He has shown his class for years. I'd have to assume his form is permanent. And he's since been replaced by Lukaku.
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We have Nedved, a glorified pencil pusher and board kicker, as our VP. That should give you an idea about how (in)competent we are as a club. Fortunately, the other retard running shit into the ground, Tootsie the Terrible, has been unceremoniously booted. I hope this ushers in a new era of competence and success.
Pretty much the only thing that I would hate about Ronaldo gone is if we panic buy some older experienced name as his replacement that we'll have a hard time getting rid of next couple of seasons.
If the club likes the potential in Vlahovic and sees him as ideal 9 then sure, go all in, fix a deal with Fio with 3 days remaining of the mercato window, he fits the rejuvenation plan perfectly. If it's someone else in his early 20s, then go ahead, try your best.
If serious targets are off limits so close to deadline then don't just buy a random player for the sake of it, call it a day and negotiate next window/summer.
We have a fine squad as it is, a top class manager won't have a problem to build a working machine from it, then next summer spend big on generational talents, De Ligt was awesome, Chiesa was awesome, Locatelli was awesome, just keep it up with smart investments and keep your younger key players in the squad and the new winning cycle would be set.
If the club likes the potential in Vlahovic and sees him as ideal 9 then sure, go all in, fix a deal with Fio with 3 days remaining of the mercato window, he fits the rejuvenation plan perfectly. If it's someone else in his early 20s, then go ahead, try your best.
If serious targets are off limits so close to deadline then don't just buy a random player for the sake of it, call it a day and negotiate next window/summer.
We have a fine squad as it is, a top class manager won't have a problem to build a working machine from it, then next summer spend big on generational talents, De Ligt was awesome, Chiesa was awesome, Locatelli was awesome, just keep it up with smart investments and keep your younger key players in the squad and the new winning cycle would be set.
Why not? Ronaldo's cost per year is huge. ~85M.
Now let's say we sign Vlahovic for 100M, a 5-year contract of 4M a year. He will cost 20M per year (amortization) + 8M (gross wage) = 28M, about 1/3 Ronaldo's cost.
Now we still have money, let's sign SMS for another 100M, a 4-year contract of 6M a year. It will cost 25M per year (amortization) + 12M (gross wage) = 37M.
Combine with Vlahovic's cost: 37M + 28M = 65M, still much less than 85M Ronaldo's cost.
Higuain, our most expensive transfer before, cost us 32M a year.
Now you can see how huge Ronaldo's cost is and why people expect us to spend big.
Now let's say we sign Vlahovic for 100M, a 5-year contract of 4M a year. He will cost 20M per year (amortization) + 8M (gross wage) = 28M, about 1/3 Ronaldo's cost.
Now we still have money, let's sign SMS for another 100M, a 4-year contract of 6M a year. It will cost 25M per year (amortization) + 12M (gross wage) = 37M.
Combine with Vlahovic's cost: 37M + 28M = 65M, still much less than 85M Ronaldo's cost.
Higuain, our most expensive transfer before, cost us 32M a year.
Now you can see how huge Ronaldo's cost is and why people expect us to spend big.
Get Kean as a rotation CF and then look around for a quality B2B (Tchouameni?). If there's nothing interesting, then stay as we are and save up the cash for next year. No panic buys and don't buy someone else's trash (Icardi, Hazard, Auba or whatever).
I don't expect a Haaland or a Pogba next season but we surely will need to spend, we have quite a few under-performing players on high wages who will need to be upgraded.
I don't expect a Haaland or a Pogba next season but we surely will need to spend, we have quite a few under-performing players on high wages who will need to be upgraded.
I don't think we will spend big but it seems clear that a couple of weeks ago and at the start of the window when we budgeted ahead we thought Ronaldo was staying. Meaning that we have an extra 50m or so in saved wages and 20m fee on top of our original budget.
I think we'll save it and maybe pay down some debt given the past 2 years but it isn't unrealistic to think we could spend money if a target was available.
I think we'll save it and maybe pay down some debt given the past 2 years but it isn't unrealistic to think we could spend money if a target was available.
I've been to BK and Chiang Mai on holiday. Got attacked by a German pimp and his five Thai henchman because I didn't want to hire a prostitute he was pushing onto me at some bar in Chiang Mai. It led to a foot chase, which then went onto a TukTuk.
Ten years ago and I still look back and laugh, I'll have to tell the whole story in the off topic forum sometime.
Ten years ago and I still look back and laugh, I'll have to tell the whole story in the off topic forum sometime.
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