⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions

[Fiatless]

Liverpool’s transfer business this summer just shows how much they want to dominate not only the premier league but also Europe. Despite winning the league title last session they have gone ahead to make significant improvements to their squad to continue their dominance this season. As a premier league fan it will be good to see a premier league club dominate European competitions but facing Liverpool in the league is insane lol.

Last season Liverpool had a very good team and didn't lose any match in the group stage of the Champions League. Most sports pundits and analysts predicted that they would at least get to the semi-finals. But surprisingly, they were knocked out by PSG and left the competition very early. They have a better squad now and maybe they can bring the UCL trophy to England. Since Manchester United won the cup in the 2022/2023 season, no EPL club has won the competition.

[Plaguedeath]

I feel sad he gets no spot in UCL, which may able to push him in getting demand from other clubs that may able to play him regularly. His injury was the main reason why he looks so struggle at this moment. Even by having no demand is a really bad sign for his future career. This also proves if Slot really doesn't rate him as his player.
I hope they will let the man leave in winter whatever the offer is gonna come for him.

Well Arne Slot judge based on performance, see Ngumoha performance, he's two times better than Chiesa. I think Chiesa's level isn't in Premier League, he should back to Serie A or playing to lower league like Ligue 1 or Super Lig.

I'm more concerned with Arsenal, Gabriel Jesus is better than Max Dowman, but we know how Arteta always prefer to play with younger players.

[Inwestour]

Last season Liverpool had a very good team and didn't lose any match in the group stage of the Champions League. Most sports pundits and analysts predicted that they would at least get to the semi-finals. But surprisingly, they were knocked out by PSG and left the competition very early. They have a better squad now and maybe they can bring the UCL trophy to England. Since Manchester United won the cup in the 2022/2023 season, no EPL club has won the competition.

I'm not sure that they have a stronger squad now than they had last season, all such a team has changed, and I don't know yet how much, especially since they continue to buy players. Of course, it's still the same Liverpool, but I'm not ready to say that they are capable of winning the Champions League, last time they were stopped by PSG, as it turned out, they became champions, and this time it could be Real, Bayern or Barcelona, ​​I think that these teams are also strong enough to do it.

[Abbatty]

Last season Liverpool had a very good team and didn't lose any match in the group stage of the Champions League. Most sports pundits and analysts predicted that they would at least get to the semi-finals. But surprisingly, they were knocked out by PSG and left the competition very early. They have a better squad now and maybe they can bring the UCL trophy to England. Since Manchester United won the cup in the 2022/2023 season, no EPL club has won the competition.

I'm not sure that they have a stronger squad now than they had last season, all such a team has changed, and I don't know yet how much, especially since they continue to buy players. Of course, it's still the same Liverpool, but I'm not ready to say that they are capable of winning the Champions League, last time they were stopped by PSG, as it turned out, they became champions, and this time it could be Real, Bayern or Barcelona, ​​I think that these teams are also strong enough to do it.

You know when it comes to tournaments like this it very hard to predict who the winner is going to be, though there are going to be favorite but predicting who to win it is something that is very difficult. We have seen team who struggled on the group stages and still went on to win it, we have also seen teams with poor performance in their league but still went on to win the champions league. So to me it doesn’t matter how strong or good your squad is, winning the champions league have a very different mentality.

Liverpool for sure have a very strong squad but I won’t still be surprised if they don’t win it, because it not a league where you can recover your points after some couple of matches, just like last season Liverpool made some defensive mistake against PSG and that was it, they were knocked out.

[Velvet78]

Not surprised though. The guy is literally getting injured every time...

Probably Arsenal would have wanted to sell him as well if he hadn't been injured. But his injury condition is preventing any offers from coming.

But I don't expect to see him playing there as often as before anymore. Especially after the Gyökeres signing...

[ashmodeus]

I just learned this news: Mitrovic is now officially an Al Rayyan player. Perhaps this explains why Al Hilal signed Darwin Nunez. He was to replace Mitrovic as the team's backbone, and perhaps another reason is his frequent injuries lately. Personally, though, I still think he can make a significant contribution to the team. Hopefully, Mitrovic can produce positive results again in Qatar.


https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1963350447462518999

[bitLeap]

Not surprised though. The guy is literally getting injured every time...

Probably Arsenal would have wanted to sell him as well if he hadn't been injured. But his injury condition is preventing any offers from coming.

I agree that Gabriel Jesus should be sold, as he has wasted so many opportunities. His injuries are very disruptive, and Arteta needs to be more assertive with him. In my opinion he's a player Arsenal don't need. Arteta has plenty of other candidates, just looking for a much more useful option.

[joniboini]

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He needs to be fit before Arsenal can sell him. If you can sell an injured player at a decent price, that would be an achievement. Reminds me of when Liverpool bought Chiesa for 15 million or something, not sure if the context is similar or not. Is there any club interested in him? I don't think Arteta can really force clubs to buy his deadweight.

[AirtelBuzz]

Not surprised though. The guy is literally getting injured every time...

Probably Arsenal would have wanted to sell him as well if he hadn't been injured. But his injury condition is preventing any offers from coming.

But I don't expect to see him playing there as often as before anymore. Especially after the Gyökeres signing...

Arsenal Football Club has been trying to compete very hard in the Premier League recently and they are also focusing a lot on the Champions League but their Brazilian player Gabriel Jesus may not get a chance in the UCL squad because Victor Gyokeres has already been added there. This player had talent but we have observed that this player's frequent injuries have disruptive his performance. Many PL clubs are not willing to give their unwanted players a chance in the upcoming Champions League, similarly Chelsea Football Club did not take Facundo Buonanotte into their team but they are actually looking to make a very strong comeback.

[Xcode7]

Not surprised though. The guy is literally getting injured every time...

Probably Arsenal would have wanted to sell him as well if he hadn't been injured. But his injury condition is preventing any offers from coming.

I agree that Gabriel Jesus should be sold, as he has wasted so many opportunities. His injuries are very disruptive, and Arteta needs to be more assertive with him. In my opinion he's a player Arsenal don't need. Arteta has plenty of other candidates, just looking for a much more useful option.

Frequent injuries can be very disruptive to a player's performance, especially if they recur, so there's really no hope for Gabriel Jesus.
I think Arsenal's decision not to include Gabriel Jesus in the Champions League is quite appropriate. He's already very injury-prone, and there are plenty of other options in Arsenal's attack, so it's better to give him the opportunity.
Regarding Gabriel Jesus' future, I think it's difficult for Arsenal to sell him if he's in a position where injuries are frequent. Other teams are aware of that and don't want that.

[dezoel]

I was convinced that he would leave, but my confidence was very certain, more than certain, he is a player who can do a lot, I can't understand why he has had so many courtships but no one who has actually bought him, in any case he has renewed his membership in the Champions League list so he will be there until the winter session

Everybody thought he would leave, the rift between him and the team was big and because of that everyone assumed he would leave. But by the looks of it, the team decided to keep him and work on the issue. This is the guy who scored three goals and won the cup for Atalanta against an unbeaten Leverkusen.

It's not really that easy to let him go, obviously if any team offered something huge, then yeah they would consider, not like anyone offered 75 million and they rejected. They just got a fair offer, something that is not too bad but not too good, and his value, so they said they can't replace him anyways so they just decided to keep him. That is not bad at all, it's actually quite good for them because it allows them to work on the issue and get his help.

[KTChampions]

I would say that Ademola Lookman has literally been unlucky with the transfer window this summer because first he was linked to Inter Milan, then Spurs, Bayern Munich, Arsenal and no one was successful. Staying at Atalanta is the only option at this moment and I doubt if he will be happy playing for the club for the rest of the period.

It is quite possible that by winter one of these clubs will decide to strengthen (or simply increase the depth of the squad/variability) and will still buy him, so it is probably too early to talk about an unsuccessful season. If this does not happen, then of course I would be very unhappy in his place, Atalanta will definitely not be in contention for anything this season, they have seriously weakened due to their actions in the transfer market.

[Antotena]

Fedirico Chiesa has been excluded from Liverpool's Champions league List.
The player wanted to leave England in the summer, Liverpool wanted to sell him in the summer but I guess nobody came with the decent offer for all the parts.
It is a very sad story for him, after his severe injury of 3-4 years ago he may have lost part of his talent.

I feel sad he gets no spot in UCL, which may able to push him in getting demand from other clubs that may able to play him regularly. His injury was the main reason why he looks so struggle at this moment. Even by having no demand is a really bad sign for his future career. This also proves if Slot really doesn't rate him as his player.
I hope they will let the man leave in winter whatever the offer is gonna come for him.

If he struggle to get a spot in the Champions League with Liverpool, seeing they are now at the top of the Premier League but didn't include him to their list then I don't think any team will jeopardize their financial power to bring a man that is capable of going to injury at anytime. It was Napoli that was having interest in him but they also calm down because of the same injuries, he is not bad but the pressure in Champions League is going to bring then nothing but a liability

Now that the transfer market is closed, he has to endure with the club. If I'm him I will focus my time on Premier league and use the rest of the time to heal, by the time the transfer market is open again probably January he can apply again for any other interest clubs so that they don't reject him in medicals because of his injury. I was sadden by the way Boniface was rejected recently by AC Milan and that was because of this same injury we are talking about.

[Lannakosa]

After Bayer Leverkusen announced they would part ways with Erik ten Hag, the Leverkusen coaching position will be filled by an assistant coach.

I found one reason why Erik ten Hag was sacked was that he didn't get along with anyone at Leverkusen.
This shows that several previous statements about Erik ten Hag, including Cristiano Ronaldo, are corroborated.
If this is the case, it's a shame for Bayer Leverkusen, a club led to championship glory by Xabi Alonso.
I believe Bayer Leverkusen made the right decision at the right time by terminating this partnership.

Where is he (Erik ten Hag) now?

Ten Hag was not in great demand before he started working with Bayer, I think that after this dismissal his reputation as a coach will be a little damaged. No one wants to work with a person who cannot establish working relationships in a new team. At Manchester United he also had conflicts with players, but he received support from the management and received funding for new transfers, although this did not help the team in any way. Bayer decided not to take such risks and as soon as they realized where everything was heading, they decided to fire him.

[Adbitco]

Last season Liverpool had a very good team and didn't lose any match in the group stage of the Champions League. Most sports pundits and analysts predicted that they would at least get to the semi-finals. But surprisingly, they were knocked out by PSG and left the competition very early. They have a better squad now and maybe they can bring the UCL trophy to England. Since Manchester United won the cup in the 2022/2023 season, no EPL club has won the competition.

For some reasons unknown to me, I just didn't feel like Liverpool were good enough to win the competition last season despite them going unbeaten in the group stages. I told my Liverpool friend that they will not win it, he insisted that they were unstoppable, lol. When they were drawn against PSG in the Round of 16, I told him bye bye to Liverpool. After the first leg result he was laughing at me, I still insisted a PSG comeback. And the rest was history, this season again, despite their signings they will still not win the UCL.

[Lidger]

With the amount of money Liverpool are spending in this transfer market, there is no doubt that they are planning something big this season. In addition to retaining the Premier League title, they will probably try their best to win the Champions League title this season and they have a lot of potential. Liverpool has already strengthened all the positions where Liverpool was weak last season, so now there is no opportunity to say that Liverpool needs to improve here. Liverpool has given the manager financial freedom, the manager has brought players of his own choice to the club, now all that is left is for success. If the current manager can manage this beautiful team well, then it will be worth spending so much money for the management.

Liverpool is spending a lot of money on transfers now, but I see here their desire to create a strong team and they set this goal higher than the financial component. Although for most clubs such expenses on transfers would be simply impossible. And they were able to beat Arsenal without Isak, this shows that they have a very strong team and they are ready to strengthen it even more. I think that this time the main confrontation will be between Liverpool and Arsenal and for now I will give my preference to Liverpool.

Yes, we have missed such a strong Liverpool for a long time. When Manchester City dominated the English Premier League alone, at that time we thought why Liverpool is not spending money to bring good quality players to their club, why is Liverpool not trying to do well in the Champions League, finally in this season's transfer window we can see something like this where Liverpool has taken all kinds of steps to strengthen their team. Now it can be said for sure that Liverpool is the strongest team in the English Premier League, as well as Liverpool has the highest chance of winning the league title this season. It has been a long time since Liverpool could not win the Champions League title, if they can do that this season, then maybe all their investments will be worthwhile.

[Despairo]

I just learned this news: Mitrovic is now officially an Al Rayyan player. Perhaps this explains why Al Hilal signed Darwin Nunez. He was to replace Mitrovic as the team's backbone, and perhaps another reason is his frequent injuries lately. Personally, though, I still think he can make a significant contribution to the team. Hopefully, Mitrovic can produce positive results again in Qatar.

Mitrovic is actually very good, he almost score in every match for Al Hilal. See Nunez, his first official match for Al Hilal has no contribution and he's the worst player from the whole starting eleven.

It's rare for an European player to play in Qatar league, his salary isn't that high in Al Rayyan. He was get paid for 25 Million Euros, now he will get paid for 10 Million Euros. He's still 30 years old and an active striker for his national team, I thought European teams are interested with him.

[bitgolden]

In 21-22 season, Liverpool spent only 57 million net on transfers (after sells and buys). In 22-23 they spent 65 million net only. In 23-24 111 million net. Last year they profited 5 million, let alone make a loss.

This is the team that spent most of their life at second place, or win premier league, and even won UCL sometime in the recent years. Making that much is not really that complicated, they are still not that much in minus compared to other teams. I am not even kidding, they spent less than Arsenal, United, Newcastle, Tottenham, and of course Chelsea.

And more importantly they won more than these guys as well, so not like they are spending but bad like them, they are spending but winning as well. So, it's clear that they are a well managed club. Just because their most spending came in one year, doesn't mean they have been like this for a long time, in 5 year period they are still great and this should give them some more titles, which means it will be all worth it.

[SatoPrincess]

Since the summer window is already closed. I'm trying to make a small recap. Chelsea is becoming a club with most of sales in this window. They recorded €342m alone, which is breaking their previous record around €240m - €250m range. Almost €600m generated by just in a short time. They're crazy in player business, and they should get an aware to be the best salesman now. Bournemouth and Leverkusen are following Chelsea at the 2nd and 3rd. No doubt they generated so much money as they get rid almost all of their key players. Meanwhile, Liverpool is at the 4th with €220m generated from their sales. That's big, but they still suffer huge deficit since they spent far bigger than it in this summer window.

My impression for this smmer window is "IMPRESSIVE!"

This new strategy Chelsea have adopted for the transfer market is really impressive. At first I believed they were just spending recklessly because they have the money but now I clearly see what they have being doing, buying players available in the market, showcasing some by using them in the league and loaning out some to showcase them elsewhere and selling when their market prices go up for profit.

[KingsDen]

https://dailypost.ng/2025/09/02/ex-barcelona-manager-xavi-turns-down-coaching-offer-twice/

Jose Mourinho and Erik Ten Hag have just been sacked after a short period with their clubs. Coaches like Zinadane Zidane have turned down offers from clubs because they were not prepared to come back to managerial jobs. Former Barcelona player Xavier Hernández turned down Bayer Leverkusen's bid to make him their coach after the manager's sacking.  Do you think Mourinho and Ten Hag need to take a break? Jumping from one club 5o another without good results could reduce their value.

It’s not been up to a year Ten Hag was sacked by Manchester United and taking up this managerial job at Leverkusen and he is getting sacked just three games into the season, it is shameful and degrading. I think a break to calm them and prepare better before taking on any other job makes sense to me.

This is certainly a different scenario playing out here.
Zidane turning down offers is somewhat personal, either he is no longer interested in coaching or he has a higher target.

Mourinho we know is a business man, he has been cashing out with his hire-fire strategy and that doesn't make him a bad coach.

ETH in the other hand was mistreated by Leverkusen. Why hire him if you cannot give a little time to adapt. Leverkusen we all know is not stable now. They lost their iconic coach, sold many good players and expect ETH to do a magic in just two matches?