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Marseille did the right thing since they cannot afford to pay such huge amount for the player.

As for Arsenal, I don’t blame them because the guy worth the amount they are putting on him. He is a good striker that have reasonable number of goals when given opportunity to ply, he only lacks playing time which was the reason why many teams were underrating him, but if he can be given some playing time, he can perform well and will prove his worth to the world.
Nevertheless, I still prefer him to go to any Premier League team than going to Marseille. And Marseille will regret not getting to negotiate with Arsenal because I don’t think they have any striker that can give them high number of goals than him.

Yes, Bayern Munich is open to let Kimmich go to other clubs if he refuses to renew his contract with the club because his contract with Bayern Munich will expire next year, so the club don't want him to move out on a free transfer hence the door is very much open for any club to sign the German international defensive and right back midfielder. Possibly, Kimmich may consider moving to the France ligue 1 side PSG who have been making move to sign the German footballer for some time now but haven't gotten a concrete response from Bayern Munich about the player, perhaps Bayern Munich want the player to renew his contract but if the player don't renew his contract then there's every possibility that PSG can sign him.

Xavi spoke the truth. Maybe it's like an outburst of disappointment because he felt he didn't get full support from the board but instead of getting what he wanted he was fired because of it. It's not meant to compare him with Hansi Flick, but Xavi already has quite good trust from his players, something that Hansi Flick may not have had at Barcelona to this day.

Hansi Flick is a good coach but the burden he had to bear was quite big. He not only has to earn the trust of players and the fans, but he also has to struggle with all of Barcelona's current shortcomings.

Xavi Hernandez were doing good job in limited sources with having good results in La Liga is also impressive from his perspective but suddenly things gone wrong because Barcelona President Joan Laporte never like truth so they have confrontation which ends on exit of Xavi from his job with we all know things are not good for the Barcelona under President Joan Laporte, but he is incharge and no one can talk truth in front of him.

Now how things will be work under Hansi Flick its interesting because we have to understand few ground realities as Barcelona is no longer able to perform at the top level with this condition, and they needed few quality players which are no coming due to lack of funds but now as expectations are high for new coach we have to watch this season then we can talk about this even mostly are not happy with this.

Well all what I have to say is that Marseille aren't really ready to get the player because if the club was active then finding a way to get him won't be an issue at all and although I understand that some players aren't really worth the money that there clubs actually place on their head and that's because the whole transfer market is over hyped with huge amount of money for players who aren't really worth the money but for nketiah I think the case is clear because the fellow was very instrumental as he also impacted greatly to the arsenal excellent performance.

I think I understand Kimmich position and believe at the moment it is the right thing to do, last summer he was not able to play much as he would have wanted because of his fall out with the then manager Thomas Tuchel and that was his reason to leave, right now there is a new manager too coming in which he doesn’t know maybe he will be able to get more playing time too, at the moment the club also are t putting much interest into giving him a bumper deal and agreeing any deal with them now will only tie him down for long and should he not get the playing time with Kompany it will become hard for him to move then, so he is playing his card well.

Of all the clubs interested, I think his best option should be either of Liverpool or Barcelona, at this two clubs he can perfect slot in either as a right back or a central defender midfielder which both clubs do not have enough players at.


For now Arsenal them selves are yet to get any of their striker targets, so allowing any of their current ones leave just yet will be a move to quick. If Arsenal gets a new striker I think Marseille bids will be looked at in a better way, right now both will not get to an agreement with this valuation from Marseille, I will say marseille should simply just wait and come back later in the summer when The player will be surplus to requirements

According to the information I got from the press, Roma made this transfer for 30 million euros. I think the price they paid for him is perfect. They couldn't have made a better transfer with a similar budget. I think Girona are the loser in this deal. Dovbyk is 27 years old. He might be playing his prime. Roma can sell him for a higher transfer fee. He scored 24 goals in 36 league games for Girona. He produced excellent statistics. If he manages to show the same performance in a Roma shirt, Roma could sell him for a very high price.

For Roma, this Artem Dovbyk offer is a wise one. This person changes the game, not only scores goals. Last season, he dominated La Liga, which is no little achievement. Now he's on a squad that requires a consistent striker, particularly given Lukaku might be out the door.

Dovbyk is a proven talent; I believe he has what it takes to really influence Serie A. Although this is a difficult league, I wouldnt be surprised to see De Rossi surpass his goal count from previous season under direction.

This is a win-win move. Roma has a great striker, and Dovbyk has an opportunity to show on a fresh platform. Mark my words, people, this is a big time payoff move.

Is there still a possibility for Kimmich to leave Bayern Munich?

Because recently he has stated that his agreement with Bayern Munich has not yet reached a bright spot and this allows him to move at any time without having to wait for the existing agreement. Indirectly this also signals to any team that is still interested in recruiting him and I think it will be a very good thing as long as the summer transfer market has not closed.

Previously we knew there were rumors of interest from several top European teams such as Manchester United, Real Madrid, Manchester City, or even Liverpool and this will invite competition who will get this player with one more season left on his contract.

Every Dortmund player is just leaving the team after failing to win the Champions League and those players who are leaving are the ones who have been playing for the club for a long time, Dortmund is a very strong team with these players and now they are leaving I don’t know how Dortmund are going to be competing with Bayern Munich and Leverkusen, Dortmund players are very serious of leaving the team and the also did not say anything about it, may Hummel is one of the best players in the team and I think Dortmund should do anything within their power to bring another strong player that will help the team.

Players that leaves Dortmund are more than three and the last one who wanted to leave and the deal collapsed is the deal of Adeyemi who plays as a winger for Dortmund, juventus is very serious about Adeyemi but I think Dortmund has come to their senses and the deal did not work, Dortmund should not let many of their players go because if they did they are going to suffer it next season and from the way I’m looking Dortmund they will find it difficult to make a good position in the league table next season.

Marseille have made their first offer to recruit Nketiah for 27 million Euros and that is still not enough for Arsenal who will indeed release Nketiah for no less than 35 million Euros at this time, Marseille intensively looking for a main striker to replace Aubameyang which leaving for the Arabian league some time ago, apart from Nketiah, Marseille previously succeeded in recruiting Greenwood from Manchester United but losing Aubameyang certainly forced them to try to find another striker they could rely on next season, De Zerbi seems to really understand the qualities from Greenwood and also Nketiah, so indeed he has made them both the main targets that must be recruited at this time, if you look at the interest that Marseille currently has, it looks like there will be a second offer that they will submit to Arsenal in the near future, but getting Nketiah is of course a little difficult because Arsenal also don't want to lower the price considering they also haven't got a new striker at the moment.

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I know why Arsenal rejected Marseille's offer and I'm sure everyone knows that the reason is because Eddie Nketiah is a great player and Arsenal only gave a price that is equivalent to the performance that Eddie Nketiah has.
Arsenal just don't want to lose when losing their great player for a cheap price and for example Marseille withdraws to stop pursuing the player, Arsenal doesn't feel like they've lost because he can still make a good contribution to Arsenal.

What do you think about Marseille's failure to get Eddie Nketiah?

In fact, Barcelona is now quite a competitive team, not on par with Real, but not such that they can't beat everyone else. By the way, Barcelona remains in the top five most profitable clubs, so if they can solve the issues with the debts that they have (I don't know how quickly this is possible and whether they can restructure the debts), then their financial situation can change dramatically for the better. In this version, Flick's decision looks far-sighted.

Ground realities are astounding because Barcelona which is still third most valuable soccer club with the price of €5.51 billion and fourth-richest club with having income from their last season around €859 Million are facing many troubles due to poor management because now their current debit is around €2.7 Billion in both short and long term.

As I have these figures I was really shocked how things are going on wrong side but no one available for giving any reply about this because now they are not able to bring quality players just because they lost their best coach Xavi, and now we have Hansi Flick who is going to work with available sources and having promise of giving good challenges to opponents in both La Liga and Champions League which is realistically looking not possible.

This upcoming season is going to be important for them because with this we can expect how things will be gone into their way are they able to have better results, or we are going to face another backlash things will be not good if they fail again.

I have been discuss about this rumour and previously i was said Liverpool seems is really serious want to buy Anthony Gordon from Newcastle and Liverpool even offering some money plus Joe Gomez as part of the deal and seems this offers is very tempting for Newcastle especially Newcastle also want to sell Anthony Gordon because they don't want to gets Financial Fair Play regulation so in my opinion most likely this transfer will be happened

Besides Anthony Gordon it says Liverpool was targetting Sporting player Viktor Gyokeres and reported Arsenal recently has been withdraw to gets this player because Arsenal feel the price tag which provide by Sporting is too high for Viktor Gyokeres and after seeing this condition Liverpool want to hijack this transfer with attempts to gets Viktor Gyokeres too and a bit different compared to Arsenal because Liverpool rumoured is dare to pay according to Viktor Gyokeres price tag and in the near future Liverpool officially will bid for this player

If this transfer happened then Liverpool will have new face for forward lines and this is interesting because basically for forward lines Liverpool has good players such as Diaz, Nunez and Mo Salah and if Viktor Gyokeres and Anthony Gordon arrived to this team then most likely Liverpool will sell some players which probably Diaz or Nunez however since Fabinho leave this team Liverpool don't have good player on defensive midfielder and hopefully Arne Slot will considering this condition and look for new player on that position

The difference between Manchester City squad and Arsenal’s is the age difference. These Manchester City players you just mentioned are above 27 except Halaand. Arsenal have a policy which is to identify younger players and bring them to the team. They have added a few overage (>25) players and we have seen how far these players have taken them.

Arteta want to reinforce his team ahead of next season. They have many competitions to participate in and they will need some rotation in these games instead of featuring your first team and risking them to fatigue and tiredness.
Also, Arsenal do not have the financial resources to buy enough quality in their team like Manchester City. They are trying to get who they can get now so they can challenge for the league title and other domestic cup competitions.
Merino is a good addition. He’s a quality player and I know what he can offer in this Arsenal team when called upon.

While I do agree that Arsenal is trying their very best and getting anyone they can get, that doesn't mean that it's Merino that will make the difference. They feel like they are making transfers based on just what they think will work or they are transferring players like a rush, and that's not a good way at all.

I think instead of getting bunch of smaller names, if they could have gotten someone who is just a little bit decent, we could have done better and that's the most important part. I believe that we are going to face a ton of issues and we should just make sure that we are dealing with an issue that would actually be much sharper instead of tiny improvements here and there. They even improve their bench, their bench, it's the Effing bench, they need a star and instead they are improving the bench?

They will never win the title this way, you improve your bench when your team is amazing, look at City, they won so much before they started to get players who are starter level quality but for their bench, before that they had nobody great. Arsenal needs to get stars, without stars they are not going to win, they don't have their own KDB or Haaland or Rodri etc etc, get them first.

You are right, AS Roma looks more serious about competing this season, we can see that from their activities in the transfer window. If last season AS Roma only spent 19 million, then in this transfer window AS Roma has already spent 88 million for 5 players only well we can assume that Roma already has enough budget to build a squad, I have to say Daniele De Rossi was lucky to come when AS Roma's finances were starting to recover and he can bring in the players he is looking for. What do you think about the current squad + the new one? will AS Roma be able to compete in the top 4? AS Roma is also the most active team in the transfer window, especially from Serie A.

Dovbyk was a mainstay in Girona last season, now AS Roma can get his signature, that's really good for them, but I hope Dovbyk can also give a very good performance with Barcelona and he can adapt quickly. There are many good players but when he moved to another team his performance actually declined and hopefully that won't be the case with Dovbyk at AS Roma. AS Roma now looks more serious about building a team, previously when the transfer market they were like a team that didn't want to move to get players who played well, but now they have more movement and I hope that will be good for them. Indeed they must realize that they also have to bring in many new players to provide competition in Serie A, because other teams have also shown good improvements in the last few seasons. So if they don't move then they will be left behind even further.

It was precisely the arrival of Antonio Conte that put Osimhen in an unclear situation. Conte did not include Osimhen in the main squad plan and instead wanted to take Lukaku instead. Conte and Lukaku have a special relationship so there is no other way but to kick Osimhen from his position. PSG dared to buy Osimhen but not at the price Napoli wanted so until now the deal has not continued. The same is true with Chelsea who did not dare to spend money at a fantastic price. So the Osimhen problem seems unlikely to be realized this season and the last option is to wait for Conte to change his mind and make him a main player.

As long as there is no breakthrough made by Laporta against Barcelona management staff, we will continue to see this club running in place. Barcelona problems are quite complicated to solve one by one because of both internal problems in Barcelona and external problems related to other clubs where Barcelona arrears are still very large. Barcelona management staff cares about their own interests and does not care about the overall situation of the club.