La Liga 2015/16 Season Thread

2015/16 Teams

Athletic Club Bilbao (Ernesto Valverde)
Club Atlético de Madrid (Diego Simeone)
FC Barcelona (Luis Enrique Martínez)
Real Betis Balompié (Pepe Mel)
RC Celta de Vigo (Eduardo Berizzo)
RC Deportivo de La Coruña (Víctor Sánchez)
SD Eibar (Gaizka Garitano)
RCD Espanyol (Sergio González)
Getafe CF (vacant)
Granada CF (José Ramón Sandoval)
UD Las Palmas (Paco Herrera)
Levante UD (Lucas Alcaraz)
Málaga CF (Javi Gracia)
Rayo Vallecano de Madrid (Paco Jémez)
Real Madrid CF (Rafa Benítez)
Real Sociedad de Fútbol (David Moyes)
Sevilla FC (Unai Emery)
Real Sporting de Gijón (Abelardo Fernández)
Valencia CF (Nuno Espírito Santo)
Villarreal CF (Marcelino García Toral)

Betis are already promoted for next season. The last automatic promotion will come down to Girona and Sporting on the last weekend of the season. Playoffs will then include Girona or Sporting, Las Palmas, Valladolid, and either Zaragoza or Ponferradina. Eibar had been relegated on the last day of the season after Deportivo's last gasp draw in the Camp Nou but because of Elche's financial irregularities, Eibar will play in the top flight next year.

Sevilla have renewed Unai Emery through the end of the 2016/17 season.

Personal prediction for next year:
1. Barcelona
2. Real Madrid
3. Atletico Madrid
4. Sevilla
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5. Athletic Bilbao
6. Malaga
7. Valencia

A side note: glad to see Eibar stay up as its good to small market teams in La Liga, and their stadium is kind of cool.

So many times above Valencia who will have more money to spend than anyone except madrid, since barca can't. DWL LOL.

real will win it next season, then rafa will explore the season after that.

What will he explore?

Més que un worm wrote:What will he explore?

The southeast Pacific.

Sporting Gijon promoted after beating Betis 0-3 at the weekend. The playoffs for the last spot are:

Valladolid-Las Palmas
Zaragoza-Girona

Zaragoza and Las Palmas make the final for the playoff.

Las Palmas edged Valladolid on away goals (1-1 aggregate).

Zaragoza also go through on away goals. Were losing 0-3 after the first match in la Romareda but somehow manage to beat Girona 1-4 away.

I like Sporting Gijon ever since they broke Mourinho's home league record of not losing.

Zaragoza won the first leg against Las Palmas 3-1. Return leg is Sunday!

Las Palmas pull it off winning the return leg 2-0!

It means that Juan Carlos Valeron, who just turned 40 years old, could well make his return to the top flight of Spanish football. His current deal is up but it sounds like the president will give him a one year extension so he can play one last season in Primera.

Garitano has left Eibar. Sounds like Jose Luis Mendilibar might be the replacement.

So all out candidates for president has started the silly season with their promises.

So far we have ramos coming go barca
Koke
Monchi

Only laporta hasn't named a player yet. Must say I'm not a fan of him choosing abidal as his sporting director though.

New kits!!!!!!!

Athletic Bilbao:



Real Madrid:



Rayo Vallecano:



Barcelona:



Atletico:



Sevilla:



Valencia (away):

Think I might buy a Rayo Vallecano home jersey when I go to Barcelona this weekend. The away one looks like a gay "pride" shirt.

Messi from La Masia wrote:Think I might buy a Rayo Vallecano home jersey when I go to Barcelona this weekend. The away one looks like a gay "pride" shirt.

It is.

Jaime wrote:

Messi from La Masia wrote:Think I might buy a Rayo Vallecano home jersey when I go to Barcelona this weekend. The away one looks like a gay "pride" shirt.

It is.

I might buy it just so I can burn it then.

Messi from La Masia wrote:

Jaime wrote:

Messi from La Masia wrote:Think I might buy a Rayo Vallecano home jersey when I go to Barcelona this weekend. The away one looks like a gay "pride" shirt.

It is.

I might buy it just so I can burn it then.

You are one of a kind.

Next seasons fixtures have been announced:

http://www.laliga.es/calendario-2015-2016.html

The RFEF have given us (Barcelona )a tough beginning to the season with Bilbao away, Malaga at home and then us (Atletico) away.

Maybe nobody cares but Elche has been officially relegated! They had been relegated due to financial irregularities and Eibar was restored to the first division but Elche appealed so it's all been up in the air but LFP finally ruled that Elche is down.

#Facts

Puro! Betis have signed Juan Vargas on a free! Good player.

What a goal by San Jose!!!

Barca so poor defensively

I'll rephrase that - they are shocking defensively. Entirely Enrique's own fault for fielding a weakened team

RAPE IN BILBAO.

Why the hell is Sergi Scruberto getting game time over the likes of Sergi Samper? That's what I wanna know.

love this one

Aduirz's header was class too. The skill by the winger to beat Dani Alves, the cross and then the wonderful header. He's only 6 foot nothing but he's a beast in the air. On PES Stats he has 93 Heading accuracy.

What has happened to the famous La Masia? All the players from this latest crop are awful. Bojan, Tello, Cuenca, Muniesa, Rafinha, Sergi Roberto, Traore, Bartra, Montoya etc. Even Thiago hasn't progressed as expected. The 2012 match against Levante with the 11 La Masia graduates on the pitch feels like a longtime ago

Bartra, Tello, Cuenca and especially Rafinha aren't awful. Tello and Cuenca play for Porto and Rafinha and Bartra both get decent time for us. Bartra is in poor form this pre-season but he's a talented player. There was a time when Bojan was as good as well but he had to compete with Messi didn't he?

And there is a player called Sergi Samper (A DM) who is really talented but we have the best 2 DM's in the world in our team, though I would rather Samper played there instead of Mascherano because he is unsuited to our system.