Andrea "Il Bruco Brutto" Agnelli (125 Viewers)
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Milan, inter, Roma, Napoli, Lazio, im taking about snatching key players from biggest rivals. We got Pirlo when Milan didnt want him, we got Pjanic and Higuain by paying his release clause. We got Licht with one year left on his contract from Lazio. And if you want to add Fiorentina, we got Chiesa and Berna, but we paid 100M for the pair. You need to understand the difference between a key player/player you want to keep and a redundant one. I mean, if we got Gagliardini from inter for some 25M, would you say look, we can raid our rivals as well or youd be calling for Paraticis head. There is levels to this. Now again:
Leverkusen, CL and BL runner up, one of the top clubs jn the country for years: Lucio, Ballack, Ze Roberto all go to Bayern. Can you see us getting Nesta, Seedorf, Serginho for example from that Milan? FOR LESS THAN 30M COMBINED? Or any of the italian top clubs at that time. Or someone in england or spain doing the same? Next
Bremen, double winners in 2004 and a top german club at that time, regularly finishing in CL places. Within a few years they lose Ismael, Borowski and Klose to Bayern, for less than 25M! COMBINED.
Dortmund their apparently biggest rival, Gotze, Lewa, Hummels. Now their only challenger last few years loses their coach and star CB to them. You cant do that in Italy (England or Spain), because inter wont sell us Bastoni or Barella, Milan wont sell us Theo or Tonali, Lazio wont give us Sergej for years, Napoli with Koulibaly. You say Roma gave us Pellegrini but we gave up a better player in Spinazzola in that deal. And most their key players went abroad, Allison, Salah, Strootman. I dont know how you can look at the 2 situations and think they are same or similar. No other club has such monopoly over its league, maybe only PSG recently can come cluse
Leverkusen, CL and BL runner up, one of the top clubs jn the country for years: Lucio, Ballack, Ze Roberto all go to Bayern. Can you see us getting Nesta, Seedorf, Serginho for example from that Milan? FOR LESS THAN 30M COMBINED? Or any of the italian top clubs at that time. Or someone in england or spain doing the same? Next
Bremen, double winners in 2004 and a top german club at that time, regularly finishing in CL places. Within a few years they lose Ismael, Borowski and Klose to Bayern, for less than 25M! COMBINED.
Dortmund their apparently biggest rival, Gotze, Lewa, Hummels. Now their only challenger last few years loses their coach and star CB to them. You cant do that in Italy (England or Spain), because inter wont sell us Bastoni or Barella, Milan wont sell us Theo or Tonali, Lazio wont give us Sergej for years, Napoli with Koulibaly. You say Roma gave us Pellegrini but we gave up a better player in Spinazzola in that deal. And most their key players went abroad, Allison, Salah, Strootman. I dont know how you can look at the 2 situations and think they are same or similar. No other club has such monopoly over its league, maybe only PSG recently can come cluse
We missed out on some players like Verratti, Bruno Fernandes, Kovacic, Zaniolo, Correa, Bastoni, etc
And yea I know, Verratti was in Serie B and Zaniolo was part of the Nainggolan deal.
There definitely haven’t been a lot of great talents in Serie A, but you could say that we focused on the wrong players. Imagine if we’d be able to field the first 4 players that I mentioned. They wouldn’t costed us a lot.
My eyes start bleeding if I see that list of Sassuolo and Genoa players. What a waste of time and money.
Our transfer strategy wasn’t to sign the best talents, we rather went for proven ones like Khedira, Matuidi, Pjanic, Mandzukic etc
And yea I know, Verratti was in Serie B and Zaniolo was part of the Nainggolan deal.
There definitely haven’t been a lot of great talents in Serie A, but you could say that we focused on the wrong players. Imagine if we’d be able to field the first 4 players that I mentioned. They wouldn’t costed us a lot.
My eyes start bleeding if I see that list of Sassuolo and Genoa players. What a waste of time and money.
Our transfer strategy wasn’t to sign the best talents, we rather went for proven ones like Khedira, Matuidi, Pjanic, Mandzukic etc
I have nothing against Andrea Agnelli, overall his contribution has been positive. Im quite happy we have had the backing of his family throughout our history (since 1923) and you can bet we wouldnt be as succesful without them. When we are in dire financial state, like we are finding ourselves now, they pump in some money and keep us afloat. That being said Andrea needs to bow down and kiss each sole of Allegri's foot. What a terrible blunder he has made 2 years ago and it backfired in the worst possible way for him. His nephews prolly arent too satisfied either with our last few years as he is costing his family money. From breaking even to more than 100m loss per season.
Can I just say how fucking dope it must feel to own Ferrari AND Juventus. It's like owning Apple AND Netflix or something.
Cant think of any other individual/family that owns 2 cool-ass global brands.
Whenever I bring this fact up with uninitated people, I always get a great reaction, it's awesome. What a family, damn.
Cant think of any other individual/family that owns 2 cool-ass global brands.
Whenever I bring this fact up with uninitated people, I always get a great reaction, it's awesome. What a family, damn.
