The right choices at the end of the 2025 contract

The month of January has just begun and the good students of the market are starting to wake up. Grab your pens Football Manager fans, today we bring you the end of the 2025 contract.

Liverpool urgently needs their defense

In business terms, Liverpool are at high risk of being looted. We start our article by talking about good defensive choices to recruit, and for once Van Dijk (33 years old) and Trent Alexander-Arnold (26 years old) could perhaps pack their bags. To supply the other corridor, Alphonso Davies (Bayern – 24 years old) is also up for grabs at 0 euros, profiles that everyone could like from Real Madrid, stingy with good deals at the lowest price (let’s remember Rudiger and Alaba who arrived for free). A free starter, there is also one at Real given that Ferland Mendy (29 years old) also arrives in the last 6 months.

Part of the invincibles’ season, Jonathan Tah (Leverküsen – 28 years old) will soon be available as well as Olivier Boscagli (PSV – 27 years old) who has left his mark in the Eredivisie. Finally, Tottenham captain Sergio Reguilon (28 years old) and Arsenal captain Kieran Tierney (27 years old) are also available. Names that all seem interesting and that can do the business of clubs like Marseille, Monaco or Dortmund, three potential players who may want to strengthen their defense.

Thirty years old, well revered, well hated!

This summer, fashion will be free for experienced thirty-year-olds. Cholism is not dead, its ambassador Koke (32 years old – Atletico) is available for the summer period. In the Premier League, the free agents are Ilkay Gundogan (Man City – 34 years), Jorginho (Arsenal – 33 years), Thomas Partey (Arsenal – 31 years), Abdoulaye Doucouré (Everton – 31 years) and the Belgian maestro Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City – 33 years). We find everything, from the very crude and unpleasant number 6, to the velvet paw who breaks ranks with his passes, and all this just by observing the English championship.

For greater diversity, we recommend Serie A. The recoverer trained at OM, Frank Zambo Anguissa (Napoli – 29 years old) has rejuvenated the average age of free midfielders, as has Mario Pasalic (Atalanta – 29 years old). We end this list with two names that could easily establish themselves in all compositions in the world, Marco Verratti (Al-Arabi – 32 years old) and Joshua Kimmich (Bayern – 29 years old). If the former could surprise by returning to Europe, the latter also has the profile of landing freely at Real Madrid.

The striker whose contract is expiring, a proliferating species

There is clearly a lot to be done in the free forward category. We will start with the category of well-paid big names, Neymar (Al Hilal – 32 years old) can finally make his return to Europe, as well as Heung-Min Son (Tottenham – 32 years old), Paulo Dybala (AS Roma – 31 years old) and Leroy Sané (Bayern – 28 years old) who will be free at the end of the season. We are rejuvenating the schedule a bit, the following players are free but can also be hopes for the future. Jonathan David (24 years old – LOSC) will perhaps finally try a different challenge, just like Amad Diallo (Man U – 22 years old) who has shown excellent things in a very pale Manchester United this season.

The pearl of all Football Manager careers, Roony Bardghji (FC Copenhagen – 19 years old) is finally accessible at a lower cost, barring a turnaround and a surprise contract extension. And finally the attackers in the prime of life, or confirmed, if you prefer. We find Adama Traoré (Fulham – 28 years old), the Spaniard from Golgoth could wreak havoc in the right team. Dominic Calvert Lewin (Everton – 27 years old) is also among the probable starters although we still imagine him returning to his club, unlike the surprise of this market, Cucho Hernandez (Colombus – 25 years old). The Colombian striker, scorer of 19 goals in 27 games, is clearly the MLS star to recover in this minor league.