⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions

[Futurexxx]

For a player of Nicolas Jackson's caliber, Chelsea's asking price is clearly very high, even though they have benefited from the Club World Cup. Manchester United has set a modest budget in the current transfer window, having spent heavily on players last season, but the results were disastrous. This is evident in Manchester United's current transfer process, which demonstrates their careful negotiation, as evidenced by the two players they secured.

Chelsea are just trying to see maybe they can tempt any of the clubs to pay close to this price, Jackson is not worth this price and moreover Manchester United wouldn’t even spent such amount on a striker now and not to talk of signing Jackson with that amount.

Don't be too confident buddy, the hierarchy of Manchester united are very unpredictable, they can do the unthinkable and shock the football world, Nicholas Jackson is not that bad as most football fans are making it looks like, just that his wastefulness in front of goal is just too much for any right thinking club not to pay close attention to before making any decisions wether to go for his signature or not.
At Chelsea presently he knows that his playing time will be limited because of the quality attackers that has been brought in, so if he want to be playing week in week out, he has to move to a different team.
 So If he succeeded in going to Manchester united, I think that he is going to play ahead of Hojlund because he is a better attacker than the Manchester united center forward.

[Mayor of ogba]

This was a truly excellent signing for Arsenal. I believe we'll see a much better Arsenal forward this year. They signed a player who performed exceptionally well with Sporting Lisbon last year. The Swedish striker also played exceptionally well for the Swedish national team. I'm sure he'll score plenty of goals for Arsenal in the Premier League. He's good enough to fill the gap in quality strikers Arsenal have been needing for a long time.

I won't lie that I began wishing that Man UTD should just grab the guy because it was as if Arsenal weren't serious but who knows if it wasn't for the fear that Man UTD could come in and put more money that strengthened the Gunners to hurry up with the deal? Either ways, at least for the first time in a long time, the club have gone for a quality striker and achieved it. Now their fans would breathe easy that the deal has been dusted and now they can now wait for the season to start.
Arsenal will be playing against AC Milan tomorrow as part of the club friendlies, let's see if this news would spur them to win.

Manchester United could have been the club to sign Gyokeres from Sporting CP, but since he made it known that he wouldn't join Manchester United, that made Manchester United not to enter the race to sign Gyokeres, and that's also the reason why Arsenal was able to sign Gyokeres. Arsenal was very serious about signing Gyokeres, but since Sporting CP used Manchester United to raise Gyokeres's transfer fee, Arsenal found it difficult to meet Gyokeres's transfer fee fast.

[JeffBrad12]

Milan - Vlahovic can be done.
Vlahovic will most likely leave juventus in this session.
The deal can be discussed in the next week, the problem is the big salary of the player for Ac Milan.
Some players could enter in the deal to cut the expense for Milan.
Big L for Juventus.

No club is willing to pay Vlahovic's non sense salary, which is more than 300k weekly. I'd call it as dumb club who agree to pay 300k weekly for a flop striker like him. Vlahovic doesn't deserve 300k, but even 110k already overpaid for a flop striker that can do nothing like him.
If i were Milan's sporting director, i'd exclude him from team's shortlist of new striker. I have seen enough how bad he was during his time in Juve. He's not even worthy to take a look at.

[blomen]

I am starting to think, as soon as United asks for a player, other teams start to ask for more. Like for example, in this case, Mbuemo was from Brentford, and lets say some smaller team, like for example Aston Villa, approached them and asked for him, maybe they would have let him go for 40-50 million, I mean he was still too good to sell for 10-20 or whatever, but 40-50 could have happened but when teams hear United ring them up for a player, they start to charge more? Maybe that is the case?

Like there is a tax for being United and rich and made same mistakes before? You do not ask from other rich clubs the same thing, because if you do, they just leave the table, but when you do that to United, they accept, so people take advantage of their situation maybe?

some clubs have a brand image. i.e. when you hear the name of that club in an event, there is an emotion, an experience that it makes you feel.

for example, if you buy a young player from ajax, and he is a youth player, regardless of what he has done so far, regardless of his ability and what he can do, you will pay more money just because you buy him from ajax than if you buy him from another team. because ajax has created an image for itself as a club that produces solid youth players and sells them to big clubs.

maybe it's the same with manchester united. whoever they buy, just because they're manchester united, the other team is prepared to ask for more than they would normally. because manchester united are famous for this kind of thing. if they're going to buy someone with a name, they'll pay more than what they have to.

[Juicyhome]

Manchester United could have been the club to sign Gyokeres from Sporting CP, but since he made it known that he wouldn't join Manchester United, that made Manchester United not to enter the race to sign Gyokeres, and that's also the reason why Arsenal was able to sign Gyokeres. Arsenal was very serious about signing Gyokeres, but since Sporting CP used Manchester United to raise Gyokeres's transfer fee, Arsenal found it difficult to meet Gyokeres's transfer fee fast.

That is not the case, Gyokeres was interested to play in the champions league, and Manchester united are not in any Europe competition this season. No striker of his level will play for a club that is not in Europe competition, is not that he rejected Manchester united, he needed to play in champion leagues that is why he chosen Arsenal over Manchester united.

Arsenal was not much interested, it was the player that forces the transfer to Arsenal. Manchester united offer was better than what Arsenal offered him. But the player choice must be respected. Gyokeres is not ready to build a team with his former boss Ruben Amorim at Manchester united, he wanted to already made team, like Arsenal who was lacking a top striker.  I wish him well as a Manchester united fan.

[Luzin]

It seems that Xabi is not satisfied with the players he currently has. Especially the current condition of the center players because they were left behind by Beligham who had shoulder surgery. Xabi still sees many shortcomings in his young players. I think this makes a lot of rumors he still wants to buy a midfielder. One of his targets is Man City midfielder Rodri. Real Madrid are ready to bid £100 million to sign the Manchester City star. Although Rodri's condition last season rested a lot due to injury and made Man City not get good achievements.

Source: https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/35984346/real-madrid-transfer-rodri-man-city-offer/

[Despairo]

It seems that Xabi is not satisfied with the players he currently has. Especially the current condition of the center players because they were left behind by Beligham who had shoulder surgery. Xabi still sees many shortcomings in his young players. I think this makes a lot of rumors he still wants to buy a midfielder. One of his targets is Man City midfielder Rodri. Real Madrid are ready to bid £100 million to sign the Manchester City star. Although Rodri's condition last season rested a lot due to injury and made Man City not get good achievements.

Nope, it's not because Bellingham absent, but Real Madrid need someone who can control the flow.

They have no one player can play in this role, Kross and Modric already left. Real Madrid is keep changing their player to play in this role, usually Valverde fill this position. They have to sign a new player because Valverde is better to play in other position.

100 Million Euros is still too cheap, if they can bid Enzo for 150 Million Euros, they should able to offer the same amount for Rodri.

[Oluwa-btc]

Chealsea is talking with Ajax for Hato, the player already gave his green light.
Joao Mario to Juventus will be official after the coming medical tests.
Chealsea is pushing for Xavi Simmons.
Al Ittihad is talking with Ac Milan for Bennacer.

News of the day from Fabrizio.

Hato is a young and promising player,  Ajax shouldn't let him go for some cheap figures, Chelsea has the money they should pay up since they really want him.
Joao Mario is a player I've never watched, so giving unnecessary comments about him makes zero sense. I've only seen and read some negative feeds about his move to Juventus. Bringing in Xavi Simons makes sense for Chelsea,  his arrival will ease of the creativity duties of Cole Palmer. Chelsea are now moving like the Chelsea with Abrahimovic and Marina. 

[MainIbem]

It seems that Xabi is not satisfied with the players he currently has. Especially the current condition of the center players because they were left behind by Beligham who had shoulder surgery. Xabi still sees many shortcomings in his young players. I think this makes a lot of rumors he still wants to buy a midfielder. One of his targets is Man City midfielder Rodri. Real Madrid are ready to bid £100 million to sign the Manchester City star. Although Rodri's condition last season rested a lot due to injury and made Man City not get good achievements.

Source: https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/35984346/real-madrid-transfer-rodri-man-city-offer/

After what the team experienced when they played against PSG in the club world cup, I saw that coming, if you noticed the Midfield was mostly dominated by PSG in that match which gave them the opportunity to control possession mostly and create chances, therefore he doesn't want that to repeat again in the future that's why he's calling for more transfers especially in that area, if Perez would agree to his demands I think they'll go for someone that's more experienced, someone that would comfortably replace Modric but I wonder who they'll go for, no big club would release their top players except Madrid give them an offer they can't reject.

[Tmoonz]

Hmm it seems amorin is really cooking, after making some nice signings of Mathew cuhan and mbeumo, he's now focused on a striker which sesko, Watkins and Jackson are all targets, and with the look of things I'm kind of certain sesko will be joining the red devils in no time soon and if this deal should go through mehn Manchester United will really be something else comes next season, just imagine the front line of cuhan sesko and mbeumo jeez they are really gonna Cook EPL defenders, like Truth be told Manchester United won't be an easy one comes next season if they should get sesko, and of course a better keeper then the rest is history.

[Adbitco]

Real Madrid are still keen on signing Ibrahima Konate from Liverpool this summer. It's understood that Alonso wants him at the Santiago Bernebeu this summer to strengthen his squad but Liverpool are asking for €50 million and Real Madrid is proposing half of that amount because his contract with Liverpool is ending next summer. Liverpool hopes to convince him to stay but his already made up his mind not to renew after turning down two contracts renewals from Liverpool of recent. Now it's either Liverpool takes the €25 offered to them by Real Madrid for him or lose him for free next summer when his contract expires. Well let's see how it goes.

Liverpool €50 millions and Real Madrid €25 millions. It is very clear that Liverpool would not give them Ibrahima Konate though in it is a business negotiation but the amount which is 50% of what Liverpool given will not be actualized.

If Real Madrid can leave it this season then Liverpool could lose him for free next season, this was also the case of Trent, they couldn't convince him to stay after he said he was leaving. They would have sold him last season and made a lot of profit off him but they felt they could convince him to extend which didn't happen. Same thing is now happening to Konate. If they fail to sell him this summer, they wouldn't see €25 million or €50 million from his sale, because he will be a free agent.

[SatoPrincess]

https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1947654792899379560

The long awaited Here We Go, is finally year.
Sporting accepted Arsenal's last bid of €63.5m + €10m according to Fabrizio Romano. It was a tough battle between both parties, but Arsenal has been much calmer in this window, thereby putting those that they are buying from in very tight corner.

I believe Arsenal fans are very happy at the moment, and Gyokeres should be far more excited to join the gunners. It's going to be a very tough season ahead considering the fact that the top big teams are recruiting good strikers. Let's see how Manchester united respond to this in the coming days.

I was beginning to think the “here we go”’was never coming but fortunately it is here and I am so excited for Arsenal because for years they have sought for a number nine since Aubameyang and they have not been lucky with their search. I believe this addition to the squad will greatly improve Arsenal’s chances at winning the league this season.

[hyudien]

Hmm it seems amorin is really cooking, after making some nice signings of Mathew cuhan and mbeumo, he's now focused on a striker which sesko, Watkins and Jackson are all targets, and with the look of things I'm kind of certain sesko will be joining the red devils in no time soon and if this deal should go through mehn Manchester United will really be something else comes next season, just imagine the front line of cuhan sesko and mbeumo jeez they are really gonna Cook EPL defenders, like Truth be told Manchester United won't be an easy one comes next season if they should get sesko, and of course a better keeper then the rest is history.

Of the 3 names on your list, I have to eliminate Watkins and Jackson. Of course, they are familiar with the Premier League, but there is a reason why I say that. Watkins does have good statistics, but considering he is 29 years old, it indicates that he is not good enough for the long term for Man Utd. Jackson is still young, unfortunately I am not too impressed with his performance. Well, the most suitable is Sesko, young, has the DNA as a quality striker and I am sure Amorim can develop him. But getting Sesko is not easy considering that many other top clubs are also interested.

[LFC_Bitcoin]

@FabrizioRomano
🚨💣 Understand Alexander Isak remains a target for Liverpool even after signing Ekitike… but depends on Newcastle.

If Newcastle open doors to an exit and #LFC sell Diaz, they can bid after direct contact made 10 days ago.

Isak, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 in concrete talks with Al Hilal so far.
https://x.com/fabrizioromano/status/1948346962413031699

[Agbamoni]

6 years contract? Hmm, seems like this player is ready to walk with Liverpool for every part of his career. I don't know but some of these long term contract has a way of back firing but I hope not with this player. With the amount they bought him I believe that alone comes with so much expectations with the fans waiting to see him do what he did in the Bundesliga, and if he doesn't deliver it becomes a problem but my worry is that he shouldn't be a one season wonder kind of striker and with less goals...well, Slot knows what he is doing for going hard on getting this player.

I wont be surprised Liverpool agreed to spend so much money on the player. They recently won the Premier League trophy and they also made a lot of money from advancing far in the UCL last season, followed by the money made from selling Nunes and other players.

@FabrizioRomano
🚨💣 Understand Alexander Isak remains a target for Liverpool even after signing Ekitike… but depends on Newcastle.

If Newcastle open doors to an exit and #LFC sell Diaz, they can bid after direct contact made 10 days ago.

Isak, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 in concrete talks with Al Hilal so far.
https://x.com/fabrizioromano/status/1948346962413031699

I strongly doubt Isak would want to leave Newcastle now.
This deal is likely impossible this summer. I will be shocked if it goes through.

[JeffBrad12]

@FabrizioRomano
🚨💣 Understand Alexander Isak remains a target for Liverpool even after signing Ekitike… but depends on Newcastle.

If Newcastle open doors to an exit and #LFC sell Diaz, they can bid after direct contact made 10 days ago.

Isak, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 in concrete talks with Al Hilal so far.
https://x.com/fabrizioromano/status/1948346962413031699

This news makes Ekitike's transfer sound waste of money. It's obvious Liverpool really wanted Isaak, but not wise to waste their resource on Ekitike, while they still have time to change Newcastle's mind. I know Newcastle is in stance not to sale Isaak, but who knows. However, it will be so damn crazy if Liverpool is also signing Isaak, too.

[Frankolala]

Real Madrid are still keen on signing Ibrahima Konate from Liverpool this summer. It's understood that Alonso wants him at the Santiago Bernebeu this summer to strengthen his squad but Liverpool are asking for €50 million and Real Madrid is proposing half of that amount because his contract with Liverpool is ending next summer. Liverpool hopes to convince him to stay but his already made up his mind not to renew after turning down two contracts renewals from Liverpool of recent. Now it's either Liverpool takes the €25 offered to them by Real Madrid for him or lose him for free next summer when his contract expires. Well let's see how it goes.

Liverpool €50 millions and Real Madrid €25 millions. It is very clear that Liverpool would not give them Ibrahima Konate though in it is a business negotiation but the amount which is 50% of what Liverpool given will not be actualized.

If Real Madrid can leave it this season then Liverpool could lose him for free next season, this was also the case of Trent, they couldn't convince him to stay after he said he was leaving. They would have sold him last season and made a lot of profit off him but they felt they could convince him to extend which didn't happen. Same thing is now happening to Konate. If they fail to sell him this summer, they wouldn't see €25 million or €50 million from his sale, because he will be a free agent.

Looks like that's Real Madrid's new strategy of getting players that they want without playing expensively for it. Look at how they signed Mbappe, and this summer Trent. Seems similar thing will happen to Konate when his contract expires next season. Real Madrid approaches the players one or two season before the end of their contract in their club and it is working for them.

[Jostern]

@FabrizioRomano
🚨💣 Understand Alexander Isak remains a target for Liverpool even after signing Ekitike… but depends on Newcastle.

If Newcastle open doors to an exit and #LFC sell Diaz, they can bid after direct contact made 10 days ago.

Isak, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 in concrete talks with Al Hilal so far.
https://x.com/fabrizioromano/status/1948346962413031699

Now I’m confident Isak is going to end up in Liverpool, The player have already indicated his intention to the club that he wants to access other options and I absolutely think that He has already have some conversations with Richard Hughes and Micheal Edward, For Isak to be left out of the friendly against Celtic and also be left out for their pre season tour in Singapore show that the player wants to leave, Liverpool vividly told Newcastle last week give us Isak and take Ekitike but they refused and said Isak isn’t for sell.

Now Liverpool is moving like a big club and they want to take both players, Isak and Ekitike will be playing together, I believe before Isak asked to leave, Liverpool have already assured Isak that they will come for him if he will ask for a transfer and that is what have happened with Isak and his agent, His agent came out last week that they are exploring other options which he will not mention, the Saudis are there but I doubt if Alexander Isak wants to move to Saudi Arabia League at this stage of his career, As a Liverpool fan I’m happy that Liverpool is now acting like a big club after winning the premier league they are making a statement to their rivals that they’re here to stay, And I believe Liverpool wants to build a team that will dominate for years to come, I’m excited about this ambition, Billy Hogan said that Liverpool is a Big Club and is high time we start acting like one and that is what is happening now.

Arne Slot even said We would make this team stronger next season, So everything happening right now have been planned already by the board, and if you should ask me Arne Slot deserves everything he is getting because he won the premier league without spending money so now nobody is going to say that he is buying the tittle. There is more to come from this Liverpool spending spree because Liverpool is not done buying players. It’s going to be a big Summer and it’s already happening, And Alexander Isak will end up at Liverpool, I expect Liverpool to make a bid for him very soon. And Newcastle Have already started accessing the strikers market.

[Adbitco]

Looks like that's Real Madrid's new strategy of getting players that they want without playing expensively for it. Look at how they signed Mbappe, and this summer Trent. Seems similar thing will happen to Konate when his contract expires next season. Real Madrid approaches the players one or two season before the end of their contract in their club and it is working for them.

Every club normally reaches personal agreement with the players most of the time which is very legal. You are wrong about Mbappe because over the years Perez has wanted to sign him and PSG refused because he was their prized asset. Real Madrid offered PSG €180 million two years ago but they refused and said his not for sale thinking they can convince him to stay, but that was the last offer and Perez told them that he won't attempt to buy Mbappe again and they will lose him for free. Of course he already knew that Mbappe wanted to play for Real Madrid. When you know a player wants to only play for your club, then you will have guts.

[aylabadia05]

@FabrizioRomano
🚨💣 Understand Alexander Isak remains a target for Liverpool even after signing Ekitike… but depends on Newcastle.

If Newcastle open doors to an exit and #LFC sell Diaz, they can bid after direct contact made 10 days ago.

Isak, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 in concrete talks with Al Hilal so far.
https://x.com/fabrizioromano/status/1948346962413031699

There is a big target to be achieved if we look at what Liverpool has done and is currently doing.
Wirtz, Hugo Ekitike, Jeremie Frimpong, and Milos Kerkez, not to mention the goalkeeper position, show that Liverpool wants to retain the title in the 2025/26 season.
This suspicion grows stronger if the rumors about Isak resurface, especially if his statement is that Newcastle is opening the door.

Moving to Al Hilal is not a good option given the player's current form.