You said a week ago that Paratici wouldn’t sell players just because they ask to leave.
Now he’s selling our 3rd best CB for peanuts in the middle of January.
Let’s here some criticism for this move. It’s a bad one by any standard. Not even Marotta sold our players mid-season.
Lets not understate how much Juve wanted Benatia to remain till the summer, it's clear benatia was very unsettled, and this is through his passive aggressive stance through social media and has been the case since Bonucci's arrival in the summer.
Benatia clearly has a history of this at Udinese, Roma, Bayern and now at Juve, he was forcing a move to a point that we said ok we'll sell on our terms, not like ok you can go now and we will scramble to find a replacement like we did with Vidal's sale and finished up with Hernanes.
TBH they club have found what I deem as a adequate CB till the end of the season without paying much for him. TBH i don't think the price of Benatia is all that unfair, I'd hardly call it peanuts given his age and it's not like any of the other interested clubs i.e. from France would have paid that much more if at all. But lets not even go into the sort of sales Marotta used to do, he would have released benatia or loaned him out with option to buy instead.
Would Benatia have offered that much more to this current campaign? probably not, to be fair I look at this move and see it as an act of confidence in Rugani who is a superior player any ways.
Perhaps my one small criticism would be of this move is perhaps offer him to arsenal for ramsey now? that's something we may never know, then again Benatia may be preferred a big pay day move to Qatar instead, whilst arsenal may not value Benatia as much as the sale of Ramsey now given they apparently want 20 mill to buy him now, I suppose they felt it deemed necessary to get another midfielder in rather than another defender at the expense of a midfielder who they can't replace because the club have told Emery they can only loan players this window.
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Yes. Martin is easily in my top 5 of all times, along with Guti, Kolo, Gigi and Ale.
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Would you look at that, that is 5.