⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions

[yudi09]

Again and again Chelsea are keep sign new player, the recent transfer is Andrey Santos which is unknown player from Vasco Da Gama, he only played for 1 match without score any goal or assist in this season lol [1]. Chelsea spent for 12.5 Million Euro for this player, I think it's too much for new player that haven't shown any good performance.

Andrey Santos can be a big player at Chelsea even though the costs incurred by Chelsea are considered too large for a player who has not shown his abilities. In the last 5 matches of Vasco da Gama, Andrey Santos has always been included in the line-up that plays as a starter.

Andrey Santos' statistics that I have seen from several sources, this young Brazilian player is relatively good with an adequate rating. Then, I also saw Andrey Santos' playing style through highligth video shows, Andrey Santos is a player with a hard game. For me, he is suitable for Potter's strategy to assign him as a breaker of the opponent's attack.

I don't doubt the abilities of Brazilian players. Brazil as a nation is gifted with many players and getting a place in this local league is highly competitive. The midfeikder have also played dor he Brazilian under-20 team. Andrey Santos is just 18 and can be a potential world-class player. The €13m transfer contract fee is high for a slightly unknown player but sometimes such risk can benefit the club in the future. He could grow to become a key player in the Chelsea team or can be sold for a handsome profit. If he flops, the club should also bear the loss gladly. Chelsea really need a suitable replacement for some key injured players.

Yes. We have to acknowledge what you said about the average ability of soccer players who come from Brazil. We often see players from Brazil who are recruited by European clubs become great players even though before playing for European clubs, the player's name was not well known. I predict that Andrey Santos will become the kind of player we're talking about with Chelsea because during his time at Vasco da Gama, the youngster was a mainstay of the Vasco da Gama coach's midfield.

[DanWalker]

Chelsea have been doing these types of things too much lately. They are investing quite a bit of money in a player who probably does not deserve such a large amount of money in the first place.
Regardless, I do not think he has shown the type of performance that would be adequate to earn him a transfer fee of $13 million, no matter what.

Have you watched him play? If you haven't then go watch some highlights before you come here criticizing Chelsea move to aquire him. While Chelsea has wasted some money in the past but they have all given the club something in return. Our last big move signings won us the champions league and FIFA club world cup. The Chelsea current active players lacks so many things and we can see it when they play. They barely win games so the management are scouting and buying up any available player so we can get a shot at winning something this year.
Andrey Santosis a central midfielder with 8 goals for club last year and we don't have any midfielder capable of scoring or assisting goals apart from Mount which have been off form lately. He's also a Brazilian and we know how good this players play when they get sign into a top Europe club. I also think the fee was decent. Chelsea is a top club and you don't expect other clubs to sell their players very cheap to us when they know we can afford any price they give and we're desperate.

I have seen him play. I absolutely do not think that he is some wonder kid who is going to do something impossible for Chelsea. Some people just see a kid play well these days and start throwing money to get him in the team. I do not believe that he is worth the money that Chelsea gave for him. If this was around 8-10 million, I think even that would have made sense. But 13 million is too much.

[Awaklara]

I have seen him play. I absolutely do not think that he is some wonder kid who is going to do something impossible for Chelsea. Some people just see a kid play well these days and start throwing money to get him in the team. I do not believe that he is worth the money that Chelsea gave for him. If this was around 8-10 million, I think even that would have made sense. But 13 million is too much.

he's still very young, maybe Chelsea is looking at something that might become big business for them in the next few years. we will not know what will happen in the future. if he has the luck and the skills he deserves to be in Europe's biggest league competition. then we will all see his skills later. if he can't compete then it was a mistake Chelsea made the purchase.

[rendravolt]

Erik ten hag seems to know what kind of players he needs to complete the Red Devils squad and Choupo-Moting is one of the best options, he did very well at Bayern Munich and scored goals too. We hope that the negotiation process will run smoothly and that it is time for Manchester United to return to the championship track this season.

Manchester united head coach, Erik ten hag knows the kind of quality players he needs in his squad, the fans or the board can not dictate what he needs, he only go for players that their qualities will served good contribution to the team positively. Choupo-Moting is a good player with remarkable performance, he's top player in Bayern Munich and his country. United definitely going to bounce back to the race of qualifying for the top four, they need to start generating consistency in winning their league games, if they want to sealed their position in the UEFA next season.

That's right, Manchester United are not like the last time they signed Cristiano Ronaldo and that is purely for the club's revenue business. But now under Erik ten hag he has a different perspective and indeed he needs some players who can contribute to the club. Choupo-Moting is a striker with an anchor body and is very wide in the air, but overall the appearance of the Red Devils is the only thing they need, namely consistency, if they falter a little this season, they will lose a ticket to participate in the UCL next season.

[Iranus]

Erik ten hag seems to know what kind of players he needs to complete the Red Devils squad and Choupo-Moting is one of the best options, he did very well at Bayern Munich and scored goals too. We hope that the negotiation process will run smoothly and that it is time for Manchester United to return to the championship track this season.

Manchester united head coach, Erik ten hag knows the kind of quality players he needs in his squad, the fans or the board can not dictate what he needs, he only go for players that their qualities will served good contribution to the team positively. Choupo-Moting is a good player with remarkable performance, he's top player in Bayern Munich and his country. United definitely going to bounce back to the race of qualifying for the top four, they need to start generating consistency in winning their league games, if they want to sealed their position in the UEFA next season.

A lot of people do not agree with this, but I believe Choupo Moting is actually a good player. And with proper training, I think he can actually become a better player compared to what he already is. I think it is going to be good for Manchester United if they can play him as the main striker. And obviously, his performance is good for Bayern Munich. I think he will be able to perform just like that for Manchester United as well. He will also get a good amount of playing time because he is going to be the main striker of Manchester United.

The only problem is he is already 33 years old. So he will not probably be able to give his service and give good service to Manchester United for a longer period of time.

[Daniel91]

Sunday's transfer gossip:

Atletico Madrid are demanding a £9.5m loan fee and a commitment to buy for £70m from Manchester United as negotiations continue for Portugal forward Joao Felix, 23. Atletico are really asking for a lot of money for Felix, will the clubs reach an agreement in the end?
Former Everton boss Roberto Martinez, who was head coach of Belgium for six years before leaving after the 2022 World Cup, has reached a verbal agreement to take charge of Portugal. He led the strongest Belgian national team in history, the golden generation, but he did not achieve the result that everyone expected. Can he do more with Portugal?
Former Real Madrid manager Zinedine Zidane has turned down an offer to become United States coach. His great desire is to lead the French national team, but obviously he will have to wait for that for some time.
Ukrainian football agent Igor Kryvenko believes Shakhtar Donetsk will not let Ukraine winger Mykhaylo Mudryk, 22, leave for the reported £88m being offered by Arsenal, saying it was an "inadequate price". "Inadequate price" really? Haven't the Ukrainians become too greedy?

Source: https://www.bbc.com/sport/64198266

[Coyster]

The French national team head coach Didier Deschamps has extended his contract until 2026. With this, Deschamps would have managed France for 14 years. The power of Didier Deschamps in French football will force Zidane to return to club soccer. It would be wise for Zidane to just forget about coaching France because he would then have to wait another 4 years to coach the France National Football Team, but he would not be guaranteed to succeed.

I don't think Zidane is waiting to be manager of France, maybe he is just taking his time before he makes a decision on his next club or country. Didier Deschamps has been doing an excellent job as French manager and there is no reason why France should do away with him, he has taken them to back to back world cup finals, winning one in the process and coming out runner up in the other one, that is an amazing feat, and i expected his contract as manager to be extended, except if he personally didn't want to.

Having said that, there is a Euro tournament coming up next year and it is expected that France are going to be amongst the favorites for it, i'm pretty sure Didier Deschamps is looking forward to it. If actually Zidane is looking for the French job, four years isn't too long to wait, because i am not sure Didier Deschamps would stay longer than 2026, Zidane could even get himself a job with a club side whilst he waits.

[arallmuus]

Sunday's transfer gossip:

Atletico Madrid are demanding a £9.5m loan fee and a commitment to buy for £70m from Manchester United as negotiations continue for Portugal forward Joao Felix, 23. Atletico are really asking for a lot of money for Felix, will the clubs reach an agreement in the end?

Its not really alot though considering that he was signed for €126 million on age of 19 and he is still a decent player though but if it wasnt Manchester United then this would be a perfect signing but at the moment, Manchester United doesnt really need any other player on that position. They really need a proper striker up front as of now

[Oneandpure]

I don't think Zidane is waiting to be manager of France, maybe he is just taking his time before he makes a decision on his next club or country. Didier Deschamps has been doing an excellent job as French manager and there is no reason why France should do away with him, he has taken them to back to back world cup finals, winning one in the process and coming out runner up in the other one, that is an amazing feat, and i expected his contract as manager to be extended, except if he personally didn't want to.

Having said that, there is a Euro tournament coming up next year and it is expected that France are going to be amongst the favorites for it, i'm pretty sure Didier Deschamps is looking forward to it. If actually Zidane is looking for the French job, four years isn't too long to wait, because i am not sure Didier Deschamps would stay longer than 2026, Zidane could even get himself a job with a club side whilst he waits.

Didier Deschamps have confirmed will extended his contract with France National team until FIFA World Cup 2026 and seems not any chance for Zidane become France manager. I don't think with Zidane won't waiting until four years later without active as manager at any club or anh national team.

Usually have positive side when becoming manager on any club when first half seasom begin, but still not close yet with Zidane opportunity becoming club manager at second half, but nowadays not any rumor and official confirmed he will back as new manager at club or national team.

[Ondekinecakabilirim]

It has been making especially the Turkish media quite busy that Manchester United are interested in Besiktas' loan scorer Wout Weghorst. We can say that the player literally said goodbye to the fans on his celebration after the goal he scored today. However there is nothing certain yet. There are many news also saying that Manchester United's priority is Aboubakar.

This news seems to me like the work of managers trying to push prices up. First, there were also reports that Manchester United were interested in Aboubakar. Now there are reports that Manchester United are interested in Wout Weghorst. Moreover, these news are intensely only in the Turkish media. It seems to me that these news are the special works of the managers. Wout Weghorst could go to Manchester United, Beşiktaş could replace him with Aboubakar. Such a scenario could happen. This transfer is not impossible. But all the news related to this issue creates a very unhealthy image. Also, If Beşiktaş make such a change, it may negatively affect their performance in the league. Because Wout Weghorst is their top goal scorer this season.

[rdluffy]

I don't think Zidane is waiting to be manager of France, maybe he is just taking his time before he makes a decision on his next club or country. Didier Deschamps has been doing an excellent job as French manager and there is no reason why France should do away with him, he has taken them to back to back world cup finals, winning one in the process and coming out runner up in the other one, that is an amazing feat, and i expected his contract as manager to be extended, except if he personally didn't want to.

Having said that, there is a Euro tournament coming up next year and it is expected that France are going to be amongst the favorites for it, i'm pretty sure Didier Deschamps is looking forward to it. If actually Zidane is looking for the French job, four years isn't too long to wait, because i am not sure Didier Deschamps would stay longer than 2026, Zidane could even get himself a job with a club side whilst he waits.

Didier Deschamps have confirmed will extended his contract with France National team until FIFA World Cup 2026 and seems not any chance for Zidane become France manager. I don't think with Zidane won't waiting until four years later without active as manager at any club or anh national team.

Usually have positive side when becoming manager on any club when first half seasom begin, but still not close yet with Zidane opportunity becoming club manager at second half, but nowadays not any rumor and official confirmed he will back as new manager at club or national team.

In my opinion France Federation is right to keep Didier Deschamps, he's doing an awesome job with France, first and second place in two consecutive cups is not an easy job.
Also, in 2022 Qatar he got to finals with so many injuries in his team, and almost got the title. The substitutions he made during the World Cup were all effective.

But talking about Zidane, if he open his mind, Brazil is a rare opportunity for him, it looks like CBF is ready to accept the first foreigner coach, but it depends on Zidane.
He would have to move to Brazil and would have the language as a barrier.
But the salary Brazil pays is as good as a European team, and there is no shortage of players. Brazil continues to be the country with the most players in the world, and he can build any team he wants, there are players for any style of game he wants to build.
Another good thing about Zidane, he's already coached Vinicius JR and Militão, both will probably be at 2026 World Cup, and Zidane already knows how to handle with players like Neymar. It's good to point that because Neymar can be a problem to any coach.

In the Brazilian media there has already been speculation about Zidane for a few weeks, but nothing effective so far.

[Ludmilla_rose1995]

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he's still very young, maybe Chelsea is looking at something that might become big business for them in the next few years. we will not know what will happen in the future. if he has the luck and the skills he deserves to be in Europe's biggest league competition. then we will all see his skills later. if he can't compete then it was a mistake Chelsea made the purchase.

Reportedly, because of the purchase of Santos from Vasco da Gama,, he (Santos) was canceled from playing in the U-20 Brazilian national team. I haven't seen a few videos of him on youtube but haven't seen him play in full, looks like he has great natural talent even though he is young, so Chelsea made the purchase for a long-term investment.

[naira]

Sunday's transfer gossip:

Atletico Madrid are demanding a £9.5m loan fee and a commitment to buy for £70m from Manchester United as negotiations continue for Portugal forward Joao Felix, 23. Atletico are really asking for a lot of money for Felix, will the clubs reach an agreement in the end?

Its not really alot though considering that he was signed for €126 million on age of 19 and he is still a decent player though but if it wasnt Manchester United then this would be a perfect signing but at the moment, Manchester United doesnt really need any other player on that position. They really need a proper striker up front as of now

Joao Felix is a young player with potential, even though it looks like Manchester United for now doesn't really need a Joao Felix but for the long term it feels like it needs to be reconsidered. I think the price is quite high and very difficult to reach a deal. Here, Joao Felix's position requires a club that is indeed suitable, for example, Chelsea or Arsenal as rumors are circulating.

[reagansimms]

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Didier Deschamps have confirmed will extended his contract with France National team until FIFA World Cup 2026 and seems not any chance for Zidane become France manager. I don't think with Zidane won't waiting until four years later without active as manager at any club or anh national team.

Usually have positive side when becoming manager on any club when first half seasom begin, but still not close yet with Zidane opportunity becoming club manager at second half, but nowadays not any rumor and official confirmed he will back as new manager at club or national team.

Zidane has proven capable of being a reliable coach after winning several prestigious titles with Real Madrid, the agreement that occurred between France and Didier Deschamps to continue working together has closed the opportunity for Zidane to coach the French national team. His status as a reliable coach was not difficult to get offers from clubs to recruit him, Zidane had to make the decision to continue his career even though his status was not as coach of the French national team. He will need to continue his success at Club level to get FFF interested in his qualities.

[Swordsoffreedom]

These teams are some of the best in the world. Maybe he should be given the offer to replace Didier Deschamps the French national team coach. The United States would greatly need a coach of Zidane's class because they would be the co-host of the world cup and I am sure they wouldn't want to end like Qatar that ended thier journey in the group stage. The Portuguese national team is in shambles. There seems to be internal conflict in the dressing room, therefore a coach like Zidane would be able to control the players. Brazil's Quarterfinals exit from the world cup is one of their worst performances in the world. Maybe the Brazilian national football team needs to say goodbye to Tite. Rejecting these offers is a pointer that he wants to coach a club, is targeting a particular country or he is not currently prepared for any coaching job.

According always to them, the following news happened.
Zidane does not want a national team outside France.
So according to them, they are very reliable in France, Zidane if he will have a team before 2026 it will be a club team since the bench of France is occupied till that date.

In addition that if zidane was also recently rejecting an offer from US to become a coach. Deschamps was also signing the new contract until the next world cup. that means zidane will have no place in the france's national team until the next world cup. If france will able to go to the final or become the next winner again and then deschamps may be signing a new contract again with france's national team. It seems like that zidane has no choice other than coaching the club

Zidane is probably actually okay being without work. Because otherwise, he would actually want to coach some other team or club. And I also believe that if he really had to work, he would have come forward and expressed that. But he didn’t. And right now, France is not an option. Obviously, because the coach has renewed his contract with France.

A few months ago, I remember we heard about him being the coach of PSG. Right now, there is no news about that either. Is Atletico Madrid going to be an option for him?

[shinratensei_]

well yeah, since France is out of his options, and a club is could be his goal, i would probably guess and say PSG if he wanted to coach in France, probably New Castle can convince him and he might accept the challenge and coach in England, or perhaps Bayern Munich if he wanted to coach in Germany, so far that's all can think of that seems kind of reasonable for me.

Paris Saint-Germain's performance this season has been quite good under Christophe Galtier's coach, this will be a consideration in continuing to provide opportunities for Galtier to train PSG.
Meanwhile for Bayern Munich, it is possible that there is still a place for Zinedine Zidane there, considering that Julian Nagelsmann has not been able to bring Munich better as Hansi Flick did the previous Bayern Munich coach.

PSG is having good performance under nagelsmann but i think that it's not enough for PSG to win the champion league. I mean let's take a look at the fact that if nagelsmann didn't have impressive statistic with bayern. I think that bayern is a big team that has potential to win the UCL but it seems like that bayern needs to get a good coach that can bring it to the champion league like zidane.
Nagelsmann was not so bad but the fact that if nagelsmann is not so good for me. Others may have different opinion about him and that's fine.

[Tony116]

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It often seems that goalkeepers will get their chances at other clubs again and again. A good example is Loris Karius from Liverpool. A lot of people thought that his career might be almost over when he failed so badly in the champions league final against Real Madrid. But now he was even able to sign a new contract with Newcastle United. Who would have expected that? Whether one likes it or not, but Newcastle is climbing up the letter in the EPL right now and if things work out for him one day, he might perhaps even be playing in the CL again...

Newcastle United is obviously doing well and it is going to be good for the career of the gk Loris Karius as well. His career has obviously taken a turn for the best. And that way Newcastle United is being able to perform right now, I don’t think he has too much to worry about. I am quite confident that he will be able to play in the Champions League next season.

What's the point of this contract? I was surprised when I saw that name in your post, went to google when he last played and I don't even see him in the Newcastle game bids... Also looking at his transfer history it's not even signed anywhere that he signed with this team, it seems strange to me... He's not a very good goalkeeper either, he's conceded 270 goals in 217 games in his career, not a very good indicator...

This season de Gea has kept eight clean sheets. I certainly think that is good. But at the same time, he has also conceded 20 goals. And the thing is Manchester United is slowly improving. So, I think we also might see an improvement from him as well. And we all know that he had a bad time with Manchester United, especially when Harry Maguire was regular.

[Silence Scream]

Chelsea have been doing these types of things too much lately. They are investing quite a bit of money in a player who probably does not deserve such a large amount of money in the first place.
Regardless, I do not think he has shown the type of performance that would be adequate to earn him a transfer fee of $13 million, no matter what.

Have you watched him play? If you haven't then go watch some highlights before you come here criticizing Chelsea move to aquire him. While Chelsea has wasted some money in the past but they have all given the club something in return. Our last big move signings won us the champions league and FIFA club world cup. The Chelsea current active players lacks so many things and we can see it when they play. They barely win games so the management are scouting and buying up any available player so we can get a shot at winning something this year.
Andrey Santosis a central midfielder with 8 goals for club last year and we don't have any midfielder capable of scoring or assisting goals apart from Mount which have been off form lately. He's also a Brazilian and we know how good this players play when they get sign into a top Europe club. I also think the fee was decent. Chelsea is a top club and you don't expect other clubs to sell their players very cheap to us when they know we can afford any price they give and we're desperate.

I have seen him play. I absolutely do not think that he is some wonder kid who is going to do something impossible for Chelsea. Some people just see a kid play well these days and start throwing money to get him in the team. I do not believe that he is worth the money that Chelsea gave for him. If this was around 8-10 million, I think even that would have made sense. But 13 million is too much.

Now that football is seen as a business, it is now considered very normal to give such money to young players who are a little promising.  These funds could be transferred well 10 years ago, but now they are seen as "simple money at risk".  If the player does not meet the expectations, the team can be very upset.  Chelsea is a great team.  I think they can bring more important young people to the youth academy.

[DanWalker]

I have seen him play. I absolutely do not think that he is some wonder kid who is going to do something impossible for Chelsea. Some people just see a kid play well these days and start throwing money to get him in the team. I do not believe that he is worth the money that Chelsea gave for him. If this was around 8-10 million, I think even that would have made sense. But 13 million is too much.

he's still very young, maybe Chelsea is looking at something that might become big business for them in the next few years. we will not know what will happen in the future. if he has the luck and the skills he deserves to be in Europe's biggest league competition. then we will all see his skills later. if he can't compete then it was a mistake Chelsea made the purchase.

Well, I will give him that, he is very young and he has a lot of potential as well. I do not agree that he was worthy of so much money. But if anyone thinks that he was worthless, it is also going to be a mistake. This kid has a certain flair in him. He can be a very good player. But he will have to work hard. I don’t think he deserves that much money, but it is also going to be very entertaining for even me to see him prove people like me wrong.

I have nothing against young players. I am someone who is always very anxious to see a player perform well, especially if he is young. But I also hate it when people overheat a young player, and after that, he is burdened with expectations.

[mamesso]

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Newcastle United is obviously doing well and it is going to be good for the career of the gk Loris Karius as well. His career has obviously taken a turn for the best. And that way Newcastle United is being able to perform right now, I don’t think he has too much to worry about. I am quite confident that he will be able to play in the Champions League next season.

For a while Newcastle is enjoying the pleasure of being ranked third in the EPL standings, but all possibilities can still happen because the EPL still has many matches left. The only way that can be taken by Newcastle to appear in the Champions League next season, they have to bring in classy players in the transfer market.

Newcastle position is not completely safe in third place, Manchester United, who have performed well in the last few matches, can threaten Newcastle. Tottenham are also looking to get back into the top four, a single mistake by Newcastle would see them drop out of the top four as Tottenham are only two points behind Newcastle. Returning to play in the Champions League is the dream of Loris Karius and all Newcastle players. To get there, Newcastle must spend money to strengthen their team with top players.