⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions

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Bonucci is close to leaving Juventus.

He almost has a deal with Hertha Berliner, his career with Juventus is over. Even if he does not leave he almost surely not play anymore with the club.

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Mbappe is linked with club which we believed its real madrid, but the Los Blancos are yet to make any statement concerning the saga. Florentino Perez is a huge admirer of the Frenchman style of game, which indirectly means he will do anything to sign him over. Kylian Mbappe already made his decision to exits the club this summer as free agent. Which on the contrary will be a hugh loss for PSG in the transfer window. That's basically what PSG president, Nasser Al-Khelaifi is preventing from happening, but I guessed it's late for all the negotiations.

Los Blancos might be targeting to submit their offer in the closing days of the transfer window to pressure the French team into selling Mbappe. Outsmarting Perez in a transfer deal is a quite challenging job. The French club is nearing the end of the transfer window, and there's a significant risk of psg facing a major setback in this transfer saga. It's unlikely to happen that they'll retain their player and convinced him on sign an extended contract. Eventually, their fans might become upset again if Mbappe ends up leaving.

Real Madrid is definitely going to try to get him for as less money as possible. And we all know that Real Madrid is very good in terms of managing money. Really it is going to be hard for PSG in my opinion to try to sell Mbappe to Real Madrid for a high amount of money. But I don't think Real Madrid will have anything else to do because PSG is definitely trying to shape things so that they will be able to sell Mbappe for at least 150  million. I Wonder If Real Madrid will actually go for him or get another player for that type of money.

Mbappe not going to stay in PSG for longer. But I do not think that Real Madrid is going to wait for two more years if they want him right now. But will Real Madrid actually spend that much money for him?

Just recently the media wrote that Mbappe has settled all the differences with PSG and may even sign a new contract for a few years. If this really happens then PSG will never let him go, it all looks like madness, the PSG management have too much faith in themselves

[shogun47]

Yes, the sheikhs bring some element of madness into football and it is almost impossible to predict (with reliable accuracy) what will happen. As the saying goes, if a person cannot be bought with money, then he can be bought with big money  
In general, the modern world is like this (rather strange) - you can work all your life and not earn anything, and someone who shoots a couple of successful tik-toks will fall into a trend and become a millionaire in a very short time. Therefore, the crazy money that football players receive now is more or less logical - after all, they give their whole lives to football (maybe except for Neymar, haha) and are not just lucky.

No they don't give their whole lives to football. Everyone who is playing in a first league and an average player with average income could stop at age 30 and celebrate for the rest of his life with some reasonable financial management. Sponsoring deals and all other enjoyable advantages excluded. A craftsman or a surgeon is dedicating their entire life to their profession and they have to go 40 years at least before they can retire. Really, I can't feel this empathetic aspect that you brought up for football players. Mbappe could have stopped playing at age 21 and he would never have to care about money again. More and more players get contracts with close to 10 million per year at the age of 20.

When it comes to money, you are only looking at the top of the pyramid. All those who are below do not earn huge money, and those who are at its base (the largest number of players) are generally in the red. For example, my nephew quit football at about 14 years old (after a specialized boarding school and many years of training) because there were no guarantees of further progress and financial investments were required more and more. And many of his friends at this age have already left due to injuries. If you need a closer example, then remember Vinicius - last season, during another skirmish, he told one of the players: when you are done with football, you will have to look for a job but I am a millionaire. Something like that. I think there is an obvious basis for his words.

No worries, I see it the exact same way as you do. But when I talk about the "top of the pyramid", I really mean those who actually made it into professional football and do not belong to those who only made 10 games in their career and then didn't make the cut anymore. There are many players who fail to make it for various reasons and of them being injuries at a very young age. But that is not the type of person I was referring to. When somebody turns 30 and had a reasonably good career in a good league and was an average player, they are usually golden these days. It's very different from 20 years ago and before that. The huge stars from the good old times could still go broke whereas that is close to impossible for good players who get an average pay for 10 years in the Premier League. They could still go broke of course, but that would not be a question of earning insufficient money, but a question of spending too much of it. By the age of 30 essentially every single player will have made more money than a surgeon in a hospital can earn in his entire career. The surgeon has to work his life in the truest sense of the word whereas professional football players can retire when they are 30 and know how to deal with money.

[Queentoshi]

Manchester United seems to be too extravagant when it comes to recruiting players. For example, Antony joined them for 95 million euros. I don't know what he's doing on the pitch to prove his worth. He's like Harry Maguire's little brother if you don't want to exaggerate. Manchester United have many expensive signings but are dragging the club down.

Anthony has taken a lot of time to show that he is worth playing that position and for the price he was gotten for. That is why many Manchester United supporters still see his purchase as a big waste of money. I feel that there are other players that Manchester United could have brought to the club that would have done better even for that price and the money would have been justified by now. Manchester United will pass through a terrible time this season if they do not start to take their games more seriously.

[Pulsar77]

Bernardo Silva has finally signed a contract extension with Manchester City. It is going to be until 2026. As far as I can remember his previous contract was until 2025. Just for extending it by one year Manchester City had to double his salary. He was earning 7.8 million pounds before and now he is earning 15.6 million pounds.  

I don't know if this deal is worth it just for one year. However Manchester City are still a rich team in the end so it wouldn't affect them badly financially. He is one of the important players in the squad at the same time. Hence they must have not cared about this increase by 100% in his salary.

[Sim_card]

Romelu Lukaku has received unpleasant treatment from Chelsea, until two matches in the Premier League he has not been included in the list of players and even now Lukaku is only training with the Chelsea U21 team, not the main squad. It is very sad, Pochettino has not communicated with Lukaku to give him the opportunity to return to the main squad, especially since Chelsea is experiencing crisis in the striker position.

Actually, Romelu Lukaku almost deal with Juventus but high transfer offering from Chelsea make many teams withdrew their interested for signing Lukaku, Inter Milan have try opening twice proposal and up offer bid to 35 million euro but Chelsea rejected with Inter Milan proposal to sign Lukaku.

Juventus has accepted to sell some players off the club and use the money to being in Lukaku into the club. What Lukaku needs is patient so that Juve can buy him from Chelsea. It is a pity that Lukaku isn't given the opportunity to showcase his talent I'm Chelsea this season in the two matches that they have played which the drew only one. If I was Pocchetino,I will try Lukaku to see if he will change the game instead of ignoring him. I hope you leaves Chelsea soon to Juventus where they will appreciate him as a player because he is respected in Seria A than EPL.

[Ndabagi01]

Verratti and al hilal have been reaching an verbal agreement since last month, but since there's no further talk between al hilal and PSG. I think that verratti will not go there. Al arabi has become a new candidate to get him from PSG.
Romano has been reported that if al arabi is trying to approach him at this moment. I expect if his transfer may be secured by al arabi. I will prefer verratti to go to the al arabi rather than al hilal. It will be so good if all of arabian club will have european players rather then being centralized into the 4 - 6 teams.

In my perspective, it is not about the club he will join, but more about allowing him to join the Saudi club side regardless of the club that will eventually sign him. Verratti is not a horrible choice of player, but staying in Europe when he has such a good offer from the Saudi side will be detrimental to his future. He is no longer valued as highly in Europe, and joining a Saudi club will add to his professional career. Other European players are already present in the Saudi league, so I anticipate a very competitive competition that will encourage many people to watch and follow.

Mbappe is linked with club which we believed its real madrid, but the Los Blancos are yet to make any statement concerning the saga. Florentino Perez is a huge admirer of the Frenchman style of game, which indirectly means he will do anything to sign him over. Kylian Mbappe already made his decision to exits the club this summer as free agent. Which on the contrary will be a hugh loss for PSG in the transfer window. That's basically what PSG president, Nasser Al-Khelaifi is preventing from happening, but I guessed it's late for all the negotiations.

This is not too late, in my opinion, because Mbappe will have the ultimate say on this transfer. If he is not staying back with the club to extend his contract, he should let them know and quit beating about the bush. He will betray the club if he chooses Real Madrid over PSG in this deal. He was given all he needed at PSG and was among those who made critical team decisions. Leaving the team without allowing them to gain from his sale would be a great betrayal, which I hope he does not do as a world-class player that he is.

[Sakanwa]

Romelu Lukaku has received unpleasant treatment from Chelsea, until two matches in the Premier League he has not been included in the list of players and even now Lukaku is only training with the Chelsea U21 team, not the main squad. It is very sad, Pochettino has not communicated with Lukaku to give him the opportunity to return to the main squad, especially since Chelsea is experiencing crisis in the striker position.

Actually, Romelu Lukaku almost deal with Juventus but high transfer offering from Chelsea make many teams withdrew their interested for signing Lukaku, Inter Milan have try opening twice proposal and up offer bid to 35 million euro but Chelsea rejected with Inter Milan proposal to sign Lukaku.

Juventus has accepted to sell some players off the club and use the money to being in Lukaku into the club. What Lukaku needs is patient so that Juve can buy him from Chelsea. It is a pity that Lukaku isn't given the opportunity to showcase his talent I'm Chelsea this season in the two matches that they have played which the drew only one. If I was Pocchetino,I will try Lukaku to see if he will change the game instead of ignoring him. I hope you leaves Chelsea soon to Juventus where they will appreciate him as a player because he is respected in Seria A than EPL.

You cannot say they didn't give Lukaku opportunity at Chelsea,he was given playing time upon playing time,but he did nothing,infact I will say Lukaku cannot play EPL's pattern of football because when he was at Inter,he was scoring goals regularly,very impressive,but when Chelsea brought him back to continue his form,he flopped,he was unable to even compete with the regular goal scorers at premier league.
This period that Pochetino is incharge,he doesn't want to make use of any player who is of age,he is using small boys who will be eager to learn and respect him.However,Lukaku should just accept any transfer plan made by Chelsea because he knows he can't compete with the standard at Premier league,the best thing is to secure a move to another Seria A club.

[Leviathan.007]

I think Marco Verratti will consider and prioritize his international career first when choosing his next move particularly staying in one of the European clubs as his best bet, however if decided to choose Al-Ahli in Saudi Arabian league then his Italian national team career is over because I don't think he will be selected for any international duty again, personally I think a switch over to Bayern Munich over Man Utd is a good choice because Bayern has a formidable squad with a lot of quality players and managed by an experience manager Tuchel,  he had been on Man Utd radar since 2019 yet no concrete agreement was reached now they are also trying to sign which might not see the light of the day.

Agree, if Marco Verratti is more fit to stay in Europe for the next one or two seasons, I would expect him to join the EPL with Man United more. The only way for United now is to release a few more players, in order to complete the transfer of the player from Italy. Because the price is not cheap, especially the SPL Club which is known for a lot of money is ready to pay more for their targets.

The remaining transfer time is only one week away, will this be the end of Marco Verratti 11 season service with PSG. Or is this just media coverage, we'll see until there is an official statement.

I think he even thinks the same way himself because Marco Verratti is a player who is not in the situation to be at the end of his career and join the team like Al Ahli yet, because considering the salary he can get we know usually players who leave the European team to the Saudi teams get a better salary, that's why I think if money was the problem for Marco Verratti to reject the offer from Al Ahli but he still wants to paly the other top European teams.

[Josefjix]

I think he even thinks the same way himself because Marco Verratti is a player who is not in the situation to be at the end of his career and join the team like Al Ahli yet, because considering the salary he can get we know usually players who leave the European team to the Saudi teams get a better salary, that's why I think if money was the problem for Marco Verratti to reject the offer from Al Ahli but he still wants to paly the other top European teams.

Al Nassr and Al Hilal were the leading clubs in the transfer window, they signed prominent players this summer, desperate to bring more over. Saudi clubs keen on bringing more European players over to their league, they succeeded in some transfer but failed in some. Marco Verratti is not moved by the gigantic bids table for him, he just want to remained in Europe and enjoyed his career to the fullest. Al Hilal were heavily linked with the Verrati and PSG already given greenlight for the potential move which later collapse because no agreement on player's side.

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Juventus has accepted to sell some players off the club and use the money to being in Lukaku into the club. What Lukaku needs is patient so that Juve can buy him from Chelsea. It is a pity that Lukaku isn't given the opportunity to showcase his talent I'm Chelsea this season in the two matches that they have played which the drew only one. If I was Pocchetino,I will try Lukaku to see if he will change the game instead of ignoring him. I hope you leaves Chelsea soon to Juventus where they will appreciate him as a player because he is respected in Seria A than EPL.

Speculation about Lukaku future is still a question mark because Lukaku was previously linked with several big teams in Serie A but none of them were really serious about buying Lukaku from Chelsea. I don't think Juventus will do it either after seeing Vlahovic perform well in his first game with Juventus, of course they won't sell Vlahovic to recruit Lukaku. Apart from that juventus has also been linked with Alvaro morata and I think Allegri is closer to Morata than Lukaku.

So now Roma appears, which is included in the ranks of the team that wants to recruit Lukaku. I think Jose Mourinho needs Lukaku for their front line because the absence of Tammy Abraham makes their front line less aggressive. So let's see if Roma are the team that managed to recruit Lukaku.

[kawetsriyanto]

I'm not completely sure but as I can see Tottenham's situation is even getting worst than last season and they are losing more players because we knew Kane was an important player, they lost him and never bought a player to fill his place and now when Hugo Lloris is getting near to end his contract with Tottenham they are not considering any option to buy a goalkeeper for the next season.

Although Tottenham sold some players, they also could sign many players during this transfer season. There is no problem with Tottenham squad, they look good. They can show positive results in the first 2 matches in EPL, they even could beat Man United which becomes the favorite team to win. It indicates Tottenham still can perform well without Harry Kane.

Regarding Goalkeeper, Tottenham already signed Guglielmo Vicario as their new GK. We can see Vicario to adapt quickly and could show his quality in the early of EPL matches. Especially when Tottenham played against Man United, no conceded goals. It means Vicario can replace Lloris's role perfectly. Tottenham is no longer to depend on Hugo Lloris, he can leave when his contact expires.

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Lukaku must be one of the biggest regrets for Chelsea. His journey has been really interesting. He had a poor time period there first and then joined Everton. After a much better run at other teams Inter being at top Chelsea wanted to have him back. They spent more than 100 million euros for signing him back. But it was another disappointment after.

Now Chelsea can't even find a formula to get rid of him. They don't want loan option anymore. They just want to sell him on a permanent deal. Good luck to them on finding a team for him in Europe. If there is some interest from Saudi Arabia maybe the probability of his leaving would be higher.

[ginsan]

Although Tottenham sold some players, they also could sign many players during this transfer season. There is no problem with Tottenham squad, they look good. They can show positive results in the first 2 matches in EPL, they even could beat Man United which becomes the favorite team to win. It indicates Tottenham still can perform well without Harry Kane.

Regarding Goalkeeper, Tottenham already signed Guglielmo Vicario as their new GK. We can see Vicario to adapt quickly and could show his quality in the early of EPL matches. Especially when Tottenham played against Man United, no conceded goals. It means Vicario can replace Lloris's role perfectly. Tottenham is no longer to depend on Hugo Lloris, he can leave when his contact expires.

Tottenham quality in the last two matches has indeed shown how solid their strength is this season even though Harry Kane has left in this summer window. Apart from that, their game was quite impressive in the first two matches which made Tottenham not depend on one of their players. Ange Postecoglou, who was shown as the new coach of Tottenham, was able to show significant changes at the start of this season.

We want to see Tottenham win a trophy with Ange Postecoglou and of course this season they have strong enough opponents in the EPL to win a trophy like Arsenal and Manchester City. However I think Target tottenham might finish in the top 4 in the season. Well Hugo Lloris is old and it's only natural that he is replaced as the main goalkeeper for tottenham this season and Guglielmo Vicario can be a good choice to become Tottenham main goalkeeper this season.

[Bananington]

You cannot say they didn't give Lukaku opportunity at Chelsea,he was given playing time upon playing time,but he did nothing,infact I will say Lukaku cannot play EPL's pattern of football because when he was at Inter,he was scoring goals regularly,very impressive,but when Chelsea brought him back to continue his form,he flopped,he was unable to even compete with the regular goal scorers at premier league.
This period that Pochetino is incharge,he doesn't want to make use of any player who is of age,he is using small boys who will be eager to learn and respect him

Pochetino has long term plans for the club, his contract spans a long period and he will like to have a young and talented striker that will hold the front position well for the club. Lukaku is not that man, his time to shine and be that man for Chelsea has passed. Lukaku has to look for his future in another club. Jackson looks promising, but he may not be able to perform in big games, I feel for a player like him, he will be stronger playing smaller teams and not against big teams where he is needed. Chelsea will play Luton this weekend, it will be a game to see and judge the performance of Chelsea especially from their last poor performance.

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Lukaku must be one of the biggest regrets for Chelsea. His journey has been really interesting. He had a poor time period there first and then joined Everton. After a much better run at other teams Inter being at top Chelsea wanted to have him back. They spent more than 100 million euros for signing him back. But it was another disappointment after.

Now Chelsea can't even find a formula to get rid of him. They don't want loan option anymore. They just want to sell him on a permanent deal. Good luck to them on finding a team for him in Europe. If there is some interest from Saudi Arabia maybe the probability of his leaving would be higher.

The situation is quite complicated with Lukaku. After what was considered a treason by talking to Juventus and AC Milan, Inter stopped his transfer procedures definitely and rejected the player although they were willing to sign him with the asked price of Chelsea.
Juventus, Rome, Milan could bring Lukaku to them, since they cannot spend much money, they want to bring him with a loan contract. Chelsea firmly reject such deals and want to get ride of him once for all.
Saudi Arabia teams, namely Al-Hilal, want him but he rejected their offers. They are basically the only one having the €40m asked by Chelsea and ready to pay.. Chelsea are pushing him to leave and move there but he is still resisting. If he refuses to move to Saudi Arabia then maybe a late loan contract for a year could be done with an option to buy him..

[Zaguru12]

Juventus has accepted to sell some players off the club and use the money to being in Lukaku into the club. What Lukaku needs is patient so that Juve can buy him from Chelsea. It is a pity that Lukaku isn't given the opportunity to showcase his talent I'm Chelsea this season in the two matches that they have played which the drew only one. If I was Pocchetino,I will try Lukaku to see if he will change the game instead of ignoring him. I hope you leaves Chelsea soon to Juventus where they will appreciate him as a player because he is respected in Seria A than EPL.

I don’t understand this deal, days ago Juventus fans were in the stadium requesting the club not to sign Big Rom, so how is that the deal is currently close. The last report is that Lukaku is more closer to moving to Saudi pro league than any European team at the moment. Also I don’t see anything bad been done here by Poch because Lukaku has long been ruled out of Chelsea, in fact the way he forced his loan move to inter Milan had made Chelsea fans not to want his return and if he is not going to join the squad this season then it is proper he trains alone from the squad just not to put pressure.

Bernardo Silva has finally signed a contract extension with Manchester City. It is going to be until 2026. As far as I can remember his previous contract was until 2025. Just for extending it by one year Manchester City had to double his salary. He was earning 7.8 million pounds before and now he is earning 15.6 million pounds.  

I don't know if this deal is worth it just for one year. However Manchester City are still a rich team in the end so it wouldn't affect them badly financially. He is one of the important players in the squad at the same time. Hence they must have not cared about this increase by 100% in his salary.

Bernando is definitely one of the focal points of this Manchester City excellent team. I don’t blame City for having him to add two more years again to his contract because if we consider the number of high profile players that have left Manchester City then you will know that losing him will be a big blow to them. Right now De Bruyne is injured and he is the only out to out number 10 in the team. But with the versatile Bernando Silva that position definitely has a good back up. The wages isn’t too much considering the amount other players earn now he surely worth’s it. For the moment this will keep the likes of Barca away from him

[nurilham]

Lukaku must be one of the biggest regrets for Chelsea. His journey has been really interesting. He had a poor time period there first and then joined Everton. After a much better run at other teams Inter being at top Chelsea wanted to have him back. They spent more than 100 million euros for signing him back. But it was another disappointment after.

Now Chelsea can't even find a formula to get rid of him. They don't want loan option anymore. They just want to sell him on a permanent deal. Good luck to them on finding a team for him in Europe. If there is some interest from Saudi Arabia maybe the probability of his leaving would be higher.

Lukaku is an unlucky player. He ever played well in Chelsea and in Inter Milan. Sadly, he never got an established position on the squad. He often loan to another club, but he end up with unclear status although he could show good performance. Sure, the most funny thing is Chelsea ever resigned him with 100 million euros, but Chelsea never tried to give him time to show his best.

Yep. The current situation of Lukaku is getting complicated, Chelsea force to sell him. I don't hear any serious offer to sign him. But I'm sure Lukaku will accept it if there is a serious offer from MLS clubs or Saudi clubs. The most important thing is to have a club which wants to pay with an appropriate salary. I assume he won't have a high expectation to play in a top team only.

[QueenVera]

Lukaku must be one of the biggest regrets for Chelsea. His journey has been really interesting. He had a poor time period there first and then joined Everton. After a much better run at other teams Inter being at top Chelsea wanted to have him back. They spent more than 100 million euros for signing him back. But it was another disappointment after.

Now Chelsea can't even find a formula to get rid of him. They don't want loan option anymore. They just want to sell him on a permanent deal. Good luck to them on finding a team for him in Europe. If there is some interest from Saudi Arabia maybe the probability of his leaving would be higher.

I think Lukaku would really regret his actions this season if no Club comes to sign him permanently before the transfer window closes, he might be forced to remain on the bench or even terminate his contract and be free, right now he would had been the front man playing for intermilan but he rejected them and went behind to negotiate with one of their rivals who later cancelled the deal to sign Lukaku at a point when it was almost concluded.
 I think what he did was not professional because intermilan loaned him from the bench spell of Chelsea and gave him a chance of first team,  which brought out the best in him and even became one of their most outstanding players and played in the Champions League, even got to the finals with them, an opportunity he didn't had while he was in Chelsea, but when they needed to sign him permanently he disappointed them and  rather choose to play for Juventus who later rejected him.

[Leviathan.007]

Aymeric Laporte is another player of the premier league who is going to leave this league to Saudi teams and now Aymeric Laporte is going to play for Al Nasr in the next season.
On his Twitter account, he posted a video about the five years he played for Manchester City and he said goodbye to the fans before joining the Saudi team.