⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions

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this is not only about the top European players but about the existence of the club

True. The Saudi teams are competing themselves to stay in the first places in all competitions obviously but also they have larger goals to achieve.
First they did indirectly heavy advertisement to their league, attracting the attention of everyone and surely more viewers, more TV ads, more shirts to sell, more copyrights to sell, so they are spending funds but also collecting crazy money.
Second, Saudi Arabia want to host World Cup and having a good league + a bunch of international and famous players to support it, will make their candidature stronger.
Neymar is one of the last players to confirm joining Al-Hilal, but surely others will follow in order to make the ambition of officials in Saudi Arabia true.

Those guys are just rich on the low, they don't make too much noise but deep down, they have wealth than what people can this of them. Yesterday, a fan was gifting Firmino a rolex gift for playing above his expection, man scored hattrick in the match against Al-Hazm and that was how he earned that respect, there is money in Saudi Arabia, only a matter of time you will see more players troop into and the way Ronaldo announce of not going back to Europe anytime soon; if he decide to stay in Saudi Arabia, other players will stayed and, more of them will come to Saudi Arabia and Fifa doesn't have a choice than to collaborate with them.

My challenge with Saudi Arabia league is the use of English to understand matches, I don't enjoy watching it because of the nonspeaking language and they are not too familiar or friendly with the Europeans. Laliga is even better because they can higher the commentator but I doubt if Saudi Arabia will humble anyone.

[Sakanwa]

Which league in the world pays players for taking pictures that promote the club?? Their deals are mind blowing.

And there is no tax yet for these players, makes everything even more attractive. Even Mo' Salah from Chelsea is now tempted.
Liverpool star gives ‘green light’ for Saudi Pro League move

Since Kevin De Bruyne is now confirmed to be out for more than a month, Manchester City will make sure that they are able to sign Lucas Paqueta from West Ham. Manchester City also have interest in Jeremy Doku from  Rennes' in Ligue 1.
Man City close in on Paqueta and Doku transfers

I believe Manchester City usually gets any player that they want, so it is time, and these deals will be completed.

KDB's injury will surely have significant effect on the Manchester city's squad because he is one of their most valuable player if not their most valuable player.Staying consistent and injury free this season is something I see that is very vital to retaining theTittle,but I doubt if that will happen this season especially now that Debruyne is out injured.They have been very good all this while,but I just believe it is Arsenal or Newcastle's season to win the league,among those two teams,I see one of them lifting the English premier league trophy this season.Arsenal tried their possible best last season,but injury destroyed their tittle hope,now Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta have recruited some players that can energise the current squad,and I think with the acquisitions made,they can definitely compete for the tittle,and maybe win it,an example was the Community Shield that they won from City,showing that they are ready to snatch the tittle from them.Goodluck Gunners.

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Since Kevin De Bruyne is now confirmed to be out for more than a month, Manchester City will make sure that they are able to sign Lucas Paqueta from West Ham. Manchester City also have interest in Jeremy Doku from  Rennes' in Ligue 1.
Man City close in on Paqueta and Doku transfers

I believe Manchester City usually gets any player that they want, so it is time, and these deals will be completed.

Yeah... after Kevin de Bruyne's injury, which is expected to be sidelined for the first few months of the season, signing Paquetá is a top priority for the Citizens. They have already confirmed that the initial proposal of 70 million pounds should be increased to meet West Ham's wishes and facilitate the transfer of the player as soon as possible.
If it depends on Paquetá, the contract would already be signed, as the player himself has already confirmed that he wants to move to the Ettihad Stadium.

I started talking about Kevin de Bruyne who is injured, but Manchester City's objective in hiring Paquetá is for him to replace Riyad Mahrez who went to Saudi Arabia. The initial objective was to hire Michael Olise, from Crystal Palace, but the athlete must sign with Chelsea.... I believe that Manchester City will not lose anything with Paquetá

[Oluwa-btc]

Chelsea are said to be close to agreeing a deal with Romeo Lavia. I wasn't expecting to see them going for him as well after signing Caicedo by spending a lot of money like 115 million pounds. I don't know whether they need another defensive midfielder right now. Because they already have many options in this position.

I would like to see Lavia going to Liverpool instead honestly. Because if he also joins Chelsea I have big doubts that he would have so many chances in the starting eleven while there are too many alternatives. But if he goes to Liverpool his chance will be much higher.

So fast you know? Nkw Chelsea has some good midfielder's who already has experience and what it takes to play in the Premier League.
A combination of Lavia, Enzo Fernandez and Caicedo would be definitely perfect. I do hope they these players blend in and get a quick chemistry.
Liverpool has been big losers in the Premier League transfer window, Couldn't believe they let go of Caicedo, Jude Bellingham and now Lavia. I must say they've really messed up.

Liverpool are disrespectful, They should have gone for the players when they have the chance but they're really really sick.

[asriloni]

Chelsea are said to be close to agreeing a deal with Romeo Lavia. I wasn't expecting to see them going for him as well after signing Caicedo by spending a lot of money like 115 million pounds. I don't know whether they need another defensive midfielder right now. Because they already have many options in this position.

I would like to see Lavia going to Liverpool instead honestly. Because if he also joins Chelsea I have big doubts that he would have so many chances in the starting eleven while there are too many alternatives. But if he goes to Liverpool his chance will be much higher.

It will not happen, dude. Lavia will be going to the chelsea and it has been confirmed by romano if the agreement already reached to the final decision between chelsea and him.

https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1691545075619082240

Chelsea has completed his transfer, and the club is now trying to pursue olise as the next target to be recruited by the club. Liverpool needs to give up in the competition against chelsea to get the best player. Most of the people were interesting in joining chelsea instead of liverpool.
Chelsea is seriously starting to build the squad again, slowly but surely. Caicedo, Lavia, Olise as per this announcement.

BREAKING: Chelsea are understood to have activated Crystal Palace forward Michael Olise's release clause, thought to be £35m.

https://twitter.com/SkySportsPL/status/1691470285663297536

More to come soon. Many liverpool fans are feeling so desperate to see that. They can't accept that if chelsea was winning 2-0 against chelsea in caicedo and lavia. Olise gonna be the next recruitment and most probably he said yes to join in chelsea.

[SatoPrincess]

Neymar is officially joining Al-Hilal finally. I think he has taken the best path for himself now. Because he didn't have a good relationship with PSG lately and it was time to leave for Neymar. As he has been getting injured quite often he hasn't been a big use for PSG in the recent times either.

Neymar is quite young to move to a less competitive league right now, but it is what it is! The relationship between PSG and Neymar broke down a long time ago, and the club have just been waiting for the best offer to sell him. I'm pretty sure Neymar wanted to stay in Europe, but it is difficult to find a team than can pay his salaries/wages, and also pay a good fee to PSG for signing him. The Saudi's have come with such wealth/money, and they make transfers like this look so easy, thus in the end PSG got a very good fee and neymar's salaries/wages is just absolutely ridiculous, so win-win for all parties, though i know Neymar wouldn't be completely happy, it wasn't supposed to end like this.

I wouldn’t rate the Saudi pro league as a less competitive league anymore because of the quality of players that are now playing in the league. With the current inflow of experienced and good players Neymar is likely to enjoy his time in Saudi Arabia for the next two seasons. I always knew Neymar will like the idea of joining Saudi league for a good price.

[makishart]

Neymar is officially joining Al-Hilal finally. I think he has taken the best path for himself now. Because he didn't have a good relationship with PSG lately and it was time to leave for Neymar. As he has been getting injured quite often he hasn't been a big use for PSG in the recent times either.

Neymar is quite young to move to a less competitive league right now, but it is what it is! The relationship between PSG and Neymar broke down a long time ago, and the club have just been waiting for the best offer to sell him. I'm pretty sure Neymar wanted to stay in Europe, but it is difficult to find a team than can pay his salaries/wages, and also pay a good fee to PSG for signing him. The Saudi's have come with such wealth/money, and they make transfers like this look so easy, thus in the end PSG got a very good fee and neymar's salaries/wages is just absolutely ridiculous, so win-win for all parties, though i know Neymar wouldn't be completely happy, it wasn't supposed to end like this.

I wouldn’t rate the Saudi pro league as a less competitive league anymore because of the quality of players that are now playing in the league. With the current inflow of experienced and good players Neymar is likely to enjoy his time in Saudi Arabia for the next two seasons. I always knew Neymar will like the idea of joining Saudi league for a good price.

It needs time for SPL to compete with european league. Im sure that this gonna happen in the future. Even though SPL is not in the top 10 league for now but i think that SPL has been committing in makin the league to be even better. The only problem if the clubs were doing aggresive transfer was only coming from clubs already owned by PIF. The regular clubs in the league were not able to buy as many european players as possible in pushing the position of the league and make it become even more popular. I saw that how european transfers have been affecting the popularity of the SPL.The big club in SPL can still be beaten by regular clubs that played without european players.
This league is not an underrated league but 4 teams may probably dominate the league caused by unlimited money that owned by its founder. The development in the SPL becomes even more interesting.
I wonder how regular club that was not having european can compete with 4 clubs that owned by PIF.

[SatoPrincess]

Bayern Munich is looking for a goalkeeper to replace Manuel Neuer after the German suffered a serious injury that will have a significant influence on the side of the defense. The Bavarians included two goalkeepers on their radar, with the board keeping a close check on them for the purpose to get things right this time, pushing to sign good goalkeepers like Manuel Neuer. David de Gea and David Raya are both on the pending lists; it will be interesting to watch who takes the places before the transfer window ends. Perhaps David de Gea is the favorite because Arsenal is attempting to recruit David Raya from Brentford, although the bid has yet to be confirmed.

David Raya is no longer on Bayern’s radar as it has been announced today that Raya has joined Arsenal on a season long loan with options to buy permanently at the end of the loan term. Kepa has also joined Real Madrid on a season loan deal too which leaves Bayern Munich with David de Gea and Bounou as possible options for the season. Perhaps before the end of the window Bayern Munich will be sure if their options in this position.

Tchouaméni, the French defender in Real Madrid linked to many teams like Manchester United and Liverpool in this transfer window and they were close to hiring this player from Real Madrid, one of these teams was Liverpool because Klopp tried to hire Tchouaméni and have this player in the next season but Tchouaméni is under contract with Real Madrid until 2028 and he is the player the need him for the next season, that's why Real Madrid clearly said Tchouaméni is not for sell and they will not accept offers for this French player.

Real Madrid considers Tchouaméni a crucial player for the club this season despite making a few signings that seem to be threatening his chances of getting much game time season but the club have open declared he is not for sale. Liverpool will have to run for other options because Tchouaméni is on a long running contract with Madrid and that doesn’t look it’s going to change anytime soon.

[Zlantann]

So fast you know? Nkw Chelsea has some good midfielder's who already has experience and what it takes to play in the Premier League.
A combination of Lavia, Enzo Fernandez and Caicedo would be definitely perfect. I do hope they these players blend in and get a quick chemistry.
Liverpool has been big losers in the Premier League transfer window, Couldn't believe they let go of Caicedo, Jude Bellingham and now Lavia. I must say they've really messed up.

Liverpool are disrespectful, They should have gone for the players when they have the chance but they're really really sick.

The case of Romeo Lavia and Moises Caicedo is that of personal love or preference for Chelsea. Liverpool was willing to pay as much as Chelsea but these players want to move to Chelsea. This was what happened to Barca last two seasons ago when players such as Raphinha rejected better offers from some clubs because they preferred to play for Barcelona.

I wouldn’t rate the Saudi pro league as a less competitive league anymore because of the quality of players that are now playing in the league. With the current inflow of experienced and good players Neymar is likely to enjoy his time in Saudi Arabia for the next two seasons. I always knew Neymar will like the idea of joining Saudi league for a good price.

Currently, the Saudi Professional League is more competitive than some European leagues (I am not referring to the major league). Some leagues in Europe cannot boast of the quality of players and the media coverage the SPL has. The Arab Club Champions Cup finals between Al Nassr and Al Hilal opened my understanding to the fact that in a few years, the SPL might compete with some major leagues in Europe. They game was eventful from the beginning to the end. If the league can attract more players and breed some young talents, with the right league administration it will excel.

[QueenVera]

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It's suprising that Ronaldo and Messi at their age are still trying to break more records with there present teams Messi has score 7 goals for Inter Miami and would need about 27 goals to become the all time score of the club thereby toping Higuaín, while Ronaldo at Al-Nassr has scored 17 goals and would need about a 109 goals to top Mohammad Al- Alshalawi and become tge all time scorer for Al-Nassr.
 I think it would be very easier for Messi than Ronaldo because he's much younger and could still play for 2 or 3 more seasons for Inter Miami making it very possible and easy to score about 27 or more before he finally retires for playing, but Ronaldo is older and getting 109 goals he has to score about 40 goals or more in a season and due to his age i don't think he could get up  to such amount of goals or play for 3 more seasons at Al-Nassr, however despite his age he still looks very fit and his feet still delivers strong shot even though he doesn't get up to 100 goals i believe he could attempt getting about 50 goals or more for Al-Nassr before he resigns from football.

[Captain Corporate]

Waaaay too many people are going to Saudi league than I expected. I understand that Saudi league started to think themselves as a great big league that can possibly rival top 5 soon enough. However, we need to sit down and have a talk about how much they are spending and if they will keep on spending this much. If they think that they can keep on spending this much on players every year, then I am pretty sure that they can fight for a top 5 spot. Not easy, there are a lot of great leagues, and I believe la liga and premier league will be untouchable, serie A seems doing fine and Bundesliga looks decent too, only one that doesn't do well is Ligue 1 but then eredevise passes them too. So it will be hard, but with Neymar there, they are proving that they mean business.

[W Jr.]

Waaaay too many people are going to Saudi league than I expected. I understand that Saudi league started to think themselves as a great big league that can possibly rival top 5 soon enough. However, we need to sit down and have a talk about how much they are spending and if they will keep on spending this much. If they think that they can keep on spending this much on players every year, then I am pretty sure that they can fight for a top 5 spot. Not easy, there are a lot of great leagues, and I believe la liga and premier league will be untouchable, serie A seems doing fine and Bundesliga looks decent too, only one that doesn't do well is Ligue 1 but then eredevise passes them too. So it will be hard, but with Neymar there, they are proving that they mean business.

It's not just about Neymar, either. If we look at the money spent, more than many countries, they are now the country that spends the most money in the world. This has actually been happening for a few years, but it has reached these levels after Cristiano Ronaldo. In a few years, Saudi Arabia will make a name for itself as the country of football.

[ancafe]

Chelsea are said to be close to agreeing a deal with Romeo Lavia. I wasn't expecting to see them going for him as well after signing Caicedo by spending a lot of money like 115 million pounds. I don't know whether they need another defensive midfielder right now. Because they already have many options in this position.

I would like to see Lavia going to Liverpool instead honestly. Because if he also joins Chelsea I have big doubts that he would have so many chances in the starting eleven while there are too many alternatives. But if he goes to Liverpool his chance will be much higher.

Chelsea have spent a lot of money in two transfer markets and bringing Caicedo at a fairly fantastic price has not made Chelsea stop looking for other players, now they are approaching Romeo Lavia as the next target and actually they already have several players in that position. Maybe according to Mauricio Pochettino the defensive midfielder they have today is not strong enough to help the team so they want to have a new midfielder as complementing the team.

The Blues' performance is still not so improved even though they have bought several players so expensive, it was proven when they faced Liverpool in the inaugural match in the English League and they were only able to draw. If in the end Romeo Lavia went to Chelsea it might have gone through a long consideration, so he decided to go to Chelsea compared to Liverpool.

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It's suprising that Ronaldo and Messi at their age are still trying to break more records with there present teams Messi has score 7 goals for Inter Miami and would need about 27 goals to become the all time score of the club thereby toping Higuaín, while Ronaldo at Al-Nassr has scored 17 goals and would need about a 109 goals to top Mohammad Al- Alshalawi and become tge all time scorer for Al-Nassr.
 I think it would be very easier for Messi than Ronaldo because he's much younger and could still play for 2 or 3 more seasons for Inter Miami making it very possible and easy to score about 27 or more before he finally retires for playing, but Ronaldo is older and getting 109 goals he has to score about 40 goals or more in a season and due to his age i don't think he could get up  to such amount of goals or play for 3 more seasons at Al-Nassr, however despite his age he still looks very fit and his feet still delivers strong shot even though he doesn't get up to 100 goals i believe he could attempt getting about 50 goals or more for Al-Nassr before he resigns from football.

Messi can break this record this season alone. Inter Miami is a new team that was founded only 5 years ago. So there are a lot of records to break for Messi easily.
On the other hand Ronaldo can't be top goalscorer, that's just unrealistic target, nor he would have any interest breaking that record.

[makishart]

Waaaay too many people are going to Saudi league than I expected. I understand that Saudi league started to think themselves as a great big league that can possibly rival top 5 soon enough. However, we need to sit down and have a talk about how much they are spending and if they will keep on spending this much. If they think that they can keep on spending this much on players every year, then I am pretty sure that they can fight for a top 5 spot. Not easy, there are a lot of great leagues, and I believe la liga and premier league will be untouchable, serie A seems doing fine and Bundesliga looks decent too, only one that doesn't do well is Ligue 1 but then eredevise passes them too. So it will be hard, but with Neymar there, they are proving that they mean business.

It's not just about Neymar, either. If we look at the money spent, more than many countries, they are now the country that spends the most money in the world. This has actually been happening for a few years, but it has reached these levels after Cristiano Ronaldo. In a few years, Saudi Arabia will make a name for itself as the country of football.

The main concern that needs to be discussed is the level of competitiveness that the Saudi Pro League is going to have in the coming days. I meant the power of club centralized into the 4 clubs which have been owned by PIF. I wanna say if the competition will be far less competitive caused by there will be a huge gap between ordinary clubs in the league compared with 4 clubs owned by PIF. Al hilal signed neymar while the rests are still working to sign more and more players. A good competition is when so many clubs were standing in the same level.
It will be creating most competitive league. I predict that if 4 clubs owned by PIF gonna be dominating the competition. that's pretty much the same like a competition that owned by the creator of competition itself.
The clubs that didn't owned by PIF must be working in signing the new player as well to make the competition becomes competitive.

[borovichok]

Chelsea have spent a lot of money in two transfer markets and bringing Caicedo at a fairly fantastic price has not made Chelsea stop looking for other players, now they are approaching Romeo Lavia as the next target and actually they already have several players in that position. Maybe according to Mauricio Pochettino the defensive midfielder they have today is not strong enough to help the team so they want to have a new midfielder as complementing the team.

The Blues' performance is still not so improved even though they have bought several players so expensive, it was proven when they faced Liverpool in the inaugural match in the English League and they were only able to draw. If in the end Romeo Lavia went to Chelsea it might have gone through a long consideration, so he decided to go to Chelsea compared to Liverpool.

Chelsea vs. Liverpool was one of the more challenging games last weekend; I expected Liverpool to dominate and take advantage because Chelsea has new players who have yet to develop excellent chemistry, but the opposite proved true. Chelsea manager Mauricio Pochettino is improving things at Stamford Bridge, but managing such a young lineup is tougher. In terms of signing talented young players throughout the transfer window, Chelsea is the most influential bidder.  Boehly got everything rolling this summer, signing Moises Caicedo and going for Romeo Lavia, who also turned down a move to Liverpool. He's progressively conveying in greater talents to replace the primary players who have departed.

[Despairo]

Real Madrid considers Tchouaméni a crucial player for the club this season despite making a few signings that seem to be threatening his chances of getting much game time season but the club have open declared he is not for sale. Liverpool will have to run for other options because Tchouaméni is on a long running contract with Madrid and that doesn’t look it’s going to change anytime soon.

It's impossible for Real Madrid to sell Tchouameni, it's one of their investment, they will sell if Tchouameni's performance is already declining or he asking too many demands. Real Madrid rarely sell their player if the player is still great because they don't want to face their own player who know many internal stuff.

Liverpool need to lower their ego and choose mediocre player as they're currently lack of midfielder.

[tusandii]

Previously, Manchester United had reached a fee agreement with West Ham for the transfer of Harry Maguire. However, it seems that the transfer failed to start today because the player never made his decision to leave Manchester United. It looks like West Ham are annoyed enough with the wait they are putting in for Harry Maguire's transfer that they prefer to call it off. On the other hand, Manchester United seems to have no other choice but to allow Harry Maguire to stay at Manchester United. This also proves that Harry Maguire is very loyal to the red devils and he prefers to focus on improving his performance.

But this will actually be beneficial for West Ham because they don't have players who often make blunders. 
Now Maguire is staying at Manchester United because there he can still be played even though several times he has provided fatal losses or mistakes for Manchester United in every match.
If you say loyal, maybe because Maguire is really comfortable and feels that Manchester United has become the only club that has accepted him well, even though some players hate him a little because of the careless mistakes and stupidity he has done.

Hopefully Ten Hag can still guide Maguire to become a better player because he has made enough fatal mistakes.

[aylabadia05]

It looks like West Ham are annoyed enough with the wait they are putting in for Harry Maguire's transfer that they prefer to call it off. On the other hand, Manchester United seems to have no other choice but to allow Harry Maguire to stay at Manchester United.

I've told friends if West Ham gets Maguire, then Maguire will perform great there because at West Ham United he can play without the pressure experienced at Manchester United, at least he can play well like in the England national team squad.

This also proves that Harry Maguire is very loyal to the red devils and he prefers to focus on improving his performance.

Regardless of the loyalty factor for those who judge. For me, Maguire's decision to cancel the transfer to West Ham was a fatal mistake in maintaining his career. At Old Trafford you can be sure he will fill the bench.

[emrecemsan]

Monaco also have started to be interested in Folaring Balogun. He has been linked with Inter and Tottenham recently as well. You know Kane has left Tottenham and they are in search of a new centre-forward to fill his place. Balogun is one of the candidates for them. However his cost will be quite high for these teams.

Because it has been recorded that Arsenal want no less than 50 million pounds for him. But comparing this price to his talent I think it isn't that much of a big deal for any team interested. He was wonderful in the Ligue 1 with 20+ goals last season. Monaco are preparing an offer so Inter and Tottenham had better act fast if they want him.

Arsenal has solid intentions for their attacker, who frequently serves as a backup player for significant players in games. Tottenham and other clubs are competing for his cooperation, but only the team that meets the predetermined bids wins. Folarin Balogun is an essential project piece for Gunners, but he can still be used to produce more market bucks this season. This summer, Monaco is leading the race to sign an American. However, their initial proposal was rejected by Arsenal, and Monaco has made an improved offer for the Gunners' forward.

To tell the truth I would like to see Arsenal keeping him in the squad and giving him chances. But I don't know how often he can play now while there is Gabriel Jesus. In fact Gabriel Jesus is still injured and his return date might be no earlier than September. But it looks like Balogun has also picked up a foot injury so he won't be able to make use of this opportunity. I believe that Balogun has started to prove his skills very well by his performance in the previous season already.

He is definitely better than Nketiah. I would keep him and give him as many chances as possible if I were in their place.