⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions

[Alpha Marine]

Todd Boehly ambition is very big, he wants to make Chelsea a strong team in the EPL in a short time, the defeat from Manchester City is certainly unacceptable to him because the result was never expected, especially since he has spent a lot of money to recruit new players. But he has to look at it realistically, Manchester City is not a team like Fulham or West Ham, it takes a lot of power to beat Manchester City.

If he doesn't realise that he's part of the problem then they're going to be in for a very long horrible ride. It's still crazy to me that this club have not figured out what they're doing wrong when it's staring them in the face the whole time. How do they hope to build a world-class team with average players? Signing all the players in the world won't make them a world-class team. There are better ways he could have handled his transfers. I know the market is inflated but with 80% of the money he has spent, he should have had a world-class team. T
Today they signed Felix on a 5 year contract. They just don't know what they're doing.

Bringing in Osimhen wouldn't be a bad move, as long as he can get the transfer done, Chelsea fans will welcome him with joy. Osimhen's arrival could also increase competition in the front line, this situation will certainly make Chelsea players compete to win a place in the main squad.

At this point, I doubt if Osimhen will choose Chelsea if he has other options in Europe. They won't play Champions League football and would most likely not play it next season too. I think his agent is to find a way to push for the PSG deal now that Ramos is injured, they might be interested.

[Dump3er]

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I don't know why Chelsea will be faced with the option to sign Osimhen and Felix and they concluded that of Felix over Osimhen.

I know that the movement of Felix last time to the bridge wasn't a success. Although Chelsea were in their lows. Let us be hopeful that things might change now.

With the way Chelsea is buying many players of the same wing, I am suspecting that they are not only improving their squad depth but also very interested business wise to make some money out of these players.

I will never understand how and why Chelsea concludes to sign certain players. They have had their first defeat already and then they think Felix is the right guy to fix those problems. Last time he played at Stamford Bridge he scored 4 goals in 16 games. Bring that number up to a whole season and he might score about 10 goals. How is that what they are looking for? And that is not exception. His goal rate has always been at a goal every four games. It was the same when he played for Barcelona and when he played for Atletico Madrid. ATM is probably still angry about their decision back then as they paid a fortune for him when he came from Benfica. It's insane how these clubs go crazy when there is a young talent that plays one good season. They'll immediately pay three figure millions.

[kawetsriyanto]

I don’t see anything wrong in bringing Osimehn to Chelsea at this point, they know they need a clinical striker and only Osimehn is currently in the market that they can get and do the work for them. The transfer window is gradually coming to an end of Chelsea needs this player, they need to be decisive on time and get him on board sooner. They can also get Joao Felix back into the squad with news already speculating that talks have gone far for Chelsea to sign him back on a permanent move this time around. Chelsea will be much better and I see them having a better season if they bring this two players into the squad, I just hope they don’t fade on this and regret it later.

I can say signing Osimhen isn't a bad idea if Chelsea can sell some of their current strikers. Lukaku, Broja, David Datro Fofana, and Deivid Washington are some strikers to be sold first before they sign new strikers. Moreover, they are reported to sign Felix, there will be too many strikers if they don't sell some of them. If I'm a part of Chelsea board, I will be focusing to sell some players first before I plan to buy new players. Chelsea also has too many goalkeepers as well, they have 6 goalkeepers. This is nonsense, why Chelsea wants to waste their money for unused players.

Back to the plan to sign Osimhen, it may resolve the problem of quality striker in Chelsea squad. Chelsea has many strikers now but only 1-2 strikers who have good quality and experience. Unfortunately, Lukaku is no longer expected to play as the main striker of Chelsea. Chelsea only has Nicolas Jackson as the option of the striker. He is still not proven enough to be the mainstay player. That's why Chelsea board is satisfied with the current Chelsea stikers.

[Litzki1990]

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Yeah we all know how Rumours sometimes translate to been true but you see this particular one it is not materializing to any truth, Vinicius setting his eyes at the Balon D’OR something that he could win this year or maybe next so he wouldn’t want to leave just yet. Aside that Madrid have set a ridiculous amount of $1B as his release clause so that clubs cannot easily match it to take the player away from them.

As long as he is still playing for Real Madrid, his chances of getting the Ballon D'or are very big because he has become an important player for Real Madrid and his contribution to the team is also very big. During his time at Real Madrid he has won everything, only the Ballon D'or is missing. Now he is in the golden age of his career, his age is still young, his future is very bright if he continues to play in high level competitions. The price set by Real Madrid as a way of protecting one of its valuable assets from being taken by other clubs, he has also officially stated that he wants to continue to be at the Santiago Bernabeu. I think this transfer will not happen because Vinicius and Real Madrid still want to continue their cooperation.

Vinicius Jr.'s Ballon d'Or win this season makes it as difficult for him to win the Ballon d'Or next season as Real Madrid joins Mbappe and Mbappe will continue to lead the way for the Ballon d'or. Mbappé is a fantastic player, with pace as well as excellent finishing skills, so it is a foregone conclusion that he will achieve career highs for Real Madrid. It was rumored that Vinicius Jr. could win the Ballon d'Or this season, but it remains to be seen who will win the Ballon d'or in the end. However, the team formed by Real Madrid will be selected from among the best players in the next season.

[klidex]

Finally, Chelsea has reached a deal with ATM  on the signing of Joao Felix on a six years contract with a 12 months optional addition. I think this is no bad signing, at this time Chelsea really need a striker with a goal scoring capacity. I am suspecting that there loss to Manchester City yesterday must have fast tracked this deal. But the question now is that, does this cancels Chelsea's further interest on Victor Osimhen of Napoli whose future has been that of contention between Chelsea and PSG.

I think this is the reason Chelsea are no longer interested in Victor Oshimen because they are looking for other cheaper striker alternatives, Chelsea agreed a deal with Atletico Madrid. But bringing in Joao Felix, is Chelsea's problem in the front line solved? No. Although this player was once loaned to Chelsea, he only played in 20 matches and scored only 4 goals.

Even though they just recruited Pedro Neto and it didn't take long for them to want to recruit Joao Felix, Chelsea spent almost 100 million euros on a player who is not really relied on, isn't this just a waste of money? Chelsea have many players in their squad but are not good at implementing strategies that suit their characteristics.


Source : Pedro Neto and Joao Felix

[Lida93]

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Finally, Chelsea has reached a deal with ATM  on the signing of Joao Felix on a six years contract with a 12 months optional addition. I think this is no bad signing, at this time Chelsea really need a striker with a goal scoring capacity. I am suspecting that there loss to Manchester City yesterday must have fast tracked this deal. But the question now is that, does this cancels Chelsea's further interest on Victor Osimhen of Napoli whose future has been that of contention between Chelsea and PSG.

I don't know why Chelsea will be faced with the option to sign Osimhen and Felix and they concluded that of Felix over Osimhen.

I know that the movement of Felix last time to the bridge wasn't a success. Although Chelsea were in their lows. Let us be hopeful that things might change now.

With the way Chelsea is buying many players of the same wing, I am suspecting that they are not only improving their squad depth but also very interested business wise to make some money out of these players.

It is quite simple to understand mate, the conditions and signing fee with the  salary payment for Osimhen when compared to that of Joao Felix you'll find out that that of Joao is lighter a burden to easily bear, and as businessman Todd Boehly  has got to go for Joao Felix believing he can still get same result with him as Osimhen could bring to the club. However, recalling on Joao Felix time on loan in Chelsea he was able to register just 4 goals in all the games he fixture but we're hoping there are a lot of improving changes with his performance now.

What I think Todd Boehly  is doing in his buying of numerous players is that he intend to loan some of those players to make profit from them. He's just a man that sees players a business commodities.

[Helena Yu]

Finally, Chelsea has reached a deal with ATM  on the signing of Joao Felix on a six years contract with a 12 months optional addition. I think this is no bad signing, at this time Chelsea really need a striker with a goal scoring capacity. I am suspecting that there loss to Manchester City yesterday must have fast tracked this deal. But the question now is that, does this cancels Chelsea's further interest on Victor Osimhen of Napoli whose future has been that of contention between Chelsea and PSG.

Another bad signing by Chelsea, Joao Felix proves nothing when he was play for Chelsea and Barcelona, which make his market value drop, Chelsea want to sign him. Signing a player just because the price cheaper than before is wrong. I expect Felix will become nobody in Chelsea and Chelsea will try to sell him since they have too many players.

If Chelsea choose to not sign Osimhen, they should give Lukaku a chance.

[Farma]

I think this is the reason Chelsea are no longer interested in Victor Oshimen because they are looking for other cheaper striker alternatives, Chelsea agreed a deal with Atletico Madrid. But bringing in Joao Felix, is Chelsea's problem in the front line solved? No. Although this player was once loaned to Chelsea, he only played in 20 matches and scored only 4 goals.

Even though they just recruited Pedro Neto and it didn't take long for them to want to recruit Joao Felix, Chelsea spent almost 100 million euros on a player who is not really relied on, isn't this just a waste of money? Chelsea have many players in their squad but are not good at implementing strategies that suit their characteristics.


Source : Pedro Neto and Joao Felix

In my opinion, the mistake made by Chelsea owners in this transfer market, how could they not focus on their defense and midfield but in reality they actually waste a lot of money to bring in forwards, and in my opinion this makes it very difficult for Enzo Maresca to make a good game plan for their squad because currently they already have many names and of course it is difficult for him to determine 11 main players in their squad, and in my opinion JF's arrival is not only because they need his services but this is all a need or plan that is being carried out by Chelsea owners in order to gain benefits in the next few seasons.

How could it not be, currently they have found more than 40 players in their squad and on the front side they already have 11 players and JF's arrival will add one more player of course this is a project that is being carried out by Chelsea owners for their needs not only for the interests of the club, and in my opinion Chelsea is having difficulties in this regard under their new owners.

[Barikui1]

Finally, Chelsea has reached a deal with ATM  on the signing of Joao Felix on a six years contract with a 12 months optional addition. I think this is no bad signing, at this time Chelsea really need a striker with a goal scoring capacity. I am suspecting that there loss to Manchester City yesterday must have fast tracked this deal. But the question now is that, does this cancels Chelsea's further interest on Victor Osimhen of Napoli whose future has been that of contention between Chelsea and PSG.

Another bad signing by Chelsea, Joao Felix proves nothing when he was play for Chelsea and Barcelona, which make his market value drop, Chelsea want to sign him. Signing a player just because the price cheaper than before is wrong. I expect Felix will become nobody in Chelsea and Chelsea will try to sell him since they have too many players.

If Chelsea choose to not sign Osimhen, they should give Lukaku a chance.

Well, what you are actually saying isn't a bad thing, and I support the statement you made here that signing a player because a player is cheap doesn't make him a good signing, Joao Felix is not what Chelsea needs right now, they need an attacker in the team, someone as victor osimhen, or like you rightfully said, if victor osimhen is out of reach, they should give Romelu lukaku a chance to lead the line, at least he is way better than all their present options at the club right now.

Then talking of Joao Felix if he will be a successful signing or not, actually in my own perspective, I will just be positive on him, even though I never fancies the move, due to the fact that, it's not what the team needs, the team is seriously in need of an attacker, but the clueless club owner Todd boehly is adding more midfielder into the team, without address the most important needs of the team, let's be patient an just look how this particular transfer unfold, because Joao Felix can't gives Chelsea the kind of numbers of goals the team badly craves for.

[rendravolt]

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Finally, Chelsea has reached a deal with ATM  on the signing of Joao Felix on a six years contract with a 12 months optional addition. I think this is no bad signing, at this time Chelsea really need a striker with a goal scoring capacity. I am suspecting that there loss to Manchester City yesterday must have fast tracked this deal. But the question now is that, does this cancels Chelsea's further interest on Victor Osimhen of Napoli whose future has been that of contention between Chelsea and PSG.

But doesn't this make Chelsea's squad even more crowded? Previously, the information said that there were a total of 43 players now with Joao Felix, that number has increased to 44 players. It's crazy what Chelsea are doing.

But since coming to Chelsea on loan two seasons ago, Joao Felix has finally been able to enjoy his career in peace without any problems like what happened at Atletico. It's a shame if there are players who no longer have a home and have to go anywhere else to be able to play football and that's what Joao Felix felt before joining Chelsea.

Although Chelsea's current situation has not improved, at least here Joao Felix can be appreciated and if he stays in Spain, he will still get ridicule that will destroy his mentality. The contract offered by Chelsea is also always long-term and I don't know what strategy they are emphasizing by always taking more than 3 years.

For Osimhen, this is still an endless discussion and I am waiting for developments to be more certain than endless speculation.

[joniboini]

But doesn't this make Chelsea's squad even more crowded? Previously, the information said that there were a total of 43 players now with Joao Felix, that number has increased to 44 players. It's crazy what Chelsea are doing.

I wonder what kind of offer they're offering to these players. If they don't have a guarantee of playing time, is money the only thing that push them to sign with Chelsea? Is it long contract? I'm surprised the club can do this without any significant impact to their financial situation. I read somewhere that they're using a loophole to achieve this since their profits are really high, which makes the fair play regulation etc feels inadequate to address a situation where a club can buy as many players as they can because they have a high profit. CMIIW.

Anyway, Liverpool has yet to sign a player, while it is very likely that there will be new outgoings in the last few days of the transfer window. Gomez seems likely to go out, though I wonder how would they prepare a backup defender if he does go.

[mamesso]

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I will never understand how and why Chelsea concludes to sign certain players. They have had their first defeat already and then they think Felix is the right guy to fix those problems. Last time he played at Stamford Bridge he scored 4 goals in 16 games. Bring that number up to a whole season and he might score about 10 goals. How is that what they are looking for? And that is not exception. His goal rate has always been at a goal every four games. It was the same when he played for Barcelona and when he played for Atletico Madrid. ATM is probably still angry about their decision back then as they paid a fortune for him when he came from Benfica. It's insane how these clubs go crazy when there is a young talent that plays one good season. They'll immediately pay three figure millions.

It is difficult to understand what is going on in Chelsea's management's mind, since the transfer window opened they have brought in 9 players, Pedro Neto, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, Filip Jorgensen, Omari Kellyman, Aaron Anselmino, Renato Vega, Caleb Wiley, Marc Guiu, and Tosin Adarabioyo. Now Chelsea squad is getting fatter, but their performance has not improved. Putting hope in Felix is ​​clearly a big mistake, he is not a player who can make a difference in a team. Atletico Madrid do not need him anymore because the quota in the front line is very full, if he is an important player for Atletico, there is no way they will sell him.

Chelsea should stop buying players, rather develop the abilities of the players they currently have and sell players who are not in the coach's plans to reduce the club's burden. Enzo Maresca must find a solution so that the defeat he just experienced against Manchester City does not happen again, he needs to develop the right strategy in the next match to get his first points. If there is a player that needs to be brought in, Osimhen might be better than Felix, Chelsea could include Lukaku in the deal to reduce the transfer fee.

[legendbtc]

Since billionaire Todd Boehly took over in 2022, Chelsea has poured $1.45 billion into the transfer market to sign 40 players. Having bought so many players, Chelsea is facing a surplus crisis. I think Chelsea's firsf-team squad of 44 players is not good, I don't know how new coach Enzo Maresca will line up with so many current players. At Chelsea, where do the players change when they come to training? With over 44 players, how do they manage the dressing room? How does the coach organize training sessions? There are so many questions to ask Chelsea.
The only reason they came to Chelsea was a long-term contract for a big sum of money. Chelsea must stop buying, and players must stop signing for Chelsea. The first team has so many players that coach Enzo Maresca has had to remove 15 players from his training program, while Chelsea will look to sell them. But with the transfer window just days away from closing, the chances of Chelsea being able to sell off players who are not in their plans are very low.

And I think Chelsea have not given up on signing striker Victor Osimhen from Napoli. Maybe The Blues are trying to convince the Nigerian star to come to Stamford Bridge to play next season with a 1-year loan contract with a mandatory purchase clause in the summer of 2025.

[Mr.right85]

To be fair, he shall not get upset with his own decision to overhauled the club once again. They have sacked a good coach, then sell so many important players. This is what he deserved to see by always change their club like playing a football manager. I lost my respect to this owner.
Todd is completely destroying Chelsea with his zero knowledge of football. Also, very disappointed with the group of investors who owned Chelsea not to vote for him left from his position as a Chairman.

Boehly thinks that doing football business is as easy as selling hotdogs.

There are impulsive owners who make impulsive decisions that pay off, or at least pay off enough to offset the bad ones. Nothing about Todd’s moves in this short period has reflected that.

Maybe another viable reason would be that he's a terrorist or money jockey trying to hide money from prying eyes. Because i have never seen this kind of behavior from an owner in football.

If “there’s a plan”, it’s something so unorthodox that we’ve never seen it before. And it hasn’t materialized to the point where we can put our hands up to say “oh wow, what a genius plan”.

Time reveals all. We could totally be looking back at this in 2026 and calling it a genius idea or we could be saying the opposite.

[Lannakosa]

Even though they just recruited Pedro Neto and it didn't take long for them to want to recruit Joao Felix, Chelsea spent almost 100 million euros on a player who is not really relied on, isn't this just a waste of money? Chelsea have many players in their squad but are not good at implementing strategies that suit their characteristics.


Source : Pedro Neto and Joao Felix

This happens when a club has a lot of money and can afford it. Neto was underwhelming against City, he created a few chances but he couldn't do anything useful. I think Joao Felix is ​​a good striker, and I share his disappointment that Barcelona didn't extend his loan, Felix also wanted to stay in Barcelona, and Flick said they wanted to extend his loan, but they changed their minds recently and now Felix needs to find a new team again. Maybe Chelsea isn't the best choice for him, something tells me it will be another difficult season for Chelsea.

[karabiber]

Finally, Chelsea has reached a deal with ATM  on the signing of Joao Felix on a six years contract with a 12 months optional addition. I think this is no bad signing, at this time Chelsea really need a striker with a goal scoring capacity.

Todd Boehly keep making signing and not all are considered to be relevant depending on the players stats. But for the Atletico Madrid player, he's crucial and good with footing on the ball. Joao Felix to Chelsea, this is one of the good news that will keep me happy with the Chelsea team because they've completely denied me comfort this week. Losing to Manchester City was totally huge embarrassment for the Blues fans including myself.

Todd Boehly continues to make problematic signings. The transfer of Felix to Chelsea seems to have made Chelsea fans happy but I don't know if Felix will fit in this team. Felix is a mentally problematic player. He is a very technical, skillful player, but I think his career is in a big decline because of this mental problem, as evidenced by his long term deal with Chelsea. Boehly has brought in a lot of unnecessary players to keep the fans happy. Although Chelsea have good players on paper, they looked mediocre in their first game. Palmer was very ineffective against City. Chelsea has turned into a project team and it may take time for the players to find chemistry and I don't know if the fans patience will still be there in the meantime. I miss the Abramovic days of Chelsea.

[Justbillywitt]

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I don't know why Chelsea will be faced with the option to sign Osimhen and Felix and they concluded that of Felix over Osimhen.

I know that the movement of Felix last time to the bridge wasn't a success. Although Chelsea were in their lows. Let us be hopeful that things might change now.

With the way Chelsea is buying many players of the same wing, I am suspecting that they are not only improving their squad depth but also very interested business wise to make some money out of these players.

I will never understand how and why Chelsea concludes to sign certain players. They have had their first defeat already and then they think Felix is the right guy to fix those problems. Last time he played at Stamford Bridge he scored 4 goals in 16 games. Bring that number up to a whole season and he might score about 10 goals. How is that what they are looking for? And that is not exception. His goal rate has always been at a goal every four games. It was the same when he played for Barcelona and when he played for Atletico Madrid. ATM is probably still angry about their decision back then as they paid a fortune for him when he came from Benfica. It's insane how these clubs go crazy when there is a young talent that plays one good season. They'll immediately pay three figure millions.

Let's hope this time around things will work out differently this time around for Joao Felix at Chelsea. Many will argue that his first stint with Chelsea didn't work out very well because it was his first time playing in the premier league and it was a loan move. Now that the move is permanent and he has now gotten experience how the premier league works, the demands and ever other things, I think things will be different for him and Chelsea this time around. You know not many players will fit in very well in their first season at a new club, new league, new culture and a different atmosphere from the one they are used to. This time around he is no longer a stranger at the premier let's be hopeful that it will work out good for him. I wish him well in his new adventure at Chelsea.

[naira]

I think this is the reason Chelsea are no longer interested in Victor Oshimen because they are looking for other cheaper striker alternatives, Chelsea agreed a deal with Atletico Madrid. But bringing in Joao Felix, is Chelsea's problem in the front line solved? No. Although this player was once loaned to Chelsea, he only played in 20 matches and scored only 4 goals.

Chelsea just need to enjoy the accumulation of trash players they bought this season. At Chelsea, Osimhen will not get enough playing time, Enzo still has to continue to rotate one by one. The point is this club is facing serious problems with both players and club management. No matter how big the hope is to become a top club, Chelsea will still be busy choosing and sorting players when other clubs have already developed in a better direction. I am sure most Chelsea fans are not satisfied with this season's purchases which are realistically useless many players if cannot provide a positive impact. It is not about the number of players but the quality that is prioritized, unfortunately Chelsea does not have many quality players.

[Luzin]

The EPL summer transfer window is about to end in 10 days. There are still many rumors about some big players to come and leave. Reading on SkySport still predicts there will be 15 players who will come and leave the EPL.  Rumor has it that Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal, Newcastle and Man Utd will be busy before the close of this transfer market.

Source: https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11662/13199738/premier-league-transfers-fifteen-big-name-players-who-could-be-on-the-move-by-the-end-of-deadline-day

[temple]

I think this is the reason Chelsea are no longer interested in Victor Oshimen because they are looking for other cheaper striker alternatives, Chelsea agreed a deal with Atletico Madrid. But bringing in Joao Felix, is Chelsea's problem in the front line solved? No. Although this player was once loaned to Chelsea, he only played in 20 matches and scored only 4 goals.

Chelsea just need to enjoy the accumulation of trash players they bought this season. At Chelsea, Osimhen will not get enough playing time, Enzo still has to continue to rotate one by one. The point is this club is facing serious problems with both players and club management. No matter how big the hope is to become a top club, Chelsea will still be busy choosing and sorting players when other clubs have already developed in a better direction. I am sure most Chelsea fans are not satisfied with this season's purchases which are realistically useless many players if cannot provide a positive impact. It is not about the number of players but the quality that is prioritized, unfortunately Chelsea does not have many quality players.

And they refuse to sign a coach who could finally turn that team into a well trained and instructed squad. They had all these amateurs and I know some people say that Pochettino is great, but what has the guy achieved? He wasn't the right one and all those others they had weren't right either. They should have taken €100 million and sign one of the best coaches five years ago instead. They are repeatin the same mistake and it is hard to believe when you see it. Pay these huge salaries and spend insane transfer fees, but then end up with a 2nd tier coach at best. I have no idea how they can still believe that is going to work out.