Sebastian Giovinco (58 Viewers)

Would you bring Giovinco back next season?

  • Yeah, we could use him

  • Nope, get rid of him


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Delle Alpi

Chemical Dean
May 26, 2009
8,679
It's his loss! We the fans love him, and this would do more harm to him than he could know. He is talking out of anger, which usually is not the best thing to do. He should have just refused to answer or gave the politcally correct answer, because things you might say might not be big deal at the time you say it, but it could definitely come back to hunt him. He is very emotional and obviously hurt, but he should know better that this is not the way to handle the situation.
 

Alen

Ѕenior Аdmin
Apr 2, 2007
53,941
But we basically sold him. There is no way Parma won't take the chance. Old Juventus could get him back like we did with Chiellini but current Juve has no weight nor influence.
I think that Parma has the rights to buy his half. If they do that, the two teams will have to decide who keeps him for the next season. If no agreement is reached, then it goes to blind bidding for the 2nd half.

It will come down to our wish to bring him back or not. Seba, imo, no matter what he says now, will accept to come back if he is convinced that we seriously count on him. If we don't, then he'd like to stay in Parma and we will let him stay in Parma.
Nothing big is really lost. We might lose a million or two in the process if we want him back, but as things look we will want him back only if he has a hell of a season and if he does have such a season, losing a million or two won't be a problem.
 

Suns

Release clause?
May 22, 2009
22,086
I think that Parma has the rights to buy his half. If they do that, the two teams will have to decide who keeps him for the next season. If no agreement is reached, then it goes to blind bidding for the 2nd half.

It will come down to our wish to bring him back or not. Seba, imo, no matter what he says now, will accept to come back if he is convinced that we seriously count on him. If we don't, then he'd like to stay in Parma and we will let him stay in Parma.
Nothing big is really lost. We might lose a million or two in the process if we want him back, but as things look we will want him back only if he has a hell of a season and if he does have such a season, losing a million or two won't be a problem.
1 goal + 1 assist in 2 games, its a good start at least :)
 
May 22, 2007
37,256
He's a Juve fan or he isn't, he doesn't have a technical debt to us but if he really is Juventino then it makes his comments poorly thought out.
I don't know where he's gone around boasting that he's a Juventus fan? I thought he was a Milan fan in childhood (correct me if I'm wrong on that), but I don't see the significance. At the end of the day he has to make his own career, he doesn't have the luxury of football fans who have careers outside of the sport, who can just change clubs whenever they feel like it to make themselves happy, so I fully understand why he'd celebrate scoring against a big team like Juventus. As I said, it's not like he's saying he'll spit on the shirt and celebrate in front of the Juventus fans. If he does, then it's a completely different story.

He has certainly whined a lot since he has been out of the side and then at Parma, even thought he acknowledged he could have done a lot better in terms of performances.
I don't know if you read the interview in Tuttosport? http://www.tuttosport.com/calcio/se...cata+di+Giovinco:+«Se+segno+alla+Juve+esulto»

Alcune domande sulla Juve...
«Basta, quello che dovevo dire l’ho già detto, ora basta».


The media just keep going to back to Juventus at every opportunity, he's not going out of his way (like Criscito did at times) to bad mouth Juventus when he felt like it.

Regarding the part where you said he acknowledged he could have done a lot better in terms of performances, he was referring to training where he said something along the lines of "I wish I could have done more in training". If a large part of the football world was hyping me up as a huge talent, I wouldn't be happy with spending most of my time on the bench either. I think it's a good quality for a player to be desperate to play football at every opportunity possible, he's not exactly blowing his own trumpet in all of this.
 

Osman

Koul Khara!
Aug 30, 2002
61,499
I thought it was obvious that he would get a lot of media attention if he performed well at Parma, especially questions about Juventus. He's a huge talking point for a player who has shown just promise (on top of being labelled the next Del Piero), journalists will be all over him above any other Parma player after matches, and controversial questions are their thing. I found it funny in the FI article, "Parma midfielder Sebastian Giovinco has promised to celebrate if he scores against Juventus this season", trying to stir up some controversy.

He's not even attacking the club. Players don't take up football to be loyal to one club above all others, they do it for a living. It's his career, not Juventus'. What he said in the interview was truth though, it was the fans who got behind him but nobody at the club wanted to make the same commitment. It's not like he's saying he'll run over to the Juventus support and perform a gesto dell'ombrello.

I find it weird that fans find that players have to have some sort of honour to this club. Sort of like when we got relegated in Serie B, and a certain player who said that the players won those two Scudetti on the pitch fairly, yet he gets slaughtered by some (naming him a traitor) because Juventus sold him to the club who was offering the most money (which benefited Juventus after all).
:tup: :tup:
 

Gamaro

The Arabian Knight
Aug 6, 2007
1,289
I think that Parma has the rights to buy his half. If they do that, the two teams will have to decide who keeps him for the next season. If no agreement is reached, then it goes to blind bidding for the 2nd half.

It will come down to our wish to bring him back or not. Seba, imo, no matter what he says now, will accept to come back if he is convinced that we seriously count on him. If we don't, then he'd like to stay in Parma and we will let him stay in Parma.
Nothing big is really lost. We might lose a million or two in the process if we want him back, but as things look we will want him back only if he has a hell of a season and if he does have such a season, losing a million or two won't be a problem.
I also do think that Parma own only the half.
:hellyes: for the rest.
Sounds like Juve's 2009-2010 season. :seven:
Swag i noticed that u like this icon :pado: too much.:D
 

SABSAB

Snoop Stinks
Dec 10, 2008
10,832
Between, someone thought about respect towards the current club? This goes to every player, the whole I-won't celebrate-against-my-team crew should think about what impression that leaves on teammates, coach, manager, fans. You simply say that you don't care about the team you are playing for. Neither heart nor head in the game, as a coach I wouldn't use such a player. I think it's really disrespectful, it's betraying your employer and the supporters that cheer for you.
This has two sides, might be a good idea for some people here to remove their black and white glasses (the giovinco glasses too!) and use the two soaked paninis in their head which some call a brain.


Apart from that: he won't come back anyway, nothing left to lose.
 

Alen

Ѕenior Аdmin
Apr 2, 2007
53,941
I also do think that Parma own only the half.
:hellyes: for the rest.
Actually, right now Parma own nothing at all. He's just a Juve owned player on loan to Parma.
Next summer Parma will have the right to buy 50% of Seba's contract for 3m eur. If they do that, then Giovinco will be owned by both Juve and Parma.
 

awit

Senior Member
Jan 10, 2010
2,571
Loaning him out was the right thing to do since he was never going to be a regular starter in Del Neri's plans. I don't care what he says about Juve, I hope he has a good season and comes back next season. Of course if that happens and the history repeats itself he will be called an infidel and a traitor and whatnot by some people on these forums but luckily the fans in Turin probably won't feel the same way. I still have faith in him becoming a star for Juventus in the next few years.
 

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