Topic: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2020/21 - page 1622. (Read 538136 times)

It will be quite difficult to see Almeria improve because their home and away matches are equally bad, they haven't even managed to win a single match and are the only team that has never won, it is very certain that they will be relegated even though there are still many matches to be played, and Last season, managing to get out of the relegation zone was just like luck.
Their defensive line is the worst among all the teams in the league, having conceded 35 goals more than any other club, while their number of goals is still better than several teams ranked better than them. If Almeria can improve their weaknesses, maybe there will be a chance they will again escape relegation but without improvement, they will have to accept to play in the Segunda División because they will suffer many defeat this season.

Manchester City won't make the same mistake when difficult get full payment after selling Ferran Torres to Barcelona, they won't the same cases happening if reach agreement deal for selling Julian Alvarez. Spending 100 million euro is not easy for Barcelona regarding have financial problem right now, however less of their player with higher values for selling and back up recovery fund to sign Julian Alvarez.

If reach deal, Manchester City want to get full payment for selling Julian Alvarez and they won't get payment credit such as Ferran Torres transfer until right now the payment still not full yet. Pessimistic with Barcelona have opportunity for signing Julian Alvarez after get regular position in this season with Kevin De Bruyne injured and Alvarez dropped as second striker position.

The board are patient with the coach, Gaizka Garitano who looking for aides to implement inother to get the team back up and fight for a spot in La Liga. Last season they had a narrow escape towards relegation, but it seems this season would be more challenging for them because they started on the wrong foot. Almería is the worst team currently in La Liga with no winning points accumulate this season. If eventually they gets relegated without a point, they would be one of the most less valuable club with the most terrible performance in games.

They seem to be anchored at the end of the league. They had 3 draws and 10 defeats in 13 matches. I think these numbers are enough to show us how dire the situation is. The coach has a very difficult job with this team. I hope Almeria tries to hold on to the league after a few successful results, otherwise it will be certain that they will be relegated from the league early.

For a player like Alvarez, they must consider the money. You might not consider the fee that much when you're buying superstars like Messi, Ronaldo, Neymar, Kane, and Mbappe (all at their peak). But when you're signing a very good player, yet still a relatively young player that has not developed into his peak you have to look at the price. I believe this because a player like that has a lot of potential and despite how high his ceiling might be, there's always a probability that he won't live up to that potential.

Secondly, Barcelona has already secured the signature of Vitor Roque, a similar profile to Alvarez for almost half the price Man City would have placed on Alvarez if at all they would be willing to sell him. Alvarez would be joining Barcelona in January or at the end of the season. Barcelona are trying not to spend huge money on players anymore and so far, they're doing a good job.

Lewandowski is an important player for Barcelona, ​​but due to his age, I do not know how long he can continue playing top-level football. Xavi brought him into the team to avoid a lack of strikers in the most important moments, but now his time is running out. He is close to retirement and Xavi needs a new striker.

Lewandowski is still considered the most important player at Barcelona. Because there are no players who can reach his level there yet. But it seems that age really has an influence on the consistency shown by Lewandowski. He sometimes returns to his best performance. And sometimes he actually plays like he lacks motivation. I remember that before Felix arrived, Lewandowski was really having trouble in attack. He seemed to lose his sharpness there. But after Felix arrived, Lewandowski improved and began to show again that he was still needed at Barcelona.

But I think Barcelona really has to prepare more to find another great striker who can match Lewandowski's level. Because I doubt that next season Lewandowski will still be as good as this season. Barcelona is now starting to use potential young players. But these young players will actually need time to become more mature players. Lewandowski has a fairly long contract at Barcelona, ​​namely until 2026. But I am sure that if Lewandowski starts showing inconsistent performance then he will leave before his contract expires. But for now, Lewandowski is still the best there as long as he is also assisted by front line players who can work well with him. And fortunately Barcelona has Felix now, even if only for one season.

Alvarez has been growing a lot in the last two seasons and he grew up a lot since World Cup 2022. He sometimes got chances to play together with Haaland and no longer has a role as alternative striker for Haaland. I don't know what people feel but I see Alvarez has a better position and more important role in Manchester City with time. He is like happy in Ettihad stadium and Premier League so a chance to see the player moves to Barcelona is very slim.

Ferran Torres used to be a player of Manchester City and he decided to move to Barcelona because he failed to get a good position in Manchester City. After moving to Barcelona, after two seasons, he did not get a good position in Barcelona. It is not a good performance to convince Manchester City to get him back to their club and it is not only because of the player transfer price but because he will not be useful for Manchester City.

Agree. It will be difficult for Barcelona. To sign Alvarez, they must spend €100m at least because his market value is around €80m. I'm also not sure Man City will release him if the offer below €100m. Alvarez is one of the key players in Man City, he is also projected for a long term. So, selling Alvarez isn't an urgent thing for Man City.

I don't think Ferran Torres is a proper alternative because his goal productivity is rather low. We already saw him to put as a striker but he couldn't play as expected. I think it is better to put João Félix for CF position if Lewandowski gets injured again.

Xabi Alonso is already attracting the other clubs to consider him as potential coach since they all witnessed how he dramatically changed the way Leverkusen was playing football and made it one of the best teams in Bundesliga.
There is a little detail that should be mentioned. It is about the release clause of Xabi Alonso from Leverkusen which is between  :' (15-18 millions.

Last season, Almeria managed to stay in La Liga because they had one point difference with Valladolid, but it seems like Almeria is under pressure this season. Garitano, as the new head coach who was recruited by Almeria last month. Him also haven't been able to improve the Almeria team's performance, because in the last few matches in La Liga, the Almeria team didn't get any points.
It's quite bad result actually, but also we may must given Garitano more time to improve performance of the Almeria team.

 Alonso's exploit for Bayern Leverkusen has placed him in potential spots as there'd ever be, teams like Real Madrid and Bayern Munich. No doubt for the current team, after them seeing his abilities and his skills in securing victories, him being the one that's literally brought out the exploits of Leverkusen, they'd definitely want to retain him as they see a very big possibility of more titles been won and they just want to secure more wins and team growth for themselves.

 Thesame applies to Real Madrid and Bayern Munich, they've seen a whole lot abilities in Alonso and the possibility of it been maximized, however the possibility of him joining Realmadrid is higher than that of Bayern Munich cause Thomas Tuchel just recently joined the Bavarians and his chances of winning the title is high.

Alvarez is one of the best players at Manchester City and is still very young with a lot of experience. This has become a normal thing and often happens, but if you want to get money, I'm sure there are still many ways because Manchester City is one of the big football teams, so it will be easy to raise more money.

Well, in terms of goals and assists, Lewandowski still does quite well compared to other players. But you should remember that Barca fans and management are still not satisfied with those numbers. Perhaps they placed too much trust, or their greed was too great. It can be considered that Barca recruited him to replace Messi's departure. Therefore, Lewandowski's responsibility is enormous.

He remains the team's center forward. The burden of age and injury has made Lewandowski no longer a reliable fulcrum for Barca. It's time for Xavi to consider plan B for Lewandowski's position. Otherwise, the Polish striker will likely be exhausted at the peak and sprint stages of the season, causing all of Barca's plans this season to fall apart.

Lewandowski is still quite useful for Barcelona. So far his statistics are like 7 goals and 3 assists in 11 games in the La Liga. I think this is quite good when we think he is 35 years old now. The main problem with him is inconsistency now. Because they haven't been scoring for 6 games in a row including the Champions League games as well until the Alaves one.

He put a really good end to that bad streak by scoring 2 goals there. However his contribution will be more valuable in bigger games. Especially in the Champions League he is needed quite much.

Yeah that's why money is also very important on every club to enable them be able to make some decisions, but however I believe that as big as Barcelona they should be able to have a huge funds that could cover up all there expenditures because if truly they are short of funds it will really going to be a disaster to them in times of improving there club, however they are supposed to have a good management team that are supposed to make a provision of reserve funds in case of a scenario like this.

Currently, it seems that things have changed very differently where money and young players must be considered important for all teams if the team wants to get better development in each season. Now Barcelona must have this if they still want to defend their title this season and still want the UCL title this season, because last season Barcelona did not have success in the UCL so they must be able to try this season.

Barcelona has the opportunity to target back line players in the transfer market next year, so it is clear that Barcelona really needs money to make its target successful when the transfer market opens. But I also don't know which players from the team they are targeting later because now almost all the rumors don't work for certain on that matter.

The supporters believe Xavi Hernandez to do a great job for the team, and they're patient with him to deliver the club in crucial moments. Robert Lewandowski age doesn't matter currently because he's still in shape and achieving prominent results with the Bluagrana. Lewandowski can still perform wey higher than young rising players, he's experiencing and just got everything he needs, he loves playing in Barcelona jersey and he's not thinking of exiting Camp Nou anytime soon. Lewandowski is an important player, if he's absent, the team will experience few challenges in games.

Xavi can still rely on Lewa in his squad, and he proved it in the Alaves match. His instinct for scoring goals is still proven to be Barcelona's mainstay. However, the problem is that the system that Xavi implemented is not very profitable for him. So the Polish player had time to express his complaints to the coach. At the same time, several of Barcelona's core players were injured. In the end, Barcelona's performance was unstable. Plus, Lewa was injured several times. However, he still deserves to be a pure striker in the El Barca squad.

Talking about potential replacements for Lewandowski, Barcelona has actually prepared them. several players come from Lamas Sia and another is a young star player from Brazil, namely Vitor Roque. Rumor has it that Deco will accelerate his efforts to bring him to Camp Nou.
By the way, referring to when Lewa was interviewed by several sports media, he said that he would end his career at Barcelona. In fact, he even said he was not interested in accepting an offer from a Saudi League club. but who knows, maybe one day he might change his mind. And talking about the Barcelona striker's injury, the fact is that when he joined Barcelona he didn't have a very long recovery period. So, I think Lewandowski is still a player who can be relied on even though he is 35 years old.

I think Manchester City will not release Alvarez to another team in the near future because he is one of Manchester City key players who will be prioritized for the long term. Well, for Barcelona, ​​they do have a financial crisis and in last season transfer window they couldn't move actively to recruit players because of the limited money they had. In the winter transfer window, maybe this will also prevent them from recruiting players because their finances have not completely improved. In general, there may be many options that Xavi will do, one of which is selling player and buying a player who has a better level of quality to support them to become champions this season.

Well, for Lewandowksi, he is already old, perhaps his energy will quickly disappear due to age and he may not be able to play full time in the coming season. Lamine Yamal will probably be Xavi priority for the next season and I'm sure Barcelona have a lot of young strikers and we just need to see Xavi give opportunities to their young players.