⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions

[Ale88]

What is the error?
It is Vini Junior and Kylian Mbappé.
These guys play same wing, they have same ambition and almost same abilities. No one wants to completely bow for the other and the club will continue to suffer it.

I would take Mbappé every single time over Vinicius. I don't understand how when you check their market value Vinicius is supposed to be more valuable than Mbappé, it doesn't make any sense. Mbappé scored tons of goals with 3 different teams, and also with the national team, Vinicius has been playing for years in the best team of the world and scored only a fraction of those goals. And let's not talk about the national teams, there are defenders with more goals than him...

I agree with you, I've also said this to some people and unfortunately they immediately responded with hate, in my opinion Vinicius Jr. won individual awards because of politics, not necessarily on merit, he is undoubtedly a good player, but he is more focused on dribbling, if Real Madrid after Benzema left they hadn't signed Bellingham, they had left only Vinicius Jr. and Rodrygo in attack, I'm convinced that Real Madrid wouldn't have won anything, because the performance of these two attackers is very low.

If Vinicius Jr. really wants to be a great player, then he needs to score goals constantly, he has to score a lot of goals in every game, that is possible, just look at Mbappe, I had no doubt that he could score a lot of goals at Real Madrid, the guy proved that it was not luck that made him score a lot of goals at PSG and the French national team. I remember him carrying the entire French team in the final of the last World Cup.

Vinicius' problem is that he thinks about himself before the rest of the team. I remember Benzema heavily criticize him when they were playing together. And he loves to play the victim and blaming everyone every time something goes wrong. For him everybody is racist when in reality he doesn't understand that in the majority of cases people just dislike him as a player for the things he does on the pitch. I'm sorry but I don't like this type of people.

[ajanwalker]

I am also curious about what will happen to Bayer Leverkusen after Xabi. It is not clear whether they will be successful next year. However, what Xabi achieved there really deserves appreciation. As a result of being so successful, he became the coach of Real Madrid today. Real Madrid saw his success in Leverkusen and brought him to the team. Now, what the Dutch coach will do with Leverkusen will be monitored. If he fails this time, the big teams may not choose him again.

Erik Ten Hak to be a coach who will handle Leverkusen next season and they will start a new chapter after Xabi Alonso left.
It is not easy to achieve the results as given by Xabi Alonso but it is worth giving an opportunity for Erik Ten Hak to handle Leverkusen next season.
Next we can see how Leverkusen uses the transfer market to get the players needed by the Dutch coach.
Still too quickly saying failed even though he could not succeed in becoming a coach at Manchester United, but who knows in Leverkusen, Erik Ten Hak can give better results.

I don't find Dutch managers successful. Cruyf, who is long gone, may have been successful, but other than that, I don't know of any Dutch managers who have left their mark on world football.

I don't expect Erik Ten Hak to be successful at Leverkusen after Alonso either.

It may be an ambitious statement, but I even think he will be removed from the team before the mid-season transfer window.

[Barikui1]

Looks like Napoli is really close to singing 2 players.
kevin de Bruyne and jonathan David can sing for Napoli really close.

Looks like their president is trying everything to keep Conte, who manifest the interest in going away.

I think Conte has good communication with De Laurentiis. Now, Conte probably has his own demands and knows exactly what needs to be done. It’s up to the president to provide him with everything he needs in order to build a great team. For now, if these two transfers go through, it would be fantastic for the Italian champions to go all in on the Champions League.

Comm'on don't be ridiculous, when talking about players that can lead Napoli to the uefa champions league glory, kevin de bruyne right now is not one of those player because age is seriously telling on him presently, if you were talking about Kevin de bruyne three to five years back, I would have agreed that he is a top class acquisition, but right now, he is more of a pensioneer looking for a team that will pay him his final huge contract before he retires, so if Napoli is thinking that Kevin de bruyne has the capabilities to lead them to champions league glory presently, means that they are very very blind to the reality on ground.

Lastly, just look at the record of Antonio conte in the uefa champions league, he has been terrible all through his coaching career, even when he managed one of the best Chelsea side in history, his Chelsea team was easily knocked out, so in my own opinion, if you are talking of securing the league title, he is one of the best, but in the uefa champions league, his record is nothing to write home about, so on that note, I will not be expecting anything from his Napoli side regardless of which player they signed.

[aylabadia05]

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You are right, it is very important to sell old players and bring in new young strong players. Especially young people like Mainoo and Garnacho should be given a chance. From my point of view, if young people are given a chance, they can definitely be expected to do something good. It is possible to develop them with the right guidelines. I think if you create a squad with young players through an experienced coach like Amorim, you can expect a lot of good things from it. Basically, it is very important to have strong or reliable players in the goalkeeper's position and in the position of a striker. It is very important to reorganize the MU team and give space to talented players.

It's also not good if Manchester United's squad is populated by average young players even though it is easy to be directed by Amorim.
What Manchester United needs are some experienced players with high flying hours among young players who are ready to give their best performances. If it is 50:50, Amorim must be able to provide trophies to create a winning mentality for young players who are included in Manchester United's main line-up for the following seasons.

It won't be a loss if Amorim is able to bring up players from the academy for the future of the Red Devils. Bechkam, Scholes, Gary Neville including Giggs have been historical proof. Now, Mainoo, Obi-Martin, Fredicson and Amass are the future of the club.

[Slow death]

Really? it sounds weird to see Conte in the verge of leaving from Napoli after he is winning serie a trophy with his team, Napoli. Is Napoli not treating him well or what? If it's true, it surprises many people. It sounds like Conte's scudetto means nothing to the club.

I will wait for further confirmation regarding this, but hope him stays much longer. Never allegri to come as Napoli's new coach.

I don't like this website transfer news live, but this time it seems like they are posting news that could happen, I say this because today I read this news on a website in Portuguese that cited the Italian website gazzetta as a source

https://www.gazzetta.it/Calcio/Serie-A/Juventus/26-05-2025/conte-juve-la-trattativa-i-dettagli-e-il-mercato-di-giuntoli-per-lui.shtml

That's why I believe it shouldn't be a simple rumor. Now if you asked me what my opinion is about this news, I honestly can't understand why a coach who won Serie A would now move to another Serie A team. But from what I could also see, the Napoli coach seems to like Juventus and wants to return to Juventus. Either way, if Napoli lets him go, they will once again have the headache of choosing a good coach.

[fuguebtc]

Vinicius' problem is that he thinks about himself before the rest of the team. I remember Benzema heavily criticize him when they were playing together. And he loves to play the victim and blaming everyone every time something goes wrong. For him everybody is racist when in reality he doesn't understand that in the majority of cases people just dislike him as a player for the things he does on the pitch. I'm sorry but I don't like this type of people.

I totally agree with you dude. Vinicius is a very stubborn player. He blames others in the team for his own mistakes. Vini is a talented player, no doubt about that. But he is stubborn. He often accuses fans and opposing players of racism. But Vini's behavior is very bad. Vini should be more tolerant. If this continues, I doubt whether he will be able to perform so well in the future.

This season we have seen a slight decline in Vini's performance. Vini scored 15 goals in 26 matches last season and Vini has scored 11 goals in 30 matches this season. Where Mbappe has scored 31 goals.

[eisen33]

I don't like this website transfer news live, but this time it seems like they are posting news that could happen, I say this because today I read this news on a website in Portuguese that cited the Italian website gazzetta as a source

https://www.gazzetta.it/Calcio/Serie-A/Juventus/26-05-2025/conte-juve-la-trattativa-i-dettagli-e-il-mercato-di-giuntoli-per-lui.shtml

That's why I believe it shouldn't be a simple rumor. Now if you asked me what my opinion is about this news, I honestly can't understand why a coach who won Serie A would now move to another Serie A team. But from what I could also see, the Napoli coach seems to like Juventus and wants to return to Juventus. Either way, if Napoli lets him go, they will once again have the headache of choosing a good coach.

In this transfer Juventus is the main club interested. Of course they want to get a good coach who is capable of winning the Scudetto. Juventus has lost its dominance in Serie A and they definitely want to bring it back. It seems that Conte is a suitable candidate for that. Right now Juventus is in negotiations with Conte and they want to offer him a three year contract worth 8 million euros per season.

Juventus will play in the Champions League and they definitely need to buy new and higher quality players. Conte knows how to strengthen a team and I would not be surprised if he brings Lukaku with him to Juventus in case this contract is signed.

[shinratensei_]

Ornstein is finally coming with interesting news. He's tweeting about Amorim who told Garnacho to leave from the club. I obviously agree to let him leave as he gets no trust under him, and no reason to keep him much longer.
It will be so good to see him goes to the Atletico Madrid, but wondering whether MU is still being so harsh in selling him for expensive price.

If they still price him so high. None will ever buy him. They must not follow their ego, and let him go out with some discounts. 
I'm sure it will attract Atletico's interest.

Who cares? They have to do all they can to let him go completely. This is a ruthless call from the manager if I must say, but this is not the time to support players who have no such desires to fight for the club or put the club first ahead of them. I have no doubts about his potential and what great player he's gonna grow into but he has done well. Getting profits from grown academy players gives me joy.  Godspeed with him to the next phase.

Hope Garnacho gets a new club that can suit him well, but seems none is willing to acquire him for €71 m. Although such price already dropped a bit, napoli seems still reluctant to agree with it. Still wait an offer that may come from Atletico.

[Velvet78]

I don't understand why Erik Ten Hag is trusted so much. Because we all see the devastation at Manchester United. After he took office, Manchester United has been in a constant decline and they finished last year in a very bad place. I think Bayer Leverkusen should have brought in a young and promising manager after a manager like Xabi. The Dutch manager is someone who can't achieve what he wants and doesn't even take advantage of the great opportunities offered to him. I think Xabi will have a good career at Real Madrid.

Erik ten Hag had a great time period at Ajax. But things got really bad at Manchester United. Still better than Amorim so far.    Anyways if Erik ten Hag manages to go back to his Ajax days there then Leverkusen can still stay strong. Otherwise I don't expect much.




Still nothing concrete on Gyökeres' future...

They say he is available for a 65 million euros package this summer. But isn't there any offer for him already? 

I know we are newly entering the summer but some big teams are already making formal steps for transfers. A striker like Gyökeres shouldn't be missed. I hope Arsenal signs him.

[Frankolala]

Vinicius' problem is that he thinks about himself before the rest of the team. I remember Benzema heavily criticize him when they were playing together. And he loves to play the victim and blaming everyone every time something goes wrong. For him everybody is racist when in reality he doesn't understand that in the majority of cases people just dislike him as a player for the things he does on the pitch. I'm sorry but I don't like this type of people.

I totally agree with you dude. Vinicius is a very stubborn player. He blames others in the team for his own mistakes. Vini is a talented player, no doubt about that. But he is stubborn. He often accuses fans and opposing players of racism. But Vini's behavior is very bad. Vini should be more tolerant. If this continues, I doubt whether he will be able to perform so well in the future.

This season we have seen a slight decline in Vini's performance. Vini scored 15 goals in 26 matches last season and Vini has scored 11 goals in 30 matches this season. Where Mbappe has scored 31 goals.

You shouldn't blame Vini on the number of goals that he scored this season and Madrid signed a new goal machine to do all the scoring for them. Mbappe did what he was signed for and he won the golden boot. Vini is a number 7 player and wouldn't be fed with the ball compared to Mbappe who is a finisher. To wrap it up, Mbappe always outshine any striker wherever he is. I agree with Vini stubborness and he needs to change.

[MainIbem]

I don't like this website transfer news live, but this time it seems like they are posting news that could happen, I say this because today I read this news on a website in Portuguese that cited the Italian website gazzetta as a source

https://www.gazzetta.it/Calcio/Serie-A/Juventus/26-05-2025/conte-juve-la-trattativa-i-dettagli-e-il-mercato-di-giuntoli-per-lui.shtml

That's why I believe it shouldn't be a simple rumor. Now if you asked me what my opinion is about this news, I honestly can't understand why a coach who won Serie A would now move to another Serie A team. But from what I could also see, the Napoli coach seems to like Juventus and wants to return to Juventus. Either way, if Napoli lets him go, they will once again have the headache of choosing a good coach.

In this transfer Juventus is the main club interested. Of course they want to get a good coach who is capable of winning the Scudetto. Juventus has lost its dominance in Serie A and they definitely want to bring it back. It seems that Conte is a suitable candidate for that. Right now Juventus is in negotiations with Conte and they want to offer him a three year contract worth 8 million euros per season.

Juventus will play in the Champions League and they definitely need to buy new and higher quality players. Conte knows how to strengthen a team and I would not be surprised if he brings Lukaku with him to Juventus in case this contract is signed.

If Juventus are serious about signing a coach that would win them trophies, then their major target would be no other person than persuading Conte to leave Napoli and join then, he's the best man for the job, with lots of experience, you can see what he did in Napoli in space of one year, he could do similar thing with Juventus and more with the right players and funding to sign then, restoring back the dominance won't be much of a big deal, where the problem is, would be persuading Conte to leave Napoli, He still has a contract with them a the recent Champions would be thinking of extending it, who would want to lose such coach. Well they'll be very lucky if Conte joins cause he attract lots of quality players to the team, not only Lukaku, he might try to sign McTominay too.

[hyudien]

Hope Garnacho gets a new club that can suit him well, but seems none is willing to acquire him for €71 m. Although such price already dropped a bit, napoli seems still reluctant to agree with it. Still wait an offer that may come from Atletico.

What is the price of €71 million? Even though you say the price has gone down, for me it is still very expensive for a player like Garnacho. There is no doubt that he has great potential but that was in the past for now his performance is unstable, I think Man Utd should immediately lower their ego not only to be able to sell Garnacho quickly but if this is done at least it can help Man Utd finances. I think the right price is €50/€60 million, if the price is that much, Napoli and Atletico might be interested in recruiting him quickly.

[TelolettOm]

Losing Xabi Alonso is huge deal for Leverkusen as he completely transformed club even leading them to unbeaten season. While they initially wanted Fabregas his decision to stay at Como led them to Erik ten Hag which is interesting move. Ten Hag brings strong record of developing players from his Ajax days but also challenges he faced at Manchester United so Leverkusen will need to see if his style fits their team and helps them continue their success.

And now, it's been officially confirmed Ten Hag signs the contract as new Leverkusen head coach to replace Xabi Alonso. The contract will last for 2 years, until June 2027.

And one of the reasons why it had to be Ten Hag even though he failed at Man United is because Leverkusen believes in his ability, just like he did at Ajax which dominated Dutch football from 2018 - 2022.

Source: Official, confirmed. Erik ten Hag signs in as new Bayer Leverkusen head coac

[SFR10]

Still nothing concrete on Gyökeres' future...[...] They say he is available for a 65 million euros package this summer. But isn't there any offer for him already? 

I've seen some unofficial reports about Berta reaching an agreement with Gyökeres's agent about a five-year contract ^{[until 2030]}, but I think it's too good to be true.

A striker like Gyökeres shouldn't be missed. I hope Arsenal signs him.

I agree and I hope Arsenal also goes for Šeško ^{[4-4-2 formation]}, but based on what Ornstein mentioned in a recent interview, they might only go for one of them ^[3:59].

[Justbillywitt]

Really? it sounds weird to see Conte in the verge of leaving from Napoli after he is winning serie a trophy with his team, Napoli. Is Napoli not treating him well or what? If it's true, it surprises many people. It sounds like Conte's scudetto means nothing to the club.

I will wait for further confirmation regarding this, but hope him stays much longer. Never allegri to come as Napoli's new coach.

There is only one thing that will make a coach like Antoine Conte to leave a club, and that is when the club is not ambitious. Antonio Conte as we all know is someone who likes to manage at the top level. Possibly he has seen Napoli's attitude in terms of bringing money to buy players in the transfer market. Maybe the club are not ready to back him up with enough funds to get the kind of players he wants and Conte that I know will walk away than to manage a team that's not ready to back him financially in the transfer market. This won't be the first time he will be doing that. He walked away at Tottenham Hotspur because of the owner attitudes in player recruitment. So I strongly believe that could be the reason why Antonio Conte is  leaving Napoli.

[shinratensei_]

Hope Garnacho gets a new club that can suit him well, but seems none is willing to acquire him for €71 m. Although such price already dropped a bit, napoli seems still reluctant to agree with it. Still wait an offer that may come from Atletico.

What is the price of €71 million? Even though you say the price has gone down, for me it is still very expensive for a player like Garnacho. There is no doubt that he has great potential but that was in the past for now his performance is unstable, I think Man Utd should immediately lower their ego not only to be able to sell Garnacho quickly but if this is done at least it can help Man Utd finances. I think the right price is €50/€60 million, if the price is that much, Napoli and Atletico might be interested in recruiting him quickly.

Chill mate. I also think such price is still too expensive for him. That's the reason even serie a club is thinking for twice to sign him.
Also the price you mentioned was in poundsterling, not euro. While i used euro. Euro and Poundsterling is different. £60 million = €71 million.

[Pi$$]

Ornstein is finally coming with interesting news. He's tweeting about Amorim who told Garnacho to leave from the club. I obviously agree to let him leave as he gets no trust under him, and no reason to keep him much longer.
It will be so good to see him goes to the Atletico Madrid, but wondering whether MU is still being so harsh in selling him for expensive price.

If they still price him so high. None will ever buy him. They must not follow their ego, and let him go out with some discounts. 
I'm sure it will attract Atletico's interest.

Who cares? They have to do all they can to let him go completely. This is a ruthless call from the manager if I must say, but this is not the time to support players who have no such desires to fight for the club or put the club first ahead of them. I have no doubts about his potential and what great player he's gonna grow into but he has done well. Getting profits from grown academy players gives me joy.  Godspeed with him to the next phase.

Hope Garnacho gets a new club that can suit him well, but seems none is willing to acquire him for €71 m. Although such price already dropped a bit, napoli seems still reluctant to agree with it. Still wait an offer that may come from Atletico.

Garnacho will leave Manchester United and do better than he's ever done throughout his stay at the club. It's no doubt that the environment and the whole Manchester United system is not a favourable one for most of these players and they are just trying very hard to stay because of the reputation the club has outside.

Anthony is already lamenting how deficult things was throughout the time he stayed at the club and garnacho might even be going through same fate but loved the club too much to be verbal about it. I wouldn't even want him to play for Napoli but will any day, anytime wish that he plays for an EPL team that suits his kind of playing style. Even though Chelsea seems like a rival team, he's more suited in the Chelsea wing than playing for united without his effort being noticed.

[SatoPrincess]

The legends are all gone now and if you look at the Madrid squad that won the Champions League trophy three seasons in a row then after Modric's departure only Vazquez and Carvajal are left (it's not impossible that Vazquez will also leave this season).

Now the decision has been made but even so Modric will still be recognized as one of Madrid's legends and the decision to leave and Madrid releasing him I think is also still the right decision for now considering the age and revolution that Xabi wants to take obviously this is a consideration.

At the moment there is still no continuation of anything for Modric's future but wherever he goes later he will still be recognized as a legend of course there must be a proper farewell to this player in Madrid's last match this week.

It was a sad moment obviously seeing club legends taking a bow, emotions and tear’s filled the atmosphere in the Santiago Bernebeu. It’s sad to see Modric leaving but the decision has been made and we all have to accept and move on with Xabi Alonso but Modric will continue with Madrid for the Club World Cup coming up and will depart after then.

[Cookdata]

It was a sad moment obviously seeing club legends taking a bow, emotions and tear’s filled the atmosphere in the Santiago Bernebeu. It’s sad to see Modric leaving but the decision has been made and we all have to accept and move on with Xabi Alonso but Modric will continue with Madrid for the Club World Cup coming up and will depart after then.

Am I sad that he is leaving, no. All heroes must take a rest when the time is right. He has done something many people have not done in the football space, he experienced many legend growth in different decades, look at the years he did alone in Real Madrid, it's time to take a rest. Last season and this season was absolutely poor that he almost cost Real Madrid from not winning the Champions League because of a small mistake but they did eventually.

How does is it even sound if Xabi becomes the new manager in Real Madrid coaching his senior colleague? He met him there even though he was younger than him, this is the best the club has done for him and to keep his respect and dignity in place, you can't be working for 365 days when you are supposed to be an observant. Learnt he had already established club, he should go there and focus on that or better still go to Inter Miami where they are calling him, seems David Beckham missed him so much.

[SatoPrincess]

Jonathan Tah wanted out last season but after having close talks with Xabi Alonso,  he was quietly tamed to maintain his cool about his move outta the club as he was reportedly linked to both Barcelona and Bayern Munich. I happy for this move because he'll have a chance to win more trophies and also be fully fit and ready to represent the German National Team whenever called up. Selling Eric Dier gave me that hunch he was gonna swing this way. Congratulations to him!!

This is good news for Bayern Munich fans because they have had their sights on Jonathan Tah for some time and now they finally get him. I also think it’s a good move on the player’s side because he has joined the champions and will likely win more trophies with Bayern Munich just as Kane has done for the first time in his long career.