That's right, Pogba and Maguire are arguably the worst purchases in the history of Manchester United and at such a high price there is almost no commensurate contribution to the club. Instead of contributing, they often make Manchester United suffer losses, both financially and in performance in several matches. Antony has had a pretty good start, but I think he has to be able to prove more of his quality like at Ajax and as one of Erik ten Hag's trusted players he has to prove that next season. I think Rasmus Hojlund's qualities as a young striker will probably be acquired gradually and there is no way he will acquire them in just one season. Surely out there everyone will compare him to Haaland and that is a natural thing because there must be competitors to be able to make the competition more heated to reach the EPL top scorer board next season.

Al-Ahli has again heated up the transfer of European players in the Saudi league and this time they have made an official offer to bring in one of Napoli's important players, Piotr Zielinski. Al-Ahli wants to continue to even out the depth of his squad of European players and after getting players in the positions of striker and goalkeeper they are now trying to get midfielders.

As a midfielder, Piotr Zielinski has proven to be quite good last season with Napoli by contributing 9 assists and his ability will certainly be a support for Al-Ahli's dangerous trio, Roberto Firmino, Saint Maximin and Riyad Mahrez. Currently still in the hold of negotiations and considering that Piotr Zielinski's contract will end next year this is an opportunity for Napoli to sell his players in order to make a lot of money. It is worth waiting for the development of this transfer further.

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It is true that there are still two more seasons for Bernardo Silva to stay at Manchester City, but with this situation, Manchester City must immediately renew his contract so that it will be more difficult for any team to reach him. Bernardo Silva's market value is indeed high and for a club with bad finances like Barcelona this seems impossible if there is no help from other parties.

We know Pep Guardiola and Barcelona have a good relationship so that could be a reason to ease the transfer, but Manchester City also don't want to be fooled and even if it were only 65 million euros, Barcelona would definitely add one player to the deal. But what is clear from the speculation above is very clear that Manchester City will not let go of its key players who are currently in peak performance to bring Manchester City to win the title again.

I don't think that's true because according to various interview sources from Vini, Rodrygo, or even the current Real Madrid captain, Nacho, would be very happy if Mbappe could join Real Madrid. All Real Madrid players are well aware of what they feel is lacking in their current squad and Mbappe's arrival will certainly make it easier for all the desired targets including winning every game. It is true that there were rumors that Florentino Perez would resign from his post, but yesterday Real Madrid immediately issued a statement via their social media accounts to refute this fake news.

PSG will never be able to make Real Madrid panic and instead seeing PSG's behavior now really want to sell Mbappe, of course they are the ones who are actually panicking about the situation they are currently facing. PSG are well aware that only Real Madrid can save them from the losses incurred by Mbappe. So I think PSG's resistance is just a joke.

Rasmus Hojlund is Manchester United's fourth most expensive signing and yesterday he was introduced to the Old Trafford public when Manchester United played a pre-season match against Lens. Seeing the names above it, such as Pogba, Antony, Maguire, all of them seemed unsatisfactory. On the other hand, will Rasmus Hojlund be able to have a real impact for Manchester United at such a big price? Everything is still a question because so many expensive recruits from Manchester United have ended in floops and not as expected. Hopefully he can complete what Manchester United needs later.

Every season, of course, there will always be improvements in terms of players to the strategies used and I think Manchester City is also doing the same thing in order to retain the Champions League title. Indeed, it must be admitted that it is very rare in the last 10 seasons that a team has been able to win this competition back to back except for Real Madrid and of course this will be a challenge for Pep Guardiola and his players to be able to prove this even though it is quite difficult.

Real Madrid has always had the magic to do that and even though they had difficulties, they were able to reach at least the semi-finals. The puzzles you mean are things that cannot be explained with certainty because they all refer to the initial competition so that each missing puzzle can be solved. Either Manchester City or Real Madrid still have the puzzle pieces before they finally get them back into a whole.

So far Leipzig has pocketed a total of 220 million euros from the sale of its star players to English Premier League clubs. We know that there was Nkunku who joined Chelsea, then Dominik Szoboszlai who joined Liverpool and finally there was the most expensive defender in history who joined Manchester City, namely Josko Gvardiol. With that amount of money it can be said that Leipzing's finances are very good so far and I think they are like Dortmund who have managed to sell their talented players. I'm still curious whether in the next season they will succeed in selling their talented players at high prices again and seeing great interest coming from English clubs, of course it will be a very big profit field.

Manchester city is determined to retain one of its key players this summer, namely Bernardo Silva. As we know, there is indeed interest from PSG and Barcelona in getting this player from Portugal and Manchester city has stated that it has no intention of conducting any negotiations for the future of the player. I don't think Manchester City can afford to lose any more important players after previously Gundogan joined Barcelona.

In the near future, Manchester City will offer Bernardo Silva a new contract and with this it is certain that his future will be more secure. But indeed there are things that will make the situation not the same as Bernardo Silva who wants to leave and that will make Manchester City quite useless to defend him.

It is true that at this time the top European leagues seem to be in danger of their popularity if the names of players who are quite influential finally join the Saudi league team and even the coaches of the top European teams are also starting to worry. Actually, Franck Kessie has a sense of loyalty to Barcelona, but there is quite disappointing news that he has not received a salary several times. Maybe that's what underlies his decision to leave Barcelona and choose to join the Saudi league, especially since he was brought in from Milan last season he has always been a bench warmer at Barcelona. He is still quite young at 26 years but he has no desire to be in the European team to win various titles.

Al-Ahli can immediately equalize squad depth with other strong Saudi league teams such as Al-Nassr, Al-Hilal, and Al-ittihad because Al-Ahli also receives financial support from PIF like the several teams I mentioned above. So don't be surprised if this promoted team will enliven the competition in next season's standings board.

It has been discussed about the jersey number 7 that indeed Dembele's arrival to PSG was one of the goals to use that jersey number and indirectly PSG had removed Mbappe from the main squad. It seems that Dembele's relationship with Xavi is not so harmonious that it makes him want to leave even though he gets the opportunity to become a starter at Barcelona. Maybe Dembele is really interested in joining PSG despite his current situation and I think it's only the player himself who knows why.

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The latest news about the Mbappe transfer that I read, PSG still want to sell Mbappe right now and if Real Madrid offers 200 million euros, PSG will immediately accept the offer now. It seems that PSG knows that Real Madrid is stalling until the 15th of August, but PSG feel it is taking too long and they will try to lure Real Madrid to wrap up this transfer saga as soon as possible.

Daichi Kamada is quite the surprise figure in the Serie A team and if I'm not mistaken isn't he on a free agent heading to Lazio? Even though from the start Inter approached him first but unfortunately Inter was hijacked by Lazio. The Japanese midfielder had outstanding stats last season scoring 16 goals and 7 assists in all competitions and Lazio seemed to have found a diamond among the pebbles. Lazio's decision to sign him for 5 years was very good and I don't know why Frankfurt didn't want to extend his contract. For the sponsor, I don't understand, but if there is a good relationship, of course everything can be achieved easily.

Even with Nathan Ake, Ruben Dias and Manuel Akanji, Manchester City's defense is very difficult to penetrate and with the arrival of Gvardiol I don't know what else to do for other teams looking for ways to beat Manchester City in all competitions next season. Pep Guardiola really likes this player even the names of the two are almost similar at a glance from the way of pronunciation. This was a hugely successful transfer for Manchester City and the perfect choice for Gvardiol to join champions from across Europe last season. He will also be in the same squad as his team-mate in the Croatian national team, namely Kovacic, who was also brought in by Manchester City this summer.

Manchester united won the pre-season match 3-1 against Lens. In this match, the only thing that was very surprising came from Andre Onana's blunder who was too advanced so that the Lens player took advantage of the opportunity to score a goal from the middle of the field. I think Andre Onana is too confident in his abilities at the moment and he has made mistakes that shouldn't have been made.

But in the second half finally Manchester United started to reply to these goals and immediately in a row they scored 3 goals each scored by Rashford, Antony and Casemiro. Erik ten hag must re-evaluate the performance of his players before the start of the EPL competition and specifically for Andre Onana he is an important figure under the goalposts and don't let the same thing happen again in a real competition.

I think it's just a rumor made up by the media and as a professional coach it's impossible for Luis Enrique to make this job easy after not having coached PSG for so long. We know PSG's problems are not finished with their star players and if the coach does the same it will not provide a solution. This news is like food for the media who have cooked it and it's not surprising that the involvement of all parties at PSG is put to good use to make a profit. At least PSG are still serious about strengthening their squad every season and with the addition of several promising players they are also prepared to compete with any team in all competitions.

Some time ago Franck Kessie was rumored to join and Al-Ahli and it seems that the agreement has been reached since yesterday. Currently, all that's left is the preparation to carry out a medical test for Franck Kessie before being made official as an Al-Ahli player. As for the transfer fee, Al-Ahli had to pay around 15 million euros to get Franck Kessie and that was not difficult for them. The more European squad there are at Al-Ahli and the possibility that in the Saudi league next season they will become tough competitors for other strong teams.
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Well, it seems that Inter are still unlucky in this transfer and West Ham seems to prefer the fee offered by Atalanta to be able to bring in Gianluca Scamacca. If we look at the statistics last season in all competitions it looks quite promising for Atalanta and of course they have full hopes for this young striker. It is true that Gianluca Scamacca can't be far from his native place in Italy and since joining West Ham last season, he immediately decided to return home after only strengthening the English team for one season. Gianluca Scamacca and Rasmus Hojlund are almost no different and in my opinion Rasmus Hojlund is only slightly superior to Gianluca Scamacca, therefore he has to prove that he is better than the player from Denmark.

I think Barcelona's target will be to go after Bernardo Silva completely rather than Joao Cancelo. They are prepared to use all the remaining funds in the transfer to get Bernardo Silva from Manchester City and the cost is likely to be over 70 million euros. Pep Guardiola has responded to rumors of Bernado Silva's transfer to Barcelona.

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But Guardiola also added that in this transfer Bernardo Silva gets a decent offer and he doesn't want it just because he has a past as a former barcelona coach that allows him to help barcelona to get a fairly cheap price.

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Indeed Florentino Perez is famous for his cold demeanor and he is like a man sitting down to fish in a quiet river. I don't think it's all without reason because the relationship between Nasser Al-Khelaifi and Florentino Perez has been considered not good since a few years ago. Maybe that's all that makes Mbappe's transfer feel complicated and for those who benefit from Real Madrid will be very calm about all of this. Now the situation is getting out of control because Nasser Al-Khelaifi insists on selling Mbappe immediately and moreover he has also brought in several players that I have mentioned above. Indeed, the only way is to wait for the final day before the transfer market closes, it will be the final round between the two parties.

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Anyway, there is other news that Kolo Muani has reached a verbal agreement to immediately move to PSG. Now the decision will be in the hands of the club, namely Eintracht Frankfurt, whether to approve this transfer or not. With the addition of this news, it means that it is true that PSG will create a new trio of attack lines with the presence of Ousmane Dembele, Goncalo Ramos and also Kolo Muani.

Chelsea announced the new goalkeeper they managed to bring in from Brighton, namely Robert Sanchez. This could be competition between Kepa and Sanchez to start fighting for the main goalkeeper position at Chelsea. Sanchez was brought in from Brighton for a total fee of 25 million pounds and the duration of the contract is until 2030. He is still quite young and Pochettino will definitely be able to develop this player's talent later. It is still a mystery whether Chelsea will be able to get other Brighton players because we know that before Robert Sanchez was inaugurated today, Chelsea had their eyes on Caciedo but until now it is still difficult to reach the price Brighton wants.

It seems that Arsenal are not entirely lucky with the time available and they always face difficult opponents to beat. In the domestic league competition last season they were almost able to win the title they had been longing for but indeed the euphoria of all the players and even the coaches was out of control and they were not ready for the successive failures that left Arsenal far behind Manchester City.

Whatever Arsenal do they will still struggle even for the champions league though. It's like they don't have a strong identity that allows them to become the flagship champion for the champion's league competition and therefore they will still be in the same phase before they can achieve that.