⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions

[TastyChillySauce00]

Nico González has officially become a Manchester City player right before the end of the winter transfer window in the Premier League.

Currently there is an interesting situation by the way. Manchester City spent 215 million euros in this window which was more than the rest of the 19 teams combined (213 million). 

Who will say stop to them, or will anyone do so?

City spent a lot because they're in crisis. They also need to make a move for a regeneration as soon as possible. That's why they spent a bunch of money even during the winter window. I wonder how much they will spend at the summer transfer season after they spent a lot in winter. 

By the way, glad to see Nico joins City. He is the solution to increase City's depth on its midfield. Adding him is one of important move in order to be used as Rodri's back up, which not anyone in the club can do that. I only wish him luck on his first season at City.

[Pokapoka124]

I didn’t think Chelsea would be signing any more midfielders, they have a lot of players at their side and it would be hard for Amougou to get regular playing time. Chelsea under Todd Boehly has a reputation for giving long term contracts to players because why do they have to give Mathis Amougou a eight year contract? Are they hoping to sell for profit in a few years?

[tygeade]

Actually Manchester United need revolution with current composition teams but have financial problem and new manager Ruben Amorim must adapt well with current composition teams. Rashford become second players under Amorim era have leave Manchester United after recently Antony loan to Real Betis. I think Rashford take good decision for himself get more minutes playing by accepting offer from Aston Villa as loan option until the end of this season than stay with Manchester United get difficult to be main player.

Good decision taking by Rashford accepting offer from Aston Villa because he will play at Champion League match, its difficult keep staying with United because for next season seems can't reach the top fourth position standing or reach UEFA Champion League spot place.

I am pretty sure that it is not going to be easy for United to get there, it is not going to be easy to just change everything all together. I know that they are getting rid of some players, but it is not really that easy to get rid of all of them. They just got away with Rashford and Antony, which is great for them of course, but they still have some dead weight on the club and we are going to end up with a lot more difficult choices without a doubt, so it is not going to be easy at all for them. If they really want to get better, they really need to get rid of more, like Casemiro and Maguire type of players, if they can do that, summer could be better. They are not getting any good players right now, so it is all about just losing the excess.

[shinratensei_]

I didn’t think Chelsea would be signing any more midfielders, they have a lot of players at their side and it would be hard for Amougou to get regular playing time. Chelsea under Todd Boehly has a reputation for giving long term contracts to players because why do they have to give Mathis Amougou a eight year contract? Are they hoping to sell for profit in a few years?

The reason is pretty simple. Mathis Amougou comes to the club as amateur, and they will try to develop him, then sell for profit. The only dumbest thing showed by Chelsea is that they bought him for 15 million. This is stupid price to sign a player with no level and no standard.

That's why i saw this signing is just another circus showed by them.

[Antotena]

I am pretty sure that it is not going to be easy for United to get there, it is not going to be easy to just change everything all together. I know that they are getting rid of some players, but it is not really that easy to get rid of all of them. They just got away with Rashford and Antony, which is great for them of course, but they still have some dead weight on the club and we are going to end up with a lot more difficult choices without a doubt, so it is not going to be easy at all for them. If they really want to get better, they really need to get rid of more, like Casemiro and Maguire type of players, if they can do that, summer could be better. They are not getting any good players right now, so it is all about just losing the excess.

If Chelsea after some years of suffering and are able to get on their feet again, Manchester United can do better in my opinion. What's needed now is to focus on the players that is going to replace the ones that are going to be loan and sold reason is that it is possible that the players we are anticipating for replacements might even do worse than what we are seeing, this was what we expected from Amorim when ETH left but what do we got, disappointment.

Casemiro has finished football but Manchester United don't know when not to buy a player, ETH is one of the worse person when it comes to good pick. Casemiro is a great defender, has done many things in Real Madrid but not needed in Manchester United in my opinion. Maguire has been long overdue, that guy is overdue for sell but they are not ready to let go because of the investment made on them but the question is would you rather hold something that cost you loss? The market value will continue to drop as their performance reduces.

[karabiber]

We are experiencing hectic times towards the last days of the transfer. Batshuayi, who plays for Galatasaray, was transferred to Frankfurt today.
When Frankfurt sold striker Marmoush to City, they want to fill the vacant place with Batshuayi, but I think this transfer is wrong.
Because Batshuayi was a substitute player in Galatasaray and he could not be very effective when he entered the match later. Because he mostly plays ball standing still. I did not see features such as fighting and running. The Bundesliga is a harder and faster league. I am looking forward to seeing how he will be included in the squad here and what kind of performance he will perform. Frankfurt bought Batshuayi on a transfer fee, but they will most likely part ways at the end of the year.  There is no effective performance in Batshuayi. He spent his best period in Fenerbahçe in Turkey, but went to Galatasaray at the beginning of the year. It flies from place to place like migratory birds. I wouldn't be surprised if his destination soon is one of the Arabian teams.

Michy Batshuayi is not a bad striker but he was not the right player for Galatasaray's playing structure. I can say that the lack of tolerance level in the Turkish Super League was a factor in the breakup. In addition, Michy Batshuayi's individual skills such as passing ability, vision off the ball, ball control were weak. Even though Michy Batshuayi has been subjected to criticism and had limited chances to play this season, he scored important points for Galatasaray in critical matches. I can say that Michy Batshuayi's departure from the team before the player club relationship becomes toxic and leads to a loss of points was a good transfer for Galatasaray, even if it cost the player.

[dezoel]

Amorim would have sold all the problem players like Mainoo, Garnacho or Zirkise a long time ago but Manchester United have big money problems right now. It is said that the team is hundreds of millions of pounds in debt and in order to somehow fix the situation, the club has raised ticket prices for fans. So for now Amorim has no good solutions and until the end of the season will have to play with the squad that was picked up by Ten Hag. I think that now Amorim regrets that he left Sporting, because the problems there are less than at United.

Manchester United is having no financial problem or debit which creates problem for them even they spend huge funds for few players which fail to perform as expected but now Amorim doing few good things and offloading players which was the problem which is big change with this now things can take changes in the future.

Even still it's not easy for him to work on solid strategy which keep team in good position but as he is working and doing overhaul this is positive thing happening Eric Ten Hag spend huge amount on many players but most of them were big failures. Currently, Manchester United have good thing they ended in top 8 which give them good confidence and this could be good motivation for them as well now they needed to work on their performance in Premier League which is more important and could be good for them.

[rahmad2nd]

United is open to seel Garnacho and Mainoo this summer.

It seems Amorim is losing his patience for Mainoo and Garnacho. It's good to sell those players as they're nothing than liabilities to the club. They can sell Garnacho for high price, and mainoo as well.

That's gonna be Amorim's first step to rebuild his club. He's not feeling satisfied enough with his current squad, especially when he always suffer the lost even against a mediocre team.

Selling a lot of key players must be a major move to push the team to be better.

It could be that Manchester United will release more of its players in the upcoming summer transfer window, which means that he will only retain players who can play according to the system he implements. So maybe not just Garnacho and Mainoo, but it seems that United will overhaul its squad. Referring to the matches that Amorim played with his squad, he never tried to change his system even though his team had difficulty playing the pattern he wanted. He always made rotation changes to get something he wanted, unfortunately the results were not as expected. Amorim even experimented with placing Mainoo as a center forward, the results were far from his expectations and so was Garnacho's role in the match. On the other hand, the departure of Antony and Rasford forced Amorim to play Eriksen, he didn't have many options, as did Manchester United's center forward. Hojlund and Zirkzee did not give what he expected, but Amorim still implemented the same system. It could be that next season Amorim will make major changes, maybe Mainoo is on the list of players they will release in the upcoming summer transfer window.

[slapper]

I am pretty sure that it is not going to be easy for United to get there, it is not going to be easy to just change everything all together. I know that they are getting rid of some players, but it is not really that easy to get rid of all of them. They just got away with Rashford and Antony, which is great for them of course, but they still have some dead weight on the club and we are going to end up with a lot more difficult choices without a doubt, so it is not going to be easy at all for them. If they really want to get better, they really need to get rid of more, like Casemiro and Maguire type of players, if they can do that, summer could be better. They are not getting any good players right now, so it is all about just losing the excess.

If Chelsea after some years of suffering and are able to get on their feet again, Manchester United can do better in my opinion. What's needed now is to focus on the players that is going to replace the ones that are going to be loan and sold reason is that it is possible that the players we are anticipating for replacements might even do worse than what we are seeing, this was what we expected from Amorim when ETH left but what do we got, disappointment.

Casemiro has finished football but Manchester United don't know when not to buy a player, ETH is one of the worse person when it comes to good pick. Casemiro is a great defender, has done many things in Real Madrid but not needed in Manchester United in my opinion. Maguire has been long overdue, that guy is overdue for sell but they are not ready to let go because of the investment made on them but the question is would you rather hold something that cost you loss? The market value will continue to drop as their performance reduces.

Man United will not get better until they change how they buy players. Carrying around past mistakes doesn't help you build a future. Players like Casemiro, Maguire, Sancho, and Martial should have already left. The problem isn't even Casemiro; it's the whole scouting and hiring team. Someone spent €85M on Antony but wouldn't buy a real No. 9 when they needed one. Who bought Mount for €60M when the middle needed a defensive anchor right away? Who paid Varane and Casemiro crazy amounts of money when they were no longer talented? The problem isn't just with Ten Hag; it's with United too, which is still acting like 2010 and putting money at problems instead of planning

Also Amorim? There is a risk with him. Although he has promise, running a circus like United is very different from running a football team in Portugal. If he comes in before the whole team is rebuilt, he'll get cooked just like Ten Hag. Also, Chelsea is likely to still have a hard time, but at least they're quickly changing bad choices. United? Their hiring problems, overpaid failures, and lack of knowledge on the board have kept them in a holding pattern. They are stuck in the mud until that changes, while teams like Arsenal, City, and Liverpool keep getting better

[shogun47]

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Barcelona was previously reported to have an interest in Rashford. They are constrained by the player's fairly high salary problem. If Barcelona did not have financial problems, maybe they would really buy him. Regarding competition, it all depends on the player whether he can show his potential or not.
But now everything is final and Rashford will join Aston Villa on loan even though the salary is not paid in full by Aston Villa, at least it will reduce the burden of United's player salary when Rashford is indeed not included in Amorim's plans.

Yes but you ignored one of my points and that is why do you think that a player who was not able to become a leader at Manchester United will now be able to push away one of the Barcelona players to become a starter there? Manchester United is in shambles and Rashford could not convince the coach to count on him. Now you say that it all depends on the player and if Rashford wants, it is only about his will, then he would become an important player for Barcelona.

It sounds ridiculous to me because he wasn't able to find his place in Manchester, a club that is devastatingly bad. Let him go to Aston Villa and show his "great potential" that everybody is talking about there. He will end up being sold again and again in the next few years because all clubs think he is good, but he isn't.

[Huppercase]

With conditions like now of course manchester city must move quickly in the transfer market, especially last summer they only brought in one player and instead unexpectedly they had to slump after rodry was injured, actually guardiola does not have a habit of shopping for players in the winter because they usually focus more on the summer transfers market. but this season they have to break that habit to improve their current condition, so far, I see that the signing of Marmoush has had a positive impact on their attacking line, but the purchase of Khusanov and Vitor Reis so far has not had a significant impact, while the signing of Nico Gonzalez looks like panic buying after they were slaughtered by Arsenal 5-1.

Any decisions that comes from Guardiola right now in my opinion wouldn't be the best for the team, I think his marital status is still there unless he has someone that has taken the wounded place for him and move on otherwise, this season and next is going to be a long journey for the team. I don't think there is absolutely anything wrong with this team, what they need is just readjusting the existing players and find some defenders a good center back.

There is ongoing discussion for Gonzalez to take place of Rodri since he is no longer active and been on injury but who is going to replace Walker. Who is going to perfectly fit into that role because there seems to be no sign of happiness between Walker and Guardiola be he left for Milan, there is many things that need to be sorted out and resolved before Manchester City can be in a perfect conditions that's why I insisted that as long as Guardiola marital divorce is still on, there is going to be long problem in this club.

[Alpha Marine]

Manchester United needs to get better again and the first step on achieving that will be to reshuffle the team so that they can be able to identify areas that has loopholes, then they can make amendments and the team become active again. Besides, the club has all the finance and resources to make positive decisions that will help them rise again.

This is how you know a badly run club. A club where almost all the players are bad, yet they have refused to get rid of them and buy actual good players. All the attackers of Manchester United are not good enough. Only Amad is showing any signs of being at the top level.
The midfield is a mess. Players like Casemiro and Erickson, Mount shouldn't be in that club. In defence, Only Martinez and De Ligt should remain if we're being serious.
A lot of work needs to be done in that club. They need good wingers, they need a good striker. Hojlund and Zirkzee are just not good enough. They need at least 2 seasons to have a competitive squad.

[Zlantann]

We are experiencing hectic times towards the last days of the transfer. Batshuayi, who plays for Galatasaray, was transferred to Frankfurt today.
When Frankfurt sold striker Marmoush to City, they want to fill the vacant place with Batshuayi, but I think this transfer is wrong.
Because Batshuayi was a substitute player in Galatasaray and he could not be very effective when he entered the match later. Because he mostly plays ball standing still. I did not see features such as fighting and running. The Bundesliga is a harder and faster league. I am looking forward to seeing how he will be included in the squad here and what kind of performance he will perform. Frankfurt bought Batshuayi on a transfer fee, but they will most likely part ways at the end of the year.  There is no effective performance in Batshuayi. He spent his best period in Fenerbahçe in Turkey, but went to Galatasaray at the beginning of the year. It flies from place to place like migratory birds. I wouldn't be surprised if his destination soon is one of the Arabian teams.

Michy Batshuayi is not a bad striker but he was not the right player for Galatasaray's playing structure. I can say that the lack of tolerance level in the Turkish Super League was a factor in the breakup. In addition, Michy Batshuayi's individual skills such as passing ability, vision off the ball, ball control were weak. Even though Michy Batshuayi has been subjected to criticism and had limited chances to play this season, he scored important points for Galatasaray in critical matches. I can say that Michy Batshuayi's departure from the team before the player club relationship becomes toxic and leads to a loss of points was a good transfer for Galatasaray, even if it cost the player.

The Belgian international don't have good records in scoring goals. Michy Batshuayi has scored just five goals in eighteen games in Galastataray. But he has lots of experience having played for top European clubs like Borussia Dortmund, Crystal Palace, Valencia, Besiktas and  Chelsea.

I wouldn't conclude that he would not do well in Germany because Okan Buruk didn't give him much playing time. The signing of Victor Osimhen made it obvious that he might not have more playing time in Galastataray. Eintracht Frankfurt coach saw some qualities in the Belgian striker which was why he decided to get him. The thirty one years old striker is robust and is ruggged which might suit the Bundesliga.

[Slow death]

United is open to seel Garnacho and Mainoo this summer.

It seems Amorim is losing his patience for Mainoo and Garnacho. It's good to sell those players as they're nothing than liabilities to the club. They can sell Garnacho for high price, and mainoo as well.

That's gonna be Amorim's first step to rebuild his club. He's not feeling satisfied enough with his current squad, especially when he always suffer the lost even against a mediocre team.

Selling a lot of key players must be a major move to push the team to be better.

Unfortunately, it seems that Manchester United changes coaches but they all think the same way and make the same mistakes. For example, there is Victor Osimhen who is a very skilled striker, but Manchester United stops signing him and spends a lot of money signing players without great skills. So it is difficult for a team to have good results when they have this bad behavior.

Let's look at the squad of Liverpool, Arsenal, Manchester City, they have players with great skills from the attack, midfielders and defenders. But Manchester United doesn't have that.

[GbitG]

Nico González has officially become a Manchester City player right before the end of the winter transfer window in the Premier League.

Currently there is an interesting situation by the way. Manchester City spent 215 million euros in this window which was more than the rest of the 19 teams combined (213 million). 

Who will say stop to them, or will anyone do so?

City spent a lot because they're in crisis. They also need to make a move for a regeneration as soon as possible. That's why they spent a bunch of money even during the winter window. I wonder how much they will spend at the summer transfer season after they spent a lot in winter. 

By the way, glad to see Nico joins City. He is the solution to increase City's depth on its midfield. Adding him is one of important move in order to be used as Rodri's back up, which not anyone in the club can do that. I only wish him luck on his first season at City.

Yeah, obviously they spend such a huge amount. I never expected this before. Even it's only a winter transfer window and they spend (213 million) to sign new players. Hehe 😄 literally, that's crazy, guys they have so much money. But in fact, Pep was in dire need of signing new players. Because Pep's team is already facing criticism due to missing crucial players. I think the reason behind Manchester City bad performance is that the players have lost their confidence and some of them got injured. So maybe the new signing can bring some great moments to the Pep team.

And if we talk about their new signing Nico González we can literally see that he is one of the classical players who has the ability to restore the defensive positions for Pep team. His defensive positions are outstanding, like Rodri. He stops the opponent with strong tackles and helps his team with long balls. Which can be beneficial for Pep's team.

[RaltcoinsB]

I didn’t think Chelsea would be signing any more midfielders, they have a lot of players at their side and it would be hard for Amougou to get regular playing time. Chelsea under Todd Boehly has a reputation for giving long term contracts to players because why do they have to give Mathis Amougou a eight year contract? Are they hoping to sell for profit in a few years?

Whatever potential they saw in the 19-year-old player, they made an important transfer and contract suggestion for Chelsea. I hope Amougou will not be a disappointment for Chelsea. I think they should be more careful since they have had such disappointing transfers in the past. Whether the French player can show all his talents and become permanent in the Premier League is up to him.

[baeva]

Amorim would have sold all the problem players like Mainoo, Garnacho or Zirkise a long time ago but Manchester United have big money problems right now. It is said that the team is hundreds of millions of pounds in debt and in order to somehow fix the situation, the club has raised ticket prices for fans. So for now Amorim has no good solutions and until the end of the season will have to play with the squad that was picked up by Ten Hag. I think that now Amorim regrets that he left Sporting, because the problems there are less than at United.

Manchester United is having no financial problem or debit which creates problem for them even they spend huge funds for few players which fail to perform as expected but now Amorim doing few good things and offloading players which was the problem which is big change with this now things can take changes in the future.

Even still it's not easy for him to work on solid strategy which keep team in good position but as he is working and doing overhaul this is positive thing happening Eric Ten Hag spend huge amount on many players but most of them were big failures. Currently, Manchester United have good thing they ended in top 8 which give them good confidence and this could be good motivation for them as well now they needed to work on their performance in Premier League which is more important and could be good for them.

Fans in general do not care that he is there trying and trying to fix everything - they care about the result, and with the arrival of Amorim in the club you can say nothing has changed and the team continues to lose and keep on low positions in the league table. Outside of the championship they seem to have everything more or less, but inside - terrible

[KTChampions]

It's quite funny that although Aston Villa consistently rank above United and are in the Champions League this season, while United are in the Europa League, this move is a step down. And the fact that he is going to Aston Villa is proof that no top club is interested in him anymore (like PSG once was).
It will be interesting to see if he can prove himself there or if football has completely left him.

I feel the Manchester United board were clumsy About the Marcus Rashford situation, no matter how you try to look at things, there was a way they could come in to mend things between Amorim and Rashford, even before the young man left for Aston villa, Amorim didn't allow him play for a good number of games for a player that was still very feet and has potential, it wasn't looking like he had a better option in those games though, his direct disposition on Rashford was unprofessional as a coach and as a one time footballer, the whole drama for me was looking like he had a personal Vendetta against the youngster. If not for the way things where, I'm sure Rashford wouldn't have settled for an Aston villa.

Are you kidding? Rashford has turned into rubbish since he signed a new contract with United (3 years ago, I think). From a player who Ronaldo himself said "reminds me of me" he has turned into an undisciplined footballer and a piece of wood on the pitch. There is a type of footballer who, having received a fat contract, stops trying and not only stops progressing (which everyone expects) but starts to degrade. Rashford is exactly this type of player.

[Hyphen(-)]

Are you kidding? Rashford has turned into rubbish since he signed a new contract with United (3 years ago, I think). From a player who Ronaldo himself said "reminds me of me" he has turned into an undisciplined footballer and a piece of wood on the pitch. There is a type of footballer who, having received a fat contract, stops trying and not only stops progressing (which everyone expects) but starts to degrade. Rashford is exactly this type of player.

Don’t you think that coaches do contribute to some of these players poor performances?

When I check the record of how players were leaving Manchester United, mostly coaches do have hand in their leaving because that was how Ronaldo left, De Gea left also, Jordan Sancho who was a good winger in Dortmund flops and was chased out of the club by Ten Hag; now Rashford was also chased out of the club let’s say by Amorim.

Manchester United‘s management need to restructure their mode of decline and how they treat players, because for one, two, and more players to leave for same reasons, it means the coaches also have fault or something is wrong in the management; therefore, I think k Rashford deserve to stay in Manchester United because he is still good and the team can still depend on him.

[MarjorieZimmermanGinger]

Are you kidding? Rashford has turned into rubbish since he signed a new contract with United (3 years ago, I think). From a player who Ronaldo himself said "reminds me of me" he has turned into an undisciplined footballer and a piece of wood on the pitch. There is a type of footballer who, having received a fat contract, stops trying and not only stops progressing (which everyone expects) but starts to degrade. Rashford is exactly this type of player.

You are right because we can see his selfish attitude and inability to work with the team has made Rashford lose his best form and I even noticed in some games Rashford seemed to have no fighting spirit when played by the coach. He had momentum in the previous three seasons if I am not mistaken and was a talented young player during his two years in the first team debut but after that his performance dropped quite a bit and Rashford was unable to maintain his best form. The arrival of Amorim changed everything and he did not get a place in the first team because Amorim considered Rashford to be a lazy type of player who is difficult to change.