Summer Mercato season 2024-25 (46 Viewers)
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As I have said numerous times, the biggest problem with squad revolution is execution. Especially because you have to sell players to fund purchases. By my calcs, and based on general assumptions about what management wants to do, 50%+ of the squad would be new if successful,
Think about it, we had a squad of ~24 players last season and the ones on the way out are: 1). Szczesny, 2) De Sciglio, 3) Sandro, 4) Rugani, 5), Iling Junior, 6) McKennie, 7) Kostic, 8) Rabiot, 9) Alcaraz, 10) Pogba, 11) Caviglia, 12) Chiesa, 13) Milik., 14) Kean
We have already added: 1). Di Gregorio, 2) Luiz, 3) K Thuram, 4) Cabal, 5) Adzic. Soule and Huijsen will be back and then out again. And we also need to see what to do about Arthur as well and then target the likes of 1) Todibo, 2) Koopmeiners, 3) 2 wingers to replace Soule & Chiesa, 4) Milik replacement. That is shit load of transfer deals to do. I have never seen that many deals being executable in a single transfer season.
Now, buying players is somewhat easier than selling them. We have players that are generally well paid, belong to a big champions league club, live in a nice city but are not up to our standard, meaning they are not highly valued in general - and if we find a club willing to pay (most likely foreign), then the player also has to agree. So McKennie, Chiesa, Huijsen, Soule are just some of the many examples of players refusing to go where we want them to go to help fund our purchases - and to some extent you can't blame them either. This is the problem with doing a squad revolution.
We need a plan B if too many of the players we want to let go refuse to budge. If Soule, Chiesa, Huijen, McKennie refuse to budge for good offers we need to think of the alternative. It may well be that we settle for Todibo, and try to make do with Adzic, Miretti, Soule and Chiesa. Not all of our operations will work, mostly because our players refuse to move. Worst case scenario - McKennie and Chiesa go away on free transfers and can start talking to other clubs in January.
Think about it, we had a squad of ~24 players last season and the ones on the way out are: 1). Szczesny, 2) De Sciglio, 3) Sandro, 4) Rugani, 5), Iling Junior, 6) McKennie, 7) Kostic, 8) Rabiot, 9) Alcaraz, 10) Pogba, 11) Caviglia, 12) Chiesa, 13) Milik., 14) Kean
We have already added: 1). Di Gregorio, 2) Luiz, 3) K Thuram, 4) Cabal, 5) Adzic. Soule and Huijsen will be back and then out again. And we also need to see what to do about Arthur as well and then target the likes of 1) Todibo, 2) Koopmeiners, 3) 2 wingers to replace Soule & Chiesa, 4) Milik replacement. That is shit load of transfer deals to do. I have never seen that many deals being executable in a single transfer season.
Now, buying players is somewhat easier than selling them. We have players that are generally well paid, belong to a big champions league club, live in a nice city but are not up to our standard, meaning they are not highly valued in general - and if we find a club willing to pay (most likely foreign), then the player also has to agree. So McKennie, Chiesa, Huijsen, Soule are just some of the many examples of players refusing to go where we want them to go to help fund our purchases - and to some extent you can't blame them either. This is the problem with doing a squad revolution.
We need a plan B if too many of the players we want to let go refuse to budge. If Soule, Chiesa, Huijen, McKennie refuse to budge for good offers we need to think of the alternative. It may well be that we settle for Todibo, and try to make do with Adzic, Miretti, Soule and Chiesa. Not all of our operations will work, mostly because our players refuse to move. Worst case scenario - McKennie and Chiesa go away on free transfers and can start talking to other clubs in January.
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If my calculations are correct, so far we bought David Luiz, Di Gregorio, Thuram, and Cabal. Did we buy anyone else?
Aston Villa got 17m euro for Luiz, Monza got 6m euro for Di Gregorio, Nice got 12m euro for Thuram, and Verona got 5m euro for Cabal. That's 40m euro. Do we have remaining funds for other purchases?
Aston Villa got 17m euro for Luiz, Monza got 6m euro for Di Gregorio, Nice got 12m euro for Thuram, and Verona got 5m euro for Cabal. That's 40m euro. Do we have remaining funds for other purchases?
So far they are doing a good job. The cost per year reduce a little, while making a good capital gain: ~30M. The number is just an estimate. If they can sell high cost player like Tek, Arthur, Chiesa(or renew with lower wage) or sell high captial gain potentials like Soule, Huijsen, Nonge.. then they can make 2 another great purchase. My guess: Sell Huijsen+ Rugani -> buy Todibo. Sell Soule now, or wait until they can sell McKennie, Kostic, Tek, Arthur,... to get Koop. Chiesa, if not renew, sell and buy another winger.
So far they are doing a good job. The cost per year reduce a little, while making a good capital gain: ~30M. The number is just an estimate. If they can sell high cost player like Tek, Arthur, Chiesa(or renew with lower wage) or sell high captial gain potentials like Soule, Huijsen, Nonge.. then they can make 2 another great purchase. My guess: Sell Huijsen+ Rugani -> buy Todibo. Sell Soule now, or wait until they can sell McKennie, Kostic, Tek, Arthur,... to get Koop. Chiesa, if not renew, sell and buy another winger.
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