Nicolò Zaniolo - AM RC - Galatasaray (14 Viewers)

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It doesn't matter about who's better, it's about being prudent with the rather limited budget we have at the moment. We can easily see out season with Kostic, Di Maria, Chiesa and Cuadrado/Soule as our wingers, and it will cost you at most €18-20m. We can't, however, see out this season with our current defense, and it'll already be an incredibly expensive feat trying to revamp it in time for the start of the season. Buying a player like Zaniolo just because 'but but he's Italian and a juventino' is silly and makes this rebuild unecessarily even harder.
Great post but it’s flawed for 1 reason. If the rumored deal is true, a 10m loan + 35m obligation next year, you can only count the 10m to this year’s budget and 35m would be deferred to next year in a financial sense. So from a budgeting standpoint we wouldn’t even be taking a big hit this year.

I think it was always pretty clear what the club was trying to do; Get Di Maria on a 1/2 year deal and replace him with Zaniolo when he moves back to Argentina. For this year it was either Zaniolo or Kostic, and the club seems to prefer the former.
 

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Great post but it’s flawed for 1 reason. If the rumored deal is true, a 10m loan + 35m obligation next year, you can only count the 10m to this year’s budget and 35m would be deferred to next year in a financial sense. So from a budgeting standpoint we wouldn’t even be taking a big hit this year.

I think it was always pretty clear what the club was trying to do; Get Di Maria on a 1/2 year deal and replace him with Zaniolo when he moves back to Argentina. For this year it was either Zaniolo or Kostic, and the club seems to prefer the former.
I hadn't thought about that, thanks for pointing it out. Anyhow, I'd still rather we used this money on another winger, like Diaby. This guy is a massive risk
 

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Regarding injury history, I'm a lot more comfortable with a player that has knee issues than a player that has soft tissue problems (i.e., a history of hamstring strains and tears). Hamstring and other soft tissues have a way higher chance of reoccurring. Ramsey and Dybala are good examples of that. Knee ligament tears are just bad luck and can be avoided by strengthening.
 

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It doesn't matter about who's better, it's about being prudent with the rather limited budget we have at the moment. We can easily see out season with Kostic, Di Maria, Chiesa and Cuadrado/Soule as our wingers, and it will cost you at most €18-20m. We can't, however, see out this season with our current defense, and it'll already be an incredibly expensive feat trying to revamp it in time for the start of the season. Buying a player like Zaniolo just because 'but but he's Italian and a juventino' is silly and makes this rebuild unecessarily even harder.
The Zaniolo deal is being drawn up as a loan which actually postpones the costs and gives us more room to invest in other areas, pal...

PS: Chiesa is still injured, Cuads is needed at RB and Soulé is an unknown quantity at that level, no matter how you spin it.
 

TheLaz

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Before the injuries

Zaniolo >> Chiesa


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Before his injury he was THE talent of Italian football

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The Zaniolo deal is being drawn up as a loan which actually postpones the costs and gives us more room to invest in other areas, pal...

PS: Chiesa is still injured, Cuads is needed at RB and Soulé is an unknown quantity at that level, no matter how you spin it.
I think the formula of an expensive loan with an option is perfect. If he's shit or getting injured bad he was only an expensive loan. If he's mamma mia we have our next top player at a fair price. Good deal if we can get this over the line at €10m loan + €35m permanent
 
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    This guy also said we signed Rudiger so we should still calma.
     

    DanielSz

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    Lol @ “no one else wants Zaniolo“

    yeah, because he only wants Juve. It’s like with Locatelli. People really convinced themselves that only arsenal and Juve were interested, when in reality it was just Juve with Arsenal, the clingy chic, hovering in the background.
     
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