Winter Mercato Thread 2018/19 (16 Viewers)

[pavluska]

I completely agree been saying it for a few years now too. Despite being our best midfielder his role is so important that we need someone better to play that role because he just isnt good enough. Too slow and indirect. Classy player on his day but imo hasnt fulfilled his potential here at least not consistently.

The overrating of Pjanic reminds me of the overrating of Vucinic and Pirlo in this last season. Difference is, in latter two cases they were shit while Pjanic is decent but not WC.

Probably the same people. They likely find basketball too physical and watch tennis.

 

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[pitbull]

We already have 4 midfielders on a very high salary in Pjanič, Matuidi, Khedira and Can, instead of Dembele I'd much rather go for a younger player with big potential and not astronomical wage demands, our midfield needs balance

 

[Nedved96]

I dont understand why so many ppl here want Dembele so much - really cant see anything special in him.

Dembele is not world class but he is definitely a very good player. He pretty much dominated our midfield in both games last season.

Look at the way he dominated Pogba in this game.



Dembele is a good short-term solution. We won’t get a better midfielder than him in January.

In my opinion in winter we should focus on securing few youngsters as we always do.

Barella

 

[Fr3sh]

The overrating of Pjanic reminds me of the overrating of Vucinic and Pirlo in this last season. Difference is, in latter two cases they were shit while Pjanic is decent but not WC.

Probably the same people. They likely find basketball too physical and watch tennis.

Would swap 24 year old Dybalol for 24 year old Vucinic in a HEARTBEAT it's not even funny.

Vooch is love, Vooch is life

 

[Gigiventus]

We have Can, a 32 year old Dembele will just inflate the numbers. We don't need to rejuvenate Khedira with a player of his same age that isn't great. Just need to get Barella.

 

[Badass J Elkann]

We should never have allowed Marchisio to leave fullstop

 

[james95]

Isco anyone?

 

[DAiDEViL]

I completely agree been saying it for a few years now too. Despite being our best midfielder his role is so important that we need someone better to play that role because he just isnt good enough. Too slow and indirect. Classy player on his day but imo hasnt fulfilled his potential here at least not consistently.

Like who?

 

[zizinho]

Like who?

Modric.... and thats about it

 

[Abdo Alzahaby]

Vidal back to juve ?

 

[Wittl]

Vidal back to juve ?

We already have Khedira. No need for another player on the downgrade.

 

[Abdo Alzahaby]

https://www.24horas.cl/deportes/fut...a-ofrecerle-una-salida-a-arturo-vidal-2854712

 

[zizinho]

no thanks. would rather Bobby P at this point

 

[Nzoric]

Would swap 24 year old Dybalol for 24 year old Vucinic in a HEARTBEAT it's not even funny.

Vooch is love, Vooch is life

 

[pavluska]

https://www.24horas.cl/deportes/fut...a-ofrecerle-una-salida-a-arturo-vidal-2854712

Source: Calciomercato. Don't waste your time reading crap let alone discussing crap. I'm sorry I just did.

But only rarely can you do much better in January. People were committing harakiri in summer over not signing Vidal and now don't want him as an almost-emergency January signing. Shouldn't be the #1 option and crap content for the sake of producing content, but it's funny how there's never a balanced outlook.

Pogba-Can-Matuidi wouldn't be bad next season.

 

[Nedved96]

We already have 4 midfielders on a very high salary in Pjanič, Matuidi, Khedira and Can, instead of Dembele I'd much rather go for a younger player with big potential and not astronomical wage demands, our midfield needs balance

I still can’t believe that we actually gave Khedira a contract extension and a raise. What an abysmal decision that was.

Now there’s no chance anyone is going to take him from us, we’re stuck with him until 2021.

Imagine a 34 year old Sami starting for us in a big Champions League game.

 

[zizinho]

I still can’t believe that we actually gave Khedira a contract extension and a raise. What an abysmal decision that was.

Now there’s no chance anyone is going to take him from us, we’re stuck with him until 2021.

Imagine a 34 year old Sami starting for us in a big Champions League game.

i see this being repeated everywhere, was it actually confirmed that he got a raise? i only read about the extension, not the raise

 

[pavluska]

I still can’t believe that we actually gave Khedira a contract extension

You people have a problem when we don't extend a backup player's contract and you've a problem when we do. What exactly makes you happy in life?

Extension means he can be sold in summer. If we keep him, he's fine as one of the backups.

"I don't like this player as a starter, he got an extension = bad, must get pitchfork out."

You're a homo sapien with a prefrontal contex aka grey matter. Use it.

And yeah, verify that he actually got a raise first.

 

[Nedved96]

I really doubt we could get more than 10m out of selling Khedira. Also, his high wages will make him even more difficult to sell.

In the case of Marchisio, we didn't even sell him, we terminated his contract and he then left for free to Zenit.

 

[pavluska]

Marchisio was at the club for 25 years. It's called respect and appreciation, the minimum amount we could show.

10m is better than 0m.