⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions

[cygan]

after Dayot Upamecano (leipzig), bayern munich also has Florian Neuhaus (mönchengladbach) in the inner circle of new signings for next season.
but other names are also circulating in munich, e.g.
Borna Sosa (vfb stuttgart), Marco Friedl (werder bremen), Luca Netz (hertha bsc berlin), Omar Richards (fc reading), Eduardo Camavinga (stade rennais) and Lucien Agoumé (inter milan)

Transfer targets identified
Upamecano & Neuhaus Bayern Munich's priority - Who is on the shadow list?

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/upamecano-amp-neuhaus-bayern-munichs-priority-who-is-on-the-shadow-list-/view/news/380130

[Spack17]

Dortmund are considering to sell seven of their players in this summer to straighten their financial condition. The players named to be sold are Jude Bellingham, Axel Witsel, Manuel Akanji, Raphael Guerreiro, Giovanni Reyna, Jadon Sancho and Erling Haaland.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/borussia-dortmund-sancho-haaland-transfer-23477094

[Coyster]

Dortmund are considering to sell seven of their players in this summer to straighten their financial condition. The players named to be sold are Jude Bellingham, Axel Witsel, Manuel Akanji, Raphael Guerreiro, Giovanni Reyna, Jadon Sancho and Erling Haaland.

How are they going to continue playing as a top team if they sell all this crop of players, that's one thing with Dortmund, they always sell their star players after a couple of seasons, making it impossible to compete with Bayern both in the short and long term, imo, this is one of the reason Bayern Munich will continue to dominate the German league for a very long time.

Chelsea have dropped from the race to sign Bayern Munich defender David Alaba that leaves Real Madrid in pursuit.
Their reason was that the wage demands from Alaba were big as he is demanding £400k per week that was would make Chelsea break the wage roof structure for their players.

I do not think any club is going to be willing to pay Alaba that high, he is already 29 years and a defender for that matter, if this wage issue lingers, then he could end up staying in Bayern for another season.

[tokeweed]

Dortmund are considering to sell seven of their players in this summer to straighten their financial condition. The players named to be sold are Jude Bellingham, Axel Witsel, Manuel Akanji, Raphael Guerreiro, Giovanni Reyna, Jadon Sancho and Erling Haaland.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/borussia-dortmund-sancho-haaland-transfer-23477094

Wow..  They’re 6th at the table.  And covid prolly f*cked up their finances for sure.  It would be hard paying for those players’ wages.  But the good news is it’s prolly easy disposing some of those players.

Haaland is wanted by Chelsea and pretty sure all of the top clubs.  United has been chasing Jadon Sancho all summer last year.  They’ll prolly try again.  And I think Bellingham was wanted by City..?  Not sure.  But it would be nice to see the youngster train and develop under Pep.

I’m not sure about the rest, don’t really know them.  But I heard Guerreiro is good.

[acquafredda]

According to the article I post below, Inter might be thinking of substituting Antonio Conte with El Cholo Simeone. He gets 41 million a year at Atlético and Inter would need to to either match or raise that amount to have him in Milan. If Conte can win Scudetto I doubt it would be sent away though.
https://www.calciomercato.it/2021/02/11/calciomercato-inter-conte-simeone-atletico-madrid/ (source is in Italian)

[Avirunes]

Dortmund are considering to sell seven of their players in this summer to straighten their financial condition. The players named to be sold are Jude Bellingham, Axel Witsel, Manuel Akanji, Raphael Guerreiro, Giovanni Reyna, Jadon Sancho and Erling Haaland.

How are they going to continue playing as a top team if they sell all this crop of players, that's one thing with Dortmund, they always sell their star players after a couple of seasons, making it impossible to compete with Bayern both in the short and long term, imo, this is one of the reason Bayern Munich will continue to dominate the German league for a very long time.

I was about to say the same thing but I think they could be looking out to sell one of them and not all if all those financial situation of Dortmund is true. Out of these selling Haaland and Jadon Sancho should be enough to get out of their financial crisis. We already saw that quite some teams were interested in Jadon Sancho but Dortmund were asking for a higher bid and Man U were only looking for negotiations if could be made and met. Still I think selling any of these players will dent their squad a lot.

But before that I am wondering if this financial situation as they say is all true (?)

[slaman29]

@leela-1334 I wouldn’t get my hopes too high on Kane staying at the club, because he wants to win trophies and that’s clearly not happening at Tottenham, hence I feel that he’ll leave at the end of the season.

Also Bale was always going to be a risky gamble, but sadly it didn’t pay off for Mourinho so you’re right, Bale has to leave for good at the end of the season.

Yes,,, I was never expecting him to stay. He left us, and only came back because he ruined his relationships at Madrid by not learning the language and all those comments. He wants to win trophies but that attitude is not really something that will help him. No hard feelings, he can go as he has not done much for us anyway even when he is give the chance. Better for us ultimately.

[cryptofrka]

Dortmund is definitely one of the clubs to keep an eye on. If they do not qualify for the CL (and they are already 4 points behind), they will probably have to sell some of their players.

I really like their team and although they would probably earn enough by selling only Sancho or Haaland, it would probably make some other players interested in leaving as well. I still hope they will qualify for the CL but if they don't, I hope we're (Liverpool) already standing in front of the line there.

[Daniel91]

Interesting article today on the BBC:  ''The summer for a bargain? Some of Europe's best players are available for free''
The list of these free players is really impressive: Gianluigi Donnarumma (AC Milan), Jerome Boateng (Bayern Munich), Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid), David Alaba (Bayern Munich), Fernandinho (Manchester City), Georginio Wijnaldum (Liverpool), Sergio Aguero (Manchester City), Lionel Messi (Barcelona), Angel di Maria (Paris St-Germain) etc.
Who will be the lucky winners and get these players?
It's actually hard for me to understand how it's possible that so many top footballers can leave their clubs for free.
Source: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/55907793

[DIA7]

Interesting article today on the BBC:  ''The summer for a bargain? Some of Europe's best players are available for free''
The list of these free players is really impressive: Gianluigi Donnarumma (AC Milan), Jerome Boateng (Bayern Munich), Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid), David Alaba (Bayern Munich), Fernandinho (Manchester City), Georginio Wijnaldum (Liverpool), Sergio Aguero (Manchester City), Lionel Messi (Barcelona), Angel di Maria (Paris St-Germain) etc.
Who will be the lucky winners and get these players?
It's actually hard for me to understand how it's possible that so many top footballers can leave their clubs for free.
Source: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/55907793

getting a free transfer will be great for players as they can demand more wages because the team signing him will not pay any transfer fees to other club that's why when a player signs on free transfer most of the time he sees a big boost in wage or more then his older club is offering especially when he is demanded by more then one club look at Alaba wage demands he was demanding £400k weekly compared to what he currently earns at Bayern £170K that's more then the double.

[ILuckyGuyI]

It seems like Chelsea manager Tuchel doesn't want to talk much about Dayot Upamecano and Erling Haaland transfers. They have not a big chance to sign them too though. Bayern seem that they are the closest team for Upamecano right now. For Haaland, teams like Real Madrid and Manchester City seem to be in the first line.

https://www.espn.co.uk/football/soccer-transfers/story/4312001/chelsea-boss-tuchel-tight-lipped-on-haalandupamecano-transfer-links

[Shasha80]

It seems like Chelsea manager Tuchel doesn't want to talk much about Dayot Upamecano and Erling Haaland transfers. They have not a big chance to sign them too though. Bayern seem that they are the closest team for Upamecano right now. For Haaland, teams like Real Madrid and Manchester City seem to be in the first line.

https://www.espn.co.uk/football/soccer-transfers/story/4312001/chelsea-boss-tuchel-tight-lipped-on-haalandupamecano-transfer-links

Tuchel sees Chelsea's back line in need of improvement, so from now on he is eyeing several top defenders. So there are several choices of defenders
who want to bring by Tuchel, including Upamecano and Alaba. In fact Tuchel really wanted to get Alaba, because the status of Alaba is free transfer.
But hampered by the problem of requesting a very high salary from Alaba, may now turn to Upamecano. Even though the chances are very small,
because Bayern are getting closer to Upamecano now to replace Alaba. Then regarding Erling Haaland, it's not Tuchel's priority, so I'm not sure Chelsea
will compete for Haaland.

[cryptofrka]

Interesting article today on the BBC:  ''The summer for a bargain? Some of Europe's best players are available for free''
The list of these free players is really impressive: Gianluigi Donnarumma (AC Milan), Jerome Boateng (Bayern Munich), Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid), David Alaba (Bayern Munich), Fernandinho (Manchester City), Georginio Wijnaldum (Liverpool), Sergio Aguero (Manchester City), Lionel Messi (Barcelona), Angel di Maria (Paris St-Germain) etc.
Who will be the lucky winners and get these players?
It's actually hard for me to understand how it's possible that so many top footballers can leave their clubs for free.
Source: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/55907793

Covid cut the clubs' budgets significantly and we're basically talking about older players with no resell value. Most of them are still really good, some of them not even that old (Donnarumma, Alaba), but their salaries are becoming too much of a burden for their clubs.

Take Wijnaldum's example - he's been great for Liverpool, he wants a bigger contract now and Liverpool simply does not have room in their budget to give him one. And we're talking about the champions of England and recent CL winners.

[redsun114]

I was about to say the same thing but I think they could be looking out to sell one of them and not all if all those financial situation of Dortmund is true. Out of these selling Haaland and Jadon Sancho should be enough to get out of their financial crisis. We already saw that quite some teams were interested in Jadon Sancho but Dortmund were asking for a higher bid and Man U were only looking for negotiations if could be made and met. Still I think selling any of these players will dent their squad a lot.

But before that I am wondering if this financial situation as they say is all true (?)

I do not know if their situation is true or not, but I am sure if they end up selling all their roster, they could gather enough money to get new players as well. It is not an easy task to build a team, and they already have a decent one and everyone says sancho is so great and haaland is so great but in the end Dortmund is playing bad right now and losing games.

It means having good players do not mean anything if you end up losing games and do nothing. That is basically why they are probably looking to sell their players, Haaland specially could bring 100+ million easily, and with sancho being very expensive as well, those two alone are good enough to get at least 3-4 good players, and with the rest sold as well, they could maybe finish up 5-6 good players instead of having 2 great and others decent, they will have many good players, so averaging the talent in the starting 11 instead of having few great.

[rig4hodlers]

Covid cut the clubs' budgets significantly and we're basically talking about older players with no resell value. Most of them are still really good, some of them not even that old (Donnarumma, Alaba), but their salaries are becoming too much of a burden for their clubs.

Take Wijnaldum's example - he's been great for Liverpool, he wants a bigger contract now and Liverpool simply does not have room in their budget to give him one. And we're talking about the champions of England and recent CL winners.

That's true guys, COVID-19 was a real disaster for every single club and some of their new signings were suspended or rejected for this pandemic situation. Otherwise we have the main clubs cutting out the player's salaries so I can not forecast many new signings for this 2021. Let's wish and preach a fast solution with the incoming vaccines because that's a bit boring, no new top signings, etc

[leea-1334]

It seems like Chelsea manager Tuchel doesn't want to talk much about Dayot Upamecano and Erling Haaland transfers. They have not a big chance to sign them too though. Bayern seem that they are the closest team for Upamecano right now. For Haaland, teams like Real Madrid and Manchester City seem to be in the first line.

https://www.espn.co.uk/football/soccer-transfers/story/4312001/chelsea-boss-tuchel-tight-lipped-on-haalandupamecano-transfer-links

At some point Upamecano was also on the radar for other EPL clubs,,, so much in demand but clubs do not want to enter bidding wars anymore with the financial situation now.

Haaland should stay where he is and prove he can get his current club out of their slump first. Chelsea signings from Bundesliga should prove as a warning sign;)

[masulum]

That's true guys, COVID-19 was a real disaster for every single club and some of their new signings were suspended or rejected for this pandemic situation. Otherwise we have the main clubs cutting out the player's salaries so I can not forecast many new signings for this 2021. Let's wish and preach a fast solution with the incoming vaccines because that's a bit boring, no new top signings, etc

Every clubs currently thinking about how to survive in this pandemic situation, players must accepted if the clubs take a decision to released them or cut their salaries to help their current clubs. and players agents also need to evaluate every players under his control, so the transfer for players not too expensive as normal condition. If agent put high price for players, the next transfer window will be same as January transfer. Look at Inter Milan and Barcelona conditions, after COVID both of them have bad financial conditions, if players price still expensive, they are very closed to bancrupt.

[judas]

It looks like Tottenham manager Jose Mourinho is not under the danger of getting sacked for now. But I want to indicate that they got quite poor results in the recent times. They actually put up a good fight against Everton in Fa Cup. But in general, they are having big problems in the Premier League. In my opinion, he is not the most appropriate manager for Tottenham and they need a manager who likes to make the team play a more offensive game all through the match.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/jose-mourinho-safe-tottenham-despite-23484660

[rig4hodlers]

Every clubs currently thinking about how to survive in this pandemic situation, players must accepted if the clubs take a decision to released them or cut their salaries to help their current clubs. and players agents also need to evaluate every players under his control, so the transfer for players not too expensive as normal condition. If agent put high price for players, the next transfer window will be same as January transfer. Look at Inter Milan and Barcelona conditions, after COVID both of them have bad financial conditions, if players price still expensive, they are very closed to bancrupt.

That's true but the saddest story is when you know the real Messi's salary lol, it is 555.237.619 € (including every concept), so you can also hear and read about the clubs are in troubles and bankrupt situations.... this crazy football world is getting crazy day by day.

[hulla]

It looks like Tottenham manager Jose Mourinho is not under the danger of getting sacked for now. But I want to indicate that they got quite poor results in the recent times. They actually put up a good fight against Everton in Fa Cup. But in general, they are having big problems in the Premier League. In my opinion, he is not the most appropriate manager for Tottenham and they need a manager who likes to make the team play a more offensive game all through the match.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/jose-mourinho-safe-tottenham-despite-23484660

From your own impression, you believe Mourinho couldn't handle Tottenham? The Tottenham problem didn't start now and if could it started long ago when they are unable to win any major trophy since the year 2008 and haven't won the FA cup since 1991 but it shocked that whenever the team is having a problem the whole blame will be on the manager. They ought to let him stay till when his contract is over on Jun 30, 2023.