⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions

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Xavi's story with Barcelona may not be over, from what we understand from Spanish sources, Barcelona themselves are trying to change the coach's mind to stay another year.

For this reason there are rumors that Barcelona are trying to sign Haaland, the player should have a release clause that can be activated in the summer for around 120-130 million euros.

Barcelona doesn't seem to want to spend any more money to sign a new coach and as long as Xavi can still be retained, they will try everything to prevent him from leaving. Barcelona is smart enough to take advantage of the existing situation and they don't want to just let Xavi go and it's better to give him the salary they still have allocated than to hire a new coach whose costs will be much more expensive.

Haaland to Barcelona? I think it will just be a dream that won't come true and considering the value of the clause which is very expensive, I don't think Barcelona can afford to sign him because we all know the existing financial forces will never be able to bring in Haaland. Unless Barcelona is willing to sell some of its players, that could possibly happen. But if that happens then Barcelona will lose several key players. Other problems that are quite easy, such as making Joao Felix's transfer permanent, they can't let alone bring in Haaland, right?

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Newcastle still needs to improve the squad instead of letting some of its best players leave at the end of the season. Alexander Isak is one of the important players in Newcastle's squad this season, so they need to keep him instead of selling him. It is true that it is difficult for Newcastle players to hope for a title, but it is not impossible for this team to follow in the footsteps of Manchester City because of its good financial strength.

This season Newcastle's performance is very different compared to last season, even though they have improved their squad. Of course player injuries have had a significant impact on the team's performance, but that should not be the main reason why they have dropped so much so far.

Newcastle United decline in performance, their strength have reduced to minimum, they're settling for lesser results and having zero voltage to withstand the stats of elite teams. The magpies boss, Eddie Howe was the promised change for Newcastle but more ugly incident have happen. This season is entirely different for Newcastle United, they've been struggling to win matches from day one and they didn't horribly in the UEFA Champions League this season. Newcastle United is an average team despite the uprising stars they're in possession of.

From what I have noticed regarding Newcastle decline, it is because they did not make good use of the transfer market season and had too much confidence in the squad they had last season. Meanwhile, other teams that are currently at the top are making improvements so that they are at least able to maintain their performance in the EPL. Not only that, the strong reason behind Newcastle setback is the mental factor of the players, mental matters cannot be taken lightly, because speaking of the EPL you need to be mentally strong enough to be able to compete. As a result Newcastle lost its best performance, and we can't expect much from Newcastle club management other than having to go through a bad phase because of its own mistakes.

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Manchester City will be the strongest team if they manage to get Mbappe because the quality that Mbappe has will encourage them to become a team that has goal-hungry front players. However, Manchester City efforts to get Mbappe are certainly not easy because Real Madrid will be at the forefront of getting Mbappe. But everything could change if Mbappe is more interested in playing in the Premier League then Manchester City or Liverpool will be his goal.

It would be great to watch Mbappe at Manchester City. I'm sure every Manchester City fan would want that. But we know that Mbappe had some problems before when he was in the same team with Neymar and Messi. He might have similar problems playing with Haaland. There are younger players at Real Madrid, so he can gain respect from them. And we can see him as a dominant character at Real Madrid. But when he plays with Haaland he might not be the dominant character. I think he will be more successful at Real Madrid.

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Manchester City will be the strongest team if they manage to get Mbappe because the quality that Mbappe has will encourage them to become a team that has goal-hungry front players. However, Manchester City efforts to get Mbappe are certainly not easy because Real Madrid will be at the forefront of getting Mbappe. But everything could change if Mbappe is more interested in playing in the Premier League then Manchester City or Liverpool will be his goal.

It would be great to watch Mbappe at Manchester City. I'm sure every Manchester City fan would want that. But we know that Mbappe had some problems before when he was in the same team with Neymar and Messi. He might have similar problems playing with Haaland. There are younger players at Real Madrid, so he can gain respect from them. And we can see him as a dominant character at Real Madrid. But when he plays with Haaland he might not be the dominant character. I think he will be more successful at Real Madrid.

It's an impossible scenario. Please look into Manchester City's case which is having issues with FFP breaches. It would be ridiculous if City signed Mbappe because he demands excessive signing fees from the club that successfully recruits him as a new player which is impossible to happen with city and mbappe. The better for city to complete its problems rather than thinking about how to recruit mbappe.

The city's problem with financial fair play has not yet been resolved, so how can we predict whether the city will be able to sign the mbappe here? it's totally a non sense thing to be talked. I would prefer that City keep playing with their current wingers because they are good since the early season. Grealish and Doku were very capable of playing on City and the club doesn't need a new winger again to play in the club and the better to use the available talents.

The club does not need someone like Mbappe, and Pep was obviously aware of this. This is why the city was rarely connected with the mbappe even when many big teams massively linked with mbappe's movements, as the team had no interest in recruiting him as a new player. It's that simple.
Pep is a coach who prioritizes efficiency over everything. It does not make sense for him to spend so much money on an expensive player like him. Allow the city to be done with its FFP breach problem.

[Ryu_Ar1]

From what I have noticed regarding Newcastle decline, it is because they did not make good use of the transfer market season and had too much confidence in the squad they had last season. Meanwhile, other teams that are currently at the top are making improvements so that they are at least able to maintain their performance in the EPL. Not only that, the strong reason behind Newcastle setback is the mental factor of the players, mental matters cannot be taken lightly, because speaking of the EPL you need to be mentally strong enough to be able to compete. As a result Newcastle lost its best performance, and we can't expect much from Newcastle club management other than having to go through a bad phase because of its own mistakes.

Newcastle's unwanted transfer mistakes have made this season not go well for them.
Actually for this season the steps taken by Howe are actually very good where they bring in several players including Tonali who in fact is one of the very good assets because at a very young age he became a promising player because of his good performance, it's just that there were some unexpected situations where Tonali had problems with illegal bets made him get problems and a ban on playing even until the end of this season he will not be able to compete which makes Newcastle experience problems in midfield because it cannot balance the squad because Tonali was included in Howe's previous plan.

This is what makes Newcastle troublesome even though their momentum last season was very good but because of some unexpected mistakes it made them this season experience destruction.

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Manchester City will be the strongest team if they manage to get Mbappe because the quality that Mbappe has will encourage them to become a team that has goal-hungry front players. However, Manchester City efforts to get Mbappe are certainly not easy because Real Madrid will be at the forefront of getting Mbappe. But everything could change if Mbappe is more interested in playing in the Premier League then Manchester City or Liverpool will be his goal.

It would be great to watch Mbappe at Manchester City. I'm sure every Manchester City fan would want that. But we know that Mbappe had some problems before when he was in the same team with Neymar and Messi. He might have similar problems playing with Haaland. There are younger players at Real Madrid, so he can gain respect from them. And we can see him as a dominant character at Real Madrid. But when he plays with Haaland he might not be the dominant character. I think he will be more successful at Real Madrid.

Both of them are talented young players in the current era. they can compete like Messi and Ronaldo in the past. it would be less interesting for fans to see both of them on the same team. City could be very overpowered in the Premier League.
I would prefer Mbappe to Madrid or a club in the Premier League other than City to create competition with Mbappe.

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Manchester City will be the strongest team if they manage to get Mbappe because the quality that Mbappe has will encourage them to become a team that has goal-hungry front players. However, Manchester City efforts to get Mbappe are certainly not easy because Real Madrid will be at the forefront of getting Mbappe. But everything could change if Mbappe is more interested in playing in the Premier League then Manchester City or Liverpool will be his goal.

It would be great to watch Mbappe at Manchester City. I'm sure every Manchester City fan would want that. But we know that Mbappe had some problems before when he was in the same team with Neymar and Messi. He might have similar problems playing with Haaland. There are younger players at Real Madrid, so he can gain respect from them. And we can see him as a dominant character at Real Madrid. But when he plays with Haaland he might not be the dominant character. I think he will be more successful at Real Madrid.

The problem is that it will not be realistic especially for the financial problems that Manchester City has now.
With some pretty expensive players at Manchester City at the moment it is clear that bringing Mbappe is difficult to do unless he takes out some of the core players they have including Haaland.
It is difficult to bring together two players of Mbappe and Haaland's caliber in the squad which makes it unrealistic to expect Mbappe to be at Manchester City for next season.

In addition, if this possibility occurs I do not dare to say they will be fine in terms of FFP because now the issue of violations in Financial Fairplay for Manchester City has always been a never-ending issue so when there is a possibility of Mbappe to be in the Manchester City squad next season I do not dare to guarantee the reaction of several other clubs in the EPL about this because it will seem partial and the financial authorities in the EPL only look at small clubs like Everton or Nottingham but do not care about the finances of big clubs like Manchester City.  

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Barcelona and Chelsea are both working on a move for Palmeiras winger Estevao Willian, with the 16-year old’s release clause set at £51m.

Source: Sunday Mirror
I wonder from where Barcelona is going to get the £51m. They don't have much money if I am not wrong. And I wonder if they should actually go for this player to be honest. Chelsea has money as far as i know. So if the only competition is actually Barca, I dont think they are going to have any problem winning over the player.

Selling raphinha? Barcelona has no other solution than this. This makes me feel very skeptical with barcelona right now. The club is performing even worse financially and barcelona may not able to get up again in the future.
It's hard to pick which was the best solution for this since barcelona is suffering huge lose. Let's wait from which barcelona will get additional money to compete with chelsea in getting him. Im doubting barcelona this time.

^ I have heard some news about some Barcelona players not being able to leave Barcelona because Barcelona have not paid them as much money as they should have. that is a very big problem.
I actually do not understand how you can go for signing new players when you cannot even provide the proper wage of the players that you already have.

You know, a few months ago Barcelona was even unable to register players because of funding problems.
And their situation cannot be turned into something so great that they start looking for players that cost more than 50 million right?

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The main problem is barcelona doesn't have a lot of money to buy the players. Many players who have projected to leave from the club decided to stay even longer in barcelona and it means that if club must have paid more.
Laporta is feeling confusing now on how to get additional money to buy the new players. It's hard to think on what plan prepared by laporta to get a new player. it's caused by barcelona has no other option than selling the players.
The club is performing even better than before and it must be noted that if laporta is also having trouble with a big debt owned by barcelona and it's still getting unpaid.

^ I still think that for any young and upcoming player who is showing good talent, it is not a good idea to go to Barcelona. Because the situation of the club is not good right now. Even though they are definitely performing better when compared to Chelsea or Manchester United. If there is any club that young players should stay away from, it is those three.

[QueenVera]

This season Newcastle performed much worse than last season and they were really very disappointing in the Premier League and UCL matches, last season Newcastle were still able to finish the competition in the top 4 and get UCL ticket.
But this season, Newcastle is only in the top 8 in the remaining matches, which only has few matches remaining, in fact Newcastle can perform well again, but they have to focus on the UCL matches and that makes their performance decline.
If look at all the players they have, it is clear that Newcastle does not have star who can truly perform dominantly, this is one mistake they must correct next season.

There are reports that several names are being linked with Newcastle and this is an option that might bring change if it can actually be brought in in the next transfer market.
Newcastle will get new performance with several players being brought in, Newcastle next season must be able to show their best performance again to get the place they deserve.

The performance of smaller teams this season will continually shock everyone because one wouldn't have believed if told before now that Newcastle would be in the Champions league this season, and say more and more of the recent performances of Fulham and others. These teams have taken advantage of the situation the wild teams have found themselves, in terms of competitions being played which causes less resting times, plus the team's defaults in their physical structure and player's efforts in converting goal chances to victories.

 A whole lot has changed in football. The EPL which was tough has become even tougher, La Liga just started getting competitive. It's amazing that the smaller teams are making wave and causing football to be more fun than it used to be. Gone are the days that football in these leagues were one team focused, now all teams have to be watched closely because no one knows where his defeat would lie.

 Newcastle in weeks have been doing good, they've been surprisingly excellent in a couple of games that they've been underrated in.  They're one team that didn't let the injury situation affect their performance, they were able to keep up with the games and ending them with victories. Even against PSG in both legs of the UCL group stage faceoff, they played in their highness and held PSG to ransom twice. It's just an amazing remark of their performance in football in the past weeks.

 Weeks back they lost to Everton which wasn't entirely their fault. They even went on to face City, a team who's also had huge impact on the league table, they did their best to put in extra effort. Any side had the chance to win even though City are doing exceedingly well, Newcastle were the host and they were also able to hold down City's pressure.

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Manchester City will be the strongest team if they manage to get Mbappe because the quality that Mbappe has will encourage them to become a team that has goal-hungry front players. However, Manchester City efforts to get Mbappe are certainly not easy because Real Madrid will be at the forefront of getting Mbappe. But everything could change if Mbappe is more interested in playing in the Premier League then Manchester City or Liverpool will be his goal.

It would be great to watch Mbappe at Manchester City. I'm sure every Manchester City fan would want that. But we know that Mbappe had some problems before when he was in the same team with Neymar and Messi. He might have similar problems playing with Haaland. There are younger players at Real Madrid, so he can gain respect from them. And we can see him as a dominant character at Real Madrid. But when he plays with Haaland he might not be the dominant character. I think he will be more successful at Real Madrid.

I almost don't believe that Mbappe will go to Manchester City and I think this is also not a good thing for football, especially for the current competition between the two best front players between Mbappe and Haaland.

I also think so, Mbappe would be the main player in the front line with full control and full support if he was at Real Madrid without any competition between teammates.
And in my opinion, that's much better than having to play on the same team as Haaland.

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more and more rumors about the probable separation between Juventus and coach Allegri.

Everything seems already set towards the end of the season with the dismissal of the current coach.

The rumors for the new coach are different but most are directed towards Tiago Motta. the only contender at the moment seems to be Antonio Conte but much less likely.

Some are already starting to assume Motta will be the next coach from the 2024/2025 season.

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Newcastle's unwanted transfer mistakes have made this season not go well for them.
Actually for this season the steps taken by Howe are actually very good where they bring in several players including Tonali who in fact is one of the very good assets because at a very young age he became a promising player because of his good performance, it's just that there were some unexpected situations where Tonali had problems with illegal bets made him get problems and a ban on playing even until the end of this season he will not be able to compete which makes Newcastle experience problems in midfield because it cannot balance the squad because Tonali was included in Howe's previous plan.

This is what makes Newcastle troublesome even though their momentum last season was very good but because of some unexpected mistakes it made them this season experience destruction.

Another reason why Newcastle experienced a setback this season was due to injuries. At the start of the season, Eddie Howe squad performance was quite consistent in winning. Along the way, a storm of player injuries haunted them, and coupled with the Tonali case, their situation worsened. Meanwhile, in terms of player transfers, Newcastle can actually easily recruit players even though the prices are expensive, because after changing ownership, Newcastle has now turned into a club that has strong finances.

Newcastle management must pay close attention to its policies when wanting to buy players in each transfer market, they have to pay attention to the FFP rules too, so that they don't get sanctions like that in the future. Apart from that, currently there are 9 Newcastle players who are still struggling with injuries, while one other, namely Tonali, is still sidelined due to sanctions until the end of August. Overall, the depth of Newcastle's squad is actually quite good, but to be able to compete in the top four next season, Eddie Howe needs to reshuffle his starting XI.

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Who has the higher market value? Phil Foden or Jude Bellingham?

Because you are using the Transfermarkt as a reference, you should know who is the most expensive player between the two. There is information listed there about the market value of every player you want, including Jude Bellingham and Phil Foden, so that question should have been answered.

Both are players with British passports whose performance is increasing with their respective teams. Bellingham and Phil Foden are the two best midfielders in England at the moment, but there are still several other good players such as Declan Rice and others. I can't compare their current market value, especially since both have high resale value at the moment. Market prices increase as they perform well, so there's nothing certain to say.

[Oluwa-btc]

Xavi's story with Barcelona may not be over, from what we understand from Spanish sources, Barcelona themselves are trying to change the coach's mind to stay another year.

For this reason there are rumors that Barcelona are trying to sign Haaland, the player should have a release clause that can be activated in the summer for around 120-130 million euros.

Yeah, I did see this very news but was too lazy to raise it up. Seeing it from you shows it has some levels of validity innit. What I feel is that, Xavi Hernandez shouldn't have been treated the way he was treated. He is not as bad as they think he is. What happened was that Barcelona lacked the finances to get players to back him up this season and it affected him hugely.

I'm cool with him staying further, he knows the club in and out. All he needs right now is to sell of players like Robert Lewandoski and Raphina and cash out huge figures from them sale to Saudi Arabian Premier League Competition. This so they can fund for players. I see Bernado Silva ha been linked to Barcelona already, that would be a great switch.

Also, they will be needing a player like Sergio Busquet. Do they have that already?
For Erling Haaland to win the Ballon d'or, he needs to leave the Premier League Competition. This eventually makes Cristiano Ronaldo the only player to win the Ballon d'or from the Premier League Competition.

[Palakka]

more and more rumors about the probable separation between Juventus and coach Allegri.

Everything seems already set towards the end of the season with the dismissal of the current coach.

The rumors for the new coach are different but most are directed towards Tiago Motta. the only contender at the moment seems to be Antonio Conte but much less likely.

Some are already starting to assume Motta will be the next coach from the 2024/2025 season.

Juventus is currently very down in Serie A and even their position is now starting to be threatened by Bologna in the top 4, currently Juventus is in 3rd position while Bologna who is in 4th position with a difference of 2 points is of course just waiting for time to overtake Juventus, the poor performance of Juventus in recent seasons certainly cannot be separated from Allegri's monotonous strategy and easy to read by his opponents,  Allegri has been relying on a scheme of play that I think is very old-fashioned, which is still reluctant to have the ball for too long in a match and I think that makes Juventus now increasingly lagging behind the modern style of play.

Currently it is reported that Juventus is eyeing several top coaches to replace allegri next season, but so far we have not been able to ascertain who Is worthy to replace Allegri who is now only 180 minutes away with Juventus, because reportedly if Juventus get bad results in the next two matches against Fiorentina and Torino, the management will consider sacking Allegri,  But looking at the current conditions, of course Thiago Motta is a strong candidate to replace Allegri, but the question now if Juventus again miss the Champions League next season, will Thiago Motta want to leave Bologna who will most likely play in the Champions League next season?

[Dzigie]

Xavi's story with Barcelona may not be over, from what we understand from Spanish sources, Barcelona themselves are trying to change the coach's mind to stay another year.

For this reason there are rumors that Barcelona are trying to sign Haaland, the player should have a release clause that can be activated in the summer for around 120-130 million euros.

Xavi might stay at Barcelona next season. I think this rumor is plausible, but I think the possibility of them signing Haaland for 130 million euros is a weak rumor. I think Manchester City would make a big mistake if they sell Haaland for 130 million euros. Even if it is because of a clause in his contract, it would be a mistake for Manchester City. Today, even for Osimhen and Alexander Isak, there are rumors in the press about a transfer fee of 130 million euros. If they lose Haaland for 130 million euros, they will lose a lot.

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more and more rumors about the probable separation between Juventus and coach Allegri.
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Some are already starting to assume Motta will be the next coach from the 2024/2025 season.

Most of the top brass in coaching are either going to retire or pretty washed up so giving a new blood chances to coach these top clubs seems to be quite the phenomenal nowadays. Even Xabi Alonso would most likely join one of those top clubs that is willing to get his signature on the contract rather than staying in Leverkusen for sure

Bologna is pretty impressive this season although I would argue that Thiago Motta's managerial career isnt that impressive if we look at his statistic last season, Bologna was nowhere as good as this season. Aside from that, his two last club's statistic was pretty horrible and its no where near decent atleast so this is going to be a pretty bold move from Juventus if they actually let Motta take over especially when currently Juventus is not that impressive in serie A this season

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Personally, I think he will be redundant at Manchester City as the team is well-stocked and doesn't need another striker like Mbappe when they have Haalande. If both players are competing for the golden ball and are unlikely to stand competition with each other playing in the same team, it could have a negative impact on the team as a whole. But it's fair to say that it would be a great duo

The distribution of their roles within the team would be pretty clear though. Haaland is a center forward and nothing else. He could never play a different position and he doesn't have any special talent to play anywhere else other than in the center. But Mbappe is more versatile. He could play as a left winger for sure and he could get several degrees of freedom for his game. I would put him as a semi-winger /  semi-center forward player if I had Haaland and Mbappe available at the same time. But I agree with you that for Mbappe it would be better to go to Real Madrid and have his position in the center saved.

Considering the style of football Kylian Mbappe and Erling Haaland plays, it's absolutely possible for both players to feature in one team because unlike Erling Haaland, Kylian Mbappe can perfectly play in the positions but Haaland is only good as a top 9 striker. Manchester City without doubt will do anything within their strength to make sure they bring Kylian Mbappe to the club if the chance ever comes but I don't think such thing is going to happen because Real Madrid have reportedly completed over 85% contract deals that'll see the French national team captain join them in the summer. Mbappe also wants to join Real Madrid in the summer and that's why I don't give too much attention to rumours that suggests that Kylian Mbappe might just join another club that's not Real Madrid when he leaves his current club Paris Saint Germaine

Again, I don't know whether this can really be a goal for Manchester City to sign Mbappe, but if they want to, I think the solution would be to use Mbappe as probably the most dangerous winger next to Vinicius Junior that is out there at the moment.

Obviously, nothing is clear at the moment, but the transfer window is about to open and if Mbappe doesn't move to Real Madrid immediately, it may become clear that other teams are competing for him and Real Madrid won't like that very much, because they won't tolerate a second transfer failure.

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Source: https://twitter.com/DeadlineDayLive/status/1775914977599398222

Reportedly, Real Sociedad is interested in bringing in Arda Guler on loan in the summer. We know that there are times when not getting a lot of playing minutes means a player has to first seek experience outside his club and maybe the offer from Real Sociedad is not too bad. I believe Ancelotti still hopes that Arda Guler will be in Los Blancos' main squad, it's just that the competition for his position is getting thinner every day.

As an AMF, Arda Guler certainly won't be able to replace the roles of Jude Bellingham and Brahim Diaz in the main squad and like it or not he will just wait his turn until Ancelotti brings him in when the team is already far ahead. Things like that will only make his talent disappear slowly and if Arda Guler still wants to survive then he has to be patient in getting his turn. On the other hand, if he can prove a brilliant performance at his temporary club then that could change Ancelotti's mind about including him in the rotation of players.

Well, it's quite difficult when betting on a career at a big club with other great players and maybe Arda Guler will consider this option if the offer from Real Sociedad is already on the table.

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It would be great to watch Mbappe at Manchester City. I'm sure every Manchester City fan would want that. But we know that Mbappe had some problems before when he was in the same team with Neymar and Messi. He might have similar problems playing with Haaland. There are younger players at Real Madrid, so he can gain respect from them. And we can see him as a dominant character at Real Madrid. But when he plays with Haaland he might not be the dominant character. I think he will be more successful at Real Madrid.

It will be selfish of City to allow such to happen. Look at how good squad of Manchester City are looking good, if you add Mbape to that guys, then there is going to be a big problem in Premier League and Champions league or any league they find theirself. I'm not even sure if Manchester City has the funds to but Mbape with such amount of money, remember that Manchester City still has a court case with Fifa regarding pending FFP, that case is not over yet that's why I'm not sure they will want Mbape deal.

Mbape need to be bail from the shackles of PSG and since Real Madrid want him, they have to strike a deal which is anonymously completed, they are just waiting for the right time to make a public announcement especially Fabrizio to say here we go, Mbape to Real Madrid, everything is completed, what next is the medical and he will be traveling to Spain tomorrow for medical checkup.