Felipe Melo (54 Viewers)

K.O.

Senior Member
Nov 24, 2005
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buffon disrespected not just his team-mates but the club and its history, when see laughing and joking with gattusso after contributing to our defeat in that match. I still love Buffon...but equally logical would be for both Melo and Buffon to be fined and severely reprimanded by the management. And when Melo's midfield stats...fouls, tackles, cards are similar to other mainly combative midfielders, its not accurate to focus too much on his eccentricity when measuring his value to the team.

Its a lot worse, for me, in buffon's case. as one of the oldest, most experienced, most succesful players in our team, the rest of the squad look to him and DP in times of dismay...and what do they see??? A man with Juve in his DNA??? Or a former great, picking up huge wages and simply going through the motions, seeming to lack interest in victory or defeat.
You got to be kidding me! Buffon won you titles and two-digit points every season. Plus, don't forget that Melo didn't just got dissmised in the parma match only, he was suspended for 3 matches.

Again, This dissmisal can happen to anyone really, but dissing your teammates in interviews can only be done by a player who lacks intelligence. Melo must be fined for this.

Anyways, there's no point in arguing with you, your thoughts are clearly mixed up, I know why.
 
Apr 15, 2006
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Melo only said it in words that some people don't deserve to play in Juve. Marotta will demonstrate it by offloading players and not taking up the option to buy from loan. Yet we'll only see people here target Melo and not Marotta.
 
Apr 15, 2006
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But that's just not true, is it?

Marotta gets criticism every single hour of every single day for signing players like Pepe, Motta, etc.
And that's criticism where it's due. I don't think Melo deserves any criticism for telling things as they are. We had our 2nd worst season in decades. They obviously don't have a lot of good things to say. So why should a player be criticised for saying something bad about the squad?
 

Nenz

Senior Member
Apr 17, 2008
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And that's criticism where it's due. I don't think Melo deserves any criticism for telling things as they are. We had our 2nd worst season in decades. They obviously don't have a lot of good things to say. So why should a player be criticised for saying something bad about the squad?
:tup: No doubt. Everyone should get off Melo's back its extremely difficult to perform in a team full of amateurs. When we were playing like a team in the first half of the season he was an absolute monster and our best midfielder. He's not just some lax CDM with a bit of technical ability. Put this man in a good team with a coach that can communicate with him and he is potential world class. Its not worth overlooking our main priorities to replace him this mercato.
 

Buck Fuddy

Lara Chedraoui fanboy
May 22, 2009
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And that's criticism where it's due. I don't think Melo deserves any criticism for telling things as they are. We had our 2nd worst season in decades. They obviously don't have a lot of good things to say. So why should a player be criticised for saying something bad about the squad?
Fair enough, that's your opinion on the Melo thing, but saying that Marotta isn't criticized for the team we have was just wrong.

Look, Melo has played 2 seasons for us, 1 extremely crap season & 1 decent season. In my book that doesn't give him the right to criticize other players of the team (in public). You & some/many others disagree with that and that's fine as well. It would be pretty boring if everyone always had the same opinion after all.


Looks like he's on the way out anyway, so I'm not sure how much these comments mean or are going to mean in the end.
 

Ahmed

Principino
Sep 3, 2006
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He’s good, but NOT world class. He has very good technical and physical abilities.

But, come to mental abilities, he’s a fucking joke. Look at him in most of our games in counter-attacks, he jogs back lethargically. Above all, that Parma game. It was the turning point for our season, but surely I’m not blaming him for that season, but he fucked the morale of that struggling team.

His technical abilities are a luxury for a defensive midfielder, just get a disciplined DM instead of him.
a most excellent post.

+rep

EDIT - can someone please rep Wahdan, I have to spread around :rolleyes:
 

Juve_Kosova

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May 4, 2004
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:tup: No doubt. Everyone should get off Melo's back its extremely difficult to perform in a team full of amateurs. When we were playing like a team in the first half of the season he was an absolute monster and our best midfielder. He's not just some lax CDM with a bit of technical ability. Put this man in a good team with a coach that can communicate with him and he is potential world class. Its not worth overlooking our main priorities to replace him this mercato.
+rep :tup:
 

Nenz

Senior Member
Apr 17, 2008
10,472
He’s good, but NOT world class. He has very good technical and physical abilities.

But, come to mental abilities, he’s a fucking joke. Look at him in most of our games in counter-attacks, he jogs back lethargically. Above all, that Parma game. It was the turning point for our season, but surely I’m not blaming him for that season, but he fucked the morale of that struggling team.

His technical abilities are a luxury for a defensive midfielder, just get a disciplined DM instead of him.
His technical abilities are a luxury? Remember last time we had a so called 'disciplined DM' in Sissoko? He had a half decent season and got found out not for not being defensively sound but for not having those technical abilities you claim to be luxuries. According to that logic any positive, unique and outstanding feature of a player (better known as talent) is a luxury and discipline (like Marchisio's discipline :rolleyes:) is a necessity. A CDM with technical ability is a luxury, good full-backs are luxuries. What a bunch of BS. Look at the best teams in the world. They have many many luxuries and that's why they win.

What exactly are you referring to when you say he's lazy on the counter? He's always been one of the most determined players in our squad and was a consistent performer in a terrible side with a terrible over all mentality. His good performance in a bad team last season would tell us that he actually has a quite a strong mentality to perform well and buck the negative trend of the entire squad. I agree he has a bad temper but that by no means is to blame for last season. Don't even bother bringing it up because its irrelevant. There is barely a cause and effect relationship between Juve's bad season and Melo's bad temper.

Melo is a cornerstone of our midfield getting rid of him at such a precious juncture in our comeback from calciopoli would be detrimental to the club. We don't need to waste time and resources on another transfer. We have real problems that need solving.
 

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