⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions

[Mustang Shelby]

The poor results achieved since the start of the season have put Man City in danger of failing to defend their EPL title and they are also struggling in the UCL phase. This season has been one of City's worst under Guardiola, so I think it's understandable that they've been so busy in the transfer market given their status as the Premier League dominant force for the past four seasons.
Arsenal and Man United need to follow in City footsteps to keep the title race alive, some players who are not contributing to the club must be released and replaced with better quality players.

Manchester City is having tough season which is surprising because they have been one of best teams in Premier League for last four years. Their poor results have put their chance to win title again in danger and people are also worried about how they will do in Champions League. It is not surprising that they are trying to sign new players to make their team stronger and get back on track. For Arsenal and Manchester United to stay in running for title they need to do what City is doing and sign new players to make their teams better. This might mean letting go of players who are not doing well and replacing them with better players.

It is known that the players come and go, but deprive themselves of players like Erling Haaland is madness, and that is just an example, because then you know if you have to change the players you also have to leave some on the bench or make them go, I would be a lot Be careful to select the strong players they have in the squad and try not to make them run away during these negotiations, I understand that it is difficult but they absolutely do not have to do it otherwise it will be the end for this team

Every player can have good times and bad times. Haaland can and should be removed from the squad when he is unproductive. No player should be indispensable to a team on his own. Players who play badly can be sent off the team. We see the same with Mbappé. He fell short of expectations for Real Madrid but still found a chance to play constantly. He is in a slightly better position now but I think that players who are on the team even when they are in a bad position and are not even taken off the game can increase their egos and harm the team.

[Cryptmuster]

It's official!!! I just confirmed from Fabrizio Romano's post on the media that Manchester United has got an agreement with Lecee and would finally sign a player in this January transfer window, he'll officially be the first signing of the Ruben Amorim era and would arrive Manchester United in hours time to officially sign his contract, some Manchester United fans I know are already jubilating cause they've been long waiting for new signings for Ruben Amorim, well it's a good sign but it's not enough since they still need a quality attacker cause Zirkzee and Hodjlund are finding it hard to produce good results. Anyways the news have it that the new signing Patrick Dorgu's deal is worth €30m plus €5m add-ons. Finally, Manchester United are beginning to make reasonable deals instead of overpaying for players like the deal for Antony and Casemiro, they now have a proper LWB and Dalot can be used in his natural position RWB as a second option for Mazraoui instead of LWB where he doesn't fit in properly.

It is predictable that Amorim will want to strengthen the Manchester United defense, but I do not really understand the importance of this transfer yet, Dorgu is young, only 20 years old and I have not followed Lecce very much to understand how good this defender is. The defense for Manchester United has long been considered a weak point in the team, I think it would be good to also find a more suitable replacement for Onan, but their attack also needs strengthening by the way.

[mammusu]

It's official!!! I just confirmed from Fabrizio Romano's post on the media that Manchester United has got an agreement with Lecee and would finally sign a player in this January transfer window, he'll officially be the first signing of the Ruben Amorim era and would arrive Manchester United in hours time to officially sign his contract, some Manchester United fans I know are already jubilating cause they've been long waiting for new signings for Ruben Amorim, well it's a good sign but it's not enough since they still need a quality attacker cause Zirkzee and Hodjlund are finding it hard to produce good results. Anyways the news have it that the new signing Patrick Dorgu's deal is worth €30m plus €5m add-ons. Finally, Manchester United are beginning to make reasonable deals instead of overpaying for players like the deal for Antony and Casemiro, they now have a proper LWB and Dalot can be used in his natural position RWB as a second option for Mazraoui instead of LWB where he doesn't fit in properly.

It is predictable that Amorim will want to strengthen the Manchester United defense, but I do not really understand the importance of this transfer yet, Dorgu is young, only 20 years old and I have not followed Lecce very much to understand how good this defender is. The defense for Manchester United has long been considered a weak point in the team, I think it would be good to also find a more suitable replacement for Onan, but their attack also needs strengthening by the way.

I think Manchester United won't spend any more money this season after they threw away a lot of it last summer , but even if only bringing in one player before the transfer window closes but at least that it's still better than not doing it at all, so far defence is still Manchester United's main problem so it's not surprising that Amorim is more focused on signing defenders,  I see that Amorim is inclined to prefer Dorgu to be recruited because he is a defender who has the ability to explore every side of the field, besides that his ability to play in various positions will also greatly benefit Amorim to be able to be creative and have many options in their defense later, especialy  if we look at Amorim coaching history so far, he is actually inclined  a coach who relies more on young players in his squad so far.

[Stablexcoin]

Vinicius Junior decides to stay as it seems which is not surprising news at all.    Of course he was going to decide like that at this young age. He is only 24 and he has lots of more trophies to win with Real Madrid in the future.

He was going to get an enormous offer from a Saudi team normally. They were rumoured to offer 300 million euros to Real Madrid as transfer fee and 200 million a year as a salary to the player. That's of course an insane offer. 

But not enough to convince a player like this anyway. As far as I know he makes 25 million a year with bonuses now but not everything is money. Achieving successes in Europe is much more valuable than the successes in Saudi Arabia obviously.

This is what I am expecting from a young player who believes he can make a good reputation rather than seeking for good life at this young age. Saudi clubs should limit the way in which they come for big players in the league using huge money to persuade them to leave their club. They can take the old folks like they have Ronaldo, Suarez, and some other players but players like Vinicius have a good game time ahead. Think of what he can achieve in  Real Madrid now the team is becoming stronger every day.

If am to ask i will say that amount of money is quite enough to convince any players. It only depends on what that player want. It is either they want money or fame. Going to Saudi clubs only means they will have the money but no fame. While players like that can still have the fame then retire to Saudi clubs.

[Frankolala]

Vinicius Junior decides to stay as it seems which is not surprising news at all.    Of course he was going to decide like that at this young age. He is only 24 and he has lots of more trophies to win with Real Madrid in the future.

He was going to get an enormous offer from a Saudi team normally. They were rumoured to offer 300 million euros to Real Madrid as transfer fee and 200 million a year as a salary to the player. That's of course an insane offer. 

But not enough to convince a player like this anyway. As far as I know he makes 25 million a year with bonuses now but not everything is money. Achieving successes in Europe is much more valuable than the successes in Saudi Arabia obviously.

Vini was robbed of Ballon D'or and will not leave Europe, because he still has the dreams to win Ballon D'or and more UCL trophies. Someone that can happily go to Saudi is an old player that gas achieved everything and needs somewhere to retire with fat pay. Vini career is just getting to the peak and it's only in Real Madrid that he can improve his performance and make record for himself. Going somewhere else, will make him not achieve this goal.

[W Jr.]

Fenerbahce made an excellent signing, they signed Anderson Talisca, since Ronaldo came to Al Nassr, he started to take Anderson Talisca's space, the focus of the whole team became Ronaldo, I think Anderson Talisca made a good decision to leave the team, maybe by playing in Turkey and having good results he could be called to play in the Brazilian national team.



the contract will be until 2026, source: https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1883760600028766345

Even if Mbappe comes to Fenerbahce, don't expect a miracle. Because Fenerbahce doesn't play attacking football and therefore Talisca can't contribute to Fenerbahce's scoring like he did when he played for Besiktas. I think even Mourinho doesn't want Talisca, the only person who wants him is probably Acun Ilıcalı from Fenerbahce management. Talisca will also probably be out of form coming from the Saudi Arabia league and he might have trouble adapting to the Turkish league at the beginning. The only positive thing the Fenerbahce management did in the last years was the player's wage income. Now that's gone and they are making costly transfers on top of that. If it were me, instead of these transfers, I would be in talks with a new manager for next season and I would go after the reasonable transfers he wants. Mourinho is not going to work for sure.

In my opinion, changing the coach would not be the solution to the problem. In the last 5 years, Fenerbahce has changed coaches 8 times. This is not normal. They had Jorge Jesus as their coach. He is a good coach who won the main title in every league he played in, but he was unable to win it in Turkey with Fenerbahce. That is why, in my opinion, it would be better to keep Mourinho and improve the squad.

I also think that if Jose Marino stays on the team, he will contribute to Fenerbahçe in the long term. Because right now, Fenerbahçe's team is not exactly set up the way Jose Mourinho wants. Maybe next year, he will be able to set up the squad he wants and play the way he wants. Fenerbahçe has always been a team behind Galatasaray in recent years. They do not want to fall behind them anymore. Since the fans have been longing for the championship for a long time, they want success as soon as possible. However, it is not right to be impatient in this. As in everything, it will be necessary to be careful and patient here.

[arufox]

Vinicius Junior decides to stay as it seems which is not surprising news at all.    Of course he was going to decide like that at this young age. He is only 24 and he has lots of more trophies to win with Real Madrid in the future.

He was going to get an enormous offer from a Saudi team normally. They were rumoured to offer 300 million euros to Real Madrid as transfer fee and 200 million a year as a salary to the player. That's of course an insane offer.  

But not enough to convince a player like this anyway. As far as I know he makes 25 million a year with bonuses now but not everything is money. Achieving successes in Europe is much more valuable than the successes in Saudi Arabia obviously.

Vinicius Junior stay at Real Madrid shows how much he loves this club even though tempting offers come from several clubs with high salaries, but once again Vinicius Junior prioritizes his career in Europe rather than choosing money because he is indeed one of the best players in the world today and staying at Real Madrid is the right choice that allows Vinicius Junior to win the Ballon d'Or title which he previously lost to Rodri.

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Roma wants Casemiro from MAncehster United.
Napoli and Juventus are watching for Hojlund situation.
Al Hilal is going to bake an offer for Salah.
Manchester United is also close in signing Patrick Dorgu for around 30m €.

Source BBC

[Pokapoka124]

Do we have any interesting transfers going on right now because January isn't an easy time to get the best player's and I havent been keeping an eye on these one's as I was super busy!

Anyway, Just heard Fabrizio say Neymar is going back to his boy child club Santos which is really a sad story for him and a bad investment for his former club..whatever happened to this Lad

Is Saudi Arabia going to be making headlines again with their crazy offers,  or maybe Neymar has taught them on how to do their homework.

I don't think we have any interesting transfers happening right now. January is rarely the best time to sign top players as club often feel reluctant selling their key asset mid season. It's unfortunate to see Neymar jnr returning to the club where it all began. Once a generational talent he had struggled to fully actualize his potentials due to injuries and off field decisions. His return to Santos if confirmed would mark a symbolic but bittersweet chapter in his career.

Neymar's move to Al hilal generated excitement his season was cut short by devastating injury this highlight the needs for clubs to conduct thorough medical and fitness assessments before commiting to massive contracts, ensuring they sign players who can contribute consistently on the pitch.

[TastyChillySauce00]

Roma wants Casemiro from MAncehster United.
Napoli and Juventus are watching for Hojlund situation.
Al Hilal is going to bake an offer for Salah.
Manchester United is also close in signing Patrick Dorgu for around 30m €.

Source BBC

Roma is a stingy club. It sounds impossible for Casemiro to go there consider how big salary he wanted from his new club. We have seen how Roma was always so reluctant in investing on their squad, and this moves seems unlikely to happen.

As for Hojlund, the better for him to comeback on Serie a. He's not PL's level. He shall back to serie a before it's too late. No more room for Hojlund in PL. He's a garbage striker. Manchester United shall cash in him before he gets no demand.

[$anounimus$]

Roma wants Casemiro from MAncehster United.
Napoli and Juventus are watching for Hojlund situation.
Al Hilal is going to bake an offer for Salah.
Manchester United is also close in signing Patrick Dorgu for around 30m €.

Source BBC

Roma is a stingy club. It sounds impossible for Casemiro to go there consider how big salary he wanted from his new club. We have seen how Roma was always so reluctant in investing on their squad, and this moves seems unlikely to happen.

As for Hojlund, the better for him to comeback on Serie a. He's not PL's level. He shall back to serie a before it's too late. No more room for Hojlund in PL. He's a garbage striker. Manchester United shall cash in him before he gets no demand.

I don't understand what target Roma wants to achieve, even though if we look at the progress of the last few seasons, Giallorossi has entered the ranks of elite teams in Europe with proof of being able to win the Conference League trophy. For this season, Roma also does not look like an impressive transfer activity, in fact in Serie A they are also unable to compete. Of course it would be great if Casemiro could be brought in, but financial problems will definitely be an obstacle for the Italian capital team. I agree with you that Roma's management is very stingy and does not have a clear road map.

[eisen33]

Vinicius Junior decides to stay as it seems which is not surprising news at all.    Of course he was going to decide like that at this young age. He is only 24 and he has lots of more trophies to win with Real Madrid in the future.

He was going to get an enormous offer from a Saudi team normally. They were rumoured to offer 300 million euros to Real Madrid as transfer fee and 200 million a year as a salary to the player. That's of course an insane offer. 

But not enough to convince a player like this anyway. As far as I know he makes 25 million a year with bonuses now but not everything is money. Achieving successes in Europe is much more valuable than the successes in Saudi Arabia obviously.

Ancelotti thinks that Vinicius will choose to stay at Real, here he will have more opportunities to win trophies, and Real is one of the best clubs in which Vinicius is an important player of the first team, I think that there is no point in looking for something better. If he is offered more money in Saudi Arabia, then this is not the most important thing, Vinicius already has a lot of money and a good contract with Real.

[KTChampions]

Vinicius Junior decides to stay as it seems which is not surprising news at all.    Of course he was going to decide like that at this young age. He is only 24 and he has lots of more trophies to win with Real Madrid in the future.

He was going to get an enormous offer from a Saudi team normally. They were rumoured to offer 300 million euros to Real Madrid as transfer fee and 200 million a year as a salary to the player. That's of course an insane offer. 

But not enough to convince a player like this anyway. As far as I know he makes 25 million a year with bonuses now but not everything is money. Achieving successes in Europe is much more valuable than the successes in Saudi Arabia obviously.

The Ballon d'Or story is not over for Vinnie, he definitely wants to get it. Maybe if Vinnie gets it done, the Saudi offer, which is estimated at a billion, will turn into a billion and a half? Who knows  In any case, he is really young and has time to play for titles, but Salah, KDB, etc. should be leaving for Saudi Arabia purely for money. They are the ones whose time resource is running out.

[Palakka]

Vinicius Junior decides to stay as it seems which is not surprising news at all.    Of course he was going to decide like that at this young age. He is only 24 and he has lots of more trophies to win with Real Madrid in the future.

He was going to get an enormous offer from a Saudi team normally. They were rumoured to offer 300 million euros to Real Madrid as transfer fee and 200 million a year as a salary to the player. That's of course an insane offer.  

But not enough to convince a player like this anyway. As far as I know he makes 25 million a year with bonuses now but not everything is money. Achieving successes in Europe is much more valuable than the successes in Saudi Arabia obviously.

The Ballon d'Or story is not over for Vinnie, he definitely wants to get it. Maybe if Vinnie gets it done, the Saudi offer, which is estimated at a billion, will turn into a billion and a half? Who knows   In any case, he is really young and has time to play for titles, but Salah, KDB, etc. should be leaving for Saudi Arabia purely for money. They are the ones whose time resource is running out.

What the Arab team offered to recruit Vinicius is indeed very crazy and even reportedly the offer is 1.3 billion euros and it is really a very fantastic offer for a young player, but if we look about what Ancelotti said in the tweet it seems that Madrid does not want to release their striker to another team at this time, especially Vinicius who has ambitions to get the Ballon d'Or in his career certainly does not want to take the risk of moving to the Arab League at this time, this year he got a big disappointment after failing to get the Ballon so indeed he have ambitions to get it next year, but if he moves to the Arab League, won't it only destroy his career at a young age and close his chances of getting the Ballon d'Or in his football career later?

[sokani]

Al-Hilal finally terminated the contract with Neymar after an unfruitful eighteen months. In these months Brazilian played just seven games while he spent most of the time in medical centers treating injuries. The club's statement is that the termination is by mutual consent and they wish him well in his future endeavors. There are speculations that the 32-year-old player will be joining his boyhood club Santos.  It was indeed a bad investment for the Saudi-based club.

https://dailypost.ng/2025/01/28/transfer-neymar-jrs-contract-terminated/

Nice, but it took longer that expected. This should have been done a long time ago. Neymar literally won 5 trophies while on the bench. He has played a total of 7 matches for Al Hilal and scored just 1 goal. He made zero contribution to the success of the team and it's good they finally decided to cut him loose.

But what I don't understand is why would any club want to sign a player like Neymar with such an injury history. Even if they wanted to grant him the wish of playing for his boyhood club again before he retires, I don't think it's a good idea because he can never be relied upon.

[beerlover]

With the team scoring so many goals, it seems they don't need another striker, but if I'm not mistaken, Barcelona weren't going to buy Rashford, they were only going to loan him out.

And Amorim has once again humiliated Rashford, saying they would rather field Jorge Vital (Manchester United's 63-year-old goalkeeping coach) than a player who isn't giving his all in training and off the pitch. It's a clear conflict that's only preventing Rashford from continuing to play, and Amorim is only making it worse.

Even with loaning, it makes no sense because they really do not need an offensive player, we shouldn't really approach that as normal, we are talking about a situation where they are not really that great at defense so they should maybe consider that as more important right now. I get that they want to get a good player, and Rashford seems like he is talented, there must be something about him at training that causing all this rift between him and Amorim, but at the end of the day if Barcelona can afford him, then they just want to have him, even if he is not good, they are not buying, so it would not be a bad move in their minds.

But, fans are getting mad because they do need better defenders when they are forcing on offense and that makes the fans a bit angry. To be fair, the president has been quite terrible for many years, so it is not the first time he made the fans mad, he has done that many times before so we need to just get used to the fact that dude is bad at running a club.

[Pandu Geddon]

What the Arab team offered to recruit Vinicius is indeed very crazy and even reportedly the offer is 1.3 billion euros and it is really a very fantastic offer for a young player, but if we look about what Ancelotti said in the tweet it seems that Madrid does not want to release their striker to another team at this time, especially Vinicius who has ambitions to get the Ballon d'Or in his career certainly does not want to take the risk of moving to the Arab League at this time, this year he got a big disappointment after failing to get the Ballon so indeed he have ambitions to get it next year, but if he moves to the Arab League, won't it only destroy his career at a young age and close his chances of getting the Ballon d'Or in his football career later?

I don't think all problems can be solved with the money that the rich Saudi Arabian club can afford. Vinicius must have big ambitions with Madrid, and maybe he can only achieve them with Madrid.
The offers are coming, but I'm not sure he will accept them. His career and his place in the Madrid squad are still his. Ancelotti still has a lot of faith in him. Vinicius is not for sale at this time.

[TastyChillySauce00]

Roma wants Casemiro from MAncehster United.
Napoli and Juventus are watching for Hojlund situation.
Al Hilal is going to bake an offer for Salah.
Manchester United is also close in signing Patrick Dorgu for around 30m €.

Source BBC

Roma is a stingy club. It sounds impossible for Casemiro to go there consider how big salary he wanted from his new club. We have seen how Roma was always so reluctant in investing on their squad, and this moves seems unlikely to happen.

As for Hojlund, the better for him to comeback on Serie a. He's not PL's level. He shall back to serie a before it's too late. No more room for Hojlund in PL. He's a garbage striker. Manchester United shall cash in him before he gets no demand.

I don't understand what target Roma wants to achieve, even though if we look at the progress of the last few seasons, Giallorossi has entered the ranks of elite teams in Europe with proof of being able to win the Conference League trophy. For this season, Roma also does not look like an impressive transfer activity, in fact in Serie A they are also unable to compete. Of course it would be great if Casemiro could be brought in, but financial problems will definitely be an obstacle for the Italian capital team. I agree with you that Roma's management is very stingy and does not have a clear road map.

Roma didn't even give money to their former coaches, Mourinho and De Rossi to rebuild the club. How can they sign Casemiro as a new player with a very expensive salary? He's also more than 30 years, which is old enough.

Importantly, Roma's owner bought Everton. I guess he would focus on saving Everton from being relegated instead of putting his money into Roma.

That's why i'm not seeing this as a concrete rumor. Roma is financially struggle, and has no money to give big salary. The better to have low expectation to this club.

[rahmad2nd]

Vinicius Junior decides to stay as it seems which is not surprising news at all.    Of course he was going to decide like that at this young age. He is only 24 and he has lots of more trophies to win with Real Madrid in the future.

He was going to get an enormous offer from a Saudi team normally. They were rumoured to offer 300 million euros to Real Madrid as transfer fee and 200 million a year as a salary to the player. That's of course an insane offer. 

But not enough to convince a player like this anyway. As far as I know he makes 25 million a year with bonuses now but not everything is money. Achieving successes in Europe is much more valuable than the successes in Saudi Arabia obviously.

A very fantastic offer, how the Saudi club made a crazy offer to attract big-name star players. but in fact with Real Madrid, Vini has gotten what he wanted. not only in the form of a big salary, facilities and others, but also Vini has realized most of the players' dreams by winning the most prestigious title, and maybe his current target is to win many individual awards as one of the best players. his future is still very long at Santiago Bernabeu, this club is one of the best in the world. to realize many dreams, Madrid has become a vehicle for many players, including Vini Junior. indeed an offer that is very difficult to refuse if we look at the nominal value, as well as the salary he gets. but it seems that money does not shake his dreams and ambitions, it would be very reasonable if this Brazilian international player refused and continued his career with his teammates at Real Madrid.

[MArsland]

The Ballon d'Or story is not over for Vinnie, he definitely wants to get it. Maybe if Vinnie gets it done, the Saudi offer, which is estimated at a billion, will turn into a billion and a half? Who knows  In any case, he is really young and has time to play for titles, but Salah, KDB, etc. should be leaving for Saudi Arabia purely for money. They are the ones whose time resource is running out.

Saudi clubs want to disrupt the football market with crazy offers, this is what makes it unethical again because the impact after the players there are difficult to return to the top clubs in the European League. So Vinicius Jr must remain firm in his stance not to leave, no matter what they offer. In Europe is the time where he must maximize everything, and yes I agree the Ballon d'Or is not over for a Vinicius Jr.