Wishlist and General Juve mercato talk (2013-14) (22 Viewers)

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Jul 20, 2012
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Im not too convinced by Sanchez and his price tag but i rather have sanchez and llorente come than us getting rid of quag and matri to only replace them with either osvaldo or diamanti. Keep vucinic as a bench player and keep gio. Then we bring in sanchez and llorente and keep matri as the back up striker. We could play llorente-sanchez for a 3-5-2 and for a 4-3-3 we could play a trio of gio llorente and sanchez and hope that gio can replicate his parma form. It would only cost us around 25mill and it would be an upgrade
 

Lion

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Jan 24, 2007
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If we're not going to look at signing someone like Alexis Sanchez (looks like he wants to stay in Barcelona anyway) or maybe Jackson Martinez then we should not bother with signing a 'good' 26-28 year old striker like Osvaldo. We already did that with Vucinic, Matri, Quagliarella etc.

If we are going to put €18m-€20m down make it on someone with a lot of potential who might not make an instant impact but will in perhaps 6-12 months. I'm thinking of the money Milan paid for El Shaarawy, Roma for Lamela, or Liverpool for Suarez. We need to develop our own world class players with that initial investment, because we are not even in the market for world class strikers.
this is an excellent post, and i'm sure the investment of marotta in the millions of youths we bought in the last 2 years is meant to to find 3-4 that are good enough to be in the first team. We should be looking hard at barca's model of producing talented youths and replicate that.

the other big step is finding a replacement for marchsio in hamsik or hernanes
 
Apr 29, 2006
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this is an excellent post, and i'm sure the investment of marotta in the millions of youths we bought in the last 2 years is meant to to find 3-4 that are good enough to be in the first team. We should be looking hard at barca's model of producing talented youths and replicate that.

the other big step is finding a replacement for marchsio in hamsik or hernanes
Agreed as well.

Perhaps Pogba can step up and take Marchisio's spot, but tbh I am thinking another 30m offer and Marchisio should be sold...

We should either buy a top quality striker, someone that will raise the level of the first team significantly or implement young talent and get the best of 'what we have'... sell or play !
Besides, I don't think the salary structure alone will scare off strikers. There are bonuses that might compensate it. For instance: we can easily pay 5-6m without taxes to top forward. Add 10m signing bonus and his wage is already 7 excl. performance related payments. Falcao, Benzema, Higuain, Jovetic, Lewandowski, Balotelli - all of them we could sign if we wanted. Wasting 15m on Oslvaldo, 12m for Martinez, 18m on Matri and 11? on Giovinco deprives us from the financial power to actually get one of those top players. Hell, dear Iaquinta is still sucking close to 4m wages before tax, Amauri was 25+m and that wasn't long ago either...
It's a lie, we DON'T have the money.

PS: Why are we getting another young italian keeper? We have 2 top keepers and Leali, no?
 

LiquidPLP

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Jun 9, 2012
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Yeah mainly due to trequartista role but so is 3-5-2 with wingers. Today almost every team plays with two wingers on each side. No man can handle two players both defensively and offensively.
 

CrimsonianKing

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Sarcasm, just thought it funny as if Coutinho wasn't an Inter flop.
More like Inter is to blame. Their system is shit and they used him at the worst positions possible. I've been watching Liverpool since he joined them, he's shining there. Huge talent.

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He needed playing time, something he didn't have at Inter and is having aplenty at Liverpool.
 

JuveJay

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Mar 6, 2007
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this is an excellent post, and i'm sure the investment of marotta in the millions of youths we bought in the last 2 years is meant to to find 3-4 that are good enough to be in the first team. We should be looking hard at barca's model of producing talented youths and replicate that.

the other big step is finding a replacement for marchsio in hamsik or hernanes
It's tough for youth players to find space in big Serie A teams, let alone the strongest, but it has to be our model. Or else why bother with the philosophy we have.

Personally I have high hopes for several young players that we own, now let's utilise the most impressive and useful.
 

JuveJay

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More like Inter is to blame. Their system is shit and they used him at the worst positions possible. I've been watching Liverpool since he joined them, he's shining there. Huge talent.

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He needed playing time, something he didn't have at Inter and is having aplenty at Liverpool.
He has a lot of skill but so do many players who ultimately failed. I don't pay attention to players until they show they are consistently good.
 

CrimsonianKing

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He has a lot of skill but so do many players who ultimately failed. I don't pay attention to players until they show they are consistently good.
But that's the thing, he is, every single match for Liverpool. Today he could've had 2 assists and a backheel goal, Suarez missed the chances and his goal was offside but still had a great match. Watch Liverpool's next match and you'll see.
 
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