I don't understand why we don't add buy back clauses on our players. Real Madrid have used it with success and we finally have interesting young players.
Disappointing deal overall.
Disappointing deal overall.
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We don't have the power of Real Madrid in negotiations. And more importantly not the foresight or interest in seeing our younger players as potential first team players.
Dru jokes about the JJ human trafficking bit, but there's some truth to that lol. We see most of them just another figure to get cheap quick funds.
I dont think koni De Winter is much of a loss tbh, was mainly making a general point of the mentality we have with youth products or young players we sign and loan out.
I'm more curious about Rovellas case, 18 months of loan and zero interest to ever use him. Similar with same deal we had with Romero (who turned out to be a fantastic CB), just reshuffling the decks to earn quick funds selling them cheap (seeing team we sell them too re sell them for 2-3 times that lol). Demiral sale was also peculiar, he got a brief chance in Juve, then just shuffled on.
Doesn't even have to be young players either, not that he is old. How we handled Zakaria, buy him like it was a priority for Allegri, and within 6 months already discarded and forgotten, just another one in the loan machine and quick profit scheme. Granted he had injury issues, and better selling off someone out on loan then someone already in squad.
But end of day he is a genuinely good DM end of day. So its allways curious to see tendencies of how short sighted we handle things. Did we have genuinely have sporting plans for him, or did we sign him simply to sell him on?
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Zip it pedercino, Badass watched all 12 games of his, and concluded he is 40m worth CB, who are you to say otherwise?
For the sake of a fruitful discussion I would like to disagree and contend your view. But I cannot, I can only concur. The only escape I see atm is that we are desperately seeking cash. Giuntuli came too late for this mercato too but that is down to De Laurentiis making his best to mess with us. Well played. As did past management, abysmal mercatos from coach to players and then trying to outmaneuver the mobsters (UEFA), which they must have understood would result in this. It was clear since day one yet they let personal vendettas rule.
Overall I hope that once the dust has settled we continue with the NG project, add a progressive coach and then sell those we actually don't see add any value and acquire true assets. My dream is to purchase starters and maybe some rotational players where our own youngster don't cut it. But overall fill the bench with our own developed players. So, forthcoming seasons get rid of coach and deadwood but let some stick around to see if they can earn a spot or become rotational players until we have kids to take over. In this example, that would for example be players like Locatelli who I think can be a useful players to have around but maybe he isn't a starter in a team that eventually competes for CL.
That's just a dream though.
Anyway. To turn it back to De Winter and relate to it what I am trying to say. Maybe De Winter won't be a starter here. I understand that whenever our management hears plusvalenza they jizz their pants. But I still think having De Winter around as backup is cheaper than signing another CB for a backup role. Unless Giuntuli believes he will never even compete with Rugani.
Overall I hope that once the dust has settled we continue with the NG project, add a progressive coach and then sell those we actually don't see add any value and acquire true assets. My dream is to purchase starters and maybe some rotational players where our own youngster don't cut it. But overall fill the bench with our own developed players. So, forthcoming seasons get rid of coach and deadwood but let some stick around to see if they can earn a spot or become rotational players until we have kids to take over. In this example, that would for example be players like Locatelli who I think can be a useful players to have around but maybe he isn't a starter in a team that eventually competes for CL.
That's just a dream though.
Anyway. To turn it back to De Winter and relate to it what I am trying to say. Maybe De Winter won't be a starter here. I understand that whenever our management hears plusvalenza they jizz their pants. But I still think having De Winter around as backup is cheaper than signing another CB for a backup role. Unless Giuntuli believes he will never even compete with Rugani.
