Do you guys know that 39 different players played for Juve this year in the official serie A, EL and Coppa matches? That's almost 40 different players. Almost two full squads.
7( or 8 if we count Sorensen) are from primavera, but the other 32(31) players were senior players.
As things stand right now we have 26 senior players (counting Sorensen too) in the squad
GK: Buffon, Storari, Manninger
DR: Motta, Sorensen, Salihamidzic, Grygera
DL: Grosso, De Ceglie, Traore
DC: Barzagli, Chiellini, Bonucci, Rinaudo
MC: Aquilani, Melo, Sissoko, Marchisio
MR: Krasic, Pepe
ML: Martinez
SC: Quagliarella, Iaquinta, Toni, Matri, Del Piero
Amauri, Lanzafame, Tiago, Pasquato, Marrone, Immobile are still owned by Juve and will return to us in the summer
Giovinco, Palladino, Ekdal, Almiron and Ariaudo are half owned by us and another club.
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Salihamidizic will leave in the summer, but that still leaves us with 25 senior players from the current squad+Amauri, Lanzafame, Tiago.
Ideally the team should have 22 senior players (two for every position) and the rest could be from primavera. In the summer we will have 6 senior players more than needed, so no matter how many new players we buy, we should sell that same number of players+6.
If we take a risk, then instead of 22 senior players we'll go with 20 senior players so in that case we can buy 2-3 good/great players and get rid of ~10 senior players.
cheers for laying it out like that, alen...clearly the larger task for marotta, is not the hunt for new players to strengthen the squad, but the very obvious, serious difficulties surrounding selling our shit players. I really have no desire to see Pepe stay, better to accept the loss of 2.5 (?) and not pay the extra 7.5. Motta, traore...and unless he shows soon a massive upsurge in aquilani...all can go...they are loaned, so we dont need to find clubs willing to take them. Rinaudo also...sali's contract expires...so there are 6 senior players OUT, straight away. no hard work for marotta, all he has to do is have Momo drive them to the airport (or off a cliff)...
now...as far as i recall, annoying as it is, from a purely financial aspect, taigo's contract also expires this summer, so we get nothing for him.
Momo, Amauri, Iaquinta, Grosso, Lanzafame, Palladino, Almiron, Ariuado...ALL can be sold, whether we have 50% or 100% presently of their registrations. If we can get rid of momo, amauri, iaquinta, grosso, thats another 4 players out of the senior squad...so, before purchasing anyone, other than quags and matri, (both of whom, especially matri i am certain we will buy...cagliari would not have let their best striker leave, without a decent replacement, halfway through the season, unless they were sure they would get their $$$ in full) we would have :
GK- buffon, storari ( + manninger???or does his contract expire 2012?)
D-barzagli, chiellini, Bonnucci
LB- de ceglie
rb -
cm - melo, marchisio
rw- krasic
left wing forward???---martinez
ss- dp, quags
prima punta- toni, matri
thats 14/15...up front we look ok, capable. krasic definitely needs someone to challenge him and give him a break on the right. im still unsure what martinez is..whether left winger or left wide forward...either way we clearly need someone on the left of midfield, if we ever want decent balance with krasic...why not giovinco?...could ekdal come home to be useful backup for CM???? and we will need not just one but two rbs...or one wicked rb and one promoted from primavera...
so giovinco for LW...a classy RB...challenger to de ceglie at LB....backup for CM...backup for krasic..RW...
of the 'Momo, Amauri, Iaquinta, Grosso, Lanzafame, Palladino, Almiron, Ariuado' crowd...selling momo is more than possible, but iaquinta, amauri, grosso?????very hard to even give away, and all earning horribly high wages with us...