Live Mercato Meltdown - 2012/13 (pants filled in 3,2...) (135 Viewers)

[Trequartista]

Aww yeah, the Gila Monster.

What other options are there?

Floccari, Bendtner, Borriello, etc.

 

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[alexjuventino]

Floccari, Bendtner, Borriello, etc.

Dzeko, Llorente, Doumbia, Lewodonski, Jovetic

 

[Red]

You like him?

Nah.

Used to be okay and thought he was a bit hard done by when at Milan, but he's been shit for the last couple of years.

Anyway, judgement on him must take into account that apart from RVP - for whom United clearly overpayed, and Juve couldn't compete with because of wages - none of the other top strikers Juve wanted are in the market. Their teams just won't sell them. Including City, at least while they don't buy a striker.

There wasn't anything like as much movement on the striker market as I would have expected.

The main bits that failed to materialise that I anticipated were one of City's strikers moving and I thought Real Madrid might bring someone in and sell Higuain.

The only one I think was a real mistake by Marotta was not signing Pazzini.

 

[YasoR17]

In Marotta we trust.

 

[Trequartista]

Time to re-open his thread, Red

http://forum.juventuz.org/threads/3...rentina-ST/page22?highlight=alberto+gilardino

 

[PedroFlu]

So far, Marotta failed in getting the player who would make the difference upfront - but his task was very difficult. And he chose not to do an expensive gamble, like Doumbia or Lewandoski.

But the rest of the mercato was very good, even though he didn't addressed the LWB position directly. The main players he brought:
Pogba - very good, with WC potential, for free
Asamoah - very good, WC potential, plays in midfield and LWB;
Isla - very good, can be WC as a WRB;
Giovinco - good player, with the pontential to be very good, in a position we needed - SS

Gotta wait to see if he'll manage to offload dead weight - but considering he didn't fill in the team biggest need - a guy who can score - but made some good deals, I'd give him 6/10 so far.

 

[Red]

Time to re-open his thread, Red

http://forum.juventuz.org/threads/3...rentina-ST/page22?highlight=alberto+gilardino

Perhaps we should just skip discussions in that thread and crack open a player thread for him.

Seems to be the done thing these days.

 

[Trequartista]

Perhaps we should just skip discussions in that thread and crack open a player thread for him.

Seems to be the done thing these days.

Mark

 

[Stevie]

The players we used to joke about are now realistic options this is just sick.

 

[alexjuventino]

The players we used to joke about are now realistic options this is just sick.

They are all woorld class according to marotta, thats the only reason we are going after them

 

[Trequartista]

Well, Gila is a world cup champion

 

[ALC]

Floccari, Bendtner, Borriello, etc.

Forget I asked

 

[Alen]

This was very very pathetic. Marotta claims that he offered a deal when he heard Berbatov rejected Fiorentina. But come on - the guy was almost in Firenze already. Of course he tried to hijack the deal, along with Fulham.

I don't think it's what happened. It's hard to believe that two teams at the same time tried to hijack a deal. I think that Berbatov was having second thoughts about Fiorentina and he asked his agents to spread the news around. That's how Juve and Fulham learned about it and tried to get Berbatov.

 

[alexjuventino]

Sky SPoRtS- Marotta has commited suicide after being unable to obtain the Wc player named Borriello

 

[Zacheryah]

Nah.

Used to be okay and thought he was a bit hard done by when at Milan, but he's been shit for the last couple of years.





There wasn't anything like as much movement on the striker market as I would have expected.

The main bits that failed to materialise that I anticipated were one of City's strikers moving and I thought Real Madrid might bring someone in and sell Higuain.

The only one I think was a real mistake by Marotta was not signing Pazzini.

I agree with this entirely, altho i wonder what the price would have been considering they got cassano and 7 mil for him

 

[Mark]

Perhaps we should just skip discussions in that thread and crack open a player thread for him.

Seems to be the done thing these days.

Mark

ENOUGH! moves permanently to twitter were all sauces are accepted. CIAO!

 

[GarfielD]

So who is the main target now?

?

 

[PedroFlu]

I don't think it's what happened. It's hard to believe that two teams at the same time tried to hijack a deal. I think that Berbatov was having second thoughts about Fiorentina and he asked his agents to spread the news around. That's how Juve and Fulham learned about it and tried to get Berbatov.

To me this is still hijacking a deal.

Anyway, the damage is done, regardless.

 

[Mark]

So who is the main target now?

?

him, if he doesn't reject us.

 

[RAVANELLI]

Perhaps we should just skip discussions in that thread and crack open a player thread for him.

Seems to be the done thing these days.

him, if he doesn't reject us.

what do you guys think is gonna happen?

this is crazy