⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions

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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.

[Fiatless]

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.

The club keeps making the same mistakes, and sometimes, I feel that the management is under a spell. The club had enough players that would have comfortably competed this season. But they are busy sending out their best players, such as Conor Gallagher, Trevoh Chalobah, and even Raheem Sterling. I wouldn't drop Sterling for Joao Felix, the former is better than the Portuguese.

The only problem I knew Chelsea had last season was their inability to convert chances. They had some of the best players that were about to play good football, but most of the chances were wasted by mainly Nicolas Jackson. Enzo Maresca would have simply brought him a natural number nine and did some reshuffling to balance their financial standing. Now, the coach is allowing some young players who can be groomed to be the future stars of the club. I am pained to see him put players like Carney Chukwuemeka, Cesare Casadei, and Angelo Gabriel for sale.

[armanda90]

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.

Indeed have many players in current squad for this season more than 40 players but Chelsea still not stop for signing new players, recently have success signing João Félix with 42 million euro fees transfer including 4,3 million euro in in add-ons bonuses.
Chelsea still defend some players from Romelu Lukaku, Chalabah and Conor Gallagher after still not reach agreement deal with the new teams interested for them and some of players not including in Enzo Maresca tactician dropping to junior team for awhile until reach agreement with new teams.

Confusing with Chelsea's activities transfer in this season, become the Premier League have many players in squad and exactly they have 7 players on goal keepers position but still not loan any of them. For João Félix its not first time playing with premier league because before joining  Barcelona ever playing half season for Chelsea before Atletico Madrid loaning him to Barcelona. I don't think difficult for João Félix get adapt well with Chelsea but on attacking line he needs working hard to get regular position.

[bitLeap]

The club keeps making the same mistakes, and sometimes, I feel that the management is under a spell. The club had enough players that would have comfortably competed this season. But they are busy sending out their best players, such as Conor Gallagher, Trevoh Chalobah, and even Raheem Sterling. I wouldn't drop Sterling for Joao Felix, the former is better than the Portuguese.

The only problem I knew Chelsea had last season was their inability to convert chances. They had some of the best players that were about to play good football, but most of the chances were wasted by mainly Nicolas Jackson. Enzo Maresca would have simply brought him a natural number nine and did some reshuffling to balance their financial standing. Now, the coach is allowing some young players who can be groomed to be the future stars of the club. I am pained to see him put players like Carney Chukwuemeka, Cesare Casadei, and Angelo Gabriel for sale.

With a large number of players, therefor this club has difficulty finding its best game. about Joao Felix who is now back at Chelsea cannot be a guarantee, but compared to the young players that Chelsea just bought, Joao Felix can be much better. He is willing to lower his salary very cheaply in order to be able to play at the club, so there is only one option that Joao Felix can do which is to give his best. However Chelsea problems are too many, not only about the players but this club is hit by management that cannot be trusted. Based on his first match, of course, many people were disappointed and blamed Todd Boehly for being too busy wasting money on useless players.

[tusandii]

The club keeps making the same mistakes, and sometimes, I feel that the management is under a spell. The club had enough players that would have comfortably competed this season. But they are busy sending out their best players, such as Conor Gallagher, Trevoh Chalobah, and even Raheem Sterling. I wouldn't drop Sterling for Joao Felix, the former is better than the Portuguese.

The only problem I knew Chelsea had last season was their inability to convert chances. They had some of the best players that were about to play good football, but most of the chances were wasted by mainly Nicolas Jackson. Enzo Maresca would have simply brought him a natural number nine and did some reshuffling to balance their financial standing. Now, the coach is allowing some young players who can be groomed to be the future stars of the club. I am pained to see him put players like Carney Chukwuemeka, Cesare Casadei, and Angelo Gabriel for sale.

With a large number of players, therefor this club has difficulty finding its best game. about Joao Felix who is now back at Chelsea cannot be a guarantee, but compared to the young players that Chelsea just bought, Joao Felix can be much better. He is willing to lower his salary very cheaply in order to be able to play at the club, so there is only one option that Joao Felix can do which is to give his best. However Chelsea problems are too many, not only about the players but this club is hit by management that cannot be trusted. Based on his first match, of course, many people were disappointed and blamed Todd Boehly for being too busy wasting money on useless players.

Talking about Chelsea who are currently recruiting Joao Felix is ​​actually a good choice because he has a lot of experience even though he is only a loan player at several clubs such as Barca but that experience makes Joao Felix very good at having a strong mentality to face any situation.
For Chelsea's early season performance, there is no need to blame and no need to blame any party because the club Chelsea is facing is not a weak club but Man City is one of the strongest clubs in the EPL.
So it is natural that Chelsea lost against Man City and on the other hand the new coach has a slightly bad impact because the new coach needs a little time to explore the skills of each player.

[bering]

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.

The news has just appears today that Liverpool has just gets their first player this season but unfortunately they didn't bought defender or midfielder because Liverpool has been reach an agreement for Valencia goalkeeper Giorgi Mamardashvili and it says Liverpool have to spend over than 30 million as transfer fees but Giorgi Mamardashvili will joining to Liverpool on June 2025 which mean although he is Liverpool player but Giorgi Mamardashvili will loaned to Valencia for this season



https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1825877662721827275

[Sg4j1n3ll0]

we still don't know anything about dybala who apparently will take part in the draws with roma once the championship has started let's say that derossi doesn't want to deprive himself of it and is doing well he also said that there is nothing more important than roma and that he wants to bring Let's move on, I'm just sorry for Sulè who only played 15 minutes with Dybala (it was his dream)

[rendravolt]

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.

The news has just appears today that Liverpool has just gets their first player this season but unfortunately they didn't bought defender or midfielder because Liverpool has been reach an agreement for Valencia goalkeeper Giorgi Mamardashvili and it says Liverpool have to spend over than 30 million as transfer fees but Giorgi Mamardashvili will joining to Liverpool on June 2025 which mean although he is Liverpool player but Giorgi Mamardashvili will loaned to Valencia for this season



https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1825877662721827275

The goalkeeper who performed heroically with Georgia seems to have attracted Liverpool's interest and honestly he is a good goalkeeper. Maybe in Valencia his performance was not so prominent but in this year's Euro he proved his quality. I think if he is prepared as a replacement for Alisson, it might be quite appropriate but of course he still has flying hours to complete before filling the starting position.

Liverpool has indeed been the most inactive team this summer and the club owner should provide fresh funds for Arne Slot to add to his ammunition. It feels very empty if a big team does not make a transfer and finally Liverpool answered through Giorgi Mamardashvili. According to Fabrizio Romano the agreement is in the final stages but even if this is a deal, Giorgi Mamardashvili will not join Liverpool this season and he will stay at Valencia on loan. We will be able to see him in the 25/26 season at Anfield.

[Lida93]

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.

The news has just appears today that Liverpool has just gets their first player this season but unfortunately they didn't bought defender or midfielder because Liverpool has been reach an agreement for Valencia goalkeeper Giorgi Mamardashvili and it says Liverpool have to spend over than 30 million as transfer fees but Giorgi Mamardashvili will joining to Liverpool on June 2025 which mean although he is Liverpool player but Giorgi Mamardashvili will loaned to Valencia for this season



https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1825877662721827275

I was even surprised they had to go for a goalkeeper instead... Rumours are that Allison might be leaving anytime soon after this season which made the signing of Giorgi Mamardashvili a necessity ahead of the future, I think it's the ads-on that made the price fee go up to €30 miillion initially the plan was to loan him to Bournemouth but the 23year old chooses to stay with Valencia for the one year loan. It's a great news for the reds one I consider to be a solid signing unlike some EPL club who signs everything they see in the transfer market. Maybe Liverpool should also consider signing a defensive midfielder to strengthen their defense as well.

[Oluwa-btc]

The club keeps making the same mistakes, and sometimes, I feel that the management is under a spell. The club had enough players that would have comfortably competed this season. But they are busy sending out their best players, such as Conor Gallagher, Trevoh Chalobah, and even Raheem Sterling. I wouldn't drop Sterling for Joao Felix, the former is better than the Portuguese.

The only problem I knew Chelsea had last season was their inability to convert chances. They had some of the best players that were about to play good football, but most of the chances were wasted by mainly Nicolas Jackson. Enzo Maresca would have simply brought him a natural number nine and did some reshuffling to balance their financial standing. Now, the coach is allowing some young players who can be groomed to be the future stars of the club. I am pained to see him put players like Carney Chukwuemeka, Cesare Casadei, and Angelo Gabriel for sale.

Those mistakes are obviously from the hierarchies, they're nothing related to being hexed and shiit. They have forcefully pushed these players who game them the Champions League and it's not a good way to look at it even if I was playing for Chelsea. I would be wondering what if it happens to me. They should have made a deal for him to reduce his payroll other than going behind to do things the way they did. Raheem Sterling has experience in the Premier League Competition and was also consistent last season. Well, Todd Boehly knows better.

It's the same thing Chelsea legend John Mikel Obi talked about, getting a proven striker would solve all these problems they currently have. Nicholas Jackson do not solve the issues that comes with goalscoring and not even Joào Felix.

Well, he is digging his own grave and I don't see them in the top four with in-experienced players. The defense is also another big issue they need to sort but that's another story.