Endless Summer Mercato 2016 (182 Viewers)

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Xperd

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It seems to me everyone and their mother is anticipating that PL money otherwise we would've wrapped up a couple of deals by now especially our main targets.Gomes for example.
 

Orgut

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Regista, CM and AM.

WC in all of them.
You mean in none of them...
He is a good talented player but he is not WC yet!
He could develop into a WC player but could also flop! This is why loan+option would be a great move while signing him right away wouldnt!
I must admit I do hope we get someone more serious though...

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bastian schweinsteiger

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Is he available?
 

zizinho

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Hernanes 10 m to China is practically sealed

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I have to say this is the most accurate guess of what will actually happen.
Point 1 though, might be a problem. I said 20% chances to stay a few weeks ago, at some point went close to zero, now I'd say 25% because of the pression from his girlfriend to stay.
I would add: Licht out and Lirola to join first team; Benatia loan+option to buy.
Neto out, Mirante in and possibly Marrone back.
hm, not sure about this. Alves and Lirola on the right side is a bit light, might need another established player there, unless Lirola is the new Cafu or something
 

Orgut

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FI report that West Ham offering 30M for Zaza - If this is true we should definitely sell!
30M is a sum we can use to get a really good attacker - Batshuayi for example
BTW IF Morata leaves and we sell Zaza for 30M would you go 60M for Higuain?
 
Jun 6, 2015
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FI report that West Ham offering 30M for Zaza - If this is true we should definitely sell!
30M is a sum we can use to get a really good attacker - Batshuayi for example
BTW IF Morata leaves and we sell Zaza for 30M would you go 60M for Higuain?
What makes you think Batshuayi is any better than Zaza?
 

Valerio.

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FI report that West Ham offering 30M for Zaza - If this is true we should definitely sell!
30M is a sum we can use to get a really good attacker - Batshuayi for example
BTW IF Morata leaves and we sell Zaza for 30M would you go 60M for Higuain?
De Laurentis (Napoli owner) want much more than 60.
He is going around yelling 94m clause 94m clause like he did for Cavani and 64m clause.
 

s4tch

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My gut feeling here is the following is highly likely to occur:

1) Morata stays with buy back option postponed by 1 year.
2) Kovacic is a 1 year loan with option to buy.
3) Pjanic, Gomes or Mascherano will not arrive. Could be something from left field - potentially a last minute mercato signing.
4) 2 of Hernanes, Pereyra and Asamoah will leave
5) Black Jesus goes to another club.
6) Alves and Berardi join with Cuadrado & Caceres out.

My guess is Gomes goes to Man United, Mascherano stays at Barca while Barca buys Pjanic by paying buy out.
I have to say this is the most accurate guess of what will actually happen.
Point 1 though, might be a problem. I said 20% chances to stay a few weeks ago, at some point went close to zero, now I'd say 25% because of the pression from his girlfriend to stay.
I would add: Licht out and Lirola to join first team; Benatia loan+option to buy.
Neto out, Mirante in and possibly Marrone back.

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with the new rules, that's probably the way to follow. according to the new rules, it's a squad of 25 with 4 homegrown, 4 italy-grown, and 17 'other' players, with an unlimited number of u21 players. for the previous season we had 19 'other' players. a neto-mirante swap would make it 18, so we still have to sell a player in order to comply with the rules. that's probably one of asamoah/hernanes/pereyra. an other one of those would make place for kovacic, and unfortunately he'll be our high-profile midfielder signing. with morata leaving, we'll bring in an other 'other' player, and mercato closed. my guess is that lirola might earn a promotion to the 1st team regardless of licht's situation. i just can't see marotta letting licht go to inter.
 

Tanu_Mz

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FI report that West Ham offering 30M for Zaza - If this is true we should definitely sell!
30M is a sum we can use to get a really good attacker - Batshuayi for example
BTW IF Morata leaves and we sell Zaza for 30M would you go 60M for Higuain?
I'd be very surprised if he had another excellent season, he has never had two outstanding performances in a row. Always been his limit.
 

Xperd

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Jun 1, 2012
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Kovacic is merely a fallback option.Doesnt necessarily have to mean we'll go meet Madrid next week to seal the deal.We'll probably understand the terms and conditions first before making a move.

Key talk in the meeting will obviously be about Morata.

Im pretty sure we're looking at better options than Kovacic at this point.

Honestly cant see us do such an underwhelming mercato which includes alves,Kovacic and Berardi while losing Morata at the same time.
Its like a below expectations mercato especially with all this talk around the CL.
 
Jun 6, 2015
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Underrating Bathuayi or overrating Zaza?!
Also if you are not in favour of Batshuayi we can get other players...
Zaza is a good player but definitely not a 30M good!
I really know nothing more about Batshuayi than that he's Belgian and plays for Marseille. Only seen one game of him and youtube highlights so I really can't underrate or overrate him. Zaza however I've seen enough to think that we should keep hold of him.
 

Orgut

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I really know nothing more about Batshuayi than that he's Belgian and plays for Marseille. Only seen one game of him and youtube highlights so I really can't underrate or overrate him. Zaza however I've seen enough to think that we should keep hold of him.
I agree but not for 30M...
If Zaza was playing for some other team and we had 30M would you buy Zaza for 30M?! I can definitely say I wouldnt!
Signing young player like Batshuayi who has great statistics to back up the hype or even signing an unkown youngster from the Eredivisie would be a much better option!
For 30M we might be able to sign Embolo who is young and very promising!
 
Jun 6, 2015
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I agree but not for 30M...
If Zaza was playing for some other team and we had 30M would you buy Zaza for 30M?! I can definitely say I wouldnt!
Signing young player like Batshuayi who has great statistics to back up the hype or even signing an unkown youngster from the Eredivisie would be a much better option!
For 30M we might be able to sign Embolo who is young and very promising!
I would never pay 30M for him but he is a proven goalscorer in Serie A and still has room for improvement.

I don't want our management to make any unnecessary changes this summer as last summer already was quite a big overhaul.
 

Suns

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Sell:

Morata 30m
Asamoah 20m
Pereyra 15m
Isla 5m
Zaza 30m
Hernanes 10m

110m right there. Go crazy Beppe.

Kovacic
Pjanic
Alves
Gomes
Berardi

Damn this transfer thing is so easy
 
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