Winter Mercato Thread 2018/19 (31 Viewers)
- Thread starter Mark
- Start date
- Tags ask orgut bring back rakib don't feed the orgut orgut knows best orgutception orgutland who even reads orgut's posts?
- Status
Buy the opposition's best player before the tie 
The one I remember the most was Miccoli but we ended up getting him so maybe this is an exception.. (He, Diego and Henry IMO were the three best players who didnt fulfil their potential here)
Miccoli`s talent was easy to see and if you see comments of previous players who played with both some say Miccoli is the best player they played with
DP obviously was better as otherwise Miccoli would have taken his spot but Miccoli just couldnt earn himself a starter status at Juve
Henry was an amazing talent but we blew it with him
Diego was good IMO and I might even say I rated Diego high but then Quag came and did more in terms of results on the field even though Diego was setting our play nicely - obviously he couldnt do all by himself
I wonder what Diego would have done with a better team - Would he be that beast from Werder Bremen (I think it was them) or would he just act as the weakest link
DP obviously was better as otherwise Miccoli would have taken his spot but Miccoli just couldnt earn himself a starter status at Juve
Henry was an amazing talent but we blew it with him
Diego was good IMO and I might even say I rated Diego high but then Quag came and did more in terms of results on the field even though Diego was setting our play nicely - obviously he couldnt do all by himself
I wonder what Diego would have done with a better team - Would he be that beast from Werder Bremen (I think it was them) or would he just act as the weakest link
I've got mixed feelings about the idea of bringing Marcelo to Juventus.
On the one hand, he's by far the best LB in the world in the post-Carlos era, and he'll likely maintain the same level for another couple of years.
On the other hand, if the left flank of Juventus looks like Marcelo - Ronaldo, it will definitely feel like a part of that successful Real Madrid within Juventus. I don't know, maybe it's only me, and it definitely sounds weird, but if Juventus wins UCL with them, it will feel like 30% of the title or so belongs to Real Madrid, and Juventus is just unable to win it without their courtesy of sharing with Juventus some of their players.
It's different with Ronaldo, since CR7 is CR7, he's always on his own. But CR7 + Marcelo probably would be too much and kind of bad for the "cogency" of the much anticipated European title.
On the one hand, he's by far the best LB in the world in the post-Carlos era, and he'll likely maintain the same level for another couple of years.
On the other hand, if the left flank of Juventus looks like Marcelo - Ronaldo, it will definitely feel like a part of that successful Real Madrid within Juventus. I don't know, maybe it's only me, and it definitely sounds weird, but if Juventus wins UCL with them, it will feel like 30% of the title or so belongs to Real Madrid, and Juventus is just unable to win it without their courtesy of sharing with Juventus some of their players.
It's different with Ronaldo, since CR7 is CR7, he's always on his own. But CR7 + Marcelo probably would be too much and kind of bad for the "cogency" of the much anticipated European title.
Last edited:
Without doubt this has been a quality Mercato. My gripe for a few seasons was to improve our starting 11. But we should have done that when we had that midfield of Pogba, Vidal, Pirlo and Casper. Imagine that midfield with our forwards we have now. It’s a case if IF’s and But’s now. We need to make the most of Ronaldo here in terms of raising quality. Unless we’ve mullered or budget for the next 2 season!!? Then I guess it’s a case of as you were.
We need a B2B so we can finally dump Khedira
- Status