Summer Mercato Thread 2020-21 (104 Viewers)
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We never bought De Ceglie for first time, he was a homegrown player. But yeah got back from loans/co-own half shares here and there, moved hands between Siena and other teams with his time with us.
But indeed it was a terrible mercato: https://www.transfermarkt.com/juventus-fc/transfers/verein/506/saison_id/2008
But indeed it was a terrible mercato: https://www.transfermarkt.com/juventus-fc/transfers/verein/506/saison_id/2008
I can understand being depressed about it, because we dont have much money to buy, or players willing to move/rescind contracts to make room for signings, so its hard to see how we will improve further in market.
But one thing I dont get is saying we downgraded, only one of value we lost is Pjanic, who been mediocre far too long. I expect Arthur if healthy, will be at worst what Pjanic gave us past 12 months, which is generally underwhelming except spurts of being the top top player he usually is. But the rest? We are adding Mckennie, Pellegrini, Kulusevski, 2 young energetic depth players that should prove more useful then the ones they replacing. And Kulusevski that should be the biggiest addition, starter quality all around attacking option, the players he is replacing are aldready in the squad.
You can say attack is downgrade, purely on quantity, losing a Higauin that has been so useless, but that would be semantics. We will replace him guranteed, and anyone replacing him should be guranteed to be better then whatever he gave us past season, which was little, except a spurt of couple months of assisting goals.
You all are so worried about the players coming in and out (and I am too, because I expect another quality midfielder to join, and should join if we signing free attackers and loan signing Mkennie, surely saving the funds for something?), my main worry instead for this season will be our coach. No matter the quality of the new players, it wont matter if our new coach isnt good enough, and its worrisome because he is simply a blank slate, zero idea if he will be another Ferrara or another Conte, or anything in between.
But one thing I dont get is saying we downgraded, only one of value we lost is Pjanic, who been mediocre far too long. I expect Arthur if healthy, will be at worst what Pjanic gave us past 12 months, which is generally underwhelming except spurts of being the top top player he usually is. But the rest? We are adding Mckennie, Pellegrini, Kulusevski, 2 young energetic depth players that should prove more useful then the ones they replacing. And Kulusevski that should be the biggiest addition, starter quality all around attacking option, the players he is replacing are aldready in the squad.
You can say attack is downgrade, purely on quantity, losing a Higauin that has been so useless, but that would be semantics. We will replace him guranteed, and anyone replacing him should be guranteed to be better then whatever he gave us past season, which was little, except a spurt of couple months of assisting goals.
You all are so worried about the players coming in and out (and I am too, because I expect another quality midfielder to join, and should join if we signing free attackers and loan signing Mkennie, surely saving the funds for something?), my main worry instead for this season will be our coach. No matter the quality of the new players, it wont matter if our new coach isnt good enough, and its worrisome because he is simply a blank slate, zero idea if he will be another Ferrara or another Conte, or anything in between.
I'm probably one of the bigger fans of Kean in this forum, but that would be a downgrade, he is not reliable as starter level player yet. So we need to sign another striker on top of him. So however unpopular older players are, we need to replace Higauin with quality level rotation/starter players like Suarez, Dzeko, or whoever you feel is good enough. But Kean on his alone wouldnt be enough imo.
He ended up being my local team's GK for half a season.Dybala and Ronaldo being relied on solely for whole season is risky, Higauin started over 20 games last season, played over 30. You need that kind of rotation figure for your attack. Kean alone wont cut it. We can call it rebuild if you like, because we are signing young players and young coach, but there is no such thing in Juve. We are expected to win, and Pirlo is asking for a main attack signing to replace Higauin for a reason. Especially when your two other attackers, Ronaldo, wants to be wing, and Dybala drifts everywhere and rarely is in the box. You need the variety of a true nr 9 in your roster.
that was also the worst transfer summer of my club.Take a look at this trash:
https://www.transfermarkt.de/fc-bayern-munchen/transfers/verein/27/saison_id/2008
that was also the worst transfer summer of my club.Take a look at this trash:
https://www.transfermarkt.de/fc-bayern-munchen/transfers/verein/27/saison_id/2008
Top clubs didnt have money that summer?
Some of these guys I dont even remember ever seeing for Bayern lol, Oddo was there? I only remember Borowski.- Status