99 Big Transfers that could happen this summer
By Jim James
Hello all, welcome back to the blog. Although it’s May, many transfers are close. Erling Haaland to City and Karim Adeyemi to Dortmund has too, and many are being heavily linked, like the one of Robert Lewandowski to Barca, Frenkie de Jong to Man Utd, Kylian Mbappe to Real Madrid… I feel like I just have to do this now or all the big transfers will be gone. Here we go. (Disclaimer I know Barca are mentioned a lot here but they are linked to a ton of good players, don’t take this as Barca-biased.)
1: Robert Lewandowski to Barca
Age/Position: 33/ST
Fee: 40m (Euros)
Likelihood: 7.5/10
2: Frenkie de Jong to Man Utd
3: Frenkie de Jong to Man City
4: Frenkie de Jong to PSG
5: Frenkie de Jong to Bayern Munich
Age/Position: 25/CM
Fee: 87m
Likelihood 5/10 (MUN) 1.5/10 (MCI) 1/10 (PSG) 1/10 (FCB)
6: Antony to Man Utd
7: Antony to PSG
Age/Position: 22/RW
Fee: 70+m
Likelihood 5/10 (PSG) 5/10 (MUN)
8: Kylian Mbappe to Real Madrid
Age/Position: 23/ST
Fee: Free
Likelihood: 8/10
9: Paul Pogba to Juventus
10: Paul Pogba to PSG
11: Paul Pogba to Real Madrid
Age/Position: 29/CM
Fee: Free
Likelihood: 4/10 (JUV) 4/10 (PSG) 2/10 (RMA)
12: Paulo Dybala to Inter
13: Paulo Dybala to Man Utd
14: Paulo Dybala to Spurs
15: Paulo Dybala to Newcastle
Age/Position: 28/CAM
Fee: Free
Likelihood: 7/10 (INT) 1.5/10 (MUN) 1/10 (TOT) .5/10 (NEW)
16: Antonio Rudiger to Real Madrid
Age/Position: 29/CB
Fee: Free
Likelihood: 9.9/10
17: Edinson Cavani to Napoli
18: Edinson Cavani to Boca
Age/Position: 35/ST
Fee: Free
Likelihood: 3/10 (NAP) 2.5/10 (BOC)
19: Ousmane Dembele to PSG
Age/Position: 24/RW
Fee: Free
Likelihood: 3.5/10
20: Luis Suarez to FC Barcelona
21: Luis Suarez to Inter Miami
22: Luis Suarez to Aston Villa
Age/Position: 35/ST
Fee: Free
Likelihood: 2/10 (BAR) 1/10 (MIA) 1/10 (AST)
23: Franck Kessie to FC Barcelona
Age/Position: 25/CDM
Fee: Free
Likelihood: 9/10
24: Andrea Belotti to Toronto FC
25: Andrea Belotti to Spurs
26: Andrea Belotti to Newcastle
27: Andrea Belotti to Inter
28: Andrea Belotti to West Ham
Age/Position: 28/ST
Fee: Free
Likelihood: 2.5/10 (TOR) 1/10 (TOT) 1.5/10 (NEW) 2/10 (INT) .5/10 (WHU)
29: Boubacar Kamara to Aston Villa
30: Boubacar Kamara to Man Utd
Age/Position: 22/CDM
Fee: Free
Likelihood: 5/10 (AVL) 5/10 (MUN)
31: Angel di Maria to Juventus
Age: 34/RW
Fee: Free
Likelihood: 6.5/10
32: Florian Grillitsch to Arsenal
Age: 26/CDM
Fee: Free
Likelihood: 7/10
33: Axel Witsel to Aston Villa
34: Axel Witsel to Newcastle
Age: 33/CDM
Fee: Free
Likelihood: 4/10 (AVL), 2/10 (NEW)
35: Andre Onana to Inter
Age: 26/GK
Fee: Free
Likelihood: 9/10
36: Noussair Mazraoui to Bayern
Age: 24/RB
Fee: Free
Likelihood: 9.5/10
37: Cristiano Ronaldo to PSG
38: Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid
Age/Position: 37/ST
Fee: 10-20m (Euros)
Likelihood: 2/10 (PSG) 1/10 (RMA)
39: Lionel Messi to FC Barcelona
Age/Position: 34/RW
Fee: 20-40m
Likelihood 3/10
40: Mo Salah to PSG
41: Mo Salah to FC Barcelona
Age/Position: 29/RW
Fee: 50-60m
Likelihood: 3/10 (PSG) 2/10 (BAR)
42: Harry Kane to Man Utd
Age/Position: 28/ST
Fee: 100+m
Likelihood: 2/10
43: Kevin de Bruyne to Liverpool
44: Kevin de Bruyne to FC Barcelona
Age/Position: 30/CAM
Fee: 95+m
Likelihood: 1.5/10 (LIV) 1/10 (BAR)
45: Neymar Jr to Manchester City
46: Neymar Jr to FC Barcelona
47: Neymar Jr to Newcastle
Age/Position: 30/LW
Fee: 76m
Likelihood: 1.5/10 (MCI) 2/10 (BAR) 1/10 (NEW)
48: Raheem Sterling to Arsenal
49: Raheem Sterling to Spurs
Age/Position: 27/RW
Fee: 50+m
Likelihood: 4/10 (ARS) 3/10 (TOT)
50: Romelu Lukaku to Inter
51: Romelu Lukaku to FC Barcelona
Age/Position: 28/ST
Fee: 75m
Likelihood: 4/10 (INT) 1/10 (BAR)
52: Sadio Mane to FC Barcelona
53: Sadio Mane to Bayern
Age/Position: 30/LW
Fee: 70+m
Likelihood: 2/10 (BAR) 2/10 (FCB)
54: Jude Bellingham to Liverpool
Age/Position: 18/CM
Fee: 100m
Likelihood: 2.5/10
55: Declan Rice to Chelsea
56: Declan Rice to Man Utd
Age/Position: 23/CDM
Fee: 176m
Likelihood: 3/10 (CHE) 4/10 (MUN)
57: Bernardo Silva to FC Barcelona
Age/Position: 27/CAM
Fee: 60m
Likelihood: 4/10 (BAR)
58: Joao Felix to FC Barcelona
59: Joao Felix to AC Milan
Age/Position: 22/ST
Fee: 80m
Likelihood: 2/10 (BAR) .5/10 (ACM)
60: Lautaro Martinez to FC Barcelona
61: Lautaro Martinez to Spurs
62: Lautaro Martinez to Arsenal
Age/Position: 24/ST
Fee: 59m
Likelihood: 3/10 (BAR) 3/10 (TOT) 2/10 (ARS)
63: Mattijs de Ligt to Man Utd
Age/Position: 22/CB
Fee: 70+m
Likelihood: 4/10
64: Marcus Rashford to PSG
65: Marcus Rashford to FC Barcelona
Age/Position: 24/LM
Fee: 70m
Likelihood: 2.5/10 (PSG) 2/10 (BAR)
66: Jules Kounde to Chelsea
Age/Position: 23/CB
Fee: 80m
Likelihood: 6/10
67: Victor Osimhen to Man Utd
68: Victor Osimhen to Newcastle
Age/Position: 23/ST
Fee: 99m
Likelihood: 3.5/10 (MUN), 1/10 (NEW)
69: Reece James to Real Madrid
70: Moussa Diaby to
71: Youri Tielemans to Arsenal
72: Marco Verratti to FC Barcelona
73: Jonathan David to Arsenal
74: Amine Gouiri to Liverpool
75: Amine Gouiri to AC Milan
76: Amine Gouiri to Arsenal
77: Amine Gouiri to Sevilla
78: Pau Torres to Man Utd
79: Pau Torres to Chelsea
80: Richarlison to Arsenal
81: Richarlison to Spurs
82: Carlos Soler to FC Barcelona
83: Gabriel Jesus to Arsenal
84: Rafael Leao to PSG
85: Rafael Leao to Man CIty
86: Rafael Leao to Newcastle
87: Arnaut Danjuma to Liverpool
88: Arnaut Danjuma to Newcastle
89: Kalvin Phillips to Aston Villa
90: Kalvin Phillips to Man Utd
91: Mikel Merino to Man City
92: Mikel Merino to FC Barcelona
93: James Maddison to Arsenal
94: James Maddison to Man Utd
95: Raphinha to FC Barcelona
96: Tammy Abraham to Arsenal
97: Diego Carlos to Newcastle
98: Franck Kessie to FC Barcelona
99: Kalidou Koulibaly to FC Barcelona
That’s all I have today. I couldn’t include so many deals that I wanted to because there’s just so many. In September, I will review this, see how many I got right, I must have gotten most of them right, surely. As always, I’m Jim James, until next time.