Alvaro Morata (22 Viewers)

want him back again for cheap?

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Suns

Suns

Release clause?
#10,567
May 22, 2009
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#10,567
I love Morata but after all he's still a guy that was benched majority of the season and will probably be so again once next season stars again.
Leaving seems to me like the right decision for him.
 
Osman

Osman

Koul Khara!
#10,571
Aug 30, 2002
61,499
#10,571
Post Ironic said:
Tuz narrative...

2400 minutes of playing time = benched the majority of the season.

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He was, we litterally watched all the Juve games and when everyone was healthy he was 2nd choice for most of the season. There is difference between Zaza benched and Morata benched, but it's the bench nonetheless most of the time.
 
Post Ironic

Post Ironic

Senior Member
#10,572
Feb 9, 2013
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#10,572
There's a big difference between "benched majority of the season" and being a regular rotation option, and playing approximately half the minutes available in the entire season.

The narrative is absurd.

He played more minutes than any other forward in the CL as well. By a margin.
 
Osman

Osman

Koul Khara!
#10,573
Aug 30, 2002
61,499
#10,573
He was not a bench player in CL, that's for sure. But a player who is rotation option is 2nd option player, which means he comes in from the bench. Ergo he is not a starter and spends most of the time on it instead of starting.
 
Post Ironic

Post Ironic

Senior Member
#10,574
Feb 9, 2013
42,253
#10,574
Benched means a coach doesn't trust you to play or start. That's a term for someone who gets very little playing time and none at all in important games. Someone like Zaza.

Rotation option, frequent starter, playing half the minutes of the season, etc is not being "benched the majority of the season"... But this is just semantics at this point.

The point I'm making is that Suns and others have been implying Allegri is driving Morata away by not making him undisputed starter which is just nonsense. It's called competition, and Morata was first off the bench for both Mandzu and Dybala, was also first replacement for both in case of injury or rotation, and at times was also a starter earlier in the season. He played tons, and will do so again next year.

Part of the problem that people seem unaware of is that Morata was the only player on the team capable of spelling Dybala as SS and partnering Mandzu. Which means he was needed for that as well, especially as we saw Dybala get an overuse injury near the end of the year. Morata was our backup SS and CF. But we had Zaza as well, and Morata does far better as an SS in Serie A. It's an interesting problem for Allegri to have.
 
Bianconero_Aus

Bianconero_Aus

Beppe Marotta Is My God
#10,580
May 26, 2009
81,030
#10,580
I wouldn't listen to a fucken thing these dumb Spanish (esp Madrid) based papers say. I just want this situation to be sorted sooner or later, we need to start preparing for our pre-season soon. Don't need these distractions.
 
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