The Juve fans comments give me the jeepers even though Juve fans will actually be getting him back in 8 months if he's as awful as they say. They better pray he has a storming couple of months so we're 'fooled' into actually buying him. Duh!
We were originally linked to Kulusevski before Spurs. A lot were saying he lacks athleticism and pace and would therefore would struggle in the EPL.The Juve fans comments give me the jeepers even though Juve fans will actually be getting him back in 8 months if he's as awful as they say. They better pray he has a storming couple of months so we're 'fooled' into actually buying him. Duh!
Your Kulusevski comment gives me hope that Juve fans are as clueless as I suspect them to be.
Fair enough. I guess his name is Portuguese now I think about it.
What? He's shit?
It’s a pretty dumb thing to do - we have players at peak ages who could all fall off at any point. Why waste their peak years? By next season there could be a new problem elsewhere. We also have more than enough money to buy a midfielder this window, we’re just refusing to. Spending 80 on Nunez doesn’t negate us having recouped most of that through sales.
Have you seen any of their performances this season?
No idea on his quality, but the options we have just lack availability.
Yeah but that's without a few of the big boys that are going to return. Theres more than enough there. Quality and youth.
He's one of the most press resistant players in the world. Limited passer, sure, but to have someone in your team who can keep the ball under pressure as well as him is invaluable.
Agree with this, he’s potentially a great signing, just injuries messing with his career so will be interesting to see if he can cope with klopps tactics
I should add that he is the son of Mazinho and brother of Rafinha both Brazil internationals.
He's a piss head party boy who's been kicked out of Barcelona and Juventus because he won't stop going out and getting caught drunk.
I’m sure you’ve rolled this line out about Casemiro when you called him lightweight? And the same line when you said Antony can’t dribble?
yeah, he can barely control a ball
I'm convinced he's doing a bit at this point.
Can he pass a night club better than he can pass a football, hopefully not
This is, ultimately, the reason why his last two clubs couldn't wait to get rid of him
Sounds like Wijnaldum. When teams started defending deep Gini would offer less than nothing from a breakthrough perspective. In fact I'm sure teams let Gini have the ball more than any of our other players.
I'm always amazed how utter nobody players who are really very average still manage to get super fans.
Gini was good at attacking the box from midfield, I am not sure Arthur can offer that.
Hes a good player to be honest. When hes not being a problem off the field and not being available
Exactly my thoughts when reading the post now. There's no way in hell anybody is watching every game of all of these teams unless they're working in some sort of analytics role (scouting, statistics website, betting websites etc). I don't imagine anybody, bar Juve fans, has sat through each of their games over the last year, especially to keep an eye on such an obscure player. I'd rather watch paint dry.I don’t know what’s happened to that poster but it does feel he’s become a bit of a Billy Bullshitter. Not sure why.
A new environment to help stop his partying. Join the second best (or best?) manager in the world. Knock up a midfield partnership that could see him start world cup games in November instead of being the forgotten man. Kick off his career properly for a change where Bellingham will be his bench replacement.
A player looking terrible or average at Juve is an indication of nothing. But it sounds like a lot of Juve are beginning to realise that. Certainly on Zakaria, the consensus seems to be he wasn't given a fair chance in his preferred position. So he rarely played but when he did he played out of position? If that's the case, no wonder he's looked out of sorts there.
Zakaria has largely been injured otherwise I don't think that he has been particularly used out of position. The issue is that their team is a bit of a mess, the defense doesn't fit with the midfield which doesn't fit with the attackers, so everyone is forced or expected to do things that they are not good at. For the midfielders it's essentially progressing the ball, for the attackers it's creating width and for the defenders it was defending with a bit more authority.
That's also the reason why barca gave him away in the first place. He doesn't have a professional lifestyle. Permanent guest in night clubs, went once skiing before a clasico, risked an injury. That's why he also only had stamina for 60 minutes. He could have been a worldclass player, but his attitude to professional football stopped this. A shame.
Nah, all these players have no mentality, really, and they will win nothing if winning depends on them actively carrying their team forward. The day Kulusevski or any other dud (now leaving en mass a Juve that has been equally bad under three different coaches: Sarri, Pirlo, Allegri) will actively make his team winning a trophy, I will eat my hat. At best, you will find them acting as rotational players or third violin, which is not enough for winning the farmers’ Serie A, let alone for winning the mighty Premier League.
Is Coppa Italia a trophy now? Yes… for the likes of Lazio and Roma.Kulusevski made you win the cup though?
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