⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions

[mandown]

Every player has dreams. Perhaps the Argentinian's dream is to play for Barcelona. We don't know for sure, because Lionel Messi has become a legend at Barcelona. Naturally, many Argentinian players have an extra soft spot for Barcelona. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why he wants to transfer to Barcelona.

Unfortunately, as a player, he should have considered that in the future a better team than Atletico Madrid might be interested in him, and for that reason, he shouldn't have signed such a long-term contract with an absurd termination clause. He should have been smarter; he should have signed a contract that would give him the freedom to continue deciding his future if a better team became interested in him. Now he will be forced to remain at Atletico Madrid until 2030. That's still four years left. That's a long time; he's currently 26 years old. So he'll leave Atletico Madrid at 30, when his skills are no longer good.

Atletico Madrid could sell him if they wanted to make a very high price, but they might not want to take that risk. He's the team's star and a striker. The team wouldn't want to let him go, but the possibility of him transferring to Barcelona closes all doors for Atletico Madrid. I think they should focus on talking to Alvarez and convincing him to stay.

Atlético Madrid no longer has a title run in its sights; it is impossible for them to overtake Barcelona and Real Madrid.
Besides, Álvarez isn't the type of player to fully commit himself to Atlético Madrid. Not everyone can be an Oyarzabal—a man who has been with Real Sociedad for years and serves as Spain's striker.
As far as I know, Álvarez has been at Atlético for two years, and he could well move to another club with higher ambitions.
Barcelona is the top contender. Once the World Cup ends, transfer news will start breaking thick and fast.

[mv1986]

Four years will surely be enough time for Zizou to build the ideal French squad for the next World Cup. It's no wonder fans expectations for Zizou are unstoppable. I'm optimistic his qualities will be valuable to the French national team.

I'm sure Zidane has already started working. He will be working full speed ahead to select the best options and take the French national team to higher levels, to levels where they can win trophies. Of course, there will be the World Cup, but before that, there will be the European Championship, and winning the trophy there will be his primary goal. A grueling schedule will begin for Zidane. However, he has been living with the dream of this day for years, so I think it will be enjoyable for him.

Finally, Zidane long wait has come true. For the past 5 years, he has never received an offer from a club, just waiting for the opportunity to coach the French national team. He has already lined up everything including his staff and documents that will be officially signed this month. As an experienced coach at club level and supported by the world's top players available in the French squad, it will be easy for him to make France a team to be wary of. He will lead France in the UEFA Nations League, Euro 2028 and the 2030 World Cup. This opportunity is a new experience for him and also a way to prove his abilities as a coach with a champion mentality.

I bet that Zidane has received countless of requests. Maybe not specific offers because he more or less turned them down in an instant or advised his management to reject any requests, but to believe that no club reached out to him within the last five years shows how narrow-minded you are.

it will be easy for him to make France a team to be wary of

You mean take over the status quo? Where does Zidane have to make this team a team to be wary of when in fact they are exactly that already?

and also a way to prove his abilities as a coach with a champion mentality.

true, because winning the Champions League three consecutive times has proven nothing so far!

[Barikui1]

Atlético Madrid no longer has a title run in its sights; it is impossible for them to overtake Barcelona and Real Madrid.
Besides, Álvarez isn't the type of player to fully commit himself to Atlético Madrid. Not everyone can be an Oyarzabal—a man who has been with Real Sociedad for years and serves as Spain's striker.
As far as I know, Álvarez has been at Atlético for two years, and he could well move to another club with higher ambitions.
Barcelona is the top contender. Once the World Cup ends, transfer news will start breaking thick and fast.

Julian Alvarez to Barcelona is never going to happen because atletico madrid has vowed that if Barcelona do not matches his release clause, they will never let him go, and their frustration is that Barcelona as a football club has been tapping him behind their back, which is very unprofessional and disrespectful. So it's because of that they said that they would rather sell him off to another top team across europe top five leagues, than selling him to Barcelona that is disrespecting them with their actions.
The player might be unhappy if he fails to get his desired move, but be unable to do anything because he still have at least three year left in his current deal, if not more than that.

[Fakhrulenclix]

It is very possible that Marcus Rashford will be playing for Manchester United in the upcoming season. I still stand on the fact that Rashford is a decent player, so he can still play a part at Manchester United. Manchester United will be playing in four competitions in the upcoming season,  so they definitely need a big squad,  so having someone like Rashford as a squad player will definitely do more good than harm. Like you mentioned Carrick might have plans for him, but let's wait and see what happens.

I agree with you that selling him off when they have a lot of competition to play in is not a good line of action because they might return back to the transfer market and spend a lot of money for another player, since they need more players to strengthen their squad depth.

Micheal Carrick will definitely utilize him if he stays out at the club, but he might not be a regular starter as he is used to be in the past. Though he might still move away from the club this summer if a good offer comes in before the end of the transfer window, but until then, he will is still a Manchester United player.

Every manager has their own preferences when selecting players, but Rashford isn't a good player anymore, so it's understandable that Man United's management wants to sell him. This is also a result of coordination with Michael Carrick, meaning the manager no longer wants Rashford on the team.
Realistically, Rashford's performance has declined significantly, making him unfit for a team as big as Man United, and it's also evident that no top European teams are currently interested in signing him.

[HajiBagi]

Then this probably will mean Rashford to stay at Manchester United for next season at least... Normally Barcelona would get him but they want a loan move again. However they can't convince his team this time I assume.

Carrick might also have plans for him though. After seeing his last season performance despite being a rotational player, Carrick might be convinced to give him another chance. But it is Rashford we are talking about and consistency is always a doubt!

Rashford is an ungrateful player and also unprofessional player who don’t know what he wants and what he wants to achieve in football, Rashford only wants to play in big clubs and and that is not going to happen as long as he doesn’t want to be committed to his boyhood club, Manchester United has give him everything and make him become the player he is today and at the end he makes them look like they contribute nothing to his career, he only want to play for Barcelona and Barcelona disappointe him and sign another player.

If Carrick knows what he is doing he will not accept Rashford back because of what he did and also said on social media about Manchester United, going to another league is going to help him and i don’t see anything wrong with the Turkish league that he did not want to go there, there are many top players who are playing in the league and they are still playing for there countries.

[JeffBrad12]

it seems Spurs is keen to sell Romero as long as there will be a club that can meet his price. Spurs is now valuing him more than 50m, but can also accept any offer which is a bit less than 40m due to Romero's injury record.
Honestly, Romero is good defender, but his injury prone seems to be a big deal for him to play regularly. He's also missing the group stage of World Cup. So any club that is willing to buy him has to gamble with his injury prone.

I think it's not worth to waste even less than 40m for him, though he's experienced defender. Spurs has to lower his price.

[Velvet78]

Barcelona has an offer on the table for Julian Alvarez and waiting for the official answer by Atletico Madrid side...

The Atletico Madrid chairman doesn't look like he will take any step back from his decision which is not to sell him now. There is still time for the end of the month but I don't know.

They are keeping Alvarez hostage there honestly as he wants to leave. That's not very professional if you ask me! 

[Die_empty]

Rashford is an ungrateful player and also unprofessional player who don’t know what he wants and what he wants to achieve in football, Rashford only wants to play in big clubs and and that is not going to happen as long as he doesn’t want to be committed to his boyhood club, Manchester United has give him everything and make him become the player he is today and at the end he makes them look like they contribute nothing to his career, he only want to play for Barcelona and Barcelona disappointe him and sign another player.

If Carrick knows what he is doing he will not accept Rashford back because of what he did and also said on social media about Manchester United, going to another league is going to help him and i don’t see anything wrong with the Turkish league that he did not want to go there, there are many top players who are playing in the league and they are still playing for there countries.

A player cannot force himself to a club that doesn't want him.  Ruben Amorim didn't want Marcus Rashford in Manchester United; what do you want the player to do? The coach even went as far as saying that he prefers to put goalkeeper coach Jorge Vital on the bench rather than put Rashford.

The player was left out of the team for a long time and was lucky to be given a lifeline by Barcelona. Do you expect him not to give credit or support his new club? He would have to love and support Barca for helping him.

The Turkish league is not highly rated in Europe. Rashford wants to keep competing in top leagues.

[Swordsoffreedom]

Julian Alvarez to Barcelona is never going to happen because atletico madrid has vowed that if Barcelona do not matches his release clause, they will never let him go, and their frustration is that Barcelona as a football club has been tapping him behind their back, which is very unprofessional and disrespectful. So it's because of that they said that they would rather sell him off to another top team across europe top five leagues, than selling him to Barcelona that is disrespecting them with their actions.
The player might be unhappy if he fails to get his desired move, but be unable to do anything because he still have at least three year left in his current deal, if not more than that.

Your statement may be logical. But as far as I know, Alvarez's release clause is 500 million. Who would spend 500 million to buy Alvarez? This is unrealistic. So far, PSG bought Neymar for 222 million, which is the highest record.

Barcelona is trying to add Alvarez to the squad. And perhaps unofficially they have also tried to contact Alvarez. I don't see anything wrong with that. Many clubs have done this in the past. And I have seen Real Madrid do it the most. I think it is normal. It is a strategy of the clubs to reduce costs and add players they like to the squad.

If Atletico Madrid is not interested in selling Alvarez, then they should strengthen the squad and try to win the La Liga title. If they are not interested in competing for the title, it is profitable for them to earn a large amount by selling Alvarez.

[bitgolden]

Tzolis is not a bad move at all, definitely a good replacement instead of Trossard, would definitely work out great. But this is the thing about Arsenal, they are not looking to get the biggest names, they are looking to make smart and budgeted transfers.

Like they never even consider maybe there is a possibility of getting Vini Jr., not saying they would be able to but they should at least consider a big name, someone for 100+ million, do they ever consider that? Nope, they just go make some "smart" moves like these instead

[MArsland]

It looks like Olise wants to leave Bayern Munich for Real Madrid. Florentino Perez could secure his signature, but he only needs a small green light from Bayern Munich to break the transfer record. Olise has already confirmed his desire to leave, so the pressure is now on Bayern Munich. A minimum of 200 million euros means we're likely to see a figure well above that.

[blue Snow]

Christos Tzolis to Arsenal, here we go! Deal signed between the two clubs for a €40m fee, Club Brugge has authorized Christos for a medical.

Based on Trossard's exit to Besiktas, Arsenal has facilitated the deal with Tzolis and Club Brugge.

New winger for Arteta as Tzolis only wanted Arsenal, saying no to other clubs.
@dimitrismanakos
https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/2077805205811327403/photo/1

In my opinion, Christos Tzolis is a great signing for Arsenal. I just looked at his stats with Brugge last season, and it turns out he had an outstanding performance, scoring 17 goals and recording 23 assists. Tzolis’s arrival is expected to strengthen Arsenal’s left wing.

I don’t know if he is a grate signing for Arsenal, well I have never seen him play football, I don’t even know the player very well, Anyways it’s a good signing for Arsenal fans, who is more interested in their club bringing any player to the club, Talking about the number of goals and assists he has in the Belgium League, I don’t know if Champions League is included, but do you think he can score as much goals and assists that he has with Club Brugge in the Premier League and Champions League with Arsenal ?, Can he replicate that numbers for Arsenal, Time will tell, if that is Trossard replacement, personally I will stick with Trossard.

I would really love to see him in the Premier League.

Judging by the statistics, Tzolis is a solid signing for Arsenal. That said, we don’t yet know if he’ll be able to replicate his impressive form with Club Brugge at Arsenal, since the Belgian league and the Premier League are very different. However, if Arteta can bring out the best in Tzolis, I’m confident he’ll perform well for Arsenal. So, we’ll just have to wait and see how Tzolis performs next season.

[KTChampions]

Then this probably will mean Rashford to stay at Manchester United for next season at least... Normally Barcelona would get him but they want a loan move again. However they can't convince his team this time I assume.

Carrick might also have plans for him though. After seeing his last season performance despite being a rotational player, Carrick might be convinced to give him another chance. But it is Rashford we are talking about and consistency is always a doubt!

United will have a full fixture list next season given they are back in the Champions League and it is certainly not the Europa League that can be ignored. Rashford will be useful as a rotation player at the very least, and if he suddenly starts to return to his previous level (let's fantasize, haha), he'll have a chance to return to the starting lineup. For now, I'm glad United stopped sponsoring Barcelona, ​​providing them with a player below market price (United continued to pay part of Rashford's salary, if I'm not mistaken).

[Woodie]

Then this probably will mean Rashford to stay at Manchester United for next season at least... Normally Barcelona would get him but they want a loan move again. However they can't convince his team this time I assume.

Carrick might also have plans for him though. After seeing his last season performance despite being a rotational player, Carrick might be convinced to give him another chance. But it is Rashford we are talking about and consistency is always a doubt!

Just when Reuben saw these guys the bomb 💣 squad to be toxic bunch at one point,  things seem to have turned around for Rashford to play for his boy child team..but what if the plan is to have him play some good football in trying to get better offers from other clubs and sell him, because his value for now has dipped for scraps and the club could simply be trying to make money off him, let's not forget football is now a big business!!

[Abbatty]

Barcelona has an offer on the table for Julian Alvarez and waiting for the official answer by Atletico Madrid side...

The Atletico Madrid chairman doesn't look like he will take any step back from his decision which is not to sell him now. There is still time for the end of the month but I don't know.

They are keeping Alvarez hostage there honestly as he wants to leave. That's not very professional if you ask me! 

Atletico have made an official statement that the player is not for sale. The club president made an official statement that Atletico Madrid is that right placer for the Argentine international right now. I don’t think Alvarez will be getting a move away from Atletico this season.

Few hours back we also saw Chelsea closing the door on Barcelona about joao Pedro as we believe is the second option for Barcelona if they don’t get Alvarez. Barcelona continues to seek the perfect center forward for next season as they have now parted ways with Lewandoski. Well I believe their will be a their option in this case.

[asriloni]

You were very fast to draw to conclusions that zidane is the right man for the job, I don't mean to say that he isn't but there are so many things that's different from coaching the national team and coaching a club side and if you will agree with me that coaching the national team is way more tougher and that's because of the limited amount of time the coach has to make and blend every player with different personalities in that squad and then produce good results. Zidane is a good coach no doubt but for me haven't really proven since it's just Real Madrid he coached and he had a beast of a player at his peak and a team player. @christaino

At least he's won UCL three times in a row. He's also french, and most probably he knows everything about the club and its federation. It's better instead of appointing a coach that came from nowhere.

Romano reports that France is getting closer to sign an agreement with Zidane. So i hope it's getting completed asap. It's enough to see Deschamp coached France in the same way like he did since a few years ago. So i think the decision to bring in Zidane will give a joy and refresh club's spirit.

Zidane is also seeing this france coach as a special spot for him. He's even rejecting all of applications came to him since 8 months ago to take this job.

I hope he can help France to sort out their midfielders problem asap.

I mean, with all due respect, we didn't really needed Fabrizio Romano for this news: everybody knew since the Euro Cup that Deschamps would have managed the French national team for the World Cup and then he would have left. And, again, everybody knew his successor would have been Zinedine Zidane.

this to ensure his transfer stance is solid. We have been experiencing the up and down on his transfer. Hopefully, he can give what we expected.

[Frankolala]

Barcelona has an offer on the table for Julian Alvarez and waiting for the official answer by Atletico Madrid side...

The Atletico Madrid chairman doesn't look like he will take any step back from his decision which is not to sell him now. There is still time for the end of the month but I don't know.

They are keeping Alvarez hostage there honestly as he wants to leave. That's not very professional if you ask me! 

Atletico have made an official statement that the player is not for sale. The club president made an official statement that Atletico Madrid is that right placer for the Argentine international right now. I don’t think Alvarez will be getting a move away from Atletico this season.

Few hours back we also saw Chelsea closing the door on Barcelona about joao Pedro as we believe is the second option for Barcelona if they don’t get Alvarez. Barcelona continues to seek the perfect center forward for next season as they have now parted ways with Lewandoski. Well I believe their will be a their option in this case.

I feel it's high time Laporta stop dreaming of having Alvarez in his team because Atletico Madrid wouldn't sell him at this time. It's better that they go look for a new CF that will be a good replacement for Lewandoski before it's too late. I don't know why Barcelona is unlucky that both players they needed wouldn't be released by their current club.

[reagansimms]

Atletico have made an official statement that the player is not for sale. The club president made an official statement that Atletico Madrid is that right placer for the Argentine international right now. I don’t think Alvarez will be getting a move away from Atletico this season.

Few hours back we also saw Chelsea closing the door on Barcelona about joao Pedro as we believe is the second option for Barcelona if they don’t get Alvarez. Barcelona continues to seek the perfect center forward for next season as they have now parted ways with Lewandoski. Well I believe their will be a their option in this case.

Atletico are keen to keep Alvarez as he has been a key member of the squad since joining from Man City. Another reason Atletico don't want to let him go to Barcelona is because they are trying to build a squad to compete for the La Liga trophy. It is clear that Atletico do not want to make a blunder or an own goal if they release Alvarez to Barcelona because it will be difficult for them to break the dominance of Barcelona and Real Madrid at the top of the standings. Barcelona desperately needs a successor to Lewandowski in their attack. If Chelsea closes the door on Joao Pedro and they don't find another striker who fits the club's philosophy, they will have to look for internal options. Pau Victor could be an alternative, especially since Hansi Flick has previously given him a chance to play.

[Taricoins]

it seems Spurs is keen to sell Romero as long as there will be a club that can meet his price. Spurs is now valuing him more than 50m, but can also accept any offer which is a bit less than 40m due to Romero's injury record.
Honestly, Romero is good defender, but his injury prone seems to be a big deal for him to play regularly. He's also missing the group stage of World Cup. So any club that is willing to buy him has to gamble with his injury prone.

I think it's not worth to waste even less than 40m for him, though he's experienced defender. Spurs has to lower his price.

Romero is a very good defender and I would have want my team [Barcelona] to get him because of our defenders crisis but this injury problem is really a giant red flag because we are already struggling with Christensen and adding another injury guy to the squad would be very dangerous.

But looking at Tottenham's backline, I don't know why they even conceded any goals at all, it's wild because I just took time actually appreciate there defense

[Adbitco]

Barcelona has an offer on the table for Julian Alvarez and waiting for the official answer by Atletico Madrid side...

The Atletico Madrid chairman doesn't look like he will take any step back from his decision which is not to sell him now. There is still time for the end of the month but I don't know.

They are keeping Alvarez hostage there honestly as he wants to leave. That's not very professional if you ask me! 

I think what Atletico Madrid is trying to do here is not sell to a rival team in the league. Barcelona is their rival and are the only one among the two biggest teams in the league to go for him, I think they are deliberately not selling to a direct rival. But it's funny though because this isn't the first time they are doing business, they have been doing business with Barcelona for the longest and I'm just wondering what could be the problem this time around. Alvarez has shown indications of him wanting to leave, so I'm wondering why they are holding him hostage as you have said.