The summer market 2020 in Europe closes on 5 October, which is just under a month from the deadline.
Market activity has varied enormously across the continent, as some clubs continue to count their pennies and look for bargains after a global pandemic that has hit football hard, while others have revealed an untapped and signed buying force after signing.
Even among the most productive clubs in Europe, we have noticed great contrasts in approaches.For each and every Chelsea, who have signed six players, there is a Liverpool, who has signed one.
Here, B/R takes an inventory of what has been sealed on the continent in terms of movements so far and selects the greatest need of all, suggesting a motion solution, if applicable.
Arsenal: sells dead wood to make room for Thomas Partey
With Gabriel Magalhaes and Willian inside, Cedric Soares and Pablo Mari have secured long-term, and Dani Ceballos looks on their way back for the season on loan, through Fabrizio Romano, Arsenal look pretty smart.
Dean Jones of B/R reports that any additional progress made in the market, for example, for Thomas Partey of Athletic, with whom they are destined to pay 44.5 million pounds, is based on making safe sales to raise money and lose space.in the wage budget (that the extension of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s contract would also be more annoying).
Suggestions: Matteo Guendouzi, Sokratis Papastathopoulos, Rob Holding
Atletico Madrid: forward
Yes, Atletico still wants a striker.
The exclusive functionality of Los Colchoneros in the Lisbon Champions League format highlighted how absent they are in the lead.Diego Costa mishandling through Dayot Upamecano, and not the other way around, criticizing the fact that it is a shell of himself, while Alvaro Morata never felt confident.
This played drums for Edinson Cavani to lead Diego Simeone’s attack, but summer passed without it materializing.In fact, most of the discussions about Atletico’s move have been about spending, with Thomas Partey at Arsenal and Jan Oblak at Chelsea being the maximum no unusual links.
They don’t have to hold on to those stars, but they also have to move on to the next point and locate a front to buy.
Suggestions: Arkadiusz Milik (Naples), Maxi Gomez (Valencia)
Barcelona: a new leader full of life
Barcelona is cleaning its space (and with it its payroll) this summer.
Ivan Rakitic is back in Seville, Luis Suarez has reached agreements with Juventus (by Gazzetta dello Sport, h/t the Daily Mail) and guru Gianluca Di Marzio reports that Arturo Vidal looks ready for Inter Milan (h/t Semper Inter).
He’ll lose money to get the team up and running, and if there’s a position he wants to be the target first, he’s the striker, especially if Suarez goes.
The fact that Barca is too old, slow and lazy was an obvious indication of the 8–2 defeat to Bayern Munich.desires, and can only be achieved by buying younger and fresher forwards.
We’ve gone beyond the point where Lautaro Martínez del Inter is a genuine choice, so Barca might have to take a closer look at their short list.
Suggestions: Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City), Patson Daka (RB Salzburg)
Bayern Munich: right-back
At first glance, Bayern seem in great need in the right-back position, as Joshua Kimmich and Benjamin Pavard, in combination, provided a hat-trick in 2020.
But it turns out that Hansi Flick needs to use Kimmich in the middle midfield (he only returned to the side when the injury forced him) and if Thiago Alcantara left, it would underscore Kimmich’s permanent transition.
This would leave Pavard alone on the right, so Bayern could turn to the market and a rotator, preferably a young person, with a different physical profile than the incumbent, which gives him a variation in this position.
Suggestions: Sergino Dest (Ajax), Tomas Tavares (Benfica)
Borussia Dortmund: long-lasting left-back/replacement
Dortmund are facing it financially this summer; they reported a loss of almost forty-five million euros for the 2019–20 season, according to Soccerex, which took them out of the race by Achraf Hakimi (who went to Inter Milan) and forced them to buy cheap.
Actually, there’s little budget to do anything else this summer, except, you know, if a safe English winger joins a safe English club, but I probably wouldn’t be too worried given that there are too few gaps in the team.
A right-handed power station might be useful, but with Emre Can to upgrade and Lukasz Piszczek enjoying the twilight of his career there, it’s not an urgent concern.
What would be a pressing fear would be the left-back/left-back, if Raphael Guerreiro were injured. Nico Schulz has had a complicated first year at the club and will probably be a big failure, so some other frame in that position, probably with one eye in the long run, can work well.
Suggestions: Noah Katterbach (FC Cologne), Aaron Martin (Mayence)
Chelsea: goalkeeper
There’s only one wish left.
With the left-back and center-back approached and an excess of attack options, titled through Kai Havertz and Timo Werner, acquired through a frenzy of serious expenses, the Blues have a position to occupy: the goalkeeper.
Some will say that they left perhaps their ultimate obvious challenge of all to the end, however, figuring out the right steps to follow here probably based on whether they can move Kepa Arrizabalaga.The Telegraph reports that it will remain, so now the signature type and realistic budget for it are known.
But let’s be clear: Chelsea will have to buy a spare or at least one shirt festival.
Kepa 2019-20 statistics were bad. Fbref’s xG style estimates that he has conceded 9.6 more goals than he deserves to have given the shots he has faced, the worst 37 goalkeepers in the Premier League, so far.
A defensive line advanced in this scenario to some extent, however, the most productive solution is a new guy between the sticks.
Suggestions: Andre Onana (Ajax), Emiliano Martinez (Arsenal), Nick Pope (Burnley)
Liverpool: Thiago Alcantara
Arguably there is a greater desire for a position for Liverpool than that of a central midfielder, but there is no greater individual desire than Thiago Alcantara.
A masterful midfielder, actually in the category of global elegance, and supposedly to be obtained for about 30 million euros?Football is not space science, but it’s obvious.
Yes, he is 29 years old, and yes, he has a record of insignificant injuries, but after his last two performances, in the Champions League final for Bayern Munich and in the League of Nations for Spain, we have no doubts about his overwhelming. Quality.More importantly, Jurgen Klopp obviously needs it, and there is a detail to keep you satisfied in the equation.
For all the talented Americans on the Reds game team, Klopp is among the Reds’ most valuable assets.The lack of Timo Werner and Thiago may be enough to spin the wheels in their minds.
Inter Milan: Sell Ivan Perisic while his inventory is high
Among other things, they appear in a position for a serious crack in the Scudetto – on the podcast B / R Football Ranks, we beg them to fight Juventus in 2021 – and if they complete the signing of Aleksandar Kolarov, as Sky Sports Italia (h / t Football Italia) informs that they will, their team will be full of options.
It’s hard to recommend that a team that has at least two players for the position want anything else, so maybe the next step is to start cutting what’s not needed.
There is an organization of players whose long term is unclear, led by Ivan Perisic, who has just won the hat-trick on loan at Bayern Munich.He is a player still with poor compatibility for Inter antonio Conte (who does not use extremes), and on the Croatian’s back achieving such a feat, now is the ideal time to buy it at a maximum price.
Juventus: right-back
According to Guillem Balague, Luis Suárez has agreed to sign for Juventus from Barcelona.While this is by no means a displayed transfer, we will treat the attacker as “directed” for the purposes of this article and focus on another position: the right-back.
Juan Cuadrado, extreme or extreme for a long time, controlled more than 2500 minutes on a side last season.It is usable, the most productive transparent option and is a conviction against Danilo and Mattia De Sciglio, two naturalized features.for this publication also indexed in books.
So, despite having technically 3 right sides, the Juve probably wants another, a bigger one that can lift the club game on that flank, which will inevitably result in the departure of at least one of the existing starters, with De Sciglio the first transparent candidate.
Suggestions: Nelson Semedo (Barcelona), Sergino Dest (Ajax), Takehiro Tomiyasu (Bologna)
Manchester City: Kalidou Koulibaly
The City has already invested about 40 million pounds in Nathan Ake to bolster his defense this summer, but paintings can’t help it.
In an ideal world, Ake represents the intensity for the left center position, meaning that if Aymeric Laporte loses some other time, the team may not collapse.prospects, and there’s one waiting to happen: Koulibaly, from Naples.
The 29-year-old is at the best of his career and has the blessing of Napoli owner Aurelio De Laurentiis to leave.
As with Thiago and Liverpool, it’s not too complicated.Do it.
Manchester United: Jadon Sancho / extreme
We arrived in September and yet Sancho doesn’t feel any closer to signing for Manchester United than in March.After so long chasing a maiden name, it will be a summer failure if they don’t make it, no matter what.the more they do.
There are problems in the team that need to be addressed: the left back, the central and the defensive midfielder can use a glance, but if the Red Devils arrive on October 6 and do not bring wing reinforcements of a safe variety, it will be valid.The questions will be, to be raised.
One drawback of the Sancho saga is that United has lost ground to other possible targets, with viable clubs like Ferran Torres already converting, but there are still options.
Suggestions: Jadon Sancho (Dortmund), Adama Traoré (Wolves), Marcus Edwards (Vitoria de Guimaraes)
Paris Saint-Germain: Right-back
The intensity of the Champions League final in Lisbon highlighted PSG’s overall lack of depth.So you’ll probably be in favor of smart additions in maximum spaces over the next month.
Among all the concerns, the right-back is probably located between them, as thomas Meunier’s start to the summer reduced the intensity chart to Thilo Kehrer and Colin Dagba.
Kehrer is fast enough to play, but he is naturally a central defender and deserves to be in center rotation, while Dagba is an academy graduate who has not yet convinced.
Suggestions: Nelson Semedo (Barcelona), Hector Bellerin (Arsenal), Nordi Mukiele (RB Leipzig), Sergino Dest (Ajax)
Real Madrid: Sell Gareth Bale
Real Madrid is sometimes a major player in the summer market, however, Florentino Pérez has made it clear in several events that the club’s monetary setting in 2020 would save him from waste as we are accustomed.
They have been exceptionally calm so far, punishing only outgoing sales and loans.Their team is massive, so it’s important, and they’ve already noticed that Hakimi, Oscar Rodriguez, Takefusa Kubo and Reinier leave permanently or temporarily, with more to come: Dani Ceballos and James Rodriguez head respectively to Arsenal and Everton, through Fabrizio Romano.
All of this has an effect on the funds of possible movements, but the largest, the one that would really make the difference, is the exit of Gareth Bale.There is a possibility that Madrid’s monetary shackles will be relieved if they can move their gigantic salary from the weekly bill, and he has made it clear that he would be perfectly pleased to move as recently as this week to Sky Sports.
Tottenham Hotspur: forward
It’s been a wish for years, but for the 2020-2021 season, it’s essential.
If Tottenham wants to have a successful long-distance season, they will play between 60 and 70 games, as they have to face the Europa League qualifiers, as well as two national cups and the Premier League.All this, in a condensed season due to the start date of Euro 2021, will put great pressure on the team.
While Son Heung-Min can upgrade Harry Kane in the most sensible way if required, and while Lucas Moura or Steven Bergwijn can do a task in the game, Kane’s backup is now surely mandatory, unless they wish to threaten to push his star attacker.at the breaking point.
Suggestions: Vedat Muriqi (Fenerbahce), Sébastien Haller (West Ham)
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