⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions

[zuzie]

Chelsea and Leicester have finally reached an agreement on the signing of Wesley Fofana after making numerous offers. As they try to replace the void left by the departures of Antonio Rudiger and Andreas Christensen, the Blues are in dire need of a defender.

The 21-year-old, who grew up supporting the Blues, now has the price Chelsea and Leicester have agreed. The deal was met by Chelsea's offer of £70m with an additional £10m.

That's almost double from the market value of Wesley Fofana, the last time I see the 21-year-old's market value was around €40 million. But if the information on the €70 million deal is correct, then Wesley Fofana certainly become the player with the third highest transfer fee in the EPL this season after Darwin Nunez and Casemiro.

I'm curious how tough this young defender is? Leicester didn't even use it very actively last season.

Wesley Fofana is a young player, he is only 21 years old, in terms of quality he is still very good but we will have to wait in the next few seasons to see the real performance of this French player. I think this is a very good transfer for Chelsea, now they have a future defender who has very good prospects.
but regarding the price I think it's quite wort it for a potential player who is still very young.

On the other hand I don't think it's right, how Chelsea can pay €70 million but have to wait a few seasons to see the quality. Speaking of potential, even though in two seasons with Leicester Fofana only appeared in 37 match, so how do Chelsea see the potential of this player? While appearances are rarely seen on the field. I believe Brendan Rodgers would not have put Wesley Fofana on the bench if this youngster had quality in defence.

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[Despairo]

On the other hand I don't think it's right, how Chelsea can pay €70 million but have to wait a few seasons to see the quality. Speaking of potential, even though in two seasons with Leicester Fofana only appeared in 37 match, so how do Chelsea see the potential of this player? While appearances are rarely seen on the field. I believe Brendan Rodgers would not have put Wesley Fofana on the bench if this youngster had quality in defence.

He had Fibula Fracture injury since 2021-2022 and this make him missed 41 matches, if he's not injured I believe Brendan Rodgers will always put him on the starting line up because his performance is really good. Are you not watching Leicester City matches? you will see Fofana is really a potential player and currently still young, he could be the next Virgil Van Dijk in the future, but I quite agree the cost to sign him is really expensive, Chelsea already spent enough money to sign Cucurella.

[Fesatmas]

Son Heung-min was outstanding last season for Tottenham but I don't think he will stand a chance  for the Ballon d'Or  against top favorites like Benzema and Lewandowski whose performances last season was far above that of Son. I hope the selection of the best candidate to win the Ballon d'Or will be done without bias unlike the previous one given to Messi when Lewandowski deserved it more. Benzema deserves to win the Ballon d'Or this time around.

I wouldn't be surprised when I see another player who has won the Ballon D'or. Because that often happens even though there are other players who deserve it more. I also hope so, I hope there is nothing wrong when determining who will get the award which will later become a bad conversation, as happened in the past.

[boris singer]

They are in pretty good shape for now and I agree with what you say about this.
They are already strong enough for attack and midfield for what they have to keep looking for new players because they are now still able to maximize their players.
This will only waste money and make their finances worse, I think because with the arrival of these players, it is certain that the salary burden will also increase.

Although I also think that Barcelona no longer needs to bring in new players, because the current squad is already very good. But sometimes
Xavi as a coach has other considerations why Barcelona still want to bring in new players. Although it would be much better if Barcelona focused
on the players available now, apart from Barcelona's finances are also not very good, but because Xavi proved to be able to improve
the performance of Barcelona. Then I will support what Xavi is planning, which currently still wants to bring in new players. The most important
thing this season is that Barcelona must win trophies, because with the current Barcelona squad, it seems that winning a trophy should be
realized by Xavi. Moreover, almost all the players that Xavi wanted were successfully brought in by the Barcelona management.

Indeed, in this case Xavi has some considerations but when I look at this moment I still feel that they still have to save money because their condition is still not good, on the other hand their composition of players is also very good today so he also has to be realistic because he can't force it too hard. financial condition like this.
It would be great if they focus on finances with their squad because I believe with their current squad they can still compete.

[Kayeshlyn]

Cristiano Ronaldo, who was born and raised in Madeira, began his senior club career at Sporting CP before joining Manchester United at the age of 18 in 2003. Currently, Sporting CP is trying to find a method to reunite Ronaldo with the team where he first made his professional debut.

Ronaldo is now 37 and was again used as a second-half substitute in the 1-0 win over Southampton, now he has 10 months left on the two-year contract he signed when he joined from Juventus, but Ronaldo is still competitive and wants continue playing highest level and extending his goalscoring record in European football's premier club competition.

[D-law]

Cristiano Ronaldo, who was born and raised in Madeira, began his senior club career at Sporting CP before joining Manchester United at the age of 18 in 2003. Currently, Sporting CP is trying to find a method to reunite Ronaldo with the team where he first made his professional debut.

Ronaldo is now 37 and was again used as a second-half substitute in the 1-0 win over Southampton, now he has 10 months left on the two-year contract he signed when he joined from Juventus, but Ronaldo is still competitive and wants continue playing highest level and extending his goalscoring record in European football's premier club competition.

He has always expressed his desire to go back to Sporting Lib
If all wages and salaries get agreed why the wait.
They have always qualified for the champions league year to year, so good luck to Ronaldo.

[wiss19]

Barcelona had better not pay this amount of money to sign him. Because they are already in a financially bad condition and they are trying to register all of their recent transfers on one hand. In these circumstances signing Bernardo Silva would make things even more difficult for them while there is not much time left for the transfer window to be closed.

They are in pretty good shape for now and I agree with what you say about this.
They are already strong enough for attack and midfield for what they have to keep looking for new players because they are now still able to maximize their players.
This will only waste money and make their finances worse, I think because with the arrival of these players, it is certain that the salary burden will also increase.

There is no doubt if Barcelona is going to do this transfer then surely they are hitting their foot with an ax because right now situation is not good, and they are already having many troubles around them which are waiting for better intention from them, and they are not looking into them and going for some more things which are currently not good enough for them.

Now, with the few current transfers their attack and midfield are already strong enough so then what is point to bring him into squad they can do this next season as well because right now they have to work on their current squad for having better results because we already have Champions League draw where they are going to face some tough challenge, and they need to start work for better system instead of having some more players which are going to create more problems.

[KTChampions]

Given that United will be paying 85% of his salary (according to the same sources), this is a very feasible deal for Napoli. I don’t know how the next Ronaldo transfer scheme will end, but in my opinion a transfer to Napoli is better than sitting on the bench at United and watching Ten Hag implement his crazy schemes.

Ronaldo is a professional footballer,  I think sitting on the bench and watching is not a good one for some like is level.  Instead of just always being on the bench I'd prefer if he is being signed into another club where he can be a key player to the team. I won't blame ten Hag for putting Ronaldo on the bench maybe he feels that Ronaldo is playing for himself and not for the club.

On the one hand, Ronaldo obviously cannot be part of a long-term plan due to age, and here Ten Hag can be understood. But on the other hand, with the results that Ten Hag has achieved, he will not have any long-term work at United. He should work with what he has, and not engage in self-affirmation in the club. However, this is already a passed stage, since I think Ronaldo will go somewhere because there is no point for him to stay at United.

[gabbie2010]

Son Heung-min was outstanding last season for Tottenham but I don't think he will stand a chance  for the Ballon d'Or  against top favorites like Benzema and Lewandowski whose performances last season was far above that of Son. I hope the selection of the best candidate to win the Ballon d'Or will be done without bias unlike the previous one given to Messi when Lewandowski deserved it more. Benzema deserves to win the Ballon d'Or this time around.

It's obvious Benzema achievement and performance for Real Madrid outweighs that of Son in Tottenham thus anything short of not awarding the Ballon d'Or to Benzema is questionable and biased, I hope last year shortcomings with regards to awarding it to Messi instead of Lewandowski wouldn't happen this time around, though I am not undermining the performance of Son for his club but achievement or role of individual player to the success of the club matter most, Benzema singlehandedly took Real Madrid to UCL finals and help the club to win the coveted trophy by scoring crucial goals include winning Laliga trophy.

[LittleBitFunny]

Son Heung-min was outstanding last season for Tottenham but I don't think he will stand a chance  for the Ballon d'Or  against top favorites like Benzema and Lewandowski whose performances last season was far above that of Son. I hope the selection of the best candidate to win the Ballon d'Or will be done without bias unlike the previous one given to Messi when Lewandowski deserved it more. Benzema deserves to win the Ballon d'Or this time around.

It's obvious Benzema achievement and performance for Real Madrid outweighs that of Son in Tottenham thus anything short of not awarding the Ballon d'Or to Benzema is questionable and biased, I hope last year shortcomings with regards to awarding it to Messi instead of Lewandowski wouldn't happen this time around, though I am not undermining the performance of Son for his club but achievement or role of individual player to the success of the club matter most, Benzema singlehandedly took Real Madrid to UCL finals and help the club to win the coveted trophy by scoring crucial goals include winning Laliga trophy.

Karim Benzema is the best candidate to win the Ballon d'Or this year. I don't think Son Heung-min of Tottenham is going to have a chance against him in the fight.
As far as I can tell, that seems to be the decision of every football fan in the world.

There is no doubt that Karim Benzema has achieved more with his club than Son Heung-min has with his club to date. There has just been a top-four finish for Tottenham Hotspur. As a matter of fact, Real Madrid was able to win both the La Liga title as well as the Champions League title in the same season. So, last season, Karim Benzema was more successful with Real Madrid than he had ever been.

[Oneandpure]

On the one hand, Ronaldo obviously cannot be part of a long-term plan due to age, and here Ten Hag can be understood. But on the other hand, with the results that Ten Hag has achieved, he will not have any long-term work at United. He should work with what he has, and not engage in self-affirmation in the club. However, this is already a passed stage, since I think Ronaldo will go somewhere because there is no point for him to stay at United.

Still not have other central forward why make Erik Tan Hag keep want to make Cristiano Ronaldo stay with Manchester United, I think last two match in Primer League, Erik Tan Hag not priority with Cristiano Ronaldo and always put him on the bench. Become substitute player and looks he will not be regular player for Manchester United. I think fans excited why make Manchester United keep want to make Cristiano Ronaldo staying with Manchester United until his contract over, how ever Cristiano Ronaldo have offering their self to other team participants on UEFA Champion League, but until right now he not get good respond from team want to get his sign's.

[doomloop]

Wesley Fofana is a young player, he is only 21 years old, in terms of quality he is still very good but we will have to wait in the next few seasons to see the real performance of this French player. I think this is a very good transfer for Chelsea, now they have a future defender who has very good prospects.
but regarding the price I think it's quite wort it for a potential player who is still very young.

Wesley Fofana is just 21 years old and moving from Leicester City to Chelsea with the price of €70 million which is too much for player like this because he deserves price like €35 million to €40 million but right now Chelsea situation is not good in defense, and they are desperately looking for someone who can solve their problem as they lost quality players and now having trouble in start of season hopefully this transfer works for Tuchel and company because before start of this season they were surely one of the favorite to win title, but now they are far behind in this line because they are losing points consistently and top teams are doing much better for staying at the top and widening the points gape.

Now, we have to watch how this going and can he improve quality and deserve this price tag, hopefully things happen positive for player and team.

[onecall123]

Here's some good news. After a long time, the talks have finally reached a breakthrough. Antony's signing with Manchester United is imminent now that Manchester United have reached agreement with Ajax! Antony's destiny can be delayed by Ajax, but it can't be stopped. Considering Man United to be a huge opportunity, Antony only wants to leave. However, the price is a bit high for this great signing for Man United.

[savetheFORUM]

According to DI Marzio CR7 has been offered to Napoli in the hope he will play the following CL.

Not sure if they can afford his salary even with a big reduction.

Manchester also asked for Osimen with a bid around 100m €

Two games on the bench is certainly not something that ronaldo can accept at the moment, I think it's better for ronaldo to go to another club than he is just a spectator at the moment, two wins that Ten Hag got in two games without ronaldo it seems  indicates that if Ten Hag doesn't need Ronaldo anymore, actually releasing Ronaldo is a big loss because after all we all know the quality that Ronaldo has had all this time, but if Ten Hag relationship with Ronaldo starts to bad, of course releasing Ronaldo is the right solution for Ten Hag so as not to cause polemics in the Manchester squad later.

I also agree with this but here the biggest problem is Ronaldo is not cutting in his salary which is the biggest issue for many clubs even few days back I was reading Atlético Madrid was ready to do exchange him with their player but at the end in personal terms he was not going to cut his salary, so they drop this idea and same happen in Roma case where Mourinho was interested to bring him Manchester United is big club, and they are financially also very strong, so they can afford this, but no other club is going to have luxury like this.
 
Now few days left and if Ronaldo wants to leave then surely he needs to have something in quick time otherwise he is going to be stayed mostly at bench and wait for his turn because most chances now Ten Hag is not going to give him best chances like he has in past here at Manchester United.

[W Jr.]

Here's some good news. After a long time, the talks have finally reached a breakthrough. Antony's signing with Manchester United is imminent now that Manchester United have reached agreement with Ajax! Antony's destiny can be delayed by Ajax, but it can't be stopped. Considering Man United to be a huge opportunity, Antony only wants to leave. However, the price is a bit high for this great signing for Man United.

I'm sure they can budget for Anthony. I think Manchester United are not thinking about the budget for success anymore. Anthony wants to come to Manchester United, we are reading this. The problem is that the Premier league is not the Eredevisie and will Anthony be able to keep up with the challenge. If he keeps up with the Premier league, he will be successful, I believe.

[cygan]

some transfer rumors from the bundesliga...

defender Malick Thiaw from bundesliga promoted schalke 04 is apparently on the verge of joining italian champions ac milan
Amine Harit, also from schalke 04 has been freed for transfer negotiations. the moroccan midfielder is to move - but a new club is not yet fixed
benfica lisbon is courting eintracht frankfurt creative player Daichi Kamada. the interest was first reported by 'record'. the japanese player has already agreed on a contract with benfica - its not yet known if he will be in the lineup vs werder bremen today

[bering]

Liverpool immediately looking for new midfield player that they had linked to Leipzig player Konrad Laimer and probably Leipzig will allowed this player to moved because he has 1 year contract remaining so rather than let him moved with free status seems Leipzig has decided will sell him this summer and price tag for Laimer is 22 millions Euro but besides that Frankie De Jong and Celtic player Matthew Sean O'Riley also into their watchlist

[W Jr.]

Liverpool immediately looking for new midfield player that they had linked to Leipzig player Konrad Laimer and probably Leipzig will allowed this player to moved because he has 1 year contract remaining so rather than let him moved with free status seems Leipzig has decided will sell him this summer and price tag for Laimer is 22 millions Euro but besides that Frankie De Jong and Celtic player Matthew Sean O'Riley also into their watchlist

Leipzig will definitely want to earn an income from the sale of the player, as there is 1 year left until the end of his contract. If Liverpool really want to sign Laimer, this can be used as a trump card in their hands. Meanwhile, the Bundesliga seems to have returned to the player pool for the Premier league. Many players from the Bundesliga are coming to the Premier League.

[boris singer]

They are in pretty good shape for now and I agree with what you say about this.
They are already strong enough for attack and midfield for what they have to keep looking for new players because they are now still able to maximize their players.
This will only waste money and make their finances worse, I think because with the arrival of these players, it is certain that the salary burden will also increase.

There is no doubt if Barcelona is going to do this transfer then surely they are hitting their foot with an ax because right now situation is not good, and they are already having many troubles around them which are waiting for better intention from them, and they are not looking into them and going for some more things which are currently not good enough for them.

Now, with the few current transfers their attack and midfield are already strong enough so then what is point to bring him into squad they can do this next season as well because right now they have to work on their current squad for having better results because we already have Champions League draw where they are going to face some tough challenge, and they need to start work for better system instead of having some more players which are going to create more problems.

It's difficult to follow what Barcelona are doing right now because they really like to do things that make them feel a little difficult.
From what they are doing right now, it is a little outside of what is currently quite difficult to predict what they want because they always do things that can be considered as risky actions but uniquely they are able to deal with it until now.

[hyudien]

It's difficult to follow what Barcelona are doing right now because they really like to do things that make them feel a little difficult.
From what they are doing right now, it is a little outside of what is currently quite difficult to predict what they want because they always do things that can be considered as risky actions but uniquely they are able to deal with it until now.

What Xavi has so far we can't guess. That's what we ourselves will feel does not have a qualified capacity, how Barcelona spends a lot of money apart from financial problems. By adding more and more players they thought would be perfect and needed under Xavi tutelage, it became even more precise. Moreover, in the Champions League, there are clubs that have more potential to make Barcelona sink faster. The anticipation and preparation of players were also carried out by the Barcelona manager. Besides the tough task, it is also a challenge whether Xavi squad can survive against Bayern Munich and Inter.