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s4tch

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Mar 23, 2015
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+manure want him too

@Dru before lille, he worked at monaco from '13 to '16. he brought bernardo silva, bakayoko, fabinho, lemar, pasalic (etc) to monaco, and did some high profile sales like carrasco, martial, kondogbia, james rodriguez, kurzawa, etc. at lille, he had a lot smaller budget, but he still managed to get thiago mendes from brazil for 9m and 2 years later sell him to lyon for 22m, he bought osimhen for 22 just to sell him to napoli for 70m a year later, gabriel cost them 3m, was sold to arsenal for 22, etc. if he can dig out some talents like he did at monaco then he's more than welcome.
 
Jun 16, 2020
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+manure want him too

@Dru before lille, he worked at monaco from '13 to '16. he brought bernardo silva, bakayoko, fabinho, lemar, pasalic (etc) to monaco, and did some high profile sales like carrasco, martial, kondogbia, james rodriguez, kurzawa, etc. at lille, he had a lot smaller budget, but he still managed to get thiago mendes from brazil for 9m and 2 years later sell him to lyon for 22m, he bought osimhen for 22 just to sell him to napoli for 70m a year later, gabriel cost them 3m, was sold to arsenal for 22, etc. if he can dig out some talents like he did at monaco then he's more than welcome.
Sounds so easy.. buy nothing, sell for a lot.
We do the opposite; buy for a lot and sell for nothing. And besides that all our shady financial constructions, what a mess
 

s4tch

Senior Member
Mar 23, 2015
28,332
Sounds so easy.. buy nothing, sell for a lot.
We do the opposite; buy for a lot and sell for nothing. And besides that all our shady financial constructions, what a mess
monaco won the league ahead of psg with the squad he built, and they managed to produce insane plusvalenza at the same time. then campos' successor thought he could continue with the same formula: he sold the valuable players, but without properly replacing them (rings a bell...), and they almost got relegated. it isn't easy at all.

for a couple of years we had a successful plusvalenza driven model with tici & beppe. some of the downgrades though... the midfield mantra will never get old until tici (or his successor) solves it.
 
Jun 16, 2020
10,939
monaco won the league ahead of psg with the squad he built, and they managed to produce insane plusvalenza at the same time. then campos' successor thought he could continue with the same formula: he sold the valuable players, but without properly replacing them (rings a bell...), and they almost got relegated. it isn't easy at all.

for a couple of years we had a successful plusvalenza driven model with tici & beppe. some of the downgrades though... the midfield mantra will never get old until tici (or his successor) solves it.
We were kinda in luxury position with the new stadium, winning Serie A consecutive times and EuroMaxx. It made us rich. Selling never was our thing, yeah Marotta wrote history with Pogba but the list of players we couldnt sell became quite ugly. Man if you think about it, we will relive the Rugani, De Sciglio, Costa, Mandragora saga again in a few months.

We're not Lille, so we dont have to buy with the idea of selling a player with profit after several years, but besides Pogba and Coman I almost cant think of any other player who provided us a decent profit. I dont want to say Vidal, as his loss on the field hurted us. Hopefully weve learned that lesson. Also the timing of when to sell, or handing out new contracts like its nothing has been shit for some time now. But again, hopefully we've learned our lesson.
 

LiquidPLP

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Jun 9, 2012
12,237
We were kinda in luxury position with the new stadium, winning Serie A consecutive times and EuroMaxx. It made us rich. Selling never was our thing, yeah Marotta wrote history with Pogba but the list of players we couldnt sell became quite ugly. Man if you think about it, we will relive the Rugani, De Sciglio, Costa, Mandragora saga again in a few months.

We're not Lille, so we dont have to buy with the idea of selling a player with profit after several years, but besides Pogba and Coman I almost cant think of any other player who provided us a decent profit. I dont want to say Vidal, as his loss on the field hurted us. Hopefully weve learned that lesson. Also the timing of when to sell, or handing out new contracts like its nothing has been shit for some time now. But again, hopefully we've learned our lesson.
There's one problem with the whole thing IMO: we give players contracts that are way too fat/big. One they hit the bottom, there's no upside to buying clubs to have them: they earn too much, they cost too much and they're shit.

Sure, you can't make good sales when you sell your reserve players who play little but I feel like it's always about the contracts: in what world do you offer 3.5m net to Rugani? That goes for a lot of our players, they're unsellable exactly because of this.

Another point here would be going for 'bargains' aka international level players who don't fit the needs in the first place. We somehow stopped looking at players of the right characteristics.
 

Juventinoo

Ertuğrul Oğlu Osman
Oct 20, 2004
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There's one problem with the whole thing IMO: we give players contracts that are way too fat/big. One they hit the bottom, there's no upside to buying clubs to have them: they earn too much, they cost too much and they're shit.

Sure, you can't make good sales when you sell your reserve players who play little but I feel like it's always about the contracts: in what world do you offer 3.5m net to Rugani? That goes for a lot of our players, they're unsellable exactly because of this.

Another point here would be going for 'bargains' aka international level players who don't fit the needs in the first place. We somehow stopped looking at players of the right characteristics.

that is in the past now ....
 

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