The Summer 2019 Pre-Season Thread

Saw the highlight goal on twitter but missed the game. Did Ronaldo get subbed in at all or was he rested?

 

Ronaldo is going to get rested, no point playing him at his age on a friendly.

We need him healthy for CL.

Rabiot had a pretty good game.

Costa is a freak of nature, his speed and playmaking ability is 2nd to none, here hoping he stays healthy and keeps his head in the right place.

 

If we can keep him fit, Aaron really is a good pick-up.

 

Gorgeous. I could watch this over and over again. Too bad it was only Triestina.

 

He's so frustrating.

There is talent there; possibly a great deal of seriously untapped talent. But when he's had the opportunities to show it when it has counted most, he's been a disappointment. Maybe Allegri was simply the wrong manager to get it out of him. Maybe Sarri will play him in his best position (assuming he finds out what that is).

Or maybe he's the Argentine version of Diego. A world class player in a very specific position who requires a very specific team to be built around him just to get the best out of him. And in today's football, those teams do not win the CL, unless they have world class talent in just about every surrounding position, which we do not have.

 

If Rabiot can start hitting the net with his shot, and he can cause he has done so before, he is going to be an excellent pick up.

Dude is much bigger than I thought and he covers a lot of ground.

If Costa could shot straight he would be a world class player.

 

So only one goal against Triestina in our last warm up? But we are playing beautiful soccer though!

 

I'd argue that it's a consistency issue. He came up big against Barcelona in the knockout stages years back. He was also critical in the Tottenham fixtures a couple years ago. I don't get the sense that he's overawed the occasion. We still don't know if he'll be a Juve player much longer but if he is, I'm hopeful that maybe he establishes himself as a world class player under a new manager. We know that Allegri wasn't his biggest fan--maybe Sarri will be higher on him.

All that being said, he has a pretty good rate of return for us having scored 57 goals in 128 appearances. That's really not that bad. I think the frustration there is that it was hoped his returns would be closer to Ronaldo/Messi numbers when we purchased him as the next great thing.