Felipe Melo (21 Viewers)

[Rollie]

LB - De Ceglie, Ziegler + Chiellini can cover this zone if both first will be injured
CB - Bonucci, Chiellini, Barzagli, Grygera, Sorensen - that's enough imo
RB - Motta, Lichsteiner, Grygera - weakest line because if Stephan will be injured we are in shit

And one of the reasons why we should sign Bastos instead of Vucinic it's because he can play anywhere on left wing, i think Ziegler can cover RB position too, at least he is doin' this pefrect in manager games

CM/DM - Pazienza, Pirlo, Marchisio + new Dm that's enough i guess

See, this whole "that's enough" type of deal, well yeah there are enough bodies - but nowhere near enough quality.

LB - I said it's up in the air, because it's Ziegler and DC. I'm OK with starting the season like this, but one is a new player (who's far from 'great') and the other has never been consistent and is coming off a pretty tough injury (although he had a good, little stretch before the injury). I'm not sure what to expect here.

CB - I don't rate Barzagli, Grygera needs to GTFO of Juventus ASAP, and Sorenson has never played CB at this level. The kid is 19 - he could still go either way; we've all seen it before. I like Boner, even if he was shaky at times; I think he'll improve, although I'm not sure we're going to ever see a truly complimentary pairing with Chiello. Georgio is world class, he ties it all together. He goes down for an extended period, we're in BIG trouble.

RB - Lich is my favorite purchase of the mercato. Buying a good RB was long, long overdue. Motta needs to GTFO ASAP, just like Grygera - they're both brutal. BRUTAL. I'm not all that comfortable with Sorenson as the backup, but I do rate the kid, and think he's going to be a good player. I want to see him get playing time, but I don't think that's going to happen at Juventus this season.

If we're going to play a 4-2-4 we damn well better have some strong, combative, mobile players to help stem the tide. Pazienza, Pirlo, Marchisio... those guys just don't have the physicality required. We need to keep Melo... at least have one player with some serious muscle.

The point is that our resources should be used to make sure we've got quality at these crucial positions. We don't need Rossi or Aguero right now; if we were going to buy one of them, then we shouldn't have bought both Matri and Q.

Oh, and I would be cool with Bastos for 13. I'm not a Vucinic fan, really. I find him too inconsistent, and think that the money would be better spent on a true LM.

 

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[Juventino[RUS]]

See, this whole "that's enough" type of deal, well yeah there are enough bodies - but nowhere near enough quality.

LB - I said it's up in the air, because it's Ziegler and DC. I'm OK with starting the season like this, but one is a new player (who's far from 'great') and the other has never been consistent and is coming off a pretty tough injury (although he had a good, little stretch before the injury). I'm not sure what to expect here.

CB - I don't rate Barzagli, Grygera needs to GTFO of Juventus ASAP, and Sorenson has never played CB at this level. The kid is 19 - he could still go either way; we've all seen it before. I like Boner, even if he was shaky at times; I think he'll improve, although I'm not sure we're going to ever see a truly complimentary pairing with Chiello. Georgio is world class, he ties it all together. He goes down for an extended period, we're in BIG trouble.

RB - Lich is my favorite purchase of the mercato. Buying a good RB was long, long overdue. Motta needs to GTFO ASAP, just like Grygera - they're both brutal. BRUTAL. I'm not all that comfortable with Sorenson as the backup, but I do rate the kid, and think he's going to be a good player. I want to see him get playing time, but I don't think that's going to happen at Juventus this season.

If we're going to play a 4-2-4 we damn well better have some strong, combative, mobile players to help stem the tide. Pazienza, Pirlo, Marchisio... those guys just don't have the physicality required. We need to keep Melo... at least have one player with some serious muscle.

The point is that our resources should be used to make sure we've got quality at these crucial positions. We don't need Rossi or Aguero right now; if we were going to buy one of them, then we shouldn't have bought both Matri and Q.

Oh, and I would be cool with Bastos for 13. I'm not a Vucinic fan, really. I find him too inconsistent, and think that the money would be better spent on a true LM.

Grygera is not on transfer market, he will be our sub next season i guess! And u want 2 spend a lot of money on new CB who will sit on bench? or another Knezevic loan deal maybe? Vidal, Pirlo, Pazienza, Marchisio is quite enough! IDK why people don't rate Pazienza here! He is very good!

 

[Rollie]

We bought two strikers last season, not this one. Dont count the fake loans

Wait - so are you saying that the money we're using to buy both of these players came out of last season's transfer budget (as well as for Pepe, and Motta)?

Because as far as I know, that isn't the case at all.

Anyway, have a good night guys, I gotta run.

 

[Rollie]

Grygera is not on transfer market, he will be our sub next season i guess! And u want 2 spend a lot of money on new CB who will sit on bench? or another Knezevic loan deal maybe? Vidal, Pirlo, Pazienza, Marchisio is quite enough! IDK why people don't rate Pazienza here! He is very good!

Grygera was our worst defender in 07/08 (well, the argument between he and Moli is a fair one), and the guy is still here. It kills me.

I want to buy a CB so there's competition at a vital position; it may be Boner who hits the bench. Knezevic was a ridiculous waste of 200k, or whatever

There isn't enough muscle there, Rus. I'll give Pazienza a chance, because I give all of our players a chance, but from what I've seen (which isn't a ton, but I know the guy) I really don't think he's what we need.

Anyway, have a good night, man.

 

[ZoSo]

Wait - so are you saying that the money we're using to buy both of these players came out of last season's transfer budget (as well as for Pepe, and Motta)?

Because as far as I know, that isn't the case at all.

Anyway, have a good night guys, I gotta run.

They were accounted for in last seasons budget.

 

[Zlatan]

Wait - so are you saying that the money we're using to buy both of these players came out of last season's transfer budget (as well as for Pepe, and Motta)?

Because as far as I know, that isn't the case at all.

Anyway, have a good night guys, I gotta run.

It's in installments of course, but IMO it was all calculated on last years budget, the loans were just a formality. Perhaps Matri wasnt calculated on last years budget because he came at the end of the january transfer widnow as an emergency transfer, but I'm pretty sure the other should not be in this years budget.

 

[ZoSo]

It's in installments of course, but IMO it was all calculated on last years budget, the loans were just a formality. Perhaps Matri wasnt calculated on last years budget because he came at the end of the january transfer widnow as an emergency transfer, but I'm pretty sure the other should not be in this years budget.

There would have been money left over for January mercato so he has probably been accounted for as well.

 

[Zlatan]

Probably so.

 

[Cronios]

We might eventually need to add a striker, but the fact of the matter is that we've barely patched a defense that has been amongst the leagues worst the past two seasons, and so far we've patched our midfield with Bosmans.

Meanwhile, we've already bought two strikers this summer - Matri, and Qtube.

We're going to try and play 4-4-2, and we still don't have a single, natural LM on this team! We have no depth at RB. Depth at CB is VERY sketchy - if Chiello goes down, we're sunk. LB is up in the air.

Way too many positions where we lack quality to sink all of our money into forwards.

Well said, the last thing we need is lose more money by replacing one of our best midfielders, with someone, who at best is equally good...
Unfortunately the ppl who are running the club are clueless and completely idiots, as they keep repeating the same mistakes each and every season(keep buying expensive SSs and CMs, selling off the previous ones, keep ignoring the defense issues, only brining cheap/free players to play as starters there)

 

[ZoSo]

GK: Fine
RB: 1 backup needed
CB: 1 very good starter needed to bench Bonucci
LB: Probably 1 very good starter needed
CM/DM: 1 more player needed - Vidal
RM/RW: Enough for now
LM/LW: 2 players needed - Bastos (can play LB) & any of Perotti/Vucinic/Vargas/Elia/Marin/Mata/Hazard
ST/SS: Aguero or Rossi would be welcome but should be last position to be reinforced.

Grygera, Motta, Iaquinta, Amauri, Sissoko, Grosso, Almiron & Martinez need to go!

IN: 5 players - Ivanovic (RB & CB), Bastos (Start @ LB), Vidal, Vargas & Rossi or Aguero (LW)
OUT: 8 players

Quality over quantity

 

[Nardonejuve]

Is Melo injured? Hes not joining the team for the US Tour? Neither is Sisso, Amauri, Iaquinta and a few youth players.

 

[Rollie]

It's in installments of course, but IMO it was all calculated on last years budget, the loans were just a formality. Perhaps Matri wasnt calculated on last years budget because he came at the end of the january transfer widnow as an emergency transfer, but I'm pretty sure the other should not be in this years budget.

Alright, well regardless of how exactly that money is accounted for (whether money was set aside for Matri, considering he was a very late loan/buy), we have recently committed to spend 34M euro (deduct half of ariaudo or whatever) on forwards in the past year. And we've taken on Toni. Plus, Martinez is really a forward who is being asked to play wide - so it's almost more like the team has committed to spend 46M on forwards in the past year. Anyway, I'm being an idiot.

Nobody here knows exactly how much cash we've allotted for this mercato, we're also paying installments on players purchased in previous windows, etc. It's all murky.

Obviously my point is that considering the defense still needs an injection of quality, and we don't even have the proper personnel to field the coaches preferred tactical system (Not that we had that last year either... nor is our midfield depth particularly good) do we really need to spend another 30M (or more) on a striker? Then hand out a huge salary on top of that?

We need to create more balance in the team; adding quality, complimentary parts will make the players we already have that much better. We need to stop adding the same pieces.

 

[Nardonejuve]

Alright, well regardless of how exactly that money is accounted for (whether money was set aside for Matri, considering he was a very late loan/buy), we have recently committed to spend 34M euro (deduct half of ariaudo or whatever) on forwards in the past year. And we've taken on Toni. Plus, Martinez is really a forward who is being asked to play wide - so it's almost more like the team has committed to spend 46M on forwards in the past year. Anyway, I'm being an idiot.

Nobody here knows exactly how much cash we've allotted for this mercato, we're also paying installments on players purchased in previous windows, etc. It's all murky.

Obviously my point is that considering the defense still needs an injection of quality, and we don't even have the proper personnel to field the coaches preferred tactical system (Not that we had that last year either... nor is our midfield depth particularly good) do we really need to spend another 30M (or more) on a striker? Then hand out a huge salary on top of that?

We need to create more balance in the team; adding quality, complimentary parts will make the players we already have that much better. We need to stop adding the same pieces.

Agreed and from what we can guess on the money we have I think Bastos and Vidal would be perfect players because of their versatility. As some one stated previously in Chiles game yesterday Vidal played 3 position and played all of them well. And we all know Bastos can play all along the left so these two players I believe will be vital to have in our squad. In terms of quality and their ability to cover positions we need if needed.

 

[ZoSo]

Bastos, Vidal , Ivanovic

 

[Zlatan]

Whether or not we need a striker, we needed a high profile signing, someone to show that we're still in the game, someone for the new stadium. Aguero is perfect for that.

 

[Bezzy]

BULLSHIT! You just mentioned in this very page that Melo cost us points in the 2 years he played.



By this statement, you accuse him of being the player at fault.

I won't bring Marchisio into every discussion we have, but only in ones where one midfielder is accused of playing badly and losing points for the club, while other MF's who played equally badly, if not worse, are not criticised at all.

As for that last sentence, I can't really make out your point due to poor grammar, but he said the club aren't respecting him cos they seem to be making deals for his transfer without his knowledge. Either way, I don't give it too much importance, that or him praising Mourinho or Conte or Villas Boas. It's all trivial when compared to showing improvement and a desire to stay and win with the club.

SO you would say it isn't true that melo cost us points in the last two season. Common Sheik he isn't a wc players he let run his man during the lecce away game. of course chielini. did make a good interception but it was Melo his man and were was melo?. Melo made mistakes just like everyone else that is why a team ended 7th.
So you would like that marotta or agnelli go out and say in the media Grande felipe melo you can stay because you are the best player at the club in a season we ended at the proudly 7th placed. Everyone in our current squad is replaceable. Maybe melo is a good player but he isn't irreplaceable. And who say he keeps his head cool again for such a long time. We don't know.

 

[Trezegol17]

SO you would say it isn't true that melo cost us points in the last two season. Common Sheik he isn't a wc players he let run his man during the lecce away game. of course chielini. did make a good interception but it was Melo his man and were was melo?. Melo made mistakes just like everyone else that is why a team ended 7th.
So you would love that marotta or agnelli go out and say in the media Grande felipe melo you can stay because you are the best player at the club . Everyone in our current squad is replaceable. Maybe melo is a good player but he isn't irreplaceable. And who say he keeps his head cool again for such a long time. We don't know.

I'm sorry but Del Piero and Buffon aren't replaceble and yes Melo was our best players and yes it was the whole teams fault not only Melo's. It's easy to blame one guy while the whole team sucked.

 

[Bezzy]

I'm sorry but Del Piero and Buffon aren't replaceble and yes Melo was our best players and yes it was the whole teams fault not only Melo's. It's easy to blame one guy while the whole team sucked.

Maybe they not but they will one day retire also and there were here people saying Buffon should be replace by Storari.
guys I don't say it is only his fault, I said thousand times the whole team is for the blaming. But Sheik were saying melo didn't cost us any points the last two years (except the parma game) Just like melo himself said that.
and I disagree with that. By saying also melo made mistakes. just like the other 10 players on the field.

 

[Bezzy]

who leaved me a -rep for a melo comment?

 

[Fake Melo]

janna talking football is equally as cute and annoying as hustini doing it

So true