Topic: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2020/21 - page 131. (Read 550150 times)

Their financial problems have been existing many years, before a big drama with Messi. They failed to keep Messi in their club but some seasons later, they have been continuing to gamble with overspending and with belief that their performances will be good and titles can help them to cover overspendings and improve their finance. It's very risky strategy and in the latest summer, they nearly failed to register Olmo. Now this risk appears again and Barcelona will continue their battle not only on pitch but also on desk with financial battle.

Olmo has more impact on Barcelona midfield and attacking system than De Jong and Pau Victor is a young player, a future of Barcelona squad. De Jong is always a favorite player to be put on transfer market by Barcelona recent years but they failed to find a next club for him and with good transfer money back. This time perhaps Barcelona won't have enough options and time to bargain too much.

Yes, the latest news from Barcelona is that there is no certainty about bringing in players in the second half in order to maintain points against the toughest opposing team, namely Real Madrid.
Barcelona has brought in Yamal at the start of the season and attracted several academies to save money so they can look at other star players. Barcelona's condition is only financial. which is starting to decline so they can still take advantage of young academy players, the rest can add new players in the market later.

Sacrificing Frankie De Jong for Dani Olmo and Pau Victor is a good one, they are still in their financial crisis losing either Dani Olmo or Pau victor is not an option they have show significant impact on the team than De Jong currently.

It is quite unfortunate for De Jong he has always been fighting for him to remain on the team but I think his salary as also been the reason that almost every transfer windows Barcelona are often trying to let sell him.

There is no update on Barcelona's financial condition yet, I think they still have debt but from the news I read last they have made improvements and reduced salary expenditure in a salary cap of 1:1. Since Xavi became a coach, financial issues have always been Barcelona's problem. But some time running Barcelona was able to buy several new players.  They also continue to improve the club's financial quality.

I don't know how they will work yet, because it's still black at the moment. Flick may be able to promote some young players like Xavi who dared to bring Yamal. So they took advantage of the young academy. In addition, the option of looking for players with free transfer status can be an alternative if they do not have a lot of money.

High salaries and prolonged injuries can be a burden for the club and Barcelona should realise that at this time they must find every solution to balance their finances and the sale of de Jong might be a solution, indeed so far de Jong is a player with great potential and proven abilities, But his injury history so far should also be a reference for Barcelona to sell him, because after all they can't guarantee if he won't get injured again in the future, the current financial instability of Barcelona requires them to chance sell de Jong or even release dani olmo and also pau victor who could go with free, if Barcelona does not find a solution to register them with the La Liga authorities in the near time.

Barcelona will never extend De Jong contract. What you don't understand is that, Barcelona is broke and their current players have declined in form. Assuming Barcelona has funds, they should buy new players to strengthen the team. Since they are broke and cannot bring in new players, they want to sell De Jong because he is the highest paid, so that they can buy a cheaper player.

For Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid I am also sure they can make changes that are much better than the first half of this season. As for Barcelona I am a little less sure that the team can make changes that are much more significant because the financial levels of the three teams at this time are very different so that this can affect their movements in the transfer market when targeting certain players to increase their strength again in the second half of this season.

I have been trying to understand your post, but I am puzzled now that I reread it. You said that Barcelona is reaping in points nonstop more or less, but at what table are you looking? I have now opened the La Liga table and what I see is that they lost 11 points in the last few games alone. I don't think this is what you are referring to. Then maybe explain for everyone that your analysis suggests Barcelona is doing great and getting points from every game. They are not and they sucked hard in recent weeks and the question remains whether they will be able to get this sorted out or not. If they don't, then no chance for Barcelona this season as Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid are just getting started.

Real Madrid is very serious about signing Trent Alexander Arnold and I believe the player is going to come to Real Madrid because many signs show that the player wants Real Madrid, the player has not shown interest in signing a new contract with Liverpool and that gives Real Madrid full confidence that they can get the player, Real Madrid will sign Trent Alexander Arnold next season as both teams have a good relationship with each other.

About Virgil Van Dijk I don't think Real Madrid will want to sign him, from the player action if Real Madrid wants to sign him he will accept the offer because the player has a good relationship with Rudiger and he will want to be Rudiger's partner and become best defenders in La Liga but Real Madrid want a young defensive player, Real Madrid is planning a good signing next season that is why they don't want to sign any player in January transfer market.

There is no team that is underestimated but we can see the overall strength of both teams especially now Real Madrid with great motivation to be able to compete fiercely in the standings with Atletico Madrid and Barcelona in the fight for the championship title.
The competition in La Liga this season has been much fiercer so Real Madrid must be able to maintain their consistency if they want to retain the La Liga title this season.
Now all teams have a lot of time to improve after going through the first half and have a few weeks to rest and I am sure after that there will be many differences that will occur later.

Buddy believe is different from reality, I was having this believe as you do but at a time Barcelona performance became a bit poor so as it stands I think the league is open for anyone to be the title bearer most especially Athletico Madrid, Realmadrid and the said Barcelona, no doubt Barcelona points and league position aren't bad but they have to push more harder, we have seen what athletico Madrid has been able to achieve because of consistency and with such performance of theirs, team like Barcelona and Real Madrid has to put up more effort to meet up with them, I don't think that Barcelona will sell any player for now, injury is not death sentence, he will recover and continue from where he stopped, he did very well from the start of the season so laying him off wouldn't be a wise decision unless he doesn't play well for sometime when he finally recover from injury.

I think Barcelona is in rebuilding stage as such they wouldn't want to sell players unnecessarily for now instead they will want to consider making good use of them very well, they are into financial crisis as such they wouldn't want to take any decision that may not be beneficial to them.

2024 is hard year for De Jong because in this year he was very often to get injured and this makes his performance decline which automatically De Jong lost his place on Barcelona starting lineup because most likely Hansi Flick will play other players instead of him for midfielder position

Actually, Hansi Flick is still supporting him and promised a place in Barcelona starting lineup in a condition De Jong should be able to manage his fitness condition but seems this is hard to realize because this year De Jong still unable to reach his top performance again

De Jong has shown his commitment to Barcelona he even willing to extend his contract but Barcelona will only give him new contract which they will lower his salary so the decision is in De Jong's hands whether he will sign the contract or decide to leave

No team should be underestimated because there is possibility of surprise, but Real Madrid is also in condition that is starting to improve and they have slowly found suitable tactic for the limitations that have occurred so that there is confidence that Real Madrid can still win.
At the beginning of the season until now entering the middle of the season shows La Liga is dominated by Barcelona, ​​now everything has changed and of course every team can have chance whether it is Atletico Madrid or Real Madrid, this will continue and we will see more big match in the future.

I have this strong believe that Barcelona will going to get it right to win this la Liga league title this season, because they are still maintaining a good points from the competition table which solution can come at anytime for them to recover to start displaying what they have been displaying from the beginning of this tournament. Since him still want to remain in Barcelona, I don't think Barcelona management will sell him,  because he will definitely recover from the injury to start performing what will make the management to extend his contract for a long years. I think, Barcelona head coach will not rush to sell any player now, because he understand that no challenges last forever in football competition which they will definitely over come this challenge soon.

I'm really looking forward to it, you can't imagine a club like Atletico Madrid who were doubted to be champions this season, unexpectedly in the end they were the ones who lifted the trophy, they have worked hard for it, so they deserve it. Can't wait to watch the next match against Osasuna, i'm sure Atletico Madrid will make a surprise this time.

Only happens if De Jong agreed to leave from the club. He would not leave from there if he didn't agree otherwise. His team tried so hard to sell him since last season, but still no result so far. He always wanted to stays until the end of his contract. Even his agent confirmed he will not going nowhere. His contract ends June 2026, and already on his plan to leave for free. It's pretty obvious Barcelona losing some money from unable to cash in him.

The tension between Barcelona and De Jong getting even heated.

It should be the best option or solution but Barcelona is still reluctant to release players who do not make a big contribution because they often experience injuries.
If the management does not want to sell, Hansi Flick cannot do anything and it might be far more difficult for him to make the team's strength more solid.
He often suffered injuries and his contribution to the club was also not too big, even though the salary given was quite high and now Barcelona must really look for a solution in order to register Dani Olmo and Pau Victor because if not just it will be very detrimental to the team.

Indeed, at first we saw that Mbappe's performance fluctuated, sometimes it was good and sometimes not, but yes, now we have seen that his performance is getting better and it looks like the period of adapting to Real Madrid has finished and now his appearance is more confident and good and of course now Surely Real Madrid would because proud to have a star player like him.

Yes, even though the Real Madrid defender is injured, yes, having a good and sharp attack will definitely make the Real Madrid team strong and the enemy team will definitely be overwhelmed when facing Real Madrid. However, I also see that now Real Madrid's defensive players are getting better and of course in this case Ancelotti is very good at making good strategies to make his defensive players strong even though their key defensive players are injured.

Yes, the point is that now Real Madrid really deserves to be able to win in every match because of their good performance and what is certain is that we will see a good performance from Ancelotti's troops in the upcoming match. and now of course Atletico Madrid must be ready because of course Real Madrid will definitely perform better and of course will be a big threat to Atletico Madrid.

Letting go of de Jong is the most ideal solution to do, look at his current salary, it is not commensurate with his contribution on the field. Busy enjoying his salary with a long injury and I am still surprised that Barcelona is reluctant to let go of this player. Hansi Flick must make Laporta aware to immediately sell de Jong as soon as possible (that is if there is a club willing to buy his condition).

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Yes, no matter how good a football player is, he will definitely still need adaptation to enable him to perform at his best again in his new team. This also definitely happened to Mbappe, even though he was a very great player when he was at PSG, but after moving to Real Madrid he had to be able to adapt first to be able to make himself comfortable and be able to produce his epic performance again. Currently, I think Mbappe has started to adapt well at Real Madrid, as is currently proven by Mbappe often scoring goals in every match with Real Madrid. In fact, his goal record to date is almost close to second place on Laliga's temporary top scorer list. Because currently Mbappe is in 3rd position on the top scorer list with a score of 10 goals.

I think with the goals that Mbappe can score now, this can be said to be quite extraordinary for a new player like him. So if you look at this, you are right, it looks like next season Mbappe will show a much greater performance than this season. The most important thing for now is that Mbappe must be able to continue to build good chemistry with all Real Madrid players. So that this can make things easier for him at Real Madrid. Apart from that, in all competitions to date Mbappe has been able to score 14 goals. So hopefully Mbappe can continue to improve his epic performance.