Juve and Sassuolo are in talks for Manuel Locatelli. GdS claims that Zaniolo told Roma managers "I want to stay."
Don't see that happening. Why go for an over 30 player that can give us a couple of years at most? He's also been in decline. Also, he makes a fortune at Madrid, its just a play to get a new contract there
Dest will be insanely expensive. He is very fast and skillful but has a lot of room to improve defensively. Think of a comparable to Cancelo. Will cost upwards of €40MM. Bayern heavily interested as well.
Will be insanely expensive. Rumoured of upwards of £80MM fee. He is ridiculously fast and had long been viewed as rudderless, however, in this season he seems to have found some end product. Personally, I'd say Douglas Costa is a much better player and probably similarly consistent. If we want to pay that kinda fee for speed, chase Alphonso Davies. There is a future superstar with phenomenal speed but also bags of ability
Douglas Costa is almost 30 with injury issues and slows the ball down a bit too much for my liking. On his day, DC11 is one of the best wingers in the world, miles better than Traore. For 80 mil, I would rather see how committed Christian Pulisic is if Chelsea don't get in the CL.
Pulisic is an intriguing thought, has bags of talent and is very young so lots of upside. Plus he carries that US passport so huge marketing upside but cost £60MM last year and is on long term contract so would cost over £100MM. Buying top tier talent from the EPL is always too expensive.
he also has a croatian passport, so he wouldnt count against non-EU slot. i'll stop though, it isn't happening.
I think its pathetic with CR7 we are still not UCL contenders Paratici & Agnelli need to do some relfecting on themselves and where they are headed. Gilardino or Giroud arent available? UCL 2021 here we come!
I give Agnelli the benefit of the doubt. Since he took helm, the club improved. We can't say the same about Paratici.
Agnelli absolutely deserves credit, no one can deny that, but these last 3yrs were critical and we failed to move forward. This isnt how you build a team to win CL and if thats not your goal, then why buy Ronaldo who is at the end of his career?
Agnelli built a CL finalist. Sometimes things don't work out. He will have to try and keeping plugging away and trying to get the team back to where it was. If it was a science, other teams would be doing it and there wouldn't be any parody. I think it's all been proven to be cyclical. Teams rise and are constantly trying to maintain or increase. Milan was at the top 2002-2007 United was at the top from 2007-2009 Barca were at or near the for the better part of a decade from 2005-2015/16 Bayern were at the top from 2011-2013 Real Madrid were at the top from 2013-2018 Liverpool have been there the last 2 years. It's not easy to maintain at the top 4-8 every single year. That is about where we have been since 2014. Unfortunately Agnelli and Marotta/Paratici have missed on a few signings after big players left. Sure it def. seems as though the team has regressed the last 2/3 years but we are still financially stable and haven't sold out to oil tycoons. It wasn't long ago that we were bringing in Pazienza, Osvaldo, or Ogbonna.
Financially stable but dont buy a Ronaldo if you are not ready to build a CL winning team They stopped buying Italians apparently cuz theyre not good anymore but these foreigners are even more garbage. Give me Padoin, Giacherrini, Pereyra over any of these mids. Even Bentancur sucks defensively and he's supposed to be the best one.
Padoin, Giacherrini, and Pereyra? I imagine you are saying that for shock value. Those players simply aren't good enough. To be fair, neither is Khedira or Matuidi and Ramsey is looking terrible since the restart. However, they are miles better than Padowin, Giacc, and Pereyra. I get that you miss some of that "give a f**k" factor or "grinta" that people go on and on about. I miss part of it too, and feel that there should be one or two players that provide that to balance the team.
Even during Marotta time we didnt make that many great deals 93M for Higuain to use him 2yrs, the Bonucci Caldara fiasco Mandzukic, Benatia, Marchisio got screwed for no reason Hernanes to replace Vidal
Come on man what have these guys done to be better than Padoin? They cant tackle, they cant score. Its not about the name and the resume, its how you fit into the system and how much u try. Liverpool didnt have many big names in midfield and they won CL cuz the players knew how to play. The staff we have now has No chemistry
Mandzukic and Benatia left under Paratici not Marotta. Marchisio was done as a player as proven by his short stint in Russia and subsequent retirement less than a year later
I think Liverpool would be counter to your argument and what I look at with what could be. Liverpool have had to sell their best players in the past like Suarez and Coutinho (just like Pogba, Vidal) and didn't always spend it very well and it took Klopp 4 years to be a threat in the CL and EPL. If Sarri is given that type of time, he may do the same. The issue is, should Sarri get it and will Paratici/Agnelli spend wisely enough to make a complete team like Liverpool have? I don't know either of those answers and idk if we bring in a pragmatic coach like Poch if he will be able to bring instant success with the few remaining years that Ronaldo has near the top?
That is Lorenzo Pellegrini, who I rate and think would immediately improve our midfield not to mention make it younger.