Blaise Matuidi - DM - PSG (23 Viewers)

[Dostoevsky]

30 is hardly alot - Higuain turns 30 later this year.

The year left on his contract is what's rubbish, but we needed a midfielder so....

Nothing to brag about Higuain's age. He's gonna be 30 and it ain't helping his game. I love the guy but it's slowing him down and his gamestyle will only suffer with the age. 30 for CBs is not a lot but it is for other positions IMO.

Matuidi can easily offer 2-3 quality seasons (if he even fits here cause I can't see him in a 2 man midfield) but my point is that the price is heavy for somebody who's 30 and on a last year of his contract.

 

Buy on AliExpress.com

[Osman]

It's not cheap either.

Not only he's 30 years old but he has one year left on his contract. He's more leaning towards an expensive transfer imo. 4mln/year is pretty high here (at Juve)

4m has become the new mid level salary for us, nearly all our starters have around 3.5m-4m atleast.


And he is taking a paycut, so hardly too expensive considering what he is giving up.

 

[juve123]

Nothing to brag about Higuain's age. He's gonna be 30 and it ain't helping his game. I love the guy but it's slowing him down and his gamestyle will only suffer with the age. 30 for CBs is not a lot but it is for other positions IMO.

Matuidi can easily offer 2-3 quality seasons (if he even fits here cause I can't see him in a 2 man midfield) but my point is that the price is heavy for somebody who's 30 and on a last year of his contract.

Can we expect another midfielder in this transfer window

 

[Dostoevsky]

4m has become the new mid level salary for us, nearly all our starters have around 3.5m-4m atleast.


And he is taking a paycut, so hardly too expensive considering what he is giving up.

He is giving up one year wages in PSG. Or a 2-3mln difference.

Next year he'd be out of contract and 31 year old DM. Nobody would offer him 4mln salary in that position.

So no, I don't think he's losing anything actually.

 

[NitK]

Juve is not as appeasing to these players as free agents next year as you lot seem to think. So much easier to command better wages elsewhere.

 

[Dostoevsky]

Can we expect another midfielder in this transfer window

Nope. I don't think we'll get anyone after Matuidi. We're placing our hopes on Bentancur.

We can only expect Spinazzola and Keita to close the mercato this summer.

 

[Osman]

He is giving up one year wages in PSG. Or a 2-3mln difference.

Next year he'd be out of contract and 31 year old DM. Nobody would offer him 4mln salary in that position.

So no, I don't think he's losing anything actually.

EPL give nobodies considerably better then that so pretty sure he could gotten more if he widen his search besides us, and PSG offered to raise his salary.

 

[juve123]

Nope. I don't think we'll get anyone after Matuidi. We're placing our hopes on Bentancur.

We can only expect Spinazzola and Keita to close the mercato this summer.

So no cb or rb

 

[JuveJay]

Should've put another 200m in and got Neymar. Typical Beppe trying to save money.

 

[NitK]

Live pictures of Matuidi landing in Turin:

Spoiler

Spoiler

Spoiler

 

[Dostoevsky]

So no cb or rb

It's just what I think. We might sign somebody but it would surprise me tbh.

Cancelo won't come so if we pull somebody out of the hat...

 

[Nicholas]

EPL give nobodies considerably better then that so pretty sure he could gotten more if he widen his search besides us, and PSG offered to raise his salary.

Even more so when average players are going for so much too.

 

[GarfielD]

Lets be honest, say what you want, but 20m for Matuidi is a very good deal for us.

 

[Nicholas]

Lets be honest, say what you want, but 20m for Matuidi is a very good deal for us.

It's not a very good deal.

It's pretty average.

 

[Bianconero_Aus]

Do you think with these guys we have complete squad?

If we managed to sign a top (or at least very good prospect) RB, I'd say yes, but no, I don't think our squad is complete. We have strengthened our mid + attack though (significantly) but our defence is weaker.

Let's see what Beppe brings us over the next couple of weeks.

 

[Nicholas]

Spinni and Keita will complete the market. 7/10.

 

[littlePrince]

If we managed to sign a top (or at least very good prospect) RB, I'd say yes, but no, I don't think our squad is complete. We have strengthened our mid + attack though (significantly) but our defence is weaker.

Let's see what Beppe brings us over the next couple of weeks.

hmmm yes. vediamo

 

[Amer]

Grande colpo.

 

[am0110]

Nanosecondi decisivi

 

[LiquidPLP]

Attack wins the CL. I used to be one of those stubborn Italian "defence wins" guys but it just isn't the case in modern football. Especially given how strict referees are on defenders and how "protected" top attacking players are these days.

That's true but defense wins you the scudetto. CL became an obsession for many but we shouldn't dispose that for CL in "hurray-it's-our-year-folks" style. As boring as it sounds, winning many scudetti in a row give us lots of money and you can't make an impact without it.

Winning CL would set us very nicely from financial POV but it's easier said than done. CL is much about lottery, last year RM had no right to be in Cardiff but they did and so they won in the end.