Diego21

We have to be very careful. I think it's pretty clear that we are inflating player prices to make the margins better for all teams. Because Minteh and Anderson do not have such a high real value today. And surely Vlachodimos won't have it either, whatever its price. And that could also lead to a gap in standards. It is a practice that they have been doing for years in Italy and that has already been investigated in recent times (And in fact, it cost Juventus a loss of points this year because they had a lot of operations like this between 2018 and 2021). If it is something specific, I understand that there will be no problem...

If the business is to exchange it with Elanga, you wouldn't gain anything, right?

I wouldn't part with Anderson. He has many virtues, a lot of potential, he is very young, he is academy player (and that is good both for the locker room and to comply with the registration rules in Europe in the future). He does not have enough value today to sell him and achieve salary margin. If I had to sell players, I would undoubtedly go more towards Almirón or Willock. Even Barnes, if we take into account that he is a very good player, but that he plays the same position as Gordon.

This was my XI before starting the tournament, but I think the performance of Bellingham and Saka could make someone decide to remove them from the XI. Foden is not well either, but it is true that he has never been in his position.

I'm curious to see your opinions. Which England XI would you put in the round of 16 match seeing the level of the players in the tournament?

Accordint to Valencia Media... Newcastle is not interested more in the georgian GK. https://x.com/sanchis14/status/1805567121557991639

https://x.com/awaydayladsfs/status/1802636779620643130

The good players are already very old. The defense is a bit mediocre. And the forward is no longer what they were

Looks like WBA shirt.

He is a spectacular goalkeeper. But he doesn't make sense seeing the performance Pope has given us.

But this list is only concern to league matches. If you count every match in a row, Bayer Leverkursen is 49 matches unbeaten. Is a historic world record, because Milan, Bayern, Juventus, Arsenal, etc (the first in this list) were defeated in European or Cups matches.

Football is a sport in which they play 11 against 11 and Real Madrid always ends up stealing.

I don't know very well how the 5th, 6th and 7th places in the Premier League work this season, in terms of going to Europe. But I think we are looking forward to playing in Europe next year because the top 7 teams in the League will do so. In principle, the 5th goes to the Europa League The FA Cup champion also goes to the Europa League. This will come from Manchester City or Manchester United. If Man United finishes in the top 5, 5th and 6th would go to the Europa League. As the League Cup is going to be won by a team that is going to go to UCL, there is another vacant spot (6th or 7th) that will go to the Conference League Playoff. As of today, we are sixth, but our calendar is the most favorable and the team is in sensational momentum. We have to play with Brighton (nothing is played), Man United (crucial match) and Brendfort (nothing is played). Man United has to play against Arsenal (they play in the League) and Everton. But they have the Cup final in their sights. Tottenham plays against Liverpool, Burnley (they are playing for relegation) and Man City (they are playing for the League) and Sheffield (already relegated) Chelsea have some options too, and they play West Ham, Forest (they are in danger of relegation), Brighton and Bournemouth.

Loving this team.

Every day I like Nico Williams more. It is true that he preferably plays on the left, but he can also play on the right and looks like he is going to get better every year. I think he would adapt perfectly to the Premier League and Newcastle style. (The shame is that the rumors linked us to his brother)

On one occasion, he celebrated a goal by sitting on a stool. That became a phenomenon on social networks, some small child went viral copying it and it also seems that the West Ham academy players do it. He now tries to celebrate his goals and, if there is no seat nearby, he sits on the advertising fence.

Lamb.

Today I was eating at home with my father. We watched the first half of the game together in the living room (where I have a TV with the station to watch football) and, at half-time, we went to eat in the kitchen. I took a little longer than the 15 minute break, so when I returned to the room, we were already losing 1-3. My father, meanwhile, has been left washing the dirty dishes. Good. Well, around the 70th minute, more or less, he went to see how the game was going. He has seen that 1-3 and has gotten a little lost... But no. He came back every 2-3 minutes to see how we were doing and every time he came we scored. In the end, he has left the kitchen half-cleaned and has come to watch the final minutes, just to check Barnes' last arrow. Yes friends. My father is already a Newcastle fan.

Lately I don't have much time to watch football and evaluate players. I know that Inacio is the defender that Real Madrid has had in mind for a couple of years. He looks like he's going to be very good and I think we could say that he is a similar player to Botman. I have seen him play in other years and with Portugal Youth and he looks very good. I have never seen the other one because he arrived at Sporting a few months ago.

If I'm being completely honest, this is the first time I've heard that such a player exists. That doesn't mean it's good or bad, I simply don't know anything about Atalanta since Papu Gómez is no longer there.

I am going to separate Klopp the coach from Klopp the person. In short, I have not liked how Klopp has evolved in recent years. I have seen him belittle other rivals and complain more than normal (something that I don't think happened in his first years at Liverpool or Dortmund). Now, on the pitch... We must recognize that he is one of the best coaches of the last 15 years. Always being on top. His Dortmund played like the Angels and he came to Liverpool to overcome a great mental obstacle of 30 years without winning the Premier League. It is true that he has been there for 9 years and has only achieved one League (and 2 runners-up), but he has practically always been fighting for it. He has put Liverpool back in the Big Four in a row and leaves with 6 Cup titles, a Europa League final and the icing on the cake of the Champions League. And all this with squads in which he had a good XI, but he barely had good players on the bench to maintain the level. And every two years fighting for two months without his two best players (Salah and Mané) for the Africa Cup... And always considering that he had to fight against Manchester City (and Chelsea) that he had Guardiola and that he had an unlimited amount of money and ability to sign players like Grealish to be substitutes.

Maybe it's because I'm from the other side of Madrid (Atlético) and I may feel that I'm not very objective (I don't think so), but I didn't see anything different yesterday between Real Madrid and Almería than what I've seen all my life. Real Madrid is the team that benefits the most from referees in the world and to which nothing extra-sports will ever happen because its president has all the powers in the country and possibly in Europe bought into it (I'm not saying this, it was said by the Director of El Mundo , the most important newspaper in Spain). As for the second... I also miss writing more here. But lately I don't have much time. Since November I have changed jobs and I can barely stay in front of the computer.

Wilson should only leave if there is a team that can pay close to 20M for him. Trippier should only leave if the club saw that it was impossible to pay him the salary he earns and that would fix almost all of Fair Play's financial problems. Then, you have to get rid of all the absurd contracts of players like Ritchie, Targett, Krafth, Manquillo, Hayden, Fraser, Karius.... PS: It is impossible for Atlético to pay a single euro for Wilson. We never have money.