⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions

[makishart]

While there was some news about Raul Gonzalez leaving Real Madrid for Villarreal but he again decided to stay in Real Madrid where they know him as a legend. Raul is working on Real Madrid B and he had offers before from some other teas but he rejected all offers. Now recently he had an offer from Villarreal and was close to joining the team, and he again decided to stay at Real Madrid. Villarreal fired their coach and they are looking to another coach to replace him in this season.

Raul is one of the legends of Real Madrid. The fact that he chose to stay at Real Madrid instead of taking a more prestigious position at Villareal is an important detail. On the other hand, I remember that Carlo Ancelotti's contract with Real Madrid will expire this season. This could be an opportunity for Raul, but there are other Real Madrid legends waiting for this job before Raul. Names like Zidane and Xabi Alonso are a few steps ahead of Raul in my opinion. However, if Raul waits long enough, he will surely get his chance one day.

Carlo Ancelotti will be out of contract with Real Madrid next season, so Raul Gonzalez may stay in charge of Real Madrid Castilla while waiting for another opportunity. Raul Gonzalez is a legend for Real Madrid and he is a very respectable person in Real Madrid so it is natural that Villareal will give him the respect he deserves but Raul Gonzalez rejected Villareal's offer.

There will be a lot of candidates to appear soon once ancellotti will be officially exit from the club. We are still far away from that moment. My predictions for some potential candidates are

- Zidane
- Xabi
- Raul

I don't see other strong candidates to become a successor for ancellotti after he will be joining as a brazillian national team coach. Those names are good enough in replacing ancellotti especially zidane.

If Raul Gonzalez is not appointed to the main team of Real Madrid next season, he may take charge of a new club, for now he will stay at Real Madrid waiting for an opportunity.

The future of raul is still unclear at this moment. Like Zidane, he is a complex individual with many layers of his personality. It's so hard to know what he wants.

[rendravolt]

Madrid probably won't use Raul Gonzalez to coach their first team. there are many names that might become his rivals. for a better coaching career, I think Raul Gonzalez can accept the offer from Villarreal and prove the quality he has.
This could also be proof that Madrid can consider it in the future. not a betrayal, nor is it considered loyalty to the club. This is good for the development of his coaching career.

Of course, it would be quite risky to place Raul as Real Madrid's main coach in the near future because we know that Raul's achievements in managing teams in the top division are still non-existent and currently he only trains Real Madrid's academy players. Even if Raul wants to coach the Real Madrid first team he has to show his quality by coaching other teams and therefore he definitely understands his current position. I think Raul will take action soon, especially since Villarreal is also a pretty good team in La Liga and this is an opportunity for Raul to prove that he is worthy of managing Real Madrid one day. If Raul is consistent for a season or two with Villarreal, it is likely that he will start to get attention from Real Madrid.

[tiCeR]

That's what I want, but it seems the Glazers don't agree if Man United is owned by a Middle Eastern businessman because if it's in the hands of a strong person with wealth, Man United will be hard to buy back. We all know how the Glazers think that Man United heritage needs to be owned by people of American descent. But apart from that, even though I don't like Glazer, this makes Manchester City superior in every way.

Your post made me curious, is this something that the Glazers brought up publicly or is it your opinion that they want Man United as a heritage to remain in the hands of people of American descent?

In my humble opinion I believe that if a businessman shows up and pays them twice the price of what Manchester United fair value would be, I doubt that the Glazers would decline the money and stick to their principles. Excuse me though I could be totally wrong here as I don't know enough about them and I haven't been following any of their public statements or reasons why potential negotiations have never been concluded, but I think as a rule of thumb most of them are the same when it is about money.

But Manchester United never really suffered from a liquidity shortage, did they? I thought that even though investments might have decreased by the Glazers, there was always enough money to build a competitive squad.

Manchester United fans are looking forward to the Glazers' departure. The American boss has long been unpopular at Old Trafford, with their last Premier League title coming a decade ago. They bore the fans. I don't believe the Glazers don't sell or do nothing. They have run out of money, and their financial situation is desperate.
In my opinion, the Glazer family wants to sell the club at a higher price. Two investors, Sheikh Jassim from Qatar and wealthy Jim Ratcliffe from the UK, have emerged as leading candidates to buy Manchester United. But the prices of these two giants are different from the requirements of the Glazer family.

The departure should be taken into account, but that doesn't mean that Manchester United should be performing below their own standards. There is so much more possible and I hope that soon someone will realize that potential and go for it.

[Avirunes]

Raul has such an opportunity. But if he goes to Villareal and his career ends badly, his chances of becoming Real Madrid manager are almost nil. It's better for him to wait his turn than to test himself in another team. On the other hand, Real Madrid are one of the best clubs in the world. There are many alternatives for them when it comes to entrusting the team to someone. I don't know where Raul would be on that list. In the end, there were two options for Raul. But I think Raul had to test himself and show that he is a good manager. Villareal would have been a good option for him. I think he should have taken some risks.

It doesn't has to be Real Madrid but he can still go on to manage some good clubs. There are lot of things that affects but I think for Raul it was really a good opportunity to gain experience as first team manager and lead his team against competitive sides. It will be tough for sure but it will give a very good result if he goes on to do a great job. He can take an easy job managing some mid teams as their targets for a season are not that high but if he manages to make the team do better than what was the target then he will really make some news and be in big team's radar.

Anyway he is in best position to think. Maybe Madrid gave him a good offer to entice him to stay. Who knows.. he will stay that's the one thing for sure now.

[MinoRaiola]

Aston villa has confirmed the bid made by Saudi pro league club, Al Duhail for their player, Phillipe Coutinho in a season long loan. The Brazilian international spent a year and six months at the club since joining from Bayern on loan, netting 6 times out of 46 appearances.

When I read his name, I thought "how many clubs did he play for?" There are many and in several countries like Brazil, Italy, Spain, England, Germany and now Qatar. But he is not completely away from the Premier League, he still has a contract with Aston Villa. I am a little surprised that he doesnt play in Saudi Arabia, he actually has the best experience for it. The titles he has won: German champion, Spanish champion, champions league winner or copa america winner with brazil.

[Webetcoins]

Have some European teams can't denied with Saudi Club interested for signing their important players, not only excited and huge amount salary payment for their player target but also Saudi Club brave for paying higher fees transfers above player transfer market values. If Saudi  Pro League teams financial keep consistency and not issues with delay payment salary, I think will get any new top European player for next transfer window opening will move there. Unstoppable with top European player will play with Saudi club in the future because huge salary payment make many player blame with their career and priority for accepting Saudi Club offering.

I don't know in the future will Saudi Pro League more popular than top European league like La Liga, Serie A or Premier League because huge amount spent by each Saudi Club for signing players.

Right now, situation is good in Saudi League and organizers are having good long time strategy for this league which will help them for having good soccer culture in this desert with one of the best soccer players from the European players there could be no problem in salaries as their budget is also more than over expectations with this all investment they are trying to achieve their target of soccer world cup hosting rights, so they will not do any drama or wrong thing which hurt their reputation.

With this league recently we have good inflow of money for many European clubs as well which were facing in finances but now having good funds after selling their players on high prices for popularity they need seven to ten years which are solid and good, hopefully in this duration things could be better than expectations.

[jostorres]

I believe after the exit of Ronaldo non of Man Utd non of the new club signings had made any significant impact on the team, the likes of Antony, Mason Mount, Sancho and other new players were just a bunch of average players and couldn't justify their huge sign-on fee, I can't blame the glazers family because they had spent quite a fortune on the club  after acquiring the club yet the club hasn't won any major trophy for a very long time, just like Todd Boehly Chelsea new owner who had spent massively to recruit new players, personally I think non performance of the club should be the responsibility of the manager with reference to Pep Guordiola Man City manager who managed the club very well particularly with his expertise in signing of quality players while allowing surplus players to be sold.

No one can stop the time so right now we are talking about Alex Ferguson and Cristiano Ronaldo which is surely waste of time because they have done their job, and now we have new generation of players and coaching staff as well which needs to be settled for the better results but here we also need best coordination between owner and coach as well which is not available here at Manchester Untied in last few years like we have in Manchester City and Chelsea in Abramovich era.

Glazers are doing poor job which is surely hurting badly this legendary club there is no doubt right now they have few good players, but they are not able to perform as they need to be done which is surely poor strategy from all relative persons if they need to do better things we need good combination and better strategy which give them better environment as well recently we have good views about them but on field they are not able to perform as expectations.

[ILuckyGuyI]

Arsenal are concentrated on extending the contracts of their most important players currently. After the transfer window has been closed they are focused on securing the future of their players now. They are doing the right thing by acting already now. Because these players are attracting a lot of attention to themselves by their effort.

They have extended with some players like Martinelli already now it is Odegaard's turn. But I wonder whether he has the same thought with his team. His market value has reached 90 million euros after his brilliant effort here. His current contract ends in 2025. Arsenal had better give what he wants to keep a great talent like him for a long time.

[Docnaster]

Manchester United without Alex Ferguson and Ronaldo is like Tottenham, even though they've tried to sign a good manager and good player, they're not able to achieve anything. This will happen to Liverpool too, if Klopp and Salah leaves, Liverpool will not able to reach top 7 position.

The glazers are selfish, it seems like they're really want to own Manchester United than to see Manchester United is improving without them.

Am not sure what you mean by the Glazers being selfish, because theres no correlation at all. How are the Glazers selfish? They bought Manchester United with their money; and has bought over 1bn worth of players since Sir Alex Ferguson retired (New feat). Thats not what selfish owners does. The owners are spending heavily and theres nothing to show for it; which means the coaches and players are doing an awful job.

I will rather come in from another angle. If we do not agree that Glazers are selfish, we should also agree that they are greedy. I mean they put up a club for sell and recieve one of the highest bids in the history of football and yet they do not want to sell. This is showing either greediness or selfishnes. Whatever be the case, Manchester United deserves the best with or without Glazers. I just want rl see a good Manchester United and that's all fans demand

[Oluwa-btc]

While there was some news about Raul Gonzalez leaving Real Madrid for Villarreal but he again decided to stay in Real Madrid where they know him as a legend. Raul is working on Real Madrid B and he had offers before from some other teas but he rejected all offers. Now recently he had an offer from Villarreal and was close to joining the team, and he again decided to stay at Real Madrid. Villarreal fired their coach and they are looking to another coach to replace him in this season.

Raul is one of the legends of Real Madrid. The fact that he chose to stay at Real Madrid instead of taking a more prestigious position at Villareal is an important detail. On the other hand, I remember that Carlo Ancelotti's contract with Real Madrid will expire this season. This could be an opportunity for Raul, but there are other Real Madrid legends waiting for this job before Raul. Names like Zidane and Xabi Alonso are a few steps ahead of Raul in my opinion. However, if Raul waits long enough, he will surely get his chance one day.

Carlo Ancelotti will be out of contract with Real Madrid next season, so Raul Gonzalez may stay in charge of Real Madrid Castilla while waiting for another opportunity. Raul Gonzalez is a legend for Real Madrid and he is a very respectable person in Real Madrid so it is natural that Villareal will give him the respect he deserves but Raul Gonzalez rejected Villareal's offer.

There will be a lot of candidates to appear soon once ancellotti will be officially exit from the club. We are still far away from that moment. My predictions for some potential candidates are

- Zidane
- Xabi
- Raul

I don't see other strong candidates to become a successor for ancellotti after he will be joining as a brazillian national team coach. Those names are good enough in replacing ancellotti especially zidane.

If Raul Gonzalez is not appointed to the main team of Real Madrid next season, he may take charge of a new club, for now he will stay at Real Madrid waiting for an opportunity.

The future of raul is still unclear at this moment. Like Zidane, he is a complex individual with many layers of his personality. It's so hard to know what he wants.

Zidane already had a good time coaching Real Madrid winning trophies and managed a set of great players Real Madrid ever had as they dominated all of the European Football for three years.
He did resigned on his own free will and I doubt he will return to Real Madrid when Ancellotti leaves for the Brazil National Team.

I don't know nothing bout Raul, so I have nothing to say about the Madrid legend.
Xabi Alonso already handling youngins with Bayern Leverkusen, I would love to see him handling Real Madrid youngins too. So, I'm backing Xabi Alonso for the job.

[ololajulo]

Arsenal are concentrated on extending the contracts of their most important players currently. After the transfer window has been closed they are focused on securing the future of their players now. They are doing the right thing by acting already now. Because these players are attracting a lot of attention to themselves by their effort.

They have extended with some players like Martinelli already now it is Odegaard's turn. But I wonder whether he has the same thought with his team. His market value has reached 90 million euros after his brilliant effort here. His current contract ends in 2025. Arsenal had better give what he wants to keep a great talent like him for a long time.

Extending player contracts not only retains top talent but also increases their market value. Players also embrace this trend, anticipating better compensation. Allowing players to run out their contracts and releasing them is becoming less common for key players, as clubs find it less profitable

[Dewi Aries]

Arsenal are concentrated on extending the contracts of their most important players currently. After the transfer window has been closed they are focused on securing the future of their players now. They are doing the right thing by acting already now. Because these players are attracting a lot of attention to themselves by their effort.

They have extended with some players like Martinelli already now it is Odegaard's turn. But I wonder whether he has the same thought with his team. His market value has reached 90 million euros after his brilliant effort here. His current contract ends in 2025. Arsenal had better give what he wants to keep a great talent like him for a long time.

Odegaard improved performance has helped Arsenal since his arrival, even though the competition in his first season was admittedly very difficult at the Emirates. The Gunners efforts to keep him for a long time are very appropriate, because several other top clubs want to take him out of Arteta squad. PSG is rumored to be very interested in the Norwegian attacking midfielder, Arsenal efforts to secure Odegaard with a long-term contract are very wise.

[klidex]

While there was some news about Raul Gonzalez leaving Real Madrid for Villarreal but he again decided to stay in Real Madrid where they know him as a legend. Raul is working on Real Madrid B and he had offers before from some other teas but he rejected all offers. Now recently he had an offer from Villarreal and was close to joining the team, and he again decided to stay at Real Madrid. Villarreal fired their coach and they are looking to another coach to replace him in this season.

There is no other choice but to pave the way for success with a new coach when Quique Setien had to be fired from Villarreal and replaced with Raul Gonzalez, even though I dont know this new coach completely, but if you look at media rumors, Raul Gonzalez would be more suitable to play the role Villarreal coach who can provide changes in terms of the performance of each player but I am not sure whether Raul Gonzalez will really be able to provide improvement to Villarreal club which is currently in a very bad condition.

[savetheFORUM]

Madrid actually were open to let Raul Gonzalez go if Raul wants the opportunity to manage Villareal but it seems Raul is gonna stay at Madrid now.  Villareal now moves to Pacheta as a likely target for manager.

Raul has such an opportunity. But if he goes to Villareal and his career ends badly, his chances of becoming Real Madrid manager are almost nil. It's better for him to wait his turn than to test himself in another team. On the other hand, Real Madrid are one of the best clubs in the world. There are many alternatives for them when it comes to entrusting the team to someone. I don't know where Raul would be on that list. In the end, there were two options for Raul. But I think Raul had to test himself and show that he is a good manager. Villareal would have been a good option for him. I think he should have taken some risks.

Joining Villarreal is surely going to be a gamble for the legendary Raul Gonzalez because currently they are in bad shape and it needs time to settle things in better way, and he is already doing good job at Real Madrid B with this most chances he could be better candidate for the first team coach in coming days even it's also not easy because after Carlos Ancelotti we have few other good names as well with Xabi Alonso with his word at Bayer Leverkusen doing good job but still this all is too early as we have to wait for the end of this year and how things will be settled for this team as well.

Few months back he already rejected the offer from Premier League club Leeds Untied as he loves to stay here so now rejecting the Villarreal offer is not big deal for him with the first priority is his own club Real Madrid.

[rahmad2nd]

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I will rather come in from another angle. If we do not agree that Glazers are selfish, we should also agree that they are greedy. I mean they put up a club for sell and recieve one of the highest bids in the history of football and yet they do not want to sell. This is showing either greediness or selfishnes. Whatever be the case, Manchester United deserves the best with or without Glazers. I just want rl see a good Manchester United and that's all fans demand

If I refer to various news sources that I read, regarding rumors of the acquisition of Manchester United. Rumor has it that things are not going well between the Glazer family. The point is, one of the Glazer family does not agree if they sell all their Manchester United shares. while the Qatari camp wants to acquire the whole thing. So, it is unclear where this acquisition agreement will lead. To be sure, there is no certainty regarding this acquisition. Likewise with the current rumors, gradually they no longer become a hot topic of conversation among our community.

Well, if we talk about Glazer, there is a lot of anger among the Red Devil supporters. they want the Glazer family, let go of Manchester United. I don't want to say this is greed, or selfishness on the part of the Glazers. but this is business, they are well aware that with Qatar entering the bid for United, their shares will rise. despite all that, even if in the end Manchester United is not acquired by any party. I remain confident that the Glazers will find a way to get around the problems that are occurring in the Manchester United camp. in particular, regarding the FFP problem that had befallen them. For example, next season, if Ten Hag is still believed to be United's coach, it is possible that he will be given a budget that suits what he wants to bring in great players.

[FanEagle]

Maybe Sancho is not leaving right now, but he is definitely not happy playing for ETH and that means that he could leave some other time, maybe during winter window, maybe next summer but as long as United keeps staying with ETH, I feel like it is not going to be fine.

What United needs is a new owner, and then a new general manager that can run the club, fire all the staff, and I mean like all the way from director of football to the kitman, fire everyone who works there, get new ones that are much more professional, invest in the club itself, I do not mean just players, I mean from stadium to training to youth setup, everything and then hire a new manager. If they do this, they will be United we all knew, no way they improve without this change.

[coinlocket$]

Rabiot and Juventus is now talking in the possibility of extending his contract.

He will be a free agent at the end of the season but both parts want to continue together.

[KTChampions]

Manchester United without Alex Ferguson and Ronaldo is like Tottenham, even though they've tried to sign a good manager and good player, they're not able to achieve anything. This will happen to Liverpool too, if Klopp and Salah leaves, Liverpool will not able to reach top 7 position.

The glazers are selfish, it seems like they're really want to own Manchester United than to see Manchester United is improving without them.

Here is the latest ranking of sports clubs around the world by cost: https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikeozanian/2023/09/08/the-worlds-50-most-valuable-sports-teams-2023/
As you can see, United is in second place among football clubs (after Real Madrid). Such a brand cannot be cheap and is not always measured in money because the club is unique and if the owner does not want to sell it even for 100 billion, you cannot do anything. In my opinion, the Glazers are doing the right thing - they are trying to get the highest price possible.

[Josefjix]

Rabiot and Juventus is now talking in the possibility of extending his contract.

He will be a free agent at the end of the season but both parts want to continue together.

Seria A campaign requires the very best from the players, putting them under much pressure if they're not reaching the expectated concentration. Perhaps Juventus are good enough to maintain elite players in the club, keeping all eyes on all their prominent players this season. Though it seems some of them would be leaving if their terms and conditions are not reach by the club, bianconeri working entirely on it. Andrien Rabiot is an important player for Juventus. The boss, Allegri Massimiliano looking forward to work with the Frenchman this season.  

[Adams0001]

Manchester United without Alex Ferguson and Ronaldo is like Tottenham, even though they've tried to sign a good manager and good player, they're not able to achieve anything. This will happen to Liverpool too, if Klopp and Salah leaves, Liverpool will not able to reach top 7 position.

The glazers are selfish, it seems like they're really want to own Manchester United than to see Manchester United is improving without them.

I believe after the exit of Ronaldo non of Man Utd non of the new club signings had made any significant impact on the team, the likes of Antony, Mason Mount, Sancho and other new players were just a bunch of average players and couldn't justify their huge sign-on fee, I can't blame the glazers family because they had spent quite a fortune on the club  after acquiring the club yet the club hasn't won any major trophy for a very long time, just like Todd Boehly Chelsea new owner who had spent massively to recruit new players, personally I think non performance of the club should be the responsibility of the manager with reference to Pep Guordiola Man City manager who managed the club very well particularly with his expertise in signing of quality players while allowing surplus players to be sold.

One thing people are failing to understand is that Cristiano Ronaldo is an almost complete player that his type cannot be easily matched up in a long time to come. I am not saying it is not possible, but as long as he’s still playing and didn’t retire from football yet, getting a player of his type can be hard. This is not only to Manchester United, but to every team he has played for in Europe. I don’t need to waste so much on young players hoping that they’ll be like him or play better than him in the future, where the focus should be is on how the team will do well with the existing players and not scouting and paying huge amount of money looking for player that can’t be find in anyone at anytime soon.

How managers are able to manage their players is very important because it plays a pivotal role on how the players will perform well in the field. This is what some clubs are lacking currently, even though they’ve signed all the good players they can think of, without good management, a team full of great players will not produce good results. I hope teams take time in scouting for good managers as they do when looking for a world class player to fit into a position in the squad.