Endless Summer Mercato 2016 (93 Viewers)

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Orgut

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Dec 31, 2002
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Hell no to Pastore - We are looking to be a strong candidate in the CL - Pastore doesnt offer that!
Kante - yes he is a dynamo but only for the right price!
Pogba - We should do everything to keep him!
James - If there is a chance we should take it with both hands!
Isco - He is the type of player who will organize our team in attack - He is less decisive than James but organizes attacks better (James is definitely a better player though) - Isco is the definition of a playmaker!
 
Jun 6, 2015
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Pastore has all the talent in the world to be absolutely brilliant but he hasn't consistently performed at PSG.

He doesn't really fit into their formation so that might have something to do with it. Other factor is probably that they don't want to use two playmakers at the same time in midfield and Verratti is clearly first choice.

I don't see it happening as he just signed a new contract and PSG paid big money for him back in the days. They will keep faith in him and at some point with the talent he has I'd be surprised if he doesn't become a starter for them.
 

catch22

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Aug 23, 2015
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What I think will happen (not what I want to):

OUT: Morata (he would only stay if we can assure him a starting position, but Allegri won't give up on Manzukic) - 25M
IN: Berardi - 25M

OUT: Hernanes (loan), Pereyra (15M) (he's not looking driven enough, and we need to capitalize - we could sell better to an EPL team but this isn't a Marotta specialty)
IN: Lemina (10M), Saponara (18M + Lapadula and Caprari on loan with on option to buy/buyback - Marotta is crazy about Saponara, he called him Italy's asset that should be taken care of, the other day)

OUT: Cuadrado (Conte will demand him) - end of loan
IN: Vrsalko/Widmer (or whatherver his name is) - 15M + 1 or 2 newly signed youngsters on loan with option to buy

OUT: Caceres (free)
IN: Benatia (2M loan + 22M option to buy)

OUT: Neto (8M) (he's not satisfied and will probably want to leave)
IN: Marchetti or some other reliable veteran with good squad spirit (2/3M)

IN: around more 20M on young Italian players to be loaned out - Lapadula, Caprari, Masina, Diawara, Ganz, Castrovilli, Embalo, Barella, etc (I believe they will invest heavily on these young guys this summer)

Total spent: around 45M.

Starting team: 352 - same as this season's.

Bench: Marchetti; Widmer, Rugani, Benatia, Evra; Lemina, Sturaro, Asamoah, Saponara; Berardi, Zaza.

This without considering an eventual Pogba sale. If he's sold, I have absolutely no clue about what Marotta would do.

Actually, this mercato version I posted is my pessimistic vision. Hopefully it won't happen this way.
New 4+4 rules. This squad would only have 1 club trained player and therefore the squad could only be 22 players
 

s4tch

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Mar 23, 2015
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New 4+4 rules. This squad would only have 1 club trained player and therefore the squad could only be 22 players
please someone give me an official source (not a newspaper, not a blog) on that. i still couldn't find anything on that rule (?) on the figc/lega/serie a websites.
 

Ocelot

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Jul 13, 2013
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Pastore and Cavani links. We've started the ball rolling for Verratti here on Tuz too...

All we need now are links to Andreas Beck, Sergio Aguero, Luis Fabiano and Dmitar Berbatov and we're right back in 2012 :tuttosport:

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On the real though I don't think I have ever seen Pastore play football.

Let's buy him.
Beck :lol:
 
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