While the deal was announced and finalized some time ago, Patrice Evra has only just now been unveiled as a Juventus signing. Evra, alongside Beppe Marotta, had his debut press conference today. He discussed the beginnings of his career, his time at United, and most importantly, his desire to join Juventus and the reasons for his desire.
Specifically he mentioned the “winning culture” of Juventus several times. It only makes sense that Evra, who had a very successful tenure at Manchester United and was a part of some very strong sides in the past decade, would want to continue his career at another club with a winning tradition.
Evra also responded to some questions about ex-coach Antonio Conte. Evra stated that Conte had called him and they had discussed Juve before the World Cup, and that he wasn’t mad at Conte for leaving, and he was still happy to join Juve due to it’s great history.
Other highlights include when a reporter asked if he left Manchester United for personal reasons and Evra laughed. Finally, Evra also mentioned how happy he was for Carlos Tevez after seeing Tevez find success at Juve, and he stated that Evra and himself were good friends off the pitch.
Welcome to Juventus, Patrice!
He will wear number 33.
That means that Isla is on his way for sure or he have got a new number.
I think 2 will be his new number
Evra
I have strange feeling that he just might do well for us.
Same here.
The jersey looks good on him.
I definitely dont think he ll be similar to Lucio. Hes our only natural Lb, so im sure he ll receive plenty of playing time and maybe he ll surprise us.
It does indeed.
At least experience i on his side. Welcome Evra
Welcome Patrice Evra!
Inter are close to sign Osvaldo on loan with a right to buy for just 7M.
For 7M I might actually have kept him at Juve. Too bad Southampton wanted much more from us.
He scored one goal. One. it was a good goal tho :p
Yeah.. But 7M for a backup striker isn’t that bad! :p
And I’m sure he’s gonna score a lot of goals with Inter. I have dat feeling.
Inter still won’t finish higher than 5th. Juve/Roma Napoli Fiorentina
He couldve punched Allegri for us… or better yet Marotta :p
I dont want Osvaldo at all and INter is also giving Southampton Saphir Taider for him
I’m neither happy nor disappointed since Evra is my third choice after R. Rodriguez and Coentrao for LB position. As long as he don’t doing poor I’ll be okay with him. My rate of this transfer is 6, I hope at the end season he shows us that he deserved 7 or even 8.
Also, usually between 5-6 new players there would be 1-2 flops. So, I won’t be too harsh on directors if that happen, but that’s it. More than that, it will be a different story.
Asamoah stays my number one, evra is just for substitution
I doubt he would come to Juve if he wasn’t told he would start?
Evra will start if we play 4-3-3 and i think/hope we will in the important games. Asamoah as LB would be a disaster, although i think he played well there once. We’ll need Asamoah for LW in 4-3-3 so Evra goes LB.
My prediction, on 3-5-2 formation Asabob will start as LWB. As for 4-3-3 Evra will start as LB.
I’m sure he will do good.
He already speaks Italian. He have loads and loads of experience. And in his interviews he sounds like a smart guy.
But hopefully we will sign Rodriguez next year then!
I really hope so.
Rodriguez is Vidal of LB, I believe he can take Juventus into higher level. I heard now his valuation is around 30m.
Id be happy to pay 30M for his services.
What has the world come to when a LB costs 30m? haha.
Ask Real Madrid, Monaco, Chelsea and all the others that drive the prices up.. It’s retarded.
#RuiningTheSport1TransferAtATime
Within the next 20 years, world football will have a salary cap like MLS. FFP doesnt work when some teams bring in enough money to spend 80m+ each transfer window, while 99% of teams can barely afford 20m.
A salary cap would be nice. It would make it easier for tier 2 and 3 clubs to hold on to their stars so they can’t be tempted as much.
Apparently, Marotta loaned Isla to QPR. I can’t defend Marotta this time, maybe he got stressed or something. We all know something similar happened to Ziegler, Motta, and Melo. Feel like 9m+4,5m will be gone away.
A lot of bad rumors this morning…
1. Valencia have according to rumors offered 10M to sign Ogbonna, but Marotta have refused. (WTF?!)
2. Evra suggest that Juve should get Nani. (He should have said this at his unveiling, but I didn’t watch it).
3. Juventus are ready to pursue either Ron Vlaar or Jeffrey Bruma as a new CB. (Just get us Savic or Mustafi for crying out loud! Or both of them and sell Ogbonna!)
tbh I’d be ok with keeping Freddy as the CB. Savic or Mustafi sure, but if they’re just gonna sign some middle of the road guy then just keep Freddy instead of loaning him out
1. Not enough…
2. Hell no
3. Neither is good enough
Sheeeee…
I would have agreed with you on #3 before the world cup, but if Vlaar plays with that form and determination he is good enough for Juve.
Nah, Dutch have great attackers and midfielders but defence is so very average. Yes they had a good WC but besides that, they are not impressive at all (imo)
They weren´t. Vlaar was tho, I had never seen him defend like that before.
Still don’t want him because of a good World Cup and a whole career of mediocracy… The guy is 29, he can stay at wherever he i for me:P
That´s true, we don´t need him. But to pay 15m for a 22 year old? I just hope Ogbonna steps up this season.
I hope the same from Ogbonna, but if we do sign a defender, I’d like Mustafi far more. He was good at Samp and just became German international (so world champ too)
That will be better spent money than on any Dutch defender I can think of, unless there’s a young Jaap Stam for the same money somewhere around 😛
Yeah yeah enough about the Dutch defenders :p
I don’t know, haven’t seen Mustafi play and he hasn’t played a game in the world cup right?
xD I didn’t mean to make it offensive 😛
He did play, but can’t remember which one, it was not in the group phase. I think against Algeria but not sure
His past is why i wouldnt risk him, but he was definitely one of the best defenders at the world cup. He’s probably a tournament player and i think he had injury problems. But he can certainly defend. Thats why i said if he has that form he is worth it. Problem is he wont keep that form for a whole season.
Yeah exactly, not taking anything away from his WC, he was good there.
We need at least 12m for Ogbonna, with performance related transfer bonuses bringing it to at least 14m.
Nani is a fucking joke. He looks like original Michael Jackson with AIDS.
Savic/Mustafi is a must. Bruma is a joke, and Vlaar is 29 and plays for Aston Villa. Wow, Aston Villa at 29, setting the world afire.
I would sell Ogbonna for 10M in a heartbeat. Especially if we will not cash in on Isla as it seems. And I doubt that anyone would pay up to 14M for him. I pretty much just want him gone at any price.
But if we wont sell Ogbonna and we are loaning Isla out to QPR, Then we are lacking funding for Savic since we originally planed to send Isla to Florence as part of the payment.
My head will crack soon if something doesn’t soon go our way.
“Then we are lacking funding”
We only lack a willing participant in the signing of the checks. To think that Juve doesnt have enough to just buy Savic outright is foolish. Marotta needs to take his head out of his ass, pen out of his pocket, and focus both eyes on some real players, ones that will help our team. No more Islas, Padoins, Ogbonnas …
But with the no-depth strategy Juve are doing right now I dont see any more players joining without a sale first.
Juve aint really guaranteed Champions League for the next season with Allegri as coach so I doubt Marotta will go out and spend more than nessecary if the expenses aren’t covered with guarenteed CHL
True. It’s sad to think of how far Juve has fallen in terms of spending power. It’s upsetting to see other clubs spend themselves deep into debt, and Juve can’t muster a once a season purchase of at least 25m. Like that would bankrupt fiat lol.
Can anyone tell me Juventus next friendly game?cheers.
Not sure man. Some fixtures in Asia coming up soon though, 6th to the 23rd of August.
cheers dude.
Thanks you guys.
Welcome back man 😮 Haven’t seen you in ages.
I suppose this will be our next and last matches because a week later the Serie A starts.
Welcome back! Where have youbeen?!!
Im hearing Isla going to QPR on loan.
He can do better.. QPR just promoted and is an asshole club.
agreed.
I wonder what happen to i***rs interest in him. we should be able to get at least 10 mill for him from them.
Yeah. We will never see that money again…
He will go on loan to them until his contract is up, and then transfer somewhere for free. Or be sold for 5m.
Theres another 18 mill down the toilet
Now that Del Piero has left Sydney FC, will he still play in the A-League All Star match against us?
Good question!..He gotta surely?
Yea he is n I cant wait wooohoooo
marotta is such an idiot when it comes to selling players. he loaned melo to gala with gala having the option to pay 13mil to make it permanent. they wanted melo after but didnt want to pay so marotta loans melo to them another year with option to buy for 8mil. they didn’t want to pay 8mil so marotta accepted an offer of 3.5mil. he hasn’t been able to sell marco motta for 3 years. and now instead of selling isla outright he’s loaning him to qpr.
Marotta will be the downfall of Juve. Conte saved us during a period of decline in Serie A, and Marotta has set out to destroy that hard work. Tevez, Pirlo and Llorente have been the only proven transfers Marotta has brought in. Everyone else we got lucky with. Vidal, Pogba, Bonucci, Asamoah, Lichtsteiner, Barzagli, all players who became somebody at Juve.
Vidal was hugely sought after by Bayern Munich, they were pissed when they didn’t get him.. I wouldn’t say they got lucky on him, Vidal was known to be a good player and most teams knew it, he just went to another level that no one expected. Lichsteiner was already a beast at Lazio, I loved him for about 2 years before he came to us, I wished he woulda came here. Asamoah isn’t a superstar by any stretch, he’s alright.. He was really good at Udinese and everyone knew it was a good pick up .. he wasn’t that cheap either so, not sure how lucky Marotta got on that one.
My point, you have to be lucky to be good. Yes, he sells poorly and doesn’t spend alot, but lets be real here, we know who is making the decisions, Marotta is just a front man. There’s no way he has a bigger voice than Agnelli or provides direction on major decisions, nor does he have that above Nedved. Marotta is simply the administrator and does what he is told, he’s a figure head, nothing more….. Juve still good enough to win the scudetto, CL is another story.
I do believe unibrow sets the budget, but purchasing and selling players is Marottas department. Sure Unibrow probably intervenes here and there, but Marotta was brought to handle the purchasing and sales of players…
Either way, i despise both
no. marotta and paratici are the ones who deal with transfers. agnelli has much more important things to do than attending to transfers. i want to keep paratici though. he’s the one who recommended vidal to marotta. he’s the one who wanted us to go after pogba. he also is the one who pushed for coman and it looks like the guy oozes talent
Dont forget we only got around 8 mill for Immobile. EIGHT. MILL.
Only too true, Vucinic 6mill, Immobile fcking 8 mill, Quags 3, Peluso jack shit. He can’t sell anyone for a decent value
So im guessing were not gonna use neither one of the nonEU spots?
Unless Marotta discovers Padoinho, I doubt it :p
Loan with option to buy. All day every day
Best way to do deals since co-owning isn’t allowed anymore for him xd
does pereyra not count as on of the noneu spots?
We brought him from a serie a team, so no
oh. i didn’t realize it works that way
Are you sure thats enough? I also thought the player had to play at least 5 seasons to no longer be considered non EU. But I don’t know for sure
Conspiracy:
Isla leaving and sanchez not bought means no more chileans for vidal.
Both sanchez and isla went to england.
I suddenly see Vidal to United happen. /depressed.
I dont really care for Vidal rumors anymore.
As far as I’m concerned, he’s no longer a Juve-player. If he stays, great. But if he leaves, fuck that. I just hope that he makes up his mind soon so we have time to reinvest.
this has gone on too long,i want him to stay like mad,but if he goes even for good money,whats MAROTTA gonna do with it?…we are running out of time to get in quality to replace him.
mina rzouki (she’s really good friends with paratici) said that juve already had a replacement lined up for pogba in case if he’s sold and had already spoken to the player too. im pretty sure we’d go after that player if vidal leaves too. question is, who is that player? i can’t really think of that many players
Guarin probably. If Vidal leaves, we need Allan from udinese. He’s perfect, plays a lot like Vidal.
Guarin probably. I bet he’s nowhere near as good as Vidal or Pogba, no matter who they think of
Amauri. Both Marotta and Allegri probably don’t know he’s not a midfielder and find him a wonderful player.
Maybe Rabiot of PSG.
Well i do still see Vidal as a Juve player. He’s still with us and he has done too much for us in the past few years to write him off that easily.
Rômulo will wear No. 2.
2 for a winger? Weird, I kinda expected Evra to take that number
He’s probably going to play rb
Bye Bye Swiss Express
Its likely, with Isla gone. Didn’t think so far yet, makes it more logical indeed
so when allegri met romulo today, he asked him which position he plays…
he probably replied physio.
That’s uhh, professional..
Wow..
rumors are that madrid will loan di maria to psg for 10mil with the option to buy for 70mil. damn thats a shit ton of money
bayern have repeatedly said that they want to keep shaqiri and will only sell him for a good offer (around 20mil). marotta goes and tells bayern that he’ll only take shaqiri on loan. what’re you trying to do beppe? lol
The crazy eyed bandit strikes again. Come back next week kids when the bandit narrowly escapes another good deal, while procuring te season long loan of someone else.
When he said that a steward who was standing in the back replied instead of the Bayern director because one of Marotta’s eyes was aimed at him.
LOL
funny! 😛 hahahhaa
Lol, bet that scared the shit out of them
marotta said that we’ll sign two more players. a cb and a st. i’m assuming ogbonna is gonna be sold then right? cuz we have no need for 6 cb.
Ofc not sold, loan to some second rate club with option to buy for a lousy price 😛
Maybe he will loan him to Juventus with an option to buy.
I bet he won’t be able to make that deal happen either
Hahaha lmao
More serious: I think they rather see Barzagli go than Ogbonna, for the age factor + fitness issues
samp 4-1 eintracht HT. gabbiadini scored samp’s first goal
United leading against Madrid. Great football played when they scored the goal. There won’t be any news untill United return to England.