Topic: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2020/21 - page 125. (Read 550060 times)

This three teams have been the best three teams in the history of the La Liga, and the league title have been won most by this three teams, so this is not a big surprise to see them all battling for the first place in the league title. Real Madrid and Barcelona have dominated the league more in recent years but seeing this great performance from Atletico Madrid shows that this season will be very hard for any of them to win without beating Atletico Madrid and prevailing against them in the chase for the La Liga title. They may be playing in different competitions, but that does not give away the fact that they cannot still be in a very good position for the league title.

There are some Arab clubs that are reportedly ready to buy Vinicius at a high price from Madrid and also offer a very high salary, but I don't think he will consider the option of moving to the SPL in the near time when he can still develop in the big European leagues, a big salary he will obviously get if he plays in the SPL, but we can see how disappointed he was when he failed to win the Ballon d'Or this year, so I think if he accepts the offer then he has closed his chances of winning the Ballon d'Or trophy in the future, to win football biggest individual award he has to stay in Europe and Madrid is the club that allows him to achieve that it, so Vinicius is in the right team now to achieve his goals.

Girona have quit well performance last season although can't compete for La Liga tittle race with Real Madrid but Girona for the first time can defeated Barcelona as home and away match.
Girona success secure the top third standings place last season behind four points remaining from Barcelona but in this season their performance not quit well yet, losing top players Artem Dovbyk in this season after selling to Roma become big problem for Girona not only how keep consistent in domestic league but also Girona drop bottom standings place in Champion League.

I don't sure Girona in this season have opportunity break to the UEFA Champion League spot standings place after inconsistent performance, maybe have opportunity reach the UEFA Europe League or Conference League spot standings behind few points left awhile and have one half season left for improving performance.

I don't see Girona as a strong competitor for the League title last season, even though they performed quite impressively. Well, this season Girona's performance is not as impressive as last season, I see it as reasonable. The reason is simple, besides some of their players leaving, this season they are quite busy with several competitions. As we can see, their performance is unstable and is in 8th position temporarily and so is their performance in the Champions League which seems very difficult to compete with their competitors. The other closest team is Atletico Bilbao, they are closer in points to the three teams above them. However, it seems that we will agree that the teams that have a chance to win the title right now are Atletico Madrid, Real Madrid and Barcelona. These teams will compete tightly, although it is possible that other teams could improve their performance after they return to play their matches. We'll see, after all, only a week from now La Liga will present many matches that will be held soon.

Vinicius is young enough and I am sure that he would like to stay at Real and continue winning awards. If it is only a question of money, then in this case I also think that he is young enough and has enough time to earn enough money at Real so that he does not need anything. Maybe this transfer could be profitable for Real because it would bring them huge profits, but I do not know if Ancelotti is ready to remain without such a forward now, I think that for him the priority will always be a strong team and not the club's profit.

Vinicius hard work at Real Madrid paid off after winning the 2024 FIFA Best Men's Player award, he still has ambitions to achieve even more individual awards, namely the Ballon d'Or. It is very unlikely that he will win the award if he moves to Saudi Arabia, I also do not take the issue of his move to the Arab League too seriously because he is an ambitious player who wants to win everything, especially now that he is at the peak of his career, he can get everything with Real Madrid.

It is very difficult to continue the positive trend to navigate this season both Atletico Madrid, Real Madrid, and Barcelona because they appear in various competitions. However, Real Madrid's schedule will be severely impacted because of its tight schedule besides that, Real Madrid also appears in the Club World Cup so it is very difficult to continue competing to win the title in various competitions. Therefore, I predict that the determination of the La Liga title will wait for the last match of this season.

I wouldn't pay much attention to the Saudi Arabia link. Vini has just won the FIFA best player award, he's still in his prime and I think he would want to show everyone why he's the best player in the world by trying to win the award again and also the Balon d'or. Moving to the Saudi Arabian League would only dampen his chances and no matter the amount the Saudis are willing to offer, I think he's going to stay put and renew his contract at Real Madrid.

Bilbao does have the potential to disturb the top teams but I'm not sure they will put up a fierce pressure until the end of the season, this is the same as Girona last season so I'm not really interested in the surprise that the dark horse team will show.

Now the fierce competition is there are 3 teams at the top of the La Liga standings, Atletico Madrid emerged after being doubted at the beginning of the season but Atletico Madrid has now proven it and they deserve to be taken into account and I think what Atletico Madrid has shown now makes their percentage of being able to win the title much bigger especially Real Madrid and Barcelona are now experiencing many problems even though the journey this season is still very long but in the first half of this season we can slightly assess the strength to predict which team has the greatest potential to become champions later.

The only thing that can go in Valencia's favor I think is their luck. Or maybe Madrid plays badly which I don't think will happen in the next match.
Madrid did lose some of their focus in some matches, but now they are doing better. Unless they face a strong team, maybe Madrid can still struggle a bit. But against Valencia, on paper, they should be leading. I don't expect any surprises from Valencia.

Well everything still falls back to his decisions if he wants to stay back or move but i hope he understands the implication of a move to the Saudi league, he will actually be making some good money there but career wise it may not be the best suit for his career at this time, although he may have been able to have achieved the champions league back at Real Madrid, he still can win more trophies and achieve a whole lot across Europe for the recognition but at the Saudi league, he's very likely not to get most of that maybe he may return back seasons later , my taught though, but I'm very optimistic about him staying back.

Inmao, the standings are still very potential to continue to rotate, half a season is a long and tiring journey. There is no guarantee that it can be consistent until the end, so for Atletico Madrid, Real Madrid and Barcelona must be able to compete to minimize the loss of points. Of the 3 big clubs competing, I am sure there is 1 club that will be a dark horse to disrupt the balance, for example Bilbao.

Of course, Madrid is the favorite in this match because they look stronger than Valencia despite the challenges that they passed through due to injury. Valencia is not in a good form and they have been suffering with their matches to come out victorious. There's no way that Valencia can stop Madrid from winning all the points, because they don't have the quality.

When you are signing with a free player, you will have to pay him and his agent some extra money that make the deal is no longer actually free. Thinking that signing with a free player does not cost anything is wrong.

Like Mbappe, who joined Real Madrid as a free player, but Real Madrid actually had to pay very lucrative extra money for the player. Players know that a club can save money in transfer fee by signing with free players, and they will add more money requirement to their contracts with their possible next clubs.

It's fair enough and is like a win-win situation for both the club and a free player, the club saves somewhat money from transfer fee, and the player earn more money from the new club.

I said transfer fee. Those are 2 different things. Normally when you sign a player, you pay a fee to their team as well you know. But Real Madrid didn't have to pay such fee. Can you imagine how much the financial burden could have been if they paid like 200-300 million euros more? Otherwise of course it wasn't a completely free signing.    But it was worth it anyway considering you are signing one of the best players in the world.

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There is only a day left for the Valencia - Real Madrid game. I still expect Real Madrid to win comfortably by at least a gap of 2 goals. It would be a good start to the new year for them. Valencia are having just a horrible season I'm afraid. I don't expect a big resistance.

There is no way he would decide to leave Real Madrid at this stage of his career to join a club in Saudi Arabia. If he were to consider that, he would be insane. The money he is making at Real Madrid should be enough to decline any offer from Saudi Arabia. I understand when a poor guy would go to Saudi Arabia, but these guys are so rich that they can't spend the money they are making anyway. He could make himself a huge name in the history of football, but if he leaves Real Madrid and continues his career in the Saudi Professional League, it is over for him in regards to making history. Some of his fans will follow him, but attention paid to him and interest in him as a player will drop drastically. Yes it makes him a lot of money, but I doubt it is worth it.

Honestly, I am personally amazed by Atletico Madrid because this season they are better than last year and without realizing it, Atletico Madrid's performance is now better and more advanced than last season. and now rivals such as Barcelona and Real Madrid are now ranked below Atletico Madrid and indeed this will give Atletico Madrid great potential to win the La Liga title this season as long as Atletico Madrid must consistently win until the end of the season and that is of course a condition that must be implemented. by Atletico Madrid if you want to become champions.

Of course, in my opinion, maintaining the winning mentality of Atletico Madrid players is certainly not easy at the moment and of course it is certain that at this time considering that the Laliga team still has many matches to play, it will definitely not be easy for Atletico Madrid to maintain the winning mentality of Atletico Madrid players until the end of the season. Yes, the point is that currently we cannot predict what Atletico Madrid's condition will be at the end of the season with certainty because it could be said to be the middle of the season. But of course, right now we will only be able to watch until the winter transfer window closes, after that we will see the development of the Laliga team. But honestly, I predict that Atletico Madrid will potentially drop in ranking and I'm sure Real Madrid will climb back up in ranking and overtake Atletico madrid.

Vinicius Junior is likely to stay with Real Madrid
There have been repeated meetings between Real Madrid and Vinicius but they have not talked about the future and have mostly talked about the current situation
It is possible that Real Madrid are quietly considering keeping Vinicius and convincing him not to pay attention to the Saudi offers
Finally, his contract will expire one day, but given his good performance for the team, Real Madrid are trying to keep him. A player who has won many individual awards with the Real Madrid shirt and even Ronaldo said that the Ballon d'Or is his right
The Brazilian player said in Doha: "I want to play for Real Madrid for a long time and I also want to thank Flamengo for this, where I started everything."
Some Vinicius and Brazil fans say that Brazil should win another Ballon d'Or because it has moved away from its golden days and needs to win new titles

Barcelona bring Olmo to the squad as per Flick's request and it has nothing to do with Mbappe's transfer ro Real Madrid. As far as i remember Barcelona has offered Flick some players, but he has chosen Olmo. It's worked well, but they are losing their confidence now.

Barcelona is terrible financially due to the incompetent party managed their finance. They have worked even harder to receover it. It's hard for them to keep survive if they still buys expensive players, then released it for free.

Although Girona was able to perform impressively last season but I not think they would win the La Liga title because the title is only attached to Real Madrid, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid but that doesn't mean other clubs can't get it, it's just that the percentage is very small because they have to beat the best clubs in La Liga, these three clubs are very difficult to beat so I think clubs other than them might only be able to finish in the UCL zone not for the league title.