GordoDeCentral

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Oh, we try, but when the sums become insane, we usually pull out. Of course we're interested in those kind of players, but we don't sign them at all costs, and never did. Even when we paid alot in the past (Charles, Thuram, Nedved, Buffon etc.), there were always good reasons behind why we decided to pounce.

Never claimed that Juve don't buy players, but we don't throw money around like other clubs and we never had a galacticos-like policy such as you claim.

that there is delusion at its finest, guess what madrid can say the very same thing and even back it up with sound finances. As for not signing players at all cost, you think 50 mil euros 15 years ago for a goalkeeper is normal business :howler: to this the record transfer fee for a GK

As for you last sentence, how weak to resort to blatant lying.

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Not just them, PSG, Man City have bought more WC players in the last 5 years than we have done for the last 60 years.

lol PSG bought 3 WC players, citeh maybe 5. You really are on a new level of crazy this morning.
 

Post Ironic

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except thats simply not true charles, platini, baggio, emerson were all world class players when we bought them and we broke the bank, along with transfer records, to get them. This notion that we suddenly are this high class 'udinese' is not true.
:agree:

We bought Boniek and Platini in a single summer after they starred on the 3rd and 4th place teams at the 1982 WC. We basically did the exact same thing Madrid just did with James Rodriguez and Toni Kroos (aside from the fact transfer fees were obviously less ridiculous in 1982 even including inflation). We bought them to push us over the hump in Europe, as before the late 1970s Juventus for some reason had pretty much ignored European competition, and that changed with the arrival of Trapattoni in 1976. Under his tenure we were one of the highest spending clubs in all Europe from 1976-1986.

And guess what... Being one of the biggest spending clubs in all of Europe led us to win every single UEFA trophy that was available. In 10 years. 6 Serie A titles. 2 Coppa Italias. 1 European Cup (CL). 1 UEFA Cup (Europa League but more important as was for 2nd place European league teams). 1 UEFA Cup Winners Cup. 1 European Super Cup. 1 Intercontinental Cup. It's still a European record to have won every single possible title, and all within 10 years under a single manager. And we spent a huge amount of money to do so. Which was why that defeat to Hamburg in our first CL final was so disappointing, as we had spent millions over the previous few years. And then redemption against Liverpool.

Don't kid yourselves into thinking Juventus wasn't one of the richest, and biggest spending clubs in Europe in the past. We most certainly were.
 

GordoDeCentral

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3 and 5 in the past 5 years.

We bought like 10 in our entire history.

And let's not mention Real Madrid.
:D i take it back i just looked at city transfer and tevez wasnt in the last 5 years, so actually number of WC signings per our definition is 1, aguero. the rest were all overpaid sold players, or ones that truned out WC after they bought em: toure.

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We bought Boniek and Platini in a single summer after they starred on the 3rd and 4th place teams at the 1982 WC. We basically did the exact same thing Madrid just did with James Rodriguez and Toni Kroos (aside from the fact transfer fees were obviously less ridiculous in 1982 even including inflation). We bought them to push us over the hump in Europe, as before the late 1970s Juventus for some reason had pretty much ignored European competition, and that changed with the arrival of Trapattoni in 1976. Under his tenure we were one of the highest spending clubs in all Europe from 1976-1986.

And guess what... Being one of the biggest spending clubs in all of Europe led us to win every single UEFA trophy that was available. In 10 years. 6 Serie A titles. 2 Coppa Italias. 1 European Cup (CL). 1 UEFA Cup (Europa League but more important as was for 2nd place European league teams). 1 UEFA Cup Winners Cup. 1 European Super Cup. 1 Intercontinental Cup. It's still a European record to have won every single possible title, and all within 10 years under a single manager. And we spent a huge amount of money to do so. Which was why that defeat to Hamburg in our first CL final was so disappointing, as we had spent millions over the previous few years. And then redemption against Liverpool.

Don't kid yourselves into thinking Juventus wasn't one of the richest, and biggest spending clubs in Europe in the past. We most certainly were.
we were owned by an individual who controlled 5% of italy's GDP
 

Badass J Elkann

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Thuram, Nedved, Buffon were already mentioned above.

Cannavaro? You gotta be kidding me. He wasn't even close to having the status of players we are talking above when we bought him, what happened next is another matter.

Vieira was at the end of his career, nothing to be excited.
vieira was still a world class player at the time, more so than emerson who was fantastic for roma but i wouldn't necessarily call world class at the time and when buffon was purchased
 

Post Ironic

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Charles, Platini, Baggio, Emerson?

4 WC players over a 50 year period?

Real Madrid buys 2-3 per season.
You're kidding right? Over 50 years. Di Vaio, Trezeguet, Nedved, Thuram, Buffon, Salas, Kovacevic, Henry, Inzaghi, Davids, Zidane, Jugovic, Deschamps, Vialli, Platt, Kohler, Baggio, Habler, Alejnikov, Rui Barros, Rush (big coveted signing at the time 5 mil in 86), Laudrup, Platini, Boniek, Paolo Rossi, Liam Brady, Charles.
 

j0ker

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In the past is the key here.

People talking about Charles, Platini and Boniek.

Seems like I am the only one without a VCR here.

Juve is a team that makes stars, not one that buys them. And as I said I don't count buying one every ten years.
 

Badass J Elkann

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You're kidding right? Over 50 years. Trezeguet, Nedved, Thuram, Buffon, Zidane (regardless of how cheap), Emerson, Jugovic, Deschamps, Vialli, Platt, Kohler, Baggio, Habler, Alejnikov, Rui Barros, Rush (big coveted signing at the time 5 mil in 86), Laudrup, Platini, Boniek, Paolo Rossi, Liam Brady, Charles.
Trezeguet, Buffon and Zidane were not world class when we bought them though, they were promising players at the time
 

j0ker

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You're kidding right? Over 50 years. Trezeguet, Nedved, Thuram, Buffon, Zidane (regardless of how cheap), Emerson, Inzaghi, Davids, Jugovic, Deschamps, Vialli, Platt, Kohler, Baggio, Habler, Alejnikov, Rui Barros, Rush (big coveted signing at the time 5 mil in 86), Laudrup, Platini, Boniek, Paolo Rossi, Liam Brady, Charles.
:lol: :lol:

Trezeguet, Davids, Zidane.

How the fuck were they WC when we bought them?

And you just proved my point, Juve doesn't buy stars, they make them.
 

Post Ironic

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Trezeguet, Buffon and Zidane were not world class when we bought them though, they were promising players at the time
Zidane was already star with attitude problems and wanting out. The only reason we got him so cheap.

Don't kid yourself about Buffon. There's a reason we spent over 50 mil on him. Teams all over Europe coveted him. He wasn't 18. He was 23 and already a star. No goalkeeper has cost even close since. Trez cost us 23 mil the year before and was certainly already a star due to his performances at Monaco and for the French NT.
 

Post Ironic

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:lol: :lol:

Trezeguet, Davids, Zidane.

How the $#@! were they WC when we bought them?
You do know that Trez cost us 23 mil in the year 2000, which was a huge transfer fee then. He was also certainly a star and coveted by many teams due to his amazing form for Monaco which was a big club then, and for the French NT.

Parade the ignorance though. It's cool.
 

K.O.

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You do know that Trez cost us 23 mil in the year 2000, which was a huge transfer fee then. He was also certainly a star and coveted by many teams due to his amazing form for Monaco which was a big club then, and for the French NT.

Parade the ignorance though. It's cool.
Nothing from what you said makes him 'world-class' at the time.

Zidane was almost a nobody. Davids was a Milan reject.
 

Badass J Elkann

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Zidane was already star with attitude problems and wanting out. The only reason we got him so cheap.

Don't kid yourself about Buffon. There's a reason we spent over 50 mil on him. Teams all over Europe coveted him. He wasn't 18. He was 23 and already a star. No goalkeeper has cost even close since. Trez cost us 23 mil the year before and was certainly already a star due to his performances at Monaco and for the French NT.
Buffon was not world class when we bought him, he was a player of immense promise and talent which is why we paid what we did, just as someone would for Pogba in his first season with Juve same with zidane, trezeguet and quite a few other players mentioned.
 

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