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  1. Ian

    Official: Patrick Vieira To Juve

    Ahem... Good point, but we've already got a stable full of kinda slow strikers. We wouldn't need to buy a quick one if we had pace on the flanks and some creativity in the centre.
  2. Ian

    Official: Patrick Vieira To Juve

    Mutu is a forward. Nedved was always a winger. He played in a free role with Lippi, but he wasn't a playmaker then, more of a horizontal winger.
  3. Ian

    Official: Patrick Vieira To Juve

    Because niether Mutu not Nedved is a playmaker. Why don't we win the CL? Because we don't make enough plays. How do we make more plays? Get a playmaker.
  4. Ian

    Official: Patrick Vieira To Juve

    That's not even the point. Don't you think that we already had the player(s) to fill that position? I mean certainly the money could have been better spent on a playmaker or a fullback...
  5. Ian

    Official: Patrick Vieira To Juve

    Because younger players cost less, spend more time at the club, and get better while they are here rather than worse...
  6. Ian

    Official: Patrick Vieira To Juve

    Pedretti is Vieira's replacement. Why buy a player on the way down, especially one who's only had success in England, when you could get a perfectly excellent, younger, continental player?
  7. Ian

    Official: Patrick Vieira To Juve

    Thanks. The more things change, the more they stay the same, eh?
  8. Ian

    Official: Patrick Vieira To Juve

    That's exactly what I'm saying, we're trying to win the biggest deal of all, the Champion's League. Who won last year? Liverpool. How did they win? they made their squad more creative and opened up the pitch. We desperately need attacking midfielders and defenders with pace. So what do...
  9. Ian

    Official: Patrick Vieira To Juve

    This is probably the second worst purchase Juve have made in my recollection. Vieira is surely a fine player and will bring needed strength to our midfield, but for only a few years. Furthermore, there were many more appealing, cheaper, and younger options around. Not only that, but we've got...