Diego21

Hahahahaha I don't know anything. I only give my opinion on things about which I may have certain concepts or knowledge.

La Liga is boring, but it is not if you are going to play for Real Madrid or Barcelona. You make sure to be champion yes or yes every year of one or two cups. For many years, Real Madrid and Barcelona have been able to expand very well in South America and every person born there dreams of playing for these two clubs. (I understand that also because of a matter as simple as the fact that we share a language). Keep in mind that, although the Premier League is the best league in the world, there is no clear dominator. There was it with Fergie at Manchester United, but in the last 20 years things have been divided between Manchesters, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool... It's more difficult to feel identified with a Chelsea that wins the UCL one year, but the following year He doesn't play it because Tottenham, Leicester, Everton or, from now on, us also fight for it. On the other hand, Real Madrid and Barcelona not only play the championship every year, but have dominated it for years. Madrid historically, and recently too. And they have benefited from this thanks to the unfair distribution of television money that they have had for more than 10 years for which they took 160M euros each team, while for the rest of the 18 teams in Spain there were 300M to distribute. In addition, they have also had the two greatest stars of world football (Messi and Ronaldo) of the last decade as emblems. Madrid and Barcelona is not the same as saying the Spanish League. And if you can't go with them, you'll go outside. The sample was what happened in its day with players like Silva or Mata (they played for Valencia, which was the third best team in Spain and had to go to the Premier) or with others like Cazorla. Without going any further, nothing ago, Leeds in the Championship signed Rodrigo Moreno to Valencia, then their star striker. And there are many cases of players leaving teams in Spain that are Top 6 to go to teams that are fighting to stay in the Premier League. PS: For a few years now, thanks to Simeone, Atlético has become a very attractive team also for some players.

I haven't seen him play too much either. Even though I'm Spanish, I barely watch the Spanish League because it's very boring to me. But the defense of Juan Miranda is what is always criticized the most. He has never been a starter in his 3 years at Betis and neither was he when he was on loan in Germany. Only in these last six months (because Betis sold Alex Moreno to Aston Villa) he kept the position. If you remember him, he is the player who played in the Euro U21 final a few weeks ago. And certainly, he had a very good tournament. I think he can be adaptable to our team, but maybe a bit expensive and he doesn't offer absolute guarantees.

I'm not sure Juan Miranda is solid defensively. Yes, it's going very well up there. He is a very good attacker and can help us in games where we need to attack much more. He still has room for improvement, because he's young, but he also makes some big mistakes. He has come out of the Barcelona youth academy, so he is very good with the ball at his feet. Now, I think our offer will have to be close to 20M because Barcelona itself has 40% of a future sale so Betis won't let it go cheap.

I am waiting for you in the final.

Well, Liverpool urgently needs a defensive midfielder and I don't know if there are many on the market. It is time to leak that Chelsea want Isaac Hayden for 30M so that Klopp will go crazy and offer us 40.

It seems to me that Liverpool and Chelsea are still a step below us. Chelsea have good players, but Pochettino still doesn't know what to play (I'm surprised he chose 3-5-2) and I think Mudryk is going to be very, very good when he adapts to the rhythm of the Premier League. Liverpool finished last season at a very high level, but I think they are going to suffer a lot from Fabinho's loss (they have a very weak and weak midfield), that Salah (who is going to continue scoring a lot of goals) is not the player from 3-4 years ago and that if they don't find a scorer in Darwin Nuñez they will suffer a lot in tight games.

Spanish media says is near to Real Sociedad.

Well. I think it's time to analyze the game, already cold. I'll start with the best. Do you know what it is? I think Bruno played a fairly normal game, turning bad. He did not stand out too much except in some very showy long delivery. If we play like this, and Bruno wasn't at his highest level... Ufff. And be careful, because I think that Villa is a very good team that will surely be Top 8 in the League and that last year already made it difficult for us. We made 5, but if it wasn't for Dibu Martínez, it could have been 7 or 8. We saw Villa's mistakes and we knew how to do damage by pressing their ball out and destroying their defensive line so far forward. Fantastic defensive line. The 4 of last year (plus Pope). This can only get better. Stronger, more compact. Incredible. Of course, I think we need to sign a defender for when Schar or Botman are not there. The season, with 4 competitions, is very long. Joelinton-Bruno-Tonali. That has to be the starting MC in important matches. Joelinton is no longer just a Box to Box who runs, fights and steals. He now understands and distributes, he knows when to pass long and short, he knows how to move around the midfield seeking to associate with everyone. Knowing how Howe understands the game, this team has to be Joelinton and 10 others. Tonali made a sensational debut scoring right out of the gate and that makes everything easier for him. I think he is a player who does not shine in goal and assist statistics, but his job is going to be to do the dirty work so that others shine. This is his level and this is just the beginning. In attack, magnificent. For me, Gordon was the man of the match. He ran every ball, he fought and he helped Burn a lot (for me, the most important thing). He has quality, his ball handling is incredibly good and he is in a sweet moment after winning the U21. The best game from him since he signed for us and I think he is going to become one of the players in the League. Nothing to say about Isak. In the end, the millions we pay for it will seem cheap to us. A pity he couldn't hit the hattrick. That competition with Wilson has to make him (both of them) much better and he has to understand that Callum is also very good and that it will be difficult for him to play 90 minutes. With Almirón he was the one with whom he had the most doubts, but yesterday he showed that he is still plugged in and that his level will only improve the team. And when the team can relax... You look at the bench, and you find Wilson, Barnes (fantastic debut), two boys from the house like Murphy and Longstaff or Livramento so that the level doesn't drop. Only yesterday I had a small regret and that is that, after the great preseason, Howe did not give Anderson more minutes.

Good Ebening.

I hope I can watch it from Amazon Prime in Spain.

Anyway, I don't think much of Ben Jacobs because I remember him being the journalist who said that Newcastle had signed Trippier for a fixed 12M, and another 12M if Newcastle managed to stay. Many Spanish media copied that information. A few days later, Jacobs posted on his Twitter that he had no idea, that he had just posted something that made sense to him and that it was his thought and not information. I don't know how you will believe it over there, but in Spain there are still many people who believe that Newcastle paid Atleti almost €30M in total for Trippier.

I like Kilman, but he doesn't fit me in the team because he's a left-footed center back who handles his left foot. We already have Botman as the starter and Burn as the substitute (and Dummett as the substitute's substitute). And Lascelles plays there even though he is right-handed. If we're looking for a replacement for Schar, it's not Kilman (unless we want to play Lascelles instead of Schar and Kilman is the replacement for Botman, which seems even worse to me). And it is very difficult to play football with two left-handed central defenders. It's like playing with two Mike Williamsons.

Their defensive line is no better than Gateshead's.

And that West Ham won't be interested in Manquillo, Krafth, Hendrick or Hayden? Look, we leave you the complete pack for 20 million and we give you Ryan Fraser.

There is nothing good in Sunderland.

Personally, I quite like Andersen. He would see his signing well. He doesn't seem like a very different footballer to Schar to me and I think that what these graphs basically tell us is that Schar is better in the opposite area because we have scored more goals in his corner shots. The other details are a little lower than those of Schar, but that can also be understood because it is not the same to play in a Newcastle that has been 4th than in a Crystal Palace, due to style of play. I think he could be an interesting signing to be the third centre-back and to play now that Schar is not here. Another option would be to spend a lot of money on a top center back and already trust him as part of the future with Botman and leave Schar in a secondary position. (Everything will depend on the severity of his injury).

It's not official yet, but I've been told that Atletico Madrid is very close to announcing Riyadh Air as a new sponsor for the club's jerseys. Riyadh Air is a new airline created this year by Mohammed Bin Salman (our owner through PIF). So it would not be unreasonable for him to become one of our sponsors in the future (I understand that it is difficult because they could allege conflict of interest and illegal injection into the club, but officially we are owned by PIF and not by Bin Salman). I don't know how much Atlético will receive, but its last sponsor gave about 40M pounds a year to wear it on the chest.

@LongTimeAdmirer We will get some ASM replica shirt from DhGate to his new team in SA. You can be sure.

A player with outstanding qualities. He was too good for us on our worst days, but maybe he was missing something to fit in now that we have better days. Damn injuries didn't help him adapt too much in this year and a half. Anyway, all this doesn't matter to me. A special boy is leaving. And I'm not going to talk about football now. Maybe I do it because I'm a tribune/popular with the fans, but I insist, I don't care. From the first day he seemed in love with the city, with the community, with the club. He seemed involved with growing this team that was dead under Ashley's clutches. He never had a bad gesture, he always seemed kind to the fans, affectionate and careful with all the details of the club. A boy who seemed nice and was key to the good group in the squad. And his farewell message couldn't be better. At least I'm going to miss him a lot.

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