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Robee

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zizinho said:
How exactly did Serie A got weaker? Roma in that same season won 87pts finishing above Napoli. Then you have an improved Lazio and Atalanta both with 70pts+, and Milangoing up from 50pts+ to 60pts+. Not counting us you had two 85pts+ teams compares to zero the previous year, 4th and 5th had 70pts+, and then 6th-8th with 60pts+. 6th place Sassuolo barely finished with 60pts+ the year before. The league clearly got better and Napoli and Roma did an impressive job to push us when losing their starting CF and best mid respectively.

You make the mistake of assuming we wouldnt win certain games without higgy, which when looking at evidence, aka the last 9 years of winning, shows your logic is flawed. If we never bought him, someone else would have been bought. A different CF, or a winger (with Mandzu-Dybi up top), or as it should have been, a CM to replace Pogba. Those goals you speak of, someone else would have scored them, as we would play a different game than playing to create chances for him with him not there. We won 5 straight scudetti before higgy, and then we won after he left as well. His presence/non presence would have not changed the end result of either season in Serie A.
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As someone gets more points, other get less points. Serie A only had one competitive team at the time; Napoli. The rest is just bad unrepresentative math.

I don't assume anything. There was no one in the league at that time that could do and score what Higuain did and scored. And we were nowhere near signing other superstars...

Again; let's sell Dybi and Cristiano then, right? You're not being objective here at all...
 

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Juventus and Fiorentina would be the clubs currently in the running for the purchase of the card of Manuel Locatelli. The bianconeri, would have an advantage due to the economic demands of Sassuolo, which values Locatelli's card at no less than €30M.(CDS)
 
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Robee said:
As someone gets more points, other get less points. Serie A only had one competitive team at the time; Napoli. The rest is just bad unrepresentative math.

I don't assume anything. There was no one in the league at that time that could do and score what Higuain did and scored. And we were nowhere near signing other superstars...

Again; let's sell Dybi and Cristiano then, right? You're not being objective here at all...
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I just presented you the whole top8 in the league and showed than all of them improved in one summer. The league is as good as it's top clubs are, and they improved significantly. Napoli wasn't the only competitive team as there was also Roma at that time that were just as good.

Dybala went from 19 to 8 goals when Higgy arrived, and we lost goalscoring from the midfield as well with Pogba gone. Higgy scored a lot but that didn't come as bonus on top of the rest, but at the expense. Also you don't know how close/far we were from signing or not signing anyone back then, so that's another assumption. We paid 90M for a single player, there is no reason to assume we couldn't have went for a different 'superstar'.

To even bring Higgy (and Dybala for that matter) in the same conversation with Ronaldo is ridiculous. But let's play your game. We won 7 straight before CR, winning the league was never the issue for us and not the reason we got him. It's the 7 out of 7 knock out stage goals in the last 2 years he delivered, something we were wrongfully hoping from Higgy when he arrived. No one thought it was a move to extend domestic dominance when we signed him, and that's not why you splash 90M on a CF
 
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