Endless Summer Mercato 2016 (57 Viewers)
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Barca cannot afford Pogba, nor do they have the space for him atm. Barca would soon be going down the drain and a big reason for it might be Messi and the Catalan culture of greed, its a lot of fun!
PS: Then there are the geopolitical ramifications to think about - its all nice and well to get sponsored by a murderous regime, unless it has troubles keeping itself alive.
PS: Then there are the geopolitical ramifications to think about - its all nice and well to get sponsored by a murderous regime, unless it has troubles keeping itself alive.
Wow - was looking at our youth products - very disappointing. It is going to be tough to put ok squad players to fill out the home grown rule. This is what seems to be available:
Lorenzo Ariaudo
Paolo De Ceglie
Andrea Luci
Luca Marrone
Antonio Mirante
Michele Paolucci
Matteo Paro
Domenico Criscito
Sebastian Giovinco
Federico Matiello
Ciro Immobile
Antonio Nocerino
Raffaele Palladino
This is bad and a development issue. There is no excuse for this. Most of our academy ends up in the Lega Pro - it makes you understand why players like Gianluca Scamacca chose PSV over Roma. Developing in Italy is a guarantee to underachieve.
Lorenzo Ariaudo
Paolo De Ceglie
Andrea Luci
Luca Marrone
Antonio Mirante
Michele Paolucci
Matteo Paro
Domenico Criscito
Sebastian Giovinco
Federico Matiello
Ciro Immobile
Antonio Nocerino
Raffaele Palladino
This is bad and a development issue. There is no excuse for this. Most of our academy ends up in the Lega Pro - it makes you understand why players like Gianluca Scamacca chose PSV over Roma. Developing in Italy is a guarantee to underachieve.
Marotta said we have to lower the age of the defence only to sign Alves. 
yeh, but well...sadly ths guys are the result of previous development processes which obvs were not good. The best of them were giovinco, criscito and INmobile and well that is surely lacking..
But i want to believe that since Juventus now is very aware of the reality of italian football and economics....mayor effort will be put to raise the current crop and future generations of primavera players. Juventus, no, all the teams in italy need to do this if they want to make money from sales at the very least.... or if they want to be able to compete internationally with homgrown cost effective players...because buying in the EPL, The Bundes or La liga.....is very difficult even for a team like Juve,,,, and outright almost impossible for teams below Juventus..
And when i say buying... im not talking about buying 35 year persioneers who want one last fat paycheck... im talking about stars in their prime.
The players we own (or have options on) and have on loan, the better ones, aren't generally home grown players for us. It's players we bought from other clubs and loan out. Rugani type deals, like Sensi, Cerri, the Colombian CM I forgot name for, Mandragora, Leali or even Berardi.
Or Primavera players die slow deaths in Serie C or if they half decent in B.
Or Primavera players die slow deaths in Serie C or if they half decent in B.
It is a huge failure.
Just looking at guys that could still fill spots in the squad in the next few years, I'm wondering what happens to Vitale this summer? I'm glad to see he got plenty of minutes in Serie B but where next? Messing around in Serie B at poor clubs for a few years like Leali?
If there's one thing this new rule will help with, is that Juve will probably give more of a damn to their youth sector.
Just looking at guys that could still fill spots in the squad in the next few years, I'm wondering what happens to Vitale this summer? I'm glad to see he got plenty of minutes in Serie B but where next? Messing around in Serie B at poor clubs for a few years like Leali?
If there's one thing this new rule will help with, is that Juve will probably give more of a damn to their youth sector.
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