Regardless of Giovinco's talent, Juventine has made some excellent & objective points in this thread.
But, as usual, objectivity isn't really welcome around these parts.
Let me try and refute those excellent points:
So Pato, Jovetic, Balotelli, Hernandez, Pastore, Paloschi and etc are 29? or Are they playing in Premier League or what?
Pato, Hernandez, Pastore and Paloschi were bought for big money by their resprective clubs, ergo, bought to play, as they are seen as developed players, not youngsters, not to sit on the bench (Paloschi, IIRC, very rarely played for his home club - AC Milan, despite his qualities, which further supports Dooz's point). Jovetic plays under Prandelli, who has a history of developing young players, but I'll give you that. Balotelli plays under a Portuguese coach, where the argument "Italians don't play youngsters" doesn't apply.
Giovinco himself has always said he wants to stay at Juve. It's his own choice. Besides except Arsenal(and at the moment when Giovinco was requiring a new contract. We don't know Arsenal was really interested or not anyway because there are a lot of transfer rumors and most of which are made by these agents), is there ever any big name interested in him? The answer is no and no.
We could have used him as a bargaining chip 3 times, if I remember correctly, we haven't, because supposedly, we want him to stay as well, so it's 50-50.
1. I'm not sure about that. I watched Messi, Iniesta and Co. closely. Nobody can bully them off the ball. And Giovinco can't control the ball like they do (If the defenders make "contraste" with him, they can rob him off the ball or knock him out without being considered as a foul).
This point I'll concede, even though I think it hugely comes down to match practice and experience, but now I don't see a reason how to support it.
2. Pedro and Co. know how to shoot in movement. Pedro scored the winning goal for Barcelona once he got his limited playing time. Giovinco rarely score in movement (in 20+ matches, he can score like 1 goal in movement). Not once has he ever scored a winning goal even for the Italy U-21. Not once has he ever socred a winning goal in movement for Juve and certainly he didn't only start once for Juve = =
Try to find all Giovinco's matches (including the Empoli and U-21 ones) and make a HL about him scoring (not by freekick, I give credit to his good freekicks), I doubt you can make a decent-length video of him shooting.
Pedro is a striker, Giovinco is a winger/trequartista. Giovinco's job is not score goals, but to create chances (that's basically saying that Diego is a worse player than Iaquinta, because Iaquinta scores more goals), which (AHA!) is our main problem at the moment. We can't create chances. And as we have only two other players whose job is to create chances, Diego and Camo, and Camo is currently injured, and thus our attack has become sooo predictable, that's why people want Giovinco. I hope that now you understand, that it's not about Giovinco being a savior, but that his current qualities and abilites might be just the thing this team is lacking. And if we look into the past, we see that with the Gio-Diego-Camo trident behind the lone striker we played the best football, well, that only supports the notion that Giovinco must be doing something right.
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I am not hailing Gio as our savior, but surely he deserves a chance. The team is looking hopeless as it is; there can't possibly be any harm in trying something different. At least we know he adds pace and creativity. I am bored of watching a boring, disgusting, workmanlike Juve. In fact, we look more dysfunctional and static as every weeks goes by!
