He has been way more informed than Di Marzio this season.
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Julian Draxler - AM LC - Schalke 04 (26 Viewers)
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It's his moment, finally
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It's very exciting time to be a fan, more so for someone like you who has been calling for investment in youth for a long time now. This 'risk' may lead us nowhere, but I'm glad our management is taking it. We are looking for dominance for a 6-8 year period by sacrificing an year. I can live with that. (Even with the changes we can easily do a Scudetto + CL QF with this squad. I believe that'd still pretty much have been our goal regardless of the changes)
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It's very exciting time to be a fan, more so for someone like you who has been calling for investment in youth for a long time now. This 'risk' may lead us nowhere, but I'm glad our management is taking it. We are looking for dominance for a 6-8 year period by sacrificing an year. I can live with that. (Even with the changes we can easily do a Scudetto + CL QF with this squad. I believe that'd still pretty much have been our goal regardless of the changes)
Juve are looking at what happened to those two after their brief moment of success and have realized what not to do. If they get Draxler though, that is it for this year when it comes to youth. Get that LB from Atletico, sell off Llorente, and call it a summer.
I sincerely hope @Nostradamus opens the player thread once this is done
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Attracting a top German talent shows how far our brand has gone.It was unthinkable literally a few years ago.Even Madrid and Barca started luring German players only lately when they turned into super brands.
If Draxler shines,this will easily give an opening towards more German players coming to Italy.
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Attracting a top German talent shows how far our brand has gone.It was unthinkable literally a few years ago.Even Madrid and Barca started luring German players only lately when they turned into super brands.
If Draxler shines,this will easily give an opening towards more German players coming to Italy.
Two ways to look at it Serge. High risk/high reward can be measured by making an argument in terms of investment in youth, which I am completely for, incidentally. But that's not to say that the youth we invest in, will always come cheap. It shouldn't be that we invest in youth because it suits us financially as well.
When I speak of risk, I am referring to the inability or lack of inclination to spend bigger money on a certain quality of player. We are rumoured to be wanting to pay 20-25m for Draxler, but are finding it difficult to compete for Goetze who is in the 40m bracket. Given the season we had, and Vidals sale, I would think if there was one season we could take that risk, it would be this one, but we've chosen to play safe, with a player on a salary within 4m, instead of going after the guy who would slot in as a top earner. That's risk averse to me because I can see we are genuinely interested in the more expensive player but we're settling for someone whose just come off an injury instead because of the financials involved.
Sure, there is an argument in debating player will, but that too is also affected by the suggestion of a pay cut. (And I'm not even getting into the tangent of how Geotze is more CAM and Draxler has a wider berth In terms of what we need on the pitch.)
When I speak of risk, I am referring to the inability or lack of inclination to spend bigger money on a certain quality of player. We are rumoured to be wanting to pay 20-25m for Draxler, but are finding it difficult to compete for Goetze who is in the 40m bracket. Given the season we had, and Vidals sale, I would think if there was one season we could take that risk, it would be this one, but we've chosen to play safe, with a player on a salary within 4m, instead of going after the guy who would slot in as a top earner. That's risk averse to me because I can see we are genuinely interested in the more expensive player but we're settling for someone whose just come off an injury instead because of the financials involved.
Sure, there is an argument in debating player will, but that too is also affected by the suggestion of a pay cut. (And I'm not even getting into the tangent of how Geotze is more CAM and Draxler has a wider berth In terms of what we need on the pitch.)
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