stronger not only in the bundesliga class but in class international.

And Borussia Dortmund is a team that has sold a lot of players to Bayern Munich. Bayern Munich benefited slightly because of their rival's habit of selling quality players, so that resulted in Borussia Dortmund being unstable from season to season. They almost never maintain the great players they create and prefer to sell their players. This is of course a distinct advantage for Bayen Munich with the actions taken by its rival.

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It will be a good come back into the football aspect
We are seeing a lot of goals coming from both Sides
Liepzig are also good sides but they never do the unnecessary harm to win big meetings and clubs like this

RB Leipzig will face a very tough match in January next year, because the team they are facing is Bayern Munich who are currently at the top of the standings and in terms of strength, Leipzig is also not quite on par with Bayern Munich so there is a bigger possibility for Bayern Munich to win the game even though the match took place at home to Leipzig. Although Leipzig could have made a surprise by defeating Bayern Munich in that match.

Whenever I see Leipzig transfer rumors, I see most of the time players willing to be sold to other teams like Gvardiol and Nkunku. I wonder if Leipzig could remain in the same level if they let such players leave the team. Nkunku for example is their best goal scorer.
Even if Leipzig play with the full team, Bayern remains better unless they have their bad day that we get used to Wink

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Bayern is a rich team that remains consistent with the good performances they display, besides that they are not afraid to buy the expensive players they want because their goal is victory, different from other Bundesliga teams who are hesitant to buy players and only focus on their old squad. bayern will always be the bundesliga champion and other teams will only enliven the bundesliga competition.

Even though their performance was a bit underwhelming at the start of the season, it looks like they are now very well prepared and developing very well. especially after they qualified for the next round in the Champions League. surely they have more motivation to win the Bundesliga trophy again. Currently, they are in the full squad and will fight against Leipzig where this club is also quite strong in the Bundesliga. This will be an exciting match. However, both of them have a strong motivation to win because their position is also at a disadvantage if they lose.

Bayern will be destroying leipzig. No doubt about that since leipzig never won against bayern. Im feeling so confidence to see bayern right now although it will be playing without main keeper and mane but bayern is so strong as always. bayern itself will not play with full main squad but it will be using some reliable players as replacement for neuer and mane. Moting will be going in along with nubel and both were very capable enough to destroy leipzig with big scores.

It will be a good come back into the football aspect
We are seeing a lot of goals coming from both Sides
Liepzig are also good sides but they never do the unnecessary harm to win big meetings and clubs like this

I think that if you shall read the head to head between bayern against leipzig. https://livescores.biz/h2h/bayern-munich-vs-rb-leipzig-cf

It's clear that if bayern was dominating leipzig no matter how bad the parformance from bayern. Leipzig was only able to win a single match against bayern. I don't even think leipzig can make lots of goals against bayern. We have been talking football that related with bundesliga. We don't even go anywhere. lol

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Quote from: X-ray on December 24, 2022, 10:05:45 PM

Bayern has a good strategy by buying the most important player from another club. That will make the opponent need to change their formation as one of best player has gone to the competitor's club. Bayern has a very good squad too that was supporting club to perform so well and dominating the league for so many years. Bayern munich can do the best about that. bayern has been aiming some important players from dortmund too. This will make dortmund has no chance to win against bayern.
bayern is always experimenting with the new players that came to the club.

dortmund is a team that always produces players with potential, buys cheap then sells at fantastic prices, that's what dortmund always does so far, while bayern always buys players they think have great potential and makes their team stronger not only in the bundesliga class but in class international.

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RB Leipzig will face a very tough match in January next year, because the team they are facing is Bayern Munich who are currently at the top of the standings and in terms of strength, Leipzig is also not quite on par with Bayern Munich so there is a bigger possibility for Bayern Munich to win the game even though the match took place at home to Leipzig. Although Leipzig could have made a surprise by defeating Bayern Munich in that match.

Bayern is the favorites and will most likely win the match. With their current form at the moment a good manager and a very experienced and talented team against a struggling Leipzig side who are even going to sell their top players in the January window. Players such as Nkunku, Larman. This is in effect affect the team structure and performance and also I do not think they can find a good replacement in the current winter transfer window.

There is no doubt that Bayern Munich is stronger than Leipzig. But the Leipzig team is not weak. They are doing quite well this season. Leipzig are now third in the table. But the Leipzig team is unbeaten in the last 15 matches. They have been able to perform very well in the Champions League as well. So even though Bayern Munich have a strong squad, it will be very difficult for them to win against Leipzig.

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Quote from: Republikcoin.com on December 24, 2022, 06:42:07 PM

RB Leipzig will face a very tough match in January next year, because the team they are facing is Bayern Munich who are currently at the top of the standings and in terms of strength, Leipzig is also not quite on par with Bayern Munich so there is a bigger possibility for Bayern Munich to win the game even though the match took place at home to Leipzig. Although Leipzig could have made a surprise by defeating Bayern Munich in that match.

Bayern is the favorites and will most likely win the match. With their current form at the moment a good manager and a very experienced and talented team against a struggling Leipzig side who are even going to sell their top players in the January window. Players such as Nkunku, Larman. This is in effect affect the team structure and performance and also I do not think they can find a good replacement in the current winter transfer window.

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