Arturo Vidal (140 Viewers)
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I disagree completely. How can an abysmal player ruin our mercato? His departure was a blessing in disguise. We are now in an even better position than last year. We got it covered.
I don't get the Conte comparison. We haven't even replaced Vidal yet, and even if we do, do you see us getting a player close to his abilities?
I don't get the Conte comparison. We haven't even replaced Vidal yet, and even if we do, do you see us getting a player close to his abilities?
You are criticizing the sale of Vidal and the lack of adequate replacement. And you are being sarcastic like we ended up last year in the relegation zone in Serie A and not like we were close winning a CL and securing a double. We are fine. We are a good team and players like Asamoah, Sturaro, Khedira, Pereyra have a chance to do good things as Vidal replacement, who btw was absolute crap for a big part of the last season.
I am not being sarcastic about last season. I don't know where you got that impression from. Last season was fantastic, as we had a fantastic team.
What I am criticizing is that considering all that's happened, instead of building on what we achieved, we made ourselves weaker, as if last season's achievements were an exception.
What I am criticizing is that considering all that's happened, instead of building on what we achieved, we made ourselves weaker, as if last season's achievements were an exception.
So we live on hope now? Strong ambition from the management. Good management changes its course of business when reaching important milestones. Last season was a very important one where we got to targets ahead of our schedule but we did not change our business strategies accordingly, we are still looking for bargains and hoping they will succeed.
Yep, we still need time to be a financially sound team like Bayern. We want it all and we want it now, but we have to do it step by step.
We lost our best striker for free. We sold Vidal for a good fee. We got Khedira, Dybala, Mandzu, Zaza and Rugani and we are looking for an AM. Without a solid investment from Exor this is the best that we can do. And I'm more than happy to support this team and his new cycle full of young and promising players. It's your choice to panic before the end of the mercato, before the season starts and before a series of bad results. Be unhappy, dude.
We lost our best striker for free. We sold Vidal for a good fee. We got Khedira, Dybala, Mandzu, Zaza and Rugani and we are looking for an AM. Without a solid investment from Exor this is the best that we can do. And I'm more than happy to support this team and his new cycle full of young and promising players. It's your choice to panic before the end of the mercato, before the season starts and before a series of bad results. Be unhappy, dude.
For me the ambitions of this club are clear, they couldn't be more clear, but neither could our financial limitations on the market.
Our spending this season before we even sold Vidal was:
Dybala €32m + €8m
Mandzukic €19m + €2m
Zaza €18m
Pereyra €14m
Khedira €0
Neto €0
Currently we are at about €20m net spend with an eye on the market, and possibly with Llorente sale money.
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2014-15 our top signings:
Morata €20m
Sturaro €5.5m
Marrone €5m
Evra €1.5m
Our net spend was around €18m.
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2013-14 our top signings:
Tevez €9m + €3m
Llorente €0
Ogbonna €13m + €2m
Our net spend was around €10m.
Of course this year we needed bigger signings to replace those leaving, and we were doing fine with that, but then the Vidal sale seems to have skewed perceptions towards the direction of this team, apparently. Personally I think people need to start getting over it. Khedira's injury definitely hasn't helped, but shit happens.
Now I'm just looking at us to spend this money, whatever it is, on someone good enough to play a part this season. Not just to go and fire it on someone for the sake of looking like we mean business. We aren't fricking Liverpool.
Our spending this season before we even sold Vidal was:
Dybala €32m + €8m
Mandzukic €19m + €2m
Zaza €18m
Pereyra €14m
Khedira €0
Neto €0
Currently we are at about €20m net spend with an eye on the market, and possibly with Llorente sale money.
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2014-15 our top signings:
Morata €20m
Sturaro €5.5m
Marrone €5m
Evra €1.5m
Our net spend was around €18m.
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2013-14 our top signings:
Tevez €9m + €3m
Llorente €0
Ogbonna €13m + €2m
Our net spend was around €10m.
Of course this year we needed bigger signings to replace those leaving, and we were doing fine with that, but then the Vidal sale seems to have skewed perceptions towards the direction of this team, apparently. Personally I think people need to start getting over it. Khedira's injury definitely hasn't helped, but shit happens.
Now I'm just looking at us to spend this money, whatever it is, on someone good enough to play a part this season. Not just to go and fire it on someone for the sake of looking like we mean business. We aren't fricking Liverpool.
