⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions

[cygan]

the german magazine kicker reports that various bundesliga clubs are interested in the national player Robin Gosenes. a move to the bundesliga in winter is thus becoming increasingly likely.
after bayer leverkusen, bor. mönchengladbach and, more recently, eintracht frankfurt are also interested in signing the player

[bitgolden]

Gabriel Jesus' style of play won't suit Real Madrid. after all, Madrid only saw it from the many options available to find a potential replacement for Karim Benzama later. however, it seems that Real Madrid don't really need his services.

There are several player options that are more ideal for El Real to choose than bringing Jesus to the Santiago Bernabeu. After all, Arteta isn't going to let him go any time soon. So, it is very unlikely that Real Madrid will look at him in the upcoming transfer window. After all, Madrid still have Benzema until 2024, if I'm not mistaken.

So I think Gabriel Jesus has more definite prospects if he stays with Arsenal. rather than if he had to leave at the end of the season wherever he went to. next week, I hope Jesus can score a goal to stop his famine after fasting in his last few games.  especially, in a crucial match next week when they travel to Chelsea headquarters.

I know that it’s going to be pretty hard for Real to play with Jesus and would be hard for Arsenal to play without Jesus, but if Real decides that Jesus is the solution and pays a good amount of money we will see a transfer that will not benefit anyone. We have seen those type of transfers before, look at what happened to Coutinho, it didn't help anyone in the long run.

I guess that with enough money everyone can be convinced and Real has that money, but I hope they won't spend it on Jesus and instead pick someone else. He is not their style of striker neither, they need someone who is a bit more physically gifted in order to play for Real as well.

[ILuckyGuyI]

It is said that De Gea is okay about taking a wage cut and extending his contract with Manchester United now.

This is really good news for Manchester United side. Because I started to think that De Gea would leave the team at the end of the season in case they don't have a solid season again. Manchester United have been really disapppointing for some years. There is some improvement now but I still doubt their performance in the rest of the season. There are still visible problems in the team. If it weren't for De Gea's amazing saves so far they could have even a much harder time in the league. He is one of the key players of the team and they'd better focus on keeping him.

[Marvell1]

Paul Pogba made some mistakes when he first discovered that he will undergo some kind of surgery, he never wanted to undergo the surgery so that he will be able to play in the World Cup. I took to Twitter to advise him that it will be better he undergoes surgery so that he could heal before the World Cup but it's quite unfortunate that he was told he cannot manage it to the World Cup that is why he went for the surgery who knows he could also be available for the World Cup. I have not read recent information about his injury status in any social media blog. I hope he is fine. It is Kante that was confirmed to miss the World Cup.

On the one hand Paul Pogba wanted to make his best contribution and passed suggestions for surgery but in the end Paul Pogba still couldn't contribute to the world cup later because of his injury, this is not a mistake for Paul Pogba because he really wants to keep playing football even though his condition is in pain, we have to look at it from that side to give appreciation to Paul Pogba because it is very difficult to do that.

The French national team will really miss the services of Paul Pogba who has been very influencial in their midfield his absence is a big blow to their the World Cup campaign, my personal observation is that Pogba always play and shines in his national colours than at the club, I am disappointed that Ngolo Kante will also miss the tournament, it's very obvious this will surely affect their team, though there are other top quality players who can play their roles, however I am very sure this two injured players would have made huge impact on the team, unfortunately injury had hindered their participating in the Mundial.

I think this is going to greatly affect the performance of the French national team. These two players can contribute a lot to the team.

I don't know if you guys remember but in the UEFA Nations League, France did not do very well. I know that players don't actually care about the UEFA Nations League. But the performance of France was really terrible. Too bad to be overlooked in my opinion. And now Pogba and Kante are not going to be able to play in the world cup which is going to make the midfield area of France a little weak. Pogba's departure was probably a suspicion, but losing Kante is truly tragic.

[alpamar99]

Lionel Messi future is a big question mark because next year his contract with PSG will expire. On the one hand, Lionel Messi performance this season is quite impressive with PSG, both in the domestic league and in the UCL. Thus, I am sure that the PSG Management will withstand Messi from leaving PSG in the winter window because we know that PSG really need Lionel Messi to break their performance in achieving the target, which is to win the UCL Trophy. So with that, I believe that the management of PSG will apply Messi in a special way to sign a new contract and to prevent him from leaving PSG in the winter window.

I still hope he will stay at PSG despite his desire to return to Camp Nou but I want him to stay in Paris.
Regardless of what he's doing at the moment he can be said to be playing pretty well there and of course this is a good thing for him and the club.
At this time there has been no response because Goat still wants to focus on the world cup rather than discussing contracts.

[Maidak]

Daniel levy ( chairman of Tottenham) have told paratici that he will support Antonio Conte in the January transfer window and the coach has already told the sporting director that he will need a striker,a midfielder and a defender. For me I know he Will be looking for inter Milan Bastonni or a player of that calibre, because you can't have Sanchez and Tanganga at the bench and still be going for a defender who is average,then in midfield he won be going for a defensive midfielder he will go for an offensive one, the type that can create goal scoring opportunity in tight areas, I think he will go back for zaniolo at Roma then the attacking won't be a young one like Bryan Gil he will go for something similar to kulusevski and Richarlison.

This he should have done since the start of the season, Daniel Levy should have backed Antonio Conte with the cash to bring in the required players he desired.
I'm okay with the decision of a striker, the Fifa World Cup fast approaching and Harry Kane and Son can be back injured so, good option for that position.
Midfielder ? Yeah, but not a defensive midfielder, they've got both Bissouma, Bentacur, and also Hojdberg. I don't dance to that point, they need a player like Madison of Leicester City to play right in front of those defensive midfielder's.

Zaniolo listed might be complete speculations, signing the right player is paramount, as how well he settles in the squad will boost the attack. Harry Kane, Son and Perisic had done more of the creativity, ever since Kulusevski got injured.

It seems like those who are willing to provide money wanted to see whether providing money would enable the team to get better results or not.

And once they have seen that they will be able to get better results if they invest, they become much more interested in investing. The world cup is going to be the biggest event of football, and I don't think a lot of players will be worried about getting injured while serving the national team at 100%.

I also agree with @Oluwa-btc that the coach should be backed up with money. He is bringing in favorable results after he was given money once. And I think he will be able to do it again. So he should be trusted.

[emrecemsan]

There is some speculation such as Barcelona might be targeting Arteta to replace Xavi in the future.

I don't see this very realistic at the moment. Because before anything else, Barcelona management don't seem uncomfortable with Xavi's job right now. Maybe their being eliminated in the Champions League this easy was some loss of credit for Xavi but they are still hopeful about the La Liga title now. This is the most serious season for the title as they can play at a similar level with Real Madrid right now. But if they don't keep up a good form and let Real Madrid pull away earlier then Xavi might be in trouble. Then Arteta might be a choice considering his success with Arsenal so far this season.

https://www.sport.es/en/news/barca/barca-looking-at-mikel-arteta-as-a-future-coaching-option-77972868

[nara1892]

It is said that De Gea is okay about taking a wage cut and extending his contract with Manchester United now.

This is really good news for Manchester United side. Because I started to think that De Gea would leave the team at the end of the season in case they don't have a solid season again. Manchester United have been really disapppointing for some years. There is some improvement now but I still doubt their performance in the rest of the season. There are still visible problems in the team. If it weren't for De Gea's amazing saves so far they could have even a much harder time in the league. He is one of the key players of the team and they'd better focus on keeping him.

David De Gea is an important player for Manchester United's defense in goal. If you say he concedes a lot I don't think it's 100% his fault, but because the last line of players before him played really badly last season. Now he must be very happy to have found a defender who plays solid enough to make it difficult for opponents to face David De Gea head-on.
But the news I've heard is that Manchester United are still considering extending De Gea's contract which will expire in 2023. And it's also reported that Manchester United are preparing Jordan Pickford from Everton as his replacement. David de Gea's future will be Erik Ten Hag's decision now to keep or make another decision.

[Cryptomultiplier]

Lionel Messi future is a big question mark because next year his contract with PSG will expire. On the one hand, Lionel Messi performance this season is quite impressive with PSG, both in the domestic league and in the UCL. Thus, I am sure that the PSG Management will withstand Messi from leaving PSG in the winter window because we know that PSG really need Lionel Messi to break their performance in achieving the target, which is to win the UCL Trophy. So with that, I believe that the management of PSG will apply Messi in a special way to sign a new contract and to prevent him from leaving PSG in the winter window.

I still hope he will stay at PSG despite his desire to return to Camp Nou but I want him to stay in Paris.
Regardless of what he's doing at the moment he can be said to be playing pretty well there and of course this is a good thing for him and the club.
At this time there has been no response because Goat still wants to focus on the world cup rather than discussing contracts.

I don't think PSG will like Mess to leave as soon as his contract  expires because he has happened to fit right in. His pairing with Mbappe and Neymar has been great. If himself, Messi is talking of a likely return to camp Nou, no one can blame him. He has lived there and plied his craft there, he might be feeling home sick you know.
Xavis plate is full. Barca in hot soup for qualification. Perhaps the legend Messi feels he can help out if he fulfills a transfer back in the January transfers.
 

[fullhdpixel]

The contribution that already made by messi to the PSG was so big. So many clubs are seeing it as opportunity even though his age is not young anymore. That's why some clubs have been declared if they might be interested if messi will be leaving from PSG with free transfer status.
Barcelona has no more solution for funding. It has been facing financial problem and it will not able to bring back messi to the camp nou. the chance is very small to make it happen. Barcelona has been selling lots of its shares to buy players last season
Barcelona has nothing to be sold for the upcoming season. that's why barcelona is only looking for cheap players. messi has a very expensive salary.

You're right, especially for now Messi doesn't show the slightest interest in returning to Barcelona. Regardless of the background be it financial or not but I appreciate what Messi does. He has the right to determine his club at the end of the world cup later. As a club that has benefited a lot from the presence of Messi, PSG will definitely insist on offering anything and with an increase in salary so that Messi can stay. Big clubs still believe that Messi's age is not a barrier for them to continue to ask for it.

Most chances Barcelona and Messi is just going to be engaged in rumors and media in reality they are not going to have any future because things looking not good in Barcelona with huge debit and other many factors are also involved, and Messi age factor is also coming even he still can play for next three to four years with his fitness level and quality of the game but still its never been suitable for both parties to have any relationship because now it's time for looking into future instead of going into past which already ended with a bad note.

Xavi is also trying to adjust things which help them for having positive results and bright future, so most chances he will also not take any chance to have Messi back in his team as many new young players are doing good in current time.

[dezoel]

I don't think PSG will like Mess to leave as soon as his contract  expires because he has happened to fit right in. His pairing with Mbappe and Neymar has been great. If himself, Messi is talking of a likely return to camp Nou, no one can blame him. He has lived there and plied his craft there, he might be feeling home sick you know.
Xavis plate is full. Barca in hot soup for qualification. Perhaps the legend Messi feels he can help out if he fulfills a transfer back in the January transfers.

PSG already in talk with Messi for extended his contract but due to his world cup commitment he is not talking about this all with most chances he will be able to do this after world cup and stay here until end of his career even too many rumors are about his future back into Barcelona, but it's not reality, and he is trying to be the best part of this team PSG which is looking for their first Champions League title and this is possible in presence of Messi because of his experience and skills and two other amazing strikers which are doing good job for their club and have good results in this current season.

Barcelona now can go ahead with new talent and players which are already doing good job for them in current team because they need to do good strategy instead of having more players in coming transfer window because they are full of too many big names in current soccer world.

[CLS63]

There is some speculation such as Barcelona might be targeting Arteta to replace Xavi in the future.

I don't see this very realistic at the moment. Because before anything else, Barcelona management don't seem uncomfortable with Xavi's job right now. Maybe their being eliminated in the Champions League this easy was some loss of credit for Xavi but they are still hopeful about the La Liga title now. This is the most serious season for the title as they can play at a similar level with Real Madrid right now. But if they don't keep up a good form and let Real Madrid pull away earlier then Xavi might be in trouble. Then Arteta might be a choice considering his success with Arsenal so far this season.

https://www.sport.es/en/news/barca/barca-looking-at-mikel-arteta-as-a-future-coaching-option-77972868

Arteta is indeed a successful manager this season. But it is really difficult to know what he can do with Barcelona. Because Arsenal is his first job experience as a manager. He was an assistant manager at Manchester City before as you know. I'm not sure if Barcelona would like to take that risk by signing a manager like this. Arteta has a nearly three-year experience with Arsenal though but like I said there is only one team in his management history.

Besides, I don't think that Barcelona need to change their manager. Xavi is another not very experienced manager maybe but at least he knows Barcelona very well. His so many years passed with this team in the end. In time, I believe that Barcelona can reach a much higher level. They have made a good progress so far in around a year.

[savetheFORUM]

There is some speculation such as Barcelona might be targeting Arteta to replace Xavi in the future.

I don't see this very realistic at the moment. Because before anything else, Barcelona management don't seem uncomfortable with Xavi's job right now. Maybe their being eliminated in the Champions League this easy was some loss of credit for Xavi but they are still hopeful about the La Liga title now. This is the most serious season for the title as they can play at a similar level with Real Madrid right now. But if they don't keep up a good form and let Real Madrid pull away earlier then Xavi might be in trouble. Then Arteta might be a choice considering his success with Arsenal so far this season.

https://www.sport.es/en/news/barca/barca-looking-at-mikel-arteta-as-a-future-coaching-option-77972868

These type rumours are unstoppable because soccer is big game and many sites and others are looking for intention to be in news around the soccer community, so they love to have things like this because right now not party is in hurry to have things like this Arteta will be never leave Arsenal where he has done amazing achievements and now have positive results which can give him good name in Arsenal and soccer history with good salary and all other things which are needed by a person available and Barcelona bring Xavi from Qatar for good results and positive results which need time, and they will never been terminated his contract as whey they are second in league table and have chance to be champions of Spain in this season.

[bekti3]

The contribution that already made by messi to the PSG was so big. So many clubs are seeing it as opportunity even though his age is not young anymore. That's why some clubs have been declared if they might be interested if messi will be leaving from PSG with free transfer status.
Barcelona has no more solution for funding. It has been facing financial problem and it will not able to bring back messi to the camp nou. the chance is very small to make it happen. Barcelona has been selling lots of its shares to buy players last season
Barcelona has nothing to be sold for the upcoming season. that's why barcelona is only looking for cheap players. messi has a very expensive salary.

You're right, especially for now Messi doesn't show the slightest interest in returning to Barcelona. Regardless of the background be it financial or not but I appreciate what Messi does. He has the right to determine his club at the end of the world cup later. As a club that has benefited a lot from the presence of Messi, PSG will definitely insist on offering anything and with an increase in salary so that Messi can stay. Big clubs still believe that Messi's age is not a barrier for them to continue to ask for it.

Actually the rumors about Messi returning to Barcelona are only based on the statement of the president of the Barcelona club who said that they always open the door for Messi and this was followed by some words of other former football players such as Fabregas and Zabaleta but this is only one-sided and Messi is silent about it.
PSG have prepared a new contract option now but messi's focus is still quite clear with the world cup and I don't think this will be finished until the world cup rolls around.

[snipie]

There is some speculation such as Barcelona might be targeting Arteta to replace Xavi in the future.

I don't see this very realistic at the moment. Because before anything else, Barcelona management don't seem uncomfortable with Xavi's job right now. Maybe their being eliminated in the Champions League this easy was some loss of credit for Xavi but they are still hopeful about the La Liga title now. This is the most serious season for the title as they can play at a similar level with Real Madrid right now. But if they don't keep up a good form and let Real Madrid pull away earlier then Xavi might be in trouble. Then Arteta might be a choice considering his success with Arsenal so far this season.

https://www.sport.es/en/news/barca/barca-looking-at-mikel-arteta-as-a-future-coaching-option-77972868

It depends. Xavi's experience with Barcelona as a coach is quite short and building a team requires a lot of patience. Obviously, repetitive defeats aren't acceptable. I assume he will be forced to leave once Barcelona fails badly in Europa League. They are one of the favourites teams to win it so losing early or badly by big score might affect his future. Winning La Liga in the other hand might save him.
For Arteta, he had many difficulties with Arsenal previously before getting a team that made City suffers to try get the first place.

[Raflesia]

Let's see what will be doing by laporta. As far as i know there are some clubs were also interesting to sign messi if he will be leaving from PSG with free transfer. These clubs are intermiami and manchester city. I don't know if the list of club that shown interest will be increasing with the goes of time. Messi has been under radar by barcelona but xavi will decide that whether barcelona will try to bring back him or not.
There are so many rumours but these can be proven only during the next transfer season. I would like to see messi goes to the city rather than back to the barcelona.

Guardiola refused to transfer Messi even when he was at a normal age. Do you really think that now that Messi has grown old and his results have obviously fallen, something has changed? I'm wondering where you heard these stories from. In my opinion Messi's move to City is simply not possible, and a move to Barcelona cannot take place for financial reasons.

I read some news that said about Pep's opinion about Messi and indeed he praised Messi but that doesn't mean this makes him want him.
At the moment Pep is full of young players who are actually still promising and given Messi's age I agree with what you say because in the end it could be like Ronaldo at Manchester United.
Age is still something that is difficult to fight for the Premier League.

[dataispower]

Let's see what will be doing by laporta. As far as i know there are some clubs were also interesting to sign messi if he will be leaving from PSG with free transfer. These clubs are intermiami and manchester city. I don't know if the list of club that shown interest will be increasing with the goes of time. Messi has been under radar by barcelona but xavi will decide that whether barcelona will try to bring back him or not.
There are so many rumours but these can be proven only during the next transfer season. I would like to see messi goes to the city rather than back to the barcelona.

Guardiola refused to transfer Messi even when he was at a normal age. Do you really think that now that Messi has grown old and his results have obviously fallen, something has changed? I'm wondering where you heard these stories from. In my opinion Messi's move to City is simply not possible, and a move to Barcelona cannot take place for financial reasons.

I read some news that said about Pep's opinion about Messi and indeed he praised Messi but that doesn't mean this makes him want him.
At the moment Pep is full of young players who are actually still promising and given Messi's age I agree with what you say because in the end it could be like Ronaldo at Manchester United.
Age is still something that is difficult to fight for the Premier League.

Both Ronaldo Cristiano and Lionel Messi have spent ten years as the best in the world but the thing is age affects this players at a certain time
Pep Guardiola was the one who brought Lionel Messi upamd trained him at Barcelona, that doesn't means he will come back to work with the manager but he may have a chance to help represent Barcelona currently.

[alegotardo]

Guardiola refused to transfer Messi even when he was at a normal age. Do you really think that now that Messi has grown old and his results have obviously fallen, something has changed? I'm wondering where you heard these stories from. In my opinion Messi's move to City is simply not possible, and a move to Barcelona cannot take place for financial reasons.

Since they talked about Pep Guardiola, I remembered a rumor I read about his former assistant, to eventually replace Xavi at Barcelona.... I'm talking about Mikel Arteta.
It seems that Arteta even talked about it in an interview he gave before the match against Zürich in the Europa League, where he denied this possibility and even praised the work that Xavi has been doing at Barcelona.
What do you think? Could Barcelona be looking to replace Xavi with Arteta?

[makishart]

It depends. Xavi's experience with Barcelona as a coach is quite short and building a team requires a lot of patience. Obviously, repetitive defeats aren't acceptable. I assume he will be forced to leave once Barcelona fails badly in Europa League. They are one of the favourites teams to win it so losing early or badly by big score might affect his future. Winning La Liga in the other hand might save him.

I don't think so. Some new coach able to give lots of trophies to the new clubs that being managed. That proves that if xavi doesn't have good result or capability to manage it anymore. The barcelona has been wasting so much money and that's a shame if it could not get even a trophy for this season. You must remember if there are real madrids who can still win la liga anytime other than barcelona itself.

For Arteta, he had many difficulties with Arsenal previously before getting a team that made City suffers to try get the first place.

There's no reason to let arteta leaving from arsenal. It might be good if he has been included in the future list by barcelona but arsenal was still on fire and arteta may not leave from there.
Some arsenal's player already rumoured to be bought by some clubs in the next upcoming transfer season. I think that barcelona shall have replaced him as soon as possible. Loosing in the europa league will become the worst thing for barcelona.

[bering]

It is said that De Gea is okay about taking a wage cut and extending his contract with Manchester United now.

This is really good news for Manchester United side. Because I started to think that De Gea would leave the team at the end of the season in case they don't have a solid season again. Manchester United have been really disapppointing for some years. There is some improvement now but I still doubt their performance in the rest of the season. There are still visible problems in the team. If it weren't for De Gea's amazing saves so far they could have even a much harder time in the league. He is one of the key players of the team and they'd better focus on keeping him.

De Gea contract will be expired on June 2023 but until now the management hasn't talking about extended option and actually De Gea is not the player who suitable for Ten Hag strategy but Ten Hag has fully trusted to him this season to guard Manchester United defense so probably in the near future new contract will be disscuss although this season he did several mistakes which makes Manchester United lose but overall his performance was not so bad and in my opinion he deserved to get new contract and actually Manchester United has Martin Dubravka which arrived this summer from Newcastle but this player still not played by Ten Hag this season