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But what is superior opposition? We've looked decent againt Milan, Inter and Man City. We might not be up to Barcelona standards as of yet but that's well known by all including the management. We're going to need to buy a Dzeko-esque striker at some point especially if we offload Amauri and...

No one's questioning his quality. What's in question is how useful he is to Juventus relative to Dzeko.

Our midfield really doesn't struggle that badly though. Both Aquilani and Krasic provide our strikers with plenty of opportunities to score and when we lack their individual stardom we usually make up for it as a team and deny opposition midfields to run over us. When it comes to a striker...

That's not really true. We have plenty of scoring opportunities game in game out despite lacking creative individuals. Our real problem is actually putting those chances away (e.g our game against Fiorentina), so really the opposite is true. Dzeko is the sort of player we desperately need.

Unless an extremely good opportunity for a top-class, non-EU full back comes along then I see no better option.

Who is a better candidate for that spot than Dzeko?

Surely they don't actually exist. I hope Marotta's not that dumb.

Making 'favours' with clubs in this market is a ridiculous notion. I doubt we'll have our favour repaid by Wolfsburg. Why rely on the good nature of your competitors?

I don't like that. We give up on having Dzeko so we can loan and potentially buy a player (who by the way has a big question mark over his career at the moment) for what seems to me like a transfer fee which is way to high considering the impact he's made at Real. No thank you. We would be...

Someone should make that their avatar.

It was a done deal.

That was a golden moment in sports journalism.

I would be susceptible to knee jerking as well if I was spending ridiculous amounts of money. It definitely looks worse for them when expensive players don't perform. Benzema has been given enough time to perform at real in my opinion to warrant certain reactions but I wouldn't refer to him as...