⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions

[tusandii]

Barcelona are said to be interested in Roberto Martinez as their next manager after Xavi's departure this summer. But can he be a good choice for Barcelona?

He is Portugal national team manager at the moment. He managed Belgium national team before this job for many years as well. When it comes to the teams he managed before there were Everton, Swansea and Wigan. He doesn't have a career with many titles as well. I don't know whether it is worth taking the risk. He is really great at managing a national team so far but we haven't seen him managing a big team in Europe yet.

We all don't know the reason why Barcelona is interested in a manager like Roberto Martinez even though if you look at him he is not an extraordinary coach like successful coaches in the European leagues, even though coaching a club as big as Barcelona is not an easy thing to do while Barcelona is experiencing financial problems, I think he cannot be a good choice if he still has minimal experience to coach the European league, in my opinion there are still many coaches who have good experience so Barcelona should not make the wrong decision because this is too risky for Barca's future.

Reportedly Pep Guardiola suggested Barcelona to recruit Roberto De zerbi I think it is better if compared to a coach who does not have much experience coaching European clubs while Roberto de zerbi himself coaches Brighton in the EPL which we know that the EPL is a quite difficult league so Barcelona must think carefully before making the wrong decision.

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Xabi Alonso should definitely consider moving to a greater club when he has the chance. Do you think that he can make Leverkusen win the league again and again? Bayern has so much money that they could just buy all their good players, that's what they did to other teams.

All in all I believe that Xabi will fail at Leverkusen eventually if he stays for too long, he needs to capitalize on his success and move up already. They had just one good year, and if teams are fine with giving him the manager position already, then it would make sense and I would think that it would even be smart for them to do something like that. I get that it is not that clear just yet which team he will decide to go, but he should definitely move up.

then we talk about big teams, isn't Leverkusen one of the big teams?
you are right that coach who has intelligence in managing team players should have plan to gain more experience with other popular teams which can provide more potential to win prestigious titles.
I'm not saying Leverkusen incapable of getting a title at a higher level, it just that we all know that Leverkusen still too early to be able to win title like in the UCL, even though they have just improved their performance this season.
It looks like Xabi will stay another season to try to get higher title in the UCL, but if that fails, the best option to choose to be coach at Real Madrid or Bayern Munich.

[Palakka]

Xabi Alonso should definitely consider moving to a greater club when he has the chance. Do you think that he can make Leverkusen win the league again and again? Bayern has so much money that they could just buy all their good players, that's what they did to other teams.

All in all I believe that Xabi will fail at Leverkusen eventually if he stays for too long, he needs to capitalize on his success and move up already. They had just one good year, and if teams are fine with giving him the manager position already, then it would make sense and I would think that it would even be smart for them to do something like that. I get that it is not that clear just yet which team he will decide to go, but he should definitely move up.

Staying too long at Leverkusen is also not a good choice for Alonso but to leave Leverkusen too quickly would also be risky for Alonso, for me personally I think that Alonso will at least stay one more season with Leverkusen so that way we can see whether he is really  deserves to be called a great coach or is luck on his side this season, if Alonso is too reckless to step into a big team like Liverpool and Munich in next season so that when he fails then it is certain that he will reach the lowest point in his career later.

At the moment we don't know what attitude Alonso will take, apart from that I think Alonso will only focus on bringing Leverkusen to the championship and at the end of the season, maybe he will answer the speculation currently circulating, but from my point of view, Alonso seems to be rejecting everything existing offers and prefer to be with Leverkusen for at least one more season, at this time when a coach is comfortable and can provide better performance at a club then it is difficult for the coach to move to another club in a short time and the same is true for Alonso at this time who might try to make Leverkusen even better in the bundesliga league and the Champions League next season.

[Leviathan.007]

During the recent days, there was much news about Ronald Araújo linked to Bayern Munich. Ronald Araújo is a key player and effective in Barcelona but Barcelona is not going to lose their player easily especially when we know Ronald Araújo is important for Xavi and his team.
Since Bayern Munich is not in a good situation they decided to hire Ronald Araújo and in order to have this player in their team, they want to spend 90 million euros for this player.
So far Bayern Munich sent 70 and 80 million euros for Ronald Araújo and all the offers were rejected until they sent the final offer for 90 million euros.

[Bobrox]

Xabi Alonso should definitely consider moving to a greater club when he has the chance. Do you think that he can make Leverkusen win the league again and again? Bayern has so much money that they could just buy all their good players, that's what they did to other teams.

All in all I believe that Xabi will fail at Leverkusen eventually if he stays for too long, he needs to capitalize on his success and move up already. They had just one good year, and if teams are fine with giving him the manager position already, then it would make sense and I would think that it would even be smart for them to do something like that. I get that it is not that clear just yet which team he will decide to go, but he should definitely move up.

Seems less possibility for Bayern Leverkusen will win the domestic league back to back or keep consistent because has small money for signing top players make difficult for defending the domestic league trophy. I believe Xabi Alonso won't miss the great opportunity if have any top teams want to give him opportunity become manager next season exactly Liverpool, Barcelona and Bayern Munich had announced with their interested for signing him.

Actually Xabi Alonso future depend with Bayern Leverkusen keep serious for next season or not, if can win the domestic league tittle in this season and will play in Champion League he needs many top players how to keep compete performance well. If can't sign top players seems difficult for defending Alonso keep becoming Bayern Leverkusen manager next season.

[KTChampions]

Source: https://twitter.com/DeadlineDayLive/status/1763554087524524422

The arrival of Mbappe and Alphonso Davies to Real Madrid in the summer became increasingly clear and this made Achraf Hakimi's name start to be linked as Real Madrid's next target in the transfer market. We know that Achraf Hakimi is currently a PSG player and was previously a former Real Madrid player under Zidane's coaching era and because Achraf Hakimi often failed to compete for the right wing defender position, he had to leave in 2020 and at that time he first sought experience for a season at inter. Just one season at Inter and his good performance made PSG tempted to bring him in and at that time PSG dared to pay 60 million euros to Inter in 2021.

Well, now Real Madrid wants to buy him again and of course this plan is being worked on because there are so many opportunities that Real Madrid can take advantage of between waiting until 2025 or even 2026 when his contract with PSG has ended. I think Real Madrid's movements are always smart when they want to get players without spending a penny and even if they buy them, this club is actually also capable. But yes, again, that is the club's strategy and if Achraf Hakimi wants to join Real Madrid again, the right wing back position is very open, making him a starter considering that Carvajal is also starting to age.

I don't even know if they will buy Hakimi this summer or not. Real Madrid are now negotiating with Bayern to buy Davis, and although Real stated that they consider the maximum amount for him to be 40 million, Bayern wants to get 70. Along with spending on Mbappe, buying all three will be very expensive (although Real has the money for this). On the other hand, Davis has a contract until 2025 and Real can wait a year and buy Hakimi now. In general, the scale of changes in Real is amazing, apparently in a year and for example Real 2020, these will be completely two different teams.

[Abu-Naim]

Xabi Alonso should definitely consider moving to a greater club when he has the chance. Do you think that he can make Leverkusen win the league again and again? Bayern has so much money that they could just buy all their good players, that's what they did to other teams.

Alonso is a good coach with great ambition, he can do well even if he stays more than more than one season in Bayer Leverkusen because he is a coach with good ambition and he is willing to win a lot of things in history, and if possible become the next Pep Guardiola or Anceloti.
He can become Bayern Munich coach if he agree to join them, but I will want him to stay at Leverkusen to make Bundesliga more competitive than it is.

All in all I believe that Xabi will fail at Leverkusen eventually if he stays for too long, he needs to capitalize on his success and move up already. They had just one good year, and if teams are fine with giving him the manager position already, then it would make sense and I would think that it would even be smart for them to do something like that. I get that it is not that clear just yet which team he will decide to go, but he should definitely move up.

Arteta keep performing well at Arsenal, De Zarbi, and other coaches that did well last season are still doing well, I think same as Alonso, he will keep doing well even if he stays without going to any big opposition team like Bayern Munich and others.

[EL MOHA]

Barcelona have been managed for years by footballers who played football for Barcelona. Enrique, Guardiola, Valverde and Xavi were all managers who played football for Barcelona. I think Barcelona have two options in front of them. Either they will work again with a coach who has played football for Barcelona in the past or with someone different. They have a choice between being open to experimenting with different football concepts or keeping the same concept. In Spain they are slowly moving away from competing with Real Madrid every year. They can also try different tactical ideas. I think names like Roberto De Zerbi and Unai Emery could be alternatives for them.

With Xavi leaving, I think they have to break that Jinx of hiring ex players except if they can actually convince Luiz  Enrique to come back but that will be a task to hard. There option to me is risking it with De Zerbi who has shown that he can implement the tiki taka pattern mostly preferred by the Barcelona club. Why I am still not yet convinced about him is because some of these managers do well in smaller clubs but when they come to the bigger clubs they fail to handle the pressure same thing happened to De Zerbi predecessor in Brighton Graham Potter and he couldn’t live up to expectations. As for Unai Emery, I will rule him out not that he is not a good coach but he doesn’t get consistency that is needed to challenge for a league, if it is a cup games or let me say knockout fixtures he is a good coach there but his past days haven’t reflected on him challenging for any tittle.

A wild card to me could be the current German national team coach Julien Neglesmann, he was outstanding to me and only had a mix season with Bayern and that got him something I still say a undeserved sack. He is young and can build a team for the future.

Alonso is a good coach with great ambition, he can do well even if he stays more than more than one season in Bayer Leverkusen because he is a coach with good ambition and he is willing to win a lot of things in history, and if possible become the next Pep Guardiola or Anceloti.
He can become Bayern Munich coach if he agree to join them, but I will want him to stay at Leverkusen to make Bundesliga more competitive than it is.

Everyone wants bigger challenge and Alonso isn’t an exception, he will want to grasp this opportunities at his front to move to any of these big clubs, because if he misses this opportunity now it could not come again. I will not link him to Barcelona job because it has been shown that he remains loyal to his former club were he played his trade back then and will either choose between Bayern Munich or Liverpool, Madrid would to me have been his preferred choice but Ancelloti contract extension already rules that out.

[Jody.Drummer]

During the recent days, there was much news about Ronald Araújo linked to Bayern Munich. Ronald Araújo is a key player and effective in Barcelona but Barcelona is not going to lose their player easily especially when we know Ronald Araújo is important for Xavi and his team.
Since Bayern Munich is not in a good situation they decided to hire Ronald Araújo and in order to have this player in their team, they want to spend 90 million euros for this player.
So far Bayern Munich sent 70 and 80 million euros for Ronald Araújo and all the offers were rejected until they sent the final offer for 90 million euros.

With Bayern Munich's financial capabilities still good, they can spend a lot of money to recruit players, and now Barcelona players are their target. Actually many Barcelona players are the target of other clubs, such as Frenkie de Jong for example, but they still try to keep them, because they are also aware that if they sell one of their valuable players it will make them decline even deeper.

But if they find it difficult to solve the problems they are experiencing, then it is not impossible that they will release one by one players who have a big influence on their game. We'll see later how far they can maintain players who have been influential, because every transfer season arrives the players are always in demand by other clubs, and not only that, those who are interested in the player bring big money to be able to redeem this player from Barcelona.

But I don't know if Xavi leaves, maybe the new coach will have other considerations and they could end up selling the players we're talking about here. Because we have heard the news that Xavi Hernandez will leave at the end of this season.

[bering]

Barcelona have been managed for years by footballers who played football for Barcelona. Enrique, Guardiola, Valverde and Xavi were all managers who played football for Barcelona. I think Barcelona have two options in front of them. Either they will work again with a coach who has played football for Barcelona in the past or with someone different. They have a choice between being open to experimenting with different football concepts or keeping the same concept. In Spain they are slowly moving away from competing with Real Madrid every year. They can also try different tactical ideas. I think names like Roberto De Zerbi and Unai Emery could be alternatives for them.

De Zerbi is still too young, he is ambitious, but has he achieved any significant results at the moment? I think that Barcelona needs an experienced coach who has already proven that with his arrival the team will progress. Emery could well be suitable for the role of coach, especially since he is very familiar with La Liga. But in my opinion, he is doing well at Aston Villa, I don’t know for how long his contract is signed with them, and whether he wants to change the club, I haven’t seen this mentioned anywhere.

As far i know De Zerbi is Brighton manager not Aston Villa and talking about De Zerbi although he is still categorized as young manager but De Zerbi is experience manager and during his carrer as a manager De Zerbi has train several clubs from different competitions and before train Brighton De Zerbi was train Shakhtar Donetsk on 2021 and if i am not mistaken De Zerbi can able to bringing Shakhtar Donetsk to gets Ukrainian League trophy and at that time Shakhtar Donetsk only lost once from 18 matches at Ukrainian League and when he train Sassuolo too De Zerbi can bringing this team to finish at top 10 without star players

Most of European teams has been liked how to De Zerbi handle the particular clubs this because without huge money he can build solid squad and the latest is Brighton because although Brighton lost some of their important players last summer but De Zerbi can bringing this team to performing well with Brighton current squad so this makes some of big clubs were showing their interest to him including Barcelona and De Zerbi probably will leave Brighton after this season ended because he has internal conflict with Brighton owner but indeed i have to agree with you because De Zerbi is not ready for Barcelona because this team is demanding the trophies for each season so although De Zerbi is good manager but i don't think he can able to bringing Barcelona to gets trophies

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Jorginho may leave Arsenal.

Juventus Lazio and NApoli are interested in the players.

He is a free agent so Italian teams are in "vampire" mode for free players.

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I don't even know if they will buy Hakimi this summer or not. Real Madrid are now negotiating with Bayern to buy Davis, and although Real stated that they consider the maximum amount for him to be 40 million, Bayern wants to get 70. Along with spending on Mbappe, buying all three will be very expensive (although Real has the money for this). On the other hand, Davis has a contract until 2025 and Real can wait a year and buy Hakimi now. In general, the scale of changes in Real is amazing, apparently in a year and for example Real 2020, these will be completely two different teams.

I don't expect Madrid to start trying to bring in great players for next season, so far Mbappe and Davis are the players who will most likely join Madrid, but about hakimi, the question of whether Madrid really need hakimi at this time?
When Madrid still has Dani Carvajal and Lucas Vazquez at wing defender, indeed both players are a bit old but their performance so far is still very good, to recruit hakimi will not be difficult for madrid because reportedly hakimi also wants to leave PSG next season, and looking at hakimi performance so far, it can be ascertained that the price is quite high in market,  But I think Madrid have never been short of money, but the question now is whether those three transfers, which are predicted to be high enough, will not violate the rules of spending a club from La Liga authorities? Moreover, it is reported that Madrid is still eyeing a few more players at this time, of course, their expenses will be even greater later.

If you look at Madrid active hunt for top players, of course, we will most likely see the Los Galacticos era resurrected next season and Madrid  ambitious project will further scare their rivals, it seems that Ancelloti is starting to realize that it is time to regenerate Madrid's squad which is indeed full of old players at this time.

[makishart]

During the recent days, there was much news about Ronald Araújo linked to Bayern Munich. Ronald Araújo is a key player and effective in Barcelona but Barcelona is not going to lose their player easily especially when we know Ronald Araújo is important for Xavi and his team.

Even though araujo is still a very important player for the club and i must note some reason why barcelona must sell him if club will get lucrative offer for him.

1. Financial condition - Barcelona is not in good financial condition, the club needs to raise money from selling the players too. Remember barcelona is still having a lot of unpaid debt.
2. Araujo's future - Will he still become an important player if xavi will not be there again? Xavi is considering the possibility of leaving the club at the end of the season.
3. Barcelona needs to raise 100 millions to recruit a player

Since Bayern Munich is not in a good situation they decided to hire Ronald Araújo and in order to have this player in their team, they want to spend 90 million euros for this player.

I see it as another gamble from bayern munich. The club will depart with tuchel at the end of season and it's not even logic for me to hear that bayern is willing to buy him.
So, any transfer was not coming intentionally from the coach, right?

So far Bayern Munich sent 70 and 80 million euros for Ronald Araújo and all the offers were rejected until they sent the final offer for 90 million euros.

It means barcleona has committed to sell him as long as bayern will able to pay what demanded by barcelona. The club sells him for a lot of money and it will help the balance sheet of barcelona this year.

Barcelona has very small income caused by laporta has sold many percentages of it to the investors. Selling the players are a must for barcelona to keep the club alive.

[Ndabagi01]

Barcelona have been managed for years by footballers who played football for Barcelona. Enrique, Guardiola, Valverde and Xavi were all managers who played football for Barcelona. I think Barcelona have two options in front of them. Either they will work again with a coach who has played football for Barcelona in the past or with someone different. They have a choice between being open to experimenting with different football concepts or keeping the same concept. In Spain they are slowly moving away from competing with Real Madrid every year. They can also try different tactical ideas. I think names like Roberto De Zerbi and Unai Emery could be alternatives for them.

Are you implying that using former players as coaches hasn't helped them succeed in La Liga like other clubs? As far as I know, they are one of the most successful clubs in Europe. Nonetheless, experimenting with different options than what they have been used to for several years could be a good idea; they could see a change and a better perspective of football by hiring another coach who has never played or stayed in Spain before. Using the same tactical style every time is not good for a team because change is constant. I'd also like to see them try a new option that is different from what they've been used to. Who knows, they could be more successful for years to come than they usually do now.

[Josefjix]

I don't even know if they will buy Hakimi this summer or not. Real Madrid are now negotiating with Bayern to buy Davis, and although Real stated that they consider the maximum amount for him to be 40 million, Bayern wants to get 70. Along with spending on Mbappe, buying all three will be very expensive (although Real has the money for this). On the other hand, Davis has a contract until 2025 and Real can wait a year and buy Hakimi now. In general, the scale of changes in Real is amazing, apparently in a year and for example Real 2020, these will be completely two different teams.

Real Madrid have outstanding players, these players are hunger to play football and representing the best team in the world is a privilege. These clubs don't relent because they're aiming for major trophies. Talking about bringing over other key players, do they need them right now? Perhapes I don't know the next step of Real Madrid. They're doing everything lowkey because that's the new mode of operation led by the Madrid president, Florentino Pérez. He's ambitious for the club and there's quite alot he will achieve if he keeps maintaining high level of balances.

[QueenVera]

I think for now Osimhen should not be too hasty in deciding on a choice because after all when a player will be at a new club then it is definitely about how the continuation of the career he has.
Last season was Osimhen's brilliant career although for now he has experienced a slight setback but there are still many big clubs who want his services.

For Chelsea there is no problem joining this club because they are still one of the big clubs with high resources even though in these 2 seasons they are not running as they should but on the other hand Osimhen must realize that this is about his future.

Currently, Chelsea's performance is not very good and looking from history not after the loss of Drogba and Torres from the squad I don't think there is a single striker who really shines for Chelsea because all strikers have always been a failure when at Chelsea. In addition, looking at the track record of players who have been in Serie A and moved to the EPL sometimes their fate is not very good so this is a good reference for Osimhen to consider his future.
The different tension of the EPL sometimes makes some players with a slow style of play in the previous competition make it difficult to adapt well and not a few star players from Serie A are destroyed in the EPL.

Regardless of the loopholes Osimhen faced for a few weeks with Napoli, he still found so much belief in them and he'sore or less the fans' favorite too. So the news of his contract extension was definitely soothing to the team and fans too. Now it's certain that they'd keep seeing and benefiting from his unique style of football. He's being a key man at the Italian side and it was although very much unlikely for them to let him slip off their arm. He's just got more impacts to make. Napoli themselves have seen the quality of player he is and they really don't want to let him go.

 It's his decision no doubt, but maybe he's just got to get experiences in a different club environment. Even though, he still has an achievement to deliver onto the team too. Since Osimhen joined Napoli, he's been their key player and he's been doing his striking job perfectly without errors, even in times of emotional derailment from fans and the coach, he's still being able to keep his mind focused. He's in no wise the best thing that's happened to Napoli. He's the best addition to the team. Although Chelsea are having eyes on him but it's likely that Napoli won't let him slip without a very good replacement for him.

 His exit will place a threat to the teams performance subsequently and they may likely go back drastically. For Chelsea, he may not be able to cope immediately, he'd need time to blend and it's likely that the Chelsea pattern may not fit him. No doubt he's got the decision to make but he's got to weigh the options too considering that Chelsea can as well give him a whole new experience to football even though they're declining currently in their performance.

[arallmuus]

Jorginho may leave Arsenal.

Juventus Lazio and NApoli are interested in the players.

He is a free agent so Italian teams are in "vampire" mode for free players.

As always huh, a 30+ years old free agent players always attract most clubs from serie A. For some reason most of the 30+ players that ended up moving to serie A usually ended up playing much better compared to their previous club. Same pattern all over, 1-2 years ins Serie A then they would attract another offer from the Saudi League or probably ended up in some other smaller league if they didnt make it in Serie A

[Oluwa-btc]

Jorginho may leave Arsenal.

Juventus Lazio and NApoli are interested in the players.

He is a free agent so Italian teams are in "vampire" mode for free players.

May, it's crystal clear he is already old and worn out in that midfield even if he's been a decent ball passer,  he doesn't have the energy and strength needed to thrive in that midfield and also in the Premier League.
The movement of Jorginho outta the club is a big must and I don't see no-one stopping that from happening.

I see Arsenal  would get the chances of signing Douglas Luis finally,  Aston Villa has to sell two or three of them players reasons to these is because they want to avoid the FFP rules.
It's gonna be a good signature to Arsenal,  he has always been a top target for them.

Juventus for Jorginhð? Never?

[salad daging]

Since Bayern Munich is not in a good situation they decided to hire Ronald Araújo and in order to have this player in their team, they want to spend 90 million euros for this player.

I see it as another gamble from bayern munich. The club will depart with tuchel at the end of season and it's not even logic for me to hear that bayern is willing to buy him.
So, any transfer was not coming intentionally from the coach, right?

At the moment it looks like Bayern must be more careful when making decisions in recruiting players, especially for defenders.
Araujo is indeed a pretty good game but Bayern must pay attention to whether Araujo can immediately fit in with the players or the philosophy of Bayern or not?

Because after all, in my opinion this is quite important considering that Bayern in the last few seasons have brought in some pretty expensive defenders but sometimes with the philosophy that Bayern has sometimes these players cannot reach their best performance when they are at Bayern even though at their previous club they played very well and became irreplaceable main pillars.

We can see some players like De Ligt or last season Kim Min Jae who until now in my opinion have performed like ordinary players without anything special from their performance even though previously in Serie A when De Ligt played for Juventus and Kim played for Napoli they were very good so this must be taken into consideration in the end not to waste money again for Araujo.

[KTChampions]

I don't even know if they will buy Hakimi this summer or not. Real Madrid are now negotiating with Bayern to buy Davis, and although Real stated that they consider the maximum amount for him to be 40 million, Bayern wants to get 70. Along with spending on Mbappe, buying all three will be very expensive (although Real has the money for this). On the other hand, Davis has a contract until 2025 and Real can wait a year and buy Hakimi now. In general, the scale of changes in Real is amazing, apparently in a year and for example Real 2020, these will be completely two different teams.

I don't expect Madrid to start trying to bring in great players for next season, so far Mbappe and Davis are the players who will most likely join Madrid, but about hakimi, the question of whether Madrid really need hakimi at this time?
When Madrid still has Dani Carvajal and Lucas Vazquez at wing defender, indeed both players are a bit old but their performance so far is still very good, to recruit hakimi will not be difficult for madrid because reportedly hakimi also wants to leave PSG next season, and looking at hakimi performance so far, it can be ascertained that the price is quite high in market,  But I think Madrid have never been short of money, but the question now is whether those three transfers, which are predicted to be high enough, will not violate the rules of spending a club from La Liga authorities? Moreover, it is reported that Madrid is still eyeing a few more players at this time, of course, their expenses will be even greater later.

If you look at Madrid active hunt for top players, of course, we will most likely see the Los Galacticos era resurrected next season and Madrid  ambitious project will further scare their rivals, it seems that Ancelloti is starting to realize that it is time to regenerate Madrid's squad which is indeed full of old players at this time.

Real Madrid is the first most profitable club for the 2022/2023 season, their income amounted to 831 million euros. They have no financial problems at all (unlike Barcelona, which seems to be close - in 4th place, but taking into account the debts, the situation there is completely different). They can afford to buy all three at once, but I doubt that this is their plan, rather they are looking at options, firstly so that each individual option does not think too much about itself, and secondly, this is a long-term game, see how long they wait return on their investment in Endrick.
And I don’t agree that they are building the Galacticos again, it was a set of stars and not a team, you can’t say the same about Real for many years. Everyone (maybe except Mbappe) are pros at the “regular” level of media exposure, this is not at all the situation when Figo, Zidane, Ronaldo, Beckham, Owen, etc. played in Real Madrid.