Bjerknes

"Top Economist"
Mar 16, 2004
116,155
Sorenson last year.

The Appelt brothers this year, the 17 year old CB from France, there were a few others as well.
I was under the impression we would be purchasing some young players for the main squad, not just adding some players to the youth academy. But maybe I was wrong to do so.

First thing, I'm not black. Maybe you're confusing me with the man you see coming out of your momma's bedroom in the morning.

Secondly, I don't believe you were joking in your post. I think you'd like to cyber with men when you're not busy getting high.

Thirdly, learn how to give a -REP, dolt.
:lol: :tup:
 

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WΏΏdy?

Senior Member
Dec 23, 2005
14,997
I love it how every summer we have our best mercato since Calciopoli.

So that statement is meaningless.

We'll see how it goes.
I wouldnt call this the best mercato since cpoli,no way.

Ppl are just excited and froggy based on two half games that dont really carry any weight. I was happy with the two matches as well but we are far from the talent expected at juve. What disappoints me is marotta still isnt going after youth. We need some young players.
 

Cronios

Juventolog
Jun 7, 2004
27,519
I am 110% sure we will sign a CB, either Alex or Lugano, most likely Alex. Marotta knows we need one. Same with LW, although I won't be completely convinced if we buy Giaccherini. Vargas/Perotti/Bastos would satisfy me, but who's to say that Giaccherini won't turn out like Matri for us? He wouldn't be a great signing but not a terrible one either.

I think you are missing the point with midfield. We have only spent €10.5M for the Pirlo-Vidal midfield. If we kept Melo and played Marchisio-Melo, we could have €25m for a LW. Mata is going to Chelsea for €30m...The improvement in midfield far outweighs the improvement if we bought a LW who is worth €10m more. The best winger under €25m that we could buy is probably either Bastos, Marin or Carlos Eduardo. None of them are a massive improvement over say Vargas or Perotti and are in the same price range. Without sacrificing other postions the most we can spend on a winger is about €15m. Then next year if we make CL we can buy a WC winger worth €30m+ such as Ribery, Hazard, Mata, Di Maria, Hulk, Nani etc.

I would prefer to have Vidal-Pirlo and say Vargas or Bastos on the left wing than Melo-Marchisio and Mata on the left wing. The first is far more balanced and a lot less risky than having an unstable Melo and ghost Marchisio in the middle. In that system, the wingers would have to come up very deep to get the ball since neither Melo or Marchisio have great passing ability like Pirlo.

SS, well I already said why that's necessary because of injuries. If we didn't buy Vucinic, our foward line would be the only position where we would have 2 players capable of starting.

GK: Gigi, Storari, Manninger
RB: Licht, Sorensen, Grygera, Motta,
CB: Chiellini, Bonucci, Barzagli, Sorensen, + new CB (Alex)
LB: Ziegler, De Ceglie, Grosso, Chiellini, Grygera
RM: Krasic, Pepe, Pasquato, Martinez
CM: Pirlo, Vidal, Marchisio, Pazienza
LM: Pepe, Pasquato, Martinez, Marchisio + new signing.
Foward line: Matri & Quagliarella

Del Piero can't be expected to play 90mins anymore, Amauri is leaving and Iaquinta as I said is made of glass and cannot be relied upon for usually more than 4-5 games at the very maximum without getting injured. Toni is 34 and is really not someone to be relied for whole games either. Out of that squad, I doubt many will leave, most likely either Manninger or Storari and Grosso besides the fowards.

Marotta is trying to build the base for a very good squad. By the end of next season, all the deadwood will be out (Iaquinta, Amauri, Grygera, Grosso and maybe Bonucci, Motta, Martinez, Barzagli & Pepe) and we will have a very strong squad which we can add WC players to. It IS the most logical way to go about things with our budget. We can't afford to buy WC players for every position.

I hope you see the light at the end of the tunnel now. But maybe it's just a freight train coming your way. (I don't know if this sounds stupid I just got home from a party and I'm drunk).
if we do indeed buy vargas and alex, what you say makes sense.
But what if we dont?
I ve been waiting for those 2 acquisitions for 5 years, pardon me for not believing that they will finally join us in the last week of this transfer window.
Your assumptions take us a fact that those 2 players will be bought, but i consider them arrival as higly unlikely.
And at any case, i judge the current mercato with the facts in hand so far.

Every year, for the past 6years, i have a similar debate with a random optimistic member, who beloeves that we cant be that stupid and we actually have a plan in mind and every year we end up the mercato wihout those players.

Lugano and Vargas/Bastos are imo, players that can be considered a permanent solution to our issues.
Perotti/Gaston and Alex are not, they are Martinez like risks, compromises of an unwise waste of funds on uneeded opportunity targets.
The failure to grab even such compromises is an utter failure because of the same reason.

It remains to be seen how we will end up. As a Juve fan i hope that we will sign Lugano and Vargas or at least Vargas and Alex.
But objectively, after watching our team comitting the same mistake of investing everything on CMs+SSs each and and every year, i expect to see us respecting this pattern in the expense of our needs and utterly our success.
If this happens again, i want you to remember it next year and help me remind to the next you, when in the last week of august 2012, after already wasting most of our budget on a new CM and SS and have yet to buy a new LW and CB, someone will pop up like you do now, claiming that we will definilty buy a starter CB+LW in the last week of the transfer window...
 

Marc

Softcore Juventino
Jul 14, 2006
21,649
Seriously Cron, how is Lugano a permanent solution to our CB problems?

First of all and foremost, he is older than Alex.

Second of all, he is inferior to Alex.
 

Byrone

Peen Meister
Dec 19, 2005
30,778
but i m in the hospital today, all i have is a pc to right the reports and the occasional case coming every hour or so:nasty:
thats the reason i was so active today!
But don't you get tired of arguing & replying to every post directed at you? Go dick around in the hospital pharmacy & abuse your powers on some cute nurses.:p
 

Cronios

Juventolog
Jun 7, 2004
27,519
But don't you get tired of arguing & replying to every post directed at you? Go dick around in the hospital pharmacy & abuse your powers on some cute nurses.:p
you havent seen the Greek nurses, i believe we have Europe's worst.
I m currently working in a Children hospital (so i only have to deal with minors and married women) and today, i m the only hand on deck, here in the x-rays, so i cant leave, i ll have to stay put 24/24
because everything that comes must be checked by me.
This pc has limited rights, i cannot install anything, not even a flash player.
So i m stack with you guys to practice my English and get informed about my fav team, occasionally a case appears and i take a few minute brakes and by the time i come back, someone has replied to my posts.
So, i can interact with the forumers in a smooth flow, it would be boring otherwise and i would be too distracted to try anything else that requires real time interaction, the forums atm are my best option to kill time, as i m waiting for new cases to appear.
 

KB824

Senior Member
Sep 16, 2003
31,789
The guy is a doctor. Cron is arranging a shipment of cialis & viagra gratis.

He's a doctor? Oh, I can just see it now


Dr. Cronios- Ma'am, it's a boy
Woman- Is he healthy?
Dr. Cronios- Yes, Ma'am, but I can already tell that he is going to be mediocre at best.
Woman- What?!?!?
Dr. Cronios- Yes, Ma'am. Mediocre
Woman- Oh My. How do you know that?
Dr. Cronios- It is my opinion, ma'am. And that is a fact.
Woman- What kind of a doctor are you?
Dr. Cronios- A doctor who has had to wallow in mediocrity for the last 5 years, with our administrative staff spending incredible amounts of money on syringes and gauze, when this hospital really needs new aprons, an X-ray Machine, and a defribrillator. Also, ever since our general manager was let go 5 years ago, our new general manager has insisted on buying Italian doctors who only care about being gynecologists. Which reminds me. Your son will be Italian
Woman- WHAT?!?!?!?!
Dr. Cronios- Yes, it's true
Woman- But, my husband and I are Greek
Dr. Cronios- Doesn't amtter ma'am, this is what I believe, therefore it must be true
 

Fake Melo

Ghost Division
Sep 3, 2010
37,077
He's a doctor? Oh, I can just see it now


Dr. Cronios- Ma'am, it's a boy
Woman- Is he healthy?
Dr. Cronios- Yes, Ma'am, but I can already tell that he is going to be mediocre at best.
Woman- What?!?!?
Dr. Cronios- Yes, Ma'am. Mediocre
Woman- Oh My. How do you know that?
Dr. Cronios- It is my opinion, ma'am. And that is a fact.
Woman- What kind of a doctor are you?
Dr. Cronios- A doctor who has had to wallow in mediocrity for the last 5 years, with our administrative staff spending incredible amounts of money on syringes and gauze, when this hospital really needs new aprons, an X-ray Machine, and a defribrillator. Also, ever since our general manager was let go 5 years ago, our new general manager has insisted on buying Italian doctors who only care about being gynecologists. Which reminds me. Your son will be Italian
Woman- WHAT?!?!?!?!
Dr. Cronios- Yes, it's true
Woman- But, my husband and I are Greek
Dr. Cronios- Doesn't amtter ma'am, this is what I believe, therefore it must be true
:lol: :lol:
 

ThirdStar

You know it's comin'
Jul 5, 2011
1,291
you havent seen the Greek nurse, i believe we have Europe's worst.
I m currently working in a Children hospital (so i only have to deal with minors and married women) and today, i m the only hand on deck, here in the x-rays, so i cant leave, i ll have to stay put 24/24
because everything that comes must be checked by me.
This pc has limited rights, i cannot install nothing, not even a flash player.
So i m stack with you guys to practice my English and get informed about my fav team, occasionally a case appears and i take a few minutes brakes and by the time i come back, someone has replied to my posts.
So, i can interact with the forumers in a nice flow, it would be boring otherwise and i would be too distracted to try anything more that requires real time interaction, so the forums atm are my best option to kill time, as i m waiting for new cases to appear.
Oh man so that's why you're always bitter when you come here haha
 
Jul 1, 2010
26,352
He's a doctor? Oh, I can just see it now


Dr. Cronios- Ma'am, it's a boy
Woman- Is he healthy?
Dr. Cronios- Yes, Ma'am, but I can already tell that he is going to be mediocre at best.
Woman- What?!?!?
Dr. Cronios- Yes, Ma'am. Mediocre
Woman- Oh My. How do you know that?
Dr. Cronios- It is my opinion, ma'am. And that is a fact.
Woman- What kind of a doctor are you?
Dr. Cronios- A doctor who has had to wallow in mediocrity for the last 5 years, with our administrative staff spending incredible amounts of money on syringes and gauze, when this hospital really needs new aprons, an X-ray Machine, and a defribrillator. Also, ever since our general manager was let go 5 years ago, our new general manager has insisted on buying Italian doctors who only care about being gynecologists. Which reminds me. Your son will be Italian
Woman- WHAT?!?!?!?!
Dr. Cronios- Yes, it's true
Woman- But, my husband and I are Greek
Dr. Cronios- Doesn't amtter ma'am, this is what I believe, therefore it must be true
:lol::lol::lol:

+rep
 

Wahdan

Ace of Spades
Mar 14, 2009
6,851
He's a doctor? Oh, I can just see it now


Dr. Cronios- Ma'am, it's a boy
Woman- Is he healthy?
Dr. Cronios- Yes, Ma'am, but I can already tell that he is going to be mediocre at best.
Woman- What?!?!?
Dr. Cronios- Yes, Ma'am. Mediocre
Woman- Oh My. How do you know that?
Dr. Cronios- It is my opinion, ma'am. And that is a fact.
Woman- What kind of a doctor are you?
Dr. Cronios- A doctor who has had to wallow in mediocrity for the last 5 years, with our administrative staff spending incredible amounts of money on syringes and gauze, when this hospital really needs new aprons, an X-ray Machine, and a defribrillator. Also, ever since our general manager was let go 5 years ago, our new general manager has insisted on buying Italian doctors who only care about being gynecologists. Which reminds me. Your son will be Italian
Woman- WHAT?!?!?!?!
Dr. Cronios- Yes, it's true
Woman- But, my husband and I are Greek
Dr. Cronios- Doesn't amtter ma'am, this is what I believe, therefore it must be true
Sergio, the legend :lol2::lol2:
 

Cronios

Juventolog
Jun 7, 2004
27,519
He's a doctor? Oh, I can just see it now


Dr. Cronios- Ma'am, it's a boy
Woman- Is he healthy?
Dr. Cronios- Yes, Ma'am, but I can already tell that he is going to be mediocre at best.
Woman- What?!?!?
Dr. Cronios- Yes, Ma'am. Mediocre
Woman- Oh My. How do you know that?
Dr. Cronios- It is my opinion, ma'am. And that is a fact.
Woman- What kind of a doctor are you?
Dr. Cronios- A doctor who has had to wallow in mediocrity for the last 5 years, with our administrative staff spending incredible amounts of money on syringes and gauze, when this hospital really needs new aprons, an X-ray Machine, and a defribrillator. Also, ever since our general manager was let go 5 years ago, our new general manager has insisted on buying Italian doctors who only care about being gynecologists. Which reminds me. Your son will be Italian
Woman- WHAT?!?!?!?!
Dr. Cronios- Yes, it's true
Woman- But, my husband and I are Greek
Dr. Cronios- Doesn't amtter ma'am, this is what I believe, therefore it must be true
he he, that was genuinly fan and it really does has some elements of truth within.
Part of such discussion were actually happened, for ex in cases when there is an abnormal skeletal development and i have to explain how this is going to affect the childs life.
This is a part of what i do, of what i am, my job is to see say what i see, be objective and sound cruel, maybe negative when the prognosis is not favorable, considering the facts...
 

Fake Melo

Ghost Division
Sep 3, 2010
37,077
he he, that was genuinly fan and it really does has some elements of truth within.
Part of such discussion were actually happened, for ex in cases when there is an abnormal skeletal development and i have to explain how this is going to affect the childs life.
This is a part of what i do, of what i am, my job is to see say what i see, be objective and sound cruel, maybe negative when the prognosis is not favorable, considering the facts...
Can I visit you for sicknote? :p
 

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