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Stephan

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Nov 9, 2005
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Sign Di Maria, Iniesta, Schick and Keita
sell Khedira and Dybala

Next season 433/4231:

-------------Buffon------------------------
Alves-Bonucci-Chiello*-Sandro------------
------------Marchisio----------------------
-------Iniesta-----Pjanic-------------------
Di Maria---Higuain---Mandzukic-----------

Bench:
*Rugani, Keita, Schick, Asamoah, Barzagli, Benatia, Kean, Lemina, Rincon
LOL everyone in that XI is literally minimum 30 age apart from Pjanic who is 27.

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How much would Di Maria cost right now ?
 

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If someone from our defense feels like leaving, now is the time. Its a joke how many defenders we've got and Caldara is coming next year too. I don't see the point of keeping 30+ year olds on the bench for more games than not in the year. Play Rugani more next year, prepare for Caldara integration.

Midfield is another huge question. Is Sami leaving and can we get CASH for him? What about our 'rotational' crew - I mean they are relatively cheap, but some of them would never improve. Can :beppe: find the midfielders we need?

Attack - here there isn't a lot we can improve on. Everybody screams WC wingers, but Real M are still playing R7 there as top wide threat. So we need to get a guy like Mbappe to really improve and that is very, very difficult. Had we won the final - I'd say impossible, but I think we'll see the silver lining very soon - Elkanns aren't used to loosing and they've got some cash to spend on the matter.
 

Stephan

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We need like 3 major signings imo. We cant go full season with Mandzu as LW.
Khedira/Marchisio replacement
Id also sign a RW, Alves is not RW guys. Cuadrado would not start for Madrid/Barca. Inconsistent.


We need to take into consideration also certain players ages and therefore their peak/prime/form.
 

DanielSz

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We need like 3 major signings imo. We cant go full season with Mandzu as LW.
Khedira/Marchisio replacement
Id also sign a RW, Alves is not RW guys. Cuadrado would not start for Madrid/Barca. Inconsistent.


We need to take into consideration also certain players ages and therefore their peak/prime/form.
Pjaca is Mandzukic' backup. If we buy Keita he can play on either side as well. Khedira and Marchisio would be backups if we sign a Tolisso. They're fine there. I'd consider keeping Orsolini, but I also want him to play.
 

Cronios

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Our primary target should be an AMF, someone to play in front of Pjanic. And then a left sided Quadrado, someone to play between Sandro and Mandzukic and be able to rest both. Pjaca doesn't seem to be the man...
 

Stephan

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Higuain best quality would come out in a front 3 with proper wingers like Di Maria/Bernadeschi/Douglas Costa.

Mandzu is fantastic beast but he is not a winger! We need to stop this policy of converting players to different positions. You dont see Real buy someone and play him randomly different position just for the sake of it. Mandzu was forced to LW.

Im pissed with Cuadrado and not sure he is really capable when it matters. I mean ask yourself, could u see Cuadrado play for Barca or Real? No
He is inconsistent. Ultimately cost his team further with his behaviour. He will now miss first game in next campaign. He is not a reliable guy u can count on weekly basis. Latin American temperament. And we just bought him for how much?

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I would go and buy Mbappe then. He is the real deal.

And if we add the Dybala money with what we earned and have we could still challenge for Verratti or Di Maria/Bernadeschi.
 

Orgut

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Why are people even crying over Vidal. That guy is another bottler, you forget he missed penalty againast Real first leg for 2:0. Then got himself sent off in the second game. Liability. I wouldnt be surprised if Bayern dont win the CL with him being the key player there.

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Alexis then guys? We absolutely must sign someone. Not sure if i want Di Maria. He also goes missing in occasions.
Missed a penalty ok it can happen to anyone... he did score though.. Then he got himself sent off?! Yeah with a clean tackle which the ref decided to throw him off for that.. instead of giving it to Casemiro...
The truth is Real might have won the CL but Bayern should have eliminated them before and meet us in the final instead of Real
 

Stephan

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We cant do anything about this. Just have to take our chances. Ronaldo dived 3x times in our box and hand ball during freekick first half in wall. No card. Dybala gets card first 10 mins for total nothing foul.

Mandzukic ankle were stepped on 2 x first half by Carvajal, nothing.
 

thirteen

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How about you try a dose of reality? We are not Real Madrid financially. We will never have a bench like that. Ever. Get over it.
Its not only about money. We play with a formation that needs 4 forwards yet we don't have anybody on the bench to replace them if we want to keep playing with the same formation
 
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