Topic: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2020/21 - page 1181. (Read 412791 times)

Xavi still has Ferran Torres, he can play in various positions. despite the fact that the player did not show good performance last season, he can still be used as an option if Lewandowski suffers an injury. and if the signing of Vitor Roque goes according to what was originally planned, he could become Lewandowski's backup. although still relatively young, it seems that Xavi really believes in this player from Brazil. a few days ago there were rumors that Barcelona wanted to sign Vitor Roque as soon as possible.

But as reported by Romano, Paranaense still relies on Vitor Roque until this December. the Brazilian club wants Vitor to stay and qualify for the Copa Libertadores. So, this player will be planned to join Barcelona in the 2024 winter transfer window. but if Barcelona can bring him in sooner than originally planned, they will have a young centre-forward on hand to back up Lewandowski should he be injured. after all, if we refer to Barcelona's pre-season matches, it seems that Xavi has prepared several strategies that he can implement after conducting several experiments.

If I refer to what you said, the 4-4-2 formation is more likely to be a defensive pattern. ideally Xavi applies the 4-3-1-2 pattern, this pattern suits their offensive style of football. yep, like when Barcelona countered Real Madrid in the pre-season match. so with the players that Barcelona currently have, Xavi can apply the pattern as he wishes, but it all depends on which team will be their opponent.

There's no any good goalkeeper out there, in the current generation, many clubs are lack of good goalkeeper, most of them only an average player. Maybe due to the most underrated position and low turnover rate, this make many young player don't want to be a great goalkeeper.

80% of the best player are strikers, 19% are the midfielder or defender, only 1% is for the goalkeeper.

I don't think that's the case because he never had a serious injury problem with Fenerbahçe. He also went to heavy conditioning training with Real Madrid. He also showed very good images in training. I think the chances of him getting injured when he transfers to Real Madrid are very low. He was injured in Real Madrid.

Courtois is among the potential goalkeepers in Europe, and he has proven to them in so many ways to helped his team to lift many titles since he joined the team, and he is still ready to help the team to embrace this la Liga league title this season. I think,  Real Madrid will going to miss him when his contract expire because he will like to join Saudi Arabia club where he will be receiving huge amount of money, because their clubs are paying more than Europa league. Now that many potential players and goalkeepers are accepting offers from Saudi Arabia club based on the big money involved, show that courtois will like to join soon so that he will be part of those that will enjoy the benefits attached to it.

Barcelona has 1 centre striker Lewandowski and apparently they didn't have any plan to bought the player on that position this summer and they even only focusing to find defender and midfielder because Barcelona losing Jordi Alba and Sergio Busquets and regarding Xavi strategy last season he was used 4-3-3 pattern so often with placed Lewandowski as centre striker and i think this season too will not so different that Xavi will using similar strategy

Although i have seen on pre season match Xavi using different strategy when against AC Milan but basically Xavi liked the most to using 4-3-3 strategy for each matches and if Lewandowski got injured Xavi has several player who can be placed as centre striker just like Ferran Torres and Torres can able to performing well on that position although Lewandowski is the best on centre striker position so in my opinion with the current squad i think Barcelona has no problem with the front lines

I also agree with this decision who had not to be otherwise considering how good of a coach Ancelotti is.This goalkeeper has saved Real Madrid several times from humiliating loses as he has been paramount in saving a lot of sure goals otherwise during important games.Of course I am not talking against teams like Manchester City who is not the goalkeeper fault when all the team of Real Madrid was non existent in the field but in normal games where the goalkeeper can make a difference like in the derby against Barcelona.This is absolutely not a wrong decision at all.

I think the future of Arda is bright, it just got off to an unfortunate start. I hope to start the matches in 2 months.
Meanwhile, he will have gotten used to the team mentally in the meantime, he is still very young and needs experience. After returning to the field, he had to get used to the team and the country in order to show a high performance, he started to get used to it during this time when he was injured

Thibaut Courtois is unlikely to ever be replaced because in previous seasons he was quite a reliable goalkeeper for Real Madrid and Ancelotti can still use Thibaut Courtois as Real Madrid's main goalkeeper.
Thibaut Courtois himself stated that he still wants to play until he retires with Real Madrid.
After all, getting a really great goalkeeper is not as easy as finding defenders and attacking players, so using and retaining Thibaut Courtois is not a wrong decision.

Well, we all know the rivalry that exists between Madrid and Barcelona, but I don't think this is so important and just to reach the player and take it away, what I consider is that the player perhaps did not know the magnitude of what he had, the Neither did Madrid, only the doctors, but it seems unethical to me that they have not given this information, not because of the money they received for the player, which was a lot, but because of his health. He must play with the health of a person, and less so with that of such a young and promising player, perhaps what happened is that the player was brought in to play, and the injury took a stronger course with a medical complexity of another level, but thanks to the degree of stress that the jguaor underwent when playing, that could also have happened, I don't think the doctors had such bad intentions.

Real Madrid Boss Provides Arda Guler Injury Update



Xavi can put the formation he wants, it doesn't matter. What is relevant here is that he is leaving Lewa as the only striker, and that is quite a strong job for the player, and considering that he is not 20 years old, since he is not the same speed, here he has a great Opportunity , so they Should sign Neymar is a player who can do well, he can take a game forward, this player has also matured a lot, he has had to send his man to Brazil many times, and that says a lot, not everyone does that with a Team of so many renown, so the things that can be done with these two men up front are many, because Lewa is not of the Same attitude as Mbappé , so if that is why , they could get Along very Well.

I just checked the Barcelona squad list and it's true that there are no pure strikers other than Lewandowski. I don't know what Xavi was thinking with not a single back-up for their striker position. Moreover, next season's competition is getting fiercer and they should be able to prepare things that will make it easier to win. The only way if Lewandowski is later sidelined due to injury or a card penalty is to change his formation to 4-4-2 by plotting Ansu Fatti and Ferran Torres in the attacking positions. I think that formation makes a lot more sense and would be easier to do with the depth of Barcelona's current squad.

Sad news for him and Real Madrid but this news is shocking. If Fenerbahçe medicals really suggested a surgery and he played like that, I wonder how didn't Real Madrid medicals know this problem? How did he pass fitness tests? I'm confused as I read the article. Surely something is missing in this story. Real paid a big price for a young player and now he's facing against a big injury that may cost him his career.

You are right that he is a very great goalkeeper but some reasons you must think about his future.

Goalkeepers usually have longer career than players at other positions like defenders, midfielders and attacking players so it's reasonable if we think Thibaut will play some more seasons at best level. Talking about Saudi Professional League, we and surely Thibaut don't know how long the hype in Saudi Arabia will cool down or disappear. If we surely that it will continue like 10 or 20 more years, Thibaut will have more reasons to stay in Europe a few more seasons.

However reality is different, we all don't know about future of Saudi Professional League so if Thibaut assumes it will last a few seasons, he will consider to move to Saudi Arabia to get very good salary. 2 or 4 seasons in Saudi Professional League will help Thibaut receiving like 10 years salary in Europe. If I was Thibaut, I will leave as I already won some big titles in Europe especially Champions League.

Thibaut is a great goalkeeper so there is no reason for him to actually go to the saudi league right now. It is a well known fact that goalkeepers have a greater opportunity to sustain their careers for longer durations if they remain free from injuries. So i think there is no problem if he plays till at least 35 years of age in any big European club.

My belief is he can still go from at the top level, I can't see any reason for him to stop performing well just because he is 31 years old. Moreover, considering his impressive height, it becomes evident that he holds a distinct advantage over other goalkeepers. So I think he is not going to the saudi league for sure.

It has become a long term problem that will never be solved by barcelona. The club is in a very big debt at this moment. The club is also become even closer to the deadline to pay its debt. La liga has urges the club to raise at least 200m in cash to make sure its financial gonna be stable but barcelona was not doing it. It's really wrong to call that if barcelona experienced the same thing caused by this is an old problem that never be solved by barcelona. The money raised from doing financial clever was not enough to be used to pay its debt as well.
Barcelona needs to sell a lot of players to pay debt soon. Barcelona needs to make a lot of income. Playing without messi was giving a very big impact to the barcelona. The club was not able selling a lot of merch.

Real these article please

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomsanderson/2023/06/22/huge-fc-barcelona-debt-figure-and-payroll-reduction-revealed-by-economic-vice-president/?sh=5aa72c134a96
https://www.football-espana.net/2023/06/23/barcelona-debt-remains-at-e1-35b-as-club-looks-to-take-on-further-costs

Courtois is one of the best goalkeepers in Europe now. I can't say he is old for a goalkeeper either despite being 31 years old. I won't be expecting Real Madrid to wait for him to leave for no reason. Courtois must also be very happy to be a part of this team now. There is a long-term contract and I won't expect anything unusual happens for more years.

The thing I would wait for the most would be to see him getting an offer from Saudi Arabia. But I think he will turn it down for now even if he gets one this summer. But after a couple of more years maybe he would start to think of going there.

It is normal when Barcelona is experiencing a financial crisis in the world of football because some time ago they also experienced the same thing, and they finally chose to sell some of their quality players and some of their broadcasting rights to still have money. other than doing that so that Barcelona can survive adversity.

There is some shocking news about Real Madrid and Arda Guler, we know Barcelona wanted to hire this player and he was the target for Barcelona even before Real Madrid but it seems there are some secrets about this player. Since Real Madrid wanted to somehow hire this player they even knew Arda Guler is injured and they were aware of his situation also Fenerbahce knew everything about him and that's why Arda Guler couldn't play any games yet because he was injured even for joining Real Madrid.



https://www.football-espana.net/2023/08/03/fenerbahce-and-arda-guler-knew-about-meniscus-injury-before-real-madrid-move-report

Real Madrid would first have to get a possible replacement for Thibaut Courtois before thinking of letting him go. He has been a good keeper, but some days he turns out not so good. Maybe because he is not under pressure from a good second keeper like it happens in other teams.

Thibaut Courtois is still 31 years old and his contract expires in 2026. I also never heard a rumor that Thibaut Courtois has a problem and feels uncomfortable in Real Madrid. So, there is no reason for him leaving Real Madrid in the near future. Saudi teams may offer a big amount of money, but not every player wants to accept it because they more care with their career. I'm sure Thibaut Courtois still has no plan to play in a smaller League like SPL. He probably focuses on his career in Real Madrid.

We don't know whether Thibaut Courtois wants to retire in Real Madrid or not. But he is likely to play above 35 years old if he has no injured problem. His performance is still good, he has a crucial role in Real Madrid defense.

In this case, you need to bet on Barcelona because the bookmakers have a different opinion and give you a chance to bet with a favorable odds (if you are right):

Real Madrid 2.00

Barcelona Fc 2.40

Atlético Madrid 9.00

To be fair, I have to say that last season Real Madrid were also favorites (but to a lesser extent) but probably the initial quotes were made when everyone was sure that Mbappe would go to Real instead of renewing his contract with PSG.