Samuel Mbangula (22 Viewers)

Buck Fuddy

Lara Chedraoui fanboy
May 22, 2009
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I think that is what it was designed for mostly, truth be told. Now and then a mainstay or wonderkid will come through, but 95% of players are just investments. Chelsea do this but with a first team squad of 50 players and 40m purchases.

What bothers me is that we're happy with the fee because it looks OK on the balance sheet, as we only paid a nominal fee for him, rather than trying to get the best fee for him.
What bothers me is that we have no problem spending more money on players who aren't reinforcements. Most recently, we just sign more expensive but inferior players than the ones we had to begin with.
I know, accounting tricks & it looks good in the short term, but it's an absolutely retarded long term strategy. This club would spend €100 million next season, just to save €1 million today.

About 75% of our squad, if I'm being generous, are now players that would have been sold asap (for the lowest possible figures) if they had come through the ranks at Juve. (And, of course, some of the expected reinforcements haven't turned out great either.)
 
Jul 15, 2002
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Mbangula is a young player on low wages that has some upside. We could have used him as a rotational player for another year and then sold him for more if we wanted to. I really don't get the logic. We are too eager to get a plusvulenza from this guy. If you really want Sancho, then fund it through Nico.
 

Robee

Senior Member
Jun 21, 2011
7,218
Je was rotational, yet imapctful player, played solid amount of games in Serie A, and we’re giving him for peanuts. If he was at Bologna, we would be paying them 30 mil to get him.
Under Motta. The problem is Tudor here. Totally cut off the momentum of Sammiboy.
 

Alin

FINO ALLA FINE!
Jul 27, 2015
6,705
I still hope there’s at least some sort of future sell % included in this deal for it to make sense, but i ain’t seeing it being reported anywhere, making it even the more baffling.
 

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