Juventus FC officially announced the signing of Vieira for €20M (€10 immediately, 5 due on July 14 2006 and 5 on July 14 2007). Vieira signed a 5 year contract with Juventus.
Another bit about Vieira's signing. I guess we should be excited, at least he is under 30 at this point. http://www.channel4.com/sport/football_italia/jul14k.html
Not having to pay the 20M Euros all at once still gives Juve the luxury of adding Cassano....good business by Juve!
Well, it'll be very interesting to see if he does better now than he did at Milan long ago. And whether he gets into the same sort of disciplinary troubles that he's had in the EPL.
Congrats to Juve. As usual, a sober, but very effective and intelligent transfer market campaign. It got you the scudetto last year, and may well get you more this year...
HOLY $HIT! I can't believe we got Vieira! We have a freaking all-star team. Wow. If we played today, we could field the following lineup: ------------------------------Buffon------------------------------------- Zambrotta----------Thuram-------------Cannavaro----------------Chiellini Camoranesi--------Emerson-----------Vieira--------------------Nedved ----------------------Trezeguet------Ibrahimovic----------------------- Bench: Chimenti, Zebina, Kovac, Appiah, Blasi, Giannichedda, Olivera, Del Piero, Mutu, Miccoli . . . Is anyone else excited?!
On paper this side look like worldbeaters, but injuries plague every club. If Juve stay healthy, The Treble is very much a realistic goal for them.
The Treble (or "Tripletta" in Italian) is when a team wins all three competitions it participates in. So in Juve's case, to achieve the treble, they'd have to win the Scudetto, the CL, and the Coppa Italia.
We certainly have the players to do it but i really think we should have sold emerson and kept maresca so we could get more money and have one hell of a creativie player playing beside a more defensive one.
yeah...thats what I was thinking it was because it was really all that would come to mind, but thanks for the clear up!
Why did they let Maresca go for practically nothing? He's a talented player not to mention a former U21 international. 1.8 million sterling is basically a garage sale price.
thats the market today. €2.5m for a decent young player. i agree with you that its a bargain though. id say hes worth about twice. €5m.
That guy on the left is the major reason why we have been the most succfessul Italian club the last ten years.
He has a pretty funny voice too. But you have to respect him. He's the one that brought Maradona to Napoli.