⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions

[temple]

I'm also interested in what Bayern are planning in the transfer market. In the end, they were able to admit the fallacy of Kahn's decisions and maybe they will be able to realize that times have changed and they should make top transfers for top money and not wait for someone to come to them almost for free. If not, Tuchel may still be able to make Dortmund champions next season  - how Bayern play in the second halves under his leadership is frightening.

I think they need to make a more profound analysis and then make their decisions. They thought that getting Mane will solve their offensive problems, but I think lots of people disagreed and knew it wouldn't work out as Bayern was hoping for. That transfer was a mistake and if they want to do it right now, they should get a younger striker for lots of money. They can't afford to start into the new season without a really good striker. But this is easier said than done as there are hardly strikers available and if they are, Bayern will have to outbid rich Premier League competitors. Even 80 million doesn't sound like much anymore, but it is still a lot of money for Bayern Munich.

[Coyster]

Anyway I think Benzema should take up the offer as he is too old for the Real Madrid squad and let Los Blancos look for a replacement next season to fill the void he has left.

These Saudi clubs are on a mission to develop their league by bringing in great players from Europe, i know for now they can only get players' whose times are up in the big stage in Europe, but these Saudi clubs can start from there and prolly in the next few years and with further improvement to the league, they can then allure young and quality players.

Having said that, i don't think Benzema's time in Europe (and Real Madrid) is up, i think he can still play for 1 or 2 years at the very top level, and in Real Madrid also. I don't know if the club prolly has plans to sign a new and young striker this summer, but nonetheless, i expect Benzema to be fully part of their plans for next season.

[harapan]

Joao Felix is no longer on the target list for Chelsea's main squad due to Pochettino decision, so we need to know what steps Pochettino really wants in overhauling the composition of Chelsea's players for next season. Moreover, from a game perspective, it is really needed where Chelsea should have an ideal place in the Premier League. After Joao Felix, I'm sure there are still many players that Pochettino will throw away, one of which might be Mudryk who isn't too promising for the future of The Blues.

Glad to see he will back to the atletico madrid again soon. This guy was over rated in my opinion. Felix's performance was not as good as loaned striker owner by chelsea, lukaku. I remind you that if chelsea is also having nkuku from leipzig.

Chelsea had some good strikers. Felix is not needed in the club. His performance is also very bad at this moment. Poche was thinking about which player that must be/not be included on its plan.

There's the possible plan by pochettino


- Bring back lukaku
- Buy lautaro from intermilan
- Creating duet betwen lukaku/lautaro or Nkuku/lautaro

I think that plot was making sense, Im happy felix backs to the atletico madrid.

Signing Lukaku and Lauturo Martinez would put players like Madueke, Borja Nkuku at risk,  like this is not making sense,  you have to take care of the pile of players in the club currently,  filter the good ones and the ones the coach would want to work with. Felix wasn't overated the bad and flaws of chelsea also affected him. Back to Atm he will give his best. Pochetino has already started listing player he will work with and let free for the transfer.

[Furious 7]

Moreover, in this case the age of Maddison and Tielemans is actually still in a fairly productive age condition at 26 years so it is quite clear that with this condition they will not stay at Leicester, especially since they have dropped to caste 2 which is still quite interesting but not as much attention as the Premiere League.
Now after some previous big clubs about Maddison today there are some rumors that Newcastle has started preliminary talks and after City's previous 50 million now there is an offer of 70 million from Newcastle to Leicester for the desire to get Maddison for next season.
In addition there were some notices with Tottenham but looking at the clubs with middle eastern sheikhs competing now it seems hopeless for Tottenham.

Now it seems that it's only a matter of money, but even if it is possible, Rice will definitely weigh which team he will choose in the future.
The conditions are simple because indeed when Manchester City or Bayern actually have a guarantee for him in terms of trophies but of course that has to be accompanied by performance which still has to be very good especially at a big club like this of course when you lose the competition then it's over but on the other hand for Newcastle the guarantee for him in regular football is huge but whether he will want to be here because it is guaranteed a title is not certain. But with the price being offered now from Newcastle and with their current condition in the Champions League, of course this will also provide a big lure for Rice's career going forward.

[Die_empty]

Anyway I think Benzema should take up the offer as he is too old for the Real Madrid squad and let Los Blancos look for a replacement next season to fill the void he has left.

These Saudi clubs are on a mission to develop their league by bringing in great players from Europe, i know for now they can only get players' whose times are up in the big stage in Europe, but these Saudi clubs can start from there and prolly in the next few years and with further improvement to the league, they can then allure young and quality players.

Having said that, i don't think Benzema's time in Europe (and Real Madrid) is up, i think he can still play for 1 or 2 years at the very top level, and in Real Madrid also. I don't know if the club prolly has plans to sign a new and young striker this summer, but nonetheless, i expect Benzema to be fully part of their plans for next season.

Buying or introducing well-known stars to the Saudi Arabian league is an advertisement strategy to woo both quality players and investors. The presence of Benzema and others will encourage more younger players to come to the league. This will no doubt increase the quality of play in the once-unknown league. With an increase in quality players, more sponsorship deals will find their way to the league which will lead to an increase in the financial standings of these Arabian clubs.

Benzema might still be a top-class footballer and may want to remain in Europe but the money Saudi is ordering is very tempting. The world footballer's performance will not improve any further because of his age and he has almost won everything as a player. This might be his opportunity to make money. His decision now will be based on either passion or money.

[Zaguru12]

Joao Felix is one of these guys who will probably have played for 10 different clubs at the end of his career. Don't forget that Atletico Madrid could have sold him for 150 million in 2020. His market value dropped significantly and constantly. He is too inconsistent and as you said, he is probably never worth the money that has been paid and offered for him. Maybe it will now finally work out for him when he goes back to Atletico, but there is a reason that he was allowed to leave and go to Chelsea as a loan player. Atletico paid over 120 million for him and now he is worth around 40 million.

Joao Felix inconsistency should be pointed to the fact that he has faced too much injury woes as a young player and that has affected his time entirely at Atletico. Also the pattern of football played by Diego Simeone boys is not favourable to slicky players like Felix. At Chelsea he hasn’t been injured since coming and he was certainly one of the there best players in a very poor season by the club. The reason Chelsea are opting out of buying him is that his valuation is just too much for them to handle coupled with the fact that they already have bunch of young talents already in the team and also coming in. So Felix leaving Chelsea wasn’t about his performance but this reasons.

Anyway I think Benzema should take up the offer as he is too old for the Real Madrid squad and let Los Blancos look for a replacement next season to fill the void he has left.

Benzema shouldn’t be offload just like that Atleast till Real Madrid gets a new younger striker next season. With a younger striker next season along side Benzema, the team will have a proven player and also a developing one lead their attack. But selling off Benzema without having a striker that is banging in goals already would be a huge risk. Moreover Benzema isn’t too to ditched out already they just need to reduce there dependence on him by reducing his game time

[herurist]

The failure of those who cannot appear in the Champions League next season is because of their own mistakes that they have done outside of their game this season, yes it is a form of punishment that they have made mistakes they should not have made. If sanctions don't come to them, then they will be one of the clubs participating in the Champions League next season.
Zinedine Zidane has long been rumored to be joining Juventus, and until now these rumors have only been rumors that have never been confirmed by Zinedine Zidane's side. Indeed, some time ago it was heard that Zinedine Zidane would return to coaching, but until now there has been no clear information on which club or which country he will handle.

Agree with what you say because this really happened because of a mistake by the top officials at Juventus who did violate it and surely this will have an impact on the club, of course. Talking about Zidane, I actually still hope he returns to Madrid but indeed as you said, the current conditions, even though he is close to Juventus, of course there is still no reaction and a really convincing statement, which means that all possibilities can still happen.

[kawetsriyanto]

It looks like there is positive news from Barcelona side. They have decided to go for a longer period of time with Xavi and he is close to a contract renewal these days. Honestly I must admit that I'm not surprised. Because there was a big progress this season. They won the La Liga title after a three-season break despite not being effective in the Champions League at all.

Actually, Xavi's contract as Barcelona manager still lasts until Jun 30, 2024. We also know that his career was growing in Barcelona, he was a superstar and now he is a manager there. I am sure Xavi won't go anywhere, he must feel comfortable in Barcelona. However, Barcelona management must be worried if there is a big offer from any other top club, so they want to ensure Xavi will stay a longer time in Barcelona by extending his contract early. If he extends his contract, I guess he will stay at least more 3 years in Barcelona. Sure, no one feels surprised about this, he really deserves to get a contract extension earlier. Although he failed in UCL and Europa League, he won La Liga title. It is much better than Real Madrid, this season Real only won Copa del Rey. Well, Xavi must target for UCL title for the next season.

https://www.transfermarkt.com/xavi/profil/trainer/59876

[SatoPrincess]

Anyway I think Benzema should take up the offer as he is too old for the Real Madrid squad and let Los Blancos look for a replacement next season to fill the void he has left.

These Saudi clubs are on a mission to develop their league by bringing in great players from Europe, i know for now they can only get players' whose times are up in the big stage in Europe, but these Saudi clubs can start from there and prolly in the next few years and with further improvement to the league, they can then allure young and quality players.

Having said that, i don't think Benzema's time in Europe (and Real Madrid) is up, i think he can still play for 1 or 2 years at the very top level, and in Real Madrid also. I don't know if the club prolly has plans to sign a new and young striker this summer, but nonetheless, i expect Benzema to be fully part of their plans for next season.

As of today, developments coming in says Karim Benzema is contemplating a huge contract offer coming in from Saudi Arabia. If you talk about strength I think Karim Benzema has the energy to go on with Real Madrid for a season more but that option looks likely to be kicked aside because of the tempting offers coming from Saudi. There is nothing more to prove for Benzema at Real Madrid, just like Ronaldo he should accept a deal for the huge money.

[Pulsar77]

As of Pochettino's signing for becoming Chelsea's new manager officially people are wondering how successful he can be of course. Technically he has a good chance to meet the board expectations next season. He has a pretty good level of experience with Tottenham especially and PSG. He can think of all the points where he made the mistakes so far and try not to repeat them with Chelsea. Nagelsmann was a candidate too and people even said that Boehly was keen on bringing him the most.

Pochettino had better prove why they picked him over Nagelsmann after this. This season was a big mess for Chelsea and he will be expected to make the team have a top 4 finish next time. To do this they need to take the right steps in transfers too. They need to solve the striker issue after Felix's departure.

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As of Pochettino's signing for becoming Chelsea's new manager officially people are wondering how successful he can be of course. Technically he has a good chance to meet the board expectations next season. He has a pretty good level of experience with Tottenham especially and PSG. He can think of all the points where he made the mistakes so far and try not to repeat them with Chelsea. Nagelsmann was a candidate too and people even said that Boehly was keen on bringing him the most.

Pochettino had better prove why they picked him over Nagelsmann after this. This season was a big mess for Chelsea and he will be expected to make the team have a top 4 finish next time. To do this they need to take the right steps in transfers too. They need to solve the striker issue after Felix's departure.

Pochettino was a good coach while at Tottenham,but with the present situation at Chelsea,it will take like two years for any manager that will come to Chelsea to either fight for top four,or be able to participate in any Europa competition.I still think Tuchel was the perfect manager for Chelsea,all he needed was time for the players he bought to blend well together,but Chelsea were to impatient with him.They will  continue to suffer to have a very good manager.
I also think if Pochettino is to achieve anything while at Chelsea,he must be ready to start from the scratch,derive his own method,and change the player's mentality so they can think of winning always.

[Pokapoka124]

The failure of those who cannot appear in the Champions League next season is because of their own mistakes that they have done outside of their game this season, yes it is a form of punishment that they have made mistakes they should not have made. If sanctions don't come to them, then they will be one of the clubs participating in the Champions League next season.
Zinedine Zidane has long been rumored to be joining Juventus, and until now these rumors have only been rumors that have never been confirmed by Zinedine Zidane's side. Indeed, some time ago it was heard that Zinedine Zidane would return to coaching, but until now there has been no clear information on which club or which country he will handle.

Zidane to Juventus? That sure doesn't sound right at all. Since departing Real Madrid two seasons ago he has barely agreed to take up a new job. Many clubs like Chelsea, PSG, have approached him in the past but he has not obliged to working with any club  so tell me could it be that He is planning to coach a country?

Joao Felix will leave Chelsea in the summer and as we know that Joao Felix was indeed on loan from Atletico last winter. This news has been confirmed by Fabrizio Romano and the new Chelsea coach starting next season, namely Pochettino will not include Joao Felix's name on the Chelsea list for the upcoming season. Even though Joao Felix is also very comfortable living at Chelsea and does not rule out the possibility that he will be bought permanently by Todd Boehly if Pochettino wants him. But unfortunately that's not going to happen and Joao Felix will be back at Atletico this summer.

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cs3asLgoHJs/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

I will rate Joao Felix's chelsea loan a successful one because he made quite an impression with Chelsea, scoring 3 or more goals in the premier league this season. I'm sure he will want to stay at Chelsea if they want him to as he has already made mention before now that he loves Chelsea and is life in England.

[shogun47]

Joao Felix inconsistency should be pointed to the fact that he has faced too much injury woes as a young player and that has affected his time entirely at Atletico. Also the pattern of football played by Diego Simeone boys is not favourable to slicky players like Felix. At Chelsea he hasn’t been injured since coming and he was certainly one of the there best players in a very poor season by the club. The reason Chelsea are opting out of buying him is that his valuation is just too much for them to handle coupled with the fact that they already have bunch of young talents already in the team and also coming in. So Felix leaving Chelsea wasn’t about his performance but this reasons.

Injuries are always a problem, but he has never been an outstanding striker. The best time he had was back in Primeira Liga and that is when Benfica Lissabon took the opportunity and sold him for an unbelievable amount of money. He was nowhere near a player like Haaland and yet he cost more even then. All his years he played for Atletico Madrid were average if that's not even an exaggeration. I have no idea how much Atletico would be asking, but it is probably too much. Atletico will now try to integrate him into the squad and play a goos season with him. They would never be able to ask the money that they paid for him. That transaction was a spectacular mistake. I don't mean that he is bad, but he has never even nearly justified the price.

[asriloni]

Signing Lukaku and Lauturo Martinez would put players like Madueke, Borja Nkuku at risk,  like this is not making sense,  you have to take care of the pile of players in the club currently,  filter the good ones and the ones the coach would want to work with. Felix wasn't overated the bad and flaws of chelsea also affected him. Back to Atm he will give his best. Pochetino has already started listing player he will work with and let free for the transfer.

There's no need to signing lukaku again as it's owned by chelsea but he has been loaned to the intermilan at this moment. It sounds non sense to signing lukaku for twice while it's still under contract with chelsea.

Lautaro martinez can become a striker that is also having the ability to marking its opponent caused by he was being trained as CB in the past. Madueke was a winger. Chelsea can play with double striker mechanism if lautaro will able to go to the chelsea. Nkuku could become secondary option to be combined with lautaro. There will always be a victim to make the club even better.

that's the main point. Since broja will not be included in the pochettino's plan and no reason to use him anymore. Chelsea needs to build a new thing.

That's why signing lautaro was making sense at this moment.

[Jody.Drummer]

The failure of those who cannot appear in the Champions League next season is because of their own mistakes that they have done outside of their game this season, yes it is a form of punishment that they have made mistakes they should not have made. If sanctions don't come to them, then they will be one of the clubs participating in the Champions League next season.
Zinedine Zidane has long been rumored to be joining Juventus, and until now these rumors have only been rumors that have never been confirmed by Zinedine Zidane's side. Indeed, some time ago it was heard that Zinedine Zidane would return to coaching, but until now there has been no clear information on which club or which country he will handle.

Agree with what you say because this really happened because of a mistake by the top officials at Juventus who did violate it and surely this will have an impact on the club, of course. Talking about Zidane, I actually still hope he returns to Madrid but indeed as you said, the current conditions, even though he is close to Juventus, of course there is still no reaction and a really convincing statement, which means that all possibilities can still happen.

Yep, but in this case there are only two chances because several big EPL clubs and also PSG, who are still insistent on bringing Juventus, were responded to coldly by Zidane because he has problem constraints for EPL clubs and he doesn't seem too interested in PSG but indeed the news is from him who pays attention to Juventus of course it will be welcomed by fans at this time, especially for Juventus fans, although we still cannot conclude because this rumor might not have happened, especially when Conte was always a guest in several previous matches.

The failure of those who cannot appear in the Champions League next season is because of their own mistakes that they have done outside of their game this season, yes it is a form of punishment that they have made mistakes they should not have made. If sanctions don't come to them, then they will be one of the clubs participating in the Champions League next season.
Zinedine Zidane has long been rumored to be joining Juventus, and until now these rumors have only been rumors that have never been confirmed by Zinedine Zidane's side. Indeed, some time ago it was heard that Zinedine Zidane would return to coaching, but until now there has been no clear information on which club or which country he will handle.

Zidane to Juventus? That sure doesn't sound right at all. Since departing Real Madrid two seasons ago he has barely agreed to take up a new job. Many clubs like Chelsea, PSG, have approached him in the past but he has not obliged to working with any club  so tell me could it be that He is planning to coach a country?

Recently there have been some rumors saying that there is a link between Zidane and Juventus even though it's still just a hot rumor but indeed this is still very interesting.
But for the EPL and PSG clubs, as I said above, this possibility will still be constrained, different from the current rumors about Juventus and Zidane.

[TelolettOm]

As reported by Fabrizio Romano, Karim Benzema received a big offer from a Saudi club of around 100 million euros a season but the name of the team is still a secret. It is likely that Benzema will leave Real Madrid in the summer if he is so tempted by such a large amount of money. Even though Benzema has a contract that will expire in June 2024 with Real Madrid and the contract is still valid today. Now Karim Benzema's future will soon be known and it will not be long before we see one of the big transfers of the summer. Anyway I think Benzema should take up the offer as he is too old for the Real Madrid squad and let Los Blancos look for a replacement next season to fill the void he has left.

I read this rumor on Forbes, they also reported the same issue. But we don't know what Benzema's response is, there is no official statement related to the offer yet. Sure, it is a big offer, Benzema will get above $214.2 million for 2 years contract if he is interested. For me, it is an interesting offer for 35 years old player like Benzema.

However, since Benzema is still the best striker at Real Madrid, I am a bit pessimistic that he will consider moving from Real Madrid. Although Real Madrid will sign a new striker, Benzema probably still get enough time to play. Real Madrid plays in many competitions, they need some quality strikers. Moreover, Carlo Ancelotti is very selective to buy new players. He isn't a typical manager who wants rebuild his squad with most new players. He seems only buy a few players who are very needed for the squad. So, I think he is likely to stay in Real Madrid for 1-2 more years.

Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/samleveridge/2023/05/29/karim-benzemas-real-madrid-future-unclear-amid-107-millionyear-offer-from-saudi-arabiareports/?sh=61cd43d07284

[alegotardo]

As of Pochettino's signing for becoming Chelsea's new manager officially people are wondering how successful he can be of course. Technically he has a good chance to meet the board expectations next season. He has a pretty good level of experience with Tottenham especially and PSG. He can think of all the points where he made the mistakes so far and try not to repeat them with Chelsea. Nagelsmann was a candidate too and people even said that Boehly was keen on bringing him the most.

Pochettino had better prove why they picked him over Nagelsmann after this. This season was a big mess for Chelsea and he will be expected to make the team have a top 4 finish next time. To do this they need to take the right steps in transfers too. They need to solve the striker issue after Felix's departure.

Pochettino's arrival is defining the start of a new era at Chelsea... record it well.

Obviously no one questioned the ambitions of the new owners... £2.5bn for the club and a further £600m in funding to sign new players over two transfer windows. but not all the investment in the world is enough to build a team that already has two coaches fired, two seasons in a row without trophies and a melancholy 12th place in the Premier League.
But I think Pochettino is the leader Chelsea needed, a manager who remains highly respected in Europe, having led Tottenham to four consecutive top four finishes in the Premier League and a UEFA Champions League final.
It's okay that his "inconsistent" spell at Paris Saint-Germain raised some doubts about his abilities to rebuild a team like the current Chelsea, but that doesn't erase Pochentino's credibility.

What's more, I've been reading that Pochentino has been granted an active decision on player recruitment, so with the "team in hand" I think Chelsea have a chance of getting back on their feet this time.

[herurist]

Agree with what you say because this really happened because of a mistake by the top officials at Juventus who did violate it and surely this will have an impact on the club, of course. Talking about Zidane, I actually still hope he returns to Madrid but indeed as you said, the current conditions, even though he is close to Juventus, of course there is still no reaction and a really convincing statement, which means that all possibilities can still happen.

Yep, but in this case there are only two chances because several big EPL clubs and also PSG, who are still insistent on bringing Juventus, were responded to coldly by Zidane because he has problem constraints for EPL clubs and he doesn't seem too interested in PSG but indeed the news is from him who pays attention to Juventus of course it will be welcomed by fans at this time, especially for Juventus fans, although we still cannot conclude because this rumor might not have happened, especially when Conte was always a guest in several previous matches.

for the EPL it is impossible unless there is another statement from Zidane because indeed with the previous statement it is clear that he is not at all interested in the EPL.
But talking about Juventus now there is a new name because indeed in the last few days the name of Fabio Grosso has started to be busy in discussion and could be an alternative to Juventus.

[Leviathan.007]

These days we see on the news that Benzema is going to leave Real Madrid for the Arabian team because he is getting old and won't have good performance anymore because of his age. This can be true especially when you think Benzema is currently 35y old and this can be better for Real Madrid to find a player to replace with him for the next season.
On the other hand, Benzema is getting near to end of his career, and playing the Arabian team can help him to earn much more just like what Ronaldo did when he moved to Saudi teams.

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These days we see on the news that Benzema is going to leave Real Madrid for the Arabian team because he is getting old and won't have good performance anymore because of his age. This can be true especially when you think Benzema is currently 35y old and this can be better for Real Madrid to find a player to replace with him for the next season.
On the other hand, Benzema is getting near to end of his career, and playing the Arabian team can help him to earn much more just like what Ronaldo did when he moved to Saudi teams.

I don't think Benzema is ready to leave Real Madrid now despite his age.He has won so much for the club,and would want to hang his boot their.They now most of the times rely on him to score the goals in the team,and with the special treatment they are giving to him at Madrid,I don't think he want to go to any other place now.
Benzema is about 35 years,but he is still scoring goals on a daily basis,not every player can still be delivering up till this age,he is really a special player,and I wolud even like it if he extends his contract with Madrid.