The Serie A campaign of the 2013/2014 Juventus side has been flawless, on the other hand the performance in the Champions League has been disappointing. I think that the run in the Europa League has been decent, but it had an abrupt and bitter end when the final at home was within reach. Let’s try to break down why Juventus struggled in Europe and what can be done to return to be competitive.
Details – These competitions are often decided by the little things. Juventus could have easily advanced, had things gone our way: we had plenty of chances against Copenhagen, but Wyland pulled off a heroic performance. We gifted Galatasary two goals at home (a Bonucci misplaced backward pass and then Isla forgetting we were playing a 4-man defense which caused the two goals) and we know what happened in the last match. Just like Atletico Madrid beat Barcelona with a stunner by a Juve reject or Real Madrid survived in Dortmund because Mkhitaryan missed two or three clear-cut chances, Juventus failed because of some details. In these competitions, you need luck.
However, we can’t deny that in this moment Juventus are not at the same level of the top European teams. Buffon admitted that at this stage Juventus are worthy of a round of 16, maybe the quarter final with a good draw, and he is right. This is dissatisfying for any Juventus fan, but it is the reality. Juventus need to be really really lucky to reach a semi-final and can win only with a miracle.
Perspective – Juventus have partaken in European competitions 45 times and won the title five times. Juve have took part to Champions League 28 times: four times they were eliminated in the group stage, four times they arrived to round of 32, five to the round of 16, five to the quarter final, three to the semi-final, seven times to the final and they won it two times. We can say that in 18 times, Juventus suffered an “early” elimination, failing to reach the semi-finals. We have not reached the semi-finals since 2002/2003.
Juventus are currently 16th in the UEFA ranking, behind Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Chelsea, Manchester United, Benfica, Atletico Madrid, Valencia, Arsenal, Porto, AC Milan, Olympique Lyonnais, Inter, Schalke 04 and Borussia Dortmund. In the Deloitte Football Money League 2014, which ranks the team per revenues, Juventus are in 9th position, behind Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Manchester United, Paris Saint-Germain, Manchester City, Chelsea and Arsenal.
If we made a comparison pound-for-pound of the squads of the European elite teams, how would Juventus fare? In my opinion, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Barcelona, Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain have a undoubtedly a better squad than Juventus, Chelsea too, because they have more offensive alternatives. We can debate about Arsenal, Liverpool, Atletico Madrid and Borussia Dortmund. Let’s say that Juventus are barely among the top 10 teams in Europe, roster-wise.
What does all that numbers mean? It is not a given that we will win Champions League, or even reach a semi-final, in the next ten or fifteen years. It can happen, because all in all these competitions are unpredictable and outsiders can win, like Atletico Madrid or Borussia Dortmund in the last two years, but Juventus should not be expected to dominate in Europe. We should not discuss Europe like we are due a semi-final, a final, a title. I know some fans would trade a Scudetto with a good result in Europe, but in ten years nobody is going to remember that in that year you made the semi-finals, while a Scudetto goes right into the résumé.
Inexperience – This group was his second European campaign. This coaching staff was in their second as well as his second European campaign. There are no short-cuts for this, the only way to improve is to keep qualifying, keep competing and give our best; inevitably, we will be burnt sometimes. With deep European runs come big disappointments, like we saw this year. The solace is only for the winners and only two teams out of more than 100 participants win.
Gianluigi Buffon, Andrea Pirlo, Carlos Tevez, and, Fernando Llorente are the only players that experienced winning or coming very close to a continental trophy. Surely key elements of the team, but only four out of 24. Chiellini, Caceres, Barzagli, Vidal, Marchisio, Vucinic, Lichsteiner, Asamoah and Quagliarella have some European experience, but not at the highest stages.
This often translates into lack of poise and composure in the key moment of the matches. Moreover, Juventus need to have more sense of urgency in the early matches of the group stage.
Tactic – I don’t believe that 3-5-2 is inadequate to European football. Ultimately, a tactic that vouches for success doesn’t exist. Conte doesn’t use 3-5-2 because of philosophical stubbornness, but simply because it is the formation most suitable to his players.
The management needs to give Conte the right men to switch to 4-3-3 when 3-5-2 is not effective or doesn’t match up well with the opponent’s formation. When Conte opted for 4-3-3 this season, it was far-fetched. Marchisio, Tevez and Osvaldo played as right-wingers, Asamoah as left-back. Juventus need a true LB and two wingers to deploy a good 4-3-3.
Playing style – In Serie A, Juventus overpowers opponents with their muscularity. They keep pounding the rock until they wear down the rival and find an opening to score one, two, three goals. In Europe, other teams have often matched Juventus’ physicality.
On the other side of the spectrum, Juventus are not an agile and pacey team at all. They have only one weapon and when it doesn’t work, there is no plan B. The right wingers/strikers can provide it, but Conte needs to tweak his beliefs. Juventus never sit back and counter, which is a very successful game plan is Europe. Rarely, Juventus plays up-tempo, one touch football, preferring a slow-paced, methodical approach.
Personnel – There is a blatant lack of unpredictability in the squad. Pirlo is the only one who can create winning plays out of the blue; Tevez has been able to do that in Serie A, but played most of the time in Champions and Europa League with the burden of his European curse. Pogba has to grow into this kind of player. Vidal has thrived in Europe, but he epitomize the team play rather than creating something on his own. I struggle to find a player that can dribble past his man to create numerical superiority.
Juventus have basically no bench. Only Caceres and Marchisio are the two replacements that have starters caliber. The fact that Giovinco has been Juventus best 12th speaks volume. This leads also to the overuse of some players in Serie A, because sometimes they are the only one who can get the job done. This deficiency needs to be addressed.
The right man for the job – Juventus should stick with Antonio Conte no matter what. Only Pep Guardiola went from the lower leagues to sustained success faster than Conte. Conte is 44, he has been coaching for eight seasons, he has been at Juventus for three years. It took Giovanni Trapattoni 10 years to win Champions League. Marcello Lippi won it in his second year at Juventus, but he had more experience than Conte has right now at that time. Conte is destined for greatness.
In these years, Conte has been a catalyst. He has been a spokesperson when the management went missing, he has been a scout, a sporting director (he convinced Tevez to join in a dinner in May and talked Llorente into accepting Juventus), a shield for everything. Ultimately, he answers to his employers, and not the editorialists and to the fans, and the management asked him to win Scudetto and he achieved in a spectacular fashion. So far, under Conte, Juventus have never openly aimed at winning in Europe.
The future – Juventus will not suddenly become richer and will not be able to afford 40, 50-million dollar players for a very long time. Revenues will raise at the end of the next season, when the Adidas sponsorship and a new sponsorship on the kits as the Jeep on expires will kick in. But the sheiks [editor’s note: NOT the Iron Sheik] , Bayern Munich, the English clubs and the Spanish giants will always have a deeper pocket.
This means that Juventus, like in the last years, will have to be clever. Changing coach would be absurd, it would mean to start over and re-do the squad based on the new coach’s demands without the financial power to do it properly. Moreover, right now Juventus are in the outskirts of the European elite and are not be able to attract the most touted coaches (the fact that they are better than Conte remains to be seen).
Juventus can improve in Europe only by maintaining the core of the current squad, listening to Conte’s requests, giving him a deeper squad and different solutions. Juventus are very distant from their glorious past, when they dominated Europe and reached the UCL final three times in a row, and it will take a lot of time or a lot of luck to win in Europe, but there are no short-cuts and trusting the growing process of this group is the only way to compete soon enough.
1st!
Well written post, very clear view on Juve. You phrased what I meant with ‘Juve needs to grow into the modern football era’ in a clearer way, (referring to tactics and the need of fast wingers, players who can win a game with sheer individual talent) was cool to read.
Fantastic article. Great perspective on where Juve stand and how they should proceed forward.
I rank a little higher than you do. They are top 10 in my book, clearly behind RM, Barca and Bayern, but in the same class as
Man City, Chelsea, PSG, Dortmund, Liverpool, Atletico Madrid. So, aiming for quarter finals should be a reasonable expectation. A lot of their failures in Europe this year have to do as much with luck as their actual abilities.
Quarters should be a realistic target indeed! With a good transfer market especially.
Vidal convincing Sanchez to join us
Now I know why he went to Barcelona for his knee surgery 😛 Good guy Vidal taking care of transfers
He has connections to Sanchez AND Kroos… It seems he’s already prepping for a management job :p
Kroos is awesome too.
we are a quarterfinal team. Continuous quarterfinal runs will eventually grow into semifinals and that will grow into finals. We however need the likes of Sanchez, Cuadrado, Griezman to upgrade our attacking play and our transition from defense to attack. No disrespect to Asa and Licht but they are no where near creative enough to cause danger on the wings. Licht as a FB is world class and Asamoah as a CM is great. QF is definitley possible imo
i don’t agree, we shouldn’t think of that. the mentality is that we are a champion team, and we must win all matches we in. look at atletico. did they needed to be a quarter final team? or a semifinal team? no…
but of course we need to improve our team
Great article.
We shouldn’t be too down on our European campaign. Yes It was a failure, but you are defined by what you learn from your failures and not by failures itself, so we must be patient and see how much this team and our management as a whole has learned. Plus, like Enrico states, this is only Conte’s 2nd season in Europe and he has a group of players that like him, lack the all important European experience. I think we’ve all forgotten that we re still in the rebuilding stages. Yea it may seem absurd seeing as we re far ahead of serie a, but what’s more absurd is practicing the idea of letting Conte go. Like I said, we re still in the rebuilding stage and letting Conte go would be like tearing down a tower in the midst of its progression and starting from scratch. How do we know coaches like Mou or Pep can take these specific group of men and excel. Both men look for specific group of players to do well with, I doubt theyre coaches who can take ANY set of players and turn them into a winning team like Ancelotti or Lippi can. Now if you want Ancelotti and Lippi for those immediate results, surely you must think about the future too. As fun as immediate results are, we must hold importance to the future as well and who better to do so with than the man who gave us immediate results in serie a? With the right set of players, I’m more than certain Conte could and will bring us the results we desire in Europe for years and years to come. We are close, don’t let this seasons misfortunes deceive you.
Only way I see us having success in the cl is with a switch to 4-3-3. The fact that it would allow us to have quality depth at almost every position is mouth watering.
Buffon/Storari
Lich/Caceras—Barz/Bonnu— Chiellini—Ogbonna
Vidal— Pirlo/Marchisio— Pogba/Asa Sanchez/bonaventura— Llorente/Immobile–Tevez/gio/gabiadinni
I feel converting ogbonna into a lb will truly take advantage of his pace and control while making him less of a liabilty defensively. Also feel we should make a move for both sanchez and bonaventura while bringing back immo and gabiadinni
he played left back against rm and he was pretty poor. asamoah did a far better job at lb
Ogbonna is always poor to you, even when he’s our best defender..
did you watch the RM game? di maria ran circles around him. but of course its my mistake. i forgot ogbonna is italian.
Can’t resist anymore, you do the same to caceres 😛
Why convert Ogbonna to LB while Chiellini used to be a LB 😛 Put Chiello left and Ogbonna central again, will be a lot more natural. Asamoah is a better LB than Ogbonna too
Ogbonna used to be a LB and was very good there too
He didn’t really impress me there, I prefer him as CB and use Chiello as LB if there is a swap. Lets just get a really good LB so both can play CB 😛
Murru!!
chiello is our best cb. we should keep him in the middle. put asamoah as LB for next season. the season after, bring in murru.
Yeah agreed but I wouldnt use Ogbonna on the left either. If I had to choose, it’s Chiellini. Asamoah LB would work but I think we really need an experienced LB. Murru indeed soonish, but not in the coming season yet.
The center is where asamoah truly shines though
having an attack of sanchez-immobile-berardi/shaqiri would be brilliant for counter attack in the CL. all 3 are very pacey and deadly. sanchez and immobile are good finishers and shaqiri is very creative, can hold on the ball, and is very good at picking the right pass(something many players on our team lack)
Happy Birthday Andrea Barzagli!
In 2005/06 Barcelona revenue were “only” 256 m euros. 7 years later it rose to 483m euros thanks to Messi. When I heard Juventus are going to sign Alexis Sanchez, I was delighted not only because it seems we are gonna change to 4-3-3 formation, but also from commercial aspect Attacker or STRIKER are more selling. As simple as that. (For example Atl. Madrid, who know how good is Koke, Godin or Turan, but everybody know who is Diego Costa.) Consistently playing at least in UCL semi-final surely helps the financial of Barca too. Also, don’t forget their academy produced some quite talent that made them only have to sign 2-3 top players every years. That are also happens at MU, Arsenal and even B.Munich. As for Juventus, even though our primavera aren’t as prolific as la masia we got Paratici who signed us wonderkids like Berardi and Pogba. Sign talents like them in every year will benefit us in the future.
I would be very happy if one day Juventus win UCL even it’s only because of luck. But, to win UCL 2-3 times in span of one decade we need to be like Barcelona or Bayern Munich, financially and mentally without copy them 100%.
i doubt we will switch to a 4-3-3 in serie a, in europe ya, but we dominate serie a with a 3-5-2.
Reading again that Conte’s preferred wingers are Alexis and Nani. BUT Barca would be okay letting Alexis go, while Utd want to keep Nani.
Go for Alexis and Di Maria!
I fear we don´t have enough money for both of them, unless we sell Pogba and i don´t want that to happen. Nani for 5m would´ve been perfect on the left, with Alexis on the right
If we really cant land some wingers we should try Gio on a flank again I think. But Marotta might just land another winger for a cheap deal, seems to be his style 😛
https://football-italia.net/48935/conte-given-juve-guarantees
Looks like we’re up for a good next season with Conte staying and quality coming in!
I wonder what players they outlined as potential targets.
Bargains
Back off Dortmund, I want Immobile at Juve. Oh and Reus, I want Reus at Juve too. For free.
And Cavani. And Ronaldo. Or is that asking too much? :p
Depends :p Or you just have a much richer fantasy than I have
I wish we could pay with my fantasy then 😛
Mine would be the Italy line up.. Oh it would be beautiful
we would smash it marc dude…even more lol
Vidal?
Balo, Rossi, Sharaawy and such: fuck yeah, but I don’t want the likes of Montolivo and Maggio at Juve 😛
And players like Vidal should play ofc
Well this article was great but to me lost all credibility when it said that caceres was of ‘starters caliber’ hes a decent back up but Is nowhere near starting calibre of we are to compete with the big name teams. Then adding a sly dig at giovinco now that he’s finally showing some of the form we all expected of him was a bit of an odd thing to do.. Other than that decent article but someone really needs to go over this guys articles because the number of grammatical errors is terrible (yes i understand english isn’t his first language (obviously) but it should be checked for that reason)
Mhm for Serie A he’s of starter quality imo, for CL not so much, if he errors it tends to get heavily punished against top teams
To face mid to low end serie a teams he is fine in the starting line up but that doesn’t mean he’s of starting quality, that just means he good enough for a mid table team.
He’s also good enough for any Serie A team I think. I just prefer him as R(W)B and not a CB. But yeah for CL I’d like someone else to start, preferably also someone who can deal with speed
If he was back ip for RWB I’d say sure, he’s good enough to be on the edge of the starting line up but against a good serie a team he is nowhere near good enough to be in the starting line up at CB
Caceres is a great RB, wouldn’t mind him being a starter if Lichtsteiner wasn’t such a boss at RB. Caceres had one hell of a game against Madrid too.
We need better than him if we are to compete as for him playing well against Madrid thats one game and even in his good performance he was still lucky to not have his mistakes (which he made) punished
He’d be a starter on any other serie a team
No he wouldn’t be..
yes he would. you could make an argument that he’d start ahead of castan at cb but even if he doesn’t, he’d definitely start at lb for roma. he’d start at cb for sure at napoli. napoli’s cbs are devoid of pace and it has cost them time and again. they’ve been searching for fast cbs and caceres is pretty fast. He’d start at cb for inter. he’d start at lb for milan. considering how piss poor mexes has been, he could start at cb there too. he’d definitely start at cb for fiorentina. and of course he’d start at the rest of the teams
https://www.football-italia.net/48932/berlusconi-wants-more-italians
Well for once i completely agree with him
Me too. Its sad that even Italian teams look down on Italian talent. With this, Italian youngsters could possibly get more playing time at bigger serie a clubs and Italy can start returning to the pinnacle of the footballing world
We have so many great young prospects co i g through the ranks, if teams use them right then Italy can return to the pinnacle of world football
They arent far from it either. It just goes back to trusting in their home grown players… Oh it would be extremely nice of they heightened the security in the stadiums.
How about Gabbiadini on the left too? He can play on the wing, right?
I’d be so happy with Sanchez, Nani, Giovinco and Gabbiadini as our wingers… since we know Juve doesn’t like to splash much cash…
But is Sanchez really that realistic?
I’d prefer Berardi over Gabbiadini. I doubt Gabbiadini will join us next season. Sanchez is realistic, Barca don’t really rate him highly and we have Vidal here, they are good friends.
Gabbiadini is probably better prepared to come to juve than berardi, it’s just he isn’t all hyped up at the moment. That said, that’ll probably benefit him.. Less pressure
fuck nani. gio isn’t good enough to start against big teams on the wings. i like gabbiadini but he’d be better in a 3-5-2 next to immobile. i’d love berardi but i can understand if the management wants him out for one more season.
So who would you go for?
my number one choice is sanchez. then we should sign shaqiri for the other wing. he’s only 22 and he isn’t getting much playing time at bayern. he’s a really good player and works really well with licht.
https://football-italia.net/48938/milan-most-valuable-serie-club
Milan most valuable Italian club?
berlusconi’s bunga bunga party’s fund them lol
Hehe, I do wonder what makes them more valuable than Juve. Only 6m difference but cmon, Pogba alone is worth 3Milan players 😛
crazy mate….i don’t understand it?
Probably the goodwill, every neutral footballfan wants a shirt with Kaka’s name on it
i think milan is slightly a more prestigious club overall…. and the main reason that Juve falls below them is something called calciopoli and its years of negative effect on the club .. Both Juve and Serie A would both be vastly superior to what they are now if it weren’t for 2006.
The FIGC shot themselves in the foot really
guido rossi and inter screwed italy over
Well inter screwing Italy is nothing new
And Inter would still be some shitty midtable team, as always. Without a paper Scudetto. Was just weird to see Milan ranked as more valuable, in recent years we’ve build a way better squad than theirs
Are you sick? You have pretty good comments today.
https://football-italia.net/48942/immobile-wants-dortmund-move Noooooo
if we atleast get berardi or gabbiadini next season il be happy because Dortmund will make him a lot better then being at juventus so him and Balotelli and Rossi would be deadly in the future for italy. I still rate gabbiadini really high so id be fine with him. The problem would be getting rid of players.
gabbiadini and immobile have amazing chemistry together. they’d form an incredible attack. we really should pair the two together.
That would be incredible to see, even if it would just start out as a back up pairing id bet that they would soon be pushing to be the starting pairing.
I love tevez and I was pointing out why we should get him last summer really early on but id sell him if it meant we could get sanchez and bring back gabbiadini. He’s 30 and had an incredible season so he could fetch quite a bit of money for us
This better be a bad rumour
Indeed, it’s a complete shame if this happens
fuck no. top scorer and only 24 years old and we’re letting him go for 20mil? that means we’re only getting 10 mil. we paid more for parma’s half of seba. either bvb, us, or the journalists are high
we? its not just we, its a co-ownership. Can I go as far as to say that Juve had poor foresight when it came to Immobile .. Why was he allowed to be loaned out when clearly he was good enough and ready enough to start for us this year .. he coulda scored that 21 goals here this year …..
this is a mistake made by all of the bigger italian clubs, they don’t vault their youth into stardom when its clear, some are ready for the show… Italian teams dont do it, especially Juve (Pogba aside because he’s just a total freak) .
Also makes me upset to the fact that italian teams still continue to sign foreigners who are way past their prime and they play these has been’s over up and coming italians … if the league has no money, then the obvious best thing to do is start developing the country’s youth and give them the spots in the top flight and on the big teams and let them flourish… inter continues to sign foreigners on the wrong side of 30 years old rather than sign and develop good young italian players (Vidic, lol .. maybe Torres, and even bigger lol)
Honestly immobile doing this year was a bit of a shock after seeing him for genoa, you can’t say he was ready for us this season.. Last season was a different matter though, I’d have took a gamble on him then but this season I wouldn’t have. It would be a huge mistake to let him go now though.
That last paragraph though, could not agree more. Inter have a great youth academy too so the fact they never bring through any youth players is all the more disgraceful. Milan are probably the best team at the moment for bringing through younger Italian players
last year i’d have much rather brought immobile in than bendtner or anelka. however, i agree with marc that this season i wouldn’t have brought him in. i believed he had talent and even posed the question of how odd it was that of the pescara trio, the best (immobile) was shockingly doing the worst. i also agree with you. it was completely idiotic how conte would bring in padoin or motta and leave out bouy. this season also, instead of resting our midfielders for a EL game, he would continue to consistently use them when we have talents like sakor and gerbaudo in the primavera
Id have said insigne was probably the best of the pescara trio, that’s why he won player of the season. Wasn’t bouy injured at the beginning of the season though? I don’t understand how padoin continues to be our first choice back up midfielder when we have some fantastic players young players co owned and out on loan. I do however see the reluctance to give youth a chance and to see that reason all you have to do is read the comments on this site or any juventus site after we lose a game.
Immobile won serie b player of the year that season
No he didn’t, insigne did. No it wouldn’t but of all the you g midfielders we have bouy wouldn’t have been the one I’d have given minutes to. No he doesn’t care what the crowd thinks but he cares about winning and filling out the squad with inexperienced players is going to draw us a few more losses because even the fringe players who may not be as talented have the experience and aren’t phased like a lot of younger players are, so while I disagree with it, I understand it. Not every player is zidane, padoin was poor at the beginning but still hasn’t developed into one of the greatest players of all time.
Well to be fair, it was Immobile who stated that he prefer two years out on loan before joining Juve. But yes, it pisses me off that Italian seldom favor their own Italian youngsters. As for i***r, they can continue to sign those washed up players… Its no skin off my bones.
i totally agree. The only youngsters in italy that are trusted by top clubs are Pogba and Insigne
Atletico or Real?
atletico
Real.. They have more italians
and Zizou 😛
Real for sentimental reason.
Glory seeker reasons you mean? 😉
No you jerk! Juve vs Real was my first club match ive ever saw… You know the time they gave Del Piero a standing ovation? Thats why! I am forever grateful towards their great respect.
Yeeeah.. Glory seeker reasons.. :p
But i dont even cheer for them, i just prefer they win!
Atletico just out of sympathy 😛 And they will probably be shit next season, after the stars leave during this transfer market.
Atletico
Ive lost any bit of respect i had for Moggi… From his book ” Del Piero is a talent, yes… But not an icon. Icons dont ask for money and make negotiations difficult.”
Firstly, Del Piero is more than just a “talent”, hes a genius… And yes hes an icon, so shove it up yours Moggi.
The fuck, Del Piero would have agreed to a blank figures contract just to be at Juve
The guys becoming more and more delusional. He should get his head checked out.
Yeah this is nonsense, if anyone ever was an icon at Juve, it’s Del Piero
Maybe not in his younger years, he’d once all but agreed a move to newcastle.. Luckily they chose to sign the ‘brilliant’ Jon Dahl Tomasson instead. However this doesnt mean he isn’t an icon. moggi is just a bitter old man trying to hold onto the limelight by insulting his old club at every opportunity, for the record I think marotta is 10x the director he ever was (ignoring selling players.. So maybe 5x)
i will never understand why people continue to listen to this idiot or why they take the time to publicize his comments .. the man is a disgrace and a piece of shit criminal .. who the fuck cares. fuck him.
Yes!!!!!!!!!!! I agree!!!!!!
Screenshot!
So i read that Gabbiadini will 100% return and Berardi will stay out on loan. I really want Berardi to return… But again this is just a rumor
EDIT: and i forgot to mention that i read Psg cant spend more than 60 mill on a single player this transfer season. So no Pogba for them.
Really? I like him, but I’m not sure how he will do here. But in all honesty I can only applaud bringing in our own youth
Thats awesome!!
The second part however? Well I guess we will just have to take 60mil plus cavani and verratti
Source?:)
John just knows
I think it was Di Marizio. It definitely not a newspaper, so yea im more cetain than not that it was Di Marizio.
He´s usually right.. Did he say something about Immobile?
I dont remember him saying anything… If he did, he just mentioned Borussias interest in him.
So marotta buys parma’s half of gio for 11mil. Yet he’s willing to sell the top scorer for 20mil which means we only get 10mil…marotta is great at getting good players for bargains but he cant sell for shit. He got completely played by galatasaray on the melo deal. He agrees a loan with 13mil to buy and ends up selling for only 3mil. Like wtf? And now it looks bvb will low ball him for immobile
There is no way those figures can be true and hopefully the deal itself won’t happen
Looks like it´s gonna happen tho..
The melo and seba ones are real
The gio one was a decent deal considering how well he was doing at Parma, loan with purchase deals never end in a full amount for the loaning team, it’s went both ways for us with them
Yea im not complaining. Im just saying that its idiotic if marotta will sell our half of immobile for 10mil
Just finished high school. For some reason, im more sad than happy
I was thrilled to leave high school 😛
That’s because you had no friends! :p
I´m 2 weeks away from finishing high school, I know what you mean
im done higschool in one month… im gonna be more sad then happy. I have way too much fun in highschool and i barely go to class because my courses are to easy this semester and im just waiting for summer to begin. So im just trying to enjoy my last month as much as possible
Weird isn’t it, only in the last month you get the feeling that highschool isn’t so bad at all
Yeah I felt like that at first, then happy, then sad again, then happy because uni is a lot more fun, then sad when I started uni exams because they are wayyyyyy more important
A rush of sad emotions from two years ago just manifested itself into my soul when i read that 🙁 thats how it is. That feeling is a normal one tho. Highschool is an awesome experience, even if i didnt take it seriously. The people you meet and the fun you have is priceless. Youre so used to seeing the same faces each and everyday and boom, it all ends. Fortunately, ive kept in touch with a number of my friends from HS through soccer, but theres still a bunch i miss. Also we all live withing streets and miles of each other, so running into one another is inevitable. So what im trying to say is: keep in touch with your friends!
left high school 2 years ago. college aint what they really show in those teenage movies. its a lot worse. I miss those high school days
best day’s of your life mate.
So Zanetti, Milito and Samuel all leave Inter at the end of the season. And they are replacing them with 30years+ players. Way to go
That’s inter for you