Matías Soulé (9 Viewers)
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There aren't, that's the sad part. No one really wants rest of our rejects, let alone pay 30m for them like Soule. So he was sold simply for financial reasons.
If they could sell other deadweight for similar sum they would have.
The best discarded player deal they got was Kean for 12m euro. The rest aren't moving at all or moving for under 10m deals.
If they could sell other deadweight for similar sum they would have.
The best discarded player deal they got was Kean for 12m euro. The rest aren't moving at all or moving for under 10m deals.
You may don't care, but it's litterally why it's done in this current insanely bad financial state of the club. Getting pure profit on the entire sale amount, while anyone who they sign now on overall similar total sum, will only count for a fraction of it for this year's accounting.
As you been told before, they doing this to prolong it to future calendar years when they hope for better financial health for the club.
But without the pure profit of sales, especially youngsters with lost cost on our own books, they wouldn't be able to legit do any signings for this summer. This is by financial necessity not by choice.
If it was purely by choice clearly Soule would still be in Juve squad.
You're not telling me anything I don't already know my man. 
I work in IT and finance.
There's always another option, like not buying some of the players we have purchased or are rumored to purchase.
If Soule was on a massive salary or his contract was expiring, I wouldn't have a problem with it. But that's not the case.
And if the argument is we sold Soule to fund Koop, well, then where is Koop? There's no guarantee we will sign him this window either.
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It's not even an immediate fix if we don't purchase our main targets.
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Or, here's another example of where I would accept the reasoning to sell Soule.
If we didn't come up with 25M by August 1st, then we would go into administration or not be able to register for the 24/25 season.
But again, that's not the case here.
I work in IT and finance.There's always another option, like not buying some of the players we have purchased or are rumored to purchase.
If Soule was on a massive salary or his contract was expiring, I wouldn't have a problem with it. But that's not the case.
And if the argument is we sold Soule to fund Koop, well, then where is Koop? There's no guarantee we will sign him this window either.
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It's not even an immediate fix if we don't purchase our main targets.
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Or, here's another example of where I would accept the reasoning to sell Soule.
If we didn't come up with 25M by August 1st, then we would go into administration or not be able to register for the 24/25 season.
But again, that's not the case here.
I'm not saying its especially smart, but it's a cost saving one for short term gain.
They have to adapt to what they got, took over management after no CL and huge FFP problem with squad of overpaid rejects.
I would like to keep Soule too instead of get profit for him, but what do you suggest to be done if they don't have funds to work with unless they sell the more expendable profitable assets?
My main issue is that this has been our strategy for too long. Spinazzola being the first high profile example, iirc. Players or prospects needing to be sold immediately because otherwise we can't pay the bills/meet FFP criteria/buy random players/whatever. That's just terrible management.
Just last winter, both Dragusin & De Winter had to be sold immediately for a few million each. Creative accounting aside, explain me how either one of them could not have taken Rugani's place?
Better yet, now we're scrambling to sign a defender. Any defender from the looks of it. It's not going to be plan A, apparently it's not going to be plan B either. So I'm just going to assume that the only criterium that future player has to meet is that he's a defender.
(I'm not a big Soulé fan, so that specific deal doesn't even bother me in the slightest. My initial post was made just to point out that we've been making these kinds of shortsighted deals for years now.)
But to answer your question, what I would do is simple: Don't spend money you don't have. It's good advice, both for football clubs & the general public.
Just last winter, both Dragusin & De Winter had to be sold immediately for a few million each. Creative accounting aside, explain me how either one of them could not have taken Rugani's place?
Better yet, now we're scrambling to sign a defender. Any defender from the looks of it. It's not going to be plan A, apparently it's not going to be plan B either. So I'm just going to assume that the only criterium that future player has to meet is that he's a defender.
(I'm not a big Soulé fan, so that specific deal doesn't even bother me in the slightest. My initial post was made just to point out that we've been making these kinds of shortsighted deals for years now.)
But to answer your question, what I would do is simple: Don't spend money you don't have. It's good advice, both for football clubs & the general public.
But to answer your question, what I would do is simple: Don't spend money you don't have. It's good advice, both for football clubs & the general public.
Seems like Toli the leader of our junta, heard you. Seems like that's exactly the plan for this summer except for handful of signings lol. Backed out of Calafiori and now Todibo due to lack of funds. And seems to be offering loan with obligation for most deals (or player swaps in case of Luiz)
Only big cash signing he seems willing to do seems to be Koopmeiners.