Summer mercato thread 2022-23 season (71 Viewers)

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Cerval

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Last mercati it was all about working for the future, looks like the club changed its strategy. Signing one or two experienced 33 years old is good as long as your entire mercato doesn't involve signing only stop-gaps. No long term planning, no plan. Hopefully only rumours.
 

kappa96

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Last mercati it was all about working for the future, looks like the club changed its strategy. Signing one or two experienced 33 years old is good as long as your entire mercato doesn't involve signing only stop-gaps. No long term planning, no plan. Hopefully only rumours.
Yeah. F' the youth strategy. We need to go all out on the "win now" strategy.
As this season showed we are not so far away from the milanese clubs.
 
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Yeah. F' the youth strategy. We need to go all out on the "win now" strategy.
As this season showed we are not so far away from the milanese clubs.
Its about finding the right balance, but having clear objectives within your buying strategy and squad planning.

I really don’t want us to go all-in in short term succes with Acerbi, Perisic and Di Maria. It will cost a lot in wages and we’ll have to replace them within a short period of time.

Yet we can’t be naive and think that we’ll compete with a squad full of inexperienced players. That simply doesn’t work.

Therefore I want a bit of both. With Di Maria and Pogba we add experience. Fagioli and Soule should be the young talents, and preferably some players with experience at the highest level, but who will reach their prime within some time (Gabriel, Zaniolo, etc).

But sustainability and healthy finances should be a key element in all of this.
 

juve123

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Atletico Madrid don’t want to give a discount on the price of Alvaro Morata’s option to buy (€35M). Talks stopped between Juventus at now: the spanish striker will return to Colchoneros, even if he could however leave in the summer transfers window.(Nico schira)
 
Jun 16, 2020
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Atletico Madrid don’t want to give a discount on the price of Alvaro Morata’s option to buy (€35M). Talks stopped between Juventus at now: the spanish striker will return to Colchoneros, even if he could however leave in the summer transfers window.(Nico schira)
I’m neutral on this one. Had a great first season, very bad second one. But he loves the club and I kinda have a soft spot for him to. Consumes a lot of space in the books, 10m for the loan and 5m net. Basically the amount of money you pay for a player of his caliber, so yeah we might aswel gamble on someone else. Some 50m player with 4m wages wouldn’t be a lot more expensive per year as they spread the payment.

If I have to choose more leaning towards not buying than buying for some time now I think
 

Akshen

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Glad I am not the only one who thinks so.

Some people are actually "excited" about signing geezers and reheated soup.
Don't think we should rate mercato over excitement level for fans. Look at Rabiot, Berna, Kulusevski, probably even Arthur (young guy for washed up Pjanić) Ramsey and look how their career progressed at Juve.
 

Bianconero81

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Don't think we should rate mercato over excitement level for fans. Look at Rabiot, Berna, Kulusevski, probably even Arthur (young guy for washed up Pjanić) Ramsey and look how their career progressed at Juve.
Like I said, restoring balance is important.

Sure, Di Maria on a 1+1 deal is good business. Pogba should only be pursued if SMS is impossible, not the other way around.

Acerbi is ok - nothing to get excited about, and he's a geezer, but I suppose he fills a need, especially on low wages. More geezers and experienced heads beyond that is too much.
 

Akshen

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Like I said, restoring balance is important.

Sure, Di Maria on a 1+1 deal is good business. Pogba should only be pursued if SMS is impossible, not the other way around.

Acerbi is ok - nothing to get excited about, and he's a geezer, but I suppose he fills a need, especially on low wages. More geezers and experienced heads beyond that is too much.
I agree on everything here, would also add that paying so much for Morata doesn't make sense, add 10m to that sum and buy proper LW. Damn Kostic could be bought cheaper than that.
 
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