Topic: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2020/21 - page 637. (Read 539438 times)

It seems that Barcelona is currently confused about which players they can sell in order to be able to bring in better new players without having to clash with FFP regulations. Because Hansi Flick's suggestion about providing funds to be able to buy new players for Barcelona is not wrong because that is what the Barcelona team itself needs, but when Barcelona has to choose to sell one of its players to the transfer market at this time, of course it will make the team feel dizzy to see who is more suitable to be released in order to have the opportunity to buy other players before the season starts.

All we need to see this season is good transformation, solid squad and it doesn't necessarily mean that Barcelona must win the laliga title this season.

When their is a new coach in a team it is not easy for the coach to win the title that season,  but what people are expecting to see from the is his performance,  bringing the players together to work as a team, this is what I'm expecting from the new coach.  Barcelona's performance in last season was very poor and this not what should be seen in this season from the new coach. The first season when xavi was coach of Barcelona they didn't win the league that very season but their was a good transformation and that an evidence to belive that Barcelona could win the league title.  

He said he doesn't need new players because he wants to be loyal to Barcelona president Joan Laporta.  Hansi Flick doesn't want what happened to Xavi Hernandez to happen to him. Don't forget that one of the reasons why Xavi was sacked was when he openly spoke about the financial situation of Barca and how the club cannot compete with Real Madrid. I don't know how the German wants to manage Barca that he is saying the club doesn't need new players. From my perspective, players like Lewandowski, João Félix, João Cancelo, and Vitor Roque are not dependable, so the club needs to sharpen the attacking force. If Hansi thinks he is comfortable with the current squad, he shouldn't complain when the time comes.

It seems Hansi didn't add Joao Felix to this season's plans. He is committed to bringing in Nico Williams and Dani Olmo. His comment looks confusing; how will you say you don't need players, and you have plans to bring in new players? Even the best team in the world is still in the transfer market, seeking players to solidify their squad. It's a pity that Barca decided not to go for Felix; now he has to move back to Atletico Madrid, which is not also in the plans of Diego Simeone.

Barcelona is obviously one of the most competitive teams in La Liga. But if the financial situation is not good, they are not compatible going to be able to compete against Real Madrid. You know Real Madrid is the biggest barrier in front of them when they are thinking about the La Liga competition. I do not want to talk about the champions league competition. Because that is kind of out of reach for Hansi Flick right now. So let’s just talk about the La Liga competition. As long as Barcelona is not able provide sufficient amount of money to Hansi Flick by which he can improving the squad, I do not think they have any chance against Los Blancos. Unless for some reason Carlo Ancelotti change his mind and has to play literally the second squad, or rest the players because of the champions league matches, I do not think Flick's team is stronger enough to beat Real Madrid.


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And let’s be honest, whatever Joan Laporta says, the financial situation of Blancos is still pretty bad and he is trying hard to backup it.

Why the word manage? They worked hard for that spot and they earned it, I'd not use the word for a club who obviously made La Liga more competitive and interesting when, clubs like Barcelona, Sevilla, Valencia and Atletico Madrid should have done better against Real Madrid. You should give them enough flowers for that, as it was their higher position in La Liga ever since they got promoted. I also cannot how they had a great record against sides below the top top in La Liga.

Concerning how well and how far they go last season, I'm not expecting them to do what they did last season anymore, I'm just keeping and maintaining an open mind, I also, do not want to write them off completely.
Playing the Champions League Competition come witjna whole lot and you need experience and at the same time depth. I have seen players who fought for them open towards leaving the club so I'm not certain how they'll go.

They had a couple signatures coming in already and it should be the fifth they have brought in so far. Like I said, don't write them off, you just keep an open mind towards anything. In between they might disappoint people who has high hopes for them because they have got no experience in the Champions League Competition.

I don't really know what has happened to Barcelona because they were actually doing well before Lionel Messi left the team in 2021 but i have made some research and found out that the major causes of the financial crisis rocking the club now was as a result of the COVID 19 pandemic and mismanagement of funds by the club's management and the current challenges that the club is facing now are some of the consequences that results from making wrong financial decisions so it will really take time before the team will recover which will definitely not be anytime soon because the club is already owing huge debts and numerous debts hinders the growth of a team.

The club's president and the fans can't expect any magic from the head coach Hansi Flick because he lacks the resources to run the club to a greater height, financial setback is one of the things that takes most teams backwards and if FC Barcelona is not careful more chaos may befall the team.

Flick said publicly at a press conference that Barcelona does not need new transfers, and Laporta asked Xavi for new transfers, or rather demanded them, which is why they had a conflict. I understand that Barcelona has problems, so they need to refrain from new transfers, but why did they let Felix go? If I'm not mistaken, they said that they should keep such an important attacking player by any means, especially considering that they do not count on new transfers, or did they target Williams and therefore let Felix go? But PSG will not let them do this, they have much better financial opportunities and they can lure Williams...

It is very unlikely that Barcelona's financial situation will improve even in the next 2/3 years. Laporta is unable to take any significant steps to solve Barcelona's financial crisis. So I think in the next 2/3 years Barcelona won't be able to buy any star player at a high price.

Barcelona may not be able to buy any star players, but they have some very talented players in their squad. If these players can be looked after properly, Barcelona will be able to form a strong and stable squad within the next 2-1 years. And the Barcelona management hired Hansi Flick for this purpose. Looking forward to seeing if Hansi Flick succeeds with Barcelona. Hansi Flick is a very experienced coach.

The transfer market is always used to bring in new players, teams that performed poorly last season will make changes to add strength to their squad. Barcelona has been linked with several players in this transfer market, but so far has not brought in any new players, this is due to the club's financial condition which is still unhealthy and has clashed with FFP regulations.
Barcelona must improve their financial condition in order to be able to bring in new players, Hansi Flick has asked Laporta to prepare funds to be able to bring in new players, but they must release the players they currently have to get money so as not to clash with FFP rules. Barcelona must solve their problems one by one to improve their level, selling players is one of the options they can do so they can bring in new players.

Barcelona might find their prime again but not this season or even next season because they still have the same problem and it hasn't really gotten a solution. It is their financial condition that is actually the biggest obstacle because that means they can't be free in every season and whoever the coach appointed by Laporta seems to have to face that problem. Not only coaches, even players will also feel the impact if the problem is not completely resolved because there could be cuts to their salary budget. That could be triggering dissatisfied morals in the team, which means they will face more struggle in the title race.

They can still do it, it's just that it's not easy because apart from having to be consistent in performance, they are also required to be able to play well with all the shortcomings they have with Flick, who is a new coach.

In addition, we must be aware that the difference in the current position of strength between Barcelona and Madrid in terms of financial strength, quality of players and overall mentality is clearly different because for now Madrid excels in everything. So if Barcelona's goal is a trophy then they can erode the gap as much as possible so that it is not too far away and that is the problem they cannot solve because the conditions do not allow Barcelona to minimize the gap they have.

Unless Flick's performance can be much better than Xavi in their coaching, but that is also still unpredictable because after all we must be aware that Flick is currently still not showing anything at Barcelona so we still cannot criticize or judge how his performance will be.

Last season we are surprised by Girona because this team was appears as dark horses team who can broke the dominate of big teams in Laliga and Girona also can successfully playing at champion league for the first time but besides their players most people starting to notice to Girona current manager Míchel because within 2 years he can change Girona to became an strong team in Laliga and the most impressive is Míchel has been done it without buying star players because we all know previously Girona status is only as small team in Laliga

I think the real test for Girona consistency is for next season because they have to divide their focus to playing at several different competitions besides Laliga moreover Girona will lost some players for next season and it's very interesting to see whether Míchel can able to managed Girona performance or not and i think to compete for top 4 next season will not be easy for Girona because their teams contender such as Atletico Madrid or Bilbao also will strengthen their squad

Girona players still eyeing by some big clubs and one of them is Artem Dovbyk because currently Artem Dovbyk is into radar some teams such as Roma and Atletico Madrid even the latest news i have read is Roma is really serious want to buy Artem Dovbyk from Girona and Roma will dare to bid 30 million for this player and in my opinion Girona should be hold Artem Dovbyk because he is Girona top scorer of last season so Artem Dovbyk is very important for this team moreover Girona have lost Pau Victor who moved to Barcelona and i think they shouldn't be sell Artem Dovbyk

I thought the Barcelona management would not decide to sell a talented young player like Vitor Roque. My guess was that Vitor Roque would go on loan to Barcelona. However, Barcelona is now in a financial crisis. And they want to make money by selling Vitor Roque. And perhaps this is why the Barcelona management is interested in selling young players like Vitor Roque.

Barcelona name price for Vitor Roque amid Saudi interest

From several news I have seen that Saudi club Al Hilal have expressed interest in adding Vitor Roque to their squad. But would Vitor Roque be interested in playing in the Saudi League at the moment? Barcelona are interested in selling Vitor Roque for 40 million. Paying this amount is not a big problem for the Saudi club. I guess AL Hilal would be interested in buying Vitor Roque for 40 million.

Girona was a dark horse and they performed quite impressively last season but, it is quite reasonable if someone doubts them because they were nothing before. What is clear is that they will have a different season from before because whoever the team is in La Liga will definitely be wary of them. Besides that, they will also have the opportunity to play in the Champions League, and it was the first time they had a chance at this prestigious tournament.

I think what makes them great is how they play as a solid team, and if they could do that again, I think they could repeat the same story as the last season or maybe do even better.

Actually for next season I am still not so sure that Girona will perform more impressively as they did last season in La Liga, but that does not mean that other teams should underestimate Girona because the team can sometimes also provide an important surprise in quite crucial matches that can make it difficult for rivals to beat them. However, if we talk about next season, I personally am still not sure that Girona will be better than last season, even though Girona still has the potential to remain consistent in the top four if Atletico, Bilbao and Sociedad are unable to provide fierce enough resistance next season.

Girona is a La Liga club that performed impressively last season and managed to finish in 3rd place after Real Madrid and Barcelona and that was an extraordinary achievement for Girona, will he continue his impressive performance next season? and for the first time he got a ticket to play in the Champions League where he will face other top clubs but I'm not sure this club can go further because they don't have experience playing in this big league.

Btw Girona will play a pre-season match today with Espanyol, a club that has just returned to La Liga.
Espanyol is a club that was relegated in the 2022/23 season, they played 1 season in the Segunda Division and next season they will play in the La Liga again.

Yamal is talented and shown it with Barcelona last season and Spain in Euro 2024 this summer. He has very promising bright future ahead as well as potential to reach to top-notch class and might achieve many big things with his teams and personal awards as well.

It's hard to doubt about Yamal's ability but life and career of player, especially a young one, is not always smooth and rosy. There are many challenges for both Yamal and Barcelona, in football and beyond it, on fields and off fields. Both of them need to have good strategy to grow up career in Yamal's side and to use this player in Barcelona's side. If anything goes wrong in one of sides, it's possible that career of Yamal will turn completely to a negative direction which is not wanted by any of them.

Lewandowski is old and each month, each season, ageing effects become bigger on his body and his performances certainly will decrease with time. As a striker, a goal source of a club, Lewandowski bears big pressure on his shoulders and he needs goals to release stress and to play better after that.

Barcelona also have to prepare for days of worse performances from Lewandowski and need to plot their plans to replace him in near future. They can not use an old striker as their main attacking power and goal source of a team for too many more seasons.

Those of us that are not Laliga fans, the beauty of football in Spain to us is the rivery between Real Madrid and Barcelona. The competition to win the Laliga, the face off in El Classico. All these have been possible because during these times that Real Madrid had beat players, Barcelona also had the likes of Messi, Xavi, Iniesta ie after the time of Ronaldinho, Eto etc.

But today we have an overload squad in Real Madrid but no balancing one in Barcelona. Although the Yamal is there, if Barcelona should bring Nico Williams, with Lewa at the top, Barcelona can compete with Real Madrid to an appreciable level.

I am interested in Barcelona getting stronger, I want to see a very strong Barcelona so that they can play with everything they have against Real Madrid, They have a great player like Yamal, he is good and has a lot of potential. I think that next to Lewa he can make the difference In this order of ideas, what they need is for people to believe in them. And why do I want them to be very good ? Easy, because only if Madrid beats them, the victory will be much more pleasant , than saying that they were beaten with the best players they have at the moment.

When Barcelona signed Joao Felix at the end of the transfer market last season we said that Barcelona had finally managed to make a successful deal but after just one season Barcelona were going to sell him. The Portuguese star is talented enough that I don't understand how much Barcelona understand his abilities considering just one season of performances. Any club who wants to sell this player to Barcelona will take this player because this player is very talented and this player is very young. If Atlético Madrid express an interest in taking the player, the player may not object to a move there. There could be offers for him from Atletico Madrid as well as from the Premier League and PSG could certainly be planning to take him.