Sebastian Giovinco (131 Viewers)

[JCK]

10 million got Juventus Elia last year. Now who would you rather have, Giovinco or Elia?

Elia any day of the week and twice one a matchday.

 

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[Delle Alpi]

I would rather to have Giovinco to warm the bench instead. He won't take much space!

 

[JCK]

I would rather to have Giovinco to warm the bench instead. He won't take much space!

Giovinco does not want to warm the bench, he wants guarantees and jersey number 10.

 

[Delle Alpi]

Giovinco does not want to warm the bench, he wants guarantees and jersey number 10.

For a small fella, he tends to ask for a lot! I hope he get shipped to Napoli with a bag of $ for Cavani! He is made for midtable teams, where he can shine without any pressure. Juve is too big of a team for him to handle.

 

[Suns]

Ya'll are over analyzing this way too much. Just get him back and let them fight it out for the starting spot. The one who plays the best and Conte likes the most will get to play. I have no idea why we're talking about clutchness(the same "problem" that people for years wanted to discredit Messi, Ronaldo and Ibra for as if this was basketball or some shit like that) or that coaches 2-3 ago benched him. He has shown this year that he is one of the best offensive players and we're fortunate enough to already own 50% of him. Now lets try it out and see what happens.

 

[Juve_Kosova]

love watching the internet tough guys here...

 

[swag]

Giovinco does not want to warm the bench, he wants guarantees and jersey number 10.

Exactly. He wants something we can't even offer Del Piero this season.

 

[Zlatan]

Given equal opportunities as Mirko, Gio would replace him in the first 11 by January.


Hopefully they can play together tho.

 

[Delle Alpi]

Exactly. He wants something we can't even offer Del Piero this season.

No player should be given a guarantee to play/start. They have to earn it.

 

[Juve_Kosova]

Ya'll are over analyzing this way too much. Just get him back and let them fight it out for the starting spot. The one who plays the best and Conte likes the most will get to play. I have no idea why we're talking about clutchness(the same "problem" that people for years wanted to discredit Messi, Ronaldo and Ibra for as if this was basketball or some $#@! like that) or that coaches 2-3 ago benched him. He has shown this year that he is one of the best offensive players and we're fortunate enough to already own 50% of him. Now lets try it out and see what happens.

 

[adriano_c]

love watching the internet tough guys here...

Name names, man! Pasting pictures is for PUSSIES.

 

[Hydde]

Ya'll are over analyzing this way too much. Just get him back and let them fight it out for the starting spot. The one who plays the best and Conte likes the most will get to play. I have no idea why we're talking about clutchness(the same "problem" that people for years wanted to discredit Messi, Ronaldo and Ibra for as if this was basketball or some $#@! like that) or that coaches 2-3 ago benched him. He has shown this year that he is one of the best offensive players and we're fortunate enough to already own 50% of him. Now lets try it out and see what happens.

Definitely, just let them fight for the spot, and the rest depends on them.

 

[GordoDeCentral]

Given equal opportunities as Mirko, Gio would replace him in the first 11 by January.


Hopefully they can play together tho.

so much evidence to back that up

 

[v1rtu4l]

yeah, just get him and if he does not earn his spot it's his problem and he may leave for good

 

[Khunglongkhelua]

yeah, just get him and if he does not earn his spot it's his problem and he may leave for good

No, sell him after this season to have the best price. If he comes back to Juve people will soon realize how mediocre he is and his price tag drops.

 

[napoleonic]

the reason gio is doomed to be mid table team hero forever is his physical, otherwise his best chance is only to be as a sub in big clubs; the reason is that in smaller clubs, opponents won't double man mark him as if he's the starting 11 in a big club, in a big club he can still play good against any teams that can't defend like novara, roma etc... but against teams with decent defense or CL class big match, giovinco will have a hard time playing his game as a starting 11, they will be prepared for him and man mark him.

as a sub he's honestly quite perfect for big clubs because of his speed and technical ability will certainly bring some new dimension towards opponent

super sub or sell his ass or even better use his ass as bargaining chip.

 

[JCK]

so much evidence to back that up

Rocking the nation with Parma....Gilardino did the same.

 

[Rollie]

can be useful yes, can be relied upon? no. as much as mirko is criticized for disappearing he still came through huge and gio has not shown that and will prolly never show it. So to once again to say that gio is better than mirko is simply laughable.

Right, well I'm certainly not arguing that Giovinco is better than Vucinic, obviously one has accomplished far more in Serie A than the other. I'm a Mirko fan. He's also had more opportunities though, and form is variable - especially with Vucinic. Giovinco hasn't proven that Juventus can rely on him, but we know that circumstances have changed dramatically at the club from a couple years ago. Conte has done wonders with a lot of our players, it's been beautiful to watch. If the price is reasonable, communication is good and egos are in check, I think it provides us with some very nice depth. You just can't predict injuries, form, or life in general, and Juventus need to start acquiring 2 starting caliber players per position, if the club is going to excel in Europe. Considering we own a stake in the player, it's a fairly minimal risk to bring him back to the club, and he could eventually excel. If he does well at the Euro's, well, Giovinco's quite a marketable player -people like the underdog. Because of his characteristics, I think he'll continue to be a valued commodity around Italy, and should be easy to sell if things don't work out.

For 10M, he's a good purchase for me.

Both in 4-3-3 and 3-5-2 Giovinco's rival for a starting spot is Vucinic.

Our opinion and rating of both players aside, lets take a look at it this way:

- Three days ago Vucinic said that Conte was the one who strongly pushed for him. Even if he didn't say that, it was obvious that Conte has a soft spot for Mirko. The man plays him no matter what.
- Marotta says that we will buy only one player or two. Might or might not be true, but I guess that we do plan to spend a lot of money only on one or two players, with the rest being very cheap signings or free transfers.


Since Giovinco will probably cost us some 10m eur if it goes to blind bidding, I have doubts that we'll decide to spend that much on someone who's destined to spend lot of time on the bench. Ideally, we'd get him because I sincerely doubt we will buy a star SS and make Mirko the 2nd choice SS/AML, just like I doubt we will buy a better sub for Mirko than Seba.
But it might easily happen not to even go for Giovinco. Seba will certainly want to play more regularly, which is normal, and he probably won't get as much playing time in Juve. On the other hand, even if Giovinco is willing to hit the bench, it's a question if Juve are willing to pay 10m eur or so for a bench player.

Personally I'd get a top forward, get rid of one of Matri, Quag and Borriello, and get back Giovinco. An attacking force of Cavani, Vucinic / Matri, Giovinco + one of Qaug and Borriello + Pepe for the 4-3-3 is rather strong. But Giovinco and Marotta might not agree with this. The former would like more playing time and the latter might not want to spend big on a bench player, especially since it's a player we fully owned not too long ago.

Nice post, Alen.

 

[v1rtu4l]

the reason gio is doomed to be mid table team hero forever is his physical, otherwise his best chance is only to be as a sub in big clubs; the reason is that in smaller clubs, opponents won't double man mark him as if he's the starting 11 in a big club, in a big club he can still play good against any teams that can't defend like novara, roma etc... but against teams with decent defense or CL class big match, giovinco will have a hard time playing his game as a starting 11, they will be prepared for him and man mark him.

let me point out the flaws in your logic:

in smaller clubs, opponents won't double man mark him

so you say that an opponent will not double man mark giovinco, while he is playing for parma even though he is the only dangerous player

opposed to the scenario when giovinco plays for juve, they will double mark him and wont care about the other high quality players that are able to score without the help of giovinco.

i hope you see by yourself that this is not logic at all. in a team with many stars it is much less likely that they will man mark giovinco, simply because there are too many other dangerous players on a similar level which would use the numerical advantage to score.

quod erat demonstrandum

 

[Kasaki]

Pauli wit the wisdom!!