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It’s a bit like that, the top teams in the Championship would struggle against the top 4 teams in the Dutch or Portuguese League but bellow that they would blow out a lot of teams, even more in Portugal than in the Netherlands I suppose. Anyway it’s always silly to make those comparisons and...

They don’t produce that type of players, anyway they certainly will improve during the competition, but without Griezmann they aren’t the same team.

Not when you’re coached by someone with the mindset of Abel Ferreira. He doesn’t make life easy for young players.

Long term potential. Playing for current Palmeiras isn’t the same as playing for those Santos sides. But I already mentioned at least give him 1 season to adapt, it’s not only jumping directly from Palmeiras to Europe, it’s going straight to Real Madrid. If he doesn’t hit the ground running...

Germany, France, England tier 1 and move Portugal to tier 2 but at the end of the day that won't matter much because it will depend on the conditions of the top players available and the decisions made regarding best 11 to approach a competition. And there's always the knockout stage where a...

Hum, no, Portugal cannot be so high if the Martinez plan is to start Cristiano and Pepe every match, obviously an England with Kane, Saka, Foden and Bellingham on top form will be different than today, and France has a top Mbappe. The only thing I demand from Martinez is at least reaching the...

One season to adapt maybe but I will be very surprised if he won't be better than Rodrygo at least, and that's my worse scenario.

The most important player for France NT during the last 10 years, might be controversial but for me there's no easy replacement for him, even in France.

He will arrive at Real Madrid with 18 years old, already has played what, 70 professional matches for a top club in Brazil and South America, in this case Palmeiras. People just need to chill out (not you), I remember what was said regarding Vinicius before he joined Real Madrid and he is what...

What really maters is June, but if they find the right lineup and playing at home don't see any special reason to say Germany cannot have a good tournament. One thing that puzzles for me regarding France is that as many top level players they produce I don't see where is the guy there to replace...

No, we have some gaps in the squad and if Martinez is thinking about playing every match Cristiano and Pepe and doesn't have the balls to rotate the team during the tournament best scenario for us will be last 8.

Brazil was playing with Bento who is their 4th best GK, Fabricio Bruno probably 4th or 5th best CB, Wendell who plays for Porto was his first cap for Brazil as it was for João Gomes I suspect. It wasn't only England who was playing with second lines. I suspect Brazil will improve under Dorival...

Dorival or Tite are more suited to international football than Diniz imo.

I know it wasn't the best 11 but I struggle to see where that easy way to win will come. And it was the first game under a new coach by Brazil with some second lines also, and they had the better chances during the match. But tbf with what I said it's easy to see since 2020 the quality of...