How is Atl Madrid exactly a one season wonder?
In the Champions League I mean, I don't see them or Dormund going far for some time
1st, you underrate the importance of winning the league
2nd, as good as they have been last few years, comparing us to Atletico and Dortmund is a joke.
3rd, you downplay the potential this club has yet to achieve, as well as the progress we already made in the past few years in all areas
4th, you think selling one player would make this club a mediocre team and that we will suddenly start selling every player that has any value
and 5th, you think we wouldnt be able to attract any top players if we sell one player which, if you look at the past few years, is nonsense
you probably thought our domination is over and we have no ambition back then when we let Conte go, so its not really surprising you think the future of this club depends on if one players stays or goes
1. No I'm not, Serie A is rather unattractive at the moment. Winning it
alone while doing poorly in the CL would make us more vulnerable to the best players wanting to leave.
2. The comparisson to Dortmund and A.Madrid remains valid, so long as we start selling our best players. So far we haven't, so that's fine. But if we do start selling the likes of Pogba etc, this could easily set of a chain reaction within the squad, that could take place over several years.
3. I don't we have a brilliant team, and I think the one we have potentially can reach to all sorts of new heights. Hence why I want us to show ambition by keeping our best players.
4. Selling Pogba won't make us medicore, but it gives a message to the rest of the players that we have accepted to be 2nd tier permenantly. If we sell to Real Madrid or Barcelona then the damage won't be as bad, because they're like the top of the foodchain for players at the moment. Most teams struggle to keep their best players when they come knocking. However selling Pogba to Man City or PSG is a disaster, it's as if we accepted that we're not their level, and can send to a negative vibe for the rest of the team.
5. Potentially, yes you can. Many players have joined teams because of one or two players. If Pogba does become the best player in the world, then it becomes easier to attract the best. Many joined Barcelona because they wanted to play next to messi. Heck even Ibrahimovic apparently said he joined AC Milan, because he wanted to play alongside Ronaldinho, though he had clearly passed it.
didn't think we lacked ambition when Conte left, so your argument is invalid, I actually held him partly responsible for our European failures.
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6th you're not taking the Agnelli factor into account. We're not some poor feeder club.
Well currently we're not, and this is the message we should maintain to the rest of Europe.