I've never really understood this sort of mentality. I mean, it's like Giovinco and Palladino are proven players right now. And while Jovetic isn't proven either, he does seem to have more talent than both of them. So why stop with just two good attacking prospects? If a great talent is available, we should purchase him without question like Barcelona or Arsenal always seem to do. I know we aren't the same sort of clubs, but why can't we just take more chances on the youth and build a great squad for the future?
Besides, we have all sorts of experianced champions in Del Piero, Buffon, Camoranesi, Nedved and Andrade. The only other experiance we need is a commanding central midfielder, which Tiago might turn out to be if Ranieri would play him.
Imagine four or five years down the road with Jovetic - Giovinco - Palladino up front or just behind a striker. It looks just as impressive as Messi - Bojan - Dos Santos.
No Andy, i made it look like i don't want him because he's too young, and i didn't mean that. it's certainly not that i don't want him because he's too young or not good enough. As you can see, i'm the one who's praising him the most in this topic and i really enjoy watching him. I was amazed the first time i saw him. Until i found out he's 17 (he just turned 18 now) I was like what the fuck is this pearl doing in Serbian league ?
It's all about the FIGC rules and our priorities. Jovetic is a non-EU player and buying him will stop us from buying another player from non-EU market. If we buy him now, in January, then yeah, maybe we can. Although we're losing another player we're interested in, Ivanovic, if we buy Jovetic, because we can't buy 2 non-EU.
But if it's June-August, then i believe we have other spots in our team where we need new players that are more urgent to fix than the attack. If we buy Jovetic in June, then we can forget about buying a Brasilian, Argentinian, another South American, African or ex-YU player.
We do need new defenders, at least two of them. If our board doesn't have plans to buy a non-EU player for the defense or some great non-EU midfielder, only then i think we should think about Jovetic.
If Jovetic was this good and this promising and he was a midfielder or defender, then he may have been our #1 priority, even though he's very young. But he's an attacker and non-EU and if we buy him we'll close the non-EU market for a player that we really don't need at the moment.
Or maybe we can buy him, loan to him to another serie A/serie B team and then "buy" him again from them, like we did with Mutu. That's the loophole and a way to buy one non-EU and still have the non-EU spot opened.