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I think Theo Walcott had a fulfilled career having been spotted very early by Arsene Wenger who signed him from Southampton in 2006 when he was just 17, he was such a pacy and talented player then at Arsenal, I recall his runs at the right flanks had always been a problem for opponent defence and his goal scoring abilities is topnotch, honestly I was expecting a switch over to Saudi Arabian league to earn money for a least two more seasons unfortunately he had decided to experience a new of life outside football according to a statement credited to him     link I believe after some period of time out of football life he might probably become a football analyst or pursue a career as a manager because age is still on his he can still be active in football related career

Yeah it is good for an old player as he can play at top form there and can have a very good package. But for someone with potential, I don't think it's a good choice as he can obviously develop his skill in much more competitive leagues like PL, LaLiga etc.



I think they are relying heavily on Salah at the moment. Mane, Firmino both have left and Salah is the regular player on left wing now. He is the most experienced and a goalscorer on whom Liverpool is relying this season also. I think despite being 31 he is still performing very good. Last match he had some good shots and made an assist to the only goal as well.

It's true. Tuchel vetoed him and looking for another goal keeper. De gea already agreed to join in bayern but tuchel disagreed with the decision that already taken by the club. FYI, ancelotti was also doing the same thing like tuchel once real madrid management was approaching him in the past. Tuchel might have different opinion regarding him. I can't even tell you caused by tuchel the only one who knew that.

AFAIK, salary was not the main problem in this case.

It seems bayern has closed its door for him. Tuchel doesn't like him. The management can do nothing about that. Tuchel was determining which goal keeper that suit to the club.
It's hard to accept reality but de gea already rejected by ancelotti and tuchel.

You are talking about Yassine Bounou, right? I think it is a good decision by him. He’s already 32 years old. I am going to the Saudi league is definitely a good choice. He should improve the situation of his team. I also agree that his leadership was quite a good way to Morocco in recent times. Consequently, he can likely leverage these qualities to achieve substantial success in his club career within the Saudi league.

I don’t think Liverpool should expect too much from Mohamed Salah. He is getting quite old at this point. I know that he is only 31 years old. But I already think that his age is starting to have an affect on his performance. Liverpool should have thought about it seriously.

Look at what already tweeted by romano if he was always putting barcelona on his mind. It doesn't wanna be recruited by another club than barcelona. This gentleman's mental state has deteriorated due to prolonged bench-sitting. I don't even know what's gonna happen with this guy once he will not be signed by barcelona forever. It's crazy to see there was a guy who is not open-minded to get more experience as many as he can. Someone needs to wake him up.

felix will never ever play in barcelona. This guy must accept the truth if getting as many experiences as possible will help him to be considered by xavi as a potential recruitment. He has not proven himself to be worthy enough for barcelona. I hope that felix will be able to regain his sense again. Barcelona was not everything, he must be aware if his career is far more important then moving to the barcelona even though it was his dream.

Joao Felix no longer has the desire to play at Atletico Madrid, that's why he chose to be a loan player at Chelsea last season and is now making a statement that is even more damaging to his name at the club, it's not a pleasant thing when listening to a player from a certain club expressing his preference playing for a rival club. I think Joao Felix's career at Atletico Madrid is finished he has to accept offers from other clubs if he still wants to play and of course he still wants to play because he is very young.

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Liverpool failed to get 2 midfielders because they lost to Chelsea in the transfer market, but finally, they managed to bring in Stuttgart midfielder Wataru Endo, he is no longer young like the two midfielders that Liverpool failed to get but the price probably won't be as high Caicedo or Lavia and most importantly he can do well at Liverpool later.
https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1692096030970368435

I have to commend Mauricio Pochettino’s work because in the opening game against Liverpool I noticed a huge change in Chelsea’s playing style, they showed much improvement against one of the best teams in the league and were able pull their own weight. I see many achievements for the team if they can continue in this fashion and stay consistent, finishing in top four would be a difficult task for them this season.

It is definitely a great gesture from the player. He gave his word and he kept his word. of course, it could have been a better move for him if he did decide to go to Liverpool instead of Chelsea. Nevertheless, if he truly had a verbal agreement with Chelsea, which I firmly believe he did, then he made the correct choice.

But as much as I respect him for keeping his word, I also think that this decision might be wrong from him. He should have definitely taken Liverpool as his feature club instead of TLC. Because we all know what Chelsea is currently going through. Let’s see if Chelsea can perform well in this season.

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Duke

In recent times there is a trend going on right now. Tomatoes really good players are not being able to end their career successfully in my opinion. Or at least not as well as they wanted. Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale, Eden Hazard are certainly those names. If we go further, I think we can also talk about Coutinho, Agüero etc.

So Eden Hazard is going to be the latest name on the list. He was definitely one of the best and was also compared with Lionel Messi at one point of his career. But now he is a test of field project of Real Madrid. And we can also say that lot of being out in the field has affected his physicality and attributes a lot. He is not the player that used to be. The best he can do right now is to go to the Saudi league or MLS.

Is it true that Tuchel didn't want David de Gea to be signed by Bayern Munich? If it is really true then I have no idea why he doesn't want this transfer to happen. He has watched him in the Premier League for a long time I mean. He knows how great goalkeeper he is.

Besides the only reason why Manchester United released him was the issue with the contract extension. There was a disagreement on salary amount.

However de Gea is still a quality goalkeeper at this age - 32. I think Bayern Munich should reconsider this as he seems to be best alternative in the market right now.

Theo Walcott has officially announced his retirement from football at the age of 34. The Arsenal legend has made 563 club appearances and a total of 129 across 3 different clubs. During his career, he has always lived in England and has never tried a new challenge outside of England. Last time Theo Walcott played for Southampton and it seemed he was done then decided to retire now.

I thought that before he decided to retire, he would have gone to the saudi league, but considering that there was no such offer, there was no possibility of going there either. During his career he has collected 5 trophies with Arsenal and that was not bad during that period. Happy retirement Legend and wish you all the best!

Source: https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1692435050610966994

Neymar was an average player in PSG because of his inconsistency caused by injuries, so the club didn't depend on him. I will say that more responsibility was placed on Messi and Mbappe but the latter had more responsibility. I totally agree that Neymar's move to Al-Hilal will bring more attention to the Saudi Pro League but he has much work to do. The SPL will not be that easy for an injury-prone player like Neymar. The league is rugged and soft or non-physical strong players might find it difficult to perform up to expectation. All eyes will be on Al-Hilal because they have invested more than any other club, it seems Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund has a special interest in the club.


I don't think the reason for the dropping of Joao Felix from the first team of Diego Simeone is because of personal reasons. The truth is that Felix has failed to establish himself as an important player after his record signing from Benfica. He enjoyed a glorious time in the Portuguese league but has failed to replicate the same performance in Spain and Chelsea. I am sure he would have gotten a permanent deal if he had added quality to the Chelsea team. He might be moving to Barcelona on loan but he would not also have an automatic first-team opportunity. Until he improves, Felix will still maintain his current reputation as one of the overhyped and over-estimated players in Europe.

Al Hilal's official Facebook page has confirmed that Yassine Bounou has joined Al Hilal. This Saudi League club has already made several posts about Yassine Bounou. After completing the deal with Neymar they completed their deal with Yassine Bounou. Yassine Bounou was spotted doing a photoshoot wearing an Al Hilal jersey, so it's no surprise that Yassine Bounou could be seen on the field wearing an Al Hilal jersey very soon. Saudi Arabia may host Neymar and Yassine Bounou together. Where other teams in the Saudi league went for big stars, Al Hilal was failing by offering only big stars, finally they succeeded because now Al Hilal managed to sign Neymar and they also managed to sign one of the best goalkeepers, Yassine Bounou.

https://www.goal.com/en/news/west-ham-gbp40m-ajax-mohammed-kudus-chelsea-michael-olise-transfer/bltc52a281d5505d235

Since olise's mission failed and chelsea shall try to get a good replacement for him. I would prefer kudus over barcola. Chelsea can try to compete with westham to get him. It will not be so hard for the club to get him as soon as chelsea agreed to pay the same price which is mentioned in the release clause. Kudus is talented player. I do believe he will shine play in EPL with chelsea. Boehly needs to put him as the best option after the club fails to get olise. Chelsea needs to approach him as soon as possible before he will be going to the westham.
The chance is still open for him to play in chelsea. Eghbali shall try to get him as soon as possible. Comeone boehly, you can do that.
Barcola is quite good but kudus is more experienced player compared with barcola.

I didn't see so much of the player during the years spent with Sevilla but I saw him leading the backline very well with Morocco and he was a good leader from the back. He will take those good traits of his over the Saudi League and pass that on to the young players of that league to learn. They have all the money now all they want to do is attracting quality players, what next would be grow a media to start the hype of that league.  Salah will disappoint Liverpool this season, since the rebuild is ongoing why not push him out.

But PSG still have Mbappe, so they're still depend on star player, just like Tottenham always depend on Harry Kane. The real power of PSG is when Mbappe leaving to join Real Madrid, so we will see how good they're.

Neymar don't need to promote and popularize the Saudi Professional League, but there are so many medias and articles following Neymar. We've seen Benzema, Koulibaly, Kante, Firmino, Mane, Fabinho etc come to Saudi Arabia, but it's only known by football fans. For Average Joe, they're only know Ronaldo and Neymar join Saudi Arabia which mean they have a lot power and popularity.

Joao Felix is one of Atletico Madrid's young exceptional players, and it still detrimentally impacts me to see such incredible abilities being kept on the bench by Los Colchoneros manager, Diego Simeone. It's obvious that the coach and the Portuguese are at odds with one another, which is one of the reasons he was loaned to EPL team Chelsea but has also fallen out of favor in the eyes of the new manager. The conditions are quite complicated from the player's side, and he will undoubtedly figure out how to leave the club and transfer to a place where he can play regularly in games. Barcelona enters the picture; there's a lot to be gained from the player; let's wait for the ideal loan move, while contracts are being negotiated.

Felix is still young, but he is always following his ego. He shall use his sense. Barcelona is never trying to sign him. He may destroy his own career caused by he was always following his ego. Atletico madrid bought him with a lot of money.
The club doesn't wanna suffering a huge lose caused by selling him with cheap price. There have been some clubs interest to sign him but since the price is very high and it's impossible for another club to buy him as permanent transfer.
Felix will not able to get more experience if he keeps being so harsh in moving to another club. I wonder when this kid will learn to get more experience is far better rather than always try to catch something that's too good to be true for him.
he shall improve himself a lot before he will able to play in barcelona. Barcelona doesn't have a lot of money to buy him. He will always sit on the bench.

The transfer news of Joao Felix is definitely getting heated up. There are a lot of talking going around about him going to Barcelona. I don’t know if that is actually going to happen. After all the situation of Barcelona is not good at all financially. But at the same time, a lot of people are also talking about they are going to terminate the contract with Felix. So as a free agent,  for Barcelona, it is not going to be a problem to get him. But I don’t think Atletico Madrid is actually done. They are not going to terminate the contract. They are most probably going to sell him. I actually do not think that Barcelona can actually spend €40 million right now.

At the rate all these signings are happening with Saudi Arabian clubs, am starting to have a feeling that these guys could break the sport we all love to watch!
Am sure they are trying to tip the competition in their favor but this is turning out to be a non compete league and the disturbance in a clubs team build up is going unnoticed and someone needs to put a stop to this as soon as possible!!

Otherwise great bargain for Bono, hope he gives his best for his new club