⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions

[asriloni]

The European transfer window has closed. Like EPL, Serie A, La Liga, Bundesliga, Ligue 1 there is no longer a transfer market. But the Saudi Arabian League still seems to be until September 20. This seems to make up the transfer gap. But I don't understand, can the European players still leave? If this can be of course, there is still a lot of hope for players who play in the 5 competitions above. 

Source: https://www.goal.com/

I'm pretty sure it was ending this weekned no?

About that it seems they sent a bid for Salah for 250m €

Saudi Pro League summer transfer window will close in September 7, 2023. That was officially announced by the federation. FIFA transfer calendar isn't accurate apparently since it mentioned the end of the month as the time to close everything.
For Salah, it will be a fair movement for him (salary) and Al-Ittihad (good player) but definitely a very bad thing for Liverpool since they will lose a main player and they cannot ask anymore someone else to join them. Klopp called this unfair and asked FIFA to align every competition with the european one

I remember someone posted 7 september as the deadline for SPL but it surprises me to see that he was posting the different date. That makes me quite confusing which calender that shall be trusted. It's crazy if saudi club will have more than 2 weeks more in pursuing the new players. I would like to see the final decision by FSG for salah. Liverpool can get a lot of money from selling him. As far as i know that if liverpool is now putting sane from bayern as a target to replace him.
This can be done in january which is still very long. The club must have played without salah if he will be leaving from the club soon. FSG is likely selling him to the saudi club.
That offers will not come twice. There's no good offer that has ever came for liverpool other than it. Selling salah is best move for liverpool.

[GiftedMAN]

As long as the Saudi transfer market is still in,then there is hope for players that are looking forward to leaving their clubs this season.Yes,as despite the fact that Europe's transfer is over,and the Saudi transfer is till on,players can still migrate from this part of the world to that part,but players can't come from that part to this part of the world anymore because transfer window have closed here,and it is still open there.There are lots of players in England that were scouted by Saudi teams,and if the window is till open,there might still be room for them to get a transfer to another league.

Saudi will make another bid for Salah before the end of their transfer season. I do not think it will still be accepted because Liverpool need Salah and know how important he is to their plans this season, especially now that they have just started. The Saudi's see Salah as priority and I believe they will continue to try until maybe the deal becomes successful. If not now, in the future. Henderson who just left Liverpool to Saudi said he did not really leave because of money, but because Liverpool did not want him to stay, I do not believe that BS.

https://theathletic.com/4831793/2023/09/05/jordan-henderson-interview-saudi/

Mo Salah and Liverpool will have to come to agreement whether the player will leave or stay but for the bid for Salah I think the next and final one should be before Saudi transfer closure which is before the weekend but I think the amount they are going to offer to Liverpool will determine if they will let the player stay considering what they plan to achieve this season since they were unable to qualify for champions League last season.

Every player who left the European club to Saudi Arabia league didn't leave for money I believe that has been the statement of most players but looking out the amount the league is splashing to attract more big names from big clubs, I think most of the players who have actually left their club to join Saudi Arabian teams especially at younger age left for money including Henderson.

[Leviathan.007]

The amount of money Barcelona spent in this transfer window is unbelievable because they just spent 3.4 million euros for the players they bought and this summer they hired players like João Cancelo and İlkay Gündoğan while Barcelona didn't spend anything and just for hiring Oriol Romeu from Girona they spent 3.4m which is amazing while Real Madrid spent 130 million euro.

[X-ray]

The amount of money Barcelona spent in this transfer window is unbelievable because they just spent 3.4 million euros for the players they bought and this summer they hired players like João Cancelo and İlkay Gündoğan while Barcelona didn't spend anything and just for hiring Oriol Romeu from Girona they spent 3.4m which is amazing while Real Madrid spent 130 million euro.

How can barcelona spend a lot of money if the club is still in the financial crisis? Even la liga has been banning barcelona by registering the new player last season. Real madrid has been investing in the future through buying bellingham and it's paid off caused by bellingham performs so crazily with madrid.
Barcelona is able spending small amounts of money caused by the club was always targeting free agent player. Gundogan was leaving from manchester city as a free agent. That makes barcelona was able signing him with cheap price without even needed to pay the transfer fee.
I would not be surprised that if barcelona spend small amounts of money caused by its an obligation for the club in spending its money efficiently due to the FFP rules. La liga would not give permission for barcelona to buy a player with expensive price.

Barcelona needs to decrease the club's salary cap as well. Barcelona sold some players too. That's the reason barcelona spent small amounts of money this season.

[marcous]

The European transfer window has closed. Like EPL, Serie A, La Liga, Bundesliga, Ligue 1 there is no longer a transfer market. But the Saudi Arabian League still seems to be until September 20. This seems to make up the transfer gap. But I don't understand, can the European players still leave? If this can be of course, there is still a lot of hope for players who play in the 5 competitions above. 

Source: https://www.goal.com/

Yes, European club sides or lets call it every team can still sell to the Saudi league clubsides if they want to do so; as the Saudi League market is ongoing; the downside is that anyone in Europe (transfer market is off) who sells their talisman players to the Saudi clubs will be unable to get a replacement until the winter transfer market.

So the question is, will European club sides sell their stars for huge bucks without replacement ?

It is difficult for clubs to release players with such imbalances in transfer rules, maybe it will be UEFA task to make new regulations or update existing regulations. However, if the club and player have reached an agreement, this process can be carried out because there are no restrictions. I think this moment will be used by Clubs from the SPL, to sign players from Europe until their transfer deadline ends on September 20.

[Coyster]

The amount of money Barcelona spent in this transfer window is unbelievable because they just spent 3.4 million euros for the players they bought and this summer they hired players like João Cancelo and İlkay Gündoğan while Barcelona didn't spend anything and just for hiring Oriol Romeu from Girona they spent 3.4m which is amazing while Real Madrid spent 130 million euro.

Barcelona are in a financial crisis, thus it is normal that they limit their spending as much as they can, right now you cannot compare Real Madrid and Barcelona in terms of finances, Real Madrid obviously have more money to spend. Barcelona had to get players on loan (Joao Cancelo and Joao Felix) and free transfer (Ilkay Gundogan) this season, and only spent next to nothing to sign Oriol Romeu. Despite all these, i think Barcelona has a strong squad that can at least compete and prolly win the Spanish Laliga again, but they definitely stand no chance in the CL.

[harapan]

The amount of money Barcelona spent in this transfer window is unbelievable because they just spent 3.4 million euros for the players they bought and this summer they hired players like João Cancelo and İlkay Gündoğan while Barcelona didn't spend anything and just for hiring Oriol Romeu from Girona they spent 3.4m which is amazing while Real Madrid spent 130 million euro.

Over the years gone, spending extravagantly was was they do not that alone, getting players who didn't deserve to play for the club for long term. Players like Coutinho, Malcom and Nelson Semedo.

With recent improvement they will do better with management for they have been bad also when it comes to handling the cases of financial worries.
Gundogan, Cancelo and Felix are players I am satisfied to say can fight for the club, Oriol Romeu, he will have to persuade me with his performance to do that!

[alegotardo]

The amount of money Barcelona spent in this transfer window is unbelievable because they just spent 3.4 million euros for the players they bought and this summer they hired players like João Cancelo and İlkay Gündoğan while Barcelona didn't spend anything and just for hiring Oriol Romeu from Girona they spent 3.4m which is amazing while Real Madrid spent 130 million euro.

But that's nothing new when we talk about Barcelona... I remember very well that last year it was the same thing and there was the aggravating factor that they were having great financial difficulties... even so, Barcelona was the club that spent the most on signings in the first month of the opening of the transfer window in Europe in 2022. Right from the start, they had hired six reinforcements for the absurd amount of 153 million euros... 58 million in Raphinha, 45 million in Lewandowski and 50 million in Koundé.

So... I won't be surprised if Barcelona continue to make these bad investments now and again in 2024.

[Despairo]

After reading the post by Despiaro, I laughed out loud. And I was like, is this actually coming from a footballer?
Anyone suggesting that Bruno Fernandes and Marcus rashford should be benched is not planning well for Manchester United. How on earth will any coach bemch Bruno Fernandes for Mount?
And why will you bench at Rashford in Manchester United attack? The story is not clear and I did not believe that whosoever that made that suggestion did it in clear eyes. Either he wants the downfall of Manchester United or he doesn't know about football.

Have you watch Manchester United's matches? I hope you're not only watch the highlight and check the statistic only.

Both of Bruno and Rashford are obviously have a great skills, but they're bad in team plays, it's not a matter if they're Messi who can dribbling against many players and have a good shooting skill. But their skills aren't even close to Messi, so their selfishness are bigger than their skills.

Mount's primary position in attacking midfielder and he was very good in Chelsea in this position.

Manchester United only have two choices, either risking to replace both of them with new players in order to achieve more or "stuck in their comfort zone".

[legendbtc]

Coach Xavi has agreed to extend his contract with Barcelona until 2026 when the current contract only has 1 year left. Xavi helped Barca win La Liga last season. Xavi and his students also started strongly this season, winning 3 and drawing 1 in La Liga. The fact that he helps Barcelona prepare mentally well when the former star Messi leaves and that he manages the team well despite Barcelona's financial situation is a big plus. Now, I appreciate Barcelona this season. Xavi did very well. There is no reason to prevent the club from extending his contract.

[borovichok]

Barcelona are in a financial crisis, thus it is normal that they limit their spending as much as they can, right now you cannot compare Real Madrid and Barcelona in terms of finances, Real Madrid obviously have more money to spend. Barcelona had to get players on loan (Joao Cancelo and Joao Felix) and free transfer (Ilkay Gundogan) this season, and only spent next to nothing to sign Oriol Romeu. Despite all these, i think Barcelona has a strong squad that can at least compete and prolly win the Spanish Laliga again, but they definitely stand no chance in the CL.

The bluagrana keeps having challenges when it comes to transfers and finances. It's terribly watching how Barcelona decline to this stage. Additionally, the board are not helping matters, signing numerous players in every transfer window and no solid results to show for them. Barcelona is favorite to win La Liga this current season but with their previous performances in league games, it all portrayed the statistical match data, proving they will find it really difficult to lay their hands on the crown again this season. Los Blancos are leading in the race with ranking first on the league table after recording streak winnings in league games.

[Strongkored]

The amount of money Barcelona spent in this transfer window is unbelievable because they just spent 3.4 million euros for the players they bought and this summer they hired players like João Cancelo and İlkay Gündoğan while Barcelona didn't spend anything and just for hiring Oriol Romeu from Girona they spent 3.4m which is amazing while Real Madrid spent 130 million euro.

Barcelona certainly wants to buy more players with good performance if they are financially capable and get permission from the Laliga authorities, unfortunately, Barcelona is a club that is under the supervision of Laliga. All their movements in the transfer market are monitored and must go through permission, Lionel Messi certainly won't go there. MLS, but Barcelona must balance their expenses with the income they receive until they are considered to be in a stable condition.
Barcelona was lucky to get İlkay Gündoğan on a free transfer and Joao Cancelo on loan because Cancelo is one of the players Barcelona has been targeting for quite some time to strengthen their defense., and made a profit by selling Ousmane Dembélé to PSG.
If they consistently follow the direction of the authorities we will soon see them buying more players, and actually what Barca is doing at the moment can be said to be a smart move at least still getting players with good enough quality without having to spend big money.

[len01]

Coach Xavi has agreed to extend his contract with Barcelona until 2026 when the current contract only has 1 year left. Xavi helped Barca win La Liga last season. Xavi and his students also started strongly this season, winning 3 and drawing 1 in La Liga. The fact that he helps Barcelona prepare mentally well when the former star Messi leaves and that he manages the team well despite Barcelona's financial situation is a big plus. Now, I appreciate Barcelona this season. Xavi did very well. There is no reason to prevent the club from extending his contract.

all I can know right now is that Xavi is like family to Barcelona, I mean Xavi has a strong desire to build Barcelona to always improve its performance every season to secure the title in the next few seasons and financial problems and without star players this is just Xavi challenger to have a way to build a team and if they can win the title to stay in La Liga, this is like source of pride for Xavi who has succeeded in bringing Barcelona to top of the standings every season. so it is very natural that Xavi wants to extend his contract for the next few seasons with very clear goal

[makishart]

There are still some news around like Al-Ittihad will go for one last try to sign Mohamed Salah while there are 2 days left for the window to close for them. However this will just not happen. Their attempts are in vain. No matter they offer 200 million pounds or more Liverpool's answer will be the same.

Ittihad has already increased its offer again from 200 millions to the 215 millions. It's likely salah will be sold to the al ittihad. The final decision was on FSG as owned of club. Klopp doesn't even feel interested in selling him to the ittihad but FSG may do U turn for this transfer.
It's caused by ittihad has been offering huge amounts of money for liverpool. I remember that if FSG was interesting to sell liverpool. This can also give benefit for him to receive a lot of money before selling liverpool.

One thing they don't understand is that Liverpool can't fill his place even if they say okay to them. This wasn't among his plans so they weren't prepared. They just want to keep Salah for one last season at least and then they would probably let him go if he also wants.

There will be no another salah but we can't dictate the owner of liverpool. Even though if klopp strongly rejected it and he has no power to dictate FSG as the owner of club. Salah has contributed a lot for liverpool since he was coming to the club.

But now if they sell him they will be much weaker this season which would affect their performance very negatively.

Agreed, that's why klopp strong said no for selling salah to the saudi club this season. The transfer season already ended, but ittihad is still trying to get him asap.

[Hirose UK]

There are still some news around like Al-Ittihad will go for one last try to sign Mohamed Salah while there are 2 days left for the window to close for them. However this will just not happen. Their attempts are in vain. No matter they offer 200 million pounds or more Liverpool's answer will be the same.

Ittihad has already increased its offer again from 200 millions to the 215 millions. It's likely salah will be sold to the al ittihad. The final decision was on FSG as owned of club. Klopp doesn't even feel interested in selling him to the ittihad but FSG may do U turn for this transfer.
It's caused by ittihad has been offering huge amounts of money for liverpool. I remember that if FSG was interesting to sell liverpool. This can also give benefit for him to receive a lot of money before selling liverpool.

Ittihad really wants Mohamed Salah by making a second offer to buy him from Liverpool but this is indeed an opportunity to make a large amount of money but on the other hand selling Mohamed Salah could have a bad impact on Liverpool losing strength in the front position because he has been key to Liverpool success in every single game in existence.
Whatever the final decision there are still advantages and disadvantages for Liverpool regarding the sale of Mohamed Salah.

One thing they don't understand is that Liverpool can't fill his place even if they say okay to them. This wasn't among his plans so they weren't prepared. They just want to keep Salah for one last season at least and then they would probably let him go if he also wants.

There will be no another salah but we can't dictate the owner of liverpool. Even though if klopp strongly rejected it and he has no power to dictate FSG as the owner of club. Salah has contributed a lot for liverpool since he was coming to the club.

FSG has full rights for every decision that will be made regarding all Liverpool players but Klopp as coach also has the right to have the power to make decisions even though not all coach decisions will be accepted by team management including the owner.
If you look back at Salah history with Liverpool it would be a shame to sell him because there are so many Liverpool accomplishments and accomplishments that were helped by Salah as one of the core players.

[asriloni]

Another surprise is coming from manchester city. The impressive performance from ferguson has been attracting manchester city to come and chase him as a partner for haaland. Manchester city sees him as one of the potential striker.

Manchester City are one of a number of clubs apparently tracking Brighton and Hove Albion striker Evan Ferguson.

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/man-city-evan-ferguson-transfer-27659760

My guess if city will try to pursue him during the summer transfer season. Brighton has a very good scout and recruitment team. I never expect after the club was losing some players, but brighton is able coming with another potential name easily.
I never think this is happening with brighton but i would like to call this club as english version of dortmund. This club has sold so many young talented players, but it keeps coming with the new name that has better performance.

It's crazy to see that how brighton is growing up through recruiting unfamiliar name to play on its club. A big surprise if de zerbi agreed to coach this club since last season.

[GbitG]

Coach Xavi has agreed to extend his contract with Barcelona until 2026 when the current contract only has 1 year left. Xavi helped Barca win La Liga last season. Xavi and his students also started strongly this season, winning 3 and drawing 1 in La Liga. The fact that he helps Barcelona prepare mentally well when the former star Messi leaves and that he manages the team well despite Barcelona's financial situation is a big plus. Now, I appreciate Barcelona this season. Xavi did very well. There is no reason to prevent the club from extending his contract.

Cool, This is good news for Barcelona, as Xavi Hernandez has extended his contract until July 30, 2026. Under the management of Xavi, Barcelona has made so much improvement in game tactics that they have also increased their victory ratio. If we look at the current Barcelona squads, there is no perfect player in the perfect place. Besides these players, there are Lawandoski, De Jong, Perdri, and Gavi. Despite the lack of players, Xavi has managed to perform well in previous seasons. Although to win a match, a club needs the perfect player to perform well at the perfect time, which Barcelona didn't have last season, But now it is hoped that the new player can bring some changes that make it easy for the coach to manage him well.
As well, I show the previous status of Xavi at Barcelona after the lack of well-known players.
Under the management of Xavi, Barcelona have won 35 matches in 53 appearances, drawn seven, and lost only 11. I hope this season they make some changes, especially in European competition. 

[ancafe]

logically it might win Sergio Ramos wants a big salary from Sevilla but if you look at his old age, of course his performance will not be as strong as before when he was young and of course the quality of playing will also have an effect here so if Sergio agrees with an offer from Sevilla I am sure that Sergio will accept salary regardless of the amount rather than a large salary but have to go to saudi arabia.

one hand, we all know that Ramos not want to leave Europe and continues his career here until he finally decides to retire.

Local media have confirmed Sergio Ramos' salary at Sevilla and this is very different from the salary offers given by Al Ittihad and Galatasaray for Sergio Ramos, playing at Sevilla makes his salary 10 times lower than the offers made by several other clubs. But in the end he chose to return to the club that had made his name before moving to Real Madrid. This shows Ramos' dedication to his boyhood club and despite his meager salary he still decided to play one year for Sevilla.

In terms of retirement I'm not sure he will end his career at Seville and maybe next season he will be decisive. It could be that he still wants to play in Europe for one more season and the following season he will decide to play in the Saudi Pro Legue or MLS, because if you see his age he still has the potential to play outside the European league as several other players have done.

[bering]

Another surprise is coming from manchester city. The impressive performance from ferguson has been attracting manchester city to come and chase him as a partner for haaland. Manchester city sees him as one of the potential striker.

Manchester City are one of a number of clubs apparently tracking Brighton and Hove Albion striker Evan Ferguson.

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/man-city-evan-ferguson-transfer-27659760

My guess if city will try to pursue him during the summer transfer season. Brighton has a very good scout and recruitment team. I never expect after the club was losing some players, but brighton is able coming with another potential name easily.
I never think this is happening with brighton but i would like to call this club as english version of dortmund. This club has sold so many young talented players, but it keeps coming with the new name that has better performance.

It's crazy to see that how brighton is growing up through recruiting unfamiliar name to play on its club. A big surprise if de zerbi agreed to coach this club since last season.

Most of premier league fans currently are pay attention to him especially after he made a hattrick when Brighton beat Newcastle last week and he is still 18 years old so Evan Ferguson can be recognized as one of potential young player in premier league but i don't think Manchester City will be in rush to gets him and probably Evan Ferguson will be into their watchlist but if until winter transfer window oppened Ferguson still able to performing well probably Manchester City will really considering to bought him

And indeed Brighton seems never runs out of talented players and they seem to know how to make mediocre player into a great player and sell them into expensive price and this summer i am sure Brighton have already to make a good profit from the sell of Moisés Caicedo, Alexis Mac Allister, and Robert Sánchez

[borovichok]

Barcelona's just beginning youngster and jersey number 10 representative has parted ways with the club to join the English side. Xavi Hernandez expects him to develop with his new club with the goal to return and contribute positively to the blaugrana. Ansu Fati is currently at Amex Stadium, where he was revealed this summer as Brighton's new player. Roberto De Zerbi will make substantial use of the new player who is in England accumulating advantageous proficiency. Perhaps it's made public that Ansu Fati will wear the jersey number 31 in his first season with the seagulls.