Transfer: 2025 Winter Transfer Window - Rumors and Discussion

[Scandale du Jour]

That's not balanced enough and doesn't fit how Xabi has played with Bayer. He's had 5 defensive players to balance the wingbacks + front 3...with Palacios being the most attacking option for any of those spots.

That's why I'm thinking it would be a 4-3-3 with all 3 of your combative midfielders, if not the 3-4-3 that Leverkusen has predominantly played.

I do not think Xabi is coming. Ancelotti will remain unless he has a very shitty second half.

Liga is up for grabs and we are not out of the CL. What happens in the next 3-4 months will determine Carlo's faith.

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

Apparently Barca will pay Olmo’s wages throughout his contract lol. Ya if this goes down laporta needs to step down.

 

[JeffreyLFC]

Apparently Barca will pay Olmo’s wages throughout his contract lol. Ya if this goes down laporta needs to step down.

Honestly. Wtf is happening there? They look amateurish from the outside

 

[Bringer of Jollity]

Apparently Barca will pay Olmo’s wages throughout his contract lol. Ya if this goes down laporta needs to step down.

Olmo could really cash in here even taking a modest contract somewhere else. I'm sure it'll get figured out, like always, but what a disaster if it somehow doesn't.

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

It’s past the hour mark. I’d like a journalist ask what happened to the Nike deal 1:1 all that other bs

 

[Scandale du Jour]

It’s past the hour mark. I’d like a journalist ask what happened to the Nike deal 1:1 all that other bs

Your club is run by crooks. That's as simple as that.

 

[Peter Sidorkiewicz]

LFC turn down money for Trent



LFC not willing to let Trent leave in middle of title race (understandable) and will risk him going in a free.

They better win it

I don't understand what Liverpool are doing. TAA, VVD and Salah with 6 months left on their contract. Why haven't they be re-signed?

 

[Evilo]

I didn't dare to post that Barca news last week because I would have been insulted again.

 

[Vasilevskiy]

My guess is that if Olmo really signs with another team, the club is getting sold, can't recover from that financially. It's like 300M+ in costs.

LFC turn down money for Trent



LFC not willing to let Trent leave in middle of title race (understandable) and will risk him going in a free.

They better win it

Better you stick with him. Madrid would pay you peanuts anyways

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

My guess is that if Olmo really signs with another team, the club is getting sold, can't recover from that financially. It's like 300M+ in costs.


Better you stick with him. Madrid would pay you peanuts anyways

Barca would get sold?

Your club is run by crooks. That's as simple as that.

What club isn’t tho? Ours are just incompetent

 

[Vasilevskiy]

Barca would get sold?

Actually it feels like the inevitable outcome since Bartomeu ran us to the ground. Selling the club to some Saudi or US owner and stop being owned by fans.

Super controversial topic a lot of people are not ready at all to talk about it but there's way too much debt and, as we can see how Olmo has been handled, it's getting worse if anything

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

Actually it feels like the inevitable outcome since Bartomeu ran us to the ground. Selling the club to some Saudi or US owner and stop being owned by fans.

Super controversial topic a lot of people are not ready at all to talk about it but there's way too much debt and, as we can see how Olmo has been handled, it's getting worse if anything

Good start to the new year. Thanks Vas.

 

[Vasilevskiy]

Good start to the new year. Thanks Vas.

Speculation at the moment right now is that if Olmo is a goner Laporta has to go, we will see what happens in the next couple days

 

[Savant]

Better you stick with him. Madrid would pay you peanuts anyways

Yeah I mean they were going to give us like 20m this January. Which probably doesn’t even get a good backup for Conor Bradley, let alone help replace Trent. And I get it - if I was Madrid I’d be doing the same thing.

I don't understand what Liverpool are doing. TAA, VVD and Salah with 6 months left on their contract. Why haven't they be re-signed?

Not condoning any of it but this is how we got here: It’s not so much what Liverpool are doing right now because This should have been taken care of last year. but last year we have no sporting director so there was no one to negotiate the extensions. Now we had that guy Schmadke in an interim/temporary role and they should have just let him do it; but for whatever reason they didn’t. Then of course the Klopp news came in and that took everyone’s even more off the ball.

But from a players perspective, I’m not sure I would have re-signed with LFC at that point either. Last season they were in Europa League and you had no idea who the next manager/sporting director were going to be. There was a lot of flux going on at the club; so especially a guy like Trent who would likely want a longer term extension than the other two, that’s a tough decision if there’s a lot of uncertainty. And honestly if I was him and I’d be at the same club my entire career, yeah I’d probably want to go to Madrid too.

But either way I can’t fault the players for the bad timing on all of this, and I can’t fault them for not extending without knowing what it would be like after Klopp. Trent especially has only had Klopp as a club manager until now. Of course now they’ve seen things after Klopp aren’t so bad, but the responsibility is on FSG to find the right deals ; especially because they likely can’t match the salary that Madrid will offer Trent unless Trent becomes their top earner, which of course may complicate the Salah and Virgil extensions. So yeah it’s messy

 

[Scandale du Jour]

Barca would get sold?


What club isn’t tho? Ours are just incompetent

You should have paid a good accountant instead of the refs for "reports"

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

Speculation at the moment right now is that if Olmo is a goner Laporta has to go, we will see what happens in the next couple days

He has to go or at least tell the truth from now on.

You should have paid a good accountant instead of the refs for "reports"

We should have paid Tebas like Madrid do.

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

The plan is to lie lie lie

 

[gary69]

PSG is said to have offered Salah a 3-year deal with a 500 000 € per week salary, so a longer term and higher salary than Liverpool's offer.

 

[gary69]

Seko Fofana back to Ligue 1, Rennes paid 20 M for him, that's quite a big fee for a French club.

Gabriel Barbosa (still only 28) has left Flamengo to Cruzeiro.

 

[Savant]

PSG is said to have offered Salah a 3-year deal with a 500 000 € per week salary, so a longer term and higher salary than Liverpool's offer.

Says who?

Not saying it hasn’t happened, but haven’t seen this reported anywhere. If this was real this probably would have been picked up on like the Trent offer was yesterday

 

[gary69]

Says who?

Not saying it hasn’t happened, but haven’t seen this reported anywhere. If this was real this probably would have been picked up on like the Trent offer was yesterday

French journalist is said to be source here.

Mohamed Salah three-year contract claim after PSG make transfer stance clear

 

[Savant]

French journalist is said to be source here.

Mohamed Salah three-year contract claim after PSG make transfer stance clear

This isn’t true (yet) this is in the rag section. No one relevant has picked this up either

 

[Evilo]

This is the guy who called the Doue transfer before everyone.

But I doubt it. Agent stuff.

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

He could play in Europe so this is a lateral move at best

 

[Savant]

Its going to be a long window

https://www.thetimes.com/sport/football/article/trent-alexander-arnold-real-madrid-transfer-liverpool-m69vkjqvq

Madrid getting a formal bid readied

Not over yet. Better start scouting