++ [ originally posted by gray ] ++
No player is bigger than the club, and if selling Zlatan will be beneficial in the long run, then of course we should go ahead with it.
HOWEVER, when it comes to Zlatan, I REALLY don't think that's the case.
Screw Rooney, screw Ronaldo, screw Kerlon, screw Freddy Adu, screw Jean Carlos Chera. Zlatan for me is the most exciting youngster on the planet. Sure, he has a few rough edges here and there, but he's 23, and the most important thing is that he has all the foundations of an absolutely world class player.
Selling Zlatan after only his first season simply because the moolah is on the table would be an extremely rash and premature decision, even if one only looks at it from a debits and credits point of view. Bill Gates didn't become a billionaire by selling off Microsoft as soon as it looked like it had some moneymaking potential.
Zlatan in his first season has been our top scorer and second-best assist man, scoring more goals in his first Serie A season than he ever did in the Eredivisie, not to mention he scored the same number of goals as Adriano, and only one less than the great Sheva. How much more promise does the lad need to show in order to not be sold?
I think it'd be best (both from a footballing and monetary point of view) to give Zlatan more time to show us what he can do, and if anything, raise his sale price a bit more.
If we sell Zlatan in the summer, I will be very, very pissed off, and I'll probably go to my room and have a cry, denouncing my loyalty to Juventus... then come crawling back :irritate: