⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions

[lizarder]

I don't understand why he was fired in the middle of the road when let him finish the task until the end at least with the 6th position again for Roma it was good enough for them, but maybe they judged that the current position of 9th could not be saved anymore by Jose Mourinho so he preferred to be fired rather than continued failure, which surprised De Rossi who was appointed as an inexperienced coach.

I only see news through social media Jose Mourinho is always associated with the Arab team, it's not certain Mourinho always rejects it, then there is a chance at Newcastle? I don't know about this because despite Newcastle's losing streak with a mid-table return they are not planning to sack Howe on deck.

Rumors circulated that he had a disagreement with AS Roma management, resulting in a sudden dismissal and the management appointed De Rossi as a temporary replacement. If AS Roma looks for a coach who is more experienced than Jose Mourinho, he might have a chance to make AS Roma better. But De Rossi may not necessarily be able to provide something much better than Jose Mourinho because in terms of experience he has not yet been proven as a coach.

Apart from the Saudi Arabian League in the Premier League, there are also rumors that several clubs want Jose Mourinho's services, such as Chelsea and Newcastle United, but I am not sure that Jose Mourinho will return there. Maybe if the opportunity exists, Jose Mourinho will go to the Saudi Arabian League because there he can provide something new compared to returning to the Premier League.

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[Sunderland]

With coach Jose Mourinho out of a job for the now, many managers who are struggling to get results with their team will be put under pressure to sit up and perform as expected in the coming weeks so that they don't risk losing their jobs to Jose Mourinho who many club owners will be eyeing to get to their team knowing how good he is. I also saw this news about him accepting a job with Saudi Arabian side Al-Shabab, Is anyone else able to confirm this news?

Jose Mourinho ‘reaches agreement to become manager of Al-Shabab’ just days after Roma sacking

"Verbal Agreement" I think we will hear the official news about it within 1-2 days.
And the funny thing is, there is already a schedule of friendly match in Jan 24th Al Shabab vs AS Roma lol.
So if that really happens, Mou must face his former club in less than a week.

[KTChampions]

180 million does not look like a big amount given the way transfers are going now. Even Barcelona bought the old Lewandowski (who had only one year left on his contract) for 60 million. Getting Haaland, who will be in prime for the next 5 years, sounds like an easy choice. And even if Real doesn't make this deal, it's good that such an option exists at all because it puts pressure on Mbappe and ruins his favorite game of "auction for the best striker".

180 millions were a lot. There is no guarantee he will be performing as good as like when he still playes for manchester city and this is the fact. Im not even thinking the club like madrid will be risking 180 millions to get him from manchester city.Yet what you are saying above was right but again 180 millions were money and that's a lot. It will be used to gambling on him which is very risky. Mbappe has less price than him but he has also same quality as haaland.

Even though mbappe was not a pure striker but it is still worthy to consider him as one of good recruitment for real madrid. Mbappe's price may still be negotiable caused by haaland was having very high price.
It will make haaland is a bit expensive compared to the mbappe. I would like madrid to get mbappe first then haaland after him.

It will be great to have those guys play in the same team which will spread message to the other club if real madrid will be having anther los galacticos. Im still waiting for that time to come.

Expensive compared to what? Do you remember how much Mudrik cost? Or Anthony? These are mediocre players (at least for now) but they paid a lot of money for them because that’s the way the transfer market is now (Saudis and everything else). There are no guarantees that the transfer will be successful (although Haaland is already an accomplished player and wherever he played he scored a lot of goals), there is a possibility that what happened with Hazard will happen, but this does not mean that big transfers should not be made at all.
As for prices, taking into account the signing bonus of 130 million that Mbappe will receive, there is no difference between “buying out” the player or paying a signing bonus - the final price will be approximately the same.
And the likelihood that Mbappe and Haaland will play for Real at the same time is zero, both want to be the “first fiddle” and will never agree to such competition, especially Mbappe since he does not play the tip of the attack, but rather a position under the striker, so it may turn out that the whole the statistics will benefit Haaland.

[Xxmodded]

The Arab League and the clubs are not even third class. Why should Mourinho do that? To provide development aid? He's earned enough money that he doesn't have to do that to himself. Many stars only want to leave Saudi Arabia, see Jordan Henderson, who left for Ajax Amsterdam after less than six months, thus giving up a lot of money. Firminho and others are also desperate to leave. Mourinho should take some time out and then take over a top club. In the second half of the season, more coaches will be traditionally sacked that opens opportunities for him.

Jose Mourinho ever said to media about his interested to be Saudi Arabia club manager one day later but not in short time, after sacking from AS Roma manager right he not reach any verbal agreement with European club and likely he has chance continue his manager career with Saudi Arabia clubs. Despite have many top european players get difficult adapt well and return back to european teams such as Jordan Henderson, Firmino but its not make Saudi Pro League less interested exactly with their fantastic offer bigger salary payment.
I sure Jose Mourinho will be most expensive payment salary as manager in the world if accept with Saudi Arabia club to be manager, lets give moment awhile for Mourinho will acceptable to be Saudi Pro League teams manager or he wants stay to be european club manager.

[Belarge]

With coach Jose Mourinho out of a job for the now, many managers who are struggling to get results with their team will be put under pressure to sit up and perform as expected in the coming weeks so that they don't risk losing their jobs to Jose Mourinho who many club owners will be eyeing to get to their team knowing how good he is. I also saw this news about him accepting a job with Saudi Arabian side Al-Shabab, Is anyone else able to confirm this news?

Jose Mourinho ‘reaches agreement to become manager of Al-Shabab’ just days after Roma sacking

Coaches that are good enough are solely for elite teams while the average ones struggles to get a job. AS Roma couldn't endure the longing suffering of defeats, the board decided to let go of the coach because they surf out he's the main problem of the club that have held them to become vulnerable, José Mourinho was incompetent for his job and he have to go because there's no more interests from the supporters and a ruined reputation for the coach. José Mourinho is different from the rest coach, he has solid plans and always two steps above his oppositions.

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He must have been regretting his decision to leave Liverpool by now, if lack of playing time was the reason why he left then I would say he has no value for the club if he expects the coach to play him over young talents being brought to the team. He is already 30 years old and obviously his performance was depreciating that was why he was not given much playing time and also he should have known better that the competition in the league is very high and all teams are looking to sign younger players to compete and stay relevant.

His move to Saudi was a good one but he just landed in the wrong club that was why he couldn’t succeed there, saudi pay their players well andd at such age he should rather focus on earning more money for his family than seeking to play in a relevant club that pay less.

I don’t see how moving to Ajax can benefit his career but let’s see if he can help them regain their best form again.

Well, all you said are indeed true. There was no way Klopp would constantly put a player who is underperforming ahead of a player that delivers consistent results. For instance, whenever Nunez or Gakpo is underperforming, Klopp usually fields one in favour of the other. That competition has made Gakpo and Nunez improve in recent times, Nunez especially. Even James Milner had his fair share and always delivered when called upon. Henderson didn't want any of that ajd forced a deal away from Liverpool.

Let's hope he finds success at Ajax otherwise he'd just be like other players who retire when they're not too simply because they're in the wrong club.

[ZAINmalik75]

Deal !
FC Bayern Munich coach Thomas Tuchel has liked for Bayern Munich to sign right-back Kieran Trippier from Newcastle united. Moreover, player have not been involved in any negotiations in terms of dealing, despite the fact that the deal will depend on the both clubs, i.e., Bayern Munich and Newcastle united. Bayern Munich actually used to play K. Laimer as full back whenever N. Mazraoui used to play. But anyway in fact Bayern Munich don't have any solid full back like Kieran Trippier. So because therefore, I believe that signing of Kieran Trippier for Bayern Munich is so good because they have already given the signal of weakness in their Right back position. Besides that, PSG is also trying to approach for Kieran Trippier to bring him to the French side But maybe Bayern Munich will be in a hurry to sign him because of the coach Thomas Tuchel.

Reference:
https://twitter.com/DeadlineDayLive/status/1748369725598392343?t=2sTdPZCr9mE0TDRnXgW6ew&s=19

[Docnaster]

Chelsea is about to put their player, Armando Broja for sale.
There are some teams like Wolverhampton, West Ham, and Fulan that want to hire Armando Broja from Chelsea and buy this player, but Chelsea didn't show any reactions and they didn't say anything about their player.
But recently Chelsea said they could sell this player for 65 million euros which is a huge amount of money, however, Armando Broja is a young and talented player.

Who the heck is club willing to buy him at such an expensive price? what a non sense price from chelsea. I knew that chelsea has bought him with a lot of money but he was failed to deliver. It's time for chelsea to let him leave from the club but 65 millions was too much for a striker that was only collecting a few goals till this time. Im sure that those clubs will be running away from broja caused by non sense price given by chelsea. It sounds a non sense thing if there will be one of them to buy broja with such price. That's too good to be true for broja to leave from chelsea with that price. Guirassy from stuttgart was also fuckin cheaper compared to the broja. What's a special thing about him? i see nothing on broja.

He was average striker that was always running in the field caused by rarely getting the ball. Broja was also very bad in the ball control too. Im only wondering what things that makes those clubs interested to acquire him as a new striker.
Those teams are probably thinking that chelsea may be selling him for cheap price but the opposite thing was just happening recently.  :
Broja was obviously useless.

If I'm to pick the Chelsea strikers for football games as a manager, I'll always go for Armando Broja ahead of Nicholas Jackson because to me he's got a better ball control than Jackson even when he's not been that clinical for Chelsea this season. But just like many managers who has different ideas and choices, Chelsea manager Mauricio Pochentino prefers Nicholas Jackson over Broja and that has significantly affected the Broja's chances of getting playing times are the club.

I'm not surprised that he wants to leave and go to clubs where he's gonna get more playing time especially now that Christopher Nkunku is back to full fitness. Hopefully for him, he gets good offers from other English Premier League clubs.

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Expensive compared to what? Do you remember how much Mudrik cost? Or Anthony? These are mediocre players (at least for now) but they paid a lot of money for them because that’s the way the transfer market is now (Saudis and everything else).

For the record, murdyk was in Chelsea and everyone knows that the oil money are going there so they literally slapped higher prices on him. As for Antony, yeah we overpaid him for sure because Ten Hag insisted on taking him in. The board was desperate with result thus they granted his request although yeah the price on Antony was ridiculous for sure

Deal !
FC Bayern Munich coach Thomas Tuchel has liked for Bayern Munich to sign right-back Kieran Trippier from Newcastle united.

Kinda expecting this to happen especially that he is going to hit 34 years old this year so any team would likely to send him over if there are other teams that wants him

[LFC_Bitcoin]

Let's hope he finds success at Ajax otherwise he'd just be like other players who retire when they're not too simply because they're in the wrong club.

Henderson is finished as a top level performer. He was never a great technician, he relied on physicality and endurance.

His legs have gone and he isn’t good enough on the ball to make up for it.

[rendravolt]

According to news from The Athletic, Armando Broja has the opportunity to leave Stamford Bridge in January 2024.
https://theathletic.com/5208430/2024/01/17/chelsea-armando-broja-transfer/
The poor performance given by Broja may be due to just returning from a long injury at the start of the 2023/24 season. So far, the 22 year old player has only appeared in 617 minutes in all competitions this season. This poor performance may be one of the reasons for releasing Broja, but Chelsea is asking a price of 35 million to 50 million pounds for the player from Albania. Broja has been linked with Wolverhampton Wanderers and Fulham. Both teams want to increase their attack power.

Indeed, it is felt that his role does not have a sharp impact for Chelsea and as a striker it is a weakness when he cannot contribute many goals to a club. Amando Broja has recently experienced a decline in performance and this could be because he previously suffered an injury which made him unable to be as consistent as in the previous season.

Chelsea had to let him go because it was impossible to keep a striker without improvement and the price offered by Chelsea was too expensive in my opinion. I think more precisely, with its current quality it can only be priced at 20 million euros because anything more than that is not worth it. He is still young and maybe quite promising after leaving Chelsea and here Wolves are most likely to get his services.

[Oluwa-btc]

Deal !
FC Bayern Munich coach Thomas Tuchel has liked for Bayern Munich to sign right-back Kieran Trippier from Newcastle united. Moreover, player have not been involved in any negotiations in terms of dealing, despite the fact that the deal will depend on the both clubs, i.e., Bayern Munich and Newcastle united. Bayern Munich actually used to play K. Laimer as full back whenever N. Mazraoui used to play. But anyway in fact Bayern Munich don't have any solid full back like Kieran Trippier. So because therefore, I believe that signing of Kieran Trippier for Bayern Munich is so good because they have already given the signal of weakness in their Right back position. Besides that, PSG is also trying to approach for Kieran Trippier to bring him to the French side But maybe Bayern Munich will be in a hurry to sign him because of the coach Thomas Tuchel.

Reference:
https://twitter.com/DeadlineDayLive/status/1748369725598392343?t=2sTdPZCr9mE0TDRnXgW6ew&s=19

I feel like Thomas Tuchel is doing a wrong thing for a big club like Bayern Munich who should be making investment in younger and talented players, he's busy making recommendations for players who are worned out. I don't expect them to win the Champions League Competition this way honestly.

Kieran Trippier is good with the crosses and defending but that is not a wise deal for Bayern Munich to make. They should be hunting for a younger lad like the dutch player Jeremy Frimpong who has good goals and assist for Bayern Leverkusen. Take a good look at Real Madrid even if I hate comparisons, they're making investment into younger and pacy players for next season.

[tusandii]

In general we can wish Mourinho good luck and we are waiting for him in some Saudi club.

Mourinho is a manager who does his job with so much emotions, as a result of that i don't think he would move to Saudi Arabia because he would not get such feelings there, it would obviously be motivated by the money he is going to be paid. Having said that, if you look around Europe, you'll understand that Mou's options are limited, i don't think any big club can sign him now and smaller clubs cannot afford his wages. Mou also has serious disciplinary issues that many clubs would closely be looking at before they appoint him.

Yes, I think Mourinho can rest for a while for the rest of the season while seeing how the clubs in Europe are developing. I also don't think he will coach a team from the Saudi league. he will remain in Europe and possibly start with a new team for next season.
he might be able to stay with one of the clubs in Serie A or maybe with a club in the Premier League. There are still big clubs that are currently having problems with team performance. and maybe Mou could be a solution for teams who want to change their coach.

Yes, it's true that he should have chosen to take a short break after several matches because he was too busy training with Roma and when he rested, Mourinho could have had target of joining the club he wanted except Saudi arabia.
I'm sure there are many European club who want Mourinho to become coach at that club, but if you look at some of the rumors, it very likely he will stay in Serie A, but the question  who the candidate club that Mourinho will coach? whereas several popular clubs in Serie A are already comfortable with each coach.
There a possibility that Mourinho will go to the Premier League because there are 2 clubs currently that need great coaches, such as manchester United and Chelsea.
But I'm not sure whether Mourinho wants to serve as coach at Manchester United or Chelsea because these two clubs have very bad reputation this season but if MU can be controlled by Mourinho I'm sure there will be big changes that will happen but the problem that Chelsea has a lot of wealth bigger so that he can offer Mourinho a bigger salary.

[Alpha Marine]

I don't understand why he was fired in the middle of the road when let him finish the task until the end at least with the 6th position again for Roma it was good enough for them, but maybe they judged that the current position of 9th could not be saved anymore by Jose Mourinho so he preferred to be fired rather than continued failure, which surprised De Rossi who was appointed as an inexperienced coach.

Sacking Mourinho now is a bad decision. You don't expect them to keep him till things get worse than it already is? They're 9th on the table and I don't see how there can be a turnaround this season with Mourinho in charge. Mourinho is a manager who has a short-term impact on any team he manages, so if good results don't come, there's no point keeping him for long hoping for things to change.

As for De Rossi, the contract was a short-term contract. He's a legend of the club. Someone who knows the club well and understands what the club wants. He might be a bad decision since he's inexperienced or he might be what Roma needs right now. Either way, it's a short-term contract so there's no big deal about it.

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"Verbal Agreement" I think we will hear the official news about it within 1-2 days.
And the funny thing is, there is already a schedule of friendly match in Jan 24th Al Shabab vs AS Roma lol.
So if that really happens, Mou must face his former club in less than a week.

Still haven't heard news from reporters we know like Fabrzio Romano saying Jose Mourinho has reached an agreement with Al-Shabab.
Is it true there will be a fixture between Al-Shabab vs Roma, I missed this news?
Maybe Mourinho will be very angry and want to beat Roma as his concern, but I still doubt like coach Mourinho should go to the Arab league.

[QueenVera]

Expensive compared to what? Do you remember how much Mudrik cost? Or Anthony? These are mediocre players (at least for now) but they paid a lot of money for them because that’s the way the transfer market is now (Saudis and everything else). There are no guarantees that the transfer will be successful (although Haaland is already an accomplished player and wherever he played he scored a lot of goals), there is a possibility that what happened with Hazard will happen, but this does not mean that big transfers should not be made at all.
As for prices, taking into account the signing bonus of 130 million that Mbappe will receive, there is no difference between “buying out” the player or paying a signing bonus - the final price will be approximately the same.
And the likelihood that Mbappe and Haaland will play for Real at the same time is zero, both want to be the “first fiddle” and will never agree to such competition, especially Mbappe since he does not play the tip of the attack, but rather a position under the striker, so it may turn out that the whole the statistics will benefit Haaland.

Well Mbappe or Haaland to Real is quite crazy and could be seen as probably not gonna happen because they are supposed to take over the boots of Leo and Ronaldo. Yes the fee for the both could be quite crazy but ain’t a big deal for Real, however among the above stated players, Mbappé is the most likely to move to Madrid, with reasons that Haaland still got a long contact with City and it would cost Madrid a lot cause of his release clause, whereas Mbappé just have some months left and would cost them not very much to lure him to the Bernabeu.

 The Saudis and some oil clubs are one reason why we’ve got crazy transfer fee in football. Like when you compare the likes of Caicedo, Mudryk, Anthony and how much they’re offering to their clubs and how much the likes of Mbappe or Haaland can offer then that alone should make their transfer fee bizzare. Well the competition between these 2 will be one reason they won’t be able to play for same club because they both want to be on the lime light Nd not hiding under the shadow of the other.

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What the heck did he think when he left Liverpool? Or does anyone know whether Liverpool wanted him to go?

The real reasons aren't known till now but it was rumored that it was due to the fact that he wasn't getting enough playing time anymore despite being the captain and he knew during that transfer window that Liverpool would get midfield reinforcements and I think that triggered him to make that abrupt move. He was my skipper and I still miss him in a Liverpool shirt and I'd wish him well at Ajax.

Imo, The only reason that would justify his decision then was that he wanted to try out new challenges.

I believe that some of the players massively underestimate how their motivation to perform at the best level drops to zero. Now when they got all the money they want but find themselves in an environment that is not enjoyable for them, I doubt that any player under those circumstances would ever be able to reach new heights or to find his peak level. Ronaldo is scoring a lot of goals, but he is obviously nowhere near his peak. If they do something for the money only, and that is what they do in Saudi Arabia, it is tough to go out on the pitch and play as if there was no tomorrow.

[ginsan]

Yes, it's true that he should have chosen to take a short break after several matches because he was too busy training with Roma and when he rested, Mourinho could have had a target of joining the club he wanted except Saudi Arabia.
I'm sure there are many European clubs who want Mourinho to become coach at that club, but if you look at some of the rumors, it's very likely he will stay in Serie A, but the question is who is the candidate club that Mourinho will coach? whereas several popular clubs in Serie A are already comfortable with each coach.

Actually, many big clubs want to use Mourinho services for next season and I think he has to stabilize his confidence after being fired by Roma. Well, if you say that many Serie A teams are quite comfortable with the current coach, of course it is true, but there are rumors that AC Milan will look for a new coach if Pioli fails to bring AC Milan to a trophy this season. But I doubt that AC Milan will be interested in using Mourinho services. There are several top coaches who are unemployed at the moment, such as Conte and Mourinho, so these two coaches might take a break until this season is over.

In fact, it is not impossible that Mourinho and Conte will return to the Premier League or La Liga because currently these two coaches are able to make the team they train stronger and more famous with their coaching methods. Mourinho failed to bring Roma to a better performance this season, but he also managed to bring one trophy to Roma under his coaching. Let's wait for the latest news about these two coaches, whether they will go to the Saudi Arabian League or not.

[Huppercase]

Sacking Mourinho now is a bad decision. You don't expect them to keep him till things get worse than it already is? They're 9th on the table and I don't see how there can be a turnaround this season with Mourinho in charge. Mourinho is a manager who has a short-term impact on any team he manages, so if good results don't come, there's no point keeping him for long hoping for things to change.

I also think they were to quick in letting Mourinho live the club, I'm not too convince that they both pathways in good faith between him and Roma but I think I saw one of his videos trending on Tiktok some few weeks ago making some dancing moves, maybe he wasn't too focus that's why they let him go. Joke aside, if there is no selfish interest going on in that club, Roma are still in good place because even he last season, they needed in 6th place to qualify for Europa conference league and now they are in number 9, it's not good and the same time it's not poor to me.

As for De Rossi, the contract was a short-term contract. He's a legend of the club. Someone who knows the club well and understands what the club wants. He might be a bad decision since he's inexperienced or he might be what Roma needs right now. Either way, it's a short-term contract so there's no big deal about it.

Someone who knows the club is the new trend of managers teams are now using to guide teams. Maybe they are inspired by Xavi and Arteta journey so far but even if it he didn't meet to their expectations, the contract is short and he can park his luggage's and live immediately but I'm sure he wouldn't want that for himself. He will improve and do more to get that permanent place in Roma. I just hope the team connect well in order to impress the team because it's one thing to work is another for the team coperation.

[Raflesia]

Yes, I think Mourinho can rest for a while for the rest of the season while seeing how the clubs in Europe are developing. I also don't think he will coach a team from the Saudi league. he will remain in Europe and possibly start with a new team for next season.
he might be able to stay with one of the clubs in Serie A or maybe with a club in the Premier League. There are still big clubs that are currently having problems with team performance. and maybe Mou could be a solution for teams who want to change their coach.

He should not be too hasty in this matter because entering in the middle of the season where Mourinho's tactics must run with careful preparation will actually make his situation worse when he insists on directly coaching another club now.

He is one of those coaches who has to prepare everything from scratch because the scheme he is doing is quite conservative besides that, he definitely needs time, especially for the chemistry with the defenders of the new club which is sure this will take a lot of time because indeed Mou's plan in a scheme at a defensive player club is very important to support success in a match.
Imposing for a new club will only make his plans a little difficult to realize unless he is ready for criticism at the new club.