Juan Guillermo Cuadrado - RWB/RM/LM - Chelsea (2 Viewers)

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Full name Juan Guillermo Cuadrado louis
Date of birth 26 May 1988 (age 25)
Place of birth Necoclí, Colombia
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)
Weight 66 kg
Playing position Winger

Club information
Current club Fiorentina
Number 11​

Juan Guillermo Cuadrado Bello (born 26 May 1988) is a Colombian footballer who currently plays for Fiorentina in the Serie A.

He generally plays as a winger, but can also play as a wing-back and as a full-back. His speed, pace and dribbling ability has allowed him to contribute greatly for both club and nation while earning the reputation of one of Europe's most lethal players.

Cuadrado is also known for dancing in various styles when celebrating a goal.

Club career

Early career / Independiente Medellin


Born in Necoclí, Cuadrado began his club career in Atlético Uraba. At Uraba, Cuadrado's preferred playing position was as a forward. However, due to the recommendation of club founder, Nelson Gallego, Cuadrado commenced to take on a midfielder role, preferably as a winger. Cuadrado's confidence and effectivity would later grant him ability to also act as a full-back. He later had a brief spell with no appearances at second division club, Rionegro, where he under the command of coach Víctor González Scott, but his potential was recognized by Juan José Peláez, who later proposed the idea of Cuadrado representing the colours of Independiente Medellin. He was eventually signed by Medellin in 2008, handing him the opportunity to play in the first division of Colombia. That same year, Cuadrado made his professional debut against Boyaca Chico, match where he would also score his first goal. Cuadrado lasted until 2009 at Medellin before making a leap into European football, most specifically the Italian Serie A.

Udinese

On 2 July 2009, Cuadrado signed for Italian Serie A side Udinese Calcio on a five-year deal.[4] Nonetheless, the total amount of the transfer fee is unknown. On 1 November 2009, he played his first match for Udinese in a 1–1 draw with Chievo as a right wingback. In this match his countryman Cristián Zapata moved to a central defender and Dušan Basta who had been the primary right back was rested. Due to the fact that Cuadrado wasn't handed many minutes on the pitch, it was confirmed that he would be sent on loan to fellow Serie A team U.S. Lecce.

Loan to Lecce


On 3 August 2011, it was officially confirmed that Cuadrado would join Lecce for the 2011–12 season. He scored his first goal for the club against A.C. Cesena, the sole goal in 1-0 victory. Even though Cuadrado gave impressive performances, even being awarded as the player with most dribbling the whole season, Lecce finished 18th, thus being relegated from the Serie A. He later returned to Udinese to avoid playing in the second-tier of Italy.

Fiorentina

On 23 July 2012, Cuadrado completed a move to Serie A side Fiorentina on loan with an option to buy. On 4 November 2012 he scored his first goal for the Florence club in a 4–1 victory at home to Cagliari. He finished the season with 5 goals and 6 assists, an integral part of a side that finished 4th in Serie A. He made a permanent move to Fiorentina in the summer of 2013.

On 11 February 2014, Cuadrado scored Fiorentina's second goal of their 2-0 Coppa Italia semi-final second leg victory over his former club, Udinese, securing the Viola a 3-2 aggregate victory and a spot in the final.

International career

After being transferred to Udinese, Cuadrado received a spot in the Colombian starting XI in a game against Venezuela on 3 September 2010, he was the man of the match and scored the opening goal and his first with the national side. Colombia won 2–0 playing well.

Cuadrado was called up by José Pekerman, for a friendly against Mexico on 29 February 2012 taking place in Miami Gardens, Florida. He started the match and scored the second goal of Colombia who won the game 2–0. He scored after receiving a pass from Pablo Armero into an empty goal.

Style of play

Cuadrado is a very unique midfielder. At times plays both between an attacking and defending role given by the situation of the game. His dribbling and ball control makes him a 'tricky' player when facing defenders and is able to read the moves of his opponent predicting reactions flawlessly. Cuadrado's reactions are strongly supported by his speed even to the point where he can out run/pace most players for the ball or when running with it. This has also been supported by his large impressive stamina despite being at his mid 20s where the peak of talents were revealed. In 2013, it was reported that Cuadrado nearly doubled the dribbling rate of Cristiano Ronaldo per league game.

Cuadrado at times can play any position on the right side making him quite a versatile player. Able to play as a defender if needed, a midfield playmaker, or even scoring goals as a winger, Cuadrado adapts a style of Total Football for both club and nation.
 

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rakib567

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with fiorentina wanting a updated stadium I don't think they will pay another 15m. so if we tell udinese to pay 15m for his half back and then us offering 20m+isla could work because they will make a 5m profit for giving us a player that they doesn't play for them and they will get isla back which is a player that guidolin likes a lot.
 

zizinho

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this trasfer would be very complicated if we would try to get him.

1st udinese wants 15M for his half. lets say we negotiate with them and lower it to about 10-11M and lower it again with a player we would have > youngster (or 2 depending on their quality) + 5-6M for Cuadrado half. getting udinese half alone would be complicated. that everything would be useless if viola can stop udinese from selling (like we can control the other clubs from selling halfs of our players).

now we try to negotiate with the rats. if we asume they want more than udinese asked (about 20M) who would we offer them to lower the price? Isla? Vucinic? Quag? would they even want one of those? we could give them youngsters but i doubt they would want the weaker ones. they would ask for our top young players like Berardi. so we would have to enter a blind auction. how much would we have to offer? how much can they offer? or would a top club give them money so they later sell him to that top club? so, when we already own half of him we would still have to pay from 10-15M. would we do that???
 

Zacheryah

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I doubt after our mandatory signings of Cerci, Immobile, and perhaps Osvaldo or Paro, and the sales of forwards, that we got 20 mil left for Cuadrado
 

zizinho

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thats the main problem. viola would be too stubborn to accept a player to lower the price so we would have to go to a blind auction.
 

MikeM

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Is this guy supposed to be one of these mythical wingbacks that can make our 3-5-2 formidable enough to compete in the latter stages of the CL? I don't see it.

For the money, he's a waste IMO. Signing him to play as a RWB might not even be an upgrade on Lichtsteiner when you factor in defensive capability. And that formation in general just fails to impress in Europe time and time again. And then also, he's probably not good enough to play RW in a 4-3-3 for a serious CL contender.

I could pay 25-30M for Cuadrado or go into 35M+ territory and get a real world class winger. Fiorentina is not going to let go easily. He will be way overpriced.

I would rather go for Nani for half the price of Cuadrado.
 

zizinho

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Is this guy supposed to be one of these mythical wingbacks that can make our 3-5-2 formidable enough to compete in the latter stages of the CL? I don't see it.

For the money, he's a waste IMO. Signing him to play as a RWB might not even be an upgrade on Lichtsteiner when you factor in defensive capability. And that formation in general just fails to impress in Europe time and time again. And then also, he's probably not good enough to play RW in a 4-3-3 for a serious CL contender.

I could pay 25-30M for Cuadrado or go into 35M+ territory and get a real world class winger. Fiorentina is not going to let go easily. He will be way overpriced.

I would rather go for Nani for half the price of Cuadrado.
yes but hes a different type of player than Licht (more offensive). we need different type of players competiong for the startin XI to give us more flexibility and make us less predictable. same with Lulic and Asa, Pereyra and Vidal/Pogba, Llorente/new striker (someone who can create something) etc. these are the things we lack now as you exactly know what to expect from us and opponents prepare easier for the games...

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