⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions

[ajanwalker]

I have a hard time understanding İlkay Gündoğan. Why did you go to Barça and now why are you returning to City? I don't think it will be a matter of money, but it didn't make sense for me to take a year off and transfer back to the Premier League, which has a high level of difficulty.
Most likely, he will be a mover player, not a starting eleven player.
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Come on, mate, there is nothing hard to understand. It is simple: everyone knows that İlkay Gündoğan left Manchester city last year. Because Manchester City didn't get him an extension of his long term contract. So that is why he left Manchester city and came to Barcelona as a as a free agent. After spending one year with Barcelona now he moved to Manchester city again.
 
But point to be noted..
Why did İlkay Gündoğan leave Barcelona? In fact, Barcelona already has financial critics. They signed Dani Olmo and now they had issues after registering him in La Liga, that is, Barcelona were struggling due to the club's financial issues. While on the other hand, Gundogan also had high wages. So now Barcelona was facing La Liga restrictions, so Barcelona gave Gundogan a free hand to leave. So, for these reasons, Gundogan left Barcelona and moved to Manchester City.

Thanks buddy. I didn't know that Barcelona was having financial difficulties, but after Olmo arrived, maybe Ilkay was no longer needed.
Even if City can withstand the high tempo this year, the coming years will be difficult. A 1+1 year contract was signed, but I do not think the +1 year will be used. It will stay in the Premier League for one more year and will go to either the Turkish Super League or the Bundesliga next year.

[minairia3]

Ipswich, who are trying to make good transfers in order not to be relegated in the Premier League, want to bring young players who are focused on development to the team. They are right about this because young and quality players adapt better to the Premier League flow. They lost 2-0 in the first match but they do not want to be one of the last teams in the rest of the season. This transfer will strengthen them a little more.

Yes, Ipswich Town has made several strategic signings to strengthen their squad, focusing on improving both their defense and attack. I see Ipswich Town's transfer activity as competitive in this league. They recruited quality players such as Arijanet Muric, Ben Johnson, Jacob Greaves, Liam Delap, Omari Hutchinson, and Massimo Luongo. Ipswich Town are surprising fans with their incredible progress. Newcomer Ipswich has just returned to the Premier League after more than two decades of absence but is continuously facing huge challenges. In the opening match of the campaign, Ipswich hosted Liverpool, a strong candidate for the championship, at home and suffered a 0-2 defeat. Despite coming away empty-handed, there were still positives from the performance of coach Kieran McKenna's team. Next, they have to face the defending champions Man City, perhaps bad luck has followed them.

But the club's transfer activity has still shown a clear intention to strengthen the squad, and with a mix of youth and experience, Ipswich Town is ready to face the challenges ahead. Ipswich has left the No. 8 and No. 9 shirts vacant, suggesting they could make further signings while the transfer window is still open.

The tractor boys mean business, and even though it's very unlikely for them to survive relegation, I would say that they will give a proper fight to stay in the Prem. They lost the first game against Liverpool, and if you didn't watch the match it's easy to say that they got dominated by the Reds, but if you saw the game you know how good they were in the first half, and how Delap kept annoying the backline of LFC.

Now they are getting Jack Clarke, who is an amazing player who also played for Spurs in his younger days, and now sees himself in Ipswich. I think Kieran McKenna is a proper manager and is strengthening the squad properly, and this can help them massively.

[EL MOHA]

I don't have clear information about the exact number. In some places, it is said to be 30 million Euros with 23 million Euros + 7 million Euro bonuses. Some news sources say that Ferdi Kadıoğlu was transferred to Brighton for a record fee of 35 million Euros (in Turkish conditions). Either amount is considered good. Ferdi came on as a substitute in the last Göztepe match, but could not show much presence. It was very good for him to be transferred.

The deal is a straight up £30 million deal, it was just that the negotiations was stucked at 35m and you know some reporters just publish news without actually doing more research about it. The deal is a good one, I think the player came under the light at Euro with Manchester United been a primary target of this player but they amount and the potential availability of their left backs made them to withdraw from the deal. Brighton are an exciting team let’s if he can replicate his form here,

See, this is the problem of Barcelona that I was talking about. They sign players that they cannot afford. They have signed too many players for too high wages that they cannot be registered in La Liga. I do not see any other team facing problems like not being able to register their player for La Liga. They clearly have signed too many players and have offered too many wages to the players.

Messi, Busquets, Jordi Alba, and many others had to take a wage cut. I wonder how much money do they owe to the players at this point.
They have not yet paid the signing fee to Manchester City of Ferran Torres.

You whenever I hear of this problem faced by Barcelona the only thing that comes to mind is the corruption eating up this football association, this kind of crisis would have gotten smaller clubs relegated due to how many points that would be subtracted but I don’t think I have seen Barcelona facing any problems or threatened of sanctions even the ones that they bought without having to complete the fees should have gotten them this sanctions

[KTChampions]

So, finally, Chelsea has been able to sell this player . This was one of the worst signings ever for Chelsea and they have lost so much money.
Bringing him for 97 million was the first mistake and after that Chelsea was still paying for that mistake till now.

They brought him in for such a huge amount of money, did not get any performance out of him, and at the end of the day they had to sell him for only 30 million. One of the biggest loss projects in recent times. The only thing bigger than this is probably Antony to Manchester United.

Anyway, I hope he will be able to perform better at Napoli. But let’s be honest, he is not the player that he once was and probably never will be again. The prime days of Lukaku are gone.
Honestly, now I only watch him for those Lakaka moments. Sometimes I even think if I was there instead of him I probably would have scored some of those chances  .

It's rough but true. Lukaku is far from his top level and this is not a temporary thing. It is quite clear why the negotiations were so difficult - Napoli tried to get Lukaku at the price that he objectively corresponds to, and Chelsea kept in mind their expenses on him and did not want to reduce the price to reality. As for Osimhen, I believe Romano here - this is literally a question of the last days, it is still unclear where he will end up or whether he will stay in Napoli.

[naira]

Manchester United have brought in a young player from Mali named Sékou Koné, aged 17 and so far has no other track record other than playing for the Mali U-17 national team, playing as a midfielder and his price is only £1 million. Maybe he will be used as a young talent by Erik Ten Hag, there is nothing wrong because everything needs a process but for now if he is immediately played in the EPL competition this season then there is no guarantee that he can steal the attention. Let's just wait and see what kind of plan Erik Ten Hag wants to show.

source : Fabrizio

[Lillominato89]

https://www.calciomercato.com/news/linter-puo-chiudere-oggi-per-palacios-la-ricostruzione-della-tra-13512

 Inter is finalising the purchase of player Thomas Palacios from Independete for a sum of around EUR 6.5 million. A young player of 21 years old, technically proficient and very keen on team play. I don't know the player very well but they speak quite highly of him and say he is ready for a European experience in one of the best European teams Do you have any opinions on the player?

[bitLeap]

Why did İlkay Gündoğan leave Barcelona? In fact, Barcelona already has financial critics. They signed Dani Olmo and now they had issues after registering him in La Liga, that is, Barcelona were struggling due to the club's financial issues. While on the other hand, Gundogan also had high wages. So now Barcelona was facing La Liga restrictions, so Barcelona gave Gundogan a free hand to leave. So, for these reasons, Gundogan left Barcelona and moved to Manchester City.

Thanks buddy. I didn't know that Barcelona was having financial difficulties, but after Olmo arrived, maybe Ilkay was no longer needed.
Even if City can withstand the high tempo this year, the coming years will be difficult. A 1+1 year contract was signed, but I do not think the +1 year will be used. It will stay in the Premier League for one more year and will go to either the Turkish Super League or the Bundesliga next year.

The talk out there seems to have made Gundogan speak up and based on the post on account x, his departure from Barcelona was indeed for the sake of improving the club's finances. This is very sad but why not other players? that's all that's always on my mind until now.

Ok Barcelona needs money, they have to sell their players but do you know that this season Barcelona has spent quite a lot of money to bring in players. I know the payments are in installments etc., how it reflects a club that is already weighing financial limits but forcing everything as if everything is fine. Frankie de Jong is still maintained and continues to enjoy his big salary without making much contribution due to injury.

[red4slash]

Thanks buddy. I didn't know that Barcelona was having financial difficulties, but after Olmo arrived, maybe Ilkay was no longer needed.
Even if City can withstand the high tempo this year, the coming years will be difficult. A 1+1 year contract was signed, but I do not think the +1 year will be used. It will stay in the Premier League for one more year and will go to either the Turkish Super League or the Bundesliga next year.

This is a bit silly mate or indeed you are too blind to what is happening with Barcelona which has been experiencing a financial crisis even since a few seasons ago so it would be funny if you said that you did not know Barcelona was experiencing a financial crisis unless you were blind to this.

Barcelona's condition from a few seasons ago since the Bartomeu era collapsed has indeed experienced a lot of problems, especially in the financial problems they have, especially until now the Laporta era they also seem to have no intention of solving it even this season seems more pronounced where Dani Olmo is difficult to register so they try to make several things including throwing Gundogan as a victim so that Barcelona's financial stability is maintained, especially in salary problems.
Gundogan is still needed actually for the attack but they can't do much to stop that because when Gundogan is not sacrificed then Dani Olmo is also difficult to register as a Barcelona player this season.

[Ryu_Ar1]

It's rough but true. Lukaku is far from his top level and this is not a temporary thing. It is quite clear why the negotiations were so difficult - Napoli tried to get Lukaku at the price that he objectively corresponds to, and Chelsea kept in mind their expenses on him and did not want to reduce the price to reality. As for Osimhen, I believe Romano here - this is literally a question of the last days, it is still unclear where he will end up or whether he will stay in Napoli.

Maybe for a more precise word my version is Lukaku has experienced his prime and it is difficult for him to return to that time with the current conditions because after all when he was at Inter and Everton actually it could lift Lukaku to a good prime but only one mistake Lukaku made from the start was a mistake in choosing the EPL, especially the big clubs in the EPL as anchorage. He did not reflect on the mistake of moving back to Chelsea which made the prime he had made destroyed again and this is the only wrong thing Lukaku did.

I agree with what you said about why Napoli find it difficult to bring Lukaku now because they don't want to make a transfer that is too risky where big money is spent on a player that we know what Lukaku is like now so they want to bring at a reasonable price but that is difficult for Chelsea to allow because they want a condition where Lukaku can at least be valuable which in the end this becomes futile because it is difficult for Lukaku's condition now.

[Docnaster]

According to an official report from popular football journalist Fabrizio Romano, Napoli have finally reached agreement to sign Chelsea striker Romelu Lukaku from the club this summer. As we all know, the speculation concerning Lukaku's possible move to the Diego Armando Maradonna stadium have been reported on this thread on so many occasions but now, it seems the deal have finally been approved. For Lukaku, it's a good move as it'll give him the opportunity of reuniting with his former manager Antonio Conte while for Napoli, they've succeeded in getting their dream man for the no. 9 role at the club. Do you think Romelu Lukaku is going to have a successful spell at his new club?

[Lillominato89]

According to an official report from popular football journalist Fabrizio Romano, Napoli have finally reached agreement to sign Chelsea striker Romelu Lukaku from the club this summer. As we all know, the speculation concerning Lukaku's possible move to the Diego Armando Maradonna stadium have been reported on this thread on so many occasions but now, it seems the deal have finally been approved. For Lukaku, it's a good move as it'll give him the opportunity of reuniting with his former manager Antonio Conte while for Napoli, they've succeeded in getting their dream man for the no. 9 role at the club. Do you think Romelu Lukaku is going to have a successful spell at his new club?

This is fantastic news, finally this soap opera can be said to be over. Antonio Conte holds Romelu Lukaku in high esteem and has always wanted to have him in the teams he coaches. Lukaku can be at his best with Conte, hopefully Napoli will achieve great results this year thanks to Lukaku. But now I wonder what will happen to Osimhen, will he go to the Premier League or will he go to Ligue 1 in France?

[Franctoshi]

Napoli have finally done their job of finding a replacement for Osimhen and officially Lukaku has no place for him in the first team. After this Osimhen really has to leave because there is no reason to stay any longer. Lukaku is the player Conte wants. I respect his decision but why do Napoli still want to set Osimhen clause and not want to offload him? Wouldn't this sale give them money to buy a cheaper player and pay the rest to Chelsea.
https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1827055764093202623

So, finally, Chelsea has been able to sell this player . This was one of the worst signings ever for Chelsea and they have lost so much money.
Bringing him for 97 million was the first mistake and after that Chelsea was still paying for that mistake till now.

They brought him in for such a huge amount of money, did not get any performance out of him, and at the end of the day they had to sell him for only 30 million. One of the biggest loss projects in recent times. The only thing bigger than this is probably Antony to Manchester United.

Anyway, I hope he will be able to perform better at Napoli. But let’s be honest, he is not the player that he once was and probably never will be again. The prime days of Lukaku are gone.
Honestly, now I only watch him for those Lakaka moments. Sometimes I even think if I was there instead of him I probably would have scored some of those chances  .

Lukaku is not just currently one of the worst Chelsea's transfer flop ever, but will go down as one of the worst signings across all time in history, Lukaku couldn't even help Chelsea win in anything, selling Lukaku for a transfer fee of £30 million is even better than them keeping him at the club and continuing paying him that huge some amount of salary, if he remains at the club, it would have been a continued waste of resources for Chelsea football club.
Lukuku henceforth currently does not have anything to offer looking at his age and in terms of his physical strength to deliver.

[Richbased]

See, this is the problem of Barcelona that I was talking about. They sign players that they cannot afford. They have signed too many players for too high wages that they cannot be registered in La Liga. I do not see any other team facing problems like not being able to register their player for La Liga. They clearly have signed too many players and have offered too many wages to the players.

Messi, Busquets, Jordi Alba, and many others had to take a wage cut. I wonder how much money do they owe to the players at this point.
They have not yet paid the signing fee to Manchester City of Ferran Torres.

You whenever I hear of this problem faced by Barcelona the only thing that comes to mind is the corruption eating up this football association, this kind of crisis would have gotten smaller clubs relegated due to how many points that would be subtracted but I don’t think I have seen Barcelona facing any problems or threatened of sanctions even the ones that they bought without having to complete the fees should have gotten them this sanctions

Corruption is everywhere and since Barcelona is a big club regardless of the financial constraints they're facing, you don't expect the football association to just give them a sanction just like that. Even though Barcelona is into too many debts now but I feel given them a sanction will further worsen the situation because for a team like Barcelona that was once blossom during the time of Lionel Messi, Iniesta, Xavi, David Villa and some other intelligent players and to see the situation of the club now is really a thing of pity. The club's funds were mismanaged hence the reason for the financial crisis rocking the club now and from all Indications it seems it will take Barcelona time to recover because the debts they have gotten themselves into now is too numerous.

[Hyphen(-)]

According to an official report from popular football journalist Fabrizio Romano, Napoli have finally reached agreement to sign Chelsea striker Romelu Lukaku from the club this summer. As we all know, the speculation concerning Lukaku's possible move to the Diego Armando Maradonna stadium have been reported on this thread on so many occasions but now, it seems the deal have finally been approved. For Lukaku, it's a good move as it'll give him the opportunity of reuniting with his former manager Antonio Conte while for Napoli, they've succeeded in getting their dream man for the no. 9 role at the club. Do you think Romelu Lukaku is going to have a successful spell at his new club?

Finally, the long awaited deal by Napoli fans and their new manager Antonio Conte has been finalized, they should be very happy to have Lukaku in their squad because we have seen the effect of lack of reliable striker in their first match where they lost in their opening match.

This will open a door for Chelsea management to show their seriousness in signing Osimhen if they really wants to sign him. They need to put talks in place for negotiations because the players seems very desperate to leave Mapoli, and since Lukaku has now become a Napoli player, I am sure Osimhen will be worthless in the squad because Conte will not use him.

Congratulations to Lukaku, Chelsea, and the Napoli team for this successful deal.
Lukaku will surely have a good time here because their pattern of playing is similar to the one one Roma is using, and for him to have played under Conte, it will be easy for him to adapt to their style of play.

[BitcoinHunt3r]

Manchester United have brought in a young player from Mali named Sékou Koné, aged 17 and so far has no other track record other than playing for the Mali U-17 national team, playing as a midfielder and his price is only £1 million. Maybe he will be used as a young talent by Erik Ten Hag, there is nothing wrong because everything needs a process but for now if he is immediately played in the EPL competition this season then there is no guarantee that he can steal the attention. Let's just wait and see what kind of plan Erik Ten Hag wants to show.

source : Fabrizio

Hmm we can't track this player and we don't know which position he plays, but one thing I understand is that Manchester United are trying to invest in these young players even though previously we knew Manchester United was not a typical team like that they prefer to bring in players who are ready to compete and if in the end this investment fails I don't think it's a problem because they only spent 1 million when they brought him in, yeah at least it hasn't affected the team's finances even though they have spent 122 million on defense.

It seems that Manchester United are still aggressive in bringing in players, so far they have spent 164 million in the transfer window and it is estimated that Manchester United will spend more than 200 million for this season or the same as the last 2 seasons. For this season their focus is still on defense at least 4 of the total new players are in the defensive area.

[GiftedMAN]

Napoli have finally done their job of finding a replacement for Osimhen and officially Lukaku has no place for him in the first team. After this Osimhen really has to leave because there is no reason to stay any longer. Lukaku is the player Conte wants. I respect his decision but why do Napoli still want to set Osimhen clause and not want to offload him? Wouldn't this sale give them money to buy a cheaper player and pay the rest to Chelsea.
https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1827055764093202623

So, finally, Chelsea has been able to sell this player . This was one of the worst signings ever for Chelsea and they have lost so much money.
Bringing him for 97 million was the first mistake and after that Chelsea was still paying for that mistake till now.

They brought him in for such a huge amount of money, did not get any performance out of him, and at the end of the day they had to sell him for only 30 million. One of the biggest loss projects in recent times. The only thing bigger than this is probably Antony to Manchester United.

Anyway, I hope he will be able to perform better at Napoli. But let’s be honest, he is not the player that he once was and probably never will be again. The prime days of Lukaku are gone.
Honestly, now I only watch him for those Lakaka moments. Sometimes I even think if I was there instead of him I probably would have scored some of those chances  .

Lukaku is not just currently one of the worst Chelsea's transfer flop ever, but will go down as one of the worst signings across all time in history, Lukaku couldn't even help Chelsea win in anything, selling Lukaku for a transfer fee of £30 million is even better than them keeping him at the club and continuing paying him that huge some amount of salary, if he remains at the club, it would have been a continued waste of resources for Chelsea football club.
Lukuku henceforth currently does not have anything to offer looking at his age and in terms of his physical strength to deliver.

Franctoshi, the same Lukaku you are calling names is the player that a professional coach is going after instead of a younger player Osimhen don't you think you should have a rethink concerning those names you are calling Lukaku? You may see Lukaku as a flog who couldn't help a team that is already having a bad performance already which you know but you can't dispute the fact the the player is good despite not having a good performance with Chelsea.

Lukaku may not be very sharp as he used to be as a striker but let's watch him play for Napoli then we can know if he should go on and retire from football or Chelsea needs to work on their performance so their strikers can have the chance to score goals for them.

[JeffBrad12]

According to an official report from popular football journalist Fabrizio Romano, Napoli have finally reached agreement to sign Chelsea striker Romelu Lukaku from the club this summer. As we all know, the speculation concerning Lukaku's possible move to the Diego Armando Maradonna stadium have been reported on this thread on so many occasions but now, it seems the deal have finally been approved. For Lukaku, it's a good move as it'll give him the opportunity of reuniting with his former manager Antonio Conte while for Napoli, they've succeeded in getting their dream man for the no. 9 role at the club. Do you think Romelu Lukaku is going to have a successful spell at his new club?

This is fantastic news, finally this soap opera can be said to be over. Antonio Conte holds Romelu Lukaku in high esteem and has always wanted to have him in the teams he coaches. Lukaku can be at his best with Conte, hopefully Napoli will achieve great results this year thanks to Lukaku. But now I wonder what will happen to Osimhen, will he go to the Premier League or will he go to Ligue 1 in France?

Osimhen most likely will still stay much longer in the Napoli. His club is not keen on releasing him to another club, and they still want a very high price for him, despite the decline of Osimhen's performance. And it must be noted that no one is gonna buy Osimhen from Napoli if they're still asking for more than 100 millions.

Until Napoli realizes it, and decreases Osimhen's asking price, there will be no offer to come for him. Also, PSG has chosen to sign other players instead of Osimhen. Zero chance for him to go to the League one.

[TelolettOm]

Finally, the long awaited deal by Napoli fans and their new manager Antonio Conte has been finalized, they should be very happy to have Lukaku in their squad because we have seen the effect of lack of reliable striker in their first match where they lost in their opening match.

Finally, the end of this long drama, Lukaku to Napoli too. Because indeed, the transfer season is almost over and Napoli really needs a forward player immediately, so that they do not experience bad match results again. Now, just waiting for Osimhen's fate.  




Anyway, The latest news, Porto finally managed to sign Samu Omorodion from Atlético Madrid.
With, whatt?? Wow, €100m release clause.

Wait, edited and completed:
 €15 million + 50% sell-on
and he'll have release clause: €100m

Source: BREAKING: Samu Omorodion joins FC Porto

[Stepstowealth]

Lukaku may not be very sharp as he used to be as a striker but let's watch him play for Napoli then we can know if he should go on and retire from football or Chelsea needs to work on their performance so their strikers can have the chance to score goals for them.

Lukaku as one of the best strikers in the world cannot be challenged. We know that he has had some bad days and some bad games where he has missed some very good open chances to score goals, but he remains the best Belgian striker currently available. The coach of Napoli believes that Lukaku is important for his project and has confidence that he will be able to manage Lukaku properly that he becomes prolific again,  it can happen, Lukaku still has it in him.

[rendravolt]

According to an official report from popular football journalist Fabrizio Romano, Napoli have finally reached agreement to sign Chelsea striker Romelu Lukaku from the club this summer. As we all know, the speculation concerning Lukaku's possible move to the Diego Armando Maradonna stadium have been reported on this thread on so many occasions but now, it seems the deal have finally been approved. For Lukaku, it's a good move as it'll give him the opportunity of reuniting with his former manager Antonio Conte while for Napoli, they've succeeded in getting their dream man for the no. 9 role at the club. Do you think Romelu Lukaku is going to have a successful spell at his new club?

Is this final? Honestly, I'm tired of talking about Lukaku who was still in a state of confusion some time ago.

I'm glad Lukaku can finally stay at one club and not go back and forth to other clubs like what happened in the past few years. Even though this player is so loyal, unfortunately his contract with Chelsea puts him in a difficult situation to explain. Napoli has high hopes for him, especially since he is a prolific striker in Italy and his experience is also undoubted. Will he be successful at Napoli? The answer is yes and with the help of Antonio Conte it can be maximized.