Topic: UEFA Champions League 2022/23 Season - page 863. (Read 92689 times)

Barcelona do not want to repeat their failure last season in the Champions League, after finishing second in the domestic league, Barcelona officials immediately moved quickly by bringing in some greats to strengthen the team. Barcelona journey this season in the group phase is a bit tougher, Bayern Munich, Inter are Barcelona challenges to get out to the next round. Barcelona will have difficulty winning the group, Xavi must try to secure second place in order to go further in the Champions League stage. Madrid is always the favourite, I still doubt Barcelona can get to the final.

That miracle like you say it is highly unlikely and I find it very difficult for this to happen during this season when teams like Real Madrid,City,PSG and Liverpool have a lot of superstar players.I doubt these teams will be eliminated and I think that 2004 year was just a miracle because at that time even Greece won the first Euro Cup which was the biggest surprise of football history for me.So that is a distant year that it has very but very little probability to be repeated during 2022/23 season of the Champions League.
I also think that Barcelona is not yet fit for the title against giants but anything can be expected from them,in La Liga they are fairing pretty well so I don't exclude them as contenders as of yet.

Pretty simple prediction given that the last time a non-top club won the Champions League was in 2004 when Mourinho won the title with Porto. On the other hand, 18 years have already passed and maybe it's time for a new miracle to happen? I don't really believe in it, but I think that everyone will be happy to see even in the quarterfinals someone "new" and not the usual list of applicants.

I am surprised by the way that Lewandowski delivers. He is the player that we are used to when he played for Bayern Munich. The athletic style when he scored. I am now really looking forward to the game against Bayern and whether he can perhaps decide a game in favor of his own team.

Do you guys think Barcelona is ready for Bayern?

Ronaldo is proud, but perhaps this is what allowed him to achieve great results in his time. I will say that he and the manager could look for a new club, it would not be a problem if he honestly warned the club management and the coach that he would try to do this. But at the same time, he had to train with the team, play all of all pre-season matches, and be in optimal shape by the start of the season. And by his act, he only worsened his relationship with the head coach, and this is now reflected in his place in the team and trust in him.

The problem is that Ronaldo is a player who is only interested in his personal achievements and the records he has achieved.
He is aware that he will not be able to play top-flight football for much longer and is desperate to play in the Champions League this season to improve his personal record in the competition and prevent arch-rival Messi from overtaking him.
It has become funny to see how desperate he and his manager have become in their quest to find him a club playing in the Champions League this season 
The Europa League means nothing to Ronaldo, he has to show his athletic greatness in the biggest competition, the Champions League, but in fact he is no longer the player he was a few years ago and his time has passed.

In this season's Champions League the big boys will be the ones that will contest for the title. I am seeing Real Madrid, I am also seeing Manchester City, Liverpool, PSG just like as it was in last season. Barcelona will do very well in La Liga but this season they will not do well in Champions League maybe it can be next seasonis. We should not expect Barcelona to do any magic this season because there are a lot of big boys already before they understand themselves and put themselves together maybe they will likely go back to Europa and then be the champions there.

Interesting certainly waiting for Barcelona. Once they returned they could finish in 2nd place at the end of the season. Moreover, they have an amazing player spending budget and have been used. Of course, it will still be very long the League Just started. A team that is able to do management well will certainly win. But so far I think I'm still Favourites to Madrid. Although I'm sure maybe Man City and Lieverpool will be favourites this year.

I am feeling this is going to be bad for Napoli if they are selling Osimhen for Ronaldo and money because if they keep him and try most chances they will reach into next round and have better chances instead of having Ronaldo and Manchester United is also suddenly investing more than expectations because they already have Casemiro and now Antony from Ajax is also set to join Manchester United with the fees of 100 Million Euro which is enough for them to stay into top four as now few teams are already tumbling and this is good opportunity for them to grab this chance and use Ronaldo which is also having good time here in this club.

Now they needed to do some work on their system which is going to help them for having better result instead of investing more money for having players because they already have quality players and those are not bad at all right now with their chances to stay at top for this season.

And if they gave Osimhen, they also wanted money besides Ronaldo. This made Ronaldo very angry.
I guess he still thinks he's in his 20s. Osimhen's contribution to the game is much more for Napoli. It was rumored that Manchester United would make an offer of between 100 and 140 million Euro for Osimhen. They obviously need a very good striker, so they shouldn't be afraid to spend money. Napoli cannot refuse such an offer. Funny that Manchester United can spend such money even though they don't play in the Champions League. Napoli, on the other hand, cannot say no to such money, even though they play in the Champions League.

I think that it would be the worst choice Napoli can make by replacing Ronaldo with Osimhen right before the Champions League starts. Their odd to advance to next round would increase also because keeping Osimhen would definitely be more helpful for them. Ronaldo is far from his old times as you know. It isn't sensible for Napoli to just sell their very promising striker to have Ronaldo for only a short period of time. However Napoli also don't want such deal now as it seems because their demand from Manchester United is really unbelievable.  

Ronaldo should forget about playing in the Champions League this season and just focus on his work at the Red Devils. He can still join this tournament next season in the end if they win the Europa League title or enter top 4 in the EPL.

It seems that the clubs have agreed on 100 million and the signing will take place today/tomorrow. I'm wondering how this will (if it does) affect teams' chances of reaching the playoffs (especially if Ronaldo goes to Napoli) at the moment the quotes are: Ajax 1.77 Napoli 1.83. Ajax have taken the path of selling players, but this is understandable since they cannot compete in any way with offers from the top leagues.

Many were thinking that Benfica was going to lose, in fact where I live in the parlays that are out there in the bookmakers I saw a trend against Benfica and I didn't know why, I didn't even bother to check statistics or something So, what I put on was to watch the game, I liked how they played and this made me remember how years ago Benfica was a hard team to defeat even for the strongest teams at that time, which was Real Madrid and Barcelona, And this was what made me think the most when they were going to play against that team, but now I see that the players have recovered their good level and if they continue like this and increase it, they can make a difference.


For me this is one of the most controversial groups, without a doubt for me the favorite is Bayern, I would like Inter to stand out, but it is difficult, they have many problems, with respect to Barcelona, they are not doing badly, the league they are doing well, but what they can do in the UCL must be to win, they have made many changes in their team, Xavi really has a lot to prove and apart from that the debts in the team are big, so they have to win or win, If not, things are going to get very heavy in the future, for me that will be one of the things that will mark that team, either for better or worse, all the risks that they ventured to take.

Bayern lost Lewandowski, but got Mane and some other very good players, and I think they will be even stronger this season and favorites to win the Champions League.
It seems to me that Xavi stopped the great decline of Barcelona, stabilized the club, got new players and that Barcelona will be much better in the Champions League this season.
Inter have been playing very well in the last few seasons, both in the Italian league and in the Champions League, and will be a very tough opponent for both Barcelona and Bayern.
A very interesting and uncertain group.

Actually things aren't going to be easy about this probable transfer. Because according to a report by Transfermarkt, Ajax have turned down an offer worth 90 million euros this time. Ajax are very determined not to sell him while getting close to the end of the transfer window and the beginning of the Champions League at the same time. But he has clearly stated that he wants to leave Ajax now.

Ajax are known by selling this kind of skilled players after not much time passes. But on the other hand they let very important players go already in this window. They don't want to lose him too otherwise Manchester United's last offer was very favourable for them actually.

https://www.transfermarkt.com/ajax-have-turned-down-euro-90m-offer-from-man-united-for-antony-quot-i-want-to-leave-quot-/view/news/410210

I heard the news if Man United raised the offer to 84 million euros. It's really incredible! Perhaps this is the last step to close the weakness of Man United's midfield. Besides Antony already wanted to leave immediately. Even in their Eredivisie match in Utrecht on Sunday Antony refused to play. He broke down working to ease the pace of those of him who wanted to go to Man United.

Source: https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/manchester-united-transfer-antony-ajax-27849227

There is a huge possibility that Anthony will go to United. As I understand it, now the only question is the price - Ajax is trying to take advantage of the plight of United and get the maximum amount of money for Anthony. As for Ronaldo and all these transfer sagas (the worst was with Mbappe), then literally in three days this should stop - on September 1st in most countries transfers will be closed until the winter window.

Let's see how good the performance from your favorite club. I think that it for me bayern munich is still superior but i didn't know whether with the come of lewandowski to the barcelona can change any thing like it will win against bayern munich once barcelona will be facing it at the group session of UEFA champion league. That will be very good if inter can also compete against munich and barcelona. I heard that intermilan became even stronger too. We need to see that how good performance from the new players of barcelona in champion league.

With their current condition, it is very difficult indeed to make a breakthrough in the hell group for this season. Their condition is very competitive with Barcelona and Bayern for now, so their chances are getting smaller and the most likely chance for them is only in 3rd position and forcing to play in the Europa League because for the Champions League it is clearly quite difficult for their current condition.

After watching Inter's last match against Lazio, I doubt Inter can qualify for the next round. Bayern Munich can definitely secure a place in group C, while one other place is still uncertain who will accompany Bayern to go to the next round. Barcelona has also not been able to show their best performance this season, the last match played in La Liga became a bright spot for Barcelona to secure a place in the group stage, I really hope that Bayern and Barcelona will qualify for the next round.