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You're right, selling Nketiah is something Arsenal might regret in future because he has alot to offer, and he's still very young and vibrant, i remember last season when Gabriel Jesus was injured and Arteta was left without much choice but to feature him, Nketiah did pretty good upfront and had a good number of goals before Jesus returned, he might not be the best finisher Arsenal are in need of yet but i think he’ll be of a good use for them when he's fully experienced, therefore a loan option for him won't be bad, instead of a full sale.

 As for Ollie Watkins, i think Arsenal might end up paying a very huge fee like they did towards getting Declan Rice in bringing him into their squad, he's a very good finisher, one of the best in Europe currently therefore letting him go won't come cheaply, well there are other strikers Arsenal could go for, like the Stuttgart striker (Serhou Guirassy).

Several clubs were previously rumored to be interested in Donny van de Beek. like Frankfurt and also Girona as you said. but there is also news regarding Donny van de Beek who wants to move to Barcelona. but maybe that's just a rumor.
What is clear is that he was not given a chance at Man Unt, and he should look for a club that can appreciate him and give him a place in the squad. Let's see which club will be more interested and start negotiations first.

The news I read some time ago was that Donny van de Beek was rumored to be leaving Man Utd in the winter transfer market. But reportedly Donny van de Beek will go to Galatasaray. But I don't know which news is true. But if Girona is indeed interested in Donny van de Beek then I personally agree that Donny van de Beek could move to Girona. Because currently Girona is in very good condition. And it is very likely that this season Girona will get a ticket to the UCL and next season Girona will compete in the Champions League. I think that would be quite good for Donny van de Beek's career. Because it would be quite regrettable if the potential he had was wasted sitting on the bench. It is time for this player to leave and improve his reputation at another club. I hope Girona is really serious. Even though the news I read is Galatasaray who are closer to getting Donny van de Beek. But I have a feeling that Galatasaray will not be good for this player. Because this player still deserves to have a career at a bigger club. So i hope girona will be the next club for this player.

Glad to see that if lukaku will be going to the saudi pro legue soon. I can't even wait him to join in the SPL.
Lukaku has been rumored accepted saudi's proposal to get him out from chelsea. Lukaku was still in loan to the as roma and i have heard that roma is likely trying to make him as permanent transfer too. The main problem if chelsea will be willing to let him out as long as the club will get good amounts of money from selling him.

Im very happy if that news will come true. Lukaku will be making the right decision by playing for saudi pro league. There was nothing wrong with SPL. he can still play with so many great players.
I remember he has been rejecting the previous proposal from saudi club. It seems like that he is willing to re thinknig again regarding his decision to reject it last season.

Lukaku is likely leving from roma and join in SPL soon. Chelsea will able tog et its money back again from saudi pro league club. This is a very good business for chelsea consider the club aims to buy experienced players and try to stop buy the young players.
This is a good strategy to sell lukaku too even though his performance is amazing with as roma.

I think it would definitely be good for his future, he would get some playing time and considering Arsenal is looking for a striker that means Watkins would get some serious playing time. I understand that Jesus is a big risk for him, because Arteta would want to play Jesus as well, but right now Jesus himself alone can't carry the whole load, they will want to have Watkins there helping him as well and that should be something that would be fine.

These are teams that play so many games a year, and if Watkins goes to Arsenal, it's clear that he will be starting about 30 games at least, and maybe subbed in for more later on as well, that's more than enough games he would want to be in anyway, more than that would be too tiring.

I read if Pochettino included 7 names in the Chelsea sale market in January. If I'm not mistaken, they include Axel Disasi and Conor Gallagher. I don't know the other 5 names. But Pochettino put the names of Toney, Osimhen and Gyokeres on his January purchase list. Indeed, at the moment Pochettino does not have the players he wants and it should be immediately facilitated by management.

Source: https://www.skysports.com/transfer/news/12691/13025497/chelsea-transfer-news-and-rumours-blues-set-to-put-several-players-up-for-sale

That totally depends on how much money raised from selling those players. If barcelona sells them cheap then how can barcelona got their target with that money? Im not being so skeptical toward barcelona but let's take a look at the fact.
The club must have paid the transfer amounts still owe by the club. This is also another burden for barcelona if it keeps try to buy the new player.We shall need to use our logic to say that if barcelona is not in a good condition at this moment.
Barcelona needs also to get lots of money caused by felix has not become the only taget owned by barcelona at this moment. The club is trying to buy more players like cancelo which is under contract with manchester city.
I would rather than pick cancelo to be a permanent transfer rather than felix. The price set by Felix doesn't make any sense.

Putting such disrespect on the position of the player is outrageous, the Netherlands international is an experienced and key player in both his former club and country and watching his stats today at Old Trafford, absolutely nothing good to write about him. Donny Van de Beek made the wrong choice when he decided to join the Red Devils from Ajax. Look at him today, he sits on the bench like every regular under-aged player because Erik Ten Hag doesn't see him fit to handle crucial positions in Manchester United. On the other hand, I wouldn't Donny Van de Beek for his recalcitrant actions to join any other team than only accepting United offer.

Source: https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1734523113025462333

Donny van de Beek is a lost gem and since his arrival at Manchester United his performance has continued to decline over time. Maybe he rarely gets playing minutes so it is not a coach's choice, making him have to spend his career on the bench. Maybe we have also rarely seen his appearances with Manchester United since last season and I think it is time for him to immediately leave Manchester United. Donny van de Beek is not the first choice for the Red Devils and under the leadership of Erik Ten Hag he rarely gets the chance.

Currently it is reported that there are two teams who are interested in bringing in Donny van de Beek on loan and those two teams are Frankfurt and Girona. I think if he joins one of these teams at least he will get his place back as a starter and that will be able to improve his career again at his new club later. But it is possible that Manchester United will not agree to a loan status and maybe they want a permanent offer for this player because they certainly don't want to bear the burden of his salary anymore and would prefer to sell him rather than just on loan.

Even though currently Joao Felix has not provided anything interesting, this is only the initial stage of Felix's appearance at Barcelona and I also see that this player seems to really want to stay for a long time at Barcelona even though the club's finances are very bad, there will definitely be a way to keep this player and Talking about Felix's talent, he is very good. Since joining Barca, he has given quite good performances, making a strong contribution to helping other players to score.
I believe in Alonso if he is actually looking for a way to keep this player because I also see his closeness to Felix and this means that Alonso will try to build a stronger talent that Felix has and while he is at Barcelona Felix will really have a pretty good future despite his finances. which is unstable but in terms of developing talent Alonso is still able to help him.
We can only hope that Joao Felix will really be made permanent and see that this player becomes a talented talent who will become the top scorer in the future.

Yes, until now there is no clear certainty regarding the development of the three goalkeepers who have been mentioned as the strongest candidates to be called up by Newcastle.
But what makes it little confusing is the response from Eddie Howe who quite seriously emphasized that he does not need new goalkeeper.
And from Newcastle defeat against Tottenham it can also be concluded that Martin Dubravka is not really great goalkeeper and can be relied on because he conceded up to 4 goals, while the front line is quite good in my opinion.
Eddie Howe just needs to make some corrective changes to the back line of defenders and goalkeepers, he as coach must be able to place players who can be relied on so that in the future there will be no similar crushing defeats.
But this season Newcastle have suffered 6 defeats and of course there is no hope for them getting UCL ticket is impossible.

Well, that was Eddie Howe mistake where he didn't use playing strategy that could fool the opponent, in fact Newcastle always got less than optimal results in every match during this season.
Indeed, not many people believe that Newcastle can do much this season, but if there are changes and good developments, next season they will likely be able to have stable and consistent performance.

Should be seen as pure speculations, this is another example of a Barcelona bound player and would possibly be Barcelona club legend in the future. He won't be going nowhere. I'm hundred percent sure he's committed to the project of Xavi Hernandez and the club. And even if they want to sell a player to fetch them money, he is so solid in defense for them to consider that.

Coaches lately are hundred percent professionals, they would never talk about other players that are not them players. Bayern Munich anyways, has good defenders, they've not just replaced Benjamin Pavard otherwise since he left for a new challenge and exposure.

I really do feel like they need more of midfielder's recruiting to defender's. Well played last night Munich!!

Nketiah has good talent. It's hard to show the potential when there is too much competition in squad. So I don't think there is a necessity to sell Nketiah and make room for other player. It would be good to send him on loan because I frankly believe that he will become useful in future for Arsenal. As for Watkins I highly doubt that Aston Villa are open to selling him.

I personally like the player and if he decides to stay with Barcelona he will have a great future ahead but of course you can yet qualify him to be a firehouse of goals as he has not done anything amazing or outstanding in that regard but does his presence bring about any strength to the front lines, that's the aspect I look it from . Also , I'd Felix going to make a great effort to continue to work hard for the team. These are some of the aspects I looked into before suggesting whether he should stay or leave after the contract exhausts.

The button line, Barcelona needs more players that will be loyal to their success and will work hard for it. I like the fact that Xavi loves young talents and have been working with a crop of them since he came on board, getting one more experienced player who is a goal-getter to join Lewandowski will do much good things to Barcelona right now.

The Cancelo transfer makes a lot of sense in my opinion as Cancelo is a versatile player who can play various positions and he fits into the style very well as he has a high level of ball control and he likes to support offensive efforts of his team. He can take the position of a wing player when he decides to go for a run from the defense into the offense and he is fast enough to fulfill his duties both offensively and defensively. The price is also ok for a player of his level. I think he would play for most clubs, but for some reason Guardiola believes he would be mostly sitting on the bench if he stayed at Manchester City.

Felix is not worth every penny as you said. A player has to pay back with goals and he doesn't do it. I know that it is not about the number of goals every game, but Felix definitely doesn't score enough nor does he make a lot of assists to his teammates. If he is worth 80 million euros, something must be wrong. But Atletico will ask for that much as they have overpaid for him back then.

https://www.goal.com/en/lists/explained-why-premier-league-vote-end-chelsea-eight-year-contracts/blte47cd4bdb4bb5ae2#cs63a706ffca354a40

Another rule is now being added into the EPL. The EPL has been cutting off the amortisations period. This loopholes has been explored by chelsea last season and the blues can spread the transfer fees into the 8 years. The EPL clubs have agreed to vote for the amortisations to be decreased into the 5 years.
It sounds good for chelsea caused by this club may not receive a sanction caused by this loopholes is just getting fixed right now. Chelsea has become one that was supporting the decision to decrease it to the 5 years.

It's caused by this club has been taking an advantage from the long period of amortisation. It's very good for chelsea to do that caused by the club is not violating any rules related to this one.
I must say that if chelsea was really smart in exploring the loopholes but not for the building the club as it's still struggling at this moment. The club will not be doing it again but im sure that chelsea may use another loopholes.

This is a very good decision being taken by EPL to make the amortisation become the same like what UEFA did. Congratulation for chelsea by helping EPL to fix one of loopholes that available in the club right now.
Todd's club is pretty genius in finding the loopholes lol.

How would Messi fare if he didn't go to PSG?

According to Martí Perarnau's book "God Save Pep," Messi reached out to his former coach Pep Guardiola at Barca through Aguero when he was unhappy at Barca. He wanted to end his career at Barca, but too many deceitful actions by Bartomeu and his associates made Messi lose trust, leading to his departure. Manchester City, where Pep Guardiola was coaching, seemed to be his ideal destination, but it didn't materialize. Why?

According to the book, Pep and Messi had a meeting at Pep's house, where Pep explained that training at Manchester City was too demanding and not suitable for a 33-year-old Messi. Despite Messi's assurance that he would train diligently and meet all requirements, Pep firmly stated, "Forget it, Leo, we are getting old, and our paths might no longer align." Eventually, PSG seized this opportunity to bring Messi on board.

When this information was revealed, many blamed Pep. However, impartially speaking, there are many reasons for Pep's decision. Firstly, he feared that the significant pressure in the Premier League would make a player over 30 like Messi struggle to adapt. Secondly, the financial aspect played a crucial role; the release clause for Messi at that time was £630 million, a staggering amount.

In summary, this was an unfeasible deal, and Pep knew it. As a teacher, he couldn't make false promises to Messi. So, the seemingly reasonable deal didn't materialize—Messi to Manchester City. Imagine if Messi had gone to Manchester City, how would it be? Klopp once said, "Messi would make Manchester City strong, even stronger. He will undoubtedly help Manchester City and make it even more challenging to beat them, although beating them is already very difficult now." If Messi had joined Manchester City, he would have solved their attacking issues. Since joining Manchester City until 2020, Pep had never led the team to the Champions League semi-finals because he lacked a superstar in decisive moments like Messi.

Moreover, Messi's presence would have provided spiritual support for Manchester City players. Besides reuniting with former coach Pep, he would have played alongside close friend Aguero, along with exceptional players like David Silva, Bernardo Silva, Gabriel Jesus, and Kevin De Bruyne, providing enough support for Messi to play his best football. It's regrettable that it remains a dream, and the prospect of Messi wearing a Manchester City jersey forever is just a fantasy.

In my opinion, Barcelona is making a big mistake in signing the Portuguese duo.
Atlético de Madrid asked for 80 million euros for João Félix, an absurd amount, even though I consider that Feliz is a player worth every penny.... however the value is still very high for Barcelona, which does not go through a good financial moment and could offer a maximum of around 20 million euros for the striker.
On the other hand, Manchester City does not intend to keep Cancelo, he was previously on loan to Bayern Munich and is now asking for around 20 million euros, a much more affordable amount for the Spanish, so I believe he is "Ok" for their needs and conditions at Barcelona.

We must remember, however, that Barcelona has been in a much worse financial situation in the past and only managed to get back on its feet with the arrival of Xavi and his desires to hire him, so I believe that the coach deserves a little more credibility. But you can't go wrong with these hires.

Joao Felix performance does seem unsatisfactory, he may not be the kind of striker who score a lot of goals for his clubs, while Xavi Hernandez need a striker who has more quality than that and what is certain is that Barcelona will think carefully if they want to recruit him, which is not worth the price of €80 million for recruiting a striker like Joao Felix is a very expensive price, even more than the price of Lewandowski who was recruited by Barcelona from Bayern Munich, Atletico Madrid gave an unreasonable price for this player. I thinks Barcelona will choose another option in the transfer market. It look like Barcelona won't spending much money to recruited players considering his dire financial condition.
However, if Barcelona sells several of its player, I think Barcelona can recruit several players from the sales, but Xavi must really analyze it first so that he doesn't make the mistake of being includ in the squad.

Yes, dear mate, your point is absolutely correct that Xavi knows which player is required, which means which player fits the tactics of the team and which one lacks. He is also familiar with Barcelona's financial critics, so he will never make any decision that will harm the club. But anyway, Xavi has praised Joa Filix a lot and claimed that he plays very well, has made it very easy for Barcelona to create chances, and even has the skills to win big matches, meaning like Atlatico Madrid. What was the winning goal against Barcelona? The team has gotten a big boost from the perspective of attack due to Joa Felix. Jao Filix is a talented player; he can achieve a lot in Barcelona. Now that he has spent one season, when he will play next season, I hope he can deliver more than this performance.