⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions

[LTU_btc]

Anyone knows why the Champions League thread is locked ?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1155775.0

Good question... Probably only mod hilariousandco can asnwer why this thread is locked. Maybe he will unlock it in February few days before round of 16 games.

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[DeathAngel]

Anyone knows why the Champions League thread is locked ?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1155775.0

Good question... Probably only mod hilariousandco can asnwer why this thread is locked. Maybe he will unlock it in February few days before round of 16 games.

Most likely exactly why hilarious has locked it. Sig spammers posting nonsense in there to reach their weekly quotas.

Like you say, the last 16 games aren’t until Feb so lots of time for shit to get posted in there.

[kenzawak]

Anyone knows why the Champions League thread is locked ?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1155775.0

Good question... Probably only mod hilariousandco can asnwer why this thread is locked. Maybe he will unlock it in February few days before round of 16 games.

Most likely exactly why hilarious has locked it. Sig spammers posting nonsense in there to reach their weekly quotas.

Like you say, the last 16 games aren’t until Feb so lots of time for shit to get posted in there.

Just wanted to mention that PSG's Marco Verratti is supposed to be out for 3 weeks. He could miss the first leg against MU.
And since PSG desperately need to sign (even more now) a midfielder, this could be a big advantage for MU.

[LFC_Bitcoin]

Anyone knows why the Champions League thread is locked ?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1155775.0

Good question... Probably only mod hilariousandco can asnwer why this thread is locked. Maybe he will unlock it in February few days before round of 16 games.

Most likely exactly why hilarious has locked it. Sig spammers posting nonsense in there to reach their weekly quotas.

Like you say, the last 16 games aren’t until Feb so lots of time for shit to get posted in there.

Just wanted to mention that PSG's Marco Verratti is supposed to be out for 3 weeks. He could miss the first leg against MU.
And since PSG desperately need to sign (even more now) a midfielder, this could be a big advantage for MU.

If you asked me 4-5 weeks ago I’d say PSG would humiliate United over 2 legs. Now Jose has gone the whole club has been given a big lift. It could be a lot closer now.

[cryptossi]

As fan of Barca I still don't understand why Barca bought him first of all. There are even crazy speculations that he just was bought as revenge to Roma for last year elimination from UCL. Maybe Valverde just don't see him in his schemes. But when Malcom had chances to play, he played decent

I'm yet to understand why he was bought either if he was never a no 9 that was meant to fill in for Suarez, This present Barca administration has been a I'd say nuisance most times when it comes to making transfers. Andre Gomes was bought when Denis Suarez was playing at optimal level and had a very little playing time, Paulinho was bought when he wasn't needed too. I wonder why they'd buy a right winger just after splashing such a huge fee on Dembele who had to switch to the left wing since Messi would mostly occupy the right, meanwhile there's another high signing in Coutinho who's supposed to play on the left wing too.

Yes, they have made some strange decisions in terms of transfers. It doesn't help that they have signed some significant flops, the top example being Coutinho. I've just seen today that Barca have signed KPB from Sassuolo, another weird signing!

[LTU_btc]

Yes, they have made some strange decisions in terms of transfers. It doesn't help that they have signed some significant flops, the top example being Coutinho. I've just seen today that Barca have signed KPB from Sassuolo, another weird signing!

I really can't understand what Barca are doing in transfer market sometimes. They were also interested in Carlos Vela, but then reached loan agreement for loand deal with Sassuolo and Boateng will play in Barca until end of this season. Barca had Munir as backup, and replayed with player who's prime is in past...
I think Valverde just don't have long term strategy. We saw many strange transfers under his management - Paulinho, Vidal, Boateng, Murillo, Malcom. Valverde is pragmatic, and he just want to reach best results, he don't neccessarily need to buy something fancy or popular. It's normal that not transfers are successful. But I don't want to agree with you that Coutinho is a flop. There was some bad signings, but I have positive opinion about Coutinho so far.

[Harkorede]

I really can't understand what Barca are doing in transfer market sometimes. They were also interested in Carlos Vela, but then reached loan agreement for loand deal with Sassuolo and Boateng will play in Barca until end of this season. Barca had Munir as backup, and replayed with player who's prime is in past...
I think Valverde just don't have long term strategy. We saw many strange transfers under his management - Paulinho, Vidal, Boateng, Murillo, Malcom. Valverde is pragmatic, and he just want to reach best results, he don't neccessarily need to buy something fancy or popular. It's normal that not transfers are successful. But I don't want to agree with you that Coutinho is a flop. There was some bad signings, but I have positive opinion about Coutinho so far.

Kelvin-Prince Boateng ? Let me guess, No one saw that coming until it was a done deal, this deal is still fine by me though considering "Barca will pay a €2m loan fee for Boateng to feature for them the remainder of the season". There are not many better options in the market for a centre forward and KPB could indeed play a cover role for suarez at least until the end of the season. I just don't see Barcelona triggering the €8m buy option at the end of the season.

[kenzawak]

Just wanted to mention that PSG's Marco Verratti is supposed to be out for 3 weeks. He could miss the first leg against MU.
And since PSG desperately need to sign (even more now) a midfielder, this could be a big advantage for MU.

If you asked me 4-5 weeks ago I’d say PSG would humiliate United over 2 legs. Now Jose has gone the whole club has been given a big lift. It could be a lot closer now.

I don't know. I mean they got a great boost from Mou's sacking but a season is about ups and downs and though right now they're euphoric, all this energy spent might come back to bite them in the ass.
There's a reason why they played so terribly in the beginning of the season and it's not just the manager. They're not that good a team, especially defensively. I believe that in big games, the best teams on paper usually prevail and on paper, PSG is definitely a better team. When you got a trio like Mbappe, Neymar and Cavani against you, you better have a solid defense.
Anyway, a lot can happen in 3 weeks.
But yeah, it's definitely a closer game now than it was a few weeks ago.

[Pmalek]

You are so wrong. Juve did buy Morata and he signed a 5 year contract but Real had a buy back option of 30 mil. And after leave Real for Chelsea, he said
" I should not have left Juventus, Real Madrid treated me like a child"

Yes, that is true. I was wrong in saying that he was loaned out. I meant to say that even though he did sign a permanent deal with Juventus, Real still had a buy-back option for the next two seasons. And they exercised their right in Morata's 2nd season with Juventus but only to sell him to Chelsea for a bigger fee. 

[kenzawak]

Fuck !

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/emiliano-sala-missing-plane-live-13890265

"Cardiff City's record signing Emiliano Sala was on board a private jet which disappeared en route from Nantes to the Welsh capital on Monday evening."

[Naida_BR]

Kevin Prince Boateng signs for Barcelona on loan.

And I thought that the career of this guy had ended after he left AC Milan. He may be on loan but there is a term in the contract that he would move to Barcelona after the end of the season permanently.

I hope he will grab his last chance to prove his football skills this time.

https://www.dnaindia.com/sports/report-football-transfers-kevin-prince-boateng-arrives-at-barcelona-says-wants-to-seize-every-opportunity-2710747

[Pab]

i have been reading some news about Isco  transfer to Juve
But it is hard to believe Isco is great player if Real will lose him it will be big mistake

[tomahawk9]

Just wanted to mention that PSG's Marco Verratti is supposed to be out for 3 weeks. He could miss the first leg against MU.
And since PSG desperately need to sign (even more now) a midfielder, this could be a big advantage for MU.

One of their main targets for PSG is De Jong (Ajax), but Barcelona are also interested. It all depends on De Jong and which club he'd like to go, if I were him, I would've picked Barcelona a long time ago.

I really can't understand what Barca are doing in transfer market sometimes. They were also interested in Carlos Vela, but then reached loan agreement for loand deal with Sassuolo and Boateng will play in Barca until end of this season. Barca had Munir as backup

Munir left the club to join Sevilla on a 3-year contract, that's why Barca were desperately looking for a new striker.

Boateng is definitely a weird signing, but let's not forget what they did with Paulinho, everyone was laughing and saying how random this transfer was, but he ended up being an important player to the club with some great performances...strange that they let him go.

Fuck !

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/emiliano-sala-missing-plane-live-13890265

"Cardiff City's record signing Emiliano Sala was on board a private jet which disappeared en route from Nantes to the Welsh capital on Monday evening."

Yeah, just saw this, devastating news. This is the last update: https://twitter.com/guernseypolice/status/1087677513499897858

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^  Wow. 

Anyone knows why the Champions League thread is locked ?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1155775.0

Good question... Probably only mod hilariousandco can asnwer why this thread is locked. Maybe he will unlock it in February few days before round of 16 games.

It's prolly a good idea to start making new threads for both the CL (and the EPL) anyway imo.  And prolly even better to make new ones every season...?  I've been asking everybody about it every now and then but nobody seems to care.  Lol.

[DeathAngel]

Yeah I’m just hearing about Emiliano Sala too, terrible news. Simply awful, just shows you that football means nothing. We should all cherish our loved one’s & be thankful for good health. You never know when your time is up.

RIP young man
And don’t forget the pilot & whoever else was on board.

[tomahawk9]

Yeah I’m just hearing about Emiliano Sala too, terrible news. Simply awful, just shows you that football means nothing. We should all cherish our loved one’s & be thankful for good health. You never know when your time is up.

RIP young man
And don’t forget the pilot & whoever else was on board.

Latest update says that the police have canceled the search for today and will resume tomorrow morning. As of now, chances of survival are very slim 

Some transfer rumours from today:

- Valencia keen on Belotti (Torino).

- Piatek (Genoa) to AC Milan for 35m almost done deal. Batshuayi (Valencia) or Sanabria (Real Betis) could be his replacement in Genoa.

- Balotelli (OGC Nice) close to signing with Marseille.

- PSG have offered around 60m for Allan (Napoli).

- Juventus keen on Darmian (Manchester United).

[Aqualung89]

I don't think there is more information about Emiliano Sala. I don't want to risk too much between the circuit. Boateng just kept his way to Barcelona.

[LFC_Bitcoin]

I don't think there is more information about Emiliano Sala
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I think it’s safe to assume that he’s dead. I just watched the news & a rescue guy was saying the water temperature will be around 10 degrees, hypothermia would set in pretty quickly.

It’s a terrible thing to happen.

[Harkorede]

I don't think there is more information about Emiliano Sala
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I think it’s safe to assume that he’s dead. I just watched the news & a rescue guy was saying the water temperature will be around 10 degrees, hypothermia would set in pretty quickly.

It’s a terrible thing to happen.

Unfortunately, the search team says the same thing that chances of survival is very slim, but we just have to hold on to that slim chance with great faith and hope, that's the most anyone can give for now. #PrayForSala

[DeathAngel]

Zaha linked with Dortmund (Sport Bild)

Barca have won the race for De Jong (Mundo Deportivo)

Marcelo to Juve? (Tuttosport)

January is nearly over so there will be many rumours coming now.