Summer mercato thread 2025-26 (79 Viewers)

TheLaz

Senior Member
Oct 6, 2011
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No it is not. Not by a long shot. It's pretty lame populism at best. We're not in a dynasty and with those comparisons you're again ignoring the fact those players are good enough to stay. They just need their roles and importance adjusted by adding more quality which is why they shouldn't be compared to the champions. Every succesful juve had soldiers like those, especially Italians.

Removing those type of players would effectively and undeniably make some of the players like the ones you just mentioned starters; good luck with that.
Kelly and Cabal are decent players. They need to prove themselves to be starters here, but they could just do that in my opinion
 

s4tch

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Mar 23, 2015
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Kelly and Cabal are decent players. They need to prove themselves to be starters here, but they could just do that in my opinion
kelly is a mediocre player. if he becomes a starter on the long run, it would probably mean that jj just dropped their standards further

i reckon cabal has more potential as a wingback. as a pure defender he's far from convincing
 

Xperd

Allegrophobic Infidel
Jun 1, 2012
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Marotta interested in Koni De Winter and I'm sure he'll end up being a solid player at Inda

Junktoli's career at JJ won't be defined by the poor mercato he had last summer or the spat he had with Allegro, but he will be more remembered for making a complete mockery of next gen
 

Bjerknes

"Top Economist"
Mar 16, 2004
116,155
kelly is a mediocre player. if he becomes a starter on the long run, it would probably mean that jj just dropped their standards further

i reckon cabal has more potential as a wingback. as a pure defender he's far from convincing
Cabal also sucks with the ball, his passing was horrible. The guy was another pointless, expensive signing by the DipShit.
 

s4tch

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Mar 23, 2015
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Cabal also sucks with the ball, his passing was horrible. The guy was another pointless, expensive signing by the DipShit.
that was my impression too based on his performances @ verona, but he played a few surprisingly stable matches before his injury

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(vs roma, como & lazio)

i'm not a fan, he'll never be an evra or a prime alex sandro, but he might not be completely hopeless
 

Bjerknes

"Top Economist"
Mar 16, 2004
116,155
that was my impression too based on his performances @ verona, but he played a few surprisingly stable matches before his injury

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(vs roma, como & lazio)

i'm not a fan, he'll never be an evra or a prime alex sandro, but he might not be completely hopeless
Look at those possession lost stats. Terrible.
 

s4tch

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Mar 23, 2015
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Look at those possession lost stats. Terrible.
that's standard even for good players. pedri is fucking great in possession, last 3 90-minute games (i ignored the 120 min cl tie vs inda):

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if cabal could somehow standardize his performance against lazio, i wouldn't be opposed to keeping him. the bad thing is that he only played like these 3 good games, otherwise he was ~dogshit
 

Bjerknes

"Top Economist"
Mar 16, 2004
116,155
that's standard even for good players. pedri is fucking great in possession, last 3 90-minute games (i ignored the 120 min cl tie vs inda):

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if cabal could somehow standardize his performance against lazio, i wouldn't be opposed to keeping him. the bad thing is that he only played like these 3 good games, otherwise he was ~dogshit
Cabal is a defender and not Pedri. We don't want a defender giving the ball away that many times, especially since chances are he's in our own half.
 

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