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According to an official report from popular football journalist Fabrizio Romano, Napoli have finally reached agreement to sign Chelsea striker Romelu Lukaku from the club this summer. As we all know, the speculation concerning Lukaku's possible move to the Diego Armando Maradonna stadium have been reported on this thread on so many occasions but now, it seems the deal have finally been approved. For Lukaku, it's a good move as it'll give him the opportunity of reuniting with his former manager Antonio Conte while for Napoli, they've succeeded in getting their dream man for the no. 9 role at the club. Do you think Romelu Lukaku is going to have a successful spell at his new club?
It's rough but true. Lukaku is far from his top level and this is not a temporary thing. It is quite clear why the negotiations were so difficult - Napoli tried to get Lukaku at the price that he objectively corresponds to, and Chelsea kept in mind their expenses on him and did not want to reduce the price to reality. As for Osimhen, I believe Romano here - this is literally a question of the last days, it is still unclear where he will end up or whether he will stay in Napoli.
I agree with what you said about why Napoli find it difficult to bring Lukaku now because they don't want to make a transfer that is too risky where big money is spent on a player that we know what Lukaku is like now so they want to bring at a reasonable price but that is difficult for Chelsea to allow because they want a condition where Lukaku can at least be valuable which in the end this becomes futile because it is difficult for Lukaku's condition now.
Thanks buddy. I didn't know that Barcelona was having financial difficulties, but after Olmo arrived, maybe Ilkay was no longer needed.
Even if City can withstand the high tempo this year, the coming years will be difficult. A 1+1 year contract was signed, but I do not think the +1 year will be used. It will stay in the Premier League for one more year and will go to either the Turkish Super League or the Bundesliga next year.
Barcelona's condition from a few seasons ago since the Bartomeu era collapsed has indeed experienced a lot of problems, especially in the financial problems they have, especially until now the Laporta era they also seem to have no intention of solving it even this season seems more pronounced where Dani Olmo is difficult to register so they try to make several things including throwing Gundogan as a victim so that Barcelona's financial stability is maintained, especially in salary problems.
Gundogan is still needed actually for the attack but they can't do much to stop that because when Gundogan is not sacrificed then Dani Olmo is also difficult to register as a Barcelona player this season.
Why did İlkay Gündoğan leave Barcelona? In fact, Barcelona already has financial critics. They signed Dani Olmo and now they had issues after registering him in La Liga, that is, Barcelona were struggling due to the club's financial issues. While on the other hand, Gundogan also had high wages. So now Barcelona was facing La Liga restrictions, so Barcelona gave Gundogan a free hand to leave. So, for these reasons, Gundogan left Barcelona and moved to Manchester City.
Thanks buddy. I didn't know that Barcelona was having financial difficulties, but after Olmo arrived, maybe Ilkay was no longer needed.
Even if City can withstand the high tempo this year, the coming years will be difficult. A 1+1 year contract was signed, but I do not think the +1 year will be used. It will stay in the Premier League for one more year and will go to either the Turkish Super League or the Bundesliga next year.
The talk out there seems to have made Gundogan speak up and based on the post on account x, his departure from Barcelona was indeed for the sake of improving the club's finances. This is very sad but why not other players? that's all that's always on my mind until now.
Ok Barcelona needs money, they have to sell their players but do you know that this season Barcelona has spent quite a lot of money to bring in players. I know the payments are in installments etc., how it reflects a club that is already weighing financial limits but forcing everything as if everything is fine. Frankie de Jong is still maintained and continues to enjoy his big salary without making much contribution due to injury.
https://www.calciomercato.com/news/linter-puo-chiudere-oggi-per-palacios-la-ricostruzione-della-tra-13512
Inter is finalising the purchase of player Thomas Palacios from Independete for a sum of around EUR 6.5 million. A young player of 21 years old, technically proficient and very keen on team play. I don't know the player very well but they speak quite highly of him and say he is ready for a European experience in one of the best European teams Do you have any opinions on the player?
Inter is finalising the purchase of player Thomas Palacios from Independete for a sum of around EUR 6.5 million. A young player of 21 years old, technically proficient and very keen on team play. I don't know the player very well but they speak quite highly of him and say he is ready for a European experience in one of the best European teams Do you have any opinions on the player?
Manchester United have brought in a young player from Mali named Sékou Koné, aged 17 and so far has no other track record other than playing for the Mali U-17 national team, playing as a midfielder and his price is only £1 million. Maybe he will be used as a young talent by Erik Ten Hag, there is nothing wrong because everything needs a process but for now if he is immediately played in the EPL competition this season then there is no guarantee that he can steal the attention. Let's just wait and see what kind of plan Erik Ten Hag wants to show.
source : Fabrizio
So, finally, Chelsea has been able to sell this player 
. This was one of the worst signings ever for Chelsea and they have lost so much money.
Bringing him for 97 million was the first mistake and after that Chelsea was still paying for that mistake till now.
They brought him in for such a huge amount of money, did not get any performance out of him, and at the end of the day they had to sell him for only 30 million. One of the biggest loss projects in recent times. The only thing bigger than this is probably Antony to Manchester United.
Anyway, I hope he will be able to perform better at Napoli. But let’s be honest, he is not the player that he once was and probably never will be again. The prime days of Lukaku are gone.
Honestly, now I only watch him for those Lakaka moments. Sometimes I even think if I was there instead of him I probably would have scored some of those chances
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. This was one of the worst signings ever for Chelsea and they have lost so much money. Bringing him for 97 million was the first mistake and after that Chelsea was still paying for that mistake till now.
They brought him in for such a huge amount of money, did not get any performance out of him, and at the end of the day they had to sell him for only 30 million. One of the biggest loss projects in recent times. The only thing bigger than this is probably Antony to Manchester United.
Anyway, I hope he will be able to perform better at Napoli. But let’s be honest, he is not the player that he once was and probably never will be again. The prime days of Lukaku are gone.
Honestly, now I only watch him for those Lakaka moments. Sometimes I even think if I was there instead of him I probably would have scored some of those chances
.It's rough but true. Lukaku is far from his top level and this is not a temporary thing. It is quite clear why the negotiations were so difficult - Napoli tried to get Lukaku at the price that he objectively corresponds to, and Chelsea kept in mind their expenses on him and did not want to reduce the price to reality. As for Osimhen, I believe Romano here - this is literally a question of the last days, it is still unclear where he will end up or whether he will stay in Napoli.
I don't have clear information about the exact number. In some places, it is said to be 30 million Euros with 23 million Euros + 7 million Euro bonuses. Some news sources say that Ferdi Kadıoğlu was transferred to Brighton for a record fee of 35 million Euros (in Turkish conditions). Either amount is considered good. Ferdi came on as a substitute in the last Göztepe match, but could not show much presence. It was very good for him to be transferred.
The deal is a straight up £30 million deal, it was just that the negotiations was stucked at 35m and you know some reporters just publish news without actually doing more research about it. The deal is a good one, I think the player came under the light at Euro with Manchester United been a primary target of this player but they amount and the potential availability of their left backs made them to withdraw from the deal. Brighton are an exciting team let’s if he can replicate his form here,
See, this is the problem of Barcelona that I was talking about. They sign players that they cannot afford. They have signed too many players for too high wages that they cannot be registered in La Liga. I do not see any other team facing problems like not being able to register their player for La Liga. They clearly have signed too many players and have offered too many wages to the players.
Messi, Busquets, Jordi Alba, and many others had to take a wage cut. I wonder how much money do they owe to the players at this point.
They have not yet paid the signing fee to Manchester City of Ferran Torres.
Messi, Busquets, Jordi Alba, and many others had to take a wage cut. I wonder how much money do they owe to the players at this point.
They have not yet paid the signing fee to Manchester City of Ferran Torres.
You whenever I hear of this problem faced by Barcelona the only thing that comes to mind is the corruption eating up this football association, this kind of crisis would have gotten smaller clubs relegated due to how many points that would be subtracted but I don’t think I have seen Barcelona facing any problems or threatened of sanctions even the ones that they bought without having to complete the fees should have gotten them this sanctions
Ipswich, who are trying to make good transfers in order not to be relegated in the Premier League, want to bring young players who are focused on development to the team. They are right about this because young and quality players adapt better to the Premier League flow. They lost 2-0 in the first match but they do not want to be one of the last teams in the rest of the season. This transfer will strengthen them a little more.
Yes, Ipswich Town has made several strategic signings to strengthen their squad, focusing on improving both their defense and attack. I see Ipswich Town's transfer activity as competitive in this league. They recruited quality players such as Arijanet Muric, Ben Johnson, Jacob Greaves, Liam Delap, Omari Hutchinson, and Massimo Luongo. Ipswich Town are surprising fans with their incredible progress. Newcomer Ipswich has just returned to the Premier League after more than two decades of absence but is continuously facing huge challenges. In the opening match of the campaign, Ipswich hosted Liverpool, a strong candidate for the championship, at home and suffered a 0-2 defeat. Despite coming away empty-handed, there were still positives from the performance of coach Kieran McKenna's team. Next, they have to face the defending champions Man City, perhaps bad luck has followed them.But the club's transfer activity has still shown a clear intention to strengthen the squad, and with a mix of youth and experience, Ipswich Town is ready to face the challenges ahead. Ipswich has left the No. 8 and No. 9 shirts vacant, suggesting they could make further signings while the transfer window is still open.
The tractor boys mean business, and even though it's very unlikely for them to survive relegation, I would say that they will give a proper fight to stay in the Prem. They lost the first game against Liverpool, and if you didn't watch the match it's easy to say that they got dominated by the Reds, but if you saw the game you know how good they were in the first half, and how Delap kept annoying the backline of LFC.
Now they are getting Jack Clarke, who is an amazing player who also played for Spurs in his younger days, and now sees himself in Ipswich. I think Kieran McKenna is a proper manager and is strengthening the squad properly, and this can help them massively.
I have a hard time understanding İlkay Gündoğan. Why did you go to Barça and now why are you returning to City? I don't think it will be a matter of money, but it didn't make sense for me to take a year off and transfer back to the Premier League, which has a high level of difficulty.
Most likely, he will be a mover player, not a starting eleven player.
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Come on, mate, there is nothing hard to understand. It is simple: everyone knows that İlkay Gündoğan left Manchester city last year. Because Manchester City didn't get him an extension of his long term contract. So that is why he left Manchester city and came to Barcelona as a as a free agent. After spending one year with Barcelona now he moved to Manchester city again.Most likely, he will be a mover player, not a starting eleven player.
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But point to be noted..
Why did İlkay Gündoğan leave Barcelona? In fact, Barcelona already has financial critics. They signed Dani Olmo and now they had issues after registering him in La Liga, that is, Barcelona were struggling due to the club's financial issues. While on the other hand, Gundogan also had high wages. So now Barcelona was facing La Liga restrictions, so Barcelona gave Gundogan a free hand to leave. So, for these reasons, Gundogan left Barcelona and moved to Manchester City.
Thanks buddy. I didn't know that Barcelona was having financial difficulties, but after Olmo arrived, maybe Ilkay was no longer needed.
Even if City can withstand the high tempo this year, the coming years will be difficult. A 1+1 year contract was signed, but I do not think the +1 year will be used. It will stay in the Premier League for one more year and will go to either the Turkish Super League or the Bundesliga next year.
Napoli lost their first league game and this was huge disappointment regardless of the top talents, they have to settled for less. The club and the new boss running around to secure his best XI for the season. Napoli signing Romelu Lukaku was a great opportunity for the player. He bids his farewell tribute to Chelsea and currently in Napoli. This is one of the best player to be signed under the management of Antonio Conte.
I agree with @beerlover. He was the captain before but I don’t think he has any place in the starting main squad. He was doing great in Barcelona. What I am surprised by is the fact that Barcelona let him go for free. He was the captain of the Barcelona squad and he was doing great. I do not understand why you would let your captain and a performer go for free? Some of the decisions that Barcelona has taken in recent times have shocked me. The downfall of Barcelona started since Messi left and it still continues in my opinion.
Barcelona have their own reason why let him go as free agent after reach mutual contract agreement because most expensive salary payment receiving by Ikay Gundogan and will back up for registering their new recruitment Dani Olmo. Barcelona prefer get mutual contract for Ikay Gundogan because have two season contract left and should paying must expensive salary payment for him than sell to the other team without free agent players. But bit difficult for Gundogan get back his regular midfielder position after filling by many top midfielder before such as Kovacic, I don't know why Ikay Gundogan leaving Manchester City last season after offering one year contract extend and join Barcelona without winning any trophy yet. Manchester City not release yet team list for next match Ipswich Town will Ikay Gundogan make his debut or Pep Guardiola keep defend Kovacic on midfielder position after impressive performance last match when helping Manchester City defeat Chelsea.
See, this is the problem of Barcelona that I was talking about. They sign players that they cannot afford. They have signed too many players for too high wages that they cannot be registered in La Liga. I do not see any other team facing problems like not being able to register their player for La Liga. They clearly have signed too many players and have offered too many wages to the players.
Messi, Busquets, Jordi Alba, and many others had to take a wage cut. I wonder how much money do they owe to the players at this point.
They have not yet paid the signing fee to Manchester City of Ferran Torres.
https://playingfor90.com/posts/barcelona-in-trouble-gundogan-could-return-to-manchester-city-01j5rtt6hjbc
But what is good for Barcelona is that they have signed Dani Olmo who is a good winger and a midfielder and hopefully will fix the problems that Barcelona had in the midfield. Their attacks looked lackluster in the last season and I think he might be the solution to it. The tight schedule might also be another problem for them though. Pedri and Gavi are injury-prone. These are their main player and the tight schedule might get them injured and put them on a back foot.
He refused a salary from Al Qadsiah of 75M for 3 seasons he wants to stay in Rome maybe there is no interest at all with the club despite the tempting offer he would rather accept a small salary but be in Rome.
That Arab Clubs always offer fantastic salaries, if the player thinks of money then it will not be long he will definitely accept the offer and not all players see with money, so we can still see Dybala playing for Roma.
That Arab Clubs always offer fantastic salaries, if the player thinks of money then it will not be long he will definitely accept the offer and not all players see with money, so we can still see Dybala playing for Roma.
Nope.
This is what they told us to make him appear like a boy with a golden heart.
Later yesteday on media we got another story for Dybala.
The deal has got not green light from Roma cause Arabs were paying to low for his contract to Roma...
as I said in another post it is wonderful to see Dybala working hard to stay with his fans, despite the giant offer made to him by the Arabs he chose Roma and decided to stay and play Serie A and an excellent championship instead of a fake championship just for the money
I don't know what made Dybala decide to stay at Series A rather than go to Saudi Arabia to play and make a lot of money for his future, well that is his decision and I don't know what made him decide to stay but me going to Saudi Arabia is the best decision for me, Dybala has won many trophies that some players have never win it in their entire career, He has been playing for Roma for the past two seasons now and he wants to stay again, well that is good for him but with the way I'm seeing his performance so far in Serie A league Roma will no longer depend on him and at the end he will end up being a bench player.
According to the rumor, he said he is happy with the way the fans of Roma are treating him and he wants to stay, that is very good because being happy with fans is among what makes some play happy and feel at home in some teams, but for me as an old player that he is he needs to go to Saudi Arabia and show them he is one of the best player in the world and also one of the best players in Serie A league that play with the two greatest of all time which is Ronaldo and Messi.
as I said in another post it is wonderful to see Dybala working hard to stay with his fans, despite the giant offer made to him by the Arabs he chose Roma and decided to stay and play Serie A and an excellent championship instead of a fake championship just for the money
He remains every for AS Roma even though with a small salary he doesn't care about money anymore he wants to play in Serie A maybe this is a love for the club he loves.Arab clubs always offer large salaries making some players complacent about going there because they can get 3x-5x salaries in the Arab League but this has no effect on Dybala.
I saw a video of Dybala meeting his fans that he would stay he was warmly welcomed by AS Roma fans.
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Napoli have finally done their job of finding a replacement for Osimhen and officially Lukaku has no place for him in the first team. After this Osimhen really has to leave because there is no reason to stay any longer. Lukaku is the player Conte wants. I respect his decision but why do Napoli still want to set Osimhen clause and not want to offload him? Wouldn't this sale give them money to buy a cheaper player and pay the rest to Chelsea.
https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1827055764093202623
https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1827055764093202623
So, finally, Chelsea has been able to sell this player
. This was one of the worst signings ever for Chelsea and they have lost so much money. Bringing him for 97 million was the first mistake and after that Chelsea was still paying for that mistake till now.
They brought him in for such a huge amount of money, did not get any performance out of him, and at the end of the day they had to sell him for only 30 million. One of the biggest loss projects in recent times. The only thing bigger than this is probably Antony to Manchester United.
Anyway, I hope he will be able to perform better at Napoli. But let’s be honest, he is not the player that he once was and probably never will be again. The prime days of Lukaku are gone.
Honestly, now I only watch him for those Lakaka moments. Sometimes I even think if I was there instead of him I probably would have scored some of those chances
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Napoli have finally done their job of finding a replacement for Osimhen and officially Lukaku has no place for him in the first team. After this Osimhen really has to leave because there is no reason to stay any longer. Lukaku is the player Conte wants. I respect his decision but why do Napoli still want to set Osimhen clause and not want to offload him? Wouldn't this sale give them money to buy a cheaper player and pay the rest to Chelsea.
https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1827055764093202623
https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1827055764093202623
I have a hard time understanding İlkay Gündoğan. Why did you go to Barça and now why are you returning to City? I don't think it will be a matter of money, but it didn't make sense for me to take a year off and transfer back to the Premier League, which has a high level of difficulty.
Most likely, he will be a mover player, not a starting eleven player.
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Come on, mate, there is nothing hard to understand. It is simple: everyone knows that İlkay Gündoğan left Manchester city last year. Because Manchester City didn't get him an extension of his long term contract. So that is why he left Manchester city and came to Barcelona as a as a free agent. After spending one year with Barcelona now he moved to Manchester city again.Most likely, he will be a mover player, not a starting eleven player.
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But point to be noted..
Why did İlkay Gündoğan leave Barcelona? In fact, Barcelona already has financial critics. They signed Dani Olmo and now they had issues after registering him in La Liga, that is, Barcelona were struggling due to the club's financial issues. While on the other hand, Gundogan also had high wages. So now Barcelona was facing La Liga restrictions, so Barcelona gave Gundogan a free hand to leave. So, for these reasons, Gundogan left Barcelona and moved to Manchester City.
as I said in another post it is wonderful to see Dybala working hard to stay with his fans, despite the giant offer made to him by the Arabs he chose Roma and decided to stay and play Serie A and an excellent championship instead of a fake championship just for the money
I don't have clear information about the exact number. In some places, it is said to be 30 million Euros with 23 million Euros + 7 million Euro bonuses. Some news sources say that Ferdi Kadıoğlu was transferred to Brighton for a record fee of 35 million Euros (in Turkish conditions). Either amount is considered good. Ferdi came on as a substitute in the last Göztepe match, but could not show much presence. It was very good for him to be transferred.
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