Various reports in Italy suggest Alex Sandro will leave Juventus this summer as Chelsea are preparing a €70m offer for the Brazilian full-back.
I’m reluctant to buy into the mercato madness, and for the moment it’s just speculation, however somewhat reliable sources are reporting that Alex Sandro ius very tempted by the prospect of joining Chelsea this summer.
There have been assorted rumbling from the usual papers in Italy – Gazzetta Dello Sport, Tuttosport etc. – All of which suggest that Sandro has had his head turned by the chance to earn up to three times more his Juve salary by joining the Premier League champions.
Romeo Agresti, who covers Juventus for Goal Italia, reports today that ‘the moment of truth has arrived‘ for Sandro who has been ‘specifically requested by Antonio Conte‘. He suggests that Juve are sticking firm to the same policy they’ve adopted for the past 5 years: None of the ‘big’ players will be sold, unless they specially ask to leave.
To counter Chelsea’s offer, Agresti reports that Biaconeri directors are prepared to renew Sandro’s contract until 2022 and increase his salary to €5m per season, but they’re fighting a losing battle; Sandro is increasingly likely to accept Chelsea’s offer. Once Juve officially receive a new bid, they will examine the prospect of letting the left-back leave and how to replace him for the coming season.
It’s disappointing to consider losing the full-back, arguably 2nd-best in the world in his position, with only Marcelo ahead of him. His comments in April where he spoke of not wanting to leave Turin echo those from players in summers past, namely Arturo Vidal, Paul Pogba and Alvaro Morata.
On the plus side, Juve would net double what they paid out for the full-back, money which could be used to find a replacement for both the right and left-back positions.
Money talks loudest to most players. It is only the very special few who put wearing the shirt ahead of the weekly pay cheque.
Money is not an issue.. Everyone talks about Chelsea doubling or tripling Sandro’s pay without bothering to check whether that is a possibility. Rumours are that Juventus are offering a renewal in the region of 5m NET* per year (* this is important; you have to double italian salaries to compare them to those in England, where taxes of around 45% are deduced from reported salaries). 5m is more than Marcelo or Jordi Alba earn. Frankly, this sounds perfectly reasonable given the fact that we have just renewed Bonucci for 5.5m and Dybala for 7m..
For Chelsea to even match this salary, they would have to make Sandro their highest paid player after Hazard and Costa. If Juventus were to bump that salary up to 5.5m and some bonuses, he would most likely be out of Chelsea’s reach unless they wanted a fullback as their highest paid player.. Juventus are quickly becoming one of Europe’s highest paying clubs; it’s about time we open our eyes to that fact.
This doesn’t mean he won’t leave; he could have several reasons for that. I’m just saying money wouldn’t be one of those reasons.
Of course money is an issue. Why else did Pogba leave? Btw, there are ways and means of avoiding taxes, I would not let that argument get in the mix.
And you are forgetting that the player will get 5% of the transfer fee – that on a £60m deal is an immediate £3m to Sandro straight away… Plus doubtless other huge financial rewards and incentives/bonuses will be offered. Make no mistake, if he goes to Chelsea he will be getting more money than whatever Juve can offer him. Mr Abramovich has deep pockets, and if Conte has demanded him then whatever the cost will be met.
Juventus don’t have the commercial platform to keep the “most marketable players” such as pogba, and in the near future dybala. We can’t offer players 10m+ net per year at this point, but neither can chelsea! But we can offer above 5m per year to players like bonucci and sandro, which is more than, say, sergio ramos makes.
As for the player’s commission for the fee, i have nothing to say. That is a fact.. I just read that chelsea is offering sandro 7m net per season. If this is true, then we can’t and shouldn’t match that. But neither could madrid or bayern or barcelona. No fullback in the world makes that kind of money, and neither does any of the players currently on chelsea’s squad..
Dude, Chelsea have a 40mil a season shirt sponsor in Yokohama Tyres, twice Juve’s deal value with Jeep. They have signed a 60mil per year sportswear deal with Nike starting next season. Nearly three times our deal with Adidas. Plus the huge increase in Premier League prize money (and back in UCL next season). I admire your efforts in your arguments, really I do.
But the truth is that Chelsea are a richer club than us, and getting richer by the season. Make no mistake, they can afford to run a handful of ten million a year+ contracts without breaking sweat.
If we are going to assume tax evasion will happen, we can assume it will happen in italy as well. What matters is how much teams put on the table. At the moment juventus have allegedly offered sandro the equivalent of £170,000 per week in stamford bridge (€5m per year in italy). This is without doubt a top player contract that exceeds those of sandro’s peers in other top teams.. if chelsea want to pay him 7m net per season, then that is their decision. But that doesn’t mean that their wage bill for their stars is higher than ours. It isn’t. These are numbers that you can look up if you don’t believe me.
Look harder then… Chelsea’s average wage is over £500k a year more than Juve’s as of the sports saleries report for 2016. Download it and see for yourself. I doubt much has changed since last year. Juve’s wages gave gone up, but so have all EPL club wage bills GLOBAL SPORTS SALARIES SURVEY 2016.
I’ll reply both of your posts here.. I don’t mean to imply that Juventus has more commercial revenue than Chelsea, nor that they are richer. I’m just saying that our best paid players are in the same ballpark as theirs (i mean the top 5 or 6), and if our players leave, i honestly don’t think money will be the reason. We can afford to pay sandro more than marcelo or alaba are currently making in a bid to keep him in Turin. Do Real or Bayern have to do the same? Nope..
On another note, EPL players are supposed to pay 45% tax; the figures from the document you attached (thanks btw) concur with chelsea’s reported salaries at a tax rate of 35%. It would be great if they commented further on their methodology. Even at 35% their top earner, Hazard, is in the mid 7m’s euros per year. Same as dybala and higuain. Can they stretch further than we can if need be? Probably. But i don’t think it’s the life changing kind of money Pogba was looking at last summer.
you see all these footballers getting smashed in court for evading taxes , theres not a lot of ways of actually getting away with doing what your saying.
Yes there are, especially in Britain. Read on…. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3816507/Secret-tax-deal-football-millionaires-cosy-deals-taxman-save-stars-millions.html
3 years after and I find myself repeating the same arguments I stated the first time I entered this site, the same analysis I made since the 2 leg 0-4 defeat against Heynckes´s Bayern Munich in the Conte era. And still zero improvement on this front which is the most important.
I won´t make this long because to me the main reason of our failure though structural is absolutely straightforward.
Juve play the most Italian of styles (Have the best world defense with a roman phalanx of warriors, have the most powerful midfield, and have clinical firepower forward to score at least 1 goal from a few chances). For this we need a phalanx of warriors and soldiers like you see in the movie 300, instead we have a circus with all kinds of animals from all kinds of origins who have no clue how to play as one unit.
Still Juve pretend to employ this approach with foreigners who have no clue what the Italian spirit, style and strategy are all about.
It´s like going to the battle of the termopilae with an army of Samurai´s, barbarians, amazonic native warriors, aztech eagle warriors, and all kinds of mythical soldiers who no matter how good they are at their craft they are unsutable to fight as a unit, ergo…. FAILURE!
Until we get truly Italian born or Italian converted players we will always fail with this mercenaries who wan´t to change our core style. For example just listen to Dani Alves words criticising Juve for not going all out attack, he just doesn´t get it what being Italian or playing in Italy entails and requires.
If it were up to me fire them all strangers who have no clue about Italy or Juventus.
– Is Alves on his way out? Cool
– Sandro Out? Cool
– Argentinias out? Cool
– Cuadrado out? Cool
I am 100% fine with all this foreigner mercenaries leaving, Whoever is not italian or doesn´t become one is not worthy of wearing our coat of arms and our black and white striped maglia.
3 years on and still zero improvement on this front. This is underwhelming. Fire em all who don´t belong here.
I don´t pretend to be a genius here or get praise, I am hurt from our utter failure. I don´t want to be a hero or commended for my views, I just want to see the real Juve that we are meant to be, the real Juve that we can be. The one we saw a few backs is a fake Juventus, a parody of what it should be.
Nope, it doesn’t have anything with Italian core! It’s not 1960’s. Donnarumma is Italian, and Verratti, can we get them or keep them for a long time? the problem is small club mentality versus top club mentality. Don’t sell your core players ( Italian or international) at any cost! as simple as that!
Pep Marotta is fantastic at building good squad at reasonable price, but his rural team mentality of Genoa times tells him to sell anybody if there is a profit! Small clubs financial strategy is to sell good and buy cheap! Top clubs financial strategy is to attract superstars, present a spectacular football, attract sponsors and worldwide fan base! Image of the club is the most important thing: Glamorous or modest, Top club or selling club.
Juventus don’t sell the players though, you can’t keep someone who wants to go. Thats just one way of looking at this but we don’t know the entire story. I am sure that Sandro is pushing this thing forward and probably has been for the last couple of weeks, What do you do at that point ?? you see what players do to clubs if they want to leave that would not be in our best interest. We should have players who want to be with us I am sure marotta spoke to sandro and let him know how bad we want him, but that wasn’t enough obviously. Take the 70 Mill and buy someone who wants to stay not leave.
I agree we still need to improve on mentality, but what I am saying is I think it is not enough and that we need whoever wears the white and black stripes to nderstand, embrace, and show compromise to the Juve way of playing allowing zero goals and scoring more than opposition. But at the final we did none in my view because many newcomers still don´t get it.
Sure money is important to get quality players but to me quality is not enough they need to adapt to Juve not try to make Juve become whatever team they were playing for.
You do realize we were 45 minutes away from a treble?? … “Best italian coach”, how about Allegri?.. jesus christ, chill out
In case you didn´t notice I was talking on a general sense meaning we should get the best Italian coach there is. If it turns out to be Max then so be it.
But don´t fool yourself ignoring the fact Max screwed up the approach using the 3-4-1-2 we pretty much played for a single game against monaco and some other one in Serie A.
Max tried to play the genius and outsmart or surprise Zidane using a new formation not yet well oiled, but it backfired on him and he cost us the 0-1. the players and particularly Mario Mandzukic bailed him out on that one tying the match.
So don´t start implying I am calling for Max´s head or anything, but don´t ignore the fact he also has responsibility for the loss.
And finally I know we were 45 mins away from a treble but the fact you are comfortable coming second doesn´t mean every one must feel the same. Actually what you imply sounds like loser talk to me.
If we were 45 mins away from a treble is because the societá built a top team and we have no competition in the local league, a double in Italy is not an impossible achievement, much less with our current team, it is closer to the tolerable minimum.
The societá this campaign provided everything for coach and players to achieve the treble, but they failed miserably with a tactical screw up in approach at the start of the game and hideous showing in the 2nd half.
If that pleases you because you are glad with merely participating its your business.
If I expected more from this team it is my business. So don´t dare tell me what to do or think alright Pal, I don´t allow it. I will chill out whenever I want to, if at all.
We agree on more things than you think. However, I don’t think the 3-4-1-2 itself was the problem. That formation just helped us eliminate our weaker link (cuadrado) and put in his place our tried and true #15. This had the additional benefit of launching alves forward, with devastating results not only in both legs against monaco in the CL and in serie A as you mentioned, but also in the coppa italia final. It was just a tactical wrinkle in our 4-2-3-1 that worked in very much the same way. Adding the fact that cuadrado could come off the bench later on, it really was our best look for a final.
Our problem on june 3rd was an overenthusiastic approach. We never stepped off the gas pedal; every chance that mostly dybala and alves, but also pjanic, had to drive forward, they would take. We had no tempo, and we lost possesion way to quickly on the break rather than reorganizing and forcing madrid to chase us. It was a mess to watch after the disciplined performances from earlier in the tournament. I think the occasion proved larger for our players than for our coach in all honesty.
Maybe this is where we differ in opinion. I believe the same team, organized in the same way, but choosing a fundamentally different approach, would have won that outing. Once they started losing possesion and feeling overwhelmed by madrid’s midfield, they lost control and crumbled. Had they kept focus and played a little slower, they could have controlled the game.
It is a very good tactical analysis you are doing, the problem to me is not the system on paper is bad because I like it a lot, the problem is it feels unrehearsed sure it worked in Italy and against Monaco but we did not have it well oiled for an UCL final, players seemed confused at the beginning, out of place, maybe that caused them to run more than they should to copensate or because they did not know what else to do.
But that is an entirely separate matter to the fact after we switched to 4 at the back players gave up entirely and just stood there like a sparring team wwatching the game. They all were jogging on midfield expecting someone else to cover the defense like we were San Marino or some non italian team without a clue on how to defend, even freaking Asensio scored? really?
So I am not sure if we disagree at all or where we do but one thing is sure, you are right that we didn´t show mentality up to the ocassion (although we did improve a bit compared to Berlin attacking from the beginning). But besides lack of mentality we showed zero defensive tactical in the typical Juve sense.
This same team denied Barca of any goals, yet we conceded 4 at the end. That´s unjustifiable, and I blame that on players not having an Italian sense of defensive duty. They all were watching the game from midfield hoping for someone else to defend they did not play as a unit meaning they shredded the Juve philosophy and plan to pieces.
this is a very bigoted apraoch (excuse me for sounding like an American Liberal), but my friend if we where full of Italians only our team would be no better thann Inter Milans, Aside from the Defence, There is no great Midfield nor attacking talent in italy right now. Only italians who would gladly have a first team spot in any big team is: Bonucci, Chielini, Buffon and maybe Insigne. Bernardeschi is in no means an A-Class talent, he has potential, but he would be benched in most big teams, Same with Belotti. Immobile was a big failure along with Eder, Bunch of nobodys who arent world Class but once had the potential. Verratti in my opinion is very overhyped, he isnt even half of the player everyone makes him out to be, much rather prefer Pjanic, I am glad Beppe was smart enough to not pursue him. Barcelona pursuing him means nothing they are a team trying to save face; and ould it not be for the MSN Barcelona would be a mid table spanish team at the moment.
Point is this italian argument is stupid at best; we already have an Italian Spine in Buffon and the BBC; Darmain is not that much quality, he will not improve our squad, and he definatley wont cover Sandro’s absence; If we get Darmain it is just meanwhile a good deal for a good LB comes along.
Dybala is also a gladiator and mind you I am somone who HATES and DESPISES the Argentina National team and their players for being cheap dirty cunts, with the exception of Messi and Dybala though. We have a gladiator mentality, what we dont have is money to keep our best players, What we dont have is a good and strong league. The Italian league is garbage, well it isnt but it sure looks that way with Italian teams loosing to pathetic teams in the Europa League and the CL. Napoli saved face this term, but Roma just embarrassed Italian futbol at the start when they last i think it was to Porto with dumbass red cards for the play off qualifiers.
Juve needs two things:
#1 For Milan. Inter Milan, Roma, Napoli and Lazio to start acting and playing like the big teams and heavyweights they are! NOT JUST AGAINST US BUT IN EUROPE
#2 MONEY!!! expand our Market, be a big Marketing force in China and the Concacaf region Especially the United States! hell buy a player that’s in the USMNT Brooks is an amazing defender, or Pulisic The Us has talent to, but most of all getting a mens national team player is an INSTANT breakthrough to the market, BVB overtook Bayern as the most Popular team in the states just for the rise of Pulisic. I live in the States and it is a pain to find any news and games from the Italian and German leagues. However the EPL is even easier to follow than the MLS, and Barcelona and Real Madrid games and news are all over the place as well its almost as if The EPL and Barca and R.MAdrid where all local. That there is the key to revenue.
Pal it is clear to me you just don´t get it. You don´t get at all what I mean so fine, go ahead think whatever you want to think, I don´t care. If you think my arguments are stupid bigotry fine. I don´t expect for everyone to get it.
Now about your arguments they are the same I read from everyone and everywhere else .
– How come Bayern is not in a competitive league either and managed to win the UCL?
– Teams need the money to have a real chance to reach european elite and at least manage to reach a final, from there it is up to the coach and players who are on the pitch to do that final push.
So I don´t buy your arguments, but don´t need either to disqualify or discredit them or attack a fellow Juventini, whatever we say are just words and there´s not much we can do about it. But like I said, it is fine if you don´t get it. It doesn´t change anything, but worry not, you will be alright.
If likes of Sandro and Bonucci leave us, after Vidal, Pogba, Morata, etc, that only has one sad meaning: Instead of being like Madrid and Bayern, we are becoming like of Dortmund and Atletico! And that means we are not a top club, just a jumping step for great players…
The so-called policy of “None of the ‘big’ players will be sold, unless they specially ask to leave.” is just a pathetic way to fool ourselves! The truth is: Big club does not let their best players leave, by paying them more, by not selling them, by telling them they are wanted by the club, by not telling BS likes if you wanna leave you can leave! Can you imagine Barça telling Messi that he can leave if he wants??? Absolute garbage, modern football is not the romantic poems of 19th century! “If you love me really, you will stay with me”!!! And don’t tell me we are doing good business of selling them for high price, two years ago we sold Vidal, arguably the best box-to-box midfielder in the world, at 37 million, today we can not even by Nzonzi for the same price at the same age! Porto, Monaco and even Atalanta also do good business of selling for high prices, so what? we wanna be like them or like big three!
I blame this on marotta and the board. Sandro just said a couple of months ago that he doesn’t think about any other team than Juve. But if marotta keeps saying shit like ‘if a player wants to leave he can’. He should be saying ‘sandro is an important player to us and hope he continues with us because he’s an integral part of this squad’ and just give him a big raise. Only 26 years old top 2 lb in the world. Unbelievable if he goes to chelsea. What about keeping our stars ffs!!
Just my words. Swap him with Hazard or put a 100 mill price on his head. Players are not slaves tight to the clubs – BUT still have a contract they must respect. They cannot just leave whenever they want to.
For God sake, De Sciglio and Darmian are not on Sandro’s level. Especially not the former.
Either Juve keep their best players, or we must consider ourselves lucky to reach the last eight in CL.
You can’t truly blame marotta, he said this but what I really think is Sandro has been behind this the whole time. This change for players as they do for you and me. I seriously doubt Sandro is leaving because of marotta’s words, he is leaving because he wants a new experience and although it is said I agree with the policy of letting players go if they please what would be the point to hold a player against his will.I think Juventus needs to win the CL and continue winning everything we play in because I see this as a problem for players maybe he thinks Chelsea have a good shot at winning the CL and they do, with PL title and everything else.More money etc those are the reasons he is leaving.
70!!! Fucking 70M ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!! In the Modern Mercato 70M is pocket change for “Arguably the best Fullback in the world next to Marcelo”, thats like letting: Bale, Messi, Ronaldo, Neymar, Suarez, and Lewandowski leave their clubs for 70M-90M
This is the crazy as fuck Mercato we live in:
– VVD – 70m
– Zilensky – 60M
– Koulibaly – 60M+
– Keita Balde – 50M
– Serg Savic – 70M
– Naby Keita – 80M
– Cr7 – 150M
– Mbappe – 110M+
What do these players have in common? MOST ARE UNPROVEN, NOTHING SPECIAL PLAYERS with 1 GOOD SEASON! some not even 1 good season, and others like Mbappe and Cr7 perhaps correctly priced CONSIDERING THEY ARE THE BEST IN THEIR ROLES AT THE MOMENT. so how is it that we sell Alex Sandro the 2ND BEST PLAYER IN THE WORLD IN HIS POSITION for 70M pennies, When Players who aren’t even half the player Sandro is in their Respective positions sell for about the same 70M??????????????????????????????????????
THAT IS BAFFLING! we should demand 95M – 100M AT THE VERY LEAST for someone of Alex Sandro’s Caliber! i would hate to see Alex Sandro leave, he was the player i was going to get for the new jersey BUT FUCKING GOD if he will leave, let him not leave at a fucking DISCOUNT!!! we aren’t rolling in dough here, we cant even compete with RM,Barcelons, BAyern and much less the English clubs when it comes to wages, We must hardball for our players! EVERYONE ELSE IS DOING IT
He is a defender, far less capable of affecting the game as a player playing up in front. Make no mistake, if he goes for that money, it will be a new record price for a defender, and if him going, means we will get at least a world class winger, then so be it. Imagine, with 70M you can get Mendy(one of your favorites if I am not mistaken), lets say for 40M, and the rest 30 you invest on Keita or Bernadeschi(plus , minus 10M). Not only we will not lose that much on the defensive part of the game, but we will get stronger! Plus there is only one and I mean that literally, only ONE club on this planet which can offer ridiculous wages and the status/ chance of silverware to the players. One club that offers everything to the players, so they have no reason tho leave, and that club is Real Madrid. The rest are all selling clubs, either by need(they need the money to survive or finance other transfers.) or due to lack of incentives to the players, either financial or sporting ones. Juventus falls to the financial structure category, at least for now…
sorry my friend, but to me you are just trying to comfort yourself. Mendy will not join a team like Juve, when he has offer from Guardiola. Juve is not going to get Bernardeschi for 30 million or even Costa for 40 million. It’s like those pathetic tries of Marotta to get Alexis Sanchez for 25 million from Barça or 15 million for Draxler or 6 million for Witsel!
And hell no! Not all club are selling clubs exept Madrid. In last 2 summers we have lost 5 to 6 of our stating XI, let’s not fool ourselves! Compare that with even likes of Arsenal and Liverpool, even Atletico and Dortmund haven’t lost half of their starting eleven in just two summers. Now I totally understand Conte’s frustrations with Marotta which led him to leave Juventus at 2014! Shame!
I am afraid they are. And do not forget, it were not them, but us in the CL final last year. Plus the loss you mentioned has a lot to do with what the players want and age. Pirlo (age),Tevez, Morata ,Pogba , Vidal they all wanted out. The interesting part, is that, even though they push to leave, we manage to get good if not really good deals out of them. It was the same panic last year with Pogba, he left and we ended up stronger, perhaps not as fancy as I would like, but still better. I do not care what the name is, if he wants out, the show me the money and go! And if we end up with Darmian and Mandzukic for the left, and still make double and reach the semis in CL, then I would be happy.
As for the other fans and clubs who call Juve; losers because of the CL finals record, WELL; YOU HAVE TO REACH THE FINAL TO BE ABLE TO LOSE IT.
“And if we end up with Darmian and Mandzukic for the left, and still make double and reach the semis in CL, then I would be happy.”
No I won’t be happy to get embarrassed in the final for 8th times, if we can’t win it better not reach it!
There can only be one winner, then comes 2nd , 3rd etc. ! If you know anyone who supports Arsenal, Liverpool, Napoli,Roma, MCity, PSG, Dortmund,ask them if they would prefer to reach final and get embarashed from a team that costs, all included, double as much and kick out some of the best in Europe in the process, or reach the group and continue to the Europa League as “strong favorite”….
Well, I see the problem then…You compare Juve to Napoli and Roma, I compare it to the bests, ask Milan, Man Utd, Barca, Madrid, Bayern fans if they would be proud of 7 lost out of 9 CL finals.
Teams like PSG, Arsenal, Napoli and Roma never reach there, so obviously they would be happy just to be there. That Liverpool has 5 CL ( more than twice as ours) out of just 7 finals. I am pretty sure if Crotone had been to 5+ CL finals, they would expect more than 2 and would not be happy with that. No offense to you, but I really blame this mentality of Juve management and lot’s of fans like you, just to be happy to sell our best players for money and replacing Sandro with Darmian.
And what would be your ideal mercato? If you were to make all the decisions, with money restrictions etc. , what would you do different?
“While nobody in their right mind would advocate keeping a player who vocally expressed a desire to leave, there is a vast difference between knowing that and willingly telling the Press that the club would not block a departure. Seeing the man tasked with building a squad to compete with Europe’s elite clubs admit he cannot stop anyone from moving elsewhere not only looks incredibly weak, but it removes much of the leverage he would have in subsequent negotiations.”
https://www.football-italia.net/104789/significance-selling-alex-sandro
I don’t like losing finals, but it’s just one game.. We stepped onto the field in Cardiff as the most balanced 11 in Europe (I say 11 rather than team because i know we had no depth). We had not only passed through to the final, just like madrid. We had completely controlled our games in a way they couldn’t. And then, yes, we shat the bed and lost the game.. And now everyone goes back to blaming this on management.
On a different day we would have won. I’m sorry but that’s how finals are. Don’t try to attribute 7 lost finals across the span of 5+ decades to a common attribute. Our beloved BBBC has conceded 11 goals in their 2 champions league finals and their euro 2012 final. Would that make you say they are not good enough? I dare you to. Before june 3rd, we all said allegri was too defensive in big games. Did you see the same defensive organization that you saw against barca in the millenium stadium? No; it was madrid that played 6 guys behind the ball the first 45 minutes. And it worked for them! We attacked, attacked, attacked, just like we wanted, and we got it wrong again. Playing defensive and building from the back would have probably suited us better in retrospect. But can you blame allegri after his experiences against bayern and barca in previous years?
We suck it up and we move on, but don’t pin this on management or the roster. Our team was incredible the second half of this season. We are a model of consistency; you can’t plan a mercato for the result of one game. As long as our management keeps giving us chances to be contenders, we have hopes of getting it right some day. I’m sorry but that’s how this works. You aim for exposure, for consistency in the latter stages of the competition, and once you reach that last game all bets are off. Don’t judge your team based on one 90 minute affair (or nightmare, i know, i lived it).
our midfield was expected to be better after Pogba’s absence but it was not, we still haven’t replaced him, and by the look of the Mercato so far we Probably wont. I agree with Juventino Persa, Mendy wont make it to us the English have more money and can demand a better wage; but even if we could land Mendy, he is no Alex Sandro Replacement, I would have loved Mendy to be a Sandro understudy, or to even cover up Dani Alves’s absence but that is a Pipe dream For Juve at the moment. Also we continue to be linked with awful talent despite Players like Mendy being available:
– De Sciglio – A waste, no talent, Forgotten, Foolish buy, not fit for a mid table club across any league Much less for us!
– Darmain – Average, very worrisome that he doesn’t fit as an indisputable first team choice for ShitUnited, much less us.
– Bellerin – Good player but a gamble, he is astute at attacking but hasn’t proved as much when defending; Also no bids have been made he i pure speculation; Judging by the fact that Farcelona want him as well, we may very well miss out on him.
– Contrao – A very exciting prospect, Perhaps the best Left back from the lot in both Attacking and Defensive Attributes, However no Formal bid has been made, He is just Speculation and will likley face a lot of Spanish Competition for him.
– Mendy – The english clubs: Liverpool, Man City and Chelsea are fighting like dogs over him, I don’t think Mendy cares about Glory and History; I believe he cares more about Fame and Money, and as Such any of the 3 English Clubs fighting like dogs for him is a much better place for him than Juve.
Comon the whole heart of italian Tactics is “defense first” , defenders are very underestimated; Also Koulibaly and VVD are defenders running in the 50M-70M range and they are Center Backs! Far less influential than RB’s or LB’s. Juve and Madrid have shown in this CL run how valuable a good WingBack can be.
I am not debating what we can and cant do with the money, 70M is indeed a lot, However we aren’t selling Rugani, Pjaca, or Sturaro here, we are selling THE BEST Full back in the world, Even above Marcelo in my opinion just due to age. 70M is BONKERS! if Morata doesn’t want to fight to keep players, and is brainwashed with a foolish Romanticist view of football, Then so be it; however that doesn’t mean he should sell Cheap! Especially when Clubs such as Byern don’t return the favor after us practically Giving them Vidal for Free, and them still wanting to hardball us over D.Costa.
Sandro should leave for no less than 100M, Simply because he is THE BEST in his position! i cant imagine Marcelo, Alaba or even Jordi Alba leaving for 70M much less Alex Sandro. 70M is a Discount, and a dumb one with nothing to gain at that.
You don’t make a bad point. I think the 70m is not the problem as much as the fact that he and alves are leaving in the same summer. We were supposed to have a smooth transition into possibly spinazzola and lirola in the next seasons..
There is also the problem of not finding an adequate replacement in LW. I hope our management at least convinces sandro to stay until he can be replaced; it is the least he could do. We really need people who can drive the ball into the opposing half. Without our wings we have only dybala and possibly khedira, but in a midfield 2 it is hard for him to drive forward. We need a LW who can overlap with the irreplaceable mandzukic, as well as defend like sandro did. Perhaps dalbert?
Reading reports of sandro joining chelsea for just 56mil. Really?? 56mil? This better be a joke