⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions

[Ale88]

Social media is full of unverified speculations, in the picture we are seeing here, Fabrizio Romano has said Paul Pogba is going to Monaco, and you are saying people on social media thinks Pogba is heading to Real Madrid. Well in this case I will go with what Fabrizio Romano has reported. If Real Madrid were interested in Pogba, they would have gone for him and he would have been with their squad in the united states right now. Pogba is a free agent and he is not contracted to any club at the moment so he can wear any club jersey and train. Wearing that Jersey doesn't mean Real Madrid are buying him. If Fabrizio haven't reported so, just forget it.

No, Real would definitely not buy Pogba after those doping scandals and after such a long break without playing. But it seems that Monaco is ready to take the risk, although I think this still does not guarantee that Pogba will immediately play in the starting lineup. It is possible that he will start on the bench and sometimes get a place coming on as a substitute. But for Pogba, this is still a very good move. He will immediately play in the Champions League, and if he trains properly, he has a good chance to become a regular starter for Monaco.

We all know that Paul Pogba is a great talent, so I don't see anything that will stop him from getting into the starting line up of his new team should he complete the move to AS Monaco. Pogba was only banned from playing football for some time, but he didn't lose his talent during the ban period. If he eventually makes the come back, and train very well and perform more than the other players in his position, I don't see what will stop the manager from including him in his starting eleven. Paul Pogba will have equal opportunity as every other player in the team. His ban is over he won't Be on the bench if he deserves to be in the match day squad. All players will fight for their place in the team.

The problem is not Pogba's talent rather his physical condition: since he moved to Manchester United he began to be injured the majority of the time. Manchester United decided to get rid of him exactly for this reason, the injuries. Pogba wants a huge salary despite the fact that he's going to play just a fraction of the matches. It happened the same with Juventus, he missed a full year and yet got 10 million euros, that's crazy.

[Chikito]

Sporting CP will not lower their bid on Viktor Gyokeres because he's one of the standout attacker in the transfer window. They know he's capable but what else matters? Other elite teams open bids with the player but they don't match the bids because they feel Gyokeres is overhyped in the market. We know alot of things have been ruined for the player but it doesn't stop him from been in the category of top attackers. Viktor Gyokeres might as well create his path because if he follows his team, they are no willing to let him go, rather they will redirect bids that are not favorable on the player.

Gyokeres is no longer comfortable playing for Sporting. He wants the club to sell him to the Premier League, no matter how much the other club gives in offers because Gyokeres wants to develop his career in a competitive league. Primeira League is not competitive enough, and it will affect his career in the future.  I believe this will be a significant issue if the management still holds him at a high price (70 million euros) because his age is not compatible with the current market. There will be a win-win solution between him, the sporting and other clubs (who want his service), like a loan option, or player swap.

[SatoPrincess]

After not getting a good opportunity at Barcelona, Gundogan returned to Man City. Even though he is 34 years old, he can still compete with other players. Today he scored 2 goals in the Club World Cup. This certainly dispels rumors that he would leave for Galatasaray. The statement also mentioned that he still has a one-year contract and is still very happy with Man City. He is still very confident that he can contribute to Man City.

SOurce: https://www.skysports.com/football/live-blog/11679/13025499/man-city-transfer-news-rumours-and-gossip-live-updates-and-latest-on-deals-signings-loans-and-contracts

Scoring two goals in an international game doesn’t make it guaranteed that Gundogan perform for Manchester City in the Premier League or change the fact that he is 34. If City can let KDB go who is not 34 and would even perform better than Gundogan, there is nothing stopping them from letting Gundogan go. I expect a departure sooner or later in the window.

[Rruchi man]

Gyokeres is no longer comfortable playing for Sporting. He wants the club to sell him to the Premier League, no matter how much the other club gives in offers because Gyokeres wants to develop his career in a competitive league. Primeira League is not competitive enough, and it will affect his career in the future.  I believe this will be a significant issue if the management still holds him at a high price (70 million euros) because his age is not compatible with the current market. There will be a win-win solution between him, the sporting and other clubs (who want his service), like a loan option, or player swap.

The management of Sporting CP is not honoring the agreements that he had with them, and that is something that he, as a player, is not happy about. The fact that he is unhappy with the club makes his move away from the club more imminent because, from what I heard, he has refused to train with them. I think in the coming days we will hear positive news about him moving to Arsenal because so far we are the club that he has been linked most with to join.

If he joins Arsenal, he would score for fun.

[Felicity_Tide]

Gyökeres is serious about leaving. He has burned his bridges. What do you think his next team will be? I'm still curious about what Arsenal is planning now.

It's quite surprising and at the same time disappointing, to see the extent at which some of this club can go all in the name of cashing out extra from these players. From what I've heard about the saga, Gyokeres signed a five years contract extension with a release clause of €100M in 2023. When Amorim left in the winter transfer window, Gyokeres felt like leaving as well, but decided to stay on one condition, which is that his release clause must be chopped down to the £60-65M that was speculated at first.

Arsenal on the other hand are literally not serious in this transfer window. I even doubt if they have a budget for this very transfer window. Arteta's soft heart for Havertz is the main reason they are not willing to break the banks for Gyokeres. They are literally giving excuses like age, meanwhile, he turned 27 this same month. I see no reason why a club that desperately needs to win trophy should prioritize age over experience. There are still players that Arteta can not count on in a game, but the club is not even willing to let them go. How do you make profit when you fail to sell those that are not useful.

imo, it's either Gyokeres or nothing. At least, make a good offer because six years without a major trophy has been tough for the fans.

[AprilioMP]

After not getting a good opportunity at Barcelona, Gundogan returned to Man City. Even though he is 34 years old, he can still compete with other players. Today he scored 2 goals in the Club World Cup. This certainly dispels rumors that he would leave for Galatasaray. The statement also mentioned that he still has a one-year contract and is still very happy with Man City. He is still very confident that he can contribute to Man City.

SOurce: https://www.skysports.com/football/live-blog/11679/13025499/man-city-transfer-news-rumours-and-gossip-live-updates-and-latest-on-deals-signings-loans-and-contracts

Scoring two goals in an international game doesn’t make it guaranteed that Gundogan perform for Manchester City in the Premier League or change the fact that he is 34. If City can let KDB go who is not 34 and would even perform better than Gundogan, there is nothing stopping them from letting Gundogan go. I expect a departure sooner or later in the window.

It is still possible to happen but as of now there are no rumors about Gundongan. This suggests that Gundogan will stay at Manchester City.
His competition for a spot in Pep Guardiola's main squad is not easy after Tijjani Reinjders arrived from AC Milan and Cherki from Lyon. That's not counting Rodri who has recovered from a long injury.
34 is no longer young, but if a player is able to play with technique, 34 is just a number.

[red4slash]

After Fati extends his contract in Barcelona. He leaves as a loan to the Monaco with the option to buy him.
It's hard to call this as a good move for Monaco, but this pure gamble by them. They signed Pogba, which has been absent for years, then Fati, an injury prone player. These signings are bad, but Pogba still acceptable rather than Fati.

Don't they aware how garbage fati is? He's also very often injury, and recyclable football player. He played in different team any season, and stalled.

Yes, this is a gamble for Monaco especially with the conditions where the loan comes with a purchase option and the wages are covered by them of course this makes the conditions a little different for Ansu but when Monaco have decided that then they know the risk they are taking from this gamble.

Ansu was once a very good young player who was even predicted as a potential player for the future but a prolonged knee injury has eroded his performance and is currently missing opportunities that are actually very wide open but injuries destroy his youth career.

But even so by looking at the seriousness of Monaco then I think they already know the form of consequences on the other hand they certainly do this with full consideration so I don't think they are too careless if they don't see potential. It's just that in this condition I am confused about what Adi Hutter wants to do at this time because if you look at the scheme that he always did last season he actually rarely used 3 attackers where he preferred 4-2-3-1 or even more often in 4-4-2 so with Ansu later whether this will be used as 4-3-3 with Ansu in the pot as a winger (original position) or still using the same pattern with 4-2-3-1 but Ansu is more used as an attacking midfielder so that the situation becomes more flexible.

[JeffBrad12]

A good news from Nico. He's giving green light to go to the Barcelona. His team is also willing to let him leave. Still hope Barcelona to start a plan in signing him as he can't be patience to play together with his friends in the national squad.
€50m looks easy for Barcelona, and can be trigger so easily. However, i still believe they can't pay him direct cash, but choose to pay him in some installments.

[MarjorieZimmermanGinger]

The management of Sporting CP is not honoring the agreements that he had with them, and that is something that he, as a player, is not happy about. The fact that he is unhappy with the club makes his move away from the club more imminent because, from what I heard, he has refused to train with them. I think in the coming days we will hear positive news about him moving to Arsenal because so far we are the club that he has been linked most with to join.

Arsenal are starting to shift their focus to other players even though they previously said they were quite interested in Gyokeres. This is because Sporting are asking a price that is high enough that Arsenal cannot afford to recruit him and if this condition continues then Gyokeres' future is increasingly unclear. If in the end the transfer fails and no other club is interested enough to recruit him then whether he wants it or not he will stay and it may be true that Sporting are not respecting the agreement they have made with the player because they are reluctant to let him go for the price that Arsenal is asking.

[coinlocket$]

So According to Fabrizio Romano is done soon.
Modric will be a new player for Ac Milan after the club world cup.

They aready have a verbal agreement but he need to wait the end of the competition or can't play for Real Madird.


What do you think about this sign, I think its fine at his age in Serie A he can play cause is a slower pace Tournament.

[katanic97]

A good news from Nico. He's giving green light to go to the Barcelona. His team is also willing to let him leave. Still hope Barcelona to start a plan in signing him as he can't be patience to play together with his friends in the national squad.
€50m looks easy for Barcelona, and can be trigger so easily. However, i still believe they can't pay him direct cash, but choose to pay him in some installments.

If Barcelona manages to pull this off, i think it will be a perfect move. Playing alongside Yamal, Nico can only grow and improve. We've already seen great performances from him in the national team. €50 million really does seem like an easy price for Barca. We'll see Nico is young and a very talented player, there's no doubt he'll be a very important addition to Barcelona's squad.

[bitgolden]

People like Ronaldo and Messi comes once in a million years which makes Ronaldo more special and unique from those other players that played when they were 40 years and above. Ronaldo have scored the highest goals since in the history of football. So don't compare him with any average old players that were just on the field to play football. He is a team leader and has successfully taken his National team so several competitions that they won the trophy.

That is what I hated about this "Ronaldo vs Messi" debates for a long time. If you say Messi is number one and Ronaldo is number two, that is alright and I believe that too. But it is also fine to say Ronaldo is number one and Messi is number two.

These two opinions are quite valid and normal, and shouldn't be a problem at all. However, some people act like whoever they like, the other is just a shitty player that just dives and plays bad and bad guy etc etc. Like I prefer Messi over Ronaldo too, but I do not call Ronaldo some shitty player, I do not call him "Penaldo" or whatever, I believe he is the second best player ever, and it is a privilege to grow up watching this dude play. So when people act like that, it makes me annoyed.

[Luzin]

Rumors about Lois Openda's departure are growing. Last season's poor performance made Leipzig make big changes. He had a good debut and his second season was also very good making 24 goals. The Belgian international wants to leave the club this summer. They are very open to the best offers on all their players. This is useful to rebuild the team to be able to compete in the league and Europe next season.

Source: https://bulinews.com/openda-next-big-leipzig-departure-per-bild

[JeffBrad12]

A good news from Nico. He's giving green light to go to the Barcelona. His team is also willing to let him leave. Still hope Barcelona to start a plan in signing him as he can't be patience to play together with his friends in the national squad.
€50m looks easy for Barcelona, and can be trigger so easily. However, i still believe they can't pay him direct cash, but choose to pay him in some installments.

If Barcelona manages to pull this off, i think it will be a perfect move. Playing alongside Yamal, Nico can only grow and improve. We've already seen great performances from him in the national team. €50 million really does seem like an easy price for Barca. We'll see Nico is young and a very talented player, there's no doubt he'll be a very important addition to Barcelona's squad.

Yeah, i think so. Nico can play together along with Yamal and Pedri. He already had good chemistry with them, and having him in Barcelona obviously gives positive to the Barcelona's squad.

I know you may be concerning with Nico's price, but as long as Barcelona can pay it in some installments. We shall never worry.

[Velvet78]

I wasn't waiting for this honestly. I thought Kepa wouldn't end up being a backup goalkeeper. It is really disappointing because he isn't that bad. I wonder why he didn't consider his other options well...

It is a great deal for Arsenal though. He is like free for that amount.    They had Neto (35) on loan as backup last season. This is a way better move for sure. They didn't have anyone else than Raya otherwise as Ramsdale left.

[yenerbatmaz]

Muslera left Galatasaray thinking he would return to his country. I saw on the news yesterday that he signed a contract with Estudiantes until December 2026.

Uruguay and Argentina are border countries, but when he left Türkiye, I thought he would either quit football or return to his country, but he went and signed with La Plata.
He came to Türkiye at the age of 25, earned a lot of money and won championships in 14 years. If he had accepted, he could have played football for Galatasaray for two more years.

[SatoPrincess]

If i was Hojlund, i'd prefer to go to the Napoli instead of Intermilan. I know Inter leads the competition to sign him, but i believe MU will not allow him to leave as a loan even with obligation to buy. Don't you remember how Chelsea paid the fine to return Sancho back to the United even they have obligation to buy him?

I believe he won't go to the Italy without direct payment. So i prefer to put Napoli to leads the competition to sign him instead of Inter. It's because Napoli has money to buy him directly.

In my opinion Napoli looks like a more promising side for Hojlund than Inter Milan. Inter Milan have two good options in that position already, two options that are doing well so bringing in Hojlund will mean he will be going to fight for a spot with those key players who have already sealed their spots in the first team.

[Hyphen(-)]

After Fati extends his contract in Barcelona. He leaves as a loan to the Monaco with the option to buy him.
It's hard to call this as a good move for Monaco, but this pure gamble by them. They signed Pogba, which has been absent for years, then Fati, an injury prone player. These signings are bad, but Pogba still acceptable rather than Fati.

Don't they aware how garbage fati is? He's also very often injury, and recyclable football player. He played in different team any season, and stalled.

Despite all what you said about these two players, I don’t think Monaco made a mistakes signing any of these players even though they all have not been in form or they are almost out of their games in the past two seasons.

Ansu Fati is a good player, he was playing really well before Injury starts to stop his form, and he couldn’t get back his form due to how he do get injured, the team decides to get some players to replace him and now that he is fit, the team can’t rely on him that is why they let him go on loan; I am very sure they will sell him to Monaco but it will not be fair if they did that once.

While Paul Pogba was out of any club for a while now due to ban, but when he was on form, he was very good. I don’t think Monaco will regrade this action because Pogba will be willing to get back his form and play football like normal player.

[SatoPrincess]

But Christiano Ronaldo is not the first player to play football at the age of 40, I believe there were players who played even at the age of 41. So you guys should stop making it look like he's the only player that has achieved this feat. Well I guess it's Ronaldo and people will always want to make it look so special I understand that. The guy is just waiting to see if he can leverage on the strength of his team mates to try his luck in next year world cup to see if he can win the only title his hasn't won in his career which I think he will never lay his hands on. By the way I thought he has already won the world cup, when he compared the Euros as equivalent to the world cup. 😂😂

Well I know you guys will come for me, but it won't change anything.

No one is over hyping Ronaldo because he is CR7. If until now you still doubt Ronaldo’s talent and abilities then you are the one underestimating him. Many players have played at age 40 and 41 but how many have remained consistent and at top level at 40 and 41? If you want to talk about players overhyped it is definitely not Ronaldo!

[KTChampions]

Gyokeres want to leave but he was dissapoint to see club behaviour because Sporting seems don't have any plan to lower the price and if this situation continue i am sure Gyokeres and Sporting will make a conflict and this is not good for him and Sporting so in my opinion the club should be let him to leave and probably there is a big club who willing to buy him for 60 million

It's unfortunate that this will affect other players for giving their all to teams of such. This affected Osimhen relationship with Napoli and unfortunately Sporting management are taking the same step that would entirely end their relationship. We know these players gave their all and the club may feel they are letting off for a fee not really showing their worth but it's the terms they agreed and they should stick with it. Erling Haaland didn't receive same treatment at Dortmund though he was much younger and also on fire then.

I think that each party to the contract is obliged to fulfill it or pay a penalty for breaking it. When a player signs a long-term contract, he knows what he is getting into and receives a high salary and various bonuses. And in general, a contract is signed by two informed parties, it is not a "pig in a poke", if you signed it, you must fulfill it. The situation with Gyokeres and Osimhen is different, Gyokeres himself initiates his departure and does not want to fulfill the contract, Osimhen had no problems staying at the club.