Summer mercato thread 2017-18 (107 Viewers)
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You're not allowed to sleep in your country?Shocked at bonuccis value of 40m. Im sure a chelsea or city would have paid 20m more easily. Cant help but think their is a long term plan with milan. Vidal was sold cheap to bayern and a few years later we loan costa for 6m. Good outcome for us. Thinking a player could have been thrown in the deal. 40m plus de sciglio would have made more sense.
Rugani needs to play simple as that. He cant pass like bonucci which is am issue but he has better defensive abilities and will continue to improve.
That 40m will go straight to nzonzi i reckon.
Get bernadeschi and hopefully Schick still comes to fruition.
Rugani needs to play simple as that. He cant pass like bonucci which is am issue but he has better defensive abilities and will continue to improve.
That 40m will go straight to nzonzi i reckon.
Get bernadeschi and hopefully Schick still comes to fruition.
Kill me now please
I will probably be slated because of this but it will be probably another hectic summer where we need to fill new holes that should not have been created to begin with in my opinion.
I’m so sick and tired of this. It really has to become another cringeworthy awful summer filled with totally unneeded drama and it will probably result panic-buys. I could not care less about selling Bonucci, even to Milan, considering he is possible to replace with equal alternatives on the market.
What annoys me is the fact that it has become a pattern every summer when we sell an elite player we also often fail to find the proper replacements for that gap.
2015/2016: We sell Vidal, when we just switched to a 4-3-1-2 and chase Julian Draxler the entire summer. Fail to sign him, start a miserable season. In the end we go back to 3-5-2 with Khedira as his direct replacement. A hectic summer combined with an awful start, if you ask me one of the reasons why that season started so awful was the failure of not replacing Vidal
2016/2017: While We sell Pogba for a record fee we do not replace him with a proper elite CM. It showed quite clearly that Khedira - Marchisio - Pjanic did not cut it for us. Sure we chased Matuidi and Witsel the entire summer. We were finding ourselves in another hectic summer where we chased Axel Witsel as our CM on deadline day. Axel Witsel FFS.
Sure we signed Higuain but left another hole in our midfield and until we switched to the 4231 we were not playing sparkling football either. Which took almost half a season to find out what the proper balance of our side was.
If the market is silly enough to budge out 105 million for someone like Pogba you take it and find another elite CM. But you cannot tell me that we replaced Pogba.
Lets stop pretending like the football becomes better over the time. Every time we take one step forward we take two back at the start of the upcoming season!
We will probably have another domestic successful season in the mean time but I fail to see a clear year-on-year improvement on the pitch because in my eyes we create gaps that we cannot fill, create chaos during the summer or invest our money in another position which did not really need investing.
Look at the elite clubs like Bayern or RM. They have direct replacements for the mutations in their line-up. They have a system or a tactical set-up that they improve year by year instead of changing the entire plan.
I have no problem with selling anyone, nobody is irreplaceable in this squad but get a proper elite talent to fill up the gap of the player who left. A direct replacement is where we failed at the last summers and therefor I fear it will be similar this season.
It could have been an easy summer where we needed to replace Khedira, Cuadrado, Neto and add a winger or sub for Higuain. 5 or 6 Signings.
Instead we need to add a RB and CB too now. that are starting material. In other words
those are four players we need to replace in our starting eleven. I don’t like this situation. We change our team and tactics way too much for my likings instead of improving it on a yearly basis.
I’m so sick and tired of this. It really has to become another cringeworthy awful summer filled with totally unneeded drama and it will probably result panic-buys. I could not care less about selling Bonucci, even to Milan, considering he is possible to replace with equal alternatives on the market.
What annoys me is the fact that it has become a pattern every summer when we sell an elite player we also often fail to find the proper replacements for that gap.
2015/2016: We sell Vidal, when we just switched to a 4-3-1-2 and chase Julian Draxler the entire summer. Fail to sign him, start a miserable season. In the end we go back to 3-5-2 with Khedira as his direct replacement. A hectic summer combined with an awful start, if you ask me one of the reasons why that season started so awful was the failure of not replacing Vidal
2016/2017: While We sell Pogba for a record fee we do not replace him with a proper elite CM. It showed quite clearly that Khedira - Marchisio - Pjanic did not cut it for us. Sure we chased Matuidi and Witsel the entire summer. We were finding ourselves in another hectic summer where we chased Axel Witsel as our CM on deadline day. Axel Witsel FFS.
Sure we signed Higuain but left another hole in our midfield and until we switched to the 4231 we were not playing sparkling football either. Which took almost half a season to find out what the proper balance of our side was.
If the market is silly enough to budge out 105 million for someone like Pogba you take it and find another elite CM. But you cannot tell me that we replaced Pogba.
Lets stop pretending like the football becomes better over the time. Every time we take one step forward we take two back at the start of the upcoming season!
We will probably have another domestic successful season in the mean time but I fail to see a clear year-on-year improvement on the pitch because in my eyes we create gaps that we cannot fill, create chaos during the summer or invest our money in another position which did not really need investing.
Look at the elite clubs like Bayern or RM. They have direct replacements for the mutations in their line-up. They have a system or a tactical set-up that they improve year by year instead of changing the entire plan.
I have no problem with selling anyone, nobody is irreplaceable in this squad but get a proper elite talent to fill up the gap of the player who left. A direct replacement is where we failed at the last summers and therefor I fear it will be similar this season.
It could have been an easy summer where we needed to replace Khedira, Cuadrado, Neto and add a winger or sub for Higuain. 5 or 6 Signings.
Instead we need to add a RB and CB too now. that are starting material. In other words
Buffon
X - X - Chiellini - Alex Sandro
Pjanic - X
X - Dybala - Mandzukic
Higuain
X - X - Chiellini - Alex Sandro
Pjanic - X
X - Dybala - Mandzukic
Higuain
those are four players we need to replace in our starting eleven. I don’t like this situation. We change our team and tactics way too much for my likings instead of improving it on a yearly basis.
yes please Mark,
WTF is this? So we sell Bonucci for 40 but refuse Higuain for 100m? Who offered 100m? Fking sell and buy Mbappe and Morata/Belotti.
I know its tuttosport bs but still, someone actually made offer for Higuain?
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Caldara is still young, Rugani hardly gets minutes, i can actually see us go for Manolas. I read though that Roma dont want to sell us. Clauses?
WTF is this? So we sell Bonucci for 40 but refuse Higuain for 100m? Who offered 100m? Fking sell and buy Mbappe and Morata/Belotti.
I know its tuttosport bs but still, someone actually made offer for Higuain?
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Caldara is still young, Rugani hardly gets minutes, i can actually see us go for Manolas. I read though that Roma dont want to sell us. Clauses?
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