he is an idiot. We defn have money to buy Zapata and more expensive players than Zapata. He is probably just talking about it to maybe try to get things going for a transfer ... because nothing says transfer than an agent talking about how a player will stay at a club hahah
at first i thought the same ("who is he to say something like that"), but it could also be a strong hint that udinese would demand a ridiculous high amount of money for him that no one other than real madrid or city would pay ...
Well, he's watching him now and he thinks Rakitic is not a good player. I also hear that Rakitic has been playing awful football lately so i guess that's why virtual thinks so low of him.
don't get me wrong ... i don't rate him low ... this is the "i want this player to juve"-thread and so i do only judge the form and probability that a player was good for juve and anyone who does not get enough minutes in a club like schalke and does walk around the park when he plays with the eagerness of last years tiago !
he might have attributes of a good footballer, but right now and in the short past he was playing shit for his club.
now i here his fans say "but the club is at fault" or "he is being played out of position". fans will always find excuses just to take the blame off the player ... rakitic has achieved nothing so far and has no right to claim that a trainer has to field in on his favourite position or anything else.
furthermore what would you fans say when rakitic was in juve and did suck balls too ? aaaaah, i know ... it's ranieris fault ! as always ... this are "fans" like andy and co, who like to talk trash about the coach all the time and blame everything on the coach. those are not fans of juve ! that are just fanboys of some players that play for juve ... either support Juventus, which is players + board or just go to the fansite of rakitic and co
I was being facetious

What I find laughable is the relish and eagerness he "reports" Rakitics subpar performances, it stinks of bitterness.
i find it more laughable to show such eagerness to hype him without actually seeing his games !
trust me, wasn't it for those people who do overexaggerate his talent and over all his form i would not even have posted anything on that topic.
i remember when i asked my mate who is schalke fan about rakitic and he said that he did play crap for schalke. i posted it here and immediately some fanboy came and explained how the opinion of my mate (who watches every schalke game) was totally wrong and how rakitic is THE man. perhaps the fanboys are hiding behind the couch now and cry ... that might be why nobody is showing up here