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Xavi is gathering new experience as new seasons keep unfolding. In the last two seasons he could not make any impact in the Europa and Champions League maybe due to lack of experience to compete with the big coaches but he was able to do so much in the Laliga. I believe with his recent Laliga trophy Supercopa de España, Laliga and semi-finalist in the Copa del Rey Xavi should be able to do beyond the group stage in the CL hopefully qualify for semi-final

That is a very good hope that Xavi must achieve next season in order to make the Barcelona team triumph again in a bigger competition such as the Champions League, because the Champions League always has bigger challenges for all teams so Xavi needs to put his all into it. Organize and train every player who is already on the current team. Apart from that, Barcelona fans will also be very happy if Barcelona can return to competing in the Champions League until the semifinals next season.

Barcelona have some experienced players along with some young talent who wouldn't be a bad team to plan for the Champions League but need better planning first. Barcelona is a successful team in La Liga because Barcelona has won more league titles than Real Madrid so far but they are far behind Real Madrid in the Champions League.

Barcelona's performance in the Champions League last season was very poor which is never expected from a team like Barcelona. If their financial problems are resolved, they should be able to re-sign some players right now.

Becelona's managers usually fail with transferring and hiring players the coach needs.
In this season they couldn't even hire the players like Messi while he wanted to this team himself. I think with this situation Barcelona can't have too much chance to achieve anything.

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Quote from: Docnaster on June 16, 2023, 10:38:40 PM

Manchester United is still owned by the Glazers pending when the agreement to sell the to the new bidder is confirmed.
So it simply means that Manchester United will remain to continue with whatever transfer strategy and budget that's been put in place by the Glazers until the club is finally sold to another individual or group. United current sqaud for a truth needs to strengthened by signing more world class players which I think will be done in this summer transfer window regardless of who owns the club

Whoever owns Manchester United one thing is certain that they really need significant additions to the squad. At least this is needed if Erik ten Hag is planning bigger for the club for the near future. This season they showed how capable they can be by defeating even the league champion in Old Trafford. They were really impressive in home matches against top clubs in the league.

But this squad isn't still quite enough to compete harder for the Premier League and Champions League titles. Maybe you can give the Arsenal example but it isn't a thing we see very often. They have a really young squad so they also need some serious additions to keep consistency.

As a result Manchester United need to be really careful about their expenditures as well from now on. Otherwise they might find themselves spending a huge sum of money on an average player such as Maguire.

The best thing Ten Hag can do is to sell players like Maguire to save some money and spend the money to hire better players they really need for the next champions league.