Index – Sport – Laporta ante portas – La Liga, the battle of the hungry, starts today



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Joan Laporta also officially announced on Friday that he will run for the Catalan club’s presidential elections next March. The most successful leader in the history of FC Barcelona led the federation between 2003 and 2010 – which, as we know, is “more than a club” – and then ran again in 2015, but then fell behind Josep María Bartomeu.

the elconfidencial.com A well-informed Spanish website called Manchester City announced yesterday that Manchester City had made the biggest offer in history on August 26: 200 million euros were offered for Messi, plus 20 million euros in the event of winning the Champions League. with the. (We will soon understand why they were offered such a crazy amount of money by a 33-year-old downline footballer if we know who the City manager is. Yes, Pep Guardiola, Messi’s former mentor.)

The Spanish press is already trying to decipher the idea of ​​a new coach, Ronald Koeman, and anticipates putting together Barça’s core team for the new season: ter Stegen – Semedo (Sergi Roberto), Piqué, Lenglet, Jordi Alba – Pjanic, De Jong – Dembélé, Messi, Ansu Fati – Griezmann. A small problem is that Pjanic has not yet participated in training on Friday, but that should not be a problem since three games have been postponed from the first day: the Barcelona-Elche, Real Madrid-Getafe and Atlético Madrid-Sevilla matches . As if we were in Hungary: the reason was that Barça, Real and Atlético, as well as Sevilla, could be better prepared for their next European Cup match …

If we have already anticipated the probable Barça line-up, do the same with Real Madrid, which defends the league title: Courtois – Carvajal, Varane, Sergio Ramos, Mendy – Modric, Casemiro, Kroos – Ödegaard, Benzema, E. Hazard . It also shows that he was brought back from loan (from the Royal Society) at the age of 15, he started out as an epoch-making talent, and still only 21-year-old Norwegian Martin Ødegaard. And Zardine Zidane only has Hazard if the Belgian drops his float from the waist, which was only cited in the Spanish media such as Michelin … (What will happen to the two young geniuses, Rodrygo and Vinícius Junior, as well as the great Asensio, it’s not about that.)

Marca asked eight renowned Spanish experts who would win the championship, who would be the top scorer, the MVP, the best goalkeeper and the best young player, that is, the one under 22 years old. The answers are in order: Real Madrid, Messi, triple tied Messi, Benzema and Sergio Ramos, in addition to Oblak and finally Ansu Fati, Kubo or Joao Félix.

The pandemic has hit Spanish football deeply: La Liga teams have spent only 288.4 million euros during the transfer period, compared to 825 million euros they have contracted in the Premier League, for example, so far.

Eight clubs, including Real Madrid and Valencia, did not spend a penny, the latter had drastic salary cuts and sold its three most expensive players, Parejo, Rodrigo and Coquelin, for 59.5 million. The big spender with 103 million euros is Barça (Pjanic, Trincao, Matheus Fernandes, Pedri), the second is Atlético with 63 million, of which 56 million were issued only to Moratar.

Anyway, the problem is big in Spain. In the last decade, it was now the first Taste that fell in Spain the lowest of the five main leagues (Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A, Ligue 1). Lionel Messi was only fifth in the European goal competition.

This is what La Liga looks like, which at this time can also be called a poor house, and its weekend program is as follows:

Saturday: Eibar – Celta Vigo (4:00 p.m.), Granada – Athletic Bilbao (6:30 p.m.), Cádiz – Osasuna (9:00 p.m.). Sunday: Alavés – Betis (14.00), Valladolid – Real Sociedad (16.00), Villarreal – Huesca (18.30), Valencia – Levante (21.00).



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