I don’t think its about money anymore. It about his ego being hurt by the media, fans and especially the club. He probably just wants to hurt us anyway he can.
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Miralem #Pjanic on the #Vlahovic situation:
"A final transfer would be important to the club but also to him: when you are signed you get a great sense of belonging. #Vlahovic is no longer a young player and he has some experience: these are personal choices, surely these are not easy situations to go through but it's part of football. #Vlahovic should find serenity and goals, which he always did. And he needs to play."
[Gazzetta dello Sport via @AverageJuventinoGuy]
"A final transfer would be important to the club but also to him: when you are signed you get a great sense of belonging. #Vlahovic is no longer a young player and he has some experience: these are personal choices, surely these are not easy situations to go through but it's part of football. #Vlahovic should find serenity and goals, which he always did. And he needs to play."
[Gazzetta dello Sport via @AverageJuventinoGuy]
or EPL team like Newcastle.
They will sell Isak to Liverpool after Diaz is sold.
Reported target is Sesko and they still dont have Callum Wilson replacement. Even Chelsea quoted £85m for Jackson to them. 10 Goals in PL, 3 Goals in EL. I dont understand the hype
Vlahovic could be low cost in terms of transfer fee but for wage could be a bit higher. Scored same 10 goals in the league but scored more 4 goals in Champions League and 2 goals in CWC. And only 1 year older than Jackson. There should be some interest. After all, even Moise Kean turn out as better ST after signed for Fiorentina. Vlahovic also can do better
They will sell Isak to Liverpool after Diaz is sold.
Reported target is Sesko and they still dont have Callum Wilson replacement. Even Chelsea quoted £85m for Jackson to them. 10 Goals in PL, 3 Goals in EL. I dont understand the hype
Vlahovic could be low cost in terms of transfer fee but for wage could be a bit higher. Scored same 10 goals in the league but scored more 4 goals in Champions League and 2 goals in CWC. And only 1 year older than Jackson. There should be some interest. After all, even Moise Kean turn out as better ST after signed for Fiorentina. Vlahovic also can do better
Back in my youth, I used to play football professionally as a goalkeeper. And I quickly learned there's a special kind of pain that only two positions can inflict on a team: the goalkeeper and the striker. When defenders mess up or midfielders misplace passes, it's frustrating, sure but the team usually brushes it off with a "We'll do better next week" kind of attitude. The morale takes a hit, but it's manageable.
But when your goalkeeper is shaky or your striker couldn't hit the ocean from a boat? That's when things fall apart. A bad keeper makes the entire defense tense and error-prone. But a striker having a nightmare season? That breaks the team’s soul. It shakes the tactics, unravels the confidence, and even makes the manager start losing the plot.
That's exactly what we experienced with Vlahović earlier this season. In games against the likes of Cagliari and Empoli, he missed chances so absurd, they made you want to pull your hair out. And you could feel it on the pitch, the rest of the team looked like they were thinking: "Why even bother? This guy’s just going to miss from five yards again."
I was thrilled when he joined us, truly. But after watching Juve since I was 8 years old, I can honestly say that Vlahović has become the face of one of the most hopeless and desperate stretches I've witnessed in 32 years of supporting this club.
But when your goalkeeper is shaky or your striker couldn't hit the ocean from a boat? That's when things fall apart. A bad keeper makes the entire defense tense and error-prone. But a striker having a nightmare season? That breaks the team’s soul. It shakes the tactics, unravels the confidence, and even makes the manager start losing the plot.
That's exactly what we experienced with Vlahović earlier this season. In games against the likes of Cagliari and Empoli, he missed chances so absurd, they made you want to pull your hair out. And you could feel it on the pitch, the rest of the team looked like they were thinking: "Why even bother? This guy’s just going to miss from five yards again."
I was thrilled when he joined us, truly. But after watching Juve since I was 8 years old, I can honestly say that Vlahović has become the face of one of the most hopeless and desperate stretches I've witnessed in 32 years of supporting this club.
To be honest, if we had a truly competent board from the beginning, Vlahović would never have been signed. Or at the very least, he would have been sold after his second season. When a striker keeps missing easy chances, there’s not much a manager and his staff can do except give him confidence and moral support. These kinds of players often look like superstars in training but collapse under real match pressure.
Back when I used to play, one day before training, our coach came into the locker room and pulled me aside. I was the goalkeeper. He asked me to let in a few goals on purpose, just so the striker could regain some confidence. The thing is, there was no need to fake it. In training, he genuinely looked like peak Ronaldo Nazário. But in real matches, he was worse than Lord Bendtner. The coach spent the whole season trying everything to make it work. At one point, we even switched to a back four just to increase his chances of scoring a header. Nothing worked.
And that guy was the nephew of a very famous footballer. They had the same last name. While the rest of us got dropped, he always stayed. He even made it all the way to Galatasaray. Thankfully, that’s where it ended. It was a clear display of corruption and the main reason i lost my interest in football.
That’s why I think it’s absolutely crucial to understand a striker’s mentality before signing him. Did Juventus really know who Vlahović was when they brought him in? What kind of pressure had he faced before? What clubs had he played for? How did he handle media and fans? Did he ever play under real expectations? How did he perform against deep defenses or open ones? From what I remember, we signed a guy who had half a good season and just threw him into the fire.
To me, Marotta’s greatest strength was always his ability to sign strikers who didn’t fold under pressure. I can’t remember a single one of his forwards who collapsed mentally. Just look at Higuaín’s first goal in a Juventus shirt. Pure confidence from head to toe. I’m almost certain Vlahović would’ve smashed that one off the post assuming he even made the run in the first place. Even someone like Mirko Vučinić had a sort of rebirth at the club. When that transfer happened, everyone was criticizing it, but the legendary Moggi actually praised Marotta for it and hey, that Moggi guy didn’t become a legend for nothing. Marotta had the same ability if you ask me.
As we got better and richer, we eventually started signing players like prime Higuaín and even Ronaldo. I remember seeing kids in Turkey wearing Juventus jerseys for the first time. That was a true sign of how far we had come. Honestly, I think a club board’s football IQ is most clearly seen in the strikers they choose to sign or keep. And just from that angle alone, it feels like we're being and will continue to be badly managed.
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Thank you
I've been following this place regularly since 2008, and sometimes I feel like I'm being too negative these days. But honestly, when you’ve seen guys like Comolli and Tudor up close in your stupid local league, laughed at their decisions for years and then you watch them somehow end up running a club like Juventus, it’s hard to stay quiet.
I don't mean to rant all the time, but when people you know way too well start making decisions for the club you’ve supported since childhood... it hits different.
If this team ends up winning the league or making a UCL final, I’ll officially retire from having football opinions. Clearly I know absolutely nothing.
