⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions

[DanWalker]

Transfer rumours:
Chelsea have beaten off competition from Barcelona to sign Sevilla and France centre-back Jules Kounde and will offer the 23-year-old a five-year contract at Stamford Bridge. So another great deal for Chelsea and another failure for Barcelona.
Barcelona and Netherlands forward Memphis Depay, 28, is likely to turn down a move to Newcastle. Does this mean that Depay will stay in Barcelona after all?
AC Milan have joined Borussia Dortmund and Barcelona in the race to sign 18-year-old Aston Villa and England Under-19 attacking midfielder Carney Chukwuemeka. Chukwuemekai is in high demand, many clubs want him, and what will he decide in the end?
Source: https://www.bbc.com/sport/62269121

I think Barcelona should be staying away from the transfer market right now. They have spent a really significant amount of money in this transfer market even though they don't have any money in the bank at all. I am still wondering how they managed to do that.

Depay is most likely going to stay in Barcelona. This also means that he is waiting for a better offer. But I honestly do expect him to stay in Barcelona.

Carney Chukwuemeka is a player with a lot of bright potential. I think AC Milan and Dortmund will be chasing him a lot more than Barcelona.

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[Pulsar77]

I also think that Barcelona should stop going for new transfers from now on. They are spending the money like it is unlimited. They are doing this even on purpose despite being aware of their big debt. They have already made impressive signings and I think these are enough to have a successful season. No matter how many transfers they make, they will need to show a high-level performance anyway. However I'm sure that the rumours are going to continue to exist until the transfer window ends.

[Swordsoffreedom]

Good news to Chelsea fans as they finally got ahead of Barcelona in the deal for Kounde, Barcelona have been very active in the market, interfering and pulling off some good deals. Probably if Barcelona had the funds to get the deal done it would have been a really tough one, Chelsea management will be happy that Barcelona wouldn't be able to get the deal

Barca offer is very much low as compared to Chelsea's offer so it was clear that Chelsea were ahead in this. Besides they are not able to meet Sevilla's valuation so I don't think Sevilla will accept the bid. If Barca had funds, then it would have been very likely to Barca move but their inability to meet the valuation swept them away from getting Kounde. Also I think Chelsea also might have gone far with the bidding as they desperately need players in defence.

In any type of bidding Barcelona is not likely to be the favorite club to sign players because Barcelona doesn’t have the money to back itself up. Whenever there is no competition for Barcelona to get a player, they don't have any problems getting that player. Even when it takes them a long time to acquire the player.

But whenever it came down to Barcelona having any competition, Barcelona lost quite quickly. Because if they want to bid higher for a player they will have to take a lot of other things into account. At that time the other teams had already gotten the player. That’s exactly what happened in this case. Chelsea got the player for themselves and Barcelona basically couldn’t do anything.

[CryptoPanda]

Barcelona squad are very much okay after a win against real Madrid in the El Classico. Xavi is really doing an excellent job for the team as Barça president, Juan Laporta is happy with the Spaniard. These season will be entirely different for them as they have made vital signings in the transfer window which will filled in the spaces omitted last summer. Just can't wait for the catalans to start the new season with this present squad and winning titles.

Barcelona fans most expected with winning on el clasico pre season match, I don't think most important winning because only pre season match only and Real Madrid not really with full team. Actually Barcelona have mad perfect player transfer this time because success got Raphinha, Lewandowski, Andreas Christensen and Franck Kessié. But better not really happy what result achievement on pre season match because need waiting on real competition on La Liga or UEFA Champion League how most consistent for Barcelona, can stop Real Madrid get La Liga trophy for next season or not.

Yeah, it is a preseason game, the pre season games are to see the players fitness, how much the team has improved and to spot loop holes and weak points in the team that need to be worked on but a win is a win and we should commend Barcelona for the level of improvement to the squad, they have managed to acquire put together a strong team with very talented players this time, they look prepared to kickoff the season already.

[fullhdpixel]

Is not a rumour that is supposed to worry Tottenham Hotspur or her fans, because Harry Kane won't be interested to go to any other leagues aside the premier League because his dream is to break shearer record and become the highest goal scorer in the premier League if he goes to Germany he won't be able to fulfill that dream, and I also think he will sign a new deal in the month to come because since Antonio Conte came it's all positives.

I do not know about the dream, but it's more about how he is playing in a team that is literally at the near of the top, they are not at the top, but every year they fight for top 5 that's true, sometimes they achieve it, sometimes they fail, but I do not remember any time in the last 5 years where they were not even in the discussion.

It means, he could score a lot of goals, at a club that is that good, you could score a lot to bottom half teams, and that gives him the chance to break that record for sure. If he plays like Benzema and until he is 35 years old, then it is going to be something serious for sure. There isn't really a problem there, but didn't know he was doing it because of the record, I just thought he liked it there.

[JeromeTash]

Still it will be more difficult even if Atletico sell Griezman. and in this case it looks like Atletico also have other goals for selling Griezman because indeed he is on a 2-year loan there and there is a release clause that Atletico must pay afterwards amounting to 34 million there and when he leaves even though the reason is for Ronaldo but on the other hand On the other hand, they also get more benefits because they can save on salary costs.
I still feel that Ronaldo will not go to Atletico even if they do something like this.

Wait, I didn't follow Griezmann's journey back to Atlético from Barça. I always thought they had just sold him back to Atlético Madrid Assuming things happen as speculated does this mean, Griezmann return to forward studded Barça?

What a mess this would be both for the once promising strike and Barcelona.

[judas]

I think that the Kane topic should be closed soon. Because I don't see any transfer move for him these days. It wouldn't make sense while he is contented with playing for his team as he trusts Conte very much. Tottenham also wouldn't sell him unless an extraordinary offer is made to them. Bayern Munich wouldn't care about the money now as they need a striker immediately. But as I said even if the team accept such offer Kane might turn it down because of those reasons.

[SirLancelot]

If Ronaldo wants to join Atlético Madrid, I would say it will be one of the worst decisions of Ronaldo's career. Ronaldo is leaving United to play in the Champions League. But if he joins Atletico Madrid, maybe he can play in the Champions League, but not win the title. Atletico Madrid will sell Morata and Griezmann to sign Ronaldo. And so the entire team will depend on Ronaldo's performance. It is foolish to dream of winning the Champions League solely on Ronaldo.

 
Ronaldo wants to play the next champions for sure
The problems are his age and his salary. He doesn't have a lot of opportunities left. He can go at Atletico or he can go back where everything it starden, with sporting Lisbona.

He already said it years ago, he wants to end his career there. This may be the last opportunity he has but he needs to give a big cut in his salary.

It's a good move from Manchester United management as they allow Ronaldo for leaving club on loan for his wish as he wants to play in Champions League but sadly now he is having only few selections with most chances he is going to join at Atlético Madrid as no other club is going to accept him right now with current salary which is big issue even Atlético Madrid is also now have few troubles because they have to offload few players with high salary and pay some fees as well which is not easy but if they were able to manage things in positive way then surely they are going to have some positive benefits as well which will bring some better movement in this club, and they could be able to fight for higher spot in both La Liga and Champions League.

[Coyster]

I also think that Barcelona should stop going for new transfers from now on. They are spending the money like it is unlimited. They are doing this even on purpose despite being aware of their big debt. They have already made impressive signings and I think these are enough to have a successful season. No matter how many transfers they make, they will need to show a high-level performance anyway. However I'm sure that the rumours are going to continue to exist until the transfer window ends.

People are already beginning to question how Barcelona have been able to make the signings that they have made thus far, the news since last season is that they are in a financial crisis, i haven't bothered to read the details about it, but it was the same financial mess that made them lose Messi, and they also struggled till they signed Xavi, who helped them finish on a high. But then it is shocking as to how much they have spent in this summer's transfer window, even coaches of other teams have questioned their ability to do this, i think Tuchel has, as well as Nagelsmann; prolly Barcelona aren't telling us everything or they might run into a whole lot of trouble from this, we'll have to wait and see.

[lixer]

Bringing in a lot of good players doesn't mean that the team will play well. Barcelona have to prove themselves first in the liga, it was just a friendly match and to be honest I'm not sure if they could win the Classico in the league. The players are new to the team and will probably need a season to settle in properly.

Now Barcelona are going to face big challenge in coming season as they spend big amount which was not expected by anyone with their current financial trouble, but they are bringing many quality players and strengthening their squad for big challenge now big question is can they perform like they are expected because just having quality players in team is never been guarantee to win title as we all watch PSG they fail to manage them and having troubles around then, so Barcelona will bring success with this all spending and is this going to solve their problems which are going to have big disaster for them in coming months because their debit is already over 1 Billion which is not small amount and if they fail then surely it's going to be more concerns.

[Yurkov]

I think that the Kane topic should be closed soon. Because I don't see any transfer move for him these days. It wouldn't make sense while he is contented with playing for his team as he trusts Conte very much. Tottenham also wouldn't sell him unless an extraordinary offer is made to them. Bayern Munich wouldn't care about the money now as they need a striker immediately. But as I said even if the team accept such offer Kane might turn it down because of those reasons.

I don't think Bayern Munich is thinking of buying Kane this year. At the moment, this would be too much of an expense for Bayern after buying Mane. I think if Kane moves to Bayern Munich it will be after his contract with Tottenham expires next year.

[emrecemsan]

Some sources are saying that Timo Werner is hoping to sign for another team this summer to have more playing time. As far as I know Chelsea also are thinking about selling him these days. Therefore I don't think there will be a problem between them about this. However I wonder if there will be any big team that would like to sign him now. Or maybe he can go to an average team like Leipzig again. Returning to Bundesliga might help him bring back his old performance maybe.

[Shasha80]

If Ronaldo wants to join Atlético Madrid, I would say it will be one of the worst decisions of Ronaldo's career. Ronaldo is leaving United to play in the Champions League. But if he joins Atletico Madrid, maybe he can play in the Champions League, but not win the title. Atletico Madrid will sell Morata and Griezmann to sign Ronaldo. And so the entire team will depend on Ronaldo's performance. It is foolish to dream of winning the Champions League solely on Ronaldo.

 
Ronaldo wants to play the next champions for sure
The problems are his age and his salary. He doesn't have a lot of opportunities left. He can go at Atletico or he can go back where everything it starden, with sporting Lisbona.

He already said it years ago, he wants to end his career there. This may be the last opportunity he has but he needs to give a big cut in his salary.

It's a good move from Manchester United management as they allow Ronaldo for leaving club on loan for his wish as he wants to play in Champions League but sadly now he is having only few selections with most chances he is going to join at Atlético Madrid as no other club is going to accept him right now with current salary which is big issue even Atlético Madrid is also now have few troubles because they have to offload few players with high salary and pay some fees as well which is not easy but if they were able to manage things in positive way then surely they are going to have some positive benefits as well which will bring some better movement in this club, and they could be able to fight for higher spot in both La Liga and Champions League.

It seems that Man United is starting to realize that keeping Ronaldo is impossible, because Ronaldo has made up his mind to change clubs this year.
Therefore, it is reported that Man United has let Ronaldo go, but Ronaldo is only allowed to move on loan, then Ronaldo also had to agree to activate
the option of a one-year contract extension in his contract at Man United. That way the 2023/2024 season Ronaldo will return to play at Man United.
There are also rumors that Ronaldo is willing to cut his salary by up to 30% if he really moves to Atletico,  because for Ronaldo money is not that
important anymore. The most important thing for Ronaldo is that he wants to continue competing in the Champions League. It would be very
interesting indeed the competition in La Liga if it was true that Ronaldo moved to Atletico, meaning Ronaldo will compete to be the top goal scorer
with Lewandowski and Benzema.

[Harkorede]

I started not to believe that Cristiano Ronaldo will be transferred by any team soon. We are very close to the beginning of the season and there is still no offer for him. If Atletico Madrid really wanted him I think they would make an offer already. The most recent rumour is about a loan move as some people on the forum stated that. But I think the expectation from the team to loan him would be to pay his full salary. I don't know how much eager they would be to pay that insane sum of money.

Given what it would mean to Real Madrid fans and Ronaldo leaving Real as legend, I'd strike out the possibility of an Atletico Madrid for Ronaldo, even if he wishes to join a new club/league, I doubt it is going to be as a player for one of his former teams arch rivals.

Transfer rumours:
Chelsea have beaten off competition from Barcelona to sign Sevilla and France centre-back Jules Kounde and will offer the 23-year-old a five-year contract at Stamford Bridge. So another great deal for Chelsea and another failure for Barcelona.
Barcelona and Netherlands forward Memphis Depay, 28, is likely to turn down a move to Newcastle. Does this mean that Depay will stay in Barcelona after all?
AC Milan have joined Borussia Dortmund and Barcelona in the race to sign 18-year-old Aston Villa and England Under-19 attacking midfielder Carney Chukwuemeka. Chukwuemekai is in high demand, many clubs want him, and what will he decide in the end?
Source: https://www.bbc.com/sport/62269121

I think Barcelona should be staying away from the transfer market right now. They have spent a really significant amount of money in this transfer market even though they don't have any money in the bank at all. I am still wondering how they managed to do that.

Even though I agree Barcelona shouldn't be as active as they've been in this transfer window, I'm still of the opinion that if they're are making the appropriate signings then it's going to be worth, I like the idea of Jules Kounde transfer but in order to get him they'll need to match at least Chelsea's 55m bid, and that's in my opinion enormous for Barcelona to afford with needing to sell De Jong and probably Depay as well.

[S A KHAIR]

So, Barcelona decided to go with the Raphinha deal after all. I think he's a really good player - but they are paying a top price for him.
It is a 5-year contract and the transfer is worth around 65 million Euros.
That also means that they did not manage to reach an agreement with Dembele who will leave on a free transfer.

This season's transfer market is full of surprises, many big teams have had problems with deals, both bringing in new players and keeping existing players, only a few clubs have managed to make purchases that are quite easy, such as Manchester City, Liverpool and Bayern Munich, the rest are many big clubs who have experienced problems and the complexity of player transfers this season, Barcelona is not only in trouble, there are even rumors that are currently developing, they are currently in financial trouble.

Dembele is currently a free agent, but I think Barcelona will eventually renew his contract, he is a talented players, and was able to assist 14 goals from 38 appearances last season. Although, Barcelona haven't so far talked about extending his contract. However, they made a great decision by bring Raphinha in the club. Nevertheless, Barcelona still have some players in the club, who probably don't have intentions of being in the club anymore. Players such as Samuel Umtiti and Oscar Mingueza.

Honestly, I really think that Leeds United actually earned a really significant amount of money from Barcelona. And I honestly believe that they got this amount of money because Barcelona was very desperate to get this player. Barcelona was really desperate to get either Robert Lewandowski or Raphinha. So it was easier for the clubs to make a substantial amount of money from them. But I still don't understand how Barcelona made such a big transfer because I thought that they were absolutely broke. I just hope that they don't have to let any player walk away from the team just like they had to let Lionel Messi go.

[blackened515]

I think is really bad the way Barça are hijacking Chelsea deals. First it was Raphinha, which Chelsea meet the target table for the Brazilian but the player still decided to go to Barcelona which didn't even reach the price tag of him. For Kounde's deal, Chelsea price bid can't be match with barça because the catalans are having finance issues and the blues have already discussed personal terms with the Sevilla player but still presently, there's no agreement from the player Side. Barcelona are now interested in the deal with Kounde and seems the player wants to work with one of the big clubs in Laliga.

[Slow death]

If Ronaldo wants to join Atlético Madrid, I would say it will be one of the worst decisions of Ronaldo's career. Ronaldo is leaving United to play in the Champions League. But if he joins Atletico Madrid, maybe he can play in the Champions League, but not win the title. Atletico Madrid will sell Morata and Griezmann to sign Ronaldo. And so the entire team will depend on Ronaldo's performance. It is foolish to dream of winning the Champions League solely on Ronaldo.

 
Ronaldo wants to play the next champions for sure
The problems are his age and his salary. He doesn't have a lot of opportunities left. He can go at Atletico or he can go back where everything it starden, with sporting Lisbona.

He already said it years ago, he wants to end his career there. This may be the last opportunity he has but he needs to give a big cut in his salary.

It's a good move from Manchester United management as they allow Ronaldo for leaving club on loan for his wish as he wants to play in Champions League but sadly now he is having only few selections with most chances he is going to join at Atlético Madrid as no other club is going to accept him right now with current salary which is big issue even Atlético Madrid is also now have few troubles because they have to offload few players with high salary and pay some fees as well which is not easy but if they were able to manage things in positive way then surely they are going to have some positive benefits as well which will bring some better movement in this club, and they could be able to fight for higher spot in both La Liga and Champions League.

It seems that Man United is starting to realize that keeping Ronaldo is impossible, because Ronaldo has made up his mind to change clubs this year.
Therefore, it is reported that Man United has let Ronaldo go, but Ronaldo is only allowed to move on loan, then Ronaldo also had to agree to activate
the option of a one-year contract extension in his contract at Man United. That way the 2023/2024 season Ronaldo will return to play at Man United.
There are also rumors that Ronaldo is willing to cut his salary by up to 30% if he really moves to Atletico,  because for Ronaldo money is not that
important anymore. The most important thing for Ronaldo is that he wants to continue competing in the Champions League. It would be very
interesting indeed the competition in La Liga if it was true that Ronaldo moved to Atletico, meaning Ronaldo will compete to be the top goal scorer
with Lewandowski and Benzema.

I definitely don't understand ronaldo's way of thinking. atletico madrid doesn't have any chance of being champions this season in the league, let alone the champions league, so ronaldo just wants to play in the champions league even though he knows he has no chance of winning the champions league? atletico madrid is not much different from manchester united no my opinion is another thing is that ronaldo has played for real madrid and playing for atletico makes it look like the guy has gone downhill. I'm just giving my opinion

Some sources are saying that Timo Werner is hoping to sign for another team this summer to have more playing time. As far as I know Chelsea also are thinking about selling him these days. Therefore I don't think there will be a problem between them about this. However I wonder if there will be any big team that would like to sign him now. Or maybe he can go to an average team like Leipzig again. Returning to Bundesliga might help him bring back his old performance maybe.

honestly in recent times all good players when they arrive at chelsea have not had a good performance, I don't understand if this is due to tuchel's strategy, but if he leaves he should go to a good club

[EdenHazard]

Some sources are saying that Timo Werner is hoping to sign for another team this summer to have more playing time. As far as I know Chelsea also are thinking about selling him these days. Therefore I don't think there will be a problem between them about this. However I wonder if there will be any big team that would like to sign him now. Or maybe he can go to an average team like Leipzig again. Returning to Bundesliga might help him bring back his old performance maybe.

Yeah amid the transfer talk timo seems annoyed with tuchel comments and there you go a clash ocuured. Timo seems uncomfortable since his arrivsl 2 years ago , the third year and that's just a great time to sell him despite we as a chelsea fan loved him very much ... still it's not enough.
However an interest come from dortmund but the high salary is the only problem.

[bekti3]

Some sources are saying that Timo Werner is hoping to sign for another team this summer to have more playing time. As far as I know Chelsea also are thinking about selling him these days. Therefore I don't think there will be a problem between them about this. However I wonder if there will be any big team that would like to sign him now. Or maybe he can go to an average team like Leipzig again. Returning to Bundesliga might help him bring back his old performance maybe.

It's hard to see Werner at Chelsea now because his form is getting worse and worse and this is clearly a failure for him.
At the moment I haven't seen any news about him being wanted by other clubs. But when looking at Chelsea's scheme which is still the same in terms of attack then this of course will not suit Werner to be there and leaving is one of the good things if there is indeed a tempting offer for Chelsea about him.

[ilovealtcoins]

Barcelona squad are very much okay after a win against real Madrid in the El Classico. Xavi is really doing an excellent job for the team as Barça president, Juan Laporta is happy with the Spaniard. These season will be entirely different for them as they have made vital signings in the transfer window which will filled in the spaces omitted last summer. Just can't wait for the catalans to start the new season with this present squad and winning titles.

Madrid have not fielded their main players in yesterday's match, even Karim Benzema as Ancelotti's mainstay player was not seen until the match was end. Carlo Ancelotti entrusts the front lines to Hazard and V.Junior, since his arrival from Chelsea Hazard has not had a big impact on Madrid. Besides that, new player madrid Aurelien Tchouameni was seen follow yesterday's match, he looks comfortable with his new team. Regardless of the situation, I recognize the development of Barcelona since the arrival of Xavi Hernandez.

I know we are talking about the club-friendly with a lot of interest but honestly, no one actually cares about the results in club friendly. I honestly don’t even think that even the players and coaches actually care about the results in these friendly matches. This is just a way to get the player so does not get good enough play time or some experience before the season actually starts. And the senior players of a club play these friendlies just to have a feel of it. I still don’t think that Barcelona will be able to beat Real Madrid in an actual season match. But that is obviously just a prediction.