Higuain is not even the best striker on his team; I'd take Benzema over him any day. I've seen Higuain play for both Argentina and Madrid, and he always fails to show up in big games. He's like Zlatan, but with less flair and skill. I'm not denying he's a very good striker, but Tevez is a better all round player.
Oh, and I'm not your son, more like your dad
True that Banzema > Higuain, as a player and effectiveness. Some ppl only rate fancy dribbling though...
Tevez has the best overall characteristics indeed, but he lacks one very important, consistency!
only 27, yet to hit his peak as a footballer.
done deal that shit.
He did hit his peak, some ppl grow more mature, even as footballers, earlier than others, Tevez now suffers from the Ronaldinho syndrom.
He just doesnt take any more satisfaction out of football anymore, he has reached where he wanted to be and thats enough for him, despite the fact that he is surely capable for more...
you did that when you signed Toni, Amauri, Iaquinta, Grosso, as well
Valid point!
We faked ap and we would gladly do it again, but luckily for us, we have run out of garbage champions to sign and this time we might get smth more cost effective and less overrated.
Three of them are Secco's. Toni was an emergency last winter and signed on a year and a half contract.
Looking at Marotta's signings, those are all relatively low earners. Pirlo is on 3.5m, Vidal on 3m while all the others are earning 2m or less.
What Marotta successfully did was to lower the wage budget. Sign good players on lower wages and get rid of those who earn a lot and bring nothing back in return. He was obviously working on achieving what he'll achieve in the summer i.e free up lots of space in the wage budget.
It's another question if Juve will again be paying those 100m eur a year for wages. If yes, then lots of money will be available.
Secco was incompetent but he was just following orders.
Our board has decided that we need as much champions, reknown to the average Italian fans, as we can buy.
The ones with some quality were bought by the serious clubs and we just took whats left of it...
Nothing has changed since, we are still very eager to repeat the same mistakes, for the very same reasons, and the more we lose past champions last DP, the more desperate we will be to sign big names over big players.
Im certain that we will do anything we can to sign such players, but thankfully, they are less around this time.
Tevez has problems at Corinthians,in fact he went on strike
Tevez had problems at West Ham when he refused to train for Alan Curbishley
Tevez had problems at Manure when he said SAF "lied to him"
Tevez had problems at Citeh and is refusing to return to England
what makes anybody think he will react positively to Conte demanding he works for the team,telling him he isn't the "star" and that he will NOT get special treatment
oh and thread title edited
Very well said Bozi!!!
And in many of those cases, he was less needed, he was less known and overall had less opportunities to act like he did and get away with it.
On the other had, in most of the cases he had better conditions and more hunger to prove his value and play football.
At this particular case, this player is far more valuable than anything we have, better than ur best mediocre players, our unknown coach, weak president and incompetent board.
We need him more that he needs us and we are bound to tolerate more. We have been abused form players like Tiago, imagine what a players of his status, at this particular time, would do.
We could barely handle a Cassano, let alone a Tevez.
Apart from the fact that we dont have realistic chances to sign him and an attempt is just a waste of time, that will keep our attention and the largest part of our budget locked, untill the last day of the transfer window, that will lead to a panick buy of a mediocre player.
A compromise that will serve only as budget buster.
I believe that he is a perfect match for mighty Milan.
For all the 3 of us and i hope that he will be announced as soon as the transfer window starts.
Better for him, because he can have more glory, without actually trying, as Berlu refs and Ibra performances are enough for the title.
He will have a better life in Milano, than in Torino.
He will surely get a better salary and bonuses there, esp black, taxes free money. He will be given the opportunity to add more CL caps and prolly goals too, before he retires to his country.
Better for us, because we need a reliable starter, someone to build our future upon.
Unlike Milan, we cannot such salaries on the bench, they can afford A cassano and an Ibra and Tevez for an overkill sub and they dont really care how reliable he will be, as they have virtually unlimited wage budget, as they have proved time and time again.
We also have limited resources and are completely hopeless at recovering at part of our invested sum.
So this will not only compromise our near future and also long terms and capabilites of trying a trully big and reliable forward.
As this will lead to a cheaper Toni/Iaquinta compromise in the next transfer window, he and Tevez will not agree as long as we pay thier big fat wages and we will end up with a new Toni+Amauri in our hands.
We should know better by now...