@Espectro no disrespect we all want Juve to win a CL title! Not saying Rugani is a bad player, just my opinion not worth the money he's receiving presently. No debate nrcessary about his production for the money aleardy received by looking below.
Figures here from capology and might not be EXACT wages but sure are close enough. Might be a lot to digest but take your time. I'm retired with time on hands. Numbers interest me to see what comes from them.
Daniele Rugani (Centre-Back) has 2 years and €7,400,000 gross salary remaining on his contract with Juventus (Serie A), expiring on Jun 30, 2026. Daniele Rugani, who is 29 years old, will earn a gross base salary of €3,700,000 for the 2024-2025 Season, or €71,154 per week, not including bonuses.
Below gross Rugani earnings from Juve starting 2018-19 through 2023-24. Adds up to almost
36.6M US gross or averaging
6.1M yearly. For me that amount says he hasn't come close to earning it for the
5389 total minutes played during 5 years with Juve averaging
1078 a year.
Below looks like a reasonably cheap loan deal (1.4M) to Caligari but wonder why they didn't want him to stay? Maybe we wanted him back or maybe it was his poor performance at Caigari? Maybe some truth to a player can look better when surrounded by better players?
Comparing Rugani's pay to other serie teams players
$14.8M total gross payroll of new promoted Como, our first league opponent
1.6M presently highest gross paid Como player
Okay could debate about above example showing lowest salaried squad in serie with Rugani's
4M US yearly contract dwarfing even the top paid Como player.
So let's compare Rugani's present salary ranking if he was on other serie teams ....
AC MILAN (tied 10th highest paid)
ATALANTA (3rd)
BOLOGNA (Tied highest)
CAGLIARI (highest)
EMPOLI (highest)
FIORENTINA (3rd)
GENOA (tied highest)
VERONA (highest)
INTER (15th highest)
LAZIO (tied 3rd)
LECCE (highest)
MONZA (highest)
NAPOLI (6th)
PARMA (highest)
ROMA (tied 12th)
TORINO.(2nd highest)
UDINESE (highest)
VENEZIA (highest)
My main point to this entire post being there has to be enough jabronis out there that do what Rugani does for a lot less money than 3.7M US a year. We need to save money on fringe dime-a-dozen players.
Tidbits from above list comparing just the top level serie teams players and their minutes played earning more than Rugani.
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AC MILAN 8 played
two times as many minutes over last two years. One player couldn't find appears to be a MDS deal MIA?
ATALANTA 2 Scam played
two times and of course Zaniolo was a failure but previous years played more minutes
FIORENTINA 2 played
two times as many minutes over last two years.
INTER most have played more than Rugani though see mistake in Arnautovic, Taremi and Correa (Marseille) Zielinski (Napoli). And higher paid, less minutes Frattesi I would swap for Rugani in a heartbeat.
LAZIO 2 played
three times as many minutes over last two years.
NAPOLI 3 played
two times as many minutes while Buong played penty at Torino and less played Rasp same as Frattesi in trading for Rugani in a heartbeat.
ROMA all 11 played more than Rugani, few
three times, others
twice as much. Le Fee I guess on loan?
This is the kicker with player comparison.... what every you can say about Cristante (not a fan myself) the guy has played
8615 minutes in the last two years for Roma (I know EL play helped), while Rugani has played
9854 minutes his entire Juve career.
More importantly with money being
MY ISSUE HERE, Cristante's contract has cost Roma gross
24.2M US the last 6 years, while Rugani's for that same period was
36.6M.US.
Of course anyone please let me know any mistakes I might have made. I assume a few numbers will be slightly off. Also take into account plenty of signings will occur next couple months so capology numbers will change.
Espectro this might get another 'whatever" from you ..... but i would hire these two to do a life in general interview to any players Juve might entertain on signing. Absolute must first test. Proceed to the next step if they pass. Need to weed out the "softies" who might think they are going to Club Juve.
