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Re: ⚽ Premier League 2025/2026 Discussion Thread ⚽
in Gambling discussion
I guess the rumours about Erling Haaland's potential transfer to Real Madrid just got cut short.
Real's presidential candidate Enrique Riquelme, who was pushing hard to sign up Haaland, just lost the election, so it's unlikely that Real Madrid will be continuing their pursuit of a "hostile takeover" of Haaland.
Man City, Haaland's father and his agent, all confirmed he's not going anywhere.

More on the story can be read in the local Manchester news portal:
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/man-city-erling-haaland-rodri-34081840

I really think it will be difficult to get Halaand out of Manchester City right now, because I think his is a big part of the club and he also love the club, so i never saw him leaving Manchester City this summer even if Enrique Riquelme has won the election. Halaand made his name at Manchester City and he seems to be very loyal to the club, so it will be a very difficult task to get him out, although in football everything is possible,  but I don't see him leaving Manchester City anytime soon. It's very possible that it might happen in the future,  but for now we will still enjoy watching him in the premier league.
With Enrique Riquelme loosing out on the election the story of getting Haaland is over and Manchester city are considering legal action on him. Haaland his a huge part of the club project and getting him out of the club will be almost impossible, he has been a very huge figure since his arrival. Manchester city are now focusing more on how to build a more challenging team next season under their new manager Enzo maresca.

For now the players focus is on the World Cup and how to make a big statement in the tournament and after that he will return back to Manchester city where he will focus more on achieving great thing at the club. He is still on contract with Manchester city but just as you said in football anything is bound to happen.
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Re: JJG’s Outline of Bitcoin Investment Ideas
in Trading Discussion
Some guys may well be limited in their abilities to change their weekly DCA amount, and even if they had been accumulating bitcoin for quite a bit of time, even for a whole bitcoin cycle or more.

Since you have been registered here since April 2022 (4 years and a whole cycle) maybe you have changed some of your bitcoin accumulation strategies based on your perception of dips, and sure there could be some situations in which guys might have had been already able to accumulate a lot of bitcoin, so that they are strategizing around dips, yet I am not even sure if there are many guys who are in that kind of situation or if there are especially compelling reasons to get more excited about bitcoin accumulation, since many times the abilities of guys to make adjustment to their bitcoin accumulation tends to depend on both the quantity of discretionary funds that they have to work with and even how strongly they had already been able to build up their cashflow management systems/practices, which surely if guys had been holding back funds in order to buy on the dip, that does seem to be more like attempts to trade and/or gamble rather than trying to maintain a more steady DCAing practice that is based on buying bitcoin when funds are coming in, whether weekly or otherwise.

You are right, many people tend to have tight or predictable budget, so their DCA amount is what actually survives after their needs have been sorted. So most times to them increasing investment funds is not realistic without cutting off basic needs or earning more, while reducing it makes them feel like they are failing at accumulating. So for these people I would say DCA is less of a choice and more of necessity. They don’t make plans for Dip but instead they stack up when they have good earning.

I still get your point on holding back funds in other to by the dip seems more like a gamble or trading. Because sometime the Dip might not come and we will have that cash sitting idle instead with DCA that cash would have been buying all along.
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Re: Buy the DIP, and HODL!
in Speculation
You need to be specific here, it is not every backup fund that you can use to buy bitcoin, you can use your reserved funds to buy, but never should you touch your emergency fund to buy the dip so that you don't leave your portfolio vulnerable. It is better you just maintain your consistency in periodic purchases and still buy the dip with your normal buying amounts than make the mistake of deploying your emergency funds to buy the dip, this is wrong because your emergency fund should only be used to solve real emergencies and buying dips is surely not an emergency.
Yes, I agree with you. People often use such funds to buy in DIP, which is the type of fund they should not use. One of these is emergency fund. It is important for every investor to have an emergency fund to keep every investment safe because an investor may need urgent money at any moment, if he does not have emergency fund, then long-term funds like Bitcoin are at risk and many times people need to sell Bitcoin at an untimely time to meet the emergency need. So I think it is better to buy in DCA method at regular intervals instead of using such funds.
A lot of people tend to mistake what both emergency funds and back up funds are actually made for, sometimes mismanagement with both funds can lead us to selling our investment unplanned.

Reserve fund is that fund that is set aside to boost our discretionary income and emergency funds, so it is used when we want to get aggressive with our investment. And when our emergency have been used we can take part of reserve funds to boost our emergency funds.

While emergency is basically used for emergency purposes, for unforeseen and impromptu circumstances.

For every successful investment both funds are important to build but mind you, don’t delay your investment because you want to build both funds.
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Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2025/2026
in Gambling discussion

Now that he has left the club, there is going to be another transformation if another person took over. Remember that players relationship with the coach is very important. There has never been time a heated argument or disrespect from any of tbe players but watch another person becomes the face of the new coach, there will be this chaos instead of better performance as far as coach replacement is concerned.

Yes I understand pep has built Man City for more than a decade making this team very respected during that period and also has given many achievements, so it will be difficult to build a new reputation with a new coach, but it is also not impossible as long as Man City management gets the right replacement coach and also makes the right player transfers.
In as much as their will be total difference with when pep was in charge I still think the best possible person that can still replace him is Enzo maresca. This is guy who is very familiar with the players, the fans, and the culture at the club so he know what to do to be a success at the club. Maresca have proven even at Chelsea that he is good and can challenge for titles so for pep made a good choice in choosing Maresca as successor.

Manchester city are known for winning title and with Maresca little time at Chelsea we saw him win the conference league and the club World Cup for them. He have a winner’s mindset and that is what is needed at the club, and with pep guidance I believe he will succeed at the club.
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Re: ⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions
in Gambling discussion


Good news for Juventini. Juve is reaching personal agreement with Sorloth. A proper striker to fulfill empty spot left by Vlahovic. Striker has always been Juve's main problem. They created so many chances last season, but their strikers were not capable to convert all of chances into the goals. So they need a new number nine to play with. It's good to have Sorloth as a new striker.
Hopefully, he can perform as good as what i expected.

On other hand, this transfer is also showing how Spalletti is really committing to the Juve. Signing striker and goalie have become club's most important things to do. So i expect to see them to seal a signature from a proper goalie.

I think they will do better next season by having proper squad. They can also win Europa League too.
This is really a good one from juventus, we saw how 3 strikers struggled to get goals last season, with Vlahovic now leaving as a free agent they need to bring in a proven player and Soloth is a that guy. We saw his numbers at Atletico Madrid since he joined the club, they are good numbers even though most of the time at the club he played as a back up player. It a good move for both the player and the club.

Now we just hope he adapt very quickly, there is a big difference between the Spanish league and the Italian league, but with his physic and Ariel ability I think he should be able to adapt very quickly. He his experienced too so that should be an added advantage for him.
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Re: Floxynice Quick Naira Loan 🇳🇬✅️✅️✅️
in Nigeria (Naija)
50k loan?
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Re: JJG’s Outline of Bitcoin Investment Ideas
in Trading Discussion
Actually it’s the only valid thing cos the best time to buy bitcoin is now, and the dip even makes it sweeter so you can’t say it’s misleading. So long as you have your discretionary you can start buying immediately and if you’re already investing now is the kind of time you’ll want to be aggressive and maybe use your reserves to buy more.

If you’re saying the statement is wrong or misleading, are you suggesting they wait till the market start going back up before they start buying?

All these are just misunderstanding between you too. I agree with you that the best time to buy Bitcoin was yesterday, and another best time to buy is now, wether it is a dip market or not, as long as your discretionary income is available and ready, buying and starting your Bitcoin accumulation journey is what you should do, their is no point in wasting time.

The only thing that is wrong is when you are waiting for the dip before buying, but as long as you are not waiting for it before buying, then it's never a problem even if you buy aggressively within the confinement of your discretionary income.
For whatever strategy you are using to accumulate bitcoin now is an added advantage to try to accumulate as much as possible. For those using the DCA strategy, accumulating constantly have been their routine so this period only an advantage to get more, while for those using the Buy the dip, this period is the actual time to strike, for some who might want to wait for more dip is on a risk because we don’t know when the dip will end.

So for every strategy you are using make sure you make most of this Dip and accumulate much investment. But also even as we are trying to take advantage this period we should make sure we are buying within our discretionary income. We shouldn’t get carried away and involve the mindset of a trader in our investment.
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Re: Has bitcoin ever failed to reward long term investors?
in Nigeria (Naija)
Since bitcoin is a volatile asset then you can’t predict what it will be in the future do their is no certainty about it  the truth is if you are investing with the mindset of holding for a long time then you have a high chance of being in a better position, because you are rather focused on building up your assets than thinking about the possibility of it failing you.

I would say no bitcoin have never failed to reward long term investors because even when you have reached your desire target, a good investor can only chose to sell some part of his investment and still continue holding so with that he will only be selling at a favorable time.
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Re: Pre-World Cup Friendlies
in Gambling discussion
Portugal managed to win the match thanks to goals scored in the second half. Before the first half ended, players from both teams got into a brawl, and both teams continued the match with 10 men. Portugal started the second half with substitutions, increased the pressure, and managed to win the match 2-1. I didn’t expect Portugal to struggle this much against Chile. I thought they’d score in the first half and pull ahead, but they seem like they’re not quite ready yet.

I don’t know if you watch the match but if you did you won’t say managed, this is a game that they were just unlucky, they should have scored five goals or even more. From the very first minute of the game they were in control, they posses well and even created chances as well, Ronaldo got a Goal ruled out in the first half due to offside.

For me it was a good game for them, we have seen the blue print of what they want to do at the World Cup, it a good one from them and besides Chile is not an easy team to play against.

Goals from Guedes and Fernandes secured the win, but Chile pulled a goal back in the very last minute of the added time.
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Re: ⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions
in Gambling discussion
After westham got relegated from the premier league we all know some of their big players will be leaving the club and Matheus Fernandes is the name on some of the big clubs in Europe. Westham have now decided to set a asking price on him, they are demanding 80milliin pounds on the Portuguese internationa. For me the market have inflated so badly to be asking for 80M, for sure we can’t deny the the qualities he posses but putting a 80m price tag on him is way too much.

Well let see the club that will try to get his services for next season, I just hope this price don’t prevent him from getting a move away from westham. For me I don’t see this player getting more than 40m. This is a team that is already relegated.

I still expect some players to leave the club before the starting of next season, I expect the likes of Bowen to leave also.
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