Darijo Srna - RB - Shakhtar Donetsk (18 Viewers)

[CroJuve]

Can somebody confirm for sure that he is out of contract this summer?! I have read that kind of information too, but according to transfermarket.co.uk he is contracted to his club until june 2012...

http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/en/darijo-srna/profil/spieler_14942.html

If Srna is a free agent this summer, and we are actually interested in him, but we are cautious about the Non-EU rule and are wondering if he`s the right player to take that only spot, cant we just negotiate a deal with Siena, Livorno, Idontcarewho to sign him on free and then immediately to transfer him to Juve, for a reasonable price (or maybe a player going the other direction)?! Something like the Mutu deal with Livorno, in that scenario we can have Srna and still sign a Non-EU player...

It's 2012. If you want to get a world class right back only as a free agent, then i don't know what to say.

 

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[Bjerknes]

But he is in Champions League, Uefa cup and in national team, which are the highest levels.

Lots of players do well for their national team or other competitions, but don't achieve as much in one of the big leagues. An example would be Milan Baros.

 

[Alen]

The only thing dumber than this non-Eu rule, is people being afraid to "waste" it.

Yeah, somehow we all started looking at it as something precious that must be kept and used only for something veryyyyy special.

Here's something relatively unknown.
In season 2007/08, 2008/09 and 2009/10 Juve could have signed 2 non-EU players in each of those seasons. Do you know how many non-EU's we signed in all three seasons? One! Martin Caceres in 2009/10.
Even those players without EU passport, like Felipe Melo, Amauri, Vanstrattan and Almiron were signed from Italian clubs and they didn't take a non-EU spot.

But what happened last summer with Krasic and Dzeko made us paranoid and now we look at the non-EU spot as something special.

In reality, there are just as much, if not more, quality EU players as there are non-EU players and we can sign 2-3 world class players even without wasting a non-EU spot.
The directors should make the plan and the first contacts before the summer mercato and if there aren't many realistic non-EU options, then we can spend the non-EU spot on some less attractive players.

 

[CroJuve]

Lots of players do well for their national team or other competitions, but don't achieve as much in one of the big leagues. An example would be Milan Baros.

Baros was good only in NT. And i'd say only in Euro 2004.

Srna is good in both, and European competitions are more similar to big leagues than NT are.

 

[Alen]

Putting the bias aside, I still struggle to find a realistic RB option that is better than Srna. He's a terrific player that I watched both live and on TV many times. My only concern about him is that the serie A coaches might restrict him to playing defense more than he's used to and lower his great attacking contribution.
With our huge fullback problems and with the lack of quality options, I'd even splash the Non-EU spot on him without thinking at all. And I'd have done it no matter if he's Croatian, Argentinian, Chinese or any other non-EU country.

 

[Suns]

I remember seeing Srna a two years ago or something like that. I was so impressed, I remember calling him Shakhtar's playmaker from RB. He was behind every attack Shakhtar created.

 

[pitbull]

Great player, if there's a chance, we should try to sign him. If he comes, I'd advise all Serie A left backs to change their position on field, cuz Krasič and Srna on one wing.. scary

 

[blondu]

Great player, if there's a chance, we should try to sign him. If he comes, I'd advise all Serie A left backs to change their position on field, cuz Krasič and Srna on one wing.. scary

they founded a way to block krasic, they will deal with srna too ...we need both flanks to work and help offensively

 

[pitbull]

Well it depends on how you look at it. If we still had healthy Quag out there, it would be much easier for Krasič. Most of the time he's all on his own against multiple opponents. But of course you're right about our left flank, we need either an attacking LB or a hardworking LW with good feet.

 

[V]

As long a classy right-back joins, fuck the eu rule. Its not like Dzeko is coming...

I missed this, good one.

Ive heard really good things about him. And I like the name for some reason...S R N A

 

[Lion]

srna is would be great

 

[vodka]

Can someone actualy tell me, why this topic was created? Cuz i can't find any news regarding srna and juve