Nicolò Zaniolo - AM - Roma (4 Viewers)
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And who says we're going to pay €60M?
We still have Dybala, Ronaldo, Kulusevski, the new backup CF and his place in the starting lineup is largely going to depend on the formation we're going to play.
Besides he's coming from a long layoff and his body of work is worse than Kulusevski this season who I assume he's going to compete with. Heck there's more certainty of Chiesa locking down a starting spot than Zaniolo since he's fairly more experienced.
This is just classic overrating of an Italian youth all because the club currently is facing a shortage of quality Italian players.
We still have Dybala, Ronaldo, Kulusevski, the new backup CF and his place in the starting lineup is largely going to depend on the formation we're going to play.
Besides he's coming from a long layoff and his body of work is worse than Kulusevski this season who I assume he's going to compete with. Heck there's more certainty of Chiesa locking down a starting spot than Zaniolo since he's fairly more experienced.
This is just classic overrating of an Italian youth all because the club currently is facing a shortage of quality Italian players.
We spent 40m for Kulu and the reported price range of Zaniolo is much higher. Again, we aren't going to spend that kind of money for a bench player. Pogba had literally zero experience with any kind of consistency before coming here and he locked down that starting spot rather quickly. Sublime talents can achieve great things and Zaniolo still has the rest of the season AND whatever break there is PLUS a few games to get integrated to get full match fitness left.
Bar any reoccurring injuries to his knee, a 21 year old won't have a problem getting 90 mins in his legs back.
To your point on Kulu & Chiesa: Again, have you seen our attack options beyond Dybala & Ronaldo? It wouldn't take either of them long to start against Bernie/Costa and if we look to sell Costa and use Bernie as a deal maker then you can rest assured the odds are in favor for Kulu & Zaniolo starting because it doesn't look like we are going to add more CM/AM/FWs other than those two so far.
Bar any reoccurring injuries to his knee, a 21 year old won't have a problem getting 90 mins in his legs back.
To your point on Kulu & Chiesa: Again, have you seen our attack options beyond Dybala & Ronaldo? It wouldn't take either of them long to start against Bernie/Costa and if we look to sell Costa and use Bernie as a deal maker then you can rest assured the odds are in favor for Kulu & Zaniolo starting because it doesn't look like we are going to add more CM/AM/FWs other than those two so far.
I don't doubt that he will eventually be a starter. He is clearly very talented.
But all I'm saying is there's no certainty he'd walk into our lineup straight away. He will ofcourse get substantial minutes but probably not to the point where he's a certainty in the starting eleven. I think we need to go a bit easy on young players tbh, especially Italian players. We've seen this time and time again when an Italian player shows some promise early in his career and then his career fizzles away just like that. Forgive me if I'm not trustful of Italian talents these days.
On the point of money, De Ligt would have also seen the bench if not for Chiellini's injury. So it's irrelevant how much Zaniolo would end up costing because that wouldn't be a key factor in him being sure shot starter or not.
But all I'm saying is there's no certainty he'd walk into our lineup straight away. He will ofcourse get substantial minutes but probably not to the point where he's a certainty in the starting eleven. I think we need to go a bit easy on young players tbh, especially Italian players. We've seen this time and time again when an Italian player shows some promise early in his career and then his career fizzles away just like that. Forgive me if I'm not trustful of Italian talents these days.
On the point of money, De Ligt would have also seen the bench if not for Chiellini's injury. So it's irrelevant how much Zaniolo would end up costing because that wouldn't be a key factor in him being sure shot starter or not.
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