u/Passiondances

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That's a tool that allows to set full La Liga table before a ball's kicked, champion down to relegation, and it saves your pick. Just drag and drop the teams up or down the position.

I'm curious to see how strong is belief (or difbelief?) in the team this year.
https://tribuna.com/en/blogs/la-liga-champion/

According to Tribuna.com sources, Álvarez personally told Simeone he wants to leave Atlético for Barcelona, explaining he believes Barça's style suits his characteristics better.

Simeone's response: the final call belongs to the club, and his own intention is to help Julián keep developing as a player in Madrid.

That's reportedly caused real frustration in the player's camp: they see Simeone, who personally pushed hard to sign Álvarez in the first place, as the only person at the club with enough influence to actually facilitate a move out. So it's not sitting well that he's stepping back and framing it purely as a boardroom decision.

Atlético, for their part, remain firm and unwilling to help push through a sale of one of their star players. Barcelona are still interested, but nothing moves forward unless Atlético's stance changes.

https://tribuna.com/es/news/2026-08-11-exclusiva-julio-cesar-enciso-vuelve-al-ipswich-town-con-un-traspaso-definitivo/

Ipswich Town and Strasbourg have reached a final agreement for Julio César Enciso, who will return to the English club on a permanent deal.

According to Tribuna.com sources, the deal is already done and the clubs are finalizing the exchange of paperwork. The Paraguayan forward will travel in the coming hours to complete his medical and finish the last steps of the signing.

Enciso already knows Ipswich well — he spent 2025 there on loan, and now returns to continue his career there after a spell in French football.

With the deal essentially wrapped up, all that's left is completing the formal paperwork to make the move official.

Westerlo are exploring the possibility of bringing in Cody Drameh from Hull City, as discussions around a potential partnership between the two clubs continue to develop, Tribuna.com reports.

The 24-year-old English right-back is understood to be among the first players being considered by Westerlo as a potential option within the framework of this partnership.

At this stage, however, there is no agreement and no certainty that the transfer will materialise. The idea is being explored as part of the broader relationship potentially being established between Westerlo and Hull City.

Further discussions are expected before any decision is made on Drameh's future.

Drameh, who joined Hull City and helped the Tigers secure promotion to the Premier League last season, has experience at Championship level and can operate primarily at right-back, while also being capable of playing further forward or on the left side.

Lille a déjà soumis une offre pour Orlando Gill, l'une des révélations du Paraguay lors de la Coupe du Monde 2026, bien que la proposition reste inférieure aux attentes de San Lorenzo.

Selon les sources de Tribuna.com, le club argentin s'en tient à la clause libératoire de 8 millions d'euros du gardien, ce qui signifie que l'offre actuelle de Lille n'atteint pas le montant que San Lorenzo souhaite pour le laisser partir.

Gill, 25 ans, s'est fait remarquer par ses performances dans les cages du Paraguay durant la Coupe du Monde, suscitant l'intérêt de plusieurs clubs européens.

La situation pourrait s'intensifier dans les prochaines semaines : un autre club français, plus important, suivrait également de près le gardien et pourrait entrer dans la course pour son transfert. San Lorenzo, de son côté, attend une offre plus proche des 8 millions d'euros avant d'envisager sérieusement son départ.

Lille have already submitted an offer for Orlando Gill, one of the standout figures for Paraguay at the 2026 World Cup, though the proposal still falls short of San Lorenzo's asking price.

According to Tribuna.com sources, the Argentine club is holding firm on Gill's €8 million release clause, meaning Lille's current bid doesn't meet what San Lorenzo wants to let their goalkeeper go.

Gill, 25, rose to prominence with his performances between the posts for Paraguay at the World Cup, drawing interest from several European clubs.

Things could heat up in the coming weeks — another, bigger French club is reportedly also tracking the goalkeeper and could enter the race. San Lorenzo, meanwhile, is waiting for an offer closer to that €8 million mark before seriously considering letting him go.

According to Tribuna.com sources, Al Sadd are trying to convince Alaba (seven years at Bayern!) to join them as they look to strengthen their defense. He's currently a free agent after his Real Madrid contract expired this summer.

Al Sadd had actually been close to completing a deal for Nayef Aguerd first, but that transfer fell through: they needed to free up a foreign-player slot before being able to register him, and Real Sociedad ended up completing the signing instead. Alaba is now one of the alternatives on their list.

Wouldn't be the first ex-Bayern player to take an unconventional late-career move. Kingsley Coman just left for Al-Nassr, Sadio Mané went the same route after a rough season in Munich, and going further back, Lothar Matthaus even won an MLS division title with the MetroStars.

At 34, is a move east really the best call, or would staying in Europe, even outside the traditional top leagues, have made more sense to close out his career? And is it a closure yet? The World Cup showed a lot of people in age and still in prime.

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After missing out on Nayef Aguerd, Al Sadd turn their attention to David Alaba

According to Tribuna.com sources, the Qatari club are now trying to convince former Real Madrid defender David Alaba to join them as they look to strengthen their defence.

Al Sadd were very close to completing a deal for Nayef Aguerd, but the move ultimately fell through. The reason: the Qatari side needed to free up a foreign-player slot before being able to register the Moroccan defender.

This situation allowed Real Sociedad to move ahead and complete the signing of Aguerd.

Al Sadd are now exploring alternative options, with Alaba among the names being considered. The Austrian is currently a free agent after his contract with Real Madrid expired.

Tribuna.com's kicking off a new season of Ukrainian Premier League Team of the Week picks, tied into our Fantasy UPL game — the 11 players named each week get a bonus point in Fantasy, and the MVP gets an extra one on top.

GK — Valentyn Horokh (Veres): 8 saves against a much stronger Kharkiv, conceded only in stoppage time on a shot he had no chance on.

RB — Bohdan Mykhailichenko (Polissya): Constant aggressive overlaps, works his left foot well enough to basically function as a winger from right-back. Assisted the game-winner.

CB — Anderson Jordan (Zorya) 🇧🇷: Key pass on the winning goal, strong ball progression numbers, clean sheet.

CB — Vladyslav Baboglo (Karpaty): Started the new season exactly like he ended the last one — scoring. Already had a goal-line save from an earlier chance in the same match.

LB — Petro Stasiuk (Bukovyna): Not the flashiest pick, but nobody else from a rough Bukovyna performance really stood out. Solid, unspectacular, does the job.

CM — Giorgi Robakidze (Chornomorets): Scored a genuine screamer and carried the ball 50-60 meters up the pitch from his own half to set it up. Also helped frustrate the match favorites defensively most of the game.

CM — Mykola Myronyuk (Epicentr): Only Epicentr outfield player to make the list: scored from open play (the other two goals came from penalties) and pressed constantly all match.

Winger — Vladyslav Veleten (Polissya): Dragged Polissya out of a hole: a wonder goal plus a gorgeous assist.

Winger — Alisson (Shakhtar) 🇧🇷: 1 goal, 2 assists in the season opener. Would've been MVP in most other weeks.

Forward (playing out of position) — Yan Kostenko (Karpaty): Genuinely wasn't even the striker on paper, but scored and basically created the second goal too. First time in his career starting up top in an official match.

Forward — Kauan Elias (Shakhtar) 🇧🇷: Hat-trick in the season opener after not scoring a single league goal in 2026 up to this point. MVP of the week, no contest.

Coach of the week — Serhiy Nahornyak (Epicentr): A bottom-half team scored 3 and conceded 0. Doesn't happen often in this league.

Fantasy UPL's still open if you want in on the bonus points system going forward: https://ua.tribuna.com/uk/fantasy/upl/pick-team/

Spoiler: La Liga, Serie A, EPL coming soon!

Weird pattern from this World Cup: Mbappe, Vinccius, and Bellingham were each arguably the best player on their national team. Put them all in white together, though, and Real Madrid's attack turns into a traffic jam.

Why it works for their countries
Each of them gets built-in isolation. France uses a traditional #9 to occupy center-backs so Mbappé gets full freedom on the left (2 goals, an assist, 5 shots in that wild 6-4 game vs England). England structures around Bellingham's vertical runs with wingers holding width so he's never fighting for space (his stoppage-time winner off the bench vs France). Brazil builds the entire structure around Vinícius as the sole creative outlet.

Why it doesn't work at Madrid
Pure geometry problem. Both Mbappé and Vinícius are right-footed players who naturally drift to the same left half-space to cut inside. Neither wants to play with their back to goal, so they're constantly colliding in the same small zone. The stats show the damage on Bellingham specifically — his xG per 90 dropped from 0.74 to 0.34 this season, shot conversion fell from 26.4% to 22.58%, because the space he used to exploit (created by defenders chasing Vini wide) is now occupied by Mbappé dropping into it too.

The bigger issue
Nobody's doing the "dirty work" — no target man, no deep-lying playmaker, minimal pressing (Mbappé reportedly covers the least distance per match of any striker in La Liga per Driblab). Ancelotti tried "relationism" (free-flowing intuitive link-up play), and it collapsed the moment Mbappé arrived, since it only works when players naturally complement rather than duplicate each other.

Mourinho's coming in, which signals the end of that free-flowing approach. His system would likely force Mbappé into a pure central striker role, ban him from dropping into Vini's space, and demand Vinícius commit to serious defensive work — something that could trigger real friction if he doesn't buy in.

There's already talk that the only real fix might be selling one of them (Vinícius' name comes up most, theoretically funding a proper double pivot and target man instead).

Genuinely one of the more interesting squad-building puzzles in football right now — is this fixable with the right manager, or is it a fundamental mistake in how the roster was built?