Topic: ⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions - page 1512. (Read 487224 times)

The back line built by Pep Guardiola this season will be very difficult for opponents to penetrate. With so many choices of players and their respective abilities, it's clear that this is balanced. So it won't be difficult if one of the players is absent. Pep Guardiola is looking to leave a legacy before he leaves, though Man City will not allow that to happen. The target for next season is to maintain the treble winner, adequate finances will not make Man City difficult in any case. Defensive gaps that seem difficult for opponents to find.


Even though in the midst of Barcelona's poor finances, they can still get high-quality players and that proves how serious Barcelona is in preparing a better future. However, the question is are the players brought in ready to survive in the midst of Barcelona's finances like this? they also need to be paid and compensated accordingly.

Well that's your assumption, if we speak from the data, currently has the best result in friendly match where they won 5-0 against Wrexham today. Havertz and Mason Mount might aren't good players, although they are still young and they have a chance to increase their quality.

It's either Pochettino is smart to find a problem in Chelsea or he's stupid for did this fast regeneration by selling their important players when they won champions league trophy.

Yes, it's simple math: having Kane doesn't guarantee anything (8th place lol with Kane scoring 30 goals) and his departure means that the rest of the year will cost Tottenham 100 million (which they can now get for him) plus his salary. If Tottenham had the financial capacity of the City, then maybe it would be normal to use his services for another year at this price, but for Tottenham this is a very minus option.

The respect Jonny Evans have for his old team earn him this opportunity because it takes only a player with a kind heart to come back to where he left; moreover he is a very good defender that will be beneficial to Manchester United following their defensive problems towards the end of last season.

Ten Hag explains that the player have a place in the team, even as we know the he will not start in the first eleven, I am sure he will be a good substitute, and his contract is a short one but can be extended if his performance is worthwhile.

Nevertheless, I see this as an opportunity for him to showcase his talent and help his football career growing after his contract expires with the relegated side Leicester City at the end of last season.

PSG are just making everything difficult by demanding a very high price even though they know that his contract is just two seasons ahead, they wanted to get good value from his departure because if they keep him it will be of no too much benefit because he might end going on a free transfer that is why they are very keen to let him go.

Real Madrid on the other hand are maintaining their price valuation because they know that the player is interested in leaving and they might get him with a cheaper price that is why they are not pushing that hard.

And another reason is that, so many teams might be interested in signing him, but cannot afford the money to be paying him as he play in the team.

Well FC Chelsea was buying players like crazy during the winter transfer period of the last season. After that crazy shopping trip they had way to much players in their squad and it was obvious that they had to sell a few of their players in order to get the head count of their players back to a reasonable amount. I think it really is sad for the fans of FC Chelsea that they are not selling players that did not play that big of a role anyway but instead they are selling very crucial players like Havertz and Mason Mount. So looking at the huge transfer activity of FC Chelsea in the last 8 months or so i have to say that i don't really see the squad stronger now than before.

I can't possibly think of any positive in letting Xhaka and Partey leave in the same season. If depleting a midfield that almost won the league is not stupidity, I don't know what is. I have said it before, Arsenal should delay that Partey deal till January. You can't be making one step forward two steps backward. Arsenal will be involve in a lot of competition next season, they need every player to be available, Partey Jorginhno and Rice are good players to help them stay ahead in the coming season.

Indeed, the door for Liverpool's midfielder next season is increasingly open for any player to be able to fill it in and after Henderson and Fabinho leave, there will be a place left. We know that Henderson and Fabinho are no longer young and Liverpool are currently in need of regeneration, but the fees offered from Al-Ettifaq and Al-Ittihad are also very tempting for Liverpool. Surely Liverpool will be very happy to accept the offer and now it remains to be seen what the next step will be for Fabinho whether he wants to join Al-Ittihad or not.

Liverpool have actually brought in two new midfielders, namely MacAllister and Szoboszlai, thus leaving one place in the defensive midfield and must be filled immediately after Fabinho leaves. I think the Kalvin Philips rumors will come true considering that he also rarely gets minutes to play at Manchester City and Jurgen Kloop doesn't need to be confused if he really wants to come to Anfield.

https://www.90min.com/posts/thomas-partey-joins-arsenal-pre-season-squad-with-gunners-not-pushing-for-sale

So, partey will not be going to the saudi club. It sounds good caused by arsenal really needs him right now. Partey already clariffied if he wants stay for another season in arsenal. Arsenal fans are so happy with his decision.
He has been also playing in the pre season match against MLS all star. Partey is here to stay. He was not interesting to leave from arsenal in sumer. It surprises me caused by so many people have been also talking about his destination once he was going to leave from the club.

Finally, it will not happen. Arteta knew that if partey is still holding one of important role in the club. He is actually needed by the club. It makes everything clear now about him.
Glad partey was not only silent by seeing so many rumors about his movement to leave from arsenal.

Chelsea fans across the world are just feeling too bad that they sold two players to their rivals, talking about Arsenal (got Havartz) while Manchester United (got Mason Mount), as if that's not enough, they the Chelsea fans are just happy that the both players would be a flop at their new destination, they can't play well and it would be a regret for both Arsenal and Manchester United. Very funny though, to me I don't see it that way especially with the man Kia Havartz, I see him as the next Ozil at Arsenal or even a better player than Ozil was at Arsenal.

Havartz is going to be a key players for the Gunners, and we shouldn't judge with the pre-season performance and all that but the player would do much better come next season even better than the UTD player Mason Mount.
Kia is having a bad time in the pre-season matches he played but he scored last night and same with Mount but no goal yet, we shouldn't d write them off yet, both players are good but if you ask me to choose between both players I'd go for Kia Havartz, he's better than Mount. Who is better if you're to be a manger to pick from?

After his exit from PSG things were clear he is not going to join Barcelona with most chances his next destination could be MLS or Saudi League because in presence of Xavi and due to financial issues it's never been option for both parties this was just rumours in news for the media intention which is not already ended because if Barcelona have him again then surely this was going to be big disaster for their preparations which are happening in presence of many youngsters which are doing impressive.

Barcelona current squad is surely capable of having better results then in presence of Messi and Xavi is also dealing impressively with this all right now with their current strength and performance they can defend their title easily.

I agree more with the mindset as you said because at the moment Barcelona finances are really bad and maybe the best way is to improve by recruiting academy players and educating these young players so they can have strong new talents and if that works Barcelona can sell those player and recover their finances for the next few seasons. so Barcelona should be more patient without star players for the next few seasons and try to use this strategy to improve their finances.
maybe this method will not guarantee it, but at least with this mindset it can help restore Barcelona finances a little.

and right now it looks like some of the new players recruited by Barcelona are getting for free from the transfer market, well at least they can strengthen some of the line-up even though they are not as strong as the star players.

They are building for themselves a formidable squad that even when their first eleven are reserved, the second can be unbeatable as well. I like the pattern at which Guardiola is training the boys, instilling such confidence that even on less than better days, they still manage to perform well.
But on a different note, can Raphinha be a worthy replacement to Riyad Mahrez? The Algerian forward has been instrumental since joining the club in 2018, playing 294 games and having 77 goals to his name. Although Raphinha is also a good player and having joined Barca in the summer of last season, he has scored 10 goals. But is he still a better replacement?

Manchester United signed Jonny Evans. Now that's a weird transfer. Evans is a former United player(not one of the good ones) and he's 35 years old. I guess that Ten Hag will use him as a substitute player in defense.
The Killian Mbappe transfer from PSG to Real Madrid is the biggest drama on the transfer market. It seems that Real doesn't want to pay 250 million euro for Mbappe, because they want to sign him after his contract with PSG ends. PSG, on the other hand, wants to prolong Mbappe's contract, in order to sell him for a big price, and they are ready to kick him out of the squad and/or leave him as a substitute player.
Let's wait and see how Mbappe will get out of this weird situation.

So, Hendo off to Saudi Arabia?

I have to admit that I don't like that we've made so many changes to our team - we'll start the season with a whole new midfield.
Considering that we've already started to play with Trent as a midfielder while in possession, it will be increasingly difficult to play in such formation with 3 new players around him.

I like that we're adding some flair to our midfield - but I would have preferred to keep some of the balance as well. Love him or hate him, Hendo provided all that and 12 mil is not the kind of money you let that go for without having a replacement ready.

Damn like i didn’t believe he is that old, i had to google his age because he looks young and still plays like he is in his late 20’s with so much energy. Even at 35 with the way he plays some top clubs will definitely want to have him, he has similar energy with Azpilicueta, its just as if they don’t age in the game.

Barca are always interested in quality players even when they know it will be impossible for them to get. They want to try every possible to uplift them team back to the way it used to be but to do that you need finance to add high quality players to the team. They should rest for now and focus on building their current players and their academy players instead of trying to acquire players they can’t afford and in the end it may result to salary cut of some players in order to pay the wages of these players.

Guardiola is likely to make Nathan Ake a cover for Gvardiol when he officially joins the Man City squad. A step that Pep must take to maintain consistency until the end of the season if you don't want to lose points at a sacred time like the end of the season. With his new recruit, he will add options to rotate his players and anticipate injuries to players in the squad. Arsenal and Man United have so far become strong candidates to compete with Man City in the English Premiere League. Other clubs are of course also good but not at the level of challenging Man City.

A surprise came from Pep because long before we only predicted Pep would be looking for a replacement for Gundogan, not a new defender. So far Neymar has also been linked with them but Pep has asked for a pay cut if he wants to join. I remember AC Milan in the 2000-2008 period when they had a number of star players on all fronts in their squad.

Pepe Guardiolo strengthen is in his bench, he like to build his bench so strong. than his first team, Manchester city never lacks players, no matter who leave the team, they are two or three players to player in your position. This strategy has earned him so many trophies.  Manchester city has the money to get any players they want, as of today, they are the strongest team now. next season will be very easy for them to win trophies.

Laporta can indicate their interest in Bernardo Silva as long as he would like. However the reality is that Barcelona can't sign him now by paying his transfer fee which will probably be a very high level sum considering FFP rules. The only formula for them is to try to convince Manchester City for a swap deal for at least one of their players and maybe a little extra money as well.

However no matter how Barcelona make their offer for Silva I still don't expect Manchester City to just be okay with that. Because he is a crucial part of the team now and he still has 2 more years with his team. I don't think he is unhappy either.

I expect him to stay for at least one more year and then things can get interesting depending on his willing to extend his contract for a few more years.

Most chances we will have Romeo Lukaku at Juventus because they are serious about this deal and their discussion with Chelsea going ahead because they are trying their best for the Vlahović departure which is creating way for the Lukaku, and he will join them in this summer because Chelsea is already lost patience with him Inter Milan is having no finances which are required for bringing him back at this club and Lukaku is also already rejected Saudi League offers because he feels he can do better here in European clubs, but this could be last chance for him if he fails again then surely his future is going to end with European clubs, and he has to go for somewhere else for his future even then if Saudi League will accept him this is not clear.

Xavi Hernandez has come up to dispute the transfer rumor of Raphina. He said that the Brazilian winger is part of plans this season and not for sale. Raphina has scored ten goals and created twelve assists. He is also a winger that does a lot of defensive play and Xavi cherishes him so much. Let's see how this transfer drama will play out.

I also didn't want the deal to materialize because Barcelona has gradually recovered from the influence of Messi. Xavi Hernandez has built the team around a new set of players such as Raphinha, Robert Lewandowski, and others. If Messi returns to Barca he will distort this development and cause the club to fall back on him. I also perceive that there will also be a supremacy clash between Lewandowski and Messi because both of them are influential.