As reported by Transfermarkt, there are two new rumors. In the January market Arsenal want to bring in one of the Argentinian stars Mac Allister who also defends Brighton and that is good enough to fill the midfield with Martin Odeegard, for now the market value is 32 million euros but maybe because of his popularity at WC 2022 the price can be very high expensive, I think the transfer fee could be up to 50 million euros.

Secondly, there are rumors that Chelsea are interested in bringing in young Manchester United player Alejandro Garnacho. In the last half of the season Garnacho appeared so extraordinary with the red devils, sometimes he also became a super sub and produced goals for Manchester United's victory. The market value is 5 million euros and the price could go up considering its significant role for the red devils.

Both Barcelona and Manchester United have strong squads. There are many star players in their squad. But despite having a lot of talented players, the two teams are still not stable. And so the performance of these two teams against each other cannot be predicted now. Their performance will depend on Xavi and Ten Hag's match strategy. Both the teams will become stronger if the match strategy and bonding between the players is good. Both have the propensity to win the Europa League title. But since the first match is Barcelona's home match. So I will put Barcelona ahead in this match. Barcelona is very strong at home.

Arteta needs to strengthen the club ahead of what awaits the Gunners has the season resumes on Boxing Day. Maintaining their current standing position will require adding more strikers to assist Gabriel Jesus, in which Jesus is currently undergoing treatment after sustaining an injury at the world cup. Arterta is working on occasionally featuring Gabriel Martinelli  in center-forward roles, but this might not solve the absence of Jesus if nothing is done to find a future replacement it might cost them relinguishing their current position, even Eddie Nketiah been deployed to play the center-forward will not be as productive compared to when Jesus is playing the center-forward.

Today Manchester United will play against Burnley in the carabao cup event, these two teams are in very different situations and team conditions. This is not about caste but the two previous Mancehster United friendly matches were a defeat even though the opponents were Cadiz and Betis. In contrast to the bad results that Manchester United got in the two friendly matches yesterday, because Burnley at this moment is doing very well in the Championship as the team at the top of the standings.
With this difference, I think that even though Manchester United will play at Old Trafford in today's match, it seems that winning this match will still not be as easy as one might imagine.

Although indeed, the chance for Manchester United to win is still there, but I'm sure Burnley will be able to provide strong resistance so that it looks like Manchester United won't get clean sheets either.
Anyway, this will still be an interesting match because it is possible that Erik ten Hag only made a strategy experiment in the two friendly matches yesterday, and for today's match it seems that Erik ten Hag will apply the strategy as it should to make an absolute win for Manchester United.

The last thing you want is to get your good players injured in a friendly match. Roma and Mourinho are unlucky in this regard. Lorenzo Pellegrini is an important name. It has a structure that directs offensive organizations. For Roma, the injury is a significant loss. I hope he gets better soon and takes his place in the team. In Serie A, while there is already an important race for the top positions, it is a nightmare for the teams to get injured.

It's really surprising Karim Benzema announce if he's officially retire from international football tournament [1] although it's make sense since he haven't play any single match in the world cup, I think the manager ask him to not play or Benzema has a personal problem with France's national teammates. Benzema is currently at his peak performance, he get Ballon d'Or which is already prove to become the best football player in this year.

Honestly Benzema could play for Algeria, but Algeria has very bad performance which only make him wasting his time.

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[1] https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1604847161342140418

Manchester United also want Mohammed Kudus, a player owned by Ajax. They are reportedly closer to getting the signature of this one player, Ajax itself will not hinder the transfer of this player as long as they get an appropriate offer for their players. And it is reported that Manchester United have to spend quite a lot of money to really get it.
Ajax has set a price of 45 million euros for Mohammed Kudus, it's up to Manchester United to pay it or not. One of the teams that wanted this player also came from the La Liga giants, namely Barcelona.

With the experience Guardiola has I think Man City will remain strong for the season. They have provided strong evidence in the last season. Although today they have different players, but their quality is better. So I think the reason for the busy schedule won't make Man City bad.
Indeed, there are always many possibilities, this is because there are still quite a lot of matces. There are about twenty-four games still left for the EPL. Indeed at the moment Newcastle and Totenham are obvious threats. Their gap is very slim a one-time mistake would allow Man City to drop the rankings.

Right now money determines whether the team will be the best team or not, without lots of money, of course it is difficult to build a team that is truly perfect in the current era of football, now we have seen how money is the main factor for a team to be strong, like as Newcastle is currently starting to improve and it is possible that Newcastle will become a strong competitor in the Premier League, the Premier League will start next week and we will be able to enjoy the intense competition from the most competitive league later and I hope that Manchester City will be able to put strong pressure on the arsenal which is currently at the top of the standings.

PSG is clearly well decorated club in UEFA with having the biggest quality players pool and luxury of funds through Arab connections but still there is nothing predictable about their future in Champions League because they are doing their best for this title but sadly having nothing positive in last few years, but now situation is completely different for them because their opponent is having issues and their frontline is clearly working better which is positive development for them if they are able to beat Bayern Munich then surely this could be best ever thing for them and improve their chances for the win in this event but still they also have to wait for few other results as well because few more teams are having enough quality for win the race.

Manchester united need a new talented striker who can display what Messi and Mbappe displayed in the FIFA world cup competition, and they are ready to pay any amount of money to sign such player into the team. I don't think, Griezmann is good for that position because his performance in his formal team Barcelona was not too good before he moved to Atletico Madrid which will be some disadvantage that will make Manchester united coach not to sign him. If Manchester united coach can be able to get a new talented striker before next month, I think, they will definitely drag the first position with Manchester city before the end of this tournament.

Mirror says that Frenkie de Jong has told Erik ten Hag about his being willing to join for Manchester United now.

However this doesn't seem convincing news to me. Because it didn't seem like de Jong was that much eager to leave last summer. A couple of teams were rumoured with him then. Manchester United even negotiated terms with Barcelona but they couldn't agree on the transfer fee. de Jong didn't say even for once like he wanted to leave. Xavi also said that he would like to see him in the lineup. And now he is still a regular player in the starting eleven. While he doesn't have any problem with his playing time and Barcelona are in a better condition than Manchester United also, I don't see any reason for de Jong to wish to leave suddenly.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/manutd-dejong-transfer-tenhag-barcelona-28761691

This is just the first start for Ten Hag so it's still in the process of improving Manchester United even though the management has spent a lot of money on players but indeed that hope is still not satisfied plus they are now lacking a striker there is a possibility that in the January transfer market Ten Hag can spend on players but that it is not certain which one to choose, but the fact is that spending a lot of money is not in accordance with helping the team to be better.

Actually I put my hopes on Ten Hag, but if we evaluate it now, there hasn't been any change at all. Maybe after two seasons at Manchester United, we will know how Ten Hag's character carries his team.

it is difficult to get players who can play in several positions at this time so when Chelsea managed to bring in Nkunku of course it was a fortune, being able to play in various positions would certainly make it very easy for the Graham Potter to formulate the right strategy for Chelsea game, the arrival of Nkunku I think will be able to replace the position who was left by Lukaku or maybe Potter will prefer to play Nkunku in a midfield position later, while playing at Leipzig Nkunku has played a very important role and I think next summer he will give the same thing to Chelsea later.

Although Man utd have bought players with huge money and they end up been flop but you can't blame it on them only and ask them to go for free agents. In football some players find it hard to live up to hype when in top clubs, some turn out to be injury prones all this happens in every club. The times I blame clubs on some transfer is when it is base on nepotism just like Man utd favouring English players or because a coach is too adamant on bringing in a particular player when they are better options available. But over rall buying young talents or even Marquee signings looks like a gamble. The best is to build your own academy players which seems hard in modern football. Clubs are eager to get results and they tend not to trust there academic graduates more or even offer them time

I still can't believe that he is not moving to Al-Nassr, those guys offered him 500 million euro for 2.5 years, that is 200 million a year, how could anyone reject that? I get that he likes his freedom and being in Al-Nassr would mean that he would have to follow their culture or it would be a big trouble for him, all of which means even his family would be pressured into living the way they live unless they want risk, so that type of thing is a scary thing or could be at least and I understand that.

However, we are talking about FIVE HUNDRED MILLION EUROS! that is good enough to literally do whatever you are told to do, just way too much money to reject.

You know, the Premier League Trophy is just as important as the Champions League Trophy. and that also applies to Manchester City, even though they always target to win the Champions League trophy. the real fact is, Manchester City slipped in two matches out of 14 matches. they have two draws, and 2 defeats against Liverpool and Brenford. and I guess, not something on purpose.  because of that, Arsenal was able to keep their distance from The Citizen.

In short, Arsenal is currently at the top of the Premier League standings even though it is only 5 points adrift with Manchester City. not something that is difficult for City to overtake, because after all the Premier League schedule still has a lot of matches. moreover, currently the Gunners are in trouble. The loss of a central striker meant that Arteta had to move quickly to find a ready replacement in Grabriel Jesus' position. I am still optimistic, if Arteta brings in a suitable newcomer this January. Arsenal still have a big chance of winning the Premier League trophy.