Adrien Rabiot (110 Viewers)

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Bianconero81

Ageing Veteran
Jan 26, 2009
40,174
your reason for hate makes no sense. your reason basically is : he was bad in the past.

but we don't live in the past, do we now?
And your logic is "he's good now, so maybe he won't go back to sucking again in the future."

We often use the past as an indicator of future performance. I guess you failed at that core concept in college.
 

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Lion

King of Tuz
Jan 24, 2007
36,185
And your logic is "he's good now, so maybe he won't go back to sucking again in the future."

We often use the past as an indicator of future performance. I guess you failed at that core concept in college.
if past is indicator of future arabs would be running the world instead of uber and and shawarma shops
 

Alen

Ѕenior Аdmin
Apr 2, 2007
53,897
Our fellow Tuzzers have short-term memories :rolleyes2:

A few good months conveniently after we try to offload to Manchester United in the summer and in the last year of his contract erasing several years of being utterly mediocre :lol:
We all think this. "It's a trap" is our first thought and instinct.
Now, I'm gonna present another theory, which could easily not be true: Can there be another reason why is Rabiot playing so well, and it's not the new contract? For example, the majority of his goals this year (he is our top scorer, excluding penalty goals) were assisted by Kostic and Di Maria, two excellent assistmen who weren't here in the previous three seasons. When Cuadrado was in top assisting form, the balls in the box were going for Cristiano, not Rabiot. When Dybala and Cristiano were here, we played a different system. Could it be that it's the system+the two great assistmen that make Rabiot look so good.
If that's the case, then it won't be so easy to decide against offering him a new contract. :rolleyes2:
 

Lion

King of Tuz
Jan 24, 2007
36,185
We all think this. "It's a trap" is our first thought and instinct.
Now, I'm gonna present another theory, which could easily not be true: Can there be another reason why is Rabiot playing so well, and it's not the new contract? For example, the majority of his goals this year (he is our top scorer, excluding penalty goals) were assisted by Kostic and Di Maria, two excellent assistmen who weren't here in the previous three seasons. When Cuadrado was in top assisting form, the balls in the box were going for Cristiano, not Rabiot. When Dybala and Cristiano were here, we played a different system. Could it be that it's the system+the two great assistmen that make Rabiot look so good.
If that's the case, then it won't be so easy to decide against offering him a new contract. :rolleyes2:
good point. i forgot we used to play that stupid 4-4-2 where he would play as a LM or sometimes even a RM.
 

GordoDeCentral

Diez
Moderator
Apr 14, 2005
70,778
We all think this. "It's a trap" is our first thought and instinct.
Now, I'm gonna present another theory, which could easily not be true: Can there be another reason why is Rabiot playing so well, and it's not the new contract? For example, the majority of his goals this year (he is our top scorer, excluding penalty goals) were assisted by Kostic and Di Maria, two excellent assistmen who weren't here in the previous three seasons. When Cuadrado was in top assisting form, the balls in the box were going for Cristiano, not Rabiot. When Dybala and Cristiano were here, we played a different system. Could it be that it's the system+the two great assistmen that make Rabiot look so good.
If that's the case, then it won't be so easy to decide against offering him a new contract. :rolleyes2:
That theory falls on its face because it relies on the premise that rabiot showed the same effort in past seasons. It's really easy to not offer him a contract, as easy as it was not to offer pogba a contract.
 

Scottish

Zebrastreifenpferd
Mar 13, 2011
10,189
That theory falls on its face because it relies on the premise that rabiot showed the same effort in past seasons. It's really easy to not offer him a contract, as easy as it was not to offer pogba a contract.
I'm currently in favour of renewing Rabiot and I say its clear as day that he is working much much harder now than earlier this season (I didn't watch the previous couple so can't comment).

I still say its worth the risk, but not for 10 mil.
 

GordoDeCentral

Diez
Moderator
Apr 14, 2005
70,778
I'm currently in favour of renewing Rabiot and I say its clear as day that he is working much much harder now than earlier this season (I didn't watch the previous couple so can't comment).

I still say its worth the risk, but not for 10 mil.
It's not imo and it's myopic to look at strictly the accounting cost if the bum gets 10 mil you setting a new bar for both incoming and current players. It's just a bad idea that no rationalizing will fix.
 

Scottish

Zebrastreifenpferd
Mar 13, 2011
10,189
It's not imo and it's myopic to look at strictly the accounting cost if the bum gets 10 mil you setting a new bar for both incoming and current players. It's just a bad idea that no rationalizing will fix.
Who do we replace him with? How much will it cost? Can you be sure it's not partly the system and manager that works for him and not just that he's suddenly started caring?

For 10 it's a no from me. We can't afford that. We need to be clear how the wage structure is going to be going forward. Never mind raviot, the best lesson to learn from is Pogba. We can't risk that again. Or various from the previous management.
 

GordoDeCentral

Diez
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Apr 14, 2005
70,778
Who do we replace him with? How much will it cost? Can you be sure it's not partly the system and manager that works for him and not just that he's suddenly started caring?

For 10 it's a no from me. We can't afford that. We need to be clear how the wage structure is going to be going forward. Never mind raviot, the best lesson to learn from is Pogba. We can't risk that again. Or various from the previous management.
It's a rebuild, let the young'uns fight it out, if it don't work out, loan someone in the winter, if we gonna keep dusan, i rather we concentrate on getting fullbacks this summer.
 

Siamak

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Aug 13, 2013
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Managers should have extended his contract before the contract running out. Don't let he moves for free. If Rabiot leaves we surely go for replacement in order to fill that gap and That will cost us more than Rabiot's salary. Im afraid we lose him without getting proper replacement and at the end of mercato zakaria and arthur come out.
 

Scottish

Zebrastreifenpferd
Mar 13, 2011
10,189
It's a rebuild, let the young'uns fight it out, if it don't work out, loan someone in the winter, if we gonna keep dusan, i rather we concentrate on getting fullbacks this summer.
Agree that if we're to spend in the summer it should be on fullbacks who can also play as wing backs.

But we can't loan anybody good in January who's gonna do what Raviot has been doing for us this year. A three year contract on his current salary with perhaps bigger bonuses.

Though I know how the world works, it will be 10 if he signs at all. Our only hope is to make him understand that we know he won't be as good elsewhere. He fits in our current team, and in another he will disappear. His best chance to win things is to stay at Juve. We have to top him and no roll over and spread. In that case he may drop his demands. Ideally we'd throw in some family therapy so he can emancipate himself from his mother, but that's not happening either.

Honestly if it comes down to it, even for 10 I'd rather keep him. This may be @Lion's greatest troll making me believe this, but he's right. You can't replace him for less than 30 million.

The youngsters aren't ready yet. Locatelli to be our most senior CM? Not a great idea.

Locatelli Rovella Fagioli
Miretti Enzo (pogba??)

Not that great. It's missing one great CM and we have him in ournteam now. Am I forgetting one? Maybe I am

I've been day drinking, don't hold me to much of this post in future pls
 

GordoDeCentral

Diez
Moderator
Apr 14, 2005
70,778
Agree that if we're to spend in the summer it should be on fullbacks who can also play as wing backs.

But we can't loan anybody good in January who's gonna do what Raviot has been doing for us this year. A three year contract on his current salary with perhaps bigger bonuses.

Though I know how the world works, it will be 10 if he signs at all. Our only hope is to make him understand that we know he won't be as good elsewhere. He fits in our current team, and in another he will disappear. His best chance to win things is to stay at Juve. We have to top him and no roll over and spread. In that case he may drop his demands. Ideally we'd throw in some family therapy so he can emancipate himself from his mother, but that's not happening either.

Honestly if it comes down to it, even for 10 I'd rather keep him. This may be @Lion's greatest troll making me believe this, but he's right. You can't replace him for less than 30 million.

The youngsters aren't ready yet. Locatelli to be our most senior CM? Not a great idea.

Locatelli Rovella Fagioli
Miretti Enzo (pogba??)

Not that great. It's missing one great CM and we have him in ournteam now. Am I forgetting one? Maybe I am

I've been day drinking, don't hold me to much of this post in future pls
That's good enough for top 4 finish, and that's enough for a rebuild, granted we are working with a manager who has a multi year plan and a clear philosophy. I am much more concerned with that than figuring out a rabiot replacement. One can also argue rabiot contribution wouldn't be so obvious if we actually had a clear game plan as opposed to wing it and wait for the players to figure it out.
 

Knowah

Pool's Closed Due to Aids
Jan 28, 2013
6,577
Agree that if we're to spend in the summer it should be on fullbacks who can also play as wing backs.

But we can't loan anybody good in January who's gonna do what Raviot has been doing for us this year. A three year contract on his current salary with perhaps bigger bonuses.

Though I know how the world works, it will be 10 if he signs at all. Our only hope is to make him understand that we know he won't be as good elsewhere. He fits in our current team, and in another he will disappear. His best chance to win things is to stay at Juve. We have to top him and no roll over and spread. In that case he may drop his demands. Ideally we'd throw in some family therapy so he can emancipate himself from his mother, but that's not happening either.

Honestly if it comes down to it, even for 10 I'd rather keep him. This may be @Lion's greatest troll making me believe this, but he's right. You can't replace him for less than 30 million.

The youngsters aren't ready yet. Locatelli to be our most senior CM? Not a great idea.

Locatelli Rovella Fagioli
Miretti Enzo (pogba??)

Not that great. It's missing one great CM and we have him in ournteam now. Am I forgetting one? Maybe I am

I've been day drinking, don't hold me to much of this post in future pls
My counter argument would be:

- with how Fagioli and Locatelli have developed/shown themselves this year
- with Rovella impressing on loan and deserving of a chance just like Fagioli got
- with Miretti also deserving of minutes and having some good signs
- with Barrenechea showing some good signs of development
- with Arthur coming back this summer FOR SURE
- with Zakaria and/or McKennie coming back this summer POSSIBLY

AND THEN

- with our need at RB (Cambiaso fulfills our LB issues imo)
- with our need at CB (Gatti as our #3 is risky and we have no depth after him)
- with our need at CF (after Dusan, are we willing to rely just on Milik)
- with our need at RW/LW (if ADM leaves, we've got Chiesa, Iling, and Kostic for wings and thats it)

Why would we spend 10m wages on Rabiot? Is he better than Miretti? Probably. Is he better than Rovella? Probably. Is he better than Barrenechea? For sure. But with GREATER needs, we don't need to spend the money in midfield. Even if we have SLIGHT downgrades in midfield not playing him, we have MUCH WORSE downgrades at more important positions. MDS should NOT be anywhere near our 2nd depth RB next year. Period. Full stop. We need CB depth desperately. We have far more pressing needs than spend 10m to fill our deepest positon.

Nevermind we've never seen this Rabiot before. That cannot be understated. Even if you agree to the tactics issue in previous years, his desire wasn't there. He is playing out of his mind and I think we can all agree some of it is a new contract. Some of it is to draw EPL interest. But if even 1% of his NEW effort is due to a looming big contract on his horizon I don't want him here. That means that SOME part of his slacking, some part of his bad periods were because he was comfortable and lazy.
 

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