baggio

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Jun 3, 2003
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His first season here, to me was simply shocking. 15 new players. Anyway, there's an interview up on tuttosport, if anybody can share the transcript here. Says that the only regret he has is RvP, but 30m for a player in the last year of his contract was too much. Thats an interesting quote if I translated correctly, because he's not alluded to wages here.

Said we'd be obliged to look at a player like Ogbonna if he was on the Market.

We will anyway look at players indeoendent of Llorente in January.

Isle, Asamoah and Giovinco were fantastic value for purchases and will go a long way in strengthening quality and depth.

We should not only look at us not purchasing, but also other clubs not willing to sell.

We must also note we turned down 60m for Marchisio and Vidal, retaining them should be equivalent to the arrival of a top player. *along these lines, not word for word.


Edit: it's been shared already, I see above. I was busy translating in my text window. Thank god I don't run a newspaper. Wouldn't make the morning stands. :D
 

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baggio

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:howler: for the whole intreview.

You don't justify paying 30 mil for Van Persie but you justify wasting 12 mil on Martinez, paying 15 for Bonucci or 18 mil for Matri.
What's interesting is, the reasoning behind the RVP move. It's seemingly not about the wages to him. Seems like we didn't want to spend 30m for a player in the last year of his contract. Hypothetically, if we are to get Llorente even in Jan, I think we'll have to spend between 12-15m, for a player in the last 6 months of his contract? Will that be justified or is this because of then wages for the player being much less?!? Let's see how it plays out.

Gio's nos. To the best of my knowledge were 3.5m.
 

only-juve

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Jan 5, 2008
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were those 3 on the last year of their contract?
Does it really makes a difference ?!

A quality player is a quality player, whether they are in their last year of contract or not.

So players like Martinez, Bonucci or Matri were not in their last year of contract but does that justify their fee's, it doesn't sorry.....
 

Ahmed

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Sep 3, 2006
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Martinez was a disaster from start to finish, wouldn't have taken him for 1.2M let alone 12.

Bonucci and Matri were key players in your title-winning run, so dunno why you would regret signing them at whatever price.
 

baggio

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were those 3 on the last year of their contract?
Doesn't matter where they were. RVP is another league altogether. Literally and metaphorically. If we lost out on him because of 30m and not the wages, then I'd say it was a bad move. Marrotta claims to regret it this mercato.
 

only-juve

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Jan 5, 2008
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What's interesting is, the reasoning behind the RVP move. It's seemingly not about the wages to him. Seems like we didn't want to spend 30m for a player in the last year of his contract. Hypothetically, if we are to get Llorente even in Jan, I think we'll have to spend between 12-15m, for a player in the last 6 months of his contract?
Trust me, we will pay way higher fee's for him (if that ever happened) and Marotta will find an excuse for that. As he always does....
 

only-juve

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Jan 5, 2008
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Martinez was a disaster from start to finish, wouldn't have taken him for 1.2M let alone 12.

Bonucci and Matri were key players in your title-winning run, so dunno why you would regret signing them at whatever price.
Giaccherini was a key player for us in many games last season, but does that makes him a player worth 15-20 mil ? A reasonable person would say no.

Matri was a player playing for Cagliari, there were hardly any competition for him out of Italy, and even in Italy there is no way any club would pay close to that fee we paid for Cagliari (certainly not the two milan broke ass clubs).

Bonucci is a disastor waiting to happen for us, we will likely to get knocked out from Europe this season (perhaps in the 2nd round) with one of his horrible errors.
 

Ahmed

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I admit saying 'whatever price' is wrong, but let's analyse.

Matri has 30 goals in his last 2 seasons, 43 in his past 3 and scored 20 goals in 10/10 for Cagliari and Juve combined. Does 18M sound like too much for a young striker in red hot form?

you say Bonucci is a 'disaster', many people will say he has improved significantly over the past year, is now a key player for Juve and the national side. Heck Conte changed his system so that he would fit in into the backline alongside Chi and Barza. His positives outweigh his errors.
 

Fake Melo

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Sep 3, 2010
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I admit saying 'whatever price' is wrong, but let's analyse.

Matri has 30 goals in his last 2 seasons, 43 in his past 3 and scored 20 goals in 10/10 for Cagliari and Juve combined. Does 18M sound like too much for a young striker in red hot form?

you say Bonucci is a 'disaster', many people will say he has improved significantly over the past year, is now a key player for Juve and the national side. Heck Conte changed his system so that he would fit in into the backline alongside Chi and Barza. His positives outweigh his errors.
Let's not forget that Quagliarella was injured for the rest of the season and we were desperate for a striker. It also was the last day of the mercato. What did people expect to get Matri for?
 

Ahmed

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Juventus offered Drogba €10m
By Football Italia staff


Juventus offered Didier Drogba a two-year contract worth €5m a season, France Football have revealed.

It emerged yesterday that the Italian champions had made an unsuccessful late bid for the player and the details of their offer have now been published.

It is being claimed that Juventus director general Beppe Marotta had lined up a €10m contract. Drogba would also have netted a €500,000 bonus per season if he featured in 70 per cent of their games.

Drogba, however, turned down the Italian champions.

Not only is his contract with Shanghai Shenhua more financially lucrative, he would have also had to pay the Chinese side a hefty fee in compensation to get his contract rescinded.

The 34-year-old Ivory Coast international moved to Shanghai during the summer once his Chelsea contract expired.
 

Suns

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May 22, 2009
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Anyone who signs Vidal for as little as Marotta did is a boss in my book. The man is responsible and I like him for it. And he's not like the Milan clowns who at one second spend big money on Robinho and then at another time scream about how poor they are and how they have to sell their best players and replace them with Acerbi and Constant. He's chasing the right players and I've rarely not seen him interested in good players that are available. Whenever top talent like van Persie, Aguero, Dzeko, Drogba, Krasic, Llorente and plenty of other guys are available he's there showing interest. Sure, so far he hasn't gotten them but at least he's aware of their availability.
 
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Anyone who signs Vidal for as little as Marotta did is a boss in my book. The man is responsible and I like him for it. And he's not like the Milan clowns who at one second spend big money on Robinho and then at another time scream about how poor they are and how they have to sell their best players and replace them with Acerbi and Constant. He's chasing the right players and I've rarely not seen him interested in good players that are available. Whenever top talent like van Persie, Aguero, Dzeko, Drogba, Krasic, Llorente and plenty of other guys are available he's there showing interest. Sure, so far he hasn't gotten them but at least he's aware of their availability.
Fairly sure we're going to be looking back and worshiping the Pogba deal as well.
 

Bezzy

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Jun 5, 2010
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Anyone who signs Vidal for as little as Marotta did is a boss in my book. The man is responsible and I like him for it. And he's not like the Milan clowns who at one second spend big money on Robinho and then at another time scream about how poor they are and how they have to sell their best players and replace them with Acerbi and Constant. He's chasing the right players and I've rarely not seen him interested in good players that are available. Whenever top talent like van Persie, Aguero, Dzeko, Drogba, Krasic, Llorente and plenty of other guys are available he's there showing interest. Sure, so far he hasn't gotten them but at least he's aware of their availability.
:agree:
problem is also that the epl offers much more then the serie a in almost every aspect. but marotta aims for right players but getting them is a second. He needs to find a cavani or someone before they join a really big club or our rival (viola - jo jo).
 
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Wenger
“Juventus can’t think about selling their players for €70m and then buying new ones for a tenth of that amount,” the Frenchman told the Corriere dello Sport.

“That would be too easy, but that is not possible in today’s football.
“Van Persie would have been a free agent in the summer of 2013, but we decided to sell after Manchester United made a great offer.”
About Bendtner
“He can do well in Italy,” Wenger continued. “He’s a top player for me, but he’s had his difficulties here. You can’t doubt the player’s value though.

“We believe in him and that is why we only gave him to Juventus on loan. I think he can resolve his problems with us and prove himself. We believe in him.”
 

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