Amazing contrast here, you would think Kagawa and De Bruyne were infinitely times better. De Bruyne has the potential to be, but all I see from Kagawa in the last year or so with Japan and United is flash but no end product.
As I said before, Sports Direct is a clothing company owned by the guy who also owns Newcastle United - Mike Ashley. They have no business writing football stories in their magazine or website, their rumours are invented by 15 year old work experience students.
I have been watching Kagawa since his initial games for Dortmund, and he is on this forum really overrated. I would only take him, if United gave him up for free.
Dortmund is a great place to play for attacking players, see Sahin comments above and for years before. It's a club that is a high level to play but a notch below the really big clubs in terms of expectation.
ter Stegen !? After the WC and perhaps we can give him one more year somewhere else if Gigi keeps his current form?
This year there were games were Buffon was back to his best. If Gigi keeps that form ter Stegen would be one very unhappy and expensive backup...
And it seems we are aware none of our young keepers would be the new Buffon, but they aren't going to be a Storari either.
i would take ter stegen in the summer for a good price + his contract ends in 2015 so he wont be too expensive. i think buffon will play 2 more years and then retire. then ter stegen will be our no.1 gk and we can bring in leali as backup
How about Chicharito/Hernandez for next season? We lack a true Inzaghi/Trez style poacher. Probably avaialble for £15-20m and would allow us to sell either Quag or Vucinic. Along with Tevez and Llorente could form a great strike force and would get plenty of game time. Also id like to see a cheeky bid for Giuseppe Rossi if he keeps up his form!
I'm not so sure about that. Do you remember that famous Paratici's list with names of 40 players we are interested in? Ter Stegen was on that list, along with Peluso, Llorente, Ogbonna, and other players we already bought.
Its very hard to find good goalkeepers these days, with Buffon almost at the end of his career, we should definitely make the move for Ter Stegen. Buffon replacement is more important than Pirlo repalcement.
I'm not so sure about that. Do you remember that famous Paratici's list with names of 40 players we are interested in? Ter Stegen was on that list, along with Peluso, Llorente, Ogbonna, and other players we already bought.
ter Stegen will find himself on the radar of most teams. Juve won't be mulling over summer transfers in November, the timing is the important part here.
Its very hard to find good goalkeepers these days, with Buffon almost at the end of his career, we should definitely make the move for Ter Stegen. Buffon replacement is more important than Pirlo repalcement.
He'll go to Barcelona, they just confirmed they are in talks for a new keeper, seems almost certain.
We need to show more faith in Leali. Once he gets his shot in Serie A I'm pretty sure people will be falling over themselves to get him to 'replace Buffon'.