Endless Summer Mercato 2016 (72 Viewers)

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Roman

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Apr 19, 2003
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Reports(Sport.fr and Le Parisien) of Raiola pushing one last time for Matuidi to Juve.
They say Witsel deal will happen anyway and both can happen.

Hard to believe we'll go for 2 mids actually,and with PSG...
 

Jem83

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Nov 7, 2005
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Yeah I saw that too, that it doesn't exclude Matuidi, but the italian article about it added: "quasi impossibile" :D

So yeah that aint happening at all.

I'd be happy with Witsel + Cuadrado, though, at this point. Especially the latter, but I definitely also see how Witsel could be suited to italian football.
 

Post Ironic

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Feb 9, 2013
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Is Witsel really that bad? After reading the board here it's like he's the Kanye West of the football world or something.
Zach has been going mental on him for years now, because of some red card tackle where he broke a guy's ankle 6 years ago. He's literally been waging a war to make the entire forum hate Witsel for several years. :D
 

Post Ironic

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That would explain it :lol:
I don't particularly like Witsel, he's not a top player, never fulfilled the promise he had at Benfica... but he's a solid rotation option for us, provides much better cover than the likes of Hernanes and Sturaru. Asamoah, Lemina, Witsel is pretty good injury cover for Khedira-Marchisio-Pjanic.

Ideally we'd also get a more attack-oriented mid like James, Eriksen, or Isco... but I don't see it happening at this point.

Cuadrado-Witsel would be a decent finish to the mercato. I'd give it an 8/10 or 9/10...
 

Stevie

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I don't particularly like Witsel, he's not a top player, never fulfilled the promise he had at Benfica... but he's a solid rotation option for us, provides much better cover than the likes of Hernanes and Sturaru. Asamoah, Lemina, Witsel is pretty good injury cover for Khedira-Marchisio-Pjanic.

Ideally we'd also get a more attack-oriented mid like James, Eriksen, or Isco... but I don't see it happening at this point.

Cuadrado-Witsel would be a decent finish to the mercato. I'd give it an 8/10 or 9/10...
Witsel will be very useful it is a good signing for anything under 20m id say the mercato with him and Cuad would be a solid 8. James, Isco or eriksen would make it the best mercato ever after nedved, buffon and thuram.
 

baggio

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I don't particularly like Witsel, he's not a top player, never fulfilled the promise he had at Benfica... but he's a solid rotation option for us, provides much better cover than the likes of Hernanes and Sturaru. Asamoah, Lemina, Witsel is pretty good injury cover for Khedira-Marchisio-Pjanic.

Ideally we'd also get a more attack-oriented mid like James, Eriksen, or Isco... but I don't see it happening at this point.

Cuadrado-Witsel would be a decent finish to the mercato. I'd give it an 8/10 or 9/10...
7.5 for me. Blazing start, but key position has a slightly underwhelming signing. I think our mid is a bit light for the CL, hopefully the wing play makes up for it.
 
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