⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions

[rendravolt]

De Gea should had accepted a chance to move to a Saudi club and get playing time instead of being without a team currently because it could make him decline in form, I hope he get a team by the winter window, De Gea is currently 32 and might not last very long as buffon but he's still very good and could play till 35 or late 30's.

Goalkeepers get better as they age, thus De Gea still has time to perform at the very top level, and that is prolly one of the reasons why he turned down a move to Saudi Arabia, not every player wants to go to the Saudi league and we have to respect their decision, one they could have made because of their family. De Gea is still good enough to be the number one keeper at United, imo he is a far better goalkeeper than Onana, i can't understand why they let him go the way they did. De Gea would definitely be training privately to make sure he is fit, because he might get a good offer in January.

If De Gea was only after money, he would have received an offer from a Saudi league team, but in fact he still has passion for European competition. However, the strange thing is that until now no European team has been interested in recruiting him, especially since he is a free agent. Maybe the coaches were hesitant enough to bring him in? If so, maybe they have another reason not to sign him for this season. Even so, I think De Gea still has a chance to appear next season or even sooner in January as you said. Now all he has to do now is continue to keep his body in shape so that when an offer comes from a European team he will be ready to play.

[Asiska02]

Chelsea already spent a lot of money and i think this is it what they got until the winter transfer window. They got a bad team and they will have to try and make something out of this team. Because they keep on buying the wrong players and for them it aint working. They are just lost maybe after winning against Brighton they might get some wins in the league aswell.

Yes, the main problem is on the coach and Chelsea management. They decide to buy which players, it is their responsibility if they bring the wrong players on the squad. I still don't understand why Chelsea decided to hire Mauricio Pochettino. There is no something special with this coach, he is not the coach who has many good records. He only won the titles with PSG, it is easy because PSG is too superior in Ligue 1. But when he managed Tottenham and Southampton, he failed to win any title.

I think Chelsea needs to hire a new coach who can build a team with better players. I'm not sure Chelsea can build a strong team/squad with Pochettino.

If Pochettino is the problem of Chelsea, then there’s no need of arguing about the players they’ve bought to the club because most of them where even bought before Pochettino joined the team as a manager. Talking about records, it is true as you’ve said, Pochettino hasn’t won a serious title before with a big team asides from PSG who are always dominating their Ligue 1 year after year. Maybe they should have gone with Nagelsmann and not Pochettino but it’s all late now. What matters the most now is how Pochettino can put in his best effort to bring the best out of this squad. It is a matter of gradual process and transformation, so till today I have not really blamed Pochettino too much for his failure in Chelsea so far. He just needs to understand the players combination in every match, the ones which can blend well together in the field of play than another combination. Chelsea still have time to adjust their game plan before it’s too late.

[coinlocket$]

Papu Gomez joined Monza.

Even if the transfer market is over he joined them because he was a free agent without any contract.

Many players are in his situation.

[legendbtc]

De Gea should had accepted a chance to move to a Saudi club and get playing time instead of being without a team currently because it could make him decline in form, I hope he get a team by the winter window, De Gea is currently 32 and might not last very long as buffon but he's still very good and could play till 35 or late 30's.

Goalkeepers get better as they age, thus De Gea still has time to perform at the very top level, and that is prolly one of the reasons why he turned down a move to Saudi Arabia, not every player wants to go to the Saudi league and we have to respect their decision, one they could have made because of their family. De Gea is still good enough to be the number one keeper at United, imo he is a far better goalkeeper than Onana, i can't understand why they let him go the way they did. De Gea would definitely be training privately to make sure he is fit, because he might get a good offer in January.

If De Gea was only after money, he would have received an offer from a Saudi league team, but in fact he still has passion for European competition. However, the strange thing is that until now no European team has been interested in recruiting him, especially since he is a free agent. Maybe the coaches were hesitant enough to bring him in? If so, maybe they have another reason not to sign him for this season. Even so, I think De Gea still has a chance to appear next season or even sooner in January as you said. Now all he has to do now is continue to keep his body in shape so that when an offer comes from a European team he will be ready to play.

Salary is the biggest obstacle for clubs to recruit him with his salary when playing for Man Utd. He has yet to find a new home despite information that Bayern Munich wants to recruit De Gea in the context of Neuer's injury.
At his current age, he should go to Saudi Arabia to reunite with his old teammate Ronaldo to earn some retirement money. Or he should consider retiring because European clubs are unlikely to pay attention to him.

[GbitG]

Zidane also has the opportunity to continue his career in the EPL if he wants. Currently Chelsea and Manchester United are in bad shape with their coaches, Zidane can accept an offer from one of these clubs if an offer comes to him. PSG has just started a new adventure with Luis Enrique, the results of his work are starting to show after PSG succeeded in getting positive results. If Zidane becomes Marseille's new coach there will be more exciting competition in Ligue 1.

No no no, this guy only want to manage Real Madrid, it doesn't matter if it's senior club, Castilla, U21, U17 etc as long as it's Real Madrid, he will accept it. But he will not move to other club especially the club isn't in good situation e.g. Manchester United because he don't want to risk his reputation and work harder to improve other club.

I don't think Zidane will prefer to continue his club management career because he already won big trophies with his coaching experience with Real Madrid and left a great career status legacy. Even though Zidane is currently free, many clubs want him for coaching, but I think he personally does not like to be the manager of another club. Chelsea Manchester United Because the 2026 World Cup is about to come, Zidane will gladly accept the management of France in the world if offered by the France international team.

[Velvet78]

Chelsea are after Dimarco and Theo Hernandez both according to rumours. However I doubt whether there is a need for more transfers to these areas. They would actually make use of some improvement in performance rather than making new transfers. Because they have already spent like half a billion dollars in the most recent transfer window.

Chelsea should prioritize the striking role instead of all these wide players. Theo Hernandez will definitely be a better left back than both Chilwell and Cucurella, and Dimarco can also fit in but the problem is this isn’t the emergency situation Chelsea hierarchies need to stop. They need a very prominent striker and with the crises at Napoli, Chelsea should be moving towards signing him other than these players they are after. The Osihmen Situation is persisting with Napoli yet to apologize I think the player would decide to leave may be this January and clubs like even Madrid will keeping tabs on him, so Bohely needs to Spend big Again just to get his man

There is a really serious problem when it comes to their centre-forward position now indeed. Nkunku is still injured and he will probably be out for more than a month still. Jackson is playing in his stead but his general performance so far has been horrible. This is also a big hit to their scoring productivity.

If not much thing changes when Nkunku returns then Chelsea might need to sign another striker in January. But hopefully there won't be such need after Nkunku recovers. He is a really quality striker and I hope his end won't be like Werner at Chelsea.

[SatoPrincess]

Gennaro Gattuso has reached an agreement as Marseille coach for this season and previously Marseille often had poor results which made previous coach Marcelino want to leave the club. This is a new experience for Gennaro Gattuso coaching a team in Ligue 1 and of course the former Milan legend is eagerly awaiting his ingenuity in managing Marseille. Actually, as a coach, Gennaro Gattuso is quite good but sometimes quite bad, so as a coach his quality is just right. After being fired by Valencia last season, he is finally able to coach a team again and his deal will last until June 2024 at Marseille. What do you think, Gennaro Gattuso is the ideal coach for Marseille?

Gennaro Gattuso will have another try in his coaching experience to try and revive his coaching career after he was fired from his former club. Marseille is a big challenge he will be taking up, I can’t say I’m confident that he is the right man for the job, I just want to wish him well with hopes that he excels this time around.

[Zaguru12]

The next week we will have the second test for Pogba.

If he will be found positive he will probably sacked from Juventus (depending also on the duration of the ban)

If he he is found positive and if he can prove that it was an error from a doctor from US where the product he used is legal, the ban should be for 3 months.

This is definitely a very crucial next few weeks for Pogba, the failed doping test has just compounded more misery to the players lack of playing time since he left Manchester United. If found guilty then it will be a lengthy lay off from football and personally I think that is it for his professional career, because the least month will be 24 months but if it is an error then it would be a big relief for him, but we have all seen where Onana made such a similar mistake and ended up serving a year ban. Should Pogba get the same then I think he will be returning without a club because this Juventus are weighing options of letting him go considering his second stint with them hasn’t been an exciting one and his wages is high that a let off will relieve the club from those future wages.

There is a really serious problem when it comes to their centre-forward position now indeed. Nkunku is still injured and he will probably be out for more than a month still. Jackson is playing in his stead but his general performance so far has been horrible. This is also a big hit to their scoring productivity.

If not much thing changes when Nkunku returns then Chelsea might need to sign another striker in January. But hopefully there won't be such need after Nkunku recovers. He is a really quality striker and I hope his end won't be like Werner at Chelsea.

Even Nkunku that every Chelsea fan are going Gaga to return wouldn’t solve a big problem of the goal scoring. Nkunku might have been used at Leipzig in that role before but wasn’t regularly used there, it was Andre Silva that does the job and sometimes Poulsen. Nkunku best and favorite position is behind the striker and currently Chelsea are lacking either a second striker or an attacking midfielder. So he could solve that issue when he returns but as for the striking role Chelsea should go all out for a new one

[shinratensei_]

Chelsea are after Dimarco and Theo Hernandez both according to rumours. However I doubt whether there is a need for more transfers to these areas. They would actually make use of some improvement in performance rather than making new transfers. Because they have already spent like half a billion dollars in the most recent transfer window.

Chelsea should prioritize the striking role instead of all these wide players. Theo Hernandez will definitely be a better left back than both Chilwell and Cucurella, and Dimarco can also fit in but the problem is this isn’t the emergency situation Chelsea hierarchies need to stop. They need a very prominent striker and with the crises at Napoli, Chelsea should be moving towards signing him other than these players they are after. The Osihmen Situation is persisting with Napoli yet to apologize I think the player would decide to leave may be this January and clubs like even Madrid will keeping tabs on him, so Bohely needs to Spend big Again just to get his man

There is a really serious problem when it comes to their centre-forward position now indeed. Nkunku is still injured and he will probably be out for more than a month still. Jackson is playing in his stead but his general performance so far has been horrible. This is also a big hit to their scoring productivity.

It's not a serious problem for chelsea. Armando broja is fully recovering from his injury. My guess if armando broja will be playing as starting line up soon as jackson will be suspended due to the fourth yellog card that already received by him.
Chelsea may need to use the same scheme but different striker. I hope that broja will able to perform so well compared with jackson which was always facing difficulty in making proper finishing.
Broja has been also playing against brighton and everything is still fine for chelsea as long as pochettino will not do stupid thing again.

If not much thing changes when Nkunku returns then Chelsea might need to sign another striker in January. But hopefully there won't be such need after Nkunku recovers. He is a really quality striker and I hope his end won't be like Werner at Chelsea.

Chelsea still has some that can play in the versatile position at this moment. Nkuku already expected to recover at the end of season but this is still remains a speculation.
His eta can be shorter or even longer depended on how fast or slow his recovery.

Chelsea has been even making preparations for january signings according to some news

https://www.fourfourtwo.com/news/chelsea-have-already-started-to-work-on-january-signings-mauricio-pochettino

[Leviathan.007]

Zidane also has the opportunity to continue his career in the EPL if he wants. Currently Chelsea and Manchester United are in bad shape with their coaches, Zidane can accept an offer from one of these clubs if an offer comes to him. PSG has just started a new adventure with Luis Enrique, the results of his work are starting to show after PSG succeeded in getting positive results. If Zidane becomes Marseille's new coach there will be more exciting competition in Ligue 1.

No no no, this guy only want to manage Real Madrid, it doesn't matter if it's senior club, Castilla, U21, U17 etc as long as it's Real Madrid, he will accept it. But he will not move to other club especially the club isn't in good situation e.g. Manchester United because he don't want to risk his reputation and work harder to improve other club.

I don't think Zidane will prefer to continue his club management career because he already won big trophies with his coaching experience with Real Madrid and left a great career status legacy. Even though Zidane is currently free, many clubs want him for coaching, but I think he personally does not like to be the manager of another club. Chelsea Manchester United Because the 2026 World Cup is about to come, Zidane will gladly accept the management of France in the world if offered by the France international team.

Zidane is a famous coach with honors and I think he won't take the risk to join a team like Marseille.  We saw the rich owner could not help PSG to win the Chmapnios Leageu and sometimes money will not solve everything. That's why there is the possibility for him to reject this offer. Also, it's just a rumor and far from reality.

[Strongkored]

The next week we will have the second test for Pogba.

If he will be found positive he will probably sacked from Juventus (depending also on the duration of the ban)

If he he is found positive and if he can prove that it was an error from a doctor from US where the product he used is legal, the ban should be for 3 months.

Enough time will determine his future, if proven guilty and his defense is rejected then if I'm not mistaken he will be sentenced to 4 years without being able to play so it is very natural that Juventus will fire him if everything is clear.
It would be quite sad if in the end he was sanctioned for doping and it would make his football career even sad because after the injury which always made him perform minimally every season now there will be sanctions that could end his career.

Zidane is a famous coach with honors and I think he won't take the risk to join a team like Marseille.  We saw the rich owner could not help PSG to win the Chmapnios Leageu and sometimes money will not solve everything. That's why there is the possibility for him to reject this offer. Also, it's just a rumor and far from reality.

Different owners have different perspectives, It's possible that Zidane will go to Marseille if the club's management makes many attractive offers, but it could be that he will stick to his long-held desire to become a national team coach, not a club.

[Litzki1990]

I wouldn't believe that Carlo Ancelotti would leave Real Madrid while currently Ancelotti has the goal of bringing back the Champions League trophy this season and Real madrid really needs this coach so these rumors are unlikely to ever happen because even though I admit that Xabi Alonso is also wrong a very good coach but I don't want Real Madrid to lose performance after leaving Ancelotti who has to adapt again to a new coach who will only waste time in vain.
But I don't know whether that will become a reality or just rumor, but if it does happen I would prefer to see very amazing and hope it will also come for Real Madrid.

The manager of a team says the players or the other coaching staff say no one is permanent in the team, if a manager or someone from the coaching staff leaves a team it is never a good thing if the performance of the team is affected badly. Regardless of the manager who takes charge of the team, everyone has to have the mentality to improve the players. 

Carlo Ancelotti is not the first man to leave Real Madrid, many managers have come, won and gone. Carlo Ancelotti came and won a lot for Real Madrid and he will leave after this season, if he leaves someone new will come and he will definitely try to give something good to the team. However, Real Madrid must be sure that the new manager they appoint to replace Carlo Ancelotti can manage a team like Real Madrid.

[TastyChillySauce00]

Zidane also has the opportunity to continue his career in the EPL if he wants. Currently Chelsea and Manchester United are in bad shape with their coaches, Zidane can accept an offer from one of these clubs if an offer comes to him. PSG has just started a new adventure with Luis Enrique, the results of his work are starting to show after PSG succeeded in getting positive results. If Zidane becomes Marseille's new coach there will be more exciting competition in Ligue 1.

No no no, this guy only want to manage Real Madrid, it doesn't matter if it's senior club, Castilla, U21, U17 etc as long as it's Real Madrid, he will accept it. But he will not move to other club especially the club isn't in good situation e.g. Manchester United because he don't want to risk his reputation and work harder to improve other club.

I don't think Zidane will prefer to continue his club management career because he already won big trophies with his coaching experience with Real Madrid and left a great career status legacy. Even though Zidane is currently free, many clubs want him for coaching, but I think he personally does not like to be the manager of another club. Chelsea Manchester United Because the 2026 World Cup is about to come, Zidane will gladly accept the management of France in the world if offered by the France international team.

Zidane is a famous coach with honors and I think he won't take the risk to join a team like Marseille.  We saw the rich owner could not help PSG to win the Chmapnios Leageu and sometimes money will not solve everything. That's why there is the possibility for him to reject this offer. Also, it's just a rumor and far from reality.

Zidane never had interest in joining the small club like marseille. he was only willing to coach the big club like real madrid which will able to give him more confidence caused by the star players will make him far easier to manage the club. You have known properly how many times zidane won UCL with real madrid and that proves that if zidane will never try to join in the small scale of club. I do believe zidane will come back some day but not in the club like marseille. Marseille already got a new coach and how can we expect him to go there.

[FanEagle]

Marseille getting bought by a Saudi Arabian team should not really be a big deal, but Zidane is not going to be coaching it from what I read. It looks like we are going to end up with something that could end up with something much bigger, and that would be a general manager position.

I think he just wants to use that money to buy players and build a team, not really manage it. Coaching the team and building the team are different things, when you build the team, you could be anywhere, and you would fly all over the world to talk to the players and teams to do that, or you could just stay wherever you are and send someone else in your stead, but when you are coaching, you have to be with the team all the time.

[Helena Yu]

Zidane is a famous coach with honors and I think he won't take the risk to join a team like Marseille.  We saw the rich owner could not help PSG to win the Chmapnios Leageu and sometimes money will not solve everything. That's why there is the possibility for him to reject this offer. Also, it's just a rumor and far from reality.

Because the team isn't ready to win the Champions League, they can only bought popular and great players, but they forgot if individualism skill will not able to beat a well team play, if PSG really want to win this league, they need to buy top 11 players in each positions.

If he he is found positive and if he can prove that it was an error from a doctor from US where the product he used is legal, the ban should be for 3 months.

Another easy making money by Pogba beside the long injury tactic he have

[Leviathan.007]

This is just a rumor in South Korea, there is some news about their player Son Heung-min leaving Tottenham this season, Son Heung-min is a 31-year-old palyer and is under contract with Tottenham until 2025 which is reason to say Tottenham will never let this player to leave easily. But it seems Real Madrid wants to hire him in 2024 because they lost their hope about Mbappe and that's why Real Madrid wants to hire Son Heung-min as plan B.



https://thehardtackle.com/transfer-news/2023/09/29/real-madrid-keen-on-son-heung-min/
https://sportsbrief.com/football/49725-real-madrid-ready-snub-mbappe-tottenham-captain-son-heung-min/

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

it's not a serious problem for chelsea. Armando broja is fully recovering from his injury. My guess if armando broja will be playing as starting line up soon as jackson will be suspended due to the fourth yellog card that already received by him. Chelsea may need to use the same scheme but different striker. I hope that broja will able to perform so well compared with jackson which was always facing difficulty in making proper finishing.
Broja has been also playing against brighton and everything is still fine for chelsea as long as pochettino will not do stupid thing again.

Broja will come into the starting lineup as Jackson is absence and fit in very well, the only problem is that we don't know if he'll have the same end product as Jackson because they both have the same playing pattern although Broja is more physical than Jackson and won't get bullied out if balls as Jackson always get bullied by the opponent defenders. Broja didn't have much impact last season when he was been used as the striker. Pochettino needs to sign a new striker in January and not depend on this two because they're inexperienced. We need a striker with lots of experience so he can convert the chances that Chelsea has been creating. Ivan Toney who is Chelsea target for January will be a perfect fit for the position of an experience striker and he has proven himself in the premier league scoring 20 goals in 33 matches for Brentford last season.

If not much thing changes when Nkunku returns then Chelsea might need to sign another striker in January. But hopefully there won't be such need after Nkunku recovers. He is a really quality striker and I hope his end won't be like Werner at Chelsea.

Even If Nkunku returns and stays fit we'll still need a new striker because we can't put all our hopes on Broja and Jackson and we can't depend on players that aren't natural strikers to score. We need a prolific striker that knows the only reason we're signing him is to get us goals. The midfielder and wingers should be assisting him and his job is just to score even when they're just tap in. I doubt Nkunku fitness so it won't be bad if we go for Joao felix in January as a replacement for Nkunku and he can play in his role when he isn't fit and used as a replacement for mudrky when he isn't having a good run. We don't have backups in the team that can deliver us results, all we have are just experiments and not proven players which isn't what Chelsea need right now. We need players that can give us results.

[rendravolt]

This is just a rumor in South Korea, there is some news about their player Son Heung-min leaving Tottenham this season, Son Heung-min is a 31-year-old palyer and is under contract with Tottenham until 2025 which is reason to say Tottenham will never let this player to leave easily. But it seems Real Madrid wants to hire him in 2024 because they lost their hope about Mbappe and that's why Real Madrid wants to hire Son Heung-min as plan B.



https://thehardtackle.com/transfer-news/2023/09/29/real-madrid-keen-on-son-heung-min/
https://sportsbrief.com/football/49725-real-madrid-ready-snub-mbappe-tottenham-captain-son-heung-min/

It seems that at 31 years old, Real Madrid will definitely consider Son Hyeung Min and we know that Real Madrid always recruits players at a young age, so it's only natural that Son Hyeung Min will only be used as plan B for next season. Apart from that, as for the left wing position, currently there is only Vini as an option and maybe occasionally Rodrygo can fill it. But if it is possible to recruit experienced players like Son Hyeung Min later, of course that would be good, but of course Son Hyeung Min will not be the starter choice if he really joins Real Madrid.

[len01]

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Zidane never had interest in joining the small club like marseille. he was only willing to coach the big club like real madrid which will able to give him more confidence caused by the star players will make him far easier to manage the club. You have known properly how many times zidane won UCL with real madrid and that proves that if zidane will never try to join in the small scale of club. I do believe zidane will come back some day but not in the club like marseille. Marseille already got a new coach and how can we expect him to go there.

we definitely understand Zidane mindset. I mean he is a coach who has a lot of experience and has very good achievements every time he coaches a team like Real Madrid so from this coach experience we can speculate that Zidane will only join a big team to gain achievements towards competitions like the UCL. so there is a possibility that one of the big European teams makes an offer to him. I am a little sure that Zidane will accept the offer except PSG. because I am sure Zidane knows how the PSG team is going so he not go there and for now speculating about Zidane going to Real Madrid or Man City would be more interesting.

[marcous]

Marseille getting bought by a Saudi Arabian team should not really be a big deal, but Zidane is not going to be coaching it from what I read. It looks like we are going to end up with something that could end up with something much bigger, and that would be a general manager position.

I think he just wants to use that money to buy players and build a team, not really manage it. Coaching the team and building the team are different things, when you build the team, you could be anywhere, and you would fly all over the world to talk to the players and teams to do that, or you could just stay wherever you are and send someone else in your stead, but when you are coaching, you have to be with the team all the time.

I think Marsielle will develop even better if the club changes ownership and appoints Zidane to lead the club he was born in. However, it seems that current owner Frank Mccourt is reluctant to release his share ownership in the club to the Public Investment Fund (PIF). Currently Marsielle has just appointed Gennaro Gattuso as the new coach to replace Marcelino, after reaping bad results in the previous few matches.

On the other hand, I hope that PIF can acquire ownership of Marsielle, even though it is difficult, this will make Ligue 1 more competitive. Because Marsielle will build a strong squad with financial support from the new owner, which will ultimately result in PSG getting equal rivalry in Ligue 1.