Edin Džeko - Wolfsburg - ST (34 Viewers)

[Suns]

Spending $40M on a center forward is the biggest waste of money you can commit in the transfer market. CFs are all overvalued.

Obviously Dzeko is still a great player but I would be hesitant to even pay 30M

We payed almost 25 million for your boy Amauri and he never scored over 15 goals in a season. 30 million for Dzeko sounds reasonable.

 

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[Hust]

We payed almost 25 million for your boy Amauri and he never scored over 15 goals in a season. 30 million for Dzeko sounds reasonable.

OH SNAP!!

 

[Gabriel]

We payed almost 25 million for your boy Amauri and he never scored over 15 goals in a season. 30 million for Dzeko sounds reasonable.

Wait a minute, do you really think reasonable and Juventus fit in the same sentence?

 

[adriano_c]

To be fair, Amauri's 22.8m euro fee was more like 12.8 cash + useless Nocerino (7.5m value) and half of Lanzafame (2.5m value).

That sort of of deal is certainly more reasonable than had it been straight cash.

 

[Showdown25]

Actually I disagree. Doesn't matter if it was cash or players we gave them what both clubs valued at 22.8 or whatever it is. Which is like double what he should have cost. He's so far proved to be a terrible signing. 22.8m worth of assets down the pooper.

 

[Gabriel]

To be fair, it was a stupid transfer wherever you look it from.

 

[adriano_c]

Actually I disagree. Doesn't matter if it was cash or players we gave them what both clubs valued at 22.8 or whatever it is. Which is like double what he should have cost. He's so far proved to be a terrible signing. 22.8m worth of assets down the pooper.

Regardless of whether you think it was a bad signing or not, it's still not as bad as if it had been a straight cash deal.

A) Players not in the plans and their wages = off the books (and we're seeing this season just how difficult this can be to accomplish)
B) More money for future outlays (not that we spent it wisely, but that's another issue altogether)

 

[Showdown25]

It would still be just as bad if we had given them all cash.

You don't think we could have liquidated Nocerino for 7m or half of Lanza for 2.5m? Because we surely could have. Quite easily and that's what it comes down to.

Also, Nocerino nor Lanzafame were not on a big salary at the time. So I don't get what your trying to say there. It's not as though they were both on 3m a year. Lanza made less than 1m back then and Nocerino's salary wasn't too much higher. So it's not like we had an issue with their wages.

 

[Tommy]

I would love to see him here. But the only question is will we buy a winger, LB after we splash out a big amount on Dzeko.

 

[Hust]

To be fair, it was a stupid transfer wherever you look it from.

 

[V]

Please, please, lets stop mentioning Amauri and Dzeko in the same sentence.

 

[Dostoevsky]

Ok,

Amauri
Dzeko

 

[Klin]

This transfer will only make sense if we still have money left to buy a LB, RM, CB and CM too after we get Dzeko. It doesn't matter if we buy him for 5M, 30M or 50M.

 

[V]

Ok,

Amauri
Dzeko

There's no sentence there.

 

[Salvatore]

Forget Dzeko. We have Amauri.

 

[Dostoevsky]

There's no sentence there.

Imagine there's a full stop.

 

[V]

Imagine there's a full stop.

Uh-uh. You screwed it up.

 

[MikeM]

We payed almost 25 million for your boy Amauri and he never scored over 15 goals in a season. 30 million for Dzeko sounds reasonable.

Ya that was way too much money lol. I said I'd be hesitant to spend 30M for Dzeko but I probably would. That's the max though.

 

[JCK]

It seems giovanotti is jealous of us.

 

[Nenz]

I wonder if our high offer for Dzeko has inflated the price of other players we've been chasing since - i.e Bastos. Its made us look more generous then we really are.