Pirlo might leave next year
Or he might not. I assume we are talking about signing Nainggolan for this year, anyway.
Marchisio is inconsistent, Pogba regardless of his talent is still a youngster, Asamoah is playing as LWB and will continue this year, the likes of Marrone and Padoin aren't good enough even for a bench. Padoin is more suited to play as RWB as he had some decent games there.
Doesn't really matter how you dress it up or lies you add, we have a lot of good CM options already, and after that ones that are fine to play a quarter-third of the season.
What resources? They were talking of a swap deal including Marrone and Beltrame. They aren't exactly the hottest commodity around.
Yeah, we're not getting him for that offer. That's about €10m worth of players tops, and I seriously doubt we are going to give Cagliari the full contract of either player.
What prospects do we have there? Appelt is not good enough. His physique is poor. Buoy, Kabashi? I can't see any hot prospect lurking around ready to break into our senior team. Correct me if I'm wrong.
I'll bow to your superior knowledge of Appelt but he, Bouy, Kabashi, Schiavone, Sakor, Cavion and Cevallos are all amongst our most highly rated youth assets in their age categories. We are talking about players that are fighting to be 5th or 6th choice, after all, given the above.
What big salary? He would get something like 3m per year and sales of Quag, Matri are more than enough to finance that. Even regardless of their sales we could afford him.
Already explained, put that salary elsewhere. Otherwise you have a lot of salary allocated into one area of the team. If you add Nainggolan and the impending salary increases to those players Juventus are going to need to pay €35m-€40m per year just for the CM area. Considering we are now paying Tevez nearly €10m and Llorente €8m I'd debate statements like 'we could afford him'. He'd be a luxury for this season, which is just another word for stockpiling.
In return we would get good established player, fairly young who will probably generate lot of interest in years to come and would be valuable addition to our midfield. Having Vidal, Pirlo, Marchisio, Pogba and Nainggolan and considering our ambitions this year which are I believe familiar to all of us would give us more competitive edge.
For me it's too much for one season, without an additional offensive winger 'wild card', which would be more useful. If Pirlo is to go next season then get him then and move Pogba. I just don't see how this is working, are we suddenly going to rest Vidal for 30% more games, or Pirlo for 30% more and move Pogba there? Is Nainggolan going to play just a third or half of games? Can't see it.
I actually think Marotta is very keen on Nainggolan, and he is a very good player, but we have become a bit obsessed in the CM area. As it is, a one-in one-out policy makes most sense. I'm not going to get tied up in future scenarios because it's guesswork, just judging based on our current squad.
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