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Release clause?
May 22, 2009
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Thirdstar and fredrik, I hope you guys are around when you see how we'll fail next season. But I bet you won't and you'll go all Neutrol on us and disappear. This mercato sucked, Marotta sucked and he spent crazy money while sucking.
 

Nicholas

MIRKO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jan 30, 2008
38,737
Thirdstar and fredrik, I hope you guys are around when you see how we'll fail next season. But I bet you won't and you'll go all Neutrol on us and disappear. This mercato sucked, Marotta sucked and he spent crazy money while sucking.
Then again I hope you show up when we play well one game instead of only showing up when we're going through a rough patch ;)
 

Nicholas

MIRKO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jan 30, 2008
38,737
Dude, I've been wrong so many times. I used to defend Amauri when everybody had given up on him :D
No. You're right about this mercato not being great. The last day ruined it for me also. However I still believe we've got a good enough squad to do well in some games.


If Vucinic, Elia and Krasic decide to show up in games most teams will be unable to handle the three of them.
 

ThirdStar

You know it's comin'
Jul 5, 2011
1,291
Dude, I've been wrong so many times. I used to defend Amauri when everybody had given up on him :D That was a big mistake, but I saw something in him :lol:
Yourself? Because he's a cry baby too you know.

whoops.

If Vucinic, Elia and Krasic decide to show up in games most teams will be unable to handle the three of them.
+ whoever we put upfront as a striker.

Pirlo will surely pull something out of his ass too.
 

MikeM

Footballing Hipster celebrating 4th place with Tuz
Sep 21, 2008
12,834
Marotta is not a great director but the bottom line is our roster is good enough for 3rd. Time for the coaches and players to help out a bit.
 

deggen10

Senior Member
Jul 27, 2011
1,182
Stop pushing the 4-2-3-1's. I like them but we all know ADP doesn't allow it.

And anyone got any stats for Melo? I read somewhere his ballwinning/tackling etc was worse than Pazienza and Aquilani lol.
 

JuveJay

Senior Signor
Moderator
Mar 6, 2007
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Melo lost his head once last year. Other than that, he was solid as a rock. I don't know if he would've been as good under Conte as Delneri but his confidence was there and we totally fucked it by sending him to Turkey.
Interesting you post this as for me, Conte coming in (or the sacking of Delneri, if you like) is the reason Melo went out. His comments just eased his departure.

Melo was a liability in the first season. Second season he did well, thanks in part to him being mollycoddled all year by Delneri. Conte would never do that, he won't treat him differently. Whether Conte made the point or Marotta realised this, it could well have been for the best that Melo went. Especially if Vidal is the sort of all-action, no frills, and no 'spoon feed me' type of player that he looks.
 

Ken

The Dutch Touch
Aug 17, 2007
13,340
No. You're right about this mercato not being great. The last day ruined it for me also. However I still believe we've got a good enough squad to do well in some games.


If Vucinic, Elia and Krasic decide to show up in games most teams will be unable to handle the three of them.
We've built a team with less holes in it, but without that big leap in quality we all expected, because Marotta fed us some bogus stories. These stories make some people hate Marotta a bit more than they would had he not said a thing, but hey, that's his own fault I guess. We really should've gotten atleast a CB or LB, especially since Conte really didn't want Ziegler. We failed to really offload a lot of players, but that's not so easy to do when they're unbelievably stubborn, meh.

The players you mention can be really good if they show up, but it's quite a big 'if'... Maybe Bonucci will do a lot better with a proper RB next to him, but I doubt we'll see that great of an improvement... Maybe PDC will continue to grow... Maybe Vidal will prove to be that monster in midfield allowing Pirlo to play his game more than we expect...

Well, you know what I'm getting at here, we're a bit of an unknown, but we need a lot of luck and Conte to be really good at organizing this 442 of his. I just hope and pray we get off to a good start, get momentum going.. new stadium, enthousiasm..




I still think we'll get fucked in our ass because of our backline / mid 2 with Pirlo in it though. :D
 

Buck Fuddy

Lara Chedraoui fanboy
May 22, 2009
10,883
Interesting you post this as for me, Conte coming in (or the sacking of Delneri, if you like) is the reason Melo went out. His comments just eased his departure.

Melo was a liability in the first season. Second season he did well, thanks in part to him being mollycoddled all year by Delneri. Conte would never do that, he won't treat him differently. Whether Conte made the point or Marotta realised this, it could well have been for the best that Melo went. Especially if Vidal is the sort of all-action, no frills, and no 'spoon feed me' type of player that he looks.
You're being fairly kind now :D

Dude was one of the worst starting players for Juve I had ever seen. If not the worst.
 

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