I am very sad for the amount we are committing on him. I believe he is only average at best. He is worse than Marchisio, Khedira, or Pjanic. Completely useless defensively, lacks Pirlo's vision for through passes and favors more long balls. Even Dybala out of position can play better in this role than him, Bentacour is likely to surpass him, Draxler who could join for half the money had much more talent. That amount will set him as our starter, yet imo he is not ready yet for a team like Juventus and defintly not ready to offer what we lack in CL.
We were struggling to find an AMF for 5 years now, we had 50mil to spare and this is the best we can do?
After the CL final, this is as far as we can go, for our most influental player? Is this player the one who projects our ambitions? Really? If he is, that's just sad imo...
He is a slow player, that will impose a slow tempo and desperate long balls. He also seems to have a problematic character, unfit for such a leader role.
This could be the worst transfer of the last decade. We had bad transfers before, like Melo and Amauri, but they were 25mil ones.A 50mil flop will set a record as our biggest flop yet.
I understand that factors that skyrocketed his price tag. Viola consider themselves as sworn enemies, the little pank is young enough to give us a decade and a promise of improvement always overrated prices, more than actual value.
Also in the past 3 years we have seen an incredible inflation in transfer prices and the Italian federation still have a lot of nationalistic laws imposed, that force us to have more Italians than we need. The last year's Italian talents have been terrible, so the few decent ones have come to cost as WC foreign players.
I see this transfer as a tragic mistake, a mistake that we will regret, that's my opinion and I have the balls to express it. My intention is not to troll, I have arguments!
On the other hand, should he join us, I wish him all the best and I will be grateful to see us changing in a formation that uses an attacking midfielder, as this is what I have been craving for ever since we lost ZZ. This is a start, even if he fails and disgrace the legendary Juventus number 10, when the time comes to replace him, we will be wiser and hopefully get someone worthy!